about us
Spillway is a collective of emerging artists from different backgrounds, bringing together a variety of philosophies, techniques, and cohorts. We aim to provide a supportive, sustainable environment where emerging and professional artists are exposed to diverse ways of thinking and making.
Spillway is a collective of emerging artists from different backgrounds, bringing together a variety of philosophies, techniques, and cohorts. We aim to provide a supportive, sustainable environment where emerging and professional artists are exposed to diverse ways of thinking and making.
meet our current members:
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Babs Weiss is a textile artist, garment designer, and occasional filmmaker from Annapolis, MD. Through her artwork she explores themes of comfort, sexuality, and escapism from the everyday, filtered by rose-colored glasses of whimsy. She holds a BFA in Fiber with concentrations in Experimental Fashion and Film & Video Arts from The Maryland Institute College of Art. She currently works and has previously worked with artists, organizations, and theaters in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York City to design and develop small-batch apparel and home decor products.
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Emma Deesing is a painter and mixed-media artist from Reading, PA. She analyzes the intersection of collage and painting, investigating how the two exist in a space with one another.
Her ultimate goal is to create imagined realities by making the two clashing forces work together simultaneously and appear as if they belong together. She introduces found objects into paintings to help convey the sensation of dimension and to break the tradition of illusionistic space by adding sculptural forms. Delight and curiosity can be felt when she combines colors and shapes in paint with materials like wood, clay, glass, paper, and fabric. The combination of unconscious thoughts and the intuitive processes are interwoven leading to a work that puts an emphasis on experimentation and process. Themes of anxiety, sense of self, and unconscious thoughts interweave to inform her artistic choices. When she is not creating art, she enjoys trying out new recipes, traveling, and seeing theatre in NYC. Emma has a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting and a minor in Art Entrepreneurship and Curatorial Studies from Arcadia University. @emmadeesing.art |
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Ryan Herberholz is a Detroit based painter, artist, and muralist. He earned his BFA from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in 2012 and completed his MFA at Wayne State in 2018. Many of his works are inspired by locations in Detroit’s North End Neighborhood where he lives and works. Ryan’s paintings are imagined architectures and landscapes created from combining multiple reference points of extant locations. He imagines scaled down and extremely localized astrophysical forces affecting these locations, especially those related to the warping of space-time, to examine social forces and the way they affect change in the world. Human figures are notably absent from these environs but evidence of sentient activity remain. Objects and constructions represented in these works point to possible futures in which the ways that humans sustain themselves have been fundamentally altered. Old economic and political models are worn thin- an accelerated space-time tracks the strange results produced by societies’ failure to adapt.
@ryanherberholz |
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Kate McCammon
Born in the small town of Bridgeport, West Virginia and raised by busy two doctors in a family of three older siblings, a twin brother, and five cats, Kate McCammon learned early on that she had a knack for creating, a passion for art, and an endless stacks of sketchbooks to prove it. She took her passion beyond her rural state and went on to earn her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore in 2012 and her MFA in Studio Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia in 2016. In between and after her educational pursuits, she has been awarded a number of residencies, including the Starry Night Residency Program in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico; the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy; and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. With a rooted painter’s mentality, she is currently working on a body of work that hits close to home—a series of hand sewn fabric paintings inspired by familial narratives, old photographs, and personal memories. @katemccammon |
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Ashley Garner - TheColorG is a visual artist who grew up in rural Martinsburg, PA and currently resides in Philadelphia, PA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ash works in soft sculpture, textiles, site-specific installation, and painting. Her work examines visual and physical relationships between art and architecture that exist as a metaphor for connections between her childhood and adulthood experiences. She uses symbolic soft objects as a physical link between those experiences within a presented architecture and space. Ashley’s work has been exhibited at many museums, galleries, and institutions. She is excited to be attending a two-week residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA in March 2021, funded by a PAFA fellowship.
@the.color.g Email: thecolorg@yahoo.com |
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Sara Havekotte
I am really inspired by the actions of everyday life. Routine can often be seen as banal, but I find there is a certain form of meditation that comes out in the process of doing the same set of tasks repeatedly. With such measure, the slightest interruption can become surprising, terrifying, or beautiful. My practice aims to cohesively and elegantly merge together the many types of scraps of life into objects that maintain a sense of quiet introspection and meditation. I am currently moving my textile practice away from synthetic dyes, because the harm they do to the environment is in direct conflict with my core beliefs that the objects I make should promote life, not destroy it. One of the reasons I have become so passionate about weaving is I feel like it is the first time my skills as an artist (previously trained as a painter) can be transferrable to something that actually improves the quality of the community around me- by making objects with utility. And, has the ability to become something that recycles materials rather than wastes. My practice focuses strongly on community and sustainability and is engendered with the idea that sharing skills is a center of the making process. I want to start growing my own flowers for natural dye so that I can better incorporate the act of growing (or creating life) into my practice, with the hope of it one day having enough to create a community dye garden in my town of Philadelphia. |
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Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez is an investigator of ideas. Through the aesthetics of contemporary abstraction and the surreal, he makes works about joy, desire, the body, wellbeing, and mythological transformation. His process involves many forms of media and performative acts culminating in short narratives or visual poetics regarding personal experiences. Sometimes He projects them at a large scale onto architectural structures and sculptural forms as loops or videos, sometimes they are drawings, paintings or small collages. He studied painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and received his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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