Artist Emma Stibbon in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

ARTIST EMMA STIBBON IN HAWAI’I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
This episode of Big Blend Radio features National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) artist-in-residence Emma Stibbon, Tanya Ortega – Founder of NPAF, Laura C. Schuster – Division Chief of Cultural Resources for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and Elizabeth Fien – Executive Director of Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

At the time of this interview in 2016:
Currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton, England, Stibbon studied at Portsmouth College of Art, Goldsmith College and the University of the West of England. An award-winning artist with an international reputation, she has held several residencies, including the Derek Hill Scholarship at the British School in Rome (2010). She also participated in the Arctic Circle 2013, an art and science expedition to the Arctic Circle.

Drawing is at the heart of Emma’s practice, and she has travelled widely, recording her responses to the physical appearance and psychological impact of natural and built environments. Working from sketches and photographic records, Emma creates stark, monochrome, often large-scale works on paper. Romantic in character, they dramatise the effects of human intervention and natural phenomena on monumental structures and explore the fragility of existence. She has works in public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute, the University of Cambridge and the Stadtmuseum, Berlin. AK
More at https://www.emmastibbon.com/ 

The artist in residence program is sponsored by the National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF), the National Park Service, the Friends of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and other generous benefactors. NPAF is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the promotion of the national parks by creating dynamic opportunities for artworks that are based in natural and historic heritage. All NPAF programs are made possible through philanthropic support. More at www.NPS.gov/havo  and www.NationalParksArtsFoundation.org

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