Studio Space at the Cross-Pollination Art Lab
Studio Resident — 2022-2024
Since 1979, Lonnie Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country, on permanent display in the United Nations, and been displayed in the White House Rose Garden. In January of 2014, Holley completed a one-month artist-in-residence with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida, site of the acclaimed artist’s studio.
Studio Residents — 2021
In partnership with Rubenstein Partners and Uptown Atlanta, the Hambidge Center accepted applications during January 2021 for eight four-month, rent-free studio residencies at its Cross-Pollination Art Lab in Atlanta, Georgia. We sought proposals from working creatives for bold, evolving projects that will make creative use of public-interactive storefront spaces, and welcomed individuals, collectives, visual artists, dancers, musicians, writers, poets, performers and creatives of all kinds to apply. These artists will help launch an evolving, creative playground, celebrating experimentation among Atlanta's diverse and dynamic creative culture.
We received 70 outstanding proposals from the Atlanta community. After long and thoughtful deliberation, our five jurors – Anicka Austin, William Downs, Kim Ruiz, Dayna Thacker, and Ife Williams – chose eight inspiring artists. We are excited to see what they will achieve, and encourage the public to take advantage of the Covid-safe interactions they will offer from February through June, 2021.
Genesis Park Adams (aka FRANK/ie CONSENT) uses elements of sound, movement, and tangible objects, to create colorful and confrontational worlds. Using “dream logic,” they practice making queered habitats that tell stories we may already know of, or something we’re familiar with, and skew it with care. Their work varies in aesthetic from bare and minimal with the intention of immediate connection with the earth and other bodies, to extreme maximalist glitter prop explosion.
”GENESIS LOOK AT THIS” from Playgrounds Forever by FRANK/ie CONSENT
Instagram: @frankconsent
Jessica Brooke Anderson is presenting a participatory project about family inheritance, loss, and redistribution. As a cross-disciplinary sculptor, her work focuses on the invisible records that objects and materials keep within - embedded archives of sound, touch, and atmosphere. Having recently lost her sense of family and inheriting 3 houses worth of generational heirlooms, she is caught thinking about the histories of these objects, how they carry a past that she will never access, and how they can be used to build a network of new relationships across the city.
Dance Hub ATL consists of 7 professional artists representing a diverse collective of artistic disciplines including dance theatre, Butoh, modern/contemporary dance, spoken word, and performance art: Jessica Bertram, Laura Briggs, Porter Grubbs, Jacob Lavoie, Catherine Messina, Frankie Mulinix, and Nadya Zeitlin. Dance Hub ATL will create a dance hub, pulsating with energy of curiosity, beauty and experiment, bringing life and vibrancy to the space. They will share ideas among each other and invited artists of other disciplines, and share the inspiration and magic of unexpected art with passers-by and invited audiences.
Instagram: @dance_hub_atl
Floyd Hall will present Seeing + Sounds, a multimedia installation that explores the effect of spatial design on conversation and content creation. Hall will design the public-facing space at the Cross-Pollination Art Lab as a place for creation, exploration and presentation of media content, including recorded audio, photography, and video. Hall will invite collaborators to participate in recordings that will either be streamed real-time or published through on-demand audio or video platforms.
Matriarc Society, directed by Co-CEOs Solana Ramirez-Garcia and Kirsten Robin, is a Black and Latinx led non-profit organization empowering local femme and womxn music makers. Guided by their mission, the new space will serve as a safe, free, exclusively femme studio space for music makers in Atlanta, and an artist spotlight live music series.
Scottie Rowell is a queer, autistic, arts-entrepreneur, and cheerleader for sustainable arts careers. As owner of Teller Productions, Scottie has utilized puppetry, storytelling, and textiles to create engaging, immersive family experiences throughout the Southeast. Scottie is excited to utilize Hambidge Cross Pollination Art Lab to create a Covid-safe, immersive art space. Serving one family pod at a time, the space will include small-scale live performances and kinetic sculptures.
Photo by Bartram Nason.
Arvin Temkar is a writer and photographer whose work examines complexity, tension, and hope in a multiracial, multiethnic America. During his time at the studio he will be working on personal essays and cultural criticism.
For the duration of the studio residency, Jasmine Williams and Sierra King will continue exploring the concept of “Archiving in Real Time.” Since 2016, Sierra has documented Jasmine and her artistic practice through photography, film and written mediums. Currently, Jasmine is developing a body of work titled “AND WHAT?” where she is exploring the hyper-awareness of self.
