FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: November 15, 2023
From: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Contact: Cassy Combs @ 727-298-DFAC, x245
The Dunedin Fine Art Center announced its digital artist-in-residency program, Nomadency, earlier this year. This online, four-week residency supported artists of diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences whose work required digital expression and digital publication. Unlike a physical residency, artists could live and work anywhere in the United States – a nomad residency – hence the term “nomadency.”
DFAC is proud to be one of the few art organizations offering a digital residency. We had several artists from the national and local digital scene and artists of all disciplines who submitted a forward-thinking application that addressed the theme of PLAY. The four artists chosen for the residency were Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin, Ai Chun Huang, Yhali Ilan, and Carol Nussbaum. Their final pieces, along with their proposals, bios, and artist talks, have been displayed on the Nomadency.art website.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin has been an artist for as long as he can remember. An early fascination with animation, graffiti, and skateboarding was the catalyst for his creative career. These elements, combined with his experiences growing up and living in L.A., form the foundation of his professional practice.
As an Asian immigrant in the USA, Ai Chun Huang’s animations create a poetic metaphor and descriptive context with contemporary cultural images of Asian families, especially the interpretation of the female role in today’s society. She is interested in collecting meaningful life moments with images, videos, and audio to put into her experimental animations. She works as the art director of her own art & design studio,” Little Hope Creative Studio” in Seattle.
Yhali Ilan is a Dunedin-based artist. He is an illustrator, muralist, and fine artist. The focus of his work is to connect, conveying inclusion, weirdness, and humor. His art is very illustrative and light in tone but touches on a very broad range of intellectual and emotional depths.
Carol Nussbaum is a New York-based photographer who digitally enhances and manipulates her images. She investigates the details, depth, shapes, patterns, and graphic aspects of each original photograph and then takes it apart and strips it down. Her mandala work is a compilation of a variety of photographic subjects, ranging from children’s toys to bicycle handles, woven and repeated into a “mandala” or circle.
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About The Dunedin Fine Art Center
For nearly 50 years, the Dunedin Fine Art Center (DFAC) has been offering exciting art opportunities in a most welcoming kind of way. Tampa Bay Times writer Lennie Bennett says that DFAC is “the artistic equivalent of a village square,” offering quality experiences to people of all ages. DFAC offers award-winning year-round exhibitions in seven galleries featuring national, regional, and local artists. Classes for students 4 yrs. to 97 years old fill 21 studio classrooms, and a changing yearly theme makes the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum a hands-on experience not to be missed.
You can take some time to enjoy a delicious lunch or gourmet coffee in the Palm Café or search out one-of-a-kind gifts in the Gallery Shop. Come out and PLAY at the Dunedin Fine Art Center and see why people say it’s where the ART is!
ART IS > What we do!
The Dunedin Fine Art Center
1143 Michigan Blvd.
Dunedin, FL 34698 – USA
727-298-DFAC
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