Residency at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture
Press Release
Sarah Red-Laird Accepted for Residency at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture
Conceptual artist from Ashland will participate in the 2023 residency program, centered around the theme “Food & Agriculture”
Sisters, Oregon – February 18, 2023 – Sarah Red-Laird has been awarded a residency at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture, a working ranch in Sisters, Oregon focused on arts, agricultural and ecological projects. During her two-week residency, Sarah will be working on her “Bee Habitat in Cyanotype” prints.
“I am thrilled and honored to be a part of the 2023 cohort of artists at PMR. I’m looking forward to utilizing my time at the ranch to wind down from a hectic few months of research and conservation work to ruminate on bees, the climate, the landscape, ranchers, wildlife, and the flowers that connect them - and how I can convey their beautiful collaborations through my art and writing.
I’ll spend time with the Director of Ranch Operations, Pam Wavrin, before and during the residency to implement and monitor bee habitat on the ranch. Also while on the ranch, I’ll connect with local leaders in the beekeeping and agriculture communities to share my work and my art.”
Chosen from a pool of more than 80 applicants, Sarah was selected based on: quality of work; ability to communicate goals of their project; capacity to engage with and build community; and relevance to the 2023 residency theme, “Food & Agriculture.” She will be at the ranch in late August and early September and will have private studio space on location to pursue her artistic practice.
The vision of the Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA) residency program is to offer a space for cultural practitioners, ecological scientists and creative thinkers to immerse themselves in their work and/or research through access to studios, open space and beautiful scenery. In addition to creating new art, Sarah will be working alongside PMRCAA staff, volunteers and community members to preserve the natural biosphere and historic buildings of the ranch for years to come.
About Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture
Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA) is located on the historic Pine Meadow Ranch, a 260-acre working ranch in Sisters, Oregon at the base of the Cascade Mountains. The vision of PMRCAA is to connect sustainable agriculture, conservation arts and sciences with traditional and contemporary crafts and skills integral to ranching life. Located in the traditional territory of the Wasco, Warm Springs, and Paiute peoples, work at the ranch is grounded in a strong sense of place and community, and the diversity and multiple perspectives of the people that call our region home are deeply valued. Today, Pine Meadow Ranch operates as a program of the Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation, and it continues to operate as a working ranch.
About Roundhouse Foundation
The Roundhouse Foundation is a private, family foundation, based in Sisters, Oregon since 2002. The Foundation believes that solutions to the unique challenges of Oregon’s rural communities can be found through creative thinking and problem-solving, innovation and collaboration. We partner with community organizations to develop, implement and sustain creative, place-based approaches and programs that strengthen and celebrate rural Oregon.
In addition to providing grant services to rural communities and tribal regions throughout Oregon, the Roundhouse Foundation operates Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture in Sisters. For more information about the Foundation or PMRCAA please visit www.RoundhouseFoundation.org.
About the Artist
Sarah Red-Laird is the founder and Executive Director of the Bee Girl organization (BGO), a grassroots nonprofit centered on bee habit conservation through research, regeneration, art, & education. Her work currently has her chasing bees from the Coast Mountains of Oregon, though the Great Basin, to Montana’s Paradise Valley, and into the Great Plains. She is a graduate of the University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation and the Davidson Honors College with a degree in Resource Conservation, focused on community collaboration and environmental policy. To see her commitment to good policy and education realized, she has formerly served as the director of the American Beekeeping Federation’s “Kids and Bees” program, as president of the Northwest Farmers Union and Western Apicultural Society, and as a board member of the National Farmers Union. When she is not working alongside bees, beekeepers, kids, farmers, ranchers, vineyard managers, and policy makers, Sarah loves to read books while drinking coffee, ride her vintage 10-speed, run in the hills, and see new places, things, and people. To see her latest projects updates visit Instagram and Facebook @sarahbeegirl or www.beegirl.org.
To learn more about her art and artistic process, visit: https://www.beegirl.org/cyanotype
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For More Information: arts@roundhousefoundation.org, (541) 904-0700