100 WEST - 12:00 - 4:00 PM - Showcasing winter resident work in the 100W Studios. 3:00 PM reading by poet Jannine Horsford on the 2nd floor. Coffee & pastry cart by Warm & Golden on the sidewalk.
KELLI RAE ADAMS – installation, sculpture - Danville, Virginia
JANNINE HORSFORD – poetry - Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
DANIEL MELO MORALES – photography, sound - San Francisco, California
STOREFRONT - 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 203 N. Commerce St. two blocks from 100 West. Featuring over 30 books by resident writers, their recommendations, innovative and classic desktop supplies, residency merchandise, and available work by resident artists. Storefront
KELLI RAE ADAMS
North Adams, Massachusetts – 2nd Floor Studio
kelli rae adams creates installation-based works that examine prevailing economic systems and probe our existing relationships to labor, currency, and value. With an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Visual Arts and Spanish from Duke University, kelli studied ceramics intensively in Japan, where she apprenticed over a period of five years with Tetsuro Hatabe, a master potter in the Karatsu tradition. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including MASS MoCA (currently: Forever in Your Debt), the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University and the Museum of International Ceramic Art (Denmark). / During her time at 100 W, kelli has been creating an added dimension of her project, Forever in Your Debt, a multiyear endeavor visualizing the student debt crisis in the U.S. Over 900 white stoneware bowls (referencing the offering bowl, the household change bowl) represent the average individual U.S. student debt—currently $37,000—in volumetric form; each bowl holds one pint of coins (or about $40 worth), their red glazed interiors representative of the proverbial red ink, slowly obscured when they are filled with change from participants. Newly made vessels will represent accrued interest on this principal sum for an upcoming exhibition in Chicago. Inspired by the printing press made available to her, kelli has also been working on designing a limited-edition, large-scale print to commemorate Forever In Your Debt, as well as securing venues in key locations along the campaign trail through November 2024. www.kelliraeadams.com
DANIEL MELO MORALES
San Francisco, California – 3rd Floor Studio
Daniel Melo Morales is a first-generation interdisciplinary artist whose works reveal phantasmatic and material relationships embedded among architectural signifiers, acoustic systems, and microhistories. He researches these elements to make new works in the domains of constructed photographs, photo-sculptures, and sound. Daniel received an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. As an experimental and self-taught multi-instrumentalist as well as an interdisciplinary artist, his practice has involved installations, performances, fellowships (including a 2023 Community Action Fellowship at Blue Sky Center), and interventions. Conceptually, he investigates non-linear notions of time and the possible origins of sound outside purely physical factors. A resulting rich palimpsest includes digital and analog sound recordings, and he holds in high regard the physicality of sound as received by an audience. Among his aims is to spark new experiences through intentional decontextualization. / While in Corsicana, Daniel has explored how 100 W produces, absorbs, and responds to sound, including outside a strictly physical—meteorological and temporal—context given its history and current uses. He has also been working on a series of large-scale and layered photographs that plumb the resources of a familial archive that harkens to Daniel’s Colombian ethnicity. www.danielmelo.com
JANNINE HORSFORD
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – Writing Studio
Jannine Horsford is a storyteller who is interested in the compression of poems as narrative vessels. Her poetry has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Caribbean Quarterly, The Manchester Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Moko Magazine, Magma, and others. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Small Axe Poetry Prize. In 2021, she was longlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers’ Prize. Most recently (April 2022), she won the Bocas Emerging Writers’ Fellowship for Poetry. Drawing inspiration from the oral narrative-weaving traditions of family as well as the oral and literary history of Trinidad and Tobago, Jannine crafts poems with a strong sense of character and place, in which clarity and liveliness of imagery are vital. Embodying the poet as listener, Jannine is attuned to the cadences of language as well as to the material she can mine from dreams or from words spoken in earshot. / While at 100 W, Jannine is at work finalizing her first poetry collection, which places focus on two years spent in rural England as well as on her native island of Tobago as distinct from Trinidad. She is extracting poems for a chapbook to be published with Peekash Press this spring. Finally, she has been planning and honing themes for her second poetry collection, which centers on home.
Daniel Melo Morales
