Research is part of how many artists work. At Studio H, that can mean testing materials, exploring ideas, developing methods, asking questions, experimenting with technology, or following an unexpected direction.
Research & Learning shares some of those investigations—during and beyond the residency—including experiments, challenges, discoveries and work that is still unfolding.
These stories offer a closer look at how artists think through making, and the questions and learning they carry forward.
Featured image to the left: Nishra Ranpura (front) demonstrating embodied weaving; Lisa Rosowsky (back) the other artist in residence looks on
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Embodied Weaving: An Open Studio with Nishra Ranpura
Read more: Embodied Weaving: An Open Studio with Nishra RanpuraDuring her residency at Studio H Canada, Nishra Ranpura used the studio as an active laboratory. The interdisciplinary artist, researcher and creative technologist was investigating crafted machines, woven computation and embodied making. Her research brings…
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Sculpture Residency Outcomes Article
Read more: Sculpture Residency Outcomes ArticleFailing Upward: Eco-friendly Sculptural Materials Research by Kathy Bussert-Webb Discover the innovative journey of eco-artist Kathy Bussert-Webb as she explores the challenges and breakthroughs in creating sustainable sculptural materials. This article documents her hands-on experiments…
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Zoryu – The Night Sky Above Where I Stayed
Read more: Zoryu – The Night Sky Above Where I StayedZoryu – Artist in Residence Residency Dates: July 22-August 18, 2022 I am in a place which would have been unimaginable to you and me in front of that rotary pine tree last August. How…
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Jay Lind – Solo Improvised Music
Read more: Jay Lind – Solo Improvised MusicLeap of Faith – The work during my residency at Studio H Canada International Artist Residency explores ideas of vulnerability, grief and how our perceptions of these emotional aspects of life are impacted by solitude.…
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Kirsty Nicoll – ‘In Mourning and Rage’
Read more: Kirsty Nicoll – ‘In Mourning and Rage’I arrived at Studio H Canada at the end of a five week trip travelling America’s west coast, during which I was told that – despite feeling nothing of the sort inside – I was…
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Under the Influence at Dinosaur Park -Artist Talk with Heidi Bergstrom
Read more: Under the Influence at Dinosaur Park -Artist Talk with Heidi BergstromDate: Sunday, March 14, 2021Time: 2:00pmPlace: ONLINE, Zoom and Facebook Live Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta is one of the most important UNESCO World Heritage sites in Canada, and the largest late Cretaceous (75 million years…
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Under the Influence – Day 5-7
Read more: Under the Influence – Day 5-7These days are about exploration and absorption. Hiking out with the guides and my guest Kelly is amazing – we are sweating like mad but thrilled and amazed at every turn. The staff are so…
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Under the Influence – Day 4
Read more: Under the Influence – Day 4I am going nuts with the bugs, disoriented being on my own for the first time (feeling a bit giddy), and the heat is amazing. We hike into an area to do some digging and…
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Under the Influence – Day 3
Read more: Under the Influence – Day 3Day 3 at Dinosaur Park is really about Dean and Sue de-camping and a leisurely walk around the camp. I check out the field station museum (buy some pottery of course and a DP patch)…
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The Cowichan Women’s traditional sweaters, issues of intellectual property and cultural appropriation.
Read more: The Cowichan Women’s traditional sweaters, issues of intellectual property and cultural appropriation.by Heidi Bergstromre-post from NorthernWomen.org I wanted to contribute a blog to the Northern Women’s Art Collaborative (NWAC) about the Cowichan Tribe’s struggle with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 2010 over their intellectual property rights…
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Coming Back to Life – work in progress
Read more: Coming Back to Life – work in progressLife drawing is an art practice that is foundational for artists, especially in the early training days, at least when I was a student. When I was at the Toronto School of Art back in…
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Traditional and Contemporary Textile Art in Northern Iceland — Northern Women Arts Collaborative
Read more: Traditional and Contemporary Textile Art in Northern Iceland — Northern Women Arts CollaborativeA reblog from Northernwomen.org of my post about Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið / Textile Museum in Blönduós, northern Iceland. … More Traditional and Contemporary Textile Art in Northern Iceland — Northern Women Arts Collaborative
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Under the Influence – Day 2
Read more: Under the Influence – Day 2Day 2 at Dinosaur Park – the sun is my enemy. … More Under the Influence – Day 2
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Under the Influence – Day 1
Read more: Under the Influence – Day 1The official arrival at Dinosaur Park, the prank, and lovely surprises for an unsuspecting artist. … More Under the Influence – Day 1
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Under the Influence – the Dinosaur Park Journals
Read more: Under the Influence – the Dinosaur Park JournalsThe back-story of a life-long obsession with the badlands at Dinosaur Provincial Park and how it has become a driving force in my art. … More Under the Influence – the Dinosaur Park Journals
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Under the Influence at Dinosaur Park – why I am ok with being obsessed
Read more: Under the Influence at Dinosaur Park – why I am ok with being obsessedContemplating the things that drive us to create as visual artists and where we find our obsessions. … More Under the Influence at Dinosaur Park – why I am ok with being obsessed
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Contemporary & Traditional Textile Arts in Northern Iceland
Read more: Contemporary & Traditional Textile Arts in Northern IcelandNorthern Iceland has so much to offer from awe inspiring landscapes to cultural gems. Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið / Textile Museum in BlönduósTh is one of them … More Contemporary & Traditional Textile Arts in Northern Iceland