Horned Dorset artist colony to hold open studios this Monday, June 25An open studio offering the public an opportunity to meet the June artists in residence at The Horned Dorset Colony here will be held this Monday, June 25, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Creekside Studio on Hillside Avenue.
The non-profit colony, now in its seventh year, offers four-week summer residencies to emerging and professional artists in the fields of creative writing, literary translation, musical composition, and visual arts.
The program is affiliated with The Horned Dorset Inn, which holds monthly dinner concerts featuring musicians from throughout Central New York and beyond to benefit the program’s scholarship fund. For more information about the colony, visit www.horneddorsetcolony.org.
The featured artists for June are:
Michael Brodeur, visual artist, Greenville, S.C.
For the last fifteen years, Michael has taught painting and drawing at Furman University in Greenville. “Up to now the majority of my work has revolved around still life. My recent health experience centered my focus on rejuvenation and communion with the natural world. Leonardsville’s pastoral setting reminds me of the hills, low mountains, greenery, and terrain of my childhood in New Hampshire’s Connecticut River Valley. Leonardsville is an ideal place for me to cultivate my rediscovered enthusiasm to depict the organic forms and growth of nature.”
Ethan Cypress, composer, Oneonta
Ethan is not a stranger to the Horned Dorset Colony. He performed a Sunday, July 2017 dinner concert at the Horned Dorset Inn and has also played with Rich Mollin and Carleton Clay there on Friday evenings. He is an alumnus of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He has completed his first year of graduate studies at Eastman, where he is a graduate assistant. Ethan is adept in classical and jazz styles, as well as composition and arranging music. He performs on a variety of instruments including trombone, piano, bass, violin, trumpet, and a unique instrument called the flugel-bone.
Azita Moradkhani, visual artist, Boston, Mass.
Azita was born in Tehran, Iran, where she was exposed to Persian art and culture as well as Iranian politics. That double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence that she explores in her work. She received her bachelor’s in fine arts from Tehran University of Art, and her MA in Art Education and MFA in drawing, painting & sculpture from Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts & Tufts University. She has been teaching and exhibiting in the nine-month MWPAI Artist in Residency program during the 2017-18 school year.
Rui Coías, poet, Lisbon, Portugal
Born and raised in Lisbon, Rui studied law at the University of Coimbra. He then returned to Lisbon to work as a lawyer for nine years. Rui’s poetry appeared in 2000, “a powerful and dense world, where real elements seem to float on a desolate landscape of silences and distances.” His first books, A Função do Geógrafo (2000) and A Ordem do Mundo (2005), show his concern for landscape, referring to the area around Coimbra.