QSS artist Joy Gerrard has been selected to The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation 2023 Residency Programme.
This one-of a-kind artist residency for artists working in paint has been running since 2012 and is based in central New York just several hundred yards from the Golden Artist Colors manufacturing facility.
Over 600 artists from around the world applied for only 18 spots in the 2023 Residency Program. An Independent Selection Committee was tasked with the difficult mission of choosing the 18 successful artists.
Joy Gerrard, Deborah Zlotsky, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Jamele Wright, Carol Prusa, Susan Hoffer, Haoyun Erin Zhao, Miguel Arzabe, Emma Roche, Jan Dickey, Natasha Campbell, Emily Gherard, Lynne McDaniel, Genna Howard, Aaron Brown, Laura Colomb, Dina Abdulkarim, Perky Edgerton
The 2023 Residency Program begins in March and will run through mid-November. Residents live and work in a completely renovated chicken barn for 4 weeks and have access to an unlimited supply of acrylics, oils, watercolor and other art materials. Additionally, an educational component of the program includes such topics as frugal use of water in the studio, varnishing, best practices in studio waste management and packing, shipping, and storing one’s artwork