I just stitched together some photographs of my studio at Vermont Studio Center. I’ve been working on a wall-drawing installation here in Vermont since January 2010. I spent most of January conditioning the walls with a complete drywall refurbishment and fresh coat of paint in order to create a suitable surface for the drawing. I have about 30% of my wall-drawing complete, though I hesitate to think in quantitative terms (like “complete” and “30%”) since this has been such a process based installation for me. The plan is to draw, starting at the ceiling, and continuing until the the drawing reaches the floor, but plans change and I’m open to the drawing taking on a life of it’s own.
I’m on residency as a staff-artist at Vermont Studio Center until the end of December 2010.
I’m dedicating a year’s time to the creation of a wall-drawing installation in my studio at Vermont Studio Center in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont. For the past two years, I’ve been exploring a new kind of mark-making technique that has become a kind of language - moving from the page, then to a scroll and now to the wall as an all-encompassing wall-drawing installation. By year’s end, the drawing will cover the entire studio, measuring 11 feet high by approximately 50 feet long. This video documents the first phase of the drawing installation starting in January and continuing through April, 2010.
I recently collaborated and performed at Vermont Studio Center with activist poet, Kimberly Dark. This particular project is addressing the threat of rape in our culture and how we deal (and don’t deal) with it. After our performance at VSC, we invited audience members to participate in a dialogue about the piece, its effectiveness to communicate and its cultural relatively. I feel honored to have had the chance to collaborate with Kimberly, who infuses her poetry and performance with such a powerful and engaging voice.
We performed the piece right before NPR ran a news investigation on sexual assault on college campuses and the broken justice system currently set in place to handle the cases. The timing of our performance with the related piece of press offered a sense of immediacy to the project. We hope this video can reach many people and foster a constructive conversation about this collective threat.
Dawn Black
Charles Cohan
Peter Fox
Jason Hughes
J.W. Mahoney
Kate McGraw
Jiha Moon
Beverly Ress
Eduardo Santiere
Chris Scarborough
Ann Tarantino
McGraw & Tarantino
Andy Moon Wilson
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Hello Masterpiece | Leslie Holt
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Patrick Wilson | Slow Food
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Allyson Currin and Kate McGraw performing COMBUSTION. (photo by C. Stanley Photography.)
The Source Festival is well underway as Mash-Ups dominate this week’s offerings. Included in the Mash-Ups lineup is COMBUSTION created by composer Scott Burgess, playwright Allyson Currin and me, performed in collaboration with musician Jonathan Matis.
“Combining artists of different mediums is a tricky business, as evidenced in the first group of mash-ups at the Source Festival this week.
The point of the mash-ups is to set local artists up on “creative blind dates” for nine months, during which they create a performance, utilizing their preferred mediums, that is presented during the festival. Dancers, playwrights, visual artists, and musicians are among the seven creators performing in Group D and their mashing techniques vary, whether all mediums are involved at once or each element is presented separately…” (Read more.)
Our Mash-Ups piece COMBUSTION will debut at the Source Festival in less than a week!
Get your tickets online or call 866-411-8111.
Mash-Ups: COMBUSTION
Created by Scott Burgess, Allyson Currin and Kate McGraw
“I’m in a rut. I’m in a rut. I’m in a rut…”
Composer Scott Burgess, playwright Allyson Currin and visual artist Kate McGraw explore that most common of human plagues - stasis. Starting with silence and a blank canvas, COMBUSTION builds a world that terrifies. The question is, however, will it also liberate?
Source Festival
June 30 at 8pm
July 2 at 8pm
July 5 at 2pm
