NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Arts and Culture (MAC) will welcome interdisciplinary artist and researcher Sherwin Rio to campus this summer via MCLA’s Artist Lab Residency program.  

 

Rio will join the MCLA community for the summer, creating a body of work that will culminate in a residency at MCLA’s Gallery 51 on Main Street in North Adams. 

 

According to a press release, sherwin Rio (Brooklyn/San Francisco) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher making site-specific and research-based metaphors addressing colonization, historical public amnesia, and intergenerational storytelling through a Filipinx-American lens in the fields of sculpture, installation, video, performance, and audio. 

 

At least two times a year, Artist Lab residents are invited to create work, share work, and in some cases teach courses at MCLA. The artist is provided housing and given a studio space in the Art Lab, next door to Gallery 51. In Art Lab, artists can conduct workshops, talks, and other types of programming they are interested in facilitating for the community.  

 

The MCLA Artist Lab (Laboratory) Residency was created to give MCLA students, and the North Adams community, access to accomplished artists from all over the world. The Artist Lab Residency is dedicated to supporting the creation, exhibition, criticism, and documentation of work by historically underrepresented artists. 

 

The artists invited to participate provide and advice for best navigating and understanding the art world. Artists are selected based on their practice, their contribution to the art world, and the way in which their career reflects the diversity of thought, talent and triumph that exists among artists striving to contribute to, and consequently expand, what is considered the art history canon. 

 

Learn more at https://www.mcla.edu/mcla-in-the-community/bcrc/mcla-gallery-51/untitled.php.