Great Meadows Foundation Partners with Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency

GREAT MEADOWS FOUNDATION is pleased to announce that Louisville artist Brianna Harlan has been selected as a summer Artist-in-Residence at the Ox-Bow, School of Art & Artists’ Residency. Situated in Saugatuck, Michigan, Ox-Bow’s summer artist-in-residence program offers artists at various stages in their career, the time, space, and community to encourage growth and experimentation in their practice.

 Brianna Harlan majored in art at Hanover College in Southern Indiana, graduating in 2015. An artist who is concerned with issues such as “identity, social dynamics, intimacy, oppression and self-suppression,” she has developed a practice that is multi-faceted and often includes direct engagement and participation with her audience. Since graduating from Hanover College Brianna has both curated and participated in exhibitions around Louisville, most recently creating the installation Oasis for Festival of Faiths, shown at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Brianna was one of 15 individuals invited to participate in Hadley Creatives, a 6-month learning and engagement experience for local artists who are at a pivotal point in their careers, organized by the Community Foundation of Louisville in partnership with Creative Capital.

“I am preparing for my residency at Ox-Bow with both reflection and dreaming”, says Brianna Harlan. “This residency will allow me to focus deeply and solely on developing my art practice and career. I am determined to make the most of it: creating, studying, and planning.”

Harlan will be at Ox-Bow, School of Art & Artists’ Residency for four weeks during June and July. During this period she will be provided with an individual studio and work space, as well as support for expenses while at the residency. Integrated in the Ox-Bow program she will have full access to the summer program of visiting artists and faculty that conduct studio visits and also give weekly lectures on the campus.

Great Meadows Foundation Director Julien Robson sees this collaboration with Ox-Bow as “strongly supporting the mission of the foundation to strengthen the level of discourse and practice among artists in the state. Brianna will be in an exciting environment, working alongside other resident artists from around the country, with great opportunities to engage in exchanges with the visiting artists and lecturers that are so much a part of the Ox-Bow community.”

Great Meadows Foundation is a grant giving foundation launched in 2016 by contemporary art collector and philanthropist Al Shands. Named for the home that Al and his late wife Mary created, the mission of Great Meadows Foundation is to critically strengthen and support visual art in Kentucky by empowering our community’s artists and other visual arts professionals to research, connect, and participate more actively in the broader contemporary art world.

Ox-Bow, School of Art & Artists’ Residency is a protected place where creative processes break-down, reform, and mature. With year-round programs that cater to students, professional artists and those new to the field, participants have the ability to connect to a network of creative resources, people and ideas within an energizing natural landscape.