Guild Hall Names Its 2020 Artists-in-Residence

Selected by a committee of Guild Hall leadership and members of the institution’s Academy of the Arts, six artists have been chosen for this year’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program at Guild Hall.

Spring 2020 Artists-in-Residence

Keren Anavy (b. Israel) is a New York-based multimedia visual artist, working in drawing, painting, installation and performance. Anavy has exhibited widely in solo and two-person exhibitions including solo exhibitions at the Sunroom Project-Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. Anavy is a recipient of the Asylum Arts, New York Grant (2017-18). Anavy received an MFA from Haifa University, Israel, and a BA in Art History from Tel Aviv University, Israel. She graduated at Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel, and has an art teaching certificate.

Ryan Campbell is a Texas-born/East Coast-based writer, working primarily as a playwright. He received BAs from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama; he has also been a Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work is a fusion of idealism and world-weariness and the tension that arises from holding both points of view simultaneously — theatrical narratives that are designed with the hope of creating experiences for an audience that gently confront the difficulties of life with a sense of wrecked wonder. His work has been seen on stages in New York, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Texas.

Maggie Royce is a Minneapolis-based artist working in cut-paper and ink drawing, stop motion animation, book arts and graphic design. Using paper, ink, knife, and an established set of marks including abstracted hands, lines, and simple shapes, she creates self-reflective work as a means to develop empathetic relationships. Each element in her work is impulsive, permanent, and influences what will come next. After receiving a BA in Studio Arts from Augsburg University in 2015, Royce has exhibited in group shows, collaborated on music videos, and is currently preparing her first solo exhibition, titled Then and Here and All at Once, a multimedia installation about the intersection of time and human emotion.

Fall 2020 Artists-in-Residence

Jackson Gay, in collaboration with Steven Padla, New Neighborhood, Dan Butler and DMNDR, recently produced “Filibustered and Unfiltered: America Reads the Mueller Report,” the first 24-hour reading of the entire [redacted] Mueller Report in Queens, which inspired more than a dozen other events across the country in the following weeks and months. Gay is the director of artistic programming for Dan Butler and Richard Waterhouse’s Fuller Road Artist Retreat in Vermont and, with Steven Padla, is co-producing artistic director of New Neighborhood.

Mark Sarvas is the American Book Award-winning author of the novels “Memento Park” (FSG) and “Harry, Revised” (Bloomsbury). He lives in Santa Monica, where he was a recipient of a 2018 Arts Fellowship and he teaches advanced novel writing in the UCLA Extension Writers Program. He holds an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College.

Daniel Vlcek is a multimedia artist, musician and producer best known for his geometrical paintings created by carving layer after layer of circular patterns using vinyl or CDs as stencils. He often supplements his work with sound installations and works to create both sonic and spatial interventions with his painting. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Czech Republic where he lives and works.

Established in 2016, Guild Hall’s AIR program offers early and/or mid-career artists the time and space to focus on their own artistic practice. Provided with free living space and a paid stipend, AIR allows artists the opportunity to actively research, creatively experiment, and continuously develop new ideas/concepts, all while exploring the historic artist colony of East Hampton.

In addition to a focus on individual practice and inquiry, residents have the opportunity to connect with celebrated artists and civic leaders at weekly salon dinners, receive mentorship from members of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts, and share their work with the community through invited school trips, visits and public discussions. The program culminates with an informal sharing of work collected and produced throughout the residency to an invited audience of local artists, civic leaders, and Guild Hall staff and board.

Guild Hall has been awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the 2020 program.

Guild Hall’s AIR spring program runs from April 19 to May 17, and the fall program is from October 25 to November 22. For more information visit guildhall.org.