Artist in Residence Selected
With support from the BC Arts Council, the Peace Liard Regional Arts Council is pleased to carry out the third annual Artist in Residence Program. This program provides a northeast BC artist with a $500 per month stipend for a six-month working period ($3,000), mentorship from Vancouver-based visual artist Cara Guri, and a solo exhibition at the Dawson Creek Art Gallery for which they are paid a professional CARFAC fee ($2,100). You can learn more about the program here.
Congratulations to the PLRAC’s new Artist in Residence, Samantha Wigglesworth! Samantha was selected by jurors Kait Herlehy and Cara Guri.
You can learn more about her work at https://samanthawigglesworth.wordpress.com/ and @wiggiestudio on Instagram. Samantha was also selected for the Distinguished Award: Representational at this year’s Open Sky Exhibition.
“I am honored to be selected as this year’s artist in residence. I am so excited about the opportunity to be mentored by the astounding portrait artist Cara Guri. This residency will allow me to create a profound series of large-scale colorful self-portrait paintings.”
– Samantha W.
Congratulations Samantha! Looking forward to seeing what you create!
Meet the Jurors
This year’s applications were adjudicated by Two Rivers Gallery Assistant Curator Kait Herlehy and Vancouver-based visual artist Cara Guri.
Kait Herlehy (she/they) is an emerging artist and curator living and working on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh in Prince George, BC. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is currently Assistant Curator at Two Rivers Gallery. When she’s not engaging with the arts, you can find her walking in the woods, reading, and having conversations with friends.
Cara Guri is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and has completed a painting residency at Columbia University. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Takao Tanabe Scholarship, the Brissenden Scholarship, and the Bishop’s Undergraduate Prize in Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and New York, NY. Recent exhibitions include The Reach Gallery Museum and Burrard Arts Foundation. She has also completed artist residencies with hcma, Burrard Arts and was an artist with Vancouver Mural Festival.
In her current painting practice, Cara explores the relationship between identity construction and portraiture. Her works examine the transactional nature of portraiture: the information that is given to the viewer and that which is withheld. Through her paintings, she re-examines conventions and symbols that are found in historical portraiture by translating them into her current reality in a way that disrupts their original meaning.
