Instructor: Patricia Miranda
September 14 - 26
2 weeks at Edgewood Farm
24/7 access to studios

This intensive two-week Masterclass/Residency is designed for working artists in all media (sculpture, painting, photography, installation, video, textile, language, body, voice etc.) who want to advance their work in a rigorous supportive environment. From immersive installations to intimate paintings on canvas, artists create an encounter between object and viewer where meaning is formed.

This includes the bodily meeting of the work, its form, aesthetics, materiality, history, context, and emotional resonance. Combining focused individual work, reflective writing exercises, and private and group critiques, we will explore the conceptual threads across objects. Questions such as: How do materials carry and communicate meaning? Do our materials align with our vision? What content is threaded throughout the work? What lineages can we locate across artworks? What artistic lineages can we track? How can we learn from these lineages? Using specific exercises to hone skills in deep looking, critical analysis, and careful listening to the desires of the work, we will connect local to global ideas and consider the work as part of the greater dialogue of art. We will use choreography and architecture  as frameworks for building meaning to make our most heartfelt vision succinct, poignant, and visible. 

Patricia Miranda is an artist, curator, educator, and founder of the artist-run orgs The Crit Lab and MAPSpace, where she developed residencies in Port Chester, Peekskill, and Italy. In 2021 she founded the Lace Archive, an historical community archive of thousands of donated lace works and family histories. She has received grants from the Barbara Deming Fund for feminist work (2024); Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation (2022);Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (2021); two artist grants from ArtsWestchester/New York State Council on the Arts (2021/2014); an Anonymous Was a Woman Covid19 Relief Grant (2021), and was part of a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth (2004-5). She has been awarded residencies at the RUC Rural Contemporary Residency in Italy; the Constance Saltonstall Foundation; I-Park Foundation; Weir Farm Foundation; Vermont Studio Center, and Julio Valdez Printmaking Studio. Miranda has developed education programs for K-12, museums, and institutions, including Franklin Furnace, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institution. She is a noted expert on the history and use of natural dyes and pigments, and teaches about environmentally sustainable art practices. As faculty at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (2005-19) she led the first study abroad program in Prato, Italy (2017). Recent solo exhibitions include: Five Points Art Center, (Torrington, CT), the Olin Fine Art Center (Washington PA), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), Jane Street Art Center, Garrison Art Center (Hudson Valley, NY), ODETTA Gallery, and Maine Window DUMBO (NYC). Group exhibitions include Museo Camuno, (Breno, Italy); Spartanburg Art Museum (Spartanburg, SC); Dunedin Fine Art Center (Dunedin FL); HV MOCA (Peekskill NY), The Lyman Allyn Museum (New London, CT), Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), Williamsburg Art+Historical Center, The Clemente Center (NYC), The Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at UConn Avery Point, (Groton, CT). Her work has been featured in PiùValli TV (Italy), Movida Terre Camune Magazine (Italy), Art New England (2022), Hudson Valley One (2022) and Brooklyn Rail, (2021). 

More at: https://www.patriciamiranda.com/