STAR Collaboration

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) invites artists from visual, literary, musical, and performing arts genres to join Eagle Hill for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate novel learning opportunities.

The STAR residency program is open to artists at any stage of their careers—emerging artists, well-established artists, art teachers, and artists returning to former careers in the arts. STAR artists are educators at heart, who want to work with students while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others.

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Matthew Waite

Interdisciplinary Art

Matthew is an interdisciplinary artist who used mixed media to create a sustainable practice. He is also an Eagle Hill alumnus, and is returning to us following the completion of his Masters in Integrated Media Arts from Anna Maria College.

As an artist, Matthew is very interested in the intersection of landscapes and language. With his work, he seeks “to guide the audience to actively challenge their ideas about how they interact with their landscape, the natural world, and the everyday mundane.” In addition, he views and uses art as a meditative healing tool. During his time as artist-in-residence, he hopes to introduce faculty and staff to Reductive Painting, a meditative painting technique that he created during his graduate work that aims to release stress and tension while creating abstract art.

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