Recent Graduate Residency

Harvest Moon Excited to Invite Graduating Art Students for Two Week Residency

Harvest Moon Society’s Artist-in-Residence program has developed over the last few years after hosting established professionals Kyle Scheurmann (July 2021) and Rachel MacFarlane (May 2022). They both delivered talks to students at University of Manitoba’s School of Art. Those talks and that relationship has led to the development of the Harvest Moon Recent Graduate Residency, designed to provide a professional knowledge-sharing experience to emerging artists. In their final semester, fourth year students were invited to submit artist statements and proposals outlining how experiences at Harvest Moon would affect their emerging practices.

A jury consisting of artists, faculty of the School of Art, and Harvest Moon members assessed the applications and evaluated the proposals. After deliberation, Rae Swan and Alice Hamilton were invited to Clearwater, MB for a two-week residency and were each awarded $1,000 to facilitate their stay at the end of May.

Rae Swan is an interdisciplinary artist living on Treaty 1 territory of Métis and European-settler descent. Their art explores the interconnected themes of identity, memory, place, and permanence/impermanence. Rae works in many mediums and art forms including performance, poetry, photography, beadwork and installation, and approaches their work in a playful way, letting the material and process guide them. Rae is looking to come to Harvest Moon to engage in explorative play and begin the process of a multi-media tapestry piece that combines photography, cyanotype and natural dyes and toners.

Alice Hamilton is a mixed media artist living in Winnipeg Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory. She works with foraged materials to celebrate the cycles of nature in relation to the human body/ mind. Her art is sculptural and handmade, varying from painting and textile to installation and carpentry. This work is inspired by the science of nature, healing through art, and experimental living. Alice’s proposal centered on exploring the question: “How can we best listen to the land for guidance, in this increasingly fast-paced world?”

During their time in Clearwater, Alice and Rae will engage in shared learning opportunities with land stewards, regenerative farmers, and elders and historians. They’ll also work with HMS staff and interact with the community while having plenty of time and studio space to work. Near the end of their stay, on Saturday, May 27, the public is invited to hear them talk about their practice and their experience at the residency, from 2pm to 4pm. That day will also be Harvest Moon’s Perennial Exchange event where people are encouraged to bring and take some plants, from 11am-2pm. Both residents will also be invited back in September to deliver a workshop as part of the 22nd Perennial Harvest Moon Festival.

Visit the following links to learn more:

www.alice-hamilton.glitch.me

www.reannaswan.glitch.me