RECOMMENDATION // The Joy Of Keeping Up With Kin

EXCERPT //

With ponds on our minds, we checked in with RQ artist Josh Dorman, who appeared in our “Fate” issue. His frog fascination has been an inspiration since his Baltimore childhood. Just after appearing in our pages, he won a prestigious Pollock-Krasner grant and then received a sabbatical from his college; he’s been off and running since then. He wrote to tell us what he’s been up to—it’s great to check in with our artistic kin around the country. 

“The Pollock-Krasner grant allowed me to travel to Munich and to Vienna, where I spent a week immersed in the Bruegel room of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. During my sabbatical year, I apprenticed and collaborated with the master stop-motion animator Lynn Tomlinson, based in Baltimore. I was also fortunate to attend four artist residencies, beginning on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle (Svalbard), a life-altering 14 days with 30 other artists, composers, and writers, amongst glaciers and the northern lights, with no screens or contact with the outside world. Then, several weeks in residence at UCross in Wyoming and MacDowell in New Hampshire. In May, I spent a month on the southern coast of Ireland, at the Cill Rialaig residency. All of the shifting landscapes and company of creative people has been incredibly nurturing.” //

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