(Kittery Point, ME) The Seapoint International Artist Residency was recently founded in an effort to bring multicultural writers, artists, filmmakers and musicians into the seacoast creative community. Located on Cutts Island in Kittery Point, Maine, S.I.A.R is housed in a unique historic cottage that overlooks the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic Ocean, the Isles of Shoals and the preservation land between Sea Point and Crescent beaches.
The preservation land was donated to the Kittery Land Trust by Eliot Hubbard, a former member of the board of the DeCordova Museum in memory of his aunt, Rosamond Thaxter (1895 – 1989), and is surrounded by the Brave Boat Harbor Division of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. The Cottage offers three furnished live/work rooms with water views. Additional studio space is available at the residency-run off-site art gallery, and larger local studio space can be rented for a nominal fee for artists whose needs require it.
As the resident Director and Founder of S.I.A.R., Alicia Goodwin offers her experience as an artist, writer, curator and world-traveler to visiting residents, as well as exposure to a wide network of other local, national and international individuals and organizations integral to a successful artistic cultural exchange. “The Cottage is owned by Morris Halle, Professor and co-founder with Noam Chomsky of the Linguistics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his late wife, painter Rosamond Thaxter (Strong) Halle (1925-2011), who graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1946, and whose artwork fills the cottage. Celia Laighton Thaxter was one of the first residents on Cutts Island, and she is hailed in local history as a poet, writer, and pioneer of arts and culture at the turn of the century. She hosted many notable luminaries during her time here on Cutts Island, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Childe Hassam and Nathaniel Hawthorne,” remarks Goodwin.
“It is in the spirit of these visionary and artistic Thaxter women that the Seapoint International Artist Residency was founded. It is through the cultural exchange of ideas and artistic endeavors that their legacy will live on at this incredible artist retreat.” Goodwin, who has participated in several international artist residencies herself, is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and the founder and curator of Drift Contemporary Art Gallery located in Kittery, Maine.
The residency is accepting applications for one to three month stays. The S.I.A.R. Jury reviews each application. Goodwin chose the jury based on their experience representing local, national and international art, artists and cultural organizations. Current jurors include Cathy Sununu, Director of the Portsmouth Museum of Art, in Portsmouth, NH; Mary P. Harding, Curator at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, ME; Corey Daniels, Founder and Curator of the Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells, ME; Bear Kirkpatrick, photographer, digital media artist and winner of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation 2012 Artist Advancement Grant; and Tyson Jacques, Painter and CE Printmaking Instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
View photos and S.I.A.R. details on the web at www.seapointresidency.com. For more information, please contact Alicia Goodwin at 207-438-0417 or director@seapointresidency.com.
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