Residencies

BLOOMFIELD 2023
In 2023 we spent a few weeks in Fiona’s studio in Bloomfield, NJ to finish the 4 panel piece for our exhibition at the Saint John Art Centre. Shared Energies: The Universe Within will be on display at the Saint John Arts Centre March 25, 2024-April 26, 2024. See more here.


Maria and Fiona working together on a large piece in Saint John.

SAINT JOHN 2019
In 2019, we spent 4 weeks in Saint John, NB, Canada at the Saint John Arts Centre creating in their Percival room. We began creating a large 4 panel work and continued several small works. Shared Energies: The Universe Within will be on display at the Saint John Arts Centre March 25, 2024-April 26, 2024.  See more here.


INVERNESS 2018
After the success of our residency in 2016, the Inverness County Centre for the Arts invited us to return to Inverness and spend a full month long residency at their centre. This time, the goal was to fill up their entire huge main gallery space. We finished approximately 50 new works during this very productive month of July and the exhibition Shared Energies: Momentum was on display August 3rd – September 3rd. See more here.

Fiona Chinkan and Maria Doering working on the Organelle Cluster, ICCA 2018

PRINCETON 2017
In 2017, the Arts Council of Princeton invited us to the Paul Robeson Centre for the Arts in Princeton, New Jersey to do an artist residency in their Taplin Gallery for the month of April. Through the Anne Reeves Artist Residency Award most of our project expenses were paid for and we spent one month creating 4 new large works as well as numerous smaller pieces. We turned the Taplin Gallery into our studio space and had numerous visitors throughout the month. In May, a month long exhibition opened in the same Gallery space and we held an artist talk to kick things off as well. See more here.


INVERNESS 2016
In 2016, we were invited to the Inverness County Centre for the Arts in Inverness, Nova Scotia for a week long residency. This short stay was an excellent jumping off point for the project. We taught two workshops (link) about collaboration and spent day + night in the studio producing the first two large works of our collaboration. This residency was followed by a month long exhibition in the hallway gallery. See more here.