News 2021-2024
2023
Fulbright Scholar, Estonia
Based in Tallinn at the Estonian Academy of Arts in the IxD.ma program for the fall semester 2023. Announcement and Interview of Fulbright research "Creative Integration Strategies: Strengthening Community Through Digital Storytelling"
"Water Stories and Other Community Engaged Digital Storytelling Projects" artist talk on recent works 2020-2023.
Konstepidemin is an art center in Gothenburg and one of Sweden's largest workplaces for over 120 independent artists.
Water Stories: Visual Poetics and Collective Voices
short paper presentation. Collaborators included Bridget Baird and Brett Terry
2022
International Symposium
on Electronic Art
Barcelona, Spain
Environmental Critical Zones: Reading the Wrack Lines short paper presentation. Collaborators included Bridget Baird and Brett Terry.
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2021-2023
Anchorage Museum
Artist Residency
Wollensak was invited to work with the Anchorage Museum as part of a year-long artist residency. This position is integrated into the Museum's Counter Cartographies project, designed as a responsive artistic practice connected to critical dialogue about Alaska and the North. The work will be a collaboration with Anchorage-based community partners and poets.
2022
Open Waters artist book purchased by University of Buffalo Special Collections
Open Waters, a large format artist book, containing 12 poems by Judith Goldman, Associate Professor, Director of Poetics Program at University of Buffalo was recently purchased by University of Buffalo, Special Collections Poetry Collection. The Poetry Collection is the library of record for 20th- and 21st-century poetry in English. The Collection is one of the worlds largest collections of poetry first editions and other titles, little literary magazines, manuscripts, broadsides and anthologies.
2021
XXIV Generative Art Conference and Exhibition, Sardinia, Italy
Environmental Critical Zones: Reading the Wrack Lines generative audio/video work was exhibited at the XXIV GA 2021 conference. Wollensak also virtually presented a short paper. Collaborators included Bridget Baird and Brett Terry.
September - October, 2021
Fire and Ice Exhibition - Connecticut College Galleries
A group exhibition that focused on nature's fragility in the face of untamed Capitalist growth and climate crisis. Curated by Timothy McDowell and Barbara Zabel.
2021
Climate Action & Visual Culture Exhibition, University of Huddersfield, UK
Reading the Wrack Lines was on exhibit in Climate Action & Visual Culture in the "Climate Activism: Gathering Forces" category of the group exhibition. Curated by Laura Mateescu and Tabassum Ahmed.
