Residency Program
Risograph Residents
2023
We are pleased to announce the EUREKA! & Penumbra Foundation Risograph Publication Residents for summer 2023 Residencies.
The 2023 Jury included: Jenica Heintzelman, Christian Patterson, and Mariela Sancari. Kevin Kunstadt is the program coordinator.
Look out for publications produced by our 2023 residents, coming fall 2023.
Christopher Gregory-Rivera
Proposal: EL GOBIERNO TE ODIA
Image © Christopher Gregory-Rivera, courtesy of the artist.
Christopher Gregory-Rivera is a Puerto Rican artist based in New York City particularly interested in reimagining historic narratives through documentary, still life and archival research to detonate a better understanding of the present.
His long term project on state surveillance and its impact on political speech in Puerto Rico has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, at the Maine Institute of Contemporary Art and in a solo show at the Abrons Arts Center in New York. It is also the subject of an episode of the WNYC show La Brega.
https://chrisgregory.co/
Alina Patrick
Proposal: she can show you how to grow una flor en el desierto
Image © Alina Patrick, courtesy of the artist.
Alina Patrick is a photographer and educator whose work blends fine art and documentary photography. She received her BFA in Photography & Imaging and BA in Political Science from New York University in 2021. Her projects investigate the emotional and abstract impacts of violent experiences such as war, displacement, and violence against women. In her recent work, Patrick questions photography's ability to preserve memory and decides to intervene in her own family archive. She has photographed projects in New Mexico, eastern Ukraine, Cuba, throughout New York City, and was an Alternate for a Fulbright grant to photograph women who were former FARC combatants in Colombia. She lives with her dear friends, fellow artists and collaborators in Brooklyn, New York.
Kate Schneider
Proposal: How to Understand a Rock
Image © Kate Schneider, courtesy of the artist.
Kate Schneider (b. 1980, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist of settler ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). As a life-long resident of the Great Lakes region, her artistic practice considers her personal and ethical relationship to her home and environment during a time of climate crisis. She has shown works at the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Spellerberg Projects (Lockhart, Texas) and published in numerous publications, such as the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Kate is a member of the Feminist Photography Network.
Finalists
In addition to the three 2023 residents, three additional artists were selected as finalists:
Partner
The 2023 Risograph Publication Residency program is conducted in partnership with EUREKA! – an arts organization founded in 2020, in Kingston, NY. The mission of the organization includes connecting and expanding the community; providing artists with an alternative platform for showing work and making new site-specific work, hosting education and skill-based workshops, and publishing free zines and art publications.