STAR Collaboration
STAR Collaboration at Eagle Hill
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.
Call to STAR Artists
Interested in becoming a STAR Artist?
The STAR Collaboration invites artists of all disciplines to join us for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate learning.
STAR Collaboration Welcomes Matthew C. Waite (EHS ’17)
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.
Matthew Waite ’17
Meet our Former STAR Artists
- Multidisciplinary Arts
- Visual Arts
Eleanor Ray is an interdisciplinary artist who has built an exploratory practice around reused materials.
- STAR Artist
- Multidisciplinary Arts
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a poet, dance artist, and filmmaker engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language.
- Multidisciplinary Arts
John's love of art has spanned many forms including drawing, painting, and sculpting but he has pursued these only as part-time hobbies while raising his family.
Jeremy Geragotelis
“I came to Eagle Hill as a young playwright who had more or less given up on their creative practice. The greatest gift that the STAR residency supplied was time and space. Over the two years I spent around the Eagle Hill community, I revitalized my practice as a theater-maker and playwright and developed work that challenged standardized conceptions of what theater must be.”—Jeremy Geragotelis, playwright
Suzanne Alward
“My experience at Eagle Hill as a STAR resident was exceptional. I was allowed to lead by example with my artistic practice and welcomed students into my studio space for private lessons or group workshops. The exposure to new disciplines and perspectives enabled me to grow both personally and professionally.”—Suzanne Alward, Visual artist and Sculpturer
Veronica Fish
“The residency was a fantastic experience, both professionally and personally. I look back on pages 8 and 9 of Frankenstein, and can’t believe just a few months later I’m already working on pages 90 and 91. Impossible without the STAR program!”—Veronica Fish, Graphic Novel Author and Illustrator, Frankenstein 1921
Behind the Scenes: Taylor Judge
Eagle Hill School alumna Taylor Judge ’07 gives a personal look into the STAR Collaboration and the Eagle Hill arts experience, as she reflects on her return to Eagle Hill as a STAR artist.