Studios Inc A.I.R. Receives 2024-25 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant
Congratulations to Studios Inc Artist-in-Residence Caleb Taylor on receiving a 2024-25 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant! Chosen from a competitive pool of 84 applicants, each grantee receives a $3500 award to support a project that promotes artistic growth and community engagement. This round of grants represents a $42,000 investment in regional artists. Read more from the artist below:
'...and their shadows', multi-channel projection, screens and lumber structure, photogram, 98” x 306” x 4”
“With this award, I plan to acquire two digital projectors and materials to construct a modular, sculptural projection screen for upcoming exhibitions and collaborations in the Kansas City area. This equipment will support the development of ‘...and their shadows’, a multi-channel video projection made using traditional darkroom processes exploring abstract images and their connections to community and architectural site-specific investigations. This technology and materials will be used for upcoming iterations of this project and support the development of similar collaborative video works to advance my research on the connected themes of abstraction, site, and perception.
About '…and their shadows' -
‘...and their shadows’ is an installation built in collaboration with high school advanced art students featuring a multi-channel projection made using traditional darkroom photogram processes to investigate the relationship of abstraction, site-specificity and time.
The project '...and their shadows' is both a personal and collaborative project that I developed as the inaugural artist-in-residence at Shawnee Mission East High School in 2024. Uses my architectural abstractions as points of reference, SME students and I created a collection of photograms from paper fragments found in my studio, usually remnant shapes and debris created through my daily collage processes. They printed these works in a darkroom by combining photogram and phono-gram processes, a new method of using camera phones in lieu of negatives to print digitally captured images onto light-sensitive paper. The final installation merges images we made into a side-by-side projection (two screens, 8’h x 25’ wide overall) playing infinite loops of approximately 200 grayscale, abstract photograms at varied times to produce monumental unplanned architectonic compositions beyond the artist's control. Finger prints, scratches, and developer marks from darkroom printing are left as painterly marks. The forever-changing compositions are a mesmerizing bi-product of a process; a cast of collage fragments and forms into a new visual experience that transforms space and architecture."
Congratulations, Caleb!
Learn more about '...and their shadows' : https://calebtaylorstudio.com/and-their-shadows
Learn more about ArtsKC Inspriation Grants: https://artskc.org/art-creator/grants/inspiration-grants/