The beginning of the residency is drawing ever closer. We want to address all concerns and needs. If you still have questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Shipping procedures
If you would like to ship supplies to the residency, we recommend using UPS or FedEX, as the U.S. Postal Service does not deliver to our remote location. Please send to the following address:
Harold Arts
4077 Harold Jeffers Lane
Chesterhill, OH
43728
Hold on to your tracking numbers, and send them to us if you plan for your shipments to arrive before you do.
Columbus pick-up
If you are flying or taking a bus into Columbus, first of all, alert us of your arrival time, which most of you have. As of now, we are planning to drive to Columbus a few times during the beginning of each session. This may change due to your actual needs and arrival times. We are working with the information you provide us with.
Shuttle times:
July 15th July 22nd July 23rd July 30th
11:00am 11:00am 11:00am
11:00am
4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm
10:00pm 10:00pm 10:00pm 10:00pm
When you arrive in Columbus, either at the airport or bus station, call this number to provide us with the specific place you are waiting.
847 778-5964
If you are still having trouble making travel arrangements, consider renting a car with a group of people. There are car rental companies in Athens and Columbus. Again if you will be needing to be picked up after returning a car, please let us know when and where.
Materials
Harold will be providing some art supplies for artist’s use. Unfortunately, our budget will not allow for us to purchase much more. Please bring what you have and let us know if there is something you absolutely need and we will try to provide it.
Paper
Print-making paper
Butcher paper
Screen-printing inks and supplies
Wood
DV camera
VHS camera
Software on lendable laptops:
Adobe software (final cut pro, photoshop, illustator etc)
Maxmsp
Jitter
Pro-tools in main studio
Bring instruments that you feel comfortable having other people using
Full professional recording studio and off site electric and acoustic capabilities.
There will be other cameras and supplies on hand, but only lent out on a case by case basis.
What to expect
Due to the overwhelming number of applicants this year, residents will not have individual rooms or studios. We feel that communal spaces help to facilitate collaborative exchanges. We hope that our website and previous correspondence has made the living arrangements clear, however, some of you have expressed concerns about this, we apologize for any confusion. Residents will be living and working in a few different buildings and structures throughout the farm. As far as sleeping accommodations, there will be 4 different buildings.
-White House: One main house, also our central base, has electricity, gas and water.
-Walden Cabin: A log cabin which overlooks a great pond; has only water and gas.
-Luft Cabin: A cabin near a barn has electricity and no water (water will be brought out daily).
-One house that is rather remote has water and electricity. You will be assigned a room within one of these buildings.
We are trying hard to put you with your roommate requests. If people want to camp, we will have two six person tents, which will be largely full of staff. If you are interested in camping, please bring a tent or let us know and we can provide another tent for resident use.
Work spaces are located within barns, houses and shop buildings and range from extremely raw spaces to finished spaces with water and electricity. If you have concerns about where you can complete specific work, let us know. When you arrive at the farm you will be given a tour and can best determine then where you will want to work.
Discussion
Harold, as you know, is a growing and experimental program and as part of this summer’s residency, we want to have a time where we could reflect on what the program is so far and think about its potentials. Part of the aim of Harold is to establish both a meaningful experience for collaboration, cooperation, and personal art practice, as well as a means to create a responsive community outside of the boundaries of an art school. We would like your feedback to figure out how to create the best possible situations for this.
As part of the process, we are going to have open discussions scheduled for weeks one and two. Discusions will occur on the final saturday of each week. Attached are some texts that can be part of the conversation, these are by no means required reading or necessary for participation, instead they are possible frameworks to look at residency programs or experimental art education in general. They are selections from a book called “Notes on an art school,” which was put together for Manifesta 6, a biennial that was supposed to take place across the Green Line in Cyprus, that was canceled because the government pulled their support. I included “Exhibition as school in a Divided City” because it has some examples on experimental art programs, including the Prospectus for George Maciunas’s proposed school in New Marlbourough and a listing of experimental art schools. The other two articles, “A room with a conversation in the middle” and “Drawing Out and Leading Forth,” are more theoretical discussions on eliminating hierarchy in art schools and art collaborative environments, as well as possibilities for creating productive environments for artistic practice. Please take a look if you’re interested now and we will also have copies on hand at Harold.
Can’t wait to see you
Harold
