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THE WASSAIC PROJECT is a public art project fiscally sponsored by The Solo Foundation.

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LOCATION
35 Furnace Bank Road
Wassaic, NY 12592
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CONTACT
Co-Directors
Eve Biddle eve@wassaicproject.com
Bowie Zunino bowie@wassaicproject.com
Elan Bogarin elan@wassaicproject.com
Jeff Barnett-Winsby jeff@wassaicproject.com

Music Director
Scott Anderson music@wassaicproject.com

MAILING ADDRESS
P.O. Box 220
Wassaic, NY 12592

MISSION
The Wassaic Project is an artist-run, sustainable, multidisiplinary arts organization that focuses on community engagement and facilitates artists and participants to exhibit, discuss, and connect with art, each other, our unique site, and the surrounding community. We facilitate interaction and collaboration among artists of all disciplines and the public by utilizing our historic location to create new ways of working in the arts and to inspire new ways of seeing art.

The Wassaic Project's activities include an annual summer festival, a year-round artist residency, studio visits/critiques for artists involved with the organization by guest curators and visiting artists, artist workshops with community members, published catalogs, and fundraising exhibitions in Wassaic and New York City. Our programs intend to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries.


ABOUT
Co-Directors:

Eve Biddle has managed large scale public mural projects with her husband and collaborator Joshua Frankel since 2007. She makes public and private murals on commission and also collaborates with co-director Bowie Zunino as the interactive arts team "Bowie + Eve". Bowie + Eve make interactive and edible art works focused on emotional issues surrounding illness and the medical industry. They met at Williams College where they were both in the class of 2004. They have collaborated since 2008 and have shown both nationally and internationally.Through conversation and private thought they engage viewers to question and expand their perceptions with the firm belief that challenging the way people think can bring about social awareness and change.
eveandbowie.com
evebiddle.com


Bowie Zunino has a background in community-based education and has worked for a number of non-profits including Creative Time. She holds and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Sculpture, has severe ADD, and loves her dog Ailee.
bowieandeve.com
bowiezunino.com


Elan Bogarin is a New York City based filmmaker/photographer and graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Elan is currently co-directing and producing a documentary about the origin myths of oil: invisiblemuralsmovie.com. Elan recently produced the feature film Big Fan for director Robert Siegel which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and will open in 6 US cities in August 2009. Other recent projects include God's House a feature-length documentary about Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust for JWM Productions and a short documentary for the National Gallery of Art for Oscar-winning director, Aviva Slesin. In addition, Elan has recently exhibited her photographic work at Rhonda Schaller Gallery in New York.
invisiblemuralsmovie.com


Jeff Barnett-Winsby is a Kansas native and recent nyc re-locater. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in photography and is an adjunct professor, artist, commercial photographer, and cinematographer. His first book, published through J&L Books, arrives on shelves in March 2010.
jeffbarnettwinsby.com


Music Director

Scott Anderson, raised in Massachusetts, now resides in Brooklyn, NY. After nearly finishing a Sustainable Agriculture degree, he is now a founding partner of a 10 yr old technology consultancy, Control Group, leading the Media and Entertainment practice, and serves on the Leadership Council of openhousenewyork, the largest architecture and design event in the US. He has also been a respected DJ for over 15 years, was in the rap group Lords of the Rhymes, and is part of the Superspirit Family Band.


MADE POSSIBLE BY:
This project is made possible (in part) through a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council, administrator of public funds through NYSCA's Decentralization Program. We have also been supported by a grant from the Northeast Dutchess Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.