Lower 48 artists selected for residencies in Alaska
Rasmuson Foundation announced the selection of four artists from the Lower 48 who will each spend eight weeks in residence this fall at arts organizations in Alaska. These residencies take place as part of the Foundation’s Artist Residency Program. The artists selected for the program include Nikki Zielinski who will be in residence at the Island Institute in Sitka.
Zielinski is a poet based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has appeared widely in venues including the Bellingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Meridian, Southern Humanities Review, Vinyl, PANK and more. Since completing her MFA at the University of Oregon, she has received prizes and fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, Bridgeport Arts Center, Willapa Bay AiR, and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, in addition to others. Recently, she has focused on ways that “violence, both overt and institutional, shapes perception of one’s community and environment as well as interaction with others.” She was nominated by Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
Other artists are: Robyn Renee Hasty, Courtney M. Leonard and Claudio Orso-Giacone.
Hasty is an artist from Brooklyn, New York who works primarily with photography, sculpture and installation, will be in residence at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. Leonard, a multidisciplinary artist from the Shinnecock Nation of Long Island, New York, will be in residence at the Native Art Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks and was nominated by the Santa Fe Art Institute. Orso-Giacone is a printmaker, paper artist and mask and puppet maker from Oberlin, Ohio. He will be in residence at the Bunnell Street Arts Center in Homer and was nominated by Zygote Press.
