Artist in Residence Program
The Recology King County AIR Program is a four-month art and educational residency that provides King County artists administrative support, a stipend, and access to discarded materials from the waste stream to create artwork. During the four-month residency, artists scavenge at the Recology Material Recovery Facility, the North Seattle Transfer Station, and the Recology Stores for materials to make their art.
Read more about the Recology AIR program here. For more information contact: Maria Phillips at mphillips@recology.com or Amanda Manitach at amanitach@recology.com
This year’s artists
Colleen Louise Barry (@colleenlouisebarry)
Colleen Louise Barry is an artist, writer, and teacher. Her artist books, sculpture, photography, and installation work have been shown at the Seattle Art Museum, The Factory, The Hedreen Gallery, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, jubilat, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, COLLEEN, was published by After Hours Editions in 2022. She formerly ran the independent publishing and curatorial projects Mount Analogue, Gramma, and Angel Tears. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently a member of SOIL. Additionally, she works as a teacher and in various capacities with young people, helping them to build community-organizing skills through art.
Julia Monté is an artist passionate about making, writing, and talking about art. She received her BFA in painting and creative writing at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2018. She runs an online publication for nuanced art-criticism titled, Informality Blog. She is a member of SOIL Gallery and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, recently shown at Tlaxcala3 in Mexico City. Growing up in the burgeoning metroplex of Dallas, Texas, she has long been enchanted by stilted highway overpasses, and the seemingly infinite layers of scaffolds on old wooden roll coasters and stadiums. These structures butt up against each other, directing mass communal experiences. Using primarily found objects discarded on the sides of roads and other recycled materials, she creates stilted scenes and intricate works about these unfolding systems and destined passengers. Her pattern-filled depictions of sprawling and undulating apparatus consider communal experiences from all vantage points, and the future of such structures.