Arts
Newport Art Museum's artist residency returns with nationally recognized artist
Published 12:46p.m. ET June 10, 2022
For over two centuries, Newport has attracted influential artists, artisans, writers, architects and designers who were inspired by the natural beauty of this oceanfront community. The Newport Art Museum artist residency, AiR/Newport, is designed to encourage the creative, intellectual and personal growth of emerging and established visual artists and designers by giving them the time, space, and solitude needed to create, apart from the daily demands of production and deadline. Today’s permanent collections of Rhode Island’s many museums, cultural organizations and historic homes offer a rich repository of artifacts and archives for AiR/Newport resident artists to explore.
After a two-year postponement due to the global health pandemic, the Newport Art Museum has welcomed artist Aimée Beaubien for the month of June 2022.
Beaubien is an artist living and working in Chicago, whose work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Her cut-up photographic collages, installations and artist books explore networks of meaning and association between the real and the ideal: a photographed plant, interlaced vine, woven topography merge into fields of color and pattern and back again expanding the ever more complicated sensations of reading a photograph and experiencing nature. Beaubien is an associate professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, where she has taught since 1997.
The Newport Art Museum is committed to cultivating a culture of inclusion and recognizes the importance of honoring, celebrating and sharing our individual differences and life experiences. The Museum believes in the idea that viewing our world from another’s perspective helps promote connection and civic engagement. On Wednesday, June 29 at 5 p.m., the Museum will present an Artist Talk with Aimée Beaubien when guests can hear directly from Aimée and see what was created during her residency in the museum’s Griswold House. More information and registration is available at newportartmuseum.org.