“Jenny and Varvara created a unique environment that I have never found equalled in the twenty years of my life I have participated in art programs: hands-off, and yet structured; never pushing, instead, inspiring. My goal for the Mudhouse Residency was to regain my confidence in painting and drawing from direct observation, and by working in the studio, to rediscover my artistic self-discipline (lapsed since my full time job began). It’s hard to explain how being in Agios Ioannis inspires and focuses you—it’s an exquisitely beautiful place, and the Mudhouse itself has to be seen to be believed. During my time there, I could channel that incredible sensory overload of being in a simultaneously new and very old and beautiful place into making artwork. It was as though everything else became quiet. The Mudhouse Residency was an incredible boost to my practice, I made more there in just two short weeks than I can in half a year at home, and I came back feeling relaxed but energized, focused and full of motivation to keep working.”
— Madeleine Boucher, '15

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  • Miranda Clark | Detroit, MI

    Miranda is an artist and professor of photography from Detroit. Her chandelier installation, “Your Neon Love Will Shine”, was the third in a series, the first chandelier was photographed in the Black Forest, the second in a castle in Spain, and the last, influenced by the movie Xanadu, was installed during the residency at Psarapoula Beach on Crete. The series is about fairy tales and the narrative of romance.

    Lynette K Stephenson | Hamilton, NY

    Lynette is a painter and professor of art from Colgate University in New York. Her studio practice is interested in revealing the allure of ordinary, discarded objects, which she transforms through her artwork, commenting on the beauty of everyday life. The paintings she made during the residency were composed of materials that were found in the village.

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  • Madeleine Boucher | Brooklyn, NY

    Madeline is a printmaker and multi-media artist working in Brooklyn. She is a founding member of Shoestring Press, a fine art print shop and art space dedicated to experimental approaches to traditional and new print media in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Her academic work on Buddhist art of the medieval period parallels an exploration of images with sacred resonance in her own artwork: icons from dreams; surrealistic symbols and apparitions; cosmological maps refracted through Google Earth.

    Erika Broser | Viroqua, WI

    Studio + Workshop Residency