04/24/2019
Tyler Ceramics is proud to announce that student .hurtado.salazar is the recipient of a 2019 Windgate Fellowship. About the Windgate fellowship:"“The Windgate Fellowship is an exciting opportunity for art students who are between college and graduate school or life as a working artist,” says Stephanie Moore, Executive Director. “The Fellowship instills confidence and encourages innovative risk-taking at a critical period in the students’ career.”
Supporting the next generation is one of the Center for Craft’s main focus areas identified to build a thriving national craft field. The Windgate Fellowships help further this goal by providing students with the opportunity to engage in career-enhancing activities. Previous Windgate Fellowship recipients have gone on to hold full-time faculty positions, have been accepted into nationally renowned residence programs, earned MFAs, mounted solo shows, and established successful studios.
This year, four panelists reviewed a national pool of 109 applicants on the basis of artistic merit. They also discerned the potential of each applicant to make significant contributions to the field of craft."
About Juan's practice:"Juan plans to visit the Design Studio for Social Intervention(ds4si) and MIT’s CoLab in Boston. He will study the organizations’ approach to developing and deploying workshops.
Juan will then travel to Asheville, NC and continue his Deployable Monuments series.
By developing workshops synthesizing storytelling, oral history, and crafts he seeks to generate sites for cooperative design.
The workshops will result in collaboratively generated prototypes articulating emergent and suppressed histories, and serve as tools to speculate, chart, and navigate toward near and unforeseen futures.
Through UNC Asheville’s STEAM studio Juan will create these prototypes at true scale, to be deployed at UNCA, Ashville, and beyond.
All the stories, designs, and notes shared or gathered, with permission, will be added to his separate ongoing project, Reading Nook for Ten Thousand Years- where he acts as collector and scribe."