This unique program brings together international artists and scientists working around themes of climate change to live and work on board a Tall Ship that sails around the International Territory of Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago located ten degrees latitude from the North Pole. Amy and Kathy met onboard the Antigua, and, together, shared profoundly moving experiences in this unique and threatened landscape. Join these artists as they present their artistic practices, share significant moments from their journey, and discuss the changes this residency is inspiring in their expanding artistic visions.
This presentation will be followed by Q&A.
Amy Hoagland (she/her) creates sculptural installations about the human relationship
within nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky in 2016 and her
MFA in Sculpture from University of Colorado, Boulder in 2022. She is a recipient of a
2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honoring the Future. Amy
has completed residencies with the Arctic Circle program, Mountain Research Station
in Nederland, CO, Marpha Foundation in Marpha, Nepal, Casa Lü in Mexico City,
Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, CO, and the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Matfield
Green, Kansas. Amy recently had several solo exhibitions: as a visiting artist for the
Kentucky College of Art and Design in 2019 as well as the Firehouse Art Center and
Arbor Institute in 2021. In 2024, Amy will have a solo exhibition with RULE gallery in
Marfa, TX. In August, 2022, she created a public art installation curated by the Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art in One Boulder Plaza. She has exhibited internationally
in Mexico City and nationally including Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, and Portland. She
currently resides in Denver.
Kathy Sirico (b. Philadelphia, 1990) is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet working abstractly at the intersection of painting, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Her goal is to innovate the field of contemporary abstraction by reimagining visual language as empathetic, feminist, and ecologically conscious. Sirico received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2017 and her Bachelor of Science from Skidmore College in 2012. She has completed Artist Residencies at The Arctic Circle Residency in the International Territory of Svalbard in 2023, MassMoCA Assets for Artists in 2020, Vermont Studio Center in 2018, Lucid Art Foundation in 2017, and Recology, San Francisco in 2016. Sirico was a 2022 finalist for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Award for her project, “Floating Chronologies,” a body of work in conversation with climate change which reimagines our relationship with trees. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally.
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