During this talk, you’ll learn about the artists’ careers. Artpace will provide a light meal on this casual evening of food, friends, and the future as we talk to the new residents about their practice.  Doors will open at 6pm and presentations begin at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the public.

About the artists

Hellen Ascoli is a weaver; a word that encompasses art, craft, pedagogy, and transition. To move different can make us think and feel different. Using the back-strap loom, Ascoli extends her body into tool – a material – and connects to site, listening to its embedded and embodied knowledge. Through situating herself within this specific knowledge production and transmission of the back-strap loom, Ascoli creates open works that engage sensation, memory, and poetry.

Jonesy is an artist and filmmaker working in Los Angeles. Jonesy’s work is populated by queer collaborators of various ages, racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, and body types. His work forefronts the expressive language of inclusion, power, belonging and representation among subcultures, including the queer community of which he is a part. His installation at Artpace in San Antonio in 2022 will create a cruisy space of connection, experimentation, and intimacy where queer play is forceful and unruly.

Betelhem Makonnen is curious about perception, presence, and place in affiliation with time and change. Her practice is informed through her relational observations of being in the world and grounded in her personal history, as well as the collective histories of Africans and Africans in the diaspora. Through a process of (re)search, (re)combinations, (re)configurations and experimental play, Makonnen makes works that take form in the in-between spaces existing in paradoxes, feedback loops and sites of connection.

Sponsors

The International Artist-in-Residence program is supported through generous donations from the Linda Pace Foundation, the City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation of the San Antonio Area Foundation, The Parker Foundation, Inc., the Howard and Betty Halff Charitable Fund, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.