Two Cleveland Area Artists Selected for Ohio Arts Council Residency Opportunity in Provincetown
by Kathy Burgan

Artist Julie Friedman of Medina and poet Katie Daley of Cleveland have been selected for residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, June 1 through August 30, 2004. Each year, this unique opportunity is open to creative writing, visual arts and photography fellowship recipients in the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artists program.

Julie Friedman is co-director of Gallery West at Cuyahoga Community College in Parma and currently teaches art at Kent State University, Canton, John Carroll University, Cleveland, and Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland. She developed a series of ‘pop-up/out’ books that are based on a book structure that is a more elaborate and sophisticated pop-up/fold out than some children’s books. Friedman received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship in 2003. She has a MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Wisconsin.

While in Provincetown, Friedman will continue her work on ideas to create a new series of books based on the idea of “THE BIG QUESTIONS” and “the small questions” in a person’s life. She would like to explore the notion of “the road not taken” and create parallel lives for a character in her books.

Katie Daley is the editor at cyberedit.com where she performs in-depth edits of business documents and essays via the internet. Her artistic focus is to penetrate abstract political phenomena such as war, racism and classism through her poetry. She received an award from Writers and Their Friends in 2004 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship in 2003. She received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University.

Daley looks forward to the support she will receive from other artists in Provincetown, as well as the opportunities to collaborate with artists in other genres to develop her art. Needing much time for thought and deep reflection, she expects to spend her residency deep in this process. Daley expresses great love of the sea and intends to let her imagination and spirit flourish in her surroundings.

The Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artist Residency Program was established in 1989 to give artists opportunities to develop new work and ideas in a creative atmosphere. In a field where time to work often is more valuable than money, residencies nourish and enrich the creative lives and careers of Ohio’s artists. Connections between artists, audiences and professionals from other fields are made through public programs, special events, communal dinners, salons and informal discussions.

The Fine Arts Work Center was founded in 1968 by a group of eminent artists and writers. It is an internationally known art center similar to Yaddo, the long-established and respected colony for writers.

The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.

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