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Meet the 2017 team of artists in residence

Art Camp 2017 was led by a team of artists in residence responsible for planning and facilitating the programming. In addition to planning this gathering, the residents lived and worked at camp for three weeks in intentional community, making work and envisioning the future for artists of faith. They are artists and present/former Friends Camp counselors with a shared interest in spirituality as a creative practice. Scroll down for their bios.
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Isabel Bowser
I am euphoric in this place with these people. Everyday I make Magic and the preparation of the Art itself is Art itself. I am a storyteller and a dancer  whose only desire in to pass on the Gift!
Thanks Art Camp!
Love, Isa

Isa was one of the first co-conspirators in the birthing of Art Camp. She was a counselor at Friends Camp for five summers and continues her work as an organizer of Art Camp. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her vegetables.
 

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Maggie Nelson

​Maggie is an artist, teacher, and truly magical creature busy building a house for love. She has worked at Friends Camp for six years and has been the coordinator of Art Camp since its beginnings. She makes images, stories, and objects that lie at the threshold between here and another here that is full of bodymagic, friendly spooks, houses with legs, and pots that sing. Her media of choice include fibers, ceramics, books, and video. She lives in Portland, Maine where she teaches art, rides her bike, and works with Quaker youth.
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Beatrice Denham

​Bea was another co-conspirator of Art Camp right from the beginning, as she and Maggie sat in the children's wing of an art museum and imagined what it would be like to come back to camp as artists in residence. A former Friends Camp counselor, she participated in Art Camp's pilot week in 2015 and is back for more. Bea likes bricks, threshing, and interesting cracks in the ground. Right now she is learning how to build houses out of strawbales in Utah.

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Alex Kuehne

Alex is a graduate from Maine College of Art in Portland. Alex likes tearing pieces of paper into smaller pieces of paper, knitting, analogies, sarcasm and making sounds. Alex currently works at a contemporary art gallery and spend a lot of time dreaming about curating shows on queer aesthetics. 

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