100 WEST - 12:00 - 4:00 PM - studio work on 2nd & 3rd floors (100 W. 3rd Ave. Corsicana)
WALKER WALLS TARVER – painting - Montclair, New Jersey
MARÍA VALENZUELA – textile, embroidery - Santiago, Chile
ANTEROOM - 12:00 - 4:00 PM - video projection (411 N. Beaton St. Corsicana)
MATHILDE LAVENNE, alumna - multimedia - Lille, France
STOREFRONT - 3:00 - 3:40 PM - readings, discussion, book signing (203 N. Commerce St. Corsicana)
JENNIFER HAIGH – novel - Boston, Massachusetts
CÉLINE LEROY, alumna - translation - Paris, France
Derrick Days festival may limit parking nearby, please be prepared to park several blocks from 100W, Anteroom and Storefront. These three sites are walkable within two-blocks.
Warm Temperatures will effect the 2nd and 3rd floors of 100W where air-conditioning is very limited beyond open windows. Please dress cool. Anteroom and Storefront have central a/c, and are 1st floor accessible.
RESIDENTS
MARÍA VALENZUELA - Santiago, Chile – 3rd Floor Studio
María’s practice consists of a study of drawing and tracing in space that dialogues with the languages of dance, performance, experimental video, photography, and embroidery. With a BA (sculpture focus) from the University of Chile, she studied photography at the Pontifical Catholic University and the ICP New York. She also studied Visual Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and received her Masters in Documentary Creation at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Throughout her career, she has participated in video art exhibitions, performances, and projects that combined the audiovisual world with intangible oral heritage in Chile and Spain. After seven years in Spain, María proposed a new technique of hand embroidery on different supports in Chile, participating in national and international competitions and exhibitions. / In Corsicana, María has been creating a series of delicate colored-pencil drawings as well as embroideries on paper. A fluid investigation of line, a study of the possibilities of the grid, and a responsiveness to her environment inform María’s work, whose organic, linear movements and pattern and variation harken to a background in dance and a sustained interest in the dialogue between color and form. www.instagram.com/majevalenz
WALKER WALLS TARVER - Montclair, New Jersey – 2nd Floor Studio
Walker is a painter who traces her lineage through a matrilinear heritage. She is inspired by her paternal grandmother, an artist and lifelong Texan whose legacy has long guided Walker’s studio practice. / While in Corsicana, Walker has been utilizing the space to make drawings, small paintings on watercolor paper, and ultimately large-scale paintings informed by her engagement with her surroundings as well as with her grandmother’s stories and the Jungian imagery therein. She is amassing a library of imagery that offers a continuation with her previous work while adding new symbolic layers to her universe of shapes that evoke the performance of womanhood and the architecture of self and family. www.walkerwallstarver.com
JENNIFER HAIGH - Boston, Massachusetts – Writing Studio
Jennifer’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her successive books—four novels and the short story collection News From Heaven—have won numerous awards and been published in eighteen languages. Her most recent novel, Mercy Street, is the winner of the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she teaches in the graduate program in creative writing at Boston University. / While at 100 W, Jennifer is working on the first draft of a new novel. Having completed research, she is using the intense time of the residency to open herself up to the initial process (larded with surprises) of putting words on the page. jennifer-haigh.com
CÉLINE LEROY, alumna - Paris, France
Céline is an alumna of 100W, who has translated scores of literary works—by the likes of Maggie Nelson, Deborah Levy, and Ross Gay—from English into French. During her residency, she worked on transposing novelist Barbara Kingsolver’s first collection of poetry into French. Now she is translating Peter Heller’s The Orchard, a novel set in a cabin in Vermont’s Green Mountains that follows a translator of Chinese poetry who seeks solace in the rigors of nature. instagram.com/celine2405
MATHILDE LAVENNE, alumna - Lille, France
Multivalent 100W alumna Mathilde, a graduate of France’s prestigious Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts, is an audiovisual and new media artist and director whose work combines an exquisite sensibility to narrative with a rich and palimpsestic visual vocabulary and an engagement with emerging technologies. In partnership with the Villa Albertine, Mathilde’s current residency in Corsicana allows her to commit to a work in progress that will stretch in several stages through summer 2025. The Land I Live On, an immersive documentary, explores the local legacies of petroleum and cotton as seen through the prism of women’s narratives, many of them African American and connected to a history of enslavement and capitalism. Local figures Ruby Williams and the late spiritual medium Annie Buchanan, among others, will figure in a metaverse. Having gleaned unique archival material and oral narratives, Mathilde is currently working on the storyboarding, mood boards, and graphic library that will allow her to create a prototype for the immersive documentary. Layering animated 3-D material, particle animation, mapped video sequences, and volumetric video capture, the result will create bridges and sound the hidden narratives of the invisible. / For Open Studios, Mathilde will screen her existing, award-winning film Solar Echoes, which centers on a thermo-nuclear power plant in Andalusia, Spain—a haunting, ethereal juxtaposition with visions of the recent solar eclipse. mathildelavenne.com
