Night Salon Residency | 3.24-3.28.25
About
Night Salon was a five night endurance arts residency, where seven artists have gathered from 5pm to midnight in the Glass Box Gallery to participate in a collective making practice. Through daily dinner and snack rituals that group bonded and made a Nightly News publications (headed by Lucy Bell). The weekly culminated in a galley reception with an artist's panel hosted by Patrick Melroy and the work produced through the week on display. This event was organized by Lucy Bell and Devon Frost as part of their ongoing collaborative social practice.
Participants
Devon Frost (organizer) ↓
Process
Reception
Lyra Purugganan
Lyra is an artist, lover, and recent MFA graduate working in fiber, metal, and sugar. During their residency at the Glassbox Night Salon, they focused on weaving and spinning with crowd-sourced fibers. Thinking through the duality of sentimentality and discard, they explored cut hair, dryer lint, and found rope as fiber material.
Moxie Bright Evan
Moxie Bright Evan has a BA from UCSB`s College of Creative Studies and lives and works in Santa Barbara. She is interested in how queer gathering spaces are created, maintained, and archived. Moxie works with drawing, painting, and print, aided and informed by social practice projects.
Lucy Bell
Lucy is an MFA candidate and artist interested in structures of community, the sacred in the mundane, and collective care through print, painting, sculpture and social practice. For this residency, they worked on a multimedia presentation on the Quilts of Gee`s Bend, charged The Nightly News, and improvised two zines.
Kate Saubestre
Kate is an artist, friend and recent MFA graduate working in textiles, print, and animation. For this residency, she focussed on sewing a second skin together by using post consumer materials colored with natural and synthetic dyes to be titled Two Left Hands.
Sam Bourgault
Sam is a PhD student developing digital fabrication software extending craft technique. For this residency, they engaged in a material exploration, creating clay artifacts through molding processes.
Emma Brown
Emma is an MS student and software engineer researching agent-based simulations and generative narrative. For this residency, she focused on a public experimentation of her research while laying the groundwork for a synthetic reality TV show.
Devon Frost
Devon is an artist and PhD student working on digital fabrication and craft through coding and collaborative practices. For this residency, they fabricated their wooden sculpture Watchtower.