Adam Stacey & Makenzie Goodman - Fall 2021 Resident Fellows
Sierra Blanca Installation Shots
Adam Stacey and Makenzie Goodman, based between Los Angeles and Marfa, TX, have been collaborating together since 2016. Their research-based work incorporates a range of media, including photography, ceramics, video and found objects to create installations that explore values and belief systems associated with place. Adam received his MFA in sculpture from Alfred University and Makenzie received her MFA in photography from Brooks Institute. Their work has been shown widely throughout Los Angeles and they were recent residents at Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency program.
At PlySpace they will be creating an immersive installation focused on the past, present and future of the White River that runs through Muncie. Through alternative and analog photography, slip-cast mold making and an 8mm video projection they will consider the historical, psychological and ecological significance the river provides to its residents. Throughout their time they will research and interview residents, historians and ecologists and explore the White River to trace past ecological trespasses and chart a way towards a sustainable future.
As resident fellows Makenzie and Adam will be working with Ball State University School of Art students to create a collaborative “River Guide”. The book will be inspired by the format of a traditional area guidebook, but turns the idea on its head by eschewing the idea of a local authoritative guide explaining what is important and choosing what to omit. The River Guide, by contrast, will include the many voices and perspectives of the students as individuals who are learning the history of their local waterway while working together to create a comprehensive printed work. The guidebook will include an array of processes and media to create exciting and varied content for the book, including cyanotype making, which will be done in a week-long workshop.
Borderlands Zine Triology
Borderlands Zine spreads
