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Fellowship with Guadalupe Maravilla

RAIR
2019 Warhol Fellow Dave Hardy, The White House; 2020; salvaged shower doors, salvaged steel, salvaged insulation foam, carpet, wood, shipping tape, hardware, construction debris; 22" high, dimensions variable; RAIR, Philadelphia, PA. RAIR’s Fellowship with Guadalupe Maravilla hosts the titular artist in a yearlong residency to develop new site-specific works. Photo by Dave Hardy.
2019 Warhol Fellow Dave Hardy, The White House; 2020; salvaged shower doors, salvaged steel, salvaged insulation foam, carpet, wood, shipping tape, hardware, construction debris; 22" high, dimensions variable; RAIR, Philadelphia, PA. RAIR’s Fellowship with Guadalupe Maravilla hosts the titular artist in a yearlong residency to develop new site-specific works. Photo by Dave Hardy.
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla wears a shirt embroidered with purple and gold flowers.
Guadalupe Maravilla, 2021. Photo by Steve Benisty, courtesy of Guadalupe Maravilla & PPOW Gallery.
Karyn Olivier's Barrier Wall installation.
2023 RAIR Fellow (and Pew Fellow) Karyn Olivier's Barrier Wall installation, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Photo courtesy of RAIR. 

In a yearlong residency project with RAIR, interdisciplinary artist Guadalupe Maravilla develops new site-specific works to activate RAIR’s remediated Superfund site, a once-contaminated parcel of land. The project explores aspects of artistic scale and production, community engagement, and the creative reuse of materials in the art making process. Maravilla’s practice considers issues of migration, identity, trauma, and healing through the use of found and discarded objects. The artist’s plans for the site include a series of sound baths, a temporary earth work in the site’s six acres of grass, sculptural shrines, and healing instruments created from copper sourced from the waste stream made in consultation with a master gong smith and sound healers. 

The total grant amount represents project funding plus an additional 20% in unrestricted general operating support.

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RAIR

RAIR

RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) builds awareness about sustainability issues through art and design by presenting programs and exhibitions, acting as a materials supplier for artists and designers, and offering a residency program that provides artists on-site access to recovered materials and a studio space to produce work. 

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