Date: Saturday, July 26
Time: 2:00 PM —3:30 PM
Location: McColl Center
Cost: $10
Registration Deadline: Friday, July 25
Join McColl Center Artist-in-Residence Mara Baldwin to make and take home your own small bark boat, inspired by her ongoing project exploring the symbolism of summer camp and the utopian dreams of youth. Baldwin has crafted more than 70 of these boats over the past year and a half, drawing on memories of her childhood sleepaway camp, where boats were solemnly launched onto the lake during end-of-summer closing ceremonies.
This workshop offers a unique opportunity to get to know the artist and gain insight into her process, inspirations, and the personal histories that shape her work. Ten of Baldwin’s boats are currently on view in the Artist-in-Residence Showcase at McColl Center.
Open to all ages. Families welcome. All materials will be provided by our high school intern crew. You're also invited to bring small, meaningful objects to embed in your boat as a reflection of your own memories or intentions.
About the Artist:
Mara Baldwin is an artist whose work focuses on the impossible dream of utopia and asks if a perfect life can include the imperfect feelings of failure, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. Baldwin's multidisciplinary and research-based work uses textiles and drawings to create serial and narrative forms. She shares her time between Ithaca and the Hudson Valley, where she teaches drawing at Bard College. She is the recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts grant and has been awarded residencies at, among others, McColl Center (Summer 2025), Women’s Studio Workshop, Wassaic Project, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency program, Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Djerassi, and Saltonstall. Recent solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum at Cornell University; Rosefsky Gallery at Binghamton University; String Room Gallery at Wells College; Davis Gallery at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Concepto Hudson; and Corners Gallery, Ithaca, New York. Upcoming solo exhibitions at Dowd Gallery (SUNY Cortland, January-March 2025), Albany International Airport (June-October 2025) and Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca College, October-December 2025).
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