LATITUDE presents a new program initiative, AIR/ED. The Artist in Residence: Education and Development program brings 2 artists into the lab to develop and produce their projects free of charge while receiving guidance, training, and support from staff and volunteers. Artists gain access to the LATITUDE community through their day-to-day interactions with their choice of either one studio visit with an outside curator or an educational lab training session. The residency lasts two weeks per artist.

On April 26th the artists and community will come together for a joint meet and greet event to celebrate the conclusion of this new program.LATITUDE presents a new program initiative, AIR/ED. The Artist in Residence: Education and Development program brings 2 artists into the lab to develop and produce their projects free of charge while receiving guidance, training, and support from staff and volunteers. Artists gain access to the LATITUDE community through their day-to-day interactions with their choice of either one studio visit with an outside curator or an educational lab training session. The residency lasts two weeks per artist. On April 26th the artists and community will come together for a joint meet and greet event to celebrate the conclusion of this new program.

About Shelby Stone:
Shelby Stone is a visual artist whose current work investigates the liminal space between lived experiences, emotion and ancestral knowledge to reinforce cultural histories, including her own. In her work, she meticulously pieces together expressions of intimacy, disclosures of vulnerability, natural landscapes and memory; ranging from the ancestral to the surreal. Through her practices in analog photography, collage and sculpture, she sets forth in exploring the various Realms of Blackness, the materiality of self-preservation, compassion, intra/interpersonal relationships, the feminine and multiplicities of the human condition as it relates to imagined and lived experiences. These elements and their juxtapositions to one another are an effort to evoke memories that are personal, shared and yet to be discovered.

About Loren Toney:
Loren Toney was born in 1997 in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised in the south suburbs of Chicago and received a BA from Columbia College Chicago as a Cinematography major and Photography minor. Her work has been displayed in Columbia College’s Print Lab as well as Columbia College’s Library for an installation entitled “The Americans Now”. She was a recipient for the Trustee Award Scholarship for her photography portfolio in 2015.

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