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Thrilled to be joining Jason Andrew of Norte Maar for the first of his new series of monthly studio visits with artists, choreographers and writers.  We will be touring my studio and learning about the work made during my residency at Hancock Shaker Village through the Artists at Work pilot program.

Pop on over to Instagram Live @jandrewarts and joins us on April 11 at 11AM.  We look forward to seeing you!

Note:  Recording of Studio Tour is available to watch via Instagram IGTV @jandrewarts!

Thrilled to be participating in Colour/Collage/Poetry —an online exhibition that accompanies the Color & Poetry Symposium (19-22 March) at the Slade School of Fine Art.

View the exhibition anytime and forever on the Slade’s site

quiet conversations on view 19 February – 14 March, 2021

bike, 2020, repurposed tea towel, vintage buttons, natural dye scraps, linen thread, 18 1/2 x 33 inches

Initiated by India Flint, this exhibition shares tea-towels, humble utilitarian domestic textiles, that have been the companions of their stitchers during ‘the Great Pause’. Created by a group linked by a common thread around a virtual village well, using supplies found by rummaging in the ragbag (or the back of the closet), in the tea-towel drawer or in the linen-press. Making do with the resources found in hearts and home.

Thursday – Sunday 11am- 4pm

Fabrik, 1 Lobethal Road, Lobethal, Australia

Thanks to the Slade School of Fine Art for inviting me to talk about natural dyes for your Material Research Project.

If you would like to have a look, please email me for the zoom link.

Please join me for a conversation with Curator Sarah Margolis-Pineo on Thursday October 22, 5:30pm.

To watch our conversation, please click this link.

Honeycutt Studio in the Hired Men’s Shop at Hancock Shaker Village

The Shakers lived in a colorful world. Their architecture, interiors, furniture, and clothing reverberated with surprising brilliancy. At Hancock Shaker Village, artist-in-residence Brece Honeycutt has been exploring the Shaker palette of yellows, blues, reds, and greens, experimenting with natural dyes and pigments she creates from Hancock’s gardens and forests. Moderated by curator Sarah Margolis-Pineo, this conversation will provide an overview of Honeycutt’s ongoing research, mining the collection of Hancock Shaker Village to showcase the colors of the Shakers.

The artist residency is supported by Artists at Work, a new program designed to give artists resources to continue to produce work during the immediate health and economic crisis brought by COVID, and to build new structures and partnerships that will help to sustain the creative sector in a post-pandemic America.

Very honored to participate in The Common Thread series, “A collaboration between the Nature Lab and Southeastern New England Fibershed, The Common Thread virtual series will explore the commonalities within the systems of land, waste, material, and color and how they can intersect with various modes of thought to drive positive change.”

The Common Thread with Brece Honeycutt and Laurie Brewer is available to watch via this link

On October 7 at 12 PM Eastern time for the fourth and final live session of The Common Thread virtual series with Natural Dyer + Textile Artist + Hancock Shaker Museum Artist-in-Residence, Brece Honeycutt, and RISD Museum Costume & Textiles Associate Curator + RISD Apparel Faculty Member, Laurie Brewer.

This conversation will focus on COLOR and ECOLOGY from history to present day. How does color’s relationship to regional ecology and history impact the curation of how colors are represented in fashion and textiles?

“Brece Honeycutt creates art that looks as if it was made decades or perhaps centuries ago—artifacts that appear to have been excavated from the soil, aged by water and earth and embedded with the imprints of weeds and wildflowers. Her work is inspired by nature, age-old techniques and the passage of time, which makes it a seamless fit with the history and culture of Hancock Shaker Village, where she is the artist-in-residence for the next six months.”

“Honeycutt follows Shaker creed as resident artist,” Tresca Weinstein, Albany Times Union, August 10, 2020

Thanks to the Boston Globe and Artnet News for their recent articles on the AAW program.

“Camphill and Hancock are both such amazingly beautiful places,” said Honeycutt, a Sheffield native who works in fiber, natural dyeing, printmaking, sculpture, and bookbinding. “Both places emphasize working with your hands to make a connection with the land and foster this sense of community I love.” Article by Diti Kohli and images by Craig F. Walker.

““The WPA not only recognized artists as workers with the dignity that entails, but also utilized the crucial purpose of art in our society to make meaning of the world, to illuminate our own stories for us, and to create empathy for others,” Chanoff said. “We are at a precipice now where we are called to use every tool we have as a community to work together to heal the commonwealth.” Article by Sarah Cascacone & above image by Monika Sosnowski.

The Fabric Show

Woven | Painted | Embroidered | Knit | Collage | Wrapped

featuring the work of George Spencer, Ruth Adams, Brece Honeycutt, Eleen Jouvet-Epstein, Richard Saja, Kathy Greenwood, John Franklin & Will McLeod

July 25 – August 29

Joyce Goldstein Gallery, 19 Central Square, Chatham, NY 12037

Thursday – Saturday 1pm – 5pm and Sunday 1pm-3pm (please wear a mask)

closing reception Saturday August 29, 4-6pm

winterfield #5: notch, silk/cotton thread on linen, 15″ x 15 1/2″

Today marks the launch of ARTISTS AT WORK (AAW) — a program that pairs artists with cultural hubs and community partners.  I am thrilled to be an Artist-in-Residence at Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield, MA)  partnering with Camphill Village (Copake, NY). AAW is organized by THE OFFICE Performing Arts + Film and FreshGrass Foundation. 

Inspired by the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, ARTISTS AT WORK (AAW) is a new program designed to give artists resources to continue to produce work during the immediate health and economic crisis brought by COVID, and to build new structures and partnerships that will help to sustain the creative sector in a post-pandemic America. Conceived in collaboration with the FreshGrass Foundation as a public/private partnership that combines government, corporate, and foundation support, AAW is a WPA for the arts reimagined into a modern context that is sensitive to the 21st century landscape (now drastically changed) of every artistic discipline’s place in the culture.

Artists At Work’s goals are to give a significant number of artists a living wage to continue to make work, to activate cultural institutions in support of that work, to put that work into the public sphere for free to audiences (and in doing so to boost local economies), and to connect artists and cultural organizations to local initiatives in areas like youth mental health, suicide prevention, food justice, prison reform, youth at risk, and campaigns for COVID awareness in communities of color, and other  civic engagements with the aim of fostering healthy communities. AAW provides a dynamic and flexible structure for funding to flow into the cultural sector with substantive, immediate, and tangible impacts for individual artists, institutions, and the general public—outcomes that will help art and artists to survive, and also embed the arts more deeply into communities to the benefit of society as a whole.

Within Western, MA there are a total of six hubs– Hancock Shaker Village, Images Cinema with artist Joe Aidonidis partnering with GAAMHA, Institute for the Musical Arts with Naia Kete partnering with The Alianza Project, Jacob’s Pillow  with Dante Brown partnering with Roots Rising,  MASS MoCA  with artist Sarah DeFusco and partnering with nbCC/Uno Community Center and The Mount with artist Lia Russell-Self partnering with The Rusty Anvil.

For more information, visit artists-at-work.org.

25 years ago, artist fellows began working/researching at the American Antiquarian Society.  “Creative and Performing Artist and Writers Fellows have included fiction writers, poets, playwrights, visual artists, sculptors, performance artists, and musicians, as well as non-fiction writers, documentary filmmakers, and journalists–anyone seeking to create original works based upon American history and present them to non-academic audiences and readers.”

Watch the video on the AAS youtube channel, or find the video on the AAS Blog, Past is Present.

Have you thought of applying to the AAS as an artist fellow?  The deadline is October 15, 2020!

Thrilled to be included in the Emily Dickinson Museum’s online exhibition, The World Writes Back: Postcards to Emily Dickinson.  View the exhibition on their website.

“Inspired by the poem “This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me –,” this exhibition showcases the powerful, global impact of  Emily Dickinson’s poetry. In late 2019, the Emily Dickinson Museum invited the public to contribute to a crowd-sourced project with a simple prompt: to purchase or create an original postcard with greetings to Emily Dickinson from their corner of the world. The response was overwhelming, as hundreds of postcards poured in from as near as Amherst and as far as Russia. Postcards arrived from thirty-one states and twenty-one countries, and were written in English, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, French, Irish, and Portuguese. Particularly inspiring was the outpouring of submissions from students around the country, including entire classes at twenty schools.”