Avant-garde filmmaker Vanessa Renwick is a recipient of a 2018 Golden Spot Residency Award at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. The public is invited for an artist talk and studio visit Sept. 6 in Mission.

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is welcoming Vanessa Renwick to its studio from Aug. 26 to Sept. 6.

Renwick is a recipient of a 2018 Golden Spot Residency Award at Crow’s Shadow. The artist-in-residence award allows Oregon-based contemporary artists invited to the studio to work in a new medium. The program is generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation.

Known primarily in the Pacific Northwest as an avant-garde filmmaker, Renwick often works with themes of nature and human interactions with the land. Her work in poetic non-fiction cinema is punctuated by a wry sense of humor exemplified by the name of her production company, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass.

At the end of her Crow’s Shadow residency, the public is invited for an artist talk and studio visit. The free event is Thursday, Sept. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at 48004 Saint Andrew’s Road, Mission. Renwick will speak at 5:30 p.m.

Renwick’s work — whether film, installation, show posters, or public interventions — is permeated by her counter-culture punk aesthetic and a sharp cultural critique. She has screened work in a wide array of locations around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, The Andy Warhol Museum and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

In 2016, she presented an ambitious seven-channel video installation at the Portland Art Museum. Also, Renwick received a Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in 2014. She is represented in Portland by PDX Contemporary Art.

While at Crow’s Shadow, Renwick will develop limited-edition prints, which will be hand pulled by Crow’s Shadow’s collaborative master printer Judith Baumann. Most artists-in-residence at the center create two images for editioning, which is typically completed in the following months.

Crow’s Shadow Press specializes in fine art lithography, a labor-intensive printmaking process where each color is created with a different lithography plate, and represents an additional run through a traditional manual press. Depending on the complexity of the image and the number of colors, an edition can take months to complete. Upon completion, the prints will be available for sale and one copy of each edition will enter the Crow’s Shadow permanent collection, which is frequently lent to cultural and learning institutions across the region and nationally.

For more information, contact Nika Blasser at 541-276-3954, nika@crowsshadow.org or visit www.crowsshadow.org. For more about Renwick and her work, go to www.odoka.org.