AN ILLUMINATED HISTORY OF 100 WEST. Video composed and edited by former resident Trey Burns featuring founders and director Kyle Hobratschk, Travis LaMothe, Adrienne Lichliter-Hines, David Searcy, Nancy Rebal, and Corsicana Residency nonprofit board members Joe B. Brooks and Sally Warren. Resident cameos in order by Rachel Mica Weiss, Olivia DiVecchia, Tom Holmes, Francisco Moreno, Alysia Nicole Harris, Kemar Wynter, Erik DeLuca, Kerri Arsenault, Linus Lohmann, Céline Leroy. Video funding support from the Corsicana Visitors' Bureau.
10 YR REVERIE. Music by resident alum Alex Dupree’s band Dallas on TV recorded live. Video by Camile O’Briant.
May 28 and preparation. Photos by friends, including Camile O’Briant and Greg Sunmark. Share additional photos by email here.
20 Resident Alumni and 6 Current Residents from 140 total residents since inception. Photo Camile O’Briant.
THE 100 WEST PROJECT 10 YEARS ON
What began, among a group of artist friends in a huge three story former Odd Fellows Hall in Corsicana, Texas, as a sort of open question - What are we, as artists, doing here? - became, with only the faintest understanding as to how such things are done, an international invitation to that question. And right off the bat, 100 applicants from everywhere - Australia, Iceland, Germany. And then three times that number. Full-blown Residency. Yet keeping - somehow, in those airy, somewhat ghostly spaces occupied by no more than two artists and one writer at a time - that essential openness, that question and what some have termed a sense of ghostly freedom to pursue it, even out into the general community, whose history and whose history’s preservation has become a central concern and an extension of the 100W project.
What have we got here? is another question asked from time to time as things expand - a bookstore, gallery and new residential space. Kyle Hobratschk, founder and prime mover, seems pretty happy not to have to pin it down. But clearly more than just a residency. And still presenting that same open question with that open invitation to address it among friends in a little town out on the endless Texas openness where questions such as this, we feel, can gain a certain clarity.
David Searcy May, 2022
10 YEARS.
140 resident artists and writers hosted since 2015.
13 countries represented.
1286 residency applications.
2 residents moved to Corsicana.
3 founders moved to Corsicana.
14 historic properties preserved by people drawn by this project.
6 part-time staff.
4 years of our nonprofit Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency
2 years since opening Anteroom.
1 year since opening Storefront.
Alex Dupree, resident alum writer, poet and songwriter from Austin, performed with his band Dallas on TV for the celebration. Video by Camile O’Briant.
A SONIC ARC by Tricia Park composed during her residency in Corsicana, performed in the 100W woodshop. Video by Camile O’Briant.
FOUNDING 100 WEST. Work by people who got it going.
Installed in Anteroom through fall 2022.
100 WEST, Foundation Hole 2x8s x 5, 2014, silicon and rust residue
ANDY ANZOLLITTO, Uppercase A from TXC Latin Antiqua, 2022, wood
NOEL CAMARDO, Corsicana, TX, 2016, photograph
TIM COURSEY, Adult Human Female with Amalthea, 1985, bronze and stone
WAYNE HALL, Resurrection, 2014, plastic, wood, string, and spray paint
KYLE HOBRATSCHK, Drafting Table, 2012, cherrywood, brass
TRAVIS LAMOTHE, Chair, 2013, phenolic; Iron Collar, 2018, wood, paint
ADRIENNE LICHLITER-HINES, Buttermilk, Lemon and Thyme, 2015, lithograph
KIERNAN LOFLAND, Untitled, 2020, plaster and wire
DOUG MACWITHEY, Iris, 1990, graphite on paper
ANNA MEMBRINO, Gradient, 2021, acrylic on canvas
RANDELL MORGAN, Side Table Orb, 2012, wood and pain
NANCY REBAL, Mercy, 2012 – 2022, oil on canvas
DAVID SEARCY, Hermes Trismagistis, 1954, machine
JAY SULLIVAN, Serpentine, 1998, plaster, straw, steel, wood
STOREFRONT open this summer Fridays & Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm. Closed the month of July.
Banners blowing above are a collection scaled from lapel ribbons and awning streamers to painted facade dressings made and painted by local Moe the Tailor, Tino Ward, Andy Anzollitto, Kyle Hobratschk and past residents Marcelyn McNeil, Daniela Cruz and Bianca Grüger. We’ll continue to install these celebratory pieces, in shared spirit with the Odd Fellows Fraternity who constructed the 1890s Lodge of 100 West, and who have been known the world over for their regalia - worn and adorn.
