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Term I (April 10th - May 22nd)

Nancy Lord, a former Alaska Writer Laureate, holds a liberal arts degree from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Vermont College. She is the author of three short fiction collections (most recently The Man Who Swam with Beavers, Coffee House Press, 2001) and five books of literary nonfiction (most recently Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North, Counterpoint Press, 2011).  Her work is informed by life in the north and her involvement with environmental, especially marine, issues.  Her awards include fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and artist residencies. She teaches creative writing part-time for the University of Alaska Anchorage. At Spiro Arts she’ll be working on a new book related to “the other CO2 problem,” ocean acidification.

Sun Young Kwon was born in Seoul, Korea and currently resides there. She received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010. Her current work deals with magazines. By cutting, shredding, and manipulating magazines, she tries to explore the time and memories that are embedded within. As just another consumer, as well as an observer living in this complex society, she wishes to continue to move forward in this direction and see what avenues open up as her work progresses at Spiro Art. The local influence, nature and culture has such a unique style and flare that can only be understood by experiencing it up close and in person. 

David Sullivan creates prints, computer programs and animations combining analog and digital techniques. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised in New Orleans, where he currently lives. He studied painting at Louisiana State University (BFA) and Maryland Institute, College of Art (MFA). His work was in the Southern Open 2010 at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, and in “Hot Up Here” at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans. Internationally, he has shown at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, File in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Antarctica. He was an artist resident at Louisiana Artworks and A Studio in the Woods, and has taught digital media at several universities in New Orleans. During his residency at Spiro Arts, He will work on a new animated painting.

Recognizing the minute and infinite connective threads among us, Danielle Wyckoff makes drawings, prints, paper installations, and videos that address our abilities to love and the ways in which that shared capacity both unifies and separates us.  Her work often uses water in its various states as a metaphor for what it means to love.  She recently earned an MFA from Ohio University (2010). While at Spiro, she plans to continue artistic research involving love and water and to create work responsive to the Park City area.

Term I Artist-in-Residence Open Studio Event - Friday, May 20th (6-9pm)  

Term II: (June 13th - July 24th)

Laura van den Berg’s stories have or will soon appear in Ploughshares, One Story, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV. Her first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Dzanc Books, 2009), was selected for the Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Program, longlisted for The Story Prize, and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award. She currently lives in Baltimore, where she is the 2010-2011 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School. Laura will use her time at Spiro to revise her novel-in-progress, Find Me.

Robin Smith was born in Denver, Colorado in 1985.  She received her BA in English literature from Colorado College, and later pursued a post-baccalaureate in fine art at the Burren College of Art in Ireland.  She will begin work on her Masters in the fall.  Robin has been an artist in residence at the Burren College of Art, the Science Museum of Minnesota, the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation, and Hypatia in the Woods.  She has also spent time as a TA for Colorado College in Canterbury, England, and as an assistant teacher at the Ah Haa School for the Arts in Telluride, Colorado.  Robin often seeks creative subject matter in diverse environments—from research stations to mountain forests—in support of her nature-based work and spare, elemental aesthetic.  She plans to spend her time at Spiro Arts continuing her artistic investigations into local landscape and ecology through drawing, painting, and printmaking.  

Kim Krause is a Cincinnati native whose paintings have been included in more than 100 exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including eight solo exhibitions. The artist’s work has been purchased for numerous public and corporate collections including Chase Manhattan Bank, The Procter and Gamble Company, and the Federal Reserve Bank, among others. Krause has been awarded artist residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida; Rathausgalerie, Munich; The Cooper Union, New York, and the Chateau, Rochefort-en-Terre, France. Krause earned his MFA from Bard College, New York. He is professor of Art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and chair of the Department of Fine Arts. While at Spiro Arts his goal is to produce a body of work that responds to the unique combination of his current developing artistic ideas concerning the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the extraordinary physical environment of the Park City region.

Katja Straub is an artist, writer and filmmaker whose work explores the invisible line between reality and the world of dream and memory.  A graduate from the University of Arts in Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin, her films have screened internationally at venues like the Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor, the Viper Basel in Switzerland, and the Museo Nationale Reina Sofia in Madrid.  Her first short film All White People Are French received the Special Jury Award at SXSW and her magic realist thesis film Martha Martha won the Golden Palm at the Mexico International Film Festival and made it in the semi-finals of the Student Academy Awards. At Spiro Arts Katja will edit her new documentary, Lunch, which serves as a microcosm of society. Images and interviews are combined to a poetic exploration of the lives of several characters whose paths cross at a German employee cafeteria every day.

Term II Artist-in-Residence Open Studio Event - Friday, July 22nd (6-9pm) 

The Open Studio Events are free and open to the public, come share an evening with our Artists-in-Residence. A $5.00 donation is suggested to help Spiro Arts sustain its mission and programs. For additional details please view our CALENDAR or contact us. All open studio events take place at the Spiro Arts central studio building, located within the Silver Star development: 1825 Three Kings Drive, Park City, UT 84060. Click here for directions