Artists In Residence
See some of our past Artists
Nothing is more human or natural than the act of making, creating, and expressing. Each summer artists join us to be inspired and share inspiration. About half their time is spent with campers leading workshops, teaching skills, and living in community, the other half they spend focusing on their own work.
Interested in being a resident artist?
Maggie McEvoy
Camp Stomping Ground Art Director and residency Coordinator
“My work, both visual and written, comes from different parts of my experiences. I explore structures of the home and family, relationships or lack thereof, and growing up in Suburbia. I am a sister, an aunt, a performer, one half of a committed relationship, and a daughter. I frequently question these roles that I play and how they affect my life. Who’s responsibility will it be to take care of my aging parents, what does it mean to be an adult, how does my being a women affect all this? I’m very fascinated by domestic lifestyles, both embracing and resisting it. I work in mediums of poetry, video and performance.”
maggiemcevoy.tumblr.com
Jade Greene
Camp Stomping Ground Art Director and residency Coordinator
"My work is often influenced and inspired by relationships, either the relationships I am personally involved in, or the relationships I observe in others. I examine the connections between lovers, between artists, and between strangers. I work with the notions of transformation, of loss, of the effects of the passage of time, and the notion of artifacts. I try to highlight or expand upon my own struggles and questions concerning the nature of intimacy and the products of relationships."
Milla von Tauber
Artsfest
Milla had a difficult relationship with dance growing up. It was an artistic medium she enjoyed but struggled to connect with. At 16, she discovered blues dance and her whole outlook on dance changed. She connected strongly to the music, the freedom filled dynamic of improvisational dance, and the intimacy (and challenge!) of dancing with a partner. Soon after, Milla stumbled upon Fusion and quickly realized that partner dance was to be one of her life's passion. Since then she has dedicated herself to dance, traveling across the country to learn from the best and teach as many people as she can what she knows. Her goal as a dancer is to be dynamic and variant, bringing to life a story in her dance partnerships. Her goal as a teacher is to bring dance to life for anyone and everyone, no matter how much they feel they "are" or "aren't" a dancer.
vonmilla.wixsite.com/millavtdance/gallery
Kirk Maynard
Session 4
Kirk Maynard is a mixed media artist and educator from Brooklyn, New York. A second generation Guyanese-American, Maynard’s work focuses on the political undercurrents of culture and identity in America. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York City, San Francisco, and New Jersey. He has also given artist talks at the New Museum, Queens College, and Princeton University. Maynard currently lives and works in Orange, New Jersey.
www.kirkmaynardart.com
Addie Metivier
arts fest
Addie Metivier is an artist who was trained primarily in woodworking, but tends towards the sculptural, rather than the functional. She employs woodburning, turning, and carving, among other skills, to make her work. Currently, Addie is focusing on expanding her skillset to include wildcrafting with materials such as pine needles, bark, and fallen wood, and hopes to spend her time at Camp Stomping Grounds exploring various methods of basket making.
jadelaide.carbonmade.com
Izzi D’Esposito
Arts Fest, Session 1
Isabella “Izzi” D’Esposito is a New York based playwright and songwriter. Her work has been produced or developed at Homegrown Theater, the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ars Nova, Carnegie Mellon University, Boise Contemporary Theater and more. She was recently a writing fellow at The Playwrights Realm with a play about a library, but she mostly writes about outer space and the internet! She has an affinity for characters who look skyward and who seek out community in the strangest places.
www.isabelladesposito.com
Zachary Tridico
Sessions Arts Fest 1+2
Zach received his BM in Jazz Studies: Saxophone Performance from Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is active as a saxophonist, composer, and educator. Zach leads his own group ZTQ, he has made appearances with groups including the Philadelphia Funk Authority, the Temple Avenue Jazz Quintet, Tony Gairo's Crosscurrent Big Band, the Work in Progress Jazz Orchestra, and he has performed in a variety of shows and musicals.
zachtridico.com
Peter Tucker
Sessions: Arts fest 1,2,3,4
I am a camp counselor at heart. The freedom of expression that I learned at summer camp is one of the main life lessons that I want to share with my art. I have always wondered why life can’t be more like camp, why we can’t live our lives with the freedom of expression and individuality that summer camp encourages. I am committed to creating works of art that step out of the gallery and into our lives. Much of my work revolves around questions of what we believe as individuals and as a society, why we surrender authority to leaders, and why so many of us never stop to consider these questions.
As an artist, I realized that epiphany lies in the act of exploration and in the ordinary world around us.
Pedrotucker.com
Amanda Gianniny
Sessions: arts fest 1,2
A writer, photographer, poet, teacher, and bookworm, Amanda is a passionate advocate for teachers everywhere. Her energy is contagious. She hopes to inspire Teachers to unlock the creative potential of their students. This will be Amanda’s second summer as a creative resident. Last summer she could be found pairing poetry with water color, this summer she plans on offering workshops on parody song writing as well as poetry and painting.
www.theclassroomfox.com/
Brian Hathaway
Arts Fest
Brian is an animator and illustrator based in Rochester New York. He is a former camp counselor, english as a second language teacher in South East Asia. Brian is a born provocateur and a performance artist with a love for fantastic plots and world building. Brian believes in the power of art to instill confidence and positivity.
Brynna Hall
Session 2
Brynna is a fiber artist and educator based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her work is a response to the excess of textile and material that is being discarded by a consumer-driven economy. She creates material studies using traditional fiber techniques. Brynna is inspired by the ‘simple’ act of making, how repetitive actions lead to a meditative, transformative state of mind. Weaving, quilting, and embroidery are her current mediums of creation.
www.brynnahall.com
Steve Langdon
arts fest
Steve, originally from the UK, is an artist specializing in digital photography. After completing an MA from The Royal College of Art in London, his photography career took him all over the globe. Now based in Philadelphia he shoots commercial work for corporations and mentors young image makers. He’s looking forward to connecting and collaborating with fellow artists this summer.
concretebubble.com/
Mitchell Angelo
Session 2,3
Mitchell Angelo is a Creative Writing Major at SUNY Purchase College. His work revolves around topics like gender, birds, and his dog Luna. His work has previously appeared in Gandy Dancer, Gutter Mag, and The Westchester Review.
Megan Sullivan
Session 4
Megan Sullivan- Megan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rochester, NY. She moved to Rochester in 2010 to work on her MFA at Visual Studies Workshop and has since made the city her home. She is a Teaching Artist in the Rochester City School District and instructor at Flower City Arts Center. She works in video, sound, photography, book arts and various sculptural forms to explore the enigmas of religion, memory and family. Collecting images, sounds, and text is an integral part of her process as she works to repurpose the found in creating alternative narratives.
www.megan-sullivan.com
Tamar Sandalon
Session 1
Tamar has been practicing photography since the age of fifteen. Her first and greatest influence was the photographer, Francesca Woodman. Francesca’s work inspired her and opened the door to a world of expression she didn't even know existed. Since then she has been exploring the world around her and finding new ways of cultivating her surroundings to express complex and in-depth emotions.
Sandalonphoto.com
Sydney Shaffer
Session 3
Sydney is a senior at SUNY Purchase and majors in Creative Writing. She has a love for poetry and writing poetry that evokes all the senses. She loves cats (a little too much), coffee (only iced), and really long walks in the snow.
Elliot Flynn
Session 4,5
Elliot Frances Flynn is a gender non-conforming theatre artist and writer. They studied at the State University of New York at New Paltz, a top US BA program, and at the Barrow Group in New York City. On stage, screen and in their written works, Elliot explores the coming of age story in relation to queer identity and womanhood. Their work has been published in various online journals.
www.elliotfrancesflynn.com
Carrie Gilbert
Session Art Fest 1,2,4,5
Carrie Gilbert graduated from Nazareth College in Rochester New York with a graphic design degree. After traveling through Europe and spending her final semester in Italy, she realized how much traveling has impacted her work. She believes that the environment around us affects the art that we create. Carrie hopes to inspire others to explore and push their creative boundaries.
cgilber7.myportfolio.com
Becs Epstein
Art Fest
Becs is a social practice artist/florist/artist assistant/plant friend/DIY Venue Host. Becs graduated from Carnegie Mellon University BFA with a focus in Contextual Practice and Sculptural Installation. She has roots in California and Philadelphia but is currently based in NYC. She has most recently shown work at the Carnegie Library curated by the Iyapo Repository, Barim in South Korea, and Elbow Room Gallery. Her ongoing work is called Institute of Plant Motivation which uses the aesthetic language of corporate stability to advocate for the formation of intimate consensual relationships between humans and individual plants. The core of her art practice is magnifying the space between botanical life and human interaction.
www.becsepstein.com
Yikui Gu
Session 4
Yikui is an immigrant from China who grew up in Albany, NY, and is now living in Philadelphia. He teaches as Associate Professor of Art at the College of Southern Maryland, and uses summer as a time to focus on his studio practice. His works are sociopolitical, using him and his wife (also an immigrant to America), as a starting point. Pattern is a big aesthetic concern in this work, as he constantly explores the usage of camouflage, hair, wallpapers, wood grain, and different fabric prints.
