Surf Point is a nonprofit organization that supports visual artists and art professionals with a year-round, peer-nominated residency program on the coast of York, Maine.
Events
We are thrilled to host our 8th Surf Point Community Day, featuring an artmaking workshop with alum Meghan Brady ‘20, a Wild Knoll Foundation Garden Plant Sale Pop-Up with Carly Glovinski ‘21, and more!
Residents
Sarah Rose Sharp is a writer, photographer and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for a number of print and online venues. Sarah was a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Art Criticism and is a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize.
Mary Temple may be best known for her immersive trompe l'oeil installations—subtle room-sized paintings of light and shadows of trees, flowers and shrubs. However, for the past ten years the artist has built a body of work on canvas and paper which both departs from and amplifies the installation work.
Minsoo Thigpen (she/her) is a storyteller and tech worker based in Boston, with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and BA in Applied Math from Brown University in 2018. She is currently working on building and designing tools for the responsible/ethical development of AI at Microsoft. Her work spans across painting, multimedia, zines and comics with a specific focus on family, language, diaspora and grief.
Biba Bell is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Detroit. Her choreographic work, often set in unconventional venues, focuses on domesticity, labor, and architecture. Her current project investigates dance and arts activism as it intersects forest protection and conservation, through the lens of what she theorizes as epiphytic choreographies.
Cody Castle-Stack (born 1994) is an artist and a local arts organizer based in Portland. His artistic practice is an endless painterly exercise, a sandbox to form, and challenge his notions of creation.
Marisa Lerer, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of modern and contemporary art history and chair of the Art History & Digital Media Art Department at Manhattan College. She specializes in Latin American and Latinx art, public art, and memorials.
Dan Dowd is an assemblage artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Phippsburg, Maine since 2001. His artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States.
Kemi Ilesanmi has been a DMV worker, retail clerk, receptionist, business school dropout, museum curator, foundation officer, and nonprofit administrator. From 2012-2022, she served as executive director for The Laundromat Project (The LP), a community-based arts organization.
Cedric Wilson is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Harlem New York, the son of a zookeeper father and a Roller Derby mother. His work contains an intimate immensity. The sense of colors and forms and movements in his art can be appreciated as visual symphonic poems.
Artist, writer and curator, Dell Marie Hamilton has performed extensively throughout the Boston and New England area including at the MFA/Boston, the Clark Art Institute, and the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.
Tanja Hollander is an artist who works with photography, video, social media and data to understand cultural and visual relationships.
Dorian Sylvain is a painter whose color and texture explore ornamentation, pattern, and design as identifiers of cultural and historical foundations.
JOJO ABOT is an interdisciplinary healer exploring evolving themes of spirituality, identity and community through music, film, fine art, fashion, photography and various other expressions.
Cecile Chong was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in the five boroughs of NYC (2017-2022).
Athena LaTocha (b. Anchorage, Alaska) is an artist whose massive works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, in the wake of Earthworks artists from the 1960s and 1970s.
As More Art’s founder, Executive Director, and Chief Curator, Micaela Martegani has deep experience working with both emerging and established artists at every stage of conceptualizing and producing new public art works.
Alexander creates images and objects that are inspired by natural forms and systems. Her drawing projects are rooted in close looking at the objects or fields that are her subjects.
Ryan Cardoso is a visual artist exploring portraiture through photography and filmmaking and its importance in archiving the elegance, domesticity, and relationships of black life.
Stina Puotinen is an artist, educator and occasional curator from New York City.
Audrey Stone is an abstract painter whose work is informed by light and color. She received her MFA from Hunter College and her BFA from Pratt Institute, both in painting.
cameron clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) lives and works in New Haven, CT. clayborn’s practice pulls from personal history and lived experience, creating multivalent sculptures that are tender and intimate, abject and erotic.
Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) is a Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist, visionary, educator, curator and advisor.
Veronica Perez is an artist who works alongside the community to speak about erasure, identity, and interdependency.
Elana Adler is a multidisciplinary artist. She uses the grid as a tactical mapping system, and a geometric configuration inherited from the past.
Abdu (Mongo) Ali is a Baltimore-based musician, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance.
Misoo was born in the Bronx in 1980, but moved back to her parent’s homeland of South Korea when she was a one-year old. 17 years later, she returned to the US with ambitions to use painting as her mode of emotional communication and story-telling
Christopher K. Ho is a speculative artist based in Hong Kong and New York. His practice encompasses making, organizing, writing, and teaching.
Charles W. Goolsby, professor of art at Emory & Henry College, has been a practicing professional painter and printmaker for more than forty years. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University and M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University.
Transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield crosses boundaries at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. Her work positions art objects as active belongings where sculptures become performers in a form of object choreography between artist, audience, and art gallery.
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas and now lives in Toronto. As an artist, he creates tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and are later homogenized.