2008 Finalists

2008 Sophie von Wellington Emerging Artist Residency Finalists

The FEAC Residency will be awarded to one of these Ethical Artists in July 2008. 

Click HERE to see the new Ethical Art they will be producing throughout the month of June.

Eustice Viviane Chipley

A native of the great state of Georgia, Mr. Chipley comes from a long line of peach farmers. His early interests in art were inspired by the rich textures and hues of Georgia's red clay. As a young boy he began doing charcoal sketches of customers and tourists while running his family's peach stand. News of the boy's talent swept through the town and soon he was being commissioned to do portraits, including one for the First Lady of Macon County. He received a full scholarship to The Georgia College for Art and Design where he studied with renowned oil painter August Ingels.  Eustis received praise for his school work, but following the events of September 11, 2001 he dropped out of school to join the Georgia National Guard and assist his family with their farm. In February of 2002 he had a small show of his work at the Helen Library in Helen Georgia titled "A Patriot's Journey", for which he received nods of praise from local veteran's groups. In 2004 he began a new series of work featuring traditional landscapes of the American countryside titled "From Sea to Shinning Sea".  Most recently, his series "Red, Right and Blue" was displayed by The Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home. "Red, Right and Blue" is a historical and emotional look at the world's most powerful and poetic symbol, the American flag.

Harold "Hardy" Dardy hails from Bay City, MI and has recently relocated to the city that never sleeps.  He left his beautiful wife Molly, and his three chips off the old block, Penny, Sarah, and Geoffrey, back in the Mitten State because of medical marginalization.  However, he does plan on moving them out to the tropical isle of Manhattan.  His goal is to raise enough money for a down payment on a four-bedroom house with a backyard big enough for a swingset AND a pool in his favorite neighborhood in NYC: Central Park.  Hardy Dardy hosts, The Curse,  a web-streaming radio program and talk show with a live studio audience, also a benefit for the Dardy Family move.  Each episode includes the talents, interviews, and preoccupations of many a noteworthy guest.  This summer, The Curse will broadcast live at Dixon Place and will include performances by Ching Chong Song, Darlinda Just Darlinda, La John Joseph, Palmyra, and more.  He hopes that The Curse will propel his new career as a New York City artist.  Currently, he is a sales associate for Gurlin and Gurlin New and Used Air Conditioners nearbout the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 

Solange "Solly" Dark is a word artist who knows the true origin of language and moral reasoning: the nose. Raised by a peripatetic convent of French nuns, she now lives on a peninsula and has spent the past ten years registering her extramoral epithelial responses to isolated odorants while composing an Anti-Antinomian epic. In the past, she has confessed to where she is from, but found no Père has patience enough to receive the odyssey. Such absolution is elusive. Her favorite scripture: 2 Kings 19.28: « Parce que tu es furieux contre moi, Et que ton arrogance est montée à mes oreilles, Je mettrai ma boucle à tes narines et mon mors entre tes lèvres, Et je te ferai retourner par le chemin par lequel tu es venu. »

Solange “Solly” Dark

Harold "Hardy" Dardy