| Improvisations With The Trees: Drawing, movement, sound, and taste explorations in collaboration with Moonrandolph Homestead Orchard |
More about the workshop: Join artist Anne Yoncha for 12 immersive experiences combining drawing, movement, sound, and taste in the Moon Randolph Homestead Apple Orchard. Through these experimental exercises, you'll explore deep listening and use elements like sound, shadows, and wind to inspire your drawings among the trees.
About the artist: Anne Yoncha (US) is currently Assistant Professor of Art + Painting Area Coordinator at Metropolitan State University Denver. She was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After earning her MFA at the University of Montana in 2019, she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, working with restorationists to make collaborative art-science work about former peat extraction sites outside Oulu. Her practice combines digital sensing technology, such as bio-data sonification, and analog, traditional processes including painting with ink she makes from locally-sourced plant matter. Her ongoing research with the HAB (High Altitude Bioprospecting) working group began in Fall 2019 at Field_Notes, a residency of Finland’s Bio Art Society at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in subarctic Lapland, where she worked with artists, biologists, and programmers to detect high-altitude microbes using a heli-kite. Outside the studio she can often be found doing another kind of environmental “research” via bicycle.
