Community Day
Are you curious about our partner campus Camp Colton? We’re co-hosting a free community day event and you are invited!
There will be opportunities to learn more about this unique site, to check out Stelo’s letterpress and papermaking studios and meet the current artists in residence. See the schedule and bios for the participating artists below.
2020 artist in resident, Alejandra Arias Sevilla in our letterpress studio at Camp Colton
Come for all of part of the day to enjoy these activities with friends and neighbors:
1:15 pm - Artist talks in Camp Colton's historic chapel by Conner & sadé (see bios below)
2:00 pm - Walking tours of Camp Colton with historical narrative from Camp's Operations Director and longtime Colton Community member, Jarred Lundstrom
2:30 - 3:30 pm - Demonstrations and work samples in the paper and print studios
There will be tables and chairs set up for you to enjoy lunch or snacks available for purchase from Kellan’s Dogs, Bobablastic or non-profit Youth to Tomorrow.
Guests are welcome to join in for all activities, or just pick and choose. No tickets or RSVP are necessary.
About the letterpress artist in residence:
sadé powell is a native new yorker and antidisciplinary artist exploring fugitivity, legibility, and interobjectivity through poetry and collage. inspired by her upbringing, she uses the sonic, kinesthetic, and linguistic elements of her 1940s mechanical typewriter to gesture towards dissemblance as proximity and relation to otherwise potentialities. sadé holds a ma in performance studies at nyu tisch. her first-ish chapbook wordtomydead is forthcoming in ugly duckling presse.
About the papermaking artist in residence:
Conner Darling is an installation artist and occasional farm hand originally from the suburbs of Houston. He received a bachelors in percussion performance from the University of Michigan and has since transitioned to focusing on visual art. His work turns towards the local landscape in an attempt to illuminate our place in it.
Click to learn more about our print and paper residency programs.
Can’t make it out for this event? We’re also hosting a Community Day on November 5.