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Contact: Kelly Sczomak, 8024573368 x227
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, in partnership with ArtisTree Community Arts Center, welcomes the return of Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Margaret Dwyer. Dwyer is a multi-media artist with a specialization in watercolor. Her first residency at the park was in 2019 and the park was fortunate to have her return last year and this year to carry on the AIR program through the pandemic. Dwyer’s current residency will run through October and will feature open houses at the park’s artist studio, as well as workshops for children and adults. In the workshops, she will incorporate elements of the forest and encourage visitors to create a hybrid version of where they sit, what they see, even what they feel, finding deeper elements of the material from which their art is created. Dwyer's creativity emerges through the process of taking artistic risks. If what she is creating is too comfortable, she is not interested. If it is out of her comfort zone, that’s happily where she lands. It is what makes her face light up. This approach to creativity keeps Dwyer pushing the limits of her mind and craft - even decades into a long career as professional educator and artist. With a sense of fun at “what could be” and “what lies beneath” she will pull a string through paint or see what happens with a new technique when found leaves and ferns are washed with color, literally playing her works into being. As many did last year during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dwyer found herself turning inward, into the recesses of her imagination and her paintings took on more abstract dimensions. Leaning out of her comfort zone, she has the expertise to allow the flora, fauna and even architecture of the park to transcend into bold, colorful imagery. Dwyer’s work has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. In addition to painting, her repertoire includes experimental art, photography, handmade books, sculpture, and murals. She currently teaches from her private studio/gallery space at the Windsor House in Windsor, Vermont, where she will be hosting an exhibit based on her National Park residency in October 2021 (date TBD). Her work will be on display and for sale under the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park tent on the green during the Woodstock Art Festival on September 11-12, 2021. For more information visit: MargaretDwyerArtist.com.Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP is one of over 50 national park areas that host Artist-in Residence programs. These programs continue the legacy of artists’ connection to national parks and the influence their art, photos, and prose have had on their creation and protection. Applications for the 2022 Artist-in-Residence program will be available in the fall. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/mabi
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Last updated: August 25, 2021