Creative Residency 2022 Jurors:
Visual Arts
Meet the jurors who are helping us select the Visual Arts participants for the 2022 Creative Residency program.
Jill Powers
Jill Powers creates sculptural and installation art with natural materials and processes. Her primary art material is a sustainably grown bark fiber, which she developed as a contemporary art medium. Her artwork dances between art and science by exploring unusual ecological relationships with rich aesthetic possibilities. Jill writes about art, science, and contemplative art practices and she has given public talks at the Denver Botanical Garden, the Natural History Museum in Boulder, CO, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon. Jill is a graduate of Tyler School of Art and has shown her work internationally. Her work is in private, corporate, and museum collections. Jill teaches in visual art at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Jill was a Bloedel Creative Resident in 2019.
Sarah Wallace Scott earned her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2009 and a BFA from The Academy of Art University in 2005. Motivated by a desire to create artworks in harmony with nature, she has sought to adapt her materials and art practice to the age of human-made climate change. This conscious practice has naturally led to contemplations on impermanence, our connections tonature, and how we take care of the vulnerable. In her work, she strives to learn more about the
systems and creatures that inhabit our planet, to promote a greater understanding and appreciation for the inter-connectivity between all living things, and the morality of how we choose to live with others. She is an alum of artist residencies at RedLine, Denver and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She is a founding and current member of Tank Studios, LLC. Sarah was in residence at Bloedel Reserve in October 2020.
