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Delaware Center for the

Contemporary Arts

Art & Community

Visual Arts Residency

Program 2010-2011

David (Jason) Pressgrove

Sandro Del Rosario

Hoyun Son & Jung A. Woo

Colette Fu

DCCA11

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Ronald Kelson (October 7, 1994–March 5, 2011) a Project StayFree student who was essential to the completion of X: Exhibition and Maps.

Left: Papier-mâché fruits and vegetables created by students enrolled in the Evening Enrichment program at the Latin American Community Center hung from the mobile kitchen during the Movable Feast event at the DCCA.

Delaware Center for the

Contemporary Arts

Art & Community

Visual Arts Residency

Program 2010-2011 11

David (Jason) Pressgrove

Sandro Del Rosario

Hoyun Son & Jung A. Woo

Colette Fu

INTRODUCTION

All of the projects included in this publication address the theme of identity. Throughout history, during times of political and economic hardship artists have looked inward to reflect on their individual responsibility. The artists participating in the Art and Community Visual Arts Residency program during 2010-2011 not only explored this concept independently, but they also engaged, inspired, and mobilized community members to do the same.

Over the past year DCCA Artists in Residence have worked with adjudicated youth, immigrant and first generation American teens, local art students, and homeless women in the Wilmington community. The projects have been as diverse as the participants—investigating urban planning and participation, conveying autobiographies through animated shorts, uniting communities through food, and finding empowerment with pop-up books. The artists led their partners into new territory, stumbling over obstacles and rising to new heights daily.

These residencies all led participants down the path to self-discovery through the arts. We are grateful for those who helped plan the journey and those who were brave enough to take the first step.

Jane Chesson Curator of Education

VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM 3

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The artists whose projects are described in this publication are an extremely diverse group of individuals whose countries of origin span three continents. While their upbringing and educational backgrounds differ widely, they share a common passion; they are all highly creative and sensitive individuals who are committed to making a difference to the people around them through their teaching and art making. We are fortunate, indeed, that they made their way to the DCCA, and we thank them for enriching our community.

David (Jason) Pressgrove made a deep impact on the lives of the youths from Project Stay Free with whom he collaborated, and, in turn, was profoundly affected by their valiant efforts to free themselves from their troubled pasts. Sandro Del Rosario impressed us all with his energy and curiosity and we delighted in watching him as he shared his enthusiasm with his Cab Calloway and West End Neighborhood House students. Hoyun Son and Jung A. Woo were perpetually active dynamos who prepared tantalizing feasts for the DCCA staff in the midst of working tirelessly with the participants of the Evening Enrichment program at the Latin American

Community Center. Colette Fu shared both her bookmaking talents and her quiet and calming personality with the women at the YMCA’s Home Life Management Center whose lives previously had been filled with so much turmoil. These artists each gave so much of themselves and we appreciate and applaud their efforts.

We thank the agencies and sponsors who made these programs possible. Lead support for the DCCA’s 2010-11 Art & Community Visual Arts Residency Program came from the National Endowment for the Arts, the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Bank of America, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware in Partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Special support was provided by the Puffin Foundation.

And we acknowledge the tireless efforts of Jane Chesson, our Curator of Education (aka “super Jane”), who successfully negotiated through the complex inter-institutional challenges and the multitude of organizational details required for each residency with determination, grace, and good humor.

Maxine Gaiber Executive Director

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ABOUT

DAVID (JASON) PRESSGROVE

David (Jason) Pressgrove (Jackson,

MS), Assoc. AIA, is an artist, researcher,

contractor, and project architect. He lives and

works in Jackson, Mississippi. He received

a B.Arch degree from Mississippi State

University. Pressgrove is the recipient of the

Design Corps’ Design for the Underserved

98% Award at Structures for Inclusion 8,

held at the Graduate School of Design at

Harvard University, for his not-for-profit

architectural service (2008). In 2008,

Pressgrove was awarded a MacDowell

Fellowship, and, in 2006, served as a design

fellow for Architecture for Humanity, where

he served as the day-to-day architect for the

East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center.

His work has been exhibited in West Coast

Green Conference, San Francisco, CA; the

Repetti Gallery, Long Island, City NY; and

the Boston Society of Architects, in Boston,

MA. Pressgrove’s work has been published

in publications including Architectural

Record, Actar, and the Institute for Advanced

Architecture Catalonia.

ARTISTS FROM PROJECT STAYFREE:

Rayquan Chambers Artise Colson

Joshua Cortes Eddie Cruz

Ah’Kee Flonnary Tyquil Hamilton

Jacob Hendrickson Ronald Kelson

Devon Pierce Therion Reese

Jaquan Reeves Trey Richardson

Shyhem Warren

With special thanks to James Bailey, David

Jacobs, Jermaine Lemon, Tyrah Lusby, Albert

Mills, Nina Phillips, and Myles Younger


DCCA Artist in Residence David (Jason)

Pressgrove partnered with Project Stay

Free (PSF) in the fall of 2010. PSF’s

mission is to liberate youth from the

juvenile justice system. Jason collaborated

with ten young men who faced

overwhelming challenges at home, in

school, on the job, and in the community

to create artwork documenting their lives

and environment. He worked with the

group to create plans, models, sculptures,

and drawings exploring the ideas of

community, art, architecture, and place.

Jason challenged his students to

reconceptualize the city in which they

live. The group created maps and images

illustrating their physical and geographical

identity. They used graphing, masking, and

color-coding to create a visual language

about their community. The artists worked

with Jason to delineate personal and

cultural boundaries in the community in

which they live; places where they feel

ownership; environments where they feel

welcome and familiar; and areas that

remain foreign. Through this process each

artist began to map abstract self-portraits

of their geographic identity.

Over the course of his eight-week

residency Jason became extremely

invested in the lives of the young men

with whom he worked. They took field

trips to visit and photograph each other’s

communities and the group bonded over

their desire to share their past experiences

and plans for better futures.

Jason describes the process of working

with the young men from PSF, “Each

day, the guys would provide me with

some clues as to their knowledge base:

geometry, math, language, music, and

imagery with which they associate

themselves.” He continues, “In the end,

a true and honest understanding of big

ideas takes time and work, work and

time, time and work, and so on. I have

during the course of the project, and with

conscious hesitation, thought of the guys

as my most-treasured (and) rarest of tools

in an earnest and deliberate making-of-

things. In this way, the project was an

overwhelming success for me, my work,

my medium, and I hope, for the DCCA.”

David (Jason) PressgroveX: Exhibition and Maps

FALL 2010 PARTNERProject StayFree

Left: Artise Colson works with classmates at PSF to map his community.

Center: David (Jason) Pressgrove discusses the group’s final exhibition with visitors at the DCCA.

Right: David (Jason) Pressgrove and Ah’Kee Flonnary work together in the PSF classroom.

Far right: Students from PSF work in the DCCA classroom to complete their new city models for the final project X: Exhibition and Maps.


In the spring of 2011 DCCA Artist

in Residence Sandro Del Rosario

collaborated with teens from Cab

Calloway School for the Arts and West

End Neighborhood House. Through a

series of experiments and assignments in

mixed media, photography, drawing, and

collage, the teens created conceptual self-

portraits based on an exploration of their

geographical and cultural identity. With

Sandro’s help, students experimented

with digital cameras and graphic design/

animation software to create unique

projects. Sandro compiled the group’s

work along with his own to create the film,

A Place to be Somebody.

The group began with an introduction

to animation. They researched different

methods and developed general narrative

outlines for their own personal stories.

Students worked in a variety of media

from traditional to digital as they each

explored for themselves the most efficient

and expressive way to share their unique

vision.

Sandro worked with the students

individually as they painstakingly formed,

retooled, and executed their animations.

Each short animation serves as a self-

portrait of the artist; the shorts feature a

day in the life of the American teenager,

a meditative jog through a park, and the

confrontation of sexuality and identity.

Sandro then took these individual pieces

and edited them together to create one

narrative of a young group of artists

coming together from very different places

to create a unified artistic voice.

Sandro explains the process and

outcome of the project, “I believe that

this project impacted more or less each

student’s personal development, as for

some students it just offered a chance

to experiment animation as a new art

form, while for others it redefined a choice

of their personal medium of expression

(photographs, pastels, water colors, digital

software, etc.), and for others it was

an invaluable opportunity to bring out

personal issues never expressed before.”

Sandro Del RosarioA Place to be Somebody

SPRING 2011 PARTNERSCab Calloway School of the Arts & West End Neighborhood House

Left: Branden Tucker uses digital media to alter images for his animated short.

Center: Sandro Del Rosario works with students in the DCCA classroom on concepts and drawings for their digital self-portraits.

Right: Genevieve Niedenzu works with colored pencils to alter her photographs.

Far left: Artist in Residence Sandro Del Rosario discusses the project with Cab Calloway students Emily Desmond and Jimmy Martinez.


ABOUT SANDRO DEL ROSARIO

Sandro Del Rosario (Los Angeles, CA)

was born in Italy. Sandro Del Rosario

is a visual and media artist, with years

of professional experience as a graphic

designer and photographer. He received

his BFA with honors in Graphic Design

from I.S.I.A. of Urbino, in 1993. After

working as a multimedia designer in

Bologna, Milan, and Florence, he was

awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in

1998. Fulfilling his longtime passion for

animated films and moving images, he

enrolled in the Experimental Animation

program at CalArts where he received

his MFA in Film/Video in 2001. His work

has received numerous awards and his

videos have been screened worldwide,

including at the Museum of Modern

Art, the Lincoln Center in New York, the

London Film Festival, the Rotterdam

Film Festival, and the Annecy Animation

Festival. He now lives in Los Angeles,

California, and he’s currently working on

his new experimental film “Lo Sguardo

Italiano.”

ARTISTS FROM CAB CALLOWAY

SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & WEST END

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE:

Kelsey Birchenall Shylier Clark

Emily Desmond Noah Henry

Jimmy Martinez Genevieve

Niedenzu

Branden Tucker

With special thanks to Richard Hanel,

Kathleen Fanny, and Charlene Reed


Movable Feast was a public art project

developed by artists Hoyun Son & Jung

A. Woo that mapped a diverse cultural

landscape through food in the summer

of 2011. The artists worked with youth

enrolled in the Evening Enrichment

program at the Latin American Community

Center (LACC) with extra assistance

from the Delaware Center for Horticulture.

Hoyun and Jung A. led the group in a

process of exploration as they researched

the impact of globalization on our dinner

tables, and examined recipes as sources

of identity, culture, and history.

The group researched local edible weeds

and collected, mapped, and illustrated

recipes from family, friends, and neighbors.

They planned and designed two Feast

Events that took place outside of the

LACC and DCCA in July and August of

2011. During these events they cooked,

shared food with the public, provided

information and education, and collected

community recipes.

During the six-week residency the

group built a mobile kitchen and stage

attached to and surrounding Jung A.’s

pick-up truck. During the events each

of the participants rotated between

prepping, cooking, serving, educating,

and recipe collection. In addition to their

performances the group also produced a

large-scale art installation in the DCCA that

included three-dimensional self-portraits,

information on regional edible weeds,

papier-mâché produce, photographs, and

an interactive media kiosk.

The goal of the residency was to “enable

participants to develop artistic skills

as well as to understand how the arts

can be relevant to their own lives and

communities.” Hoyun Son and Jung A.

Woo strove to stimulate the community’s

consciousness of the relationship between

the natural world of their own backyards

and the pursuit of healthy lifestyles.

Hoyun Son & Jung A. WooMovable Feast

SUMMER 2011 PARTNERLatin American Community Center

Left: Two students from the LACC pose with their final installation at the DCCA.

Center: Perogies formed with wonton wrappers were handmade by students and served during the Movable Feast events.

Right: Artist in Residence Jung A. Woo works with students in the mobile kitchen to feed the community.

Far right: Students from the LACC cook perogies outside during the Movable Feast event at the DCCA.


ABOUT HOYUN SON

Hoyun Son (Chicago, IL ) was born in Korea. She earned her BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Inst i tute of Chicago. Her work has been exhib i ted and performed at Pro ject Row Houses, Houston, TX; Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art , Indianapol is , IN; and Columbus Museum of Art , Columbus, OH among others. She is a rec ip ient of var ious awards and fe l lowships inc luding awards f rom Skowhegan Paint ing and Sculpture, and the MacDowel l Colony. Her work has been rev iewed in var ious media inc luding New York Art Magazine.

ABOUT JUNG A. WOO Jung A. Woo (Kansas City, MO) was born and raised in South Korea. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Sculpture and her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University in Alfred, NY. Woo is the recipient of several awards. She received a CAPP Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affair in Chicago, BRAF Project Grant from Black Rock Arts Foundation in San Francisco, and Campus Life Award of the Pepper Fund from Pitzer College in 2010.

ARTISTS FROM THE LATIN AMERICAN

COMMUNITY CENTER: Omar Rivera Wilmel Rivera Erik Zavala Angelica Barreto Miguel Maldonado Roué Cantoran Seleena Colon Israel Munoz Edward Morrow Coreese Mitchell Grace Juarez

With special thanks to Aracelio Caraballo and Michael Vincent


ABOUT COLETTE FU

Colette Fu (Philadelphia, PA) received

her MFA in Fine Art Photography from

the Rochester Institute of Technology in

2003. In 2008 she received a Fulbright

Fellowship to photograph the 25 ethnic

minorities of her mother’s hometown

in Yunnan Province, China. She has

created much of her work during

artist residencies which she has held

at a wide range of arts organizations

including: the Provincetown Fine Arts

Work Center, Instituto Sacatar, Bemis

Center, Visual Studies Workshop, the

Millay Colony, and the Alden B. Dow

Center for Creativity. Fu has received

numerous awards including those from:

the Independence Foundation, Sovereign

Foundation, Pennsylvania Council

on the Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine

Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts,

Constance Saltonstall Foundation, En

Foco, Photographer’s Forum, Nikon, the

Puffin Foundation, and the Society for

Photographic Education. She works as

a paper-engineering consultant for stop

animation commercials, freelances, and

teaches pop-up courses at various art

centers and institutions.

ARTISTS FROM THE YWCA HOME

LIFE MANAGEMENT CENTER:

Tamara Helm Maggie Kellagher

Gresha McKnight Paula Perry

Dijon Scott Shannon Walker

Lisa Yingling

With special thanks to Evelyn Baldwin


During the fall of 2011 Colette Fu

collaborated with a group of women

enrolled in the YWCA of Delaware’s

Home Life Management Center to create

autobiographical pop-up books exploring

the themes of self and body image. The

women working with Colette were living

full time in the Home Life Management

Center with their families as they learned

valuable life skills and increased their

education to obtain adequate employment

in preparation for their move to permanent

housing.

Colette began by introducing basic paper

engineering techniques to the class. As

they gained confidence she introduced

themes of body image, race, and

ancestry. To explore these ideas Colette

led instruction in basic photography and

book binding techniques. Each participant

worked from a template to create three-

dimensional, carousel, pop-up dollhouse

structures, each nearly two feet in height.

The individual houses consist of eight

rooms—each room illustrating a different

narrative, experience, or dream for the

future. The women used photographs,

magazines, illustrations, and sound chips

to create homes that tell the story of their

unique experience as they work to create

a permanent home for their family.

The participants used mostly imagery

in place of text for the books to allow

more freedom for the exploration of

personal stories and vulnerabilities. The

project worked to break through the

barriers created by the media’s portrayal

of idealized women and gave a voice

to women exploring their own identity.

Colette remarks, “Artmaking for me has

always been a way for me to express

myself in a safe, constructive way. The

women found our classes to be a quiet,

meditative time while (also) learning and

accomplishing something they never

dreamed they could do.”

Colette FuPop-Up Homelife

FALL 2011 PARTNERYWCA Home Life Management Center

Left: Artist in Residence Colette Fu discusses pop-up techniques with student Tamara Helm.

Center: Women in the YWCA’s Home Life Management Center work on their pop-up books during class.

Right: Gresha McNight displays a pop-up card made to practice paper engineering.

Far left: Dijon Scott uses collage and pop-up techniques to tell her story.



PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

2011 Sandro Del Rosario, Los Angeles, CA Colette Fu, Philadelphia, PA Hoyun Son, Chicago, IL Jung A. Woo, Kansas City, MO

2010 Carrie Dashow, Brooklyn, NY Carlos Ferguson, Grinnell, IA David (Jason) Pressgrove, Jackson, MS

2009 Elisabeth Nickles, Philadelphia, PA Ben Volta, Philadelphia, PA

2008 Tanya Aguiñiga, Los Angeles, CA Liz Hickok, San Francisco, CA Sonja Hinrichsen, San Francisco, CA Richard Saxton, Boulder, CO

2007 Maria Anasazi, Philadelphia, PA Matthew Dehaemers, Kansas City, KS Yukie Kobayashi, Philadelphia, PA

2006 Claire Sherwood, Huntington, WV

2005 Kira Lynn Harris, New York, NY Jessica Irish, Boston, MA Stephen Metts, Boston, MA Erika Nelson, Lucas, KS Suzanne Proulx, Erie, PA

2004 George Apotsos, Philadelphia, PA Madeline Gielow, Portland, ME Tiffany Holmes, Chicago, IL

2003 Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Atlanta, GA Gregor Turk, Atlanta, GA Jane Ingram Allen, Troy, NY

2002 Ava Blitz, Wynnewood, PA Jennifer Schmidt, Boston, MA

2001 Maria-Theresa Fernandes, Baltimore, MD Kim Mayhorn, Brooklyn, NY Brian Moss, Santa Monica, CA Neila Kun, Malvern, PA

2000 John Giordano, Lambertville, NJ Benjamin Schulman, Philadelphia, PA

1999 Sandra Camomile, Pottstown, PA Eve Andrée Laramée, Brooklyn, NY Paul Santoleri, Philadelphia, PA

1998 Linda Lorrie Gross, Philadelphia, PA Mei-Ling Hom, Philadelphia, PA

1996 Susan Fenton, Bala Cynwyd, PA Mary Giehl, Syracuse, NY

1995 Sandra Gould Ford, Pittsburgh, PA

1994 Mary Scrupe, Washington, DC Maria-Theresa Fernandes, Baltimore, MD

1993 Homer Jackson, Philadelphia, PA Alison Saar, Brooklyn, NY

1992 Cynthia Cox, Brooklyn, NY Holly Hofmann, Baltimore, MD

1990 François Morelli, Hoboken, NJ

1986 Jonas Dos Santos, Philadelphia, PA Bernice D’Vorzon, East Hampton, NY

1985 Carol Toth, West Virgina

Top: Artist in Residence Sandro Del Rosario interviews Branden Tucker for his animated short.

Bottom: A participant from the YWCA shows her pop-up in progress.

Far left: Students from Cab Calloway School of the Arts use light boxes to work on their animations.


PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

AIDS Delaware

Alzheimer’s Association Delaware Valley

Arden Community Recreation Assoc.

Ashland Nature Center

Bancroft Elementary School

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware

Blue Print Communities of Delaware (Edgemoor and 2nd District)

Clarence Fraim Boys & Girls Club

New Castle Boys and Girls Club

Brandywine Senior Center at the Claymont Community Center

Cab Calloway School of the Arts

Casa San Francisco

The Challenge Program

Christina Cultural Arts Center

Cokesbury Village

Community Service Building

Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc.

Delaware Art Museum

Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition

Delaware Center for Horticulture

Delaware Korean Methodist Church

Delaware Nature Society

Delaware State Parks

Delores J. Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution

Dover Art League

DuPont Experimental Station

Eastside Neighborhood Association

Epiphany House

First and Central Presbyterian

First State School at Wilmington Hospital

First Unitarian Church

Friendship House, Inc.

George Read Middle School

Girls Clubs of Delaware

Girls Incorporated of Delaware

Greater Newark Boys & Girls Club

H. Fletcher Brown Boys & Girls’ Club

Haven Place

Hope House I

Hope House II

Howard High School of Technology

Indo-American Assoc. of DE

Joseph H. Douglass School

Kuumba Academy

Latin American Community Center

Margaret S. Sterck School/Delaware School for the Deaf

Mary Campbell Center

Ministry of Caring Child Care Center

Nefertiti Made Hair Braiding and Weaving

New Castle County Detention Center

Peoples’ Settlement Association

Project Stay Free

Services to Overcome Drug Abuse Among Teens

Sojourner’s Place

University of Delaware Art Department

West End Neighborhood House

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Wilmington Historical Society

Wilmington Senior Center

YWCA Home-Life Management Center

Top: Artist in Residence Colette Fu discusses the work created by the women from the YWCA during the final exhibition Pop-up Homelife at the DCCA.

Bottom: PSF student Eddie Cruz uses tools in the DCCA classroom to create his city model.

Far right: Artist in Residence David (Jason) Pressgrove and participants from Project Stay Free during their preview exhibition at the DCCA.

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Right: Artists in Residence Hoyun Son and Jung A. Woo along with students from the Latin American Community Center host their final Movable Feast event for community members outside of the DCCA.

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The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is a non-collecting art museum dedicated to the advancement of contemporary art. Our mission is to present exhibitions, offer exposure to the creative process, provide educational opportunities and extend innovative programs to a diverse community.

Lead support for DCCA’s Art & Community Visual Arts Residency Program 2010–2011 was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and Bank of America. Special support was provided by Puffin Foundation.

DCCA Education Programs are made possible, in part, by individual contributions; member support; and by major grants from AstraZeneca, Borgenicht Foundation, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, ING DIRECT, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; DuPont; United Way of Delaware; The First State Gridiron Board; The Gilliam Foundation; Puffin Foundation; Wilmington Flower Market; The Christmas Shop Foundation; and by Amtrak—Official Transportation Provider for the DCCA.

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