{"id":7162,"date":"2016-06-30T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typa.ee\/resident\/clifton-meador-daniel-mellis\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T15:24:53","slug":"clifton-meador-daniel-mellis","status":"publish","type":"resident","link":"https:\/\/typa.ee\/en\/resident\/clifton-meador-daniel-mellis\/","title":{"rendered":"Clifton Meador & Daniel Mellis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Clifton Meador<\/strong> is an artist whose work explores writing, photography, printmaking, and design to make narrative works that explore culture, history, and place. Meador\u2019s artists\u2019 books have been exhibited widely and are held by many major collections, including the Getty Museum, Tate Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Yale Art of the Book collection. His work has been supported by grants from the Rubin Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soros Open Society Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was twice awarded a NYFA fellowship, was a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia, and was the winner of the 2013 Minnesota Center for Book Art Prize. He was director of Nexus Press from 1985 to 1988, taught at SUNY New Paltz from 1994 to 2005, and was director of the MFA in Book and Paper at Columbia College Chicago from 2005 to 2014. He is now professor and chair of the Department of Art at Appalachian State University. More about Clifton:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cliftonmeador.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daniel Mellis<\/strong> makes artist\u2019s books on such topics as the poetry of philosophy, the phenomenology of space, and the city and the built environment. Experimental letterpress and offset printing underpins much of his work. His work has been shown internationally, including at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, and is in many collections nationwide.\u00a0He received his MFA from Columbia College Chicago and also\u00a0has degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More about Daniel:\u00a0http:\/\/danielmellis.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Artist Statement<\/h2>\n

Estonia has a rich intellectual tradition, and the city of Tartu is the historical center of higher education in Estonia. The location of the Tr\u00fckimuuseum in Tartu echoes the foundation of the first printing press in Estonia in Tartu in 1632 and creates exciting possibilities to bring history into the present.<\/p>\n

We propose to spend a month in residence at the Museum, and to conduct our work in three phases:<\/p>\n

1. Research into the history of typographic form particular to Estonia, by investigation into libraries, archives, and personal collections. We will look for examples of vernacular visual language from the many different periods of Estonia\u2019s history, as well as learning about the intellectual history of Estonian publishing.
\n2. Creating a series of printed works using the resources of the Printing Museum that reflect the discoveries of that research, either by collaborating with local writers, creating purely visual typographic compositions, or some other, as yet unknown, solution.
\n3. Presenting the results of our work in a public forum in Tartu, either as a small exhibition or as a workshop\/lecture.<\/p>\n

Our backgrounds include considerable experience as both letterpress and offset printers, typographers, type designers, and book makers. Clifton\u2019s creative work has explored the history of Alabama, Russia, the Republic of Georgia, and Central Asia, as well as the history of of printing and writing in Tibet and Ethiopia. Daniel is currently working on a typographical translation of Tango with Cows, a key work of Russian Futurism; he is meticulously recreating the visual character and materiality of the original: reconstructing Roman equivalents of Cyrillic letterforms and remaking the wallpaper the original was printed on.<\/p>\n

This residency would give us access to a new world of typographic form, result in some new, interesting work, and also allow us to offer something in return to the community of Tartu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Previous Works<\/h2>\n

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