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Summer Studios: Arts on Site! The GPS Student Artist Residency Program
August 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – August 16, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Summer Studios: Arts on Site!
The GPS Student Residency Program
August Artists-in-Residence: mckenna jones, Melanie St Clair, Remus Steward, knia Williamson,
August Cohort | August 4 – 16, 2025
Public Open Studio Hours:
Aug 11th | 12-3p
Aug 13th | 2-5p
Aug 15th | 6-8p, Celebratory Reception
Greensboro Project Space is pleased to present its 3rd Annual Summer Studios: Arts on Site! student residency program. This residency program will assist in educating students that GPS can also act as makerspace, where they can play, experiment, take creative risks, and develop their artistic voice.
Designed to support UNCG undergraduate student artists (BA + BFA) striving to develop, adapt, and/or reinvent their creative process and to promote artistic growth and development, artists are afforded two-weeks of uninterrupted research and development, coupled with financial support and public presentational platforms to share their creative work. The residency’s mission is to be an adaptive space to build a sustaining art community for our UNCG students so their creativity and connection to the Greensboro community thrives.
August Cohort
McKenna Jones (BFA Art History, minor Art Administration) plans to investigate the relationship between gender, body image issues, and chronic illness. Drawing from personal, first-hand experience, they want to illustrate these frustrations associated with these issues and analyze the reasons why these issues are connected to each other through their artwork.
Melanie St Clair (BFA Printmaking and Drawing) is heavily inspired by paintings of Kusozu, the nine stages of death, created in the Edo period of Japan by Buddhist artists. She wants to create imagery reminding us of decay through the use of bones, old photos, graves, rot, flowers and love. This will include incorporating photography and digital collage to depict the cycle of decay. These images will be created via cyanotypes and photosensitive emulsions in order to utilize sunlight to shed warmth on such a complicated topic. They will be printed onto recycled paper that will be made in the studio.
Remus Steward (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics) intends to develop an installation with optional participation based on sense and memory. They plan to experiment with soft sculpture, sound and video, tactile and wearable elements. During the Open Artist Studio Hours and Informal Closing Celebration, they plan to give the audience the choice of participating in open and short performance-led engagements with the physical and auditory materials they produce. A main objective is to craft and engage with physical objects that will aid in the explorative process, also acting as manifestations of memory in the real world. Memories can be triggered in a variety of ways, and frequently have ties to specific scents, places, or media. By using physical sensory objects, audio, and projected video they will be creating an environment in which to explore these associations.
Knia Williamson (BFA Sculpture and Ceramics) intends on creating flower vessels inspired by her previous work, Entomophily, a simple form accentuated with floral designs. She specifically wants insight into how material impacts the aesthetic and perception of her work. This will be done with the objective of investigating how the form evolves in size, shape, and style. She proposes using a variety of materials that extend beyond her current use of earthenware clay, experimenting with plaster, fabric, and air-dry clay to allow for discovery of how the materials impact the perception of the vessels. This exploration will allow her to assess if the new materials elevate or challenge the success of her original design.
Free
