VIRTUAL- 2020 Open Studios Series: Rachel Hubbard Kline and Mary Clara Hutchison

Originally scheduled for April 2020, Charlotte Street Foundation’s Open Studios series is back as an online-only program series! Featuring over 15 studio residents of all practices from dance to painting, this Zoom series provides insight and reflection on how Charlotte Street Studio Residents have reacted (or not reacted) to the critical year of 2020.

The fifth episode of 2020 Open Studios features a Q&A discussion and studio visits between studio residents Rachel Hubbard Kline and Mary Clara Hutchison. This episode will also feature a digital video from contemporary dance artist and Cerca Trova founder, Kyle Mullins.

The Q&A streams live over Zoom on Wednesday, December 9th at 6:30 PM. Attendees will receive a Zoom link upon RSVP confirmation.

About Rachel Hubbard Kline (@rachelhubbardkline on Instagram)
Rachel Hubbard Kline is a visual artist and art educator based in Kansas City, MO. Primarily working in ceramics and fiber, Rachel’s work revolves around material culture, objects, and collections. Her interest in these themes is tied to their ability to elicit memories and tell stories. Rachel draws inspiration from historical objects and craft traditions. Objects, both utilitarian and decorative, hold memories of ancestors, places, and events, used in daily routine or for special occasions. Rachel recently completed her M.F.A. in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

About Mary Clara Hutchison (@mary____clara on Instagram)
I explore ritual, memory, home, and tradition. To do this, I manipulate and distort reminiscent objects, particularly items found in domestic spaces. The objects I work with are intimate to myself, people I love, or represent personal experiences-my couch, my mother’s vanity, a dollhouse armoire, my favorite sweater. The resulting portraits study the personal, public, cultural, and sacred rituals we repeat, and the way these rituals reflect and shape us. When I cut a dollhouse chair in two, dismantle a table, or pull apart the stuffing of a couch, that act of violence awakens it: it exposes a vulnerable space and the object begins to breathe. Within my work destruction and creation exist simultaneously. Their interaction represents the duality we experience between our public and private lives and the resulting internal tension. My process is experiential; obsession and tedium become medium. The relationship I build with my materials is transformative and informs the finished piece.

About Kyle Mullins (@cercatrovadance on Instagram)
I am a dancer and dance maker who makes formalist absurdist post-modern psychodrama, and I’m not sure I know what that means. I make works that bring worlds and moments to life using imagery, sensation, and mood. Throughout the creative process I encourage and cultivate individuality through an emphasis on curiosity and exploration. I think of bodies as research vessels charting both physical and psychological limits and boundaries. I enjoy witnessing the intersection of instinct and intellect. Lines, shapes, and motion drive me wild. I view dancers as architects, creating impermanent structures with form, space, and time. I am the artistic director of Cerca Trova, the contemporary dance company I founded in 2017, producer of the monthly Making Moves series, and a second year Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Resident. For more, www.cercatrovadance.com

About Charlotte Street Foundation’s Studio Residency Program
In its seventeenth year, the Studio Residency Program provides free studio and rehearsal spaces to exceptional young, emerging, and/or already accomplished artists in need of workspace in which to create and to develop their creative processes, professional practices, and peer networks. Through the program’s offerings—which include studio space, monthly meetings, presentations, studio visits, mentorships, public programs, exhibitions, and access to a multidisciplinary network of artist peers—Charlotte Street’s Studio Residency Program encourages creative production, artistic experimentation and collaboration, professional development, and community building.