Summer Art Residency Award Recipients

2025

From the series You Can’t Enter the Same River Twice. © The artist.
Francisco Gonzalez Camacho is a Spanish visual artist based in Finland, who integrates photography with experimental graphic-printing methods. His work explores the intersections between landscape, memory and impermanence. A 2025 recipient of the Lucie Foundation Award, he also recently enjoyed a one-man exhibit at the Griffin Museum in Boston. Francisco earned his MA in Art and Media, Photography, this year at Aalto University, Finland.

Untitled by David Ntephe. © The artist.

This year with assistance from RLV OracleArt, we were able to offer a 2nd summer residency to David Ntephe, a promising young painter studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art. David is exploring the tensions of form and content, via race and class. We hope to be able to offer other opportunities to younger artists in the future.

2024

Block 4 by Talia Dudley. © The artist.

Talia Dudley is a Mesa-based artist, who earned her BA in Studio Art at the University of Arizona in 2010. Using drawing, painting, collage and digital media, Talia interlaces architecture and history in order to reimagine structural form. She has exhibited her work throughout the Phoenix metro area, as well as in Tucson, Las Vegas, and Redondo Beach.

2019

Work by Toni Ann Serratelli. © The artist.

Toni Ann Serratelli received her MFA from Temple Typer School of Art and her BFA from Montclair State University. In addition, she won a Fulbright to study art and painting at the Art Institute of Florence in Italy. Her mysterious and layered seascapes and landscapes evoke the dreamlike haze of memory, while revealing a masterful sensitivity to the shifting nuances of air, light and matter.

2018

Work by Ping Zheng. © The artist.

Ping Zheng’s process of isolating and discovering the poetic resonances within her particular vision, along with her accomplishments as an emerging artist, were factors in her selection. Born and raised in China, Ping received her BFA from the Slade School of Art and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited her work in New York and London.

2017

Forest of History by Myung Gyun You. © The artist.

Mixed-media installation artist Myung Gyun You hails from Korea, but today lives in Philadelphia. Whether focusing on giant site-specific installations to small wall pieces, Gyun’s work integrates ideas connected to culture, identity and nature using organic and manmade materials. He earned his MFA at Tama Art College in Tokyo and BFA at Busan University in Busan, South Korea. He has exhibited in Seoul, London, Philadelphia and Key West. Awards include an Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC and a Fellowship to the MacDowell Colony.

2016

Rose Tangle by Samantha Mitchell. © The artist.

Samantha Mitchell is an artist and published writer based in Philadelphia. Working with drawing and printmaking processes, she investigates the relationship between order and chaos through different processes of mark-making. Samantha received a BA in 2008 from Oberlin College and an MFA in 2012 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, International Print Center of New York, and Projekt Gallery in Berlin. She is also a contributor to Brooklyn Rail and Title.

Sharon Lee Hart is an award-winning photographer working with mixed media who comes to us from Florida, where she serves on the faculty at Florida Atlantic University. Extensive one-woman shows have taken place at the Center for Fine Art Photography, the 4th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography in Berlin, and Art Basel Miami. Her BFA was earned at Maine School of Art and MFA at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. A devoted animal welfare champion, Sharon’s Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals has garnered widespread acclaim for the dignity it lends both to animals and their rescuers.

2015

Born in Taiwan, raised in Thailand, and now living in NYC, Eleen Lin is a figurative painter who mines her rich tri-national heritage for inspiration and reinvestigates classic myths through a contemporary lens. Eleen studied at Slade School of Art and at Yale, where she received an MFA. She has had numerous exhibits of her work in New York City, London and Taiwan.

2014

Tempest NeuCollins, our Inaugural Summer Artist-in-Residence, is a painter, photographer and printmaker. Tempest brings a sensitivity to the play of natural forms, structures and light to her mixed-media investigations. She holds an MFA in studio art from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and a BFA in photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She has exhibited her work in Brooklyn and San Francisco.