Welcome Potluck for Lanesboro Artist-in-Residence Chloe Bischoff

Join Lanesboro Arts in welcoming Chloe Bischoff as the current Lanesboro Artist in Residence at a Welcome Potluck from 5 – 7 pm on Thursday, April 2nd at the Cottage House Inn Meeting Room. Over a shared meal, Chloe will share examples of past work as well as discuss the project they’ll be working on during their residency. Come to learn how you can participate in the residency events, and bring a dish to share!

All residency events are free and open to the public.

About Chloe Bischoff:
Chloe Bischoff is a sculptor and ceramicist whose work investigates the millennia-old relationship between humans and clay. Their work investigates this relationship, beholding clay as an emissary of matter through which to explore themes of animism, selfhood, and queer ecology—concepts that dissolve boundaries between living and nonliving entities and reimagine nature as an non-hierarchical, entangled network of vibrant matter. Chloe sees their process as reciprocal interaction between themself and the clay, a series of ritual encounters between two entities rather than as a utilization of an inert medium. Learn more about Chloe and their residency here.

About the Residency:
Chloe’s residency project examines the relationship between the inhabitants of a place and the physical materials of that place. Everything from Lanesboro’s geography to its built environment have been shaped by the people and materials which exist there, from the steep bluffscapes that shape the river valley to the rich historical brick facades downtown. To explore this entanglement, Chloe will invite community members to collect soil samples from significant places in their lives, and incorporate them into clay to create a series of ceramic tokens. The resulting collection of sculptures will tell a story about Lanesboro’s human and material community.

The Lanesboro Early Career Artist Residency Program is supported by the Jerome Foundation.