Public Reception / Open House

Meet the 2011 Studio Residency for NYC Arts Workers Residents

Friday, August 26th

6-9pm                                                                                                                                                                   EFA Project Space, 323 W. 39 St., 2nd Floor

On Friday, August 26th, EFA Project Space will be open for the public to meet our new 2011 residents participating in the 2nd annual Studio Residency for New York City Arts Workers. The residents - Gisela Insuaste, Theresa Marchetta, Douglas Paulson, Roddy Schrock, Chad Stayrook, and David Terry - will be available at their work spaces to discuss their residency experience so far, all ideas for their work, and their artwork on display. Please come by for this special reception to support the program and these influential artists!

The gallery will be reserved for our new residents August 13-28, 2011. Please click on the links for more information on the residency program or here for the 2011 residency blog

Gisela Insuaste

Gisela Insuaste is a visual artist and educator who received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Anthropology & Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She is currently the Nature and Art Programs Manager at Wave Hill, a cultural center and public garden in the Bronx, NY.  She is responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of public programs with an emphasis on environmentally-based art, wellness, and nature studies. From 2008-2011 she worked at El Museo del Barrio in the Education and Public Programs Department  where she planned and designed K-12 school programs, guided tours, professional development workshops and resources for educators. Before moving to NY in 2008, she worked as a Site Program Manager at the Center for Community Arts Partnership (CCAP), Columbia College Chicago as well as the Director of the Arts Program at Association House of Chicago. She has also worked as a curatorial assistant and project coordinator on various exhibitions such as the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Historical Society, and Smithsonian Institute. In the summer of 2010, she was a a Latino Museum Studies Program Fellow at the Smithsonian Latino Center in Washington DC. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Theresa Marchetta

The Finance department might appear to be a strange place to find an artist, but I love the unusual mixture of arts and accounting that fills my days as a part of NYFA’s finance team. I also have a steady studio practice.  The paintings I am currently working on have strong historical references (such as Theodore Roosevelt’s animal skin rugs) and during my time at the EFA I will be experimenting, taking some of themes I have explored in my painting and translating them into new media/electronic media works.

Douglas Paulson

Douglas Paulson is an artist, arts worker, and teacher who sees each of these as pillars of his practice.  He chooses to work collaboratively, intervening in public, social, and cultural spaces.  He is part of the international three-person group Parfyme, a member of New York City's open collective Flux Factory, where he runs the residency program, and he frequently works together with Ward Shelley, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and has also initiated the loose, project-based collective called Action Club.  Paulson has participated in projects at institutions, festivals, and shows around the world, including in Copenhagen's U-Turn Quadrennial, the Athens Biennial, the Queens' Museum's International Biennial, the DeCordova Museum, and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.  Paulson brings artists, musicians, architects, and creative producers of all kinds from around the world to Flux Factory's innovative and unique residency program.

Roddy Schrock

A California transplant, Roddy Schrock moved to New York in 2008. Roddy creates “sound objects” rooted in ideas of embodiment: of location, history, time and culture, and exploration of sound’s origin in the visceral human impulse to communicate. His work in audio software design has been used by award-winning composers. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, the Netherlands, and Northern California.  As an educator, he has taught electronic music at STEIM (Netherlands) and as a lecturer at De Anza College (California). He received his MFA from Mills College and completed post-graduate work at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. At Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, he maintains and develops the organization’s unique framework of collaboration and engagement among the residents and fellows, a framework that propagates long-term working relationships and the creation of game-changing art+technology projects.

Chad Stayrook

Chad Stayrook is a living and breathing artist who has been working in New York City since 2004.  He received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from Ohio University and his M.F.A. in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Chad’s involvement in art extends beyond a traditional studio and exhibition practice.  He’s taught art courses at Sarah Lawrence College, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Columbus Museum of Art.  Chad worked as the curator for the Sarah Lawrence College Barbara Walters Gallery for 5 years and is currently the Gallery Director and Curator for the Bronx River Art Center.   He is also a founding member of the Bandwagon artist collective.

David Terry

David C. Terry is the Senior Program Officer/Curator in the Programs and Awards Department, and manager of the Fellowship and Curatorial Programs at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Prior to coming to NYFA Mr. Terry was Assistant Director at the Pelham Art Center, where he directed the educational, exhibition and outreach programs. His professional career covers a wide range of artistic, arts administrative and academic experience. While earning his MFA in Sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Terry began his administrative and teaching career. Since that time he has taught a variety of classes including objective and figurative drawing, abstract and figurative sculpture, portraiture and environmental and site-specific sculpture to students of all age ranges. Mr. Terry is a working artist, freelance curator, juror, and a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, Bronx Council on the Arts, Westchester Biennale, the Alexander Rutsch Award in Painting, and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program. Mr. Terry was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and has been living in New York City for the past 15 years.