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BCAT and Rotunda Gallery announce the winners of 2003 artist residencies
February 18, 2003 — BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television and the Rotunda Gallery have completed the selection of participants in their sixth annual artist residency program. Made possible by a grant from the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, the program provides Brooklyn-based artists the opportunity to explore video and multimedia as an artistic medium. The artists selected receive technical training and access to BCAT's state-of-the-art media center to create their own projects, all at no cost. They will gain valuable experience in television studio production, digital and video equipment and editing, or multimedia production. The residencies will take place between February 24 and June 30, 2003.
Onida Coward Mayers, Director of BCAT, said of the residency program, "We're so pleased to have this opportunity to collaborate with Rotunda, and give artists the chance to realize their ideas. Bringing together the resident artists and our producers here at BCAT has been very rewarding."
Selected from more then seventy applicants are Andrew Crown Brennan, Vincent Cianni, Megan Cump, Carl Eckhoff, Tahir Hemphill, Douglas Herman, Mercedes Jimenez, Peter Krashes, Diana Meyer, Carrie Moyer, Jean Shin, Peter Staley, Luis Valle, Khanh Vo, and Darryl Wells. Noah Baen was chosen as the first alternate, and Karen Leo as the second alternate. The highly competitive field of applicants was reviewed by a professional panel consisting of Elissa Blount Moorhead of Red Clay Arts, Onida Coward Mayers, Rotunda Artists' Advisory members Yvonne Estrada and Oliver Herring, Rodney Hurley from the Media Arts Department of Long Island University, Stephan Hillerbrand, BCAT's Multimedia Manager, Meridith McNeal, Associate Director of Rotunda Gallery, June Poster, Managing Director of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, and Janet Riker, Director of the Rotunda Gallery.
BCAT, developer and manager of four public access television channels, and the Rotunda Gallery, a non-profit exhibition space that promotes the work of Brooklyn-affiliated artists, are both programs of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture.
The ROTUNDA GALLERY, housed in an award-winning space designed by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, showcases the work of Brooklyn artists. The ROTUNDA GALLERY’s educational programs reach 6,000 students each year with gallery visits and in-school art making projects. Janet Riker is the Gallery Director; Meridith McNeal is Associate Director. The ROTUNDA GALLERY is a project of the not-for-profit BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It is a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M; N or R trains at the Court Street/Borough Hall station; or the A, C trains at High Street.
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