Second Goetemann Artist Resident
Laurelin Kruse: August 28 – September 28
Laurelin Kruse is an interdisciplinary artist who will bring her traveling, community-based project, the Mobile Museum of American Artifacts, to Gloucester and the Rocky Neck Art Colony.
“I see my work as an “archeology of the present”—I look at the everyday, the local—the lives we live and the places we inhabit. I take a descriptive, documentary approach and apply it to subjective human experience, from the mundane to the transformative, in order to look at the emotions that drive us, and the institutions and modes of belief we operate within. I’m fascinated by how we reshape our experiences into memories, and through my work I aim to capture this process, to see the present tense on its way to becoming a story, a thing regarded, the first draft of memory.”
Laurelin launched the Mobile Museum of American Artifacts in collaboration with Artspace in New Haven, CT in July 2014. She has since taken it to multiple communities on the East Coast. After her Goetemann Residecy, she’ll be traveling West with the museum to do community residencies in Colorado and Utah. Laurelin received her BA in American Studies from Yale University in 2012.
7pm, THUR September 3 – talk at Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street
7pm, THUR September 24 – Informal conversation at the Residency Studio, 51A Rocky Neck Ave.