Scholarships for 2 week Workshop on Embedded Video/Video Installation – deadline 21 March 2007

Call for Applications: Two Merit Scholarships available for emerging or mid-career artists to take a two-week course with artists E.G. Crichton and Susan Working at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The course will take place August 13-24, 2007.

These awards are designed to help artists interested in combining video with objects and space. Students will learn about the technologies behind creating embedded video works and video installation and will discuss a critical context that informs these works. Scholarships include: Full tuition, lodging and three meals a day for the duration of the course. Winning applicants must provide for their own travel and studio fees.

Concept: What happens when artists take the ephemeral medium of video and shape it within sculptural space? For over four decades artists have defied limitations of time and material through experiments with embedded monitors, shaped screens, and projections onto objects and/or within constructed spaces. In this workshop the investigation will continue with an emphasis on simple constructed shapes, altered found objects, planned camera work, and simple video editing. You may read a complete description online at www.andersonranch.org.

Course title: Shaped Video: Working with Objects, Space, and Video(P1123)
Dates: August 13 – 24, 2007
Location: Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen/Snowmass Colorado
Faculty: E.G. Crichton and Susan Working

E.G. Crichton is a professor of art at the University of California Santa Cruz where she has taught courses in intermedia and digital imaging for 12 years. Her work spans the mediums of video, photography, installation and performance, with a special emphasis on collaboration. She has created public projects in New York, Philadelphia, Lancaster, England and throughout California, and had solo exhibitions in Norway and California. www.arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/Eg

Susan Working is director of the wood program at Anderson Ranch. Previously a furniture designer and educator in San Francisco, she received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her current work focuses on combining wood with other media such as painting and digital media and on the collaborative process. www.susanworking.com

To apply: Send resume, examples of work, and a brief statement that answers the following questions: What is your current work about? Why do you want to take this course and how do you see it effecting your development as an artist? You may apply by mail or e-mail. Applications must be received by March 21, 2007.
E-mail applications to
mail to:
Attn: Susan Working/Krista Connerly
Re: Program Excellence Scholarship
Anderson Ranch Art Center
Post Office Box 5598/ 5263 Owl Creek Road
Snowmass Village, CO 81615

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, located 10 miles outside of Aspen Colorado, is an artists’ community offering workshops and residencies. Anderson Ranch’s wood program offers classes in furniture design, sculpture and woodturning. The newly expanded digital media program offers classes in video, digital imaging, animation, interactive media, and physical computing. Summer workshop faculty are professionals in their field and include nationally and internationally renowned artists. Residencies are also available for emerging artists wishing to experiment and establish new directions of growth in their work. Please contact wood program director Susan Working () or digital media program director Krista Connerly () with any questions