Surf Point is a nonprofit organization on the coast of York, Maine that supports diverse visual artists and art workers through a residency; stewards 46 acres of coastal and forested land; hosts public programs; and promotes and shares research on our historic legacy.
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Rozalinda Borcilă is a Romanian artist, researcher, and activist based in Chicago. She is interested in tracing the ways colonial violences coalesce around material extractions and flows of capital, in institutional grammars and forms of possession -- but also around modes of feeling, modes of relation, and everyday experiences of being in place.
Shona is an Australian lens-based artist whose work explores phenomenology and qualities of visual perception. Working exclusively with the medium of analog film, her abstract animations and photographs seek to touch, explore, and recreate the experience of seeing and feeling.
Jackie Milad (Baltimore City, 1975) is a U.S.- based artist whose mixed-media abstract paintings and collages address the history and complexities of dispersed cultural heritage and multi-ethnic identity.
Christina Schmid is a writer who thinks with art and experiments with prose. Her arts writing unfolds at the intersection of journalism, scholarship, and creative non-fiction.
Lilian Garcia-Roig is a Cuban-born, Texas-raised Latinx artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida where she is a distinguished Professor at FSU. She is most known for her perceptually based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that formally interweave the illusionist possibilities painting with its abstract material nature.
My artistic practice spans installations, performances, and two-dimensional works. The materials I work with are diverse and include: from everyday materials ; electrical cables, brooms, aluminum foil, plasticine, paper clips to botanical materials, wood sculptures and glass castings.
Em Rea (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based artist who plays with trash to make improvisational sculptures, and paintings that reflect life under capitalism and dreams of possible utopias after its collapse.
Carly Sheehan paints, sews, and assembles found materials to make works that explore feltness, memory, and her body. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Washington and living and working in Seattle, WA.