Artist Residency
Art Hx invited artists to complete a digital residency between 2021-2023, thanks to a Collaborative Humanities Project Grant from the Humanities Council at Princeton University with support from a David A. Garder ‘69 Magic Grant. The residency connected artists and researchers, illuminated resonances between contemporary experiences and historical narratives and underscored how art and art-making can re-frame established narratives and build different methods of support and understanding.
The format of this residency is being reshaped, and more information about new opportunities will be posted soon.
Past Artists in Residence
Nate Lewis
2022-2023
Artist-in-Residence
Based in New York City, artist Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.
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Nate earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and he practiced critical-care nursing in DC-area hospitals for nine years.
His work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Yale Center for British Art; 21c Museum Hotels; with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services. Past residencies include Pioneer Works and Dieu Donne. Lewis’s work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, and The University of Austin at Texas. His most recent solo exhibition, Tuning the Current, was on view at Fridman Gallery in New York City earlier this fall. The featured works raised “questions about the interrelatedness of physical movement, history and healing, particularly (but not only) in the context of African diasporic art and culture.” To learn more about Lewis’s work, visit his website: http://natelewisart.com/.
Sarah K. Khan
2021-2022
Artist-in-Residence
Sarah Khurshid Khan (she/her) is a maker and scholar. Before the discipline of food studies formally existed, she cobbled together an undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern history and Arabic, as well as several graduate degrees in public health, nutrition and a PhD in plant sciences/traditional ecological knowledge systems.
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At present, her food/culture study and research informs her present art practice. A maker of prints, photos and doc films, Khan has received numerous grants, residencies, and fellowships to pursue writing, research, and multimedia expressions on food, culture, women migration, and healing. She has presented her creations at the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens Museum, and New York University, to name a few.
To learn more about Khan’s work, visit http://sarahkkhan.com/ and @sarahkkhan on Twitter and Instagram.
Artist Projects
Sarah Khurshid Khan, A Curative Space: African Indian Ocean world femmes 2022
Inspired by the Central Indian Ni’matnāma, Sarah Khurshid Khan reimagines the 16th century illustrated cookbook with a new playful visual critical fabulation in animation. The multimedia series are unfolding, ongoing, and ever-evolving. Here, Marjane and Uzza, engage in the simple act of creating during the monsoon. They infuse their world with local food-medicine-essences like black pepper കുരുമുളക്, cinnamon दालचीनी, clove خکیم, rose گل ورد, and bitter orange البرتقال زهر ماء. Steeped in indigenous sciences, the femmes advance their dynamic, multisensory healing arts, 2022.
This animation was made by Khan during her 2021-2022 Art Hx Artist Residency with assistance from Aaron Granat.
Nate Lewis, Study for Movement Through a Body, 2023
Responding to ideaz of patterns and currents, Nate Lewis reflects on experiences of interconnectedness.
“This video is a continuation of ideas. I brought over elements of weather patterns (wind, waves), and introduced some footage that I took of sea life, sting rays, fish, and sea anemones. I’m thinking a lot about macro and micro movements within systems, particularly the relationships that small systems share with the greater ones they inhabit. Wind and ocean current patterns have me thinking about the climate. These changes have a domino effect on economic systems and migratory patterns. The school of fish moving makes me think about cells or bacteria, viruses within circulation of the body. The moving strands from the sea anemone make me think about cilia that exist on certain cells within the body. It visualizes the interconnectedness of the physical, societal, and economic systems that envelopes and affects what we call the anthropocene.”