2023-2024 Resident Artists
Open Studio Saturday
November 23rd 1PM-3PM
Resident artist Natalie Dadamio invites community members of all backgrounds and skill levels to draw together in the BCAC Artist-in-Residence Studio during her Open Studio Saturday on November 23, 1-3 PM! Through The Draw It Out Drawing Project, Natalie aims to create a shared space where participants can collectively delve into the power of non-representational drawing as an expressive, healing process.
COMMUNITY ASPECT – DRAW IT OUT with NATALIE DADAMIO
The Draw It Out Drawing Project combines personal exploration with community engagement, creating a shared space where participants can collectively delve into the power of non-representational drawing as an expressive, healing process. The project invites community members of all backgrounds and skill levels to engage with drawing beyond traditional techniques, highlighting it as a language of energy, emotion, and instinct.
Together, participants are encouraged to leave behind preconceived notions of art and approach drawing with curiosity, vulnerability, and freedom. Natalie views non-representational drawing as a way to make art inclusive, break down barriers and boundaries by highlighting the importance of the simple act of drawing and invites everyone to DRAW SOMETHING!
Natalie Dadamio
Natalie Dadamio is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Endicott, New York. She graduated from Binghamton University with a BA in Cinema. She veered off a traditional path in art and life, later to return with new insights, ideas, and wisdom, which is important, because it infuses who she is, her art journey and what her love for painting and mixed media art and experimental expressions convey.
INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT – DRAW IT OUT – NATALIE DADAMIO
The Draw It Out Drawing Project is a journey into non-representational, process-oriented drawing, where mark-making becomes a powerful conduit for emotional exploration, connection, and self-discovery. Rooted in the idea that drawing is a kinetic, intuitive practice, this project encourages participants to approach drawing as a visceral experience—one that honors primal instincts and personal authenticity. By embracing automatic and experimental drawing methods, Draw It Out emphasizes letting go of the outcome to focus on the raw, expressive power of mark-making. Through this approach, drawing becomes a space for psychological and spiritual inquiry, allowing each line, texture, and form to embody personal narratives and deeper emotional truths. This project not only explores the act of drawing but also the relationship between mind, body, and material, making it a transformative practice for artists seeking to connect with their innermost selves.
Luanne Redeye
AiR Founding Coordinator and February 2023 Artist in Residence
Born in Jamestown, NY, Luanne Redeye grew up on the Allegany Indian Reservation in Western New York. It is from here where she draws inspiration incorporating community, family, and culture into her artwork, which gives her pieces a strong personal and emotional component. Whether her art touches on the native experience, identity, or resiliency, Luanne’s work is always created through a native lens sharing her experiences, knowledge, and perspective of navigating a modern world as a native woman.
An enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and Hawk Clan, Luanne received her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico.
Home in Each Other
Opening First Friday, February 3rd from 6PM-9PM
on view: 02/03/23 – 02/25/23
Home in Each Other is a new series of work by Luanne Redeye. This exhibition will showcase the beginning of an exploration into the relationships we hold with each other, telling the stories of family by weaving together personal narratives, home, identity, and culture. Family and home appear different for everyone and this exhibition will explore both themes to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships to community while speaking to the complexities of the people’s lives. The exhibition will also feature recent work by Luanne Redeye that relates to the idea of building community around you, portraying others the artist has connected with.
Sam Muré
Sam Muré is a visual artist living and working in Binghamton, New York. Incorporating several years of experience in printmaking, analog photography, drawing, collage, and more, Muré uses mixed media to document their lived experience through various systems of oppression. Themes such as illusion, frustration, confusion, hope, and camaraderie in their work display an attempt to visualize all the big feelings we hold inside that may not always translate into words alone.
Open Studio Saturday
September 30th 1PM-3PM
Join Resident Artist Sam Muré on Saturday, September 30th as they host Open Studio Hours from 1PM-3PM. Muré inhabits a by-any-means-necessary approach to art making, combining collage, found objects, drawing, print, analog photography, and other materials into mixed media pieces. Stop by and participate in a collaborative collage project!
All It Is and All It Ever Was
On view: October 6th & 7th 2023
Opening First Friday, October 6th 6PM-9PM
A reckoning, a discovery; of simple, yet multilayered truths—about myself, about the world around me, hidden in plain sight. All It Is and All It Ever Was: a collection of mixed media pieces that reflect an attempt to navigate my identity and lived experiences. With a by-any-means-necessary approach to my work, I combine collage, found objects, drawing, print, analog photography, and whatever else I can get my hands on to relay both fleeting and deep-rooted feelings.
This two-day-only residency exhibition will be on view Friday, Oct. 6th from 6PM-9PM and Saturday, Oct. 7th from 11AM-3PM.
Ciara Heatherman
Ciara Heatherman is a painter, muralist, and art teacher working from her lake home studio in Brackney, Pennsylvania. In November of 2022, Heatherman held her first solo exhibition, “Finding Gratitude”, of expressive representational lake inspired oil and gouache paintings at the Tioga Arts Council. Since January, Heatherman has worked as the Artistic & Visual Design Coordinator at The Discovery Center of the Southern Tier where she creates murals to bring hands-on exhibits to life, including the new Sport’s Matter exhibit murals featuring Binghamton bridges. Ciara continues her personal painting practice focusing on family life integrated into atmospheric natural environments.
Seasons
On view: December 1st 6PM-9PM & 2nd 11AM-3PM
Opening First Friday, December 1st 6PM-9PM
This exhibition is the beginning of a new series of figurative work focusing on Heatherman’s current season of life: parenting and family life. The featured trio of large scale oil paintings depicts stages and seasons we often go through as active caregivers; with the artist, her husband, and daughter as the storytellers. Heatherman aims to express the transformative symbiotic effect these personal experiences have created. Visually, Heatherman is inspired by Neo Renaissance artists such as J.W. Waterhouse combined with a painterly approach akin to the Impressionists. Heatherman paints with an expressive energetic application rooted in realism, used to communicate a feeling or mood.
Join Resident Artist Ciara Heatherman on Saturday, November 25th from 1PM-3PM as she opens her studio doors to the public! Get a behind-the-scenes look as Ciara continues developing work for her upcoming two-day exhibition “Seasons.” The BCAC Artist in Residence studio is located at 223 State st., Binghamton.
Claire Trasorras
Claire is an emerging visual artist that began pursuing her passion for photography in 2020. Originally a biochemical research scientist, Claire has an eclectic background and holds degrees in Nutritional Sciences and Visual Arts & Communications. Her art takes on many styles depending on the day and the subject, but she always aims to capture some sense of intimacy or serenity in her photos, whether they be portraiture, nature, or street photography. She is excited to use her AiR time to expand her ongoing abstract body portraiture project that focuses on celebrating bodies for what they are rather than shaping them into a “fashionable norm”.
Consider the Body—A Study
On view: February 2nd 6PM-9PM & 3rd 11AM-3PM
Opening First Friday, February 2nd 6PM-9PM
“A collection of black and white portraiture juxtaposed by a mixed media installation, this is the second iteration of my ‘body’ photo project. I initially approached this subject in 2021 during my very first photography course, where I called it The Body is Good.
In this current reiteration of the project, I explore the idea of the emotional body in addition to the physical, and both bodies in the context of reality. This is my response to what I perceive as very limiting, damaging, and rash normative views of bodies—and by extension people—that are so casually instilled in our society.”
—Claire Trasorras, January 2024 BCAC Artist in Residence
Exhibition Photography
Want to be part of the artmaking process? Come visit Artist in Residence Claire Trasorras in her BCAC studio on Saturday, January 27th from 1PM-3PM. Chat photography as Claire conducts a live shoot with willing attendees!
Colette Chermak
Colette Chermak (she/her, b. 2001) is an interdisciplinary painter and photographer native to Binghamton, New York. She holds a BFA and an Arts Management minor from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Chermak strives to capture the beauty and fragility of nature’s fleeting moments, using her translation of the sublime to confront society’s contributions to wider environmental crises. Her work also reflects on the ever-growing socio-political divisions that perpetuate hostility and fear. Chermak’s senior thesis exhibition and first solo show, Pure Immanence, opened in December 2023. She is the recipient of a 2024 Broome County Arts Council Artist Residency.
Join Artist in Residence Colette Chermak on Saturday, March 30th for Open Studio Saturday! Engage in casual conversation surrounding her creative processes, influences, and experiences at art school. Take a look at some of her works in progress! This is a valuable networking opportunity for local artists and creative professionals. Let’s get to know each other! Doors open 1pm-3pm.
The Artist in Residence studio is located at 223 State St, downtown Binghamton. Catch Colette’s in-studio exhibition Slivers on April 5th and 6th!
Slivers
On view: Friday, April 5th, 6-9pm and Saturday, April 6th, 11-3pm
Join Colette Chermak for the opening of her AiR in-studio exhibition, Slivers, at the Broome County Arts Council! Located at 223 State St in downtown Binghamton, Colette’s newest body of work explores “the in-between,” transitional moments in nature alluding to personal growth and change.
Anna Warfield
Anna Warfield is a Binghamton, New York based artist who holds a BFA and BS in Communication, both from Cornell University. She creates text-based soft sculptures from fabric. Like concrete poems in physical space, the form and text work together to create meaning. She engages with ideas related to the body, sexuality, Femininity, and relearning. Her artwork builds on a rich history of textiles as “women’s work,” and confronts the complexities of Feminine identity and expression.
Her debut solo museum exhibition Placid Thoughts From Inside Her Eyelids is currently on view at the Roberson Museum. Warfield has exhibited with MAG Rochester, Finger Lakes Community College, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Schweinfurth Art Center, Cayuga Museum, Artisan Gallery, Evelyn Peeler Peacock Gallery, and the Vestal Museum. She is the recipient of a 2023 NYSCA Artist Fellowship, a 2023 Saltonstall Fellowship and Artist Residency, Juror’s Choice Award in the 2021 Southern Tier Biennale, NYFA/NYSCA Artist Grant in 2020, and a HYPE Award in the Arts from the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce in 2019. Her Public Art debut was coordinated with Jessica Arb Danial Art Advisory in 2020.
Warfield spoke as a panelist in the 2023 Text and Techne Conference in Trinity College, Dublin and has contributed as a guest speaker at NYFA, Cornell University, and Binghamton University. Warfield works as an artist, studio assistant, project manager, and consultant.
Open Studio Saturday
May 25th 1PM-3PM
Resident artist Anna Warfield invites you into her studio to play with words. She is compiling an amassment of words from which participants can pull to make their own word combinations and even poems. Stop by the BCAC artist in residence studio Saturday, May 25th from 1PM-3PM to get a glimpse of Warfield’s growing vocabulary.
Anna Warfield’s ‘Unfixed Poems’ project is funded by Earlville Opera House’s Arts in the Community Grants Program, made possible by the NYS Senate with support of the Office of the Governor, and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support for the Broome ACG Program graciously provided by the Stewart W. and Willma C. Hoyt Foundation, Inc.
touch the art
On view: June 7th/8th
Opening First Friday, June 7th, 6PM-9PM
Come touch the art.
Through this residency, I explored associations, word combinations, and play. While typically I work linearly, with a completed poem in mind at the onset of creating the visual artwork, this residency served as a chance to upend that process.
From sewn fabric, I began to compile a selection of words; not a set poem. This selection of words now serves as the basis for ongoing word play. The exhibition is unfixed. Visitors are invited to add, subtract, place, and replace exhibited words.
Anna Warfield’s ‘Unfixed Poems’ project is in part funded by a project grant from the Broome County Arts Council’s United Cultural Fund.
Anna Warfield’s ‘Unfixed Poems’ project is funded by Earlville Opera House’s Arts in the Community Grants Program, made possible by the NYS Senate with support of the Office of the Governor, and administered by the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support for the Broome ACG Program graciously provided by the Stewart W. and Willma C. Hoyt Foundation, Inc.
Marcus Newton
Marcus is an artist and photographer based in Binghamton, New York. Utilizing various image-making techniques, he investigates materials, plants, and places that reflect both our celebration and misuse of the natural environment. His projects are often set where consumerism and notions of paradise find themselves at odds – such as palm tree nurseries, wilderness attractions, and parking lot retention ponds.
Marcus’ work has been exhibited nationally and in Canada including recently at Coker University, SC; Exposure Photography Festival, Alberta; Ohio University; and Vermont Center for Photography, VT. He works as a Photography Specialist/Studio Technician at Binghamton University, where he also teaches photography.
Smoke Signals
On view: 08/02/24
During his month-long residency at BCAC, Marcus explored urban areas designed for both ecological life and pollution control, such as retention ponds, landfills, and parking lots. Using natural and synthetic materials foraged from these spaces, he created paper from plants and microplastics, prints from soot and road salt, and various photographs. The works in Smoke Signals combine these materials and places to re-imagine the warning signs of a changing landscape.
Open Studio Saturday
July 27th 1PM-3PM
Join resident artist Marcus Newton for an open studio on Saturday, July 27th. He will be available to talk through his works-in-progress using photography that engages with invasive species and environmental pollutants. He will also demonstrate the Cyanotype process; an early form of photography that uses non-toxic chemistry, light, and time to produce brilliant blue images.
Cherese Wiesner Rosales
Cherese Wiesner-Rosales is a painter experimenting with geometric form and patterning. Influenced by Modernism’s flat surfaces and “painting as object”, she layers colored fields with intersecting lines. Relaying on the work itself for the next move, the piece develops spontaneously.
Abstractions
Cherese Wiesner-Rosales
October 4th 6PM – 9PM
Open Studio Saturday with Cherese Wiesner-Rosales
September 21st 1PM-3PM
Acrylic abstract painting on view as part of the Artist in Residence program for the Broome County Arts Council.
