Residency #186

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Atlantic Center for the Arts hosts Residency #186 with Mentoring Artists Ryan McGinness – visual artist, Margaret Schedel – composer/performer, and Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano) – writer/performer, and 18 Associate Artists from across the United States. During their three-week stay, the Associate Artists will spend a portion of the day working with the Mentoring Artists, in group meetings, workshops, casual conversations, and activities to expand their work.

Margaret Schedel, composer/performer–With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. She has a diverse creative output with works spanning the interactive multimedia opera The King Listens, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments or custom controllers with interactive audio and video processing. She is internationally recognized for the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media and won the 2019 Pamela Z Innovation Award.

Wednesday, July 6, 4 PM – Mentoring Artist Talk Presentation followed by Q & A. Free and open to all via Zoom. Click here to register.

Ryan McGinness, visual artist–Ryan McGinness is an American artist, living and working in New York, New York. He grew up in the surf and skate culture of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and then studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an Andrew Carnegie Scholar. During college, he interned at the Andy Warhol Museum as a curatorial assistant. Known for his extensive vocabulary of original graphic drawings that use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, and contemporary symbology, McGinness is credited with elevating the status of the icon to fine art through the creation of his paintings, sculptures, installations, and books. Concerned with the perceived value of forms, he assumes the power of this visual language in order to share personal expressions.

Thursday, July 7, 4 PM – Mentoring Artist Talk Presentation followed by Q & A. Free and open to all via Zoom. Click here to register.

Carmelita Tropicana aka Alina Troyano, writer/performer – Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano) has been performing in New York’s downtown arts scene since the 1980s, straddling the worlds of performance art and theater with irreverent humor, subversive fantasy and bilingual puns. She received a United States Artists Fellowship (2021), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017) for her current project Live Memoir and a Creative Capital award (2016) for Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! a collaboration with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Recent works include sci-fi performances Schwanze-Beast (2018) and Post Plastica (2013)

Friday, July 8, 4 PM – Mentoring Artist Talk Presentation followed by Q & A. Free and open to all via Zoom. Click here to register.

INsideOUT – Thursday, July 14 – End of residency Associate Artists’ presentations (Mature content). Closed to public.