Announcing 2020 Sitka Center Residency Recipients

Blue Sky / Sitka Center Residency

Blue Sky and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology are pleased to announce Ebenezer Galluzzoand Melinda Hurst Frye as joint recipients of the fourth annual Blue Sky/Sitka Center Residency Award. This juried residency recognizes alumni of Blue Sky’s exhibitions or Drawers program with a month-long residency. Each will be in residence this spring, surrounded by the natural environment of Cascade Head on the central Oregon coast. In addition to lodging and a work studio at Sitka Center, Galluzzo and Hurst Frye will each receive a stipend from The Kinsman Foundation and Sitka. Congratulations, Ebenezer and Melinda!

About the artists:

Ebenezer Galluzzo is a gender non-conforming trans man, mother, husband, and witch living in Portland Oregon. Galluzzo uses photography as a tool to reveal what stories are one's own, and what stories are attached to us by cultural forces from outside ourselves. In his recent work, Galluzzo explores what we perceive as "natural" and "unnatural" within the human experience. He has exhibited in Blue Sky's Pacific Northwest Drawers and recently closed a solo show at Paragon Arts Gallery in Portland. 

Melinda Hurst Frye is a Seattle-based artist and educator. By way of observation, experimentation, and slow investigation, her practice centers themes of ecology and place in photographs of the Pacific Northwest landscape. She holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Hurst Frye’s work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, and WIRED Photo and exhibited widely throughout the United States. She is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.