Branching Out: Taking Wing Exhibit

The fourth annual Branching Out Mentoring Project exhibition opened March 5^th and continues through April 23^rd.  Young artists and their artist mentors worked together using photography, video, clay, painting, drawing, sculpture and fiber arts to create work on this year’s theme - “Taking Wing.” . The mentors worked with the young artists in their chosen disciplines, providing some direction, collaboration, technical expertise and advice and encouragement.
This year’s young artist-mentor pairs are Seth Whited and Emma Bonneville, Kenny Cole and Lizzie Cox, Josh Povec and Emma Hamm, Katie Wadsworth and Chelsea Porter, Dan Clarke and Hila Shooter, Chuck Hamm and Rachael Kahn, Karen Jelenfy and Katie Wollfrum and Russell Kahn and Tom Young. Each pair came up with different interpretations of the theme. Some focused on birds in flight, fabricating nests and illustrating avian predators, while other pairs were out at dawn shooting Belfast harbor and the horizon in 360 degrees.

Waterfall Arts’ Branching Out program is supported by a grant from the Davis Family Foundation. The program continues to inspire willingness in both the mentors and young artists to dedicate many hours to their investigations of the theme, creating pieces which bring the idea to life.

Lizzie Cox and Kenny Cole working on a collaborative piece for Taking WIng.