STAR Collaboration welcomes Matthew C. Waite (EHS ’17)!
Visual artist and EHS alumnus Matthew C. Waite returns to campus.
Our final STAR Artist of the year, Matthew C. Waite, has arrived on campus! 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 will be living and working in the Eagle Hill School community until March, and we are so excited to have him here! During his residency at EHS, he will be working with our arts classes, collaborating across disciplines, and pursuing his own artistic goals.