Peninsula State Park Residency
Photo by Kasey and Ben
Program Overview
Beginning in 2024, Peninsula School of Art and Peninsula State Park partnered to offer a residency experience that puts both art making and the environment at its center. Drawing upon the expertise of both organizations, artists-in-residence are provided with ample studio space and resources, as well as Peninsula State Park’s diverse landscape, unique ecosystems, and knowledgeable staff. Artists are invited to explore the state park through the lens of their individual research; discovering new connections in their practices, creating site-responsive works alongside community members, and gaining a deeper understanding of this particular place and its environmental circumstances.
This program is generously funded by the Friends of Peninsula State Park.
Summer 2025 Artist-in-Residence
Amanda Lovelee
Amanda Lovelee is a civic artist whose work bridges public art, environmental science, and systems change. She creates large-scale, cross-sector projects that use empathy and play to shift conversations about community, equity, and our shared future. Amanda’s practice is rooted in collaboration - with scientists, planners, government agencies, and residents - making the invisible visible and translating between institutional systems and lived experiences. From a city-run popsicle truck gathering urban planning input to love letters that helped change park policy, her work invites people to fall in love with their home.
Currently a U.S. Cultural Policy Fellow at Stanford University, Amanda focuses on the role of art and culture in climate action. She is also a co-founder of CAIR Lab, supporting artist-in-residence within government. Her work has been supported by ArtPlace America, Knight Foundation, McKnight Foundation, NEA, and others. With an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a BFA from the University of Hartford, she has also taught in a college science department and worked inside regional planning organizations.
Residency Events
Exciting community events are in the works! Check back for more details in July.
Alumni Artists-in-Residence
Maysey Craddock
Best known for her visceral gouache paintings of ephemeral landscapes, Maysey Craddock examines the dualities and mysteries of nature and those relationships to space and time. Through saturated earth tones and translucent elemental layers, she depicts the spaces in between, the interactions of nature and architecture, and what happens beyond the grasp of human control. Her imagery is dense and fluid, with trees, watery surfaces, and roots figuring prominently as metaphors of the eternal cycles of death and rebirth, and the inevitability of entropy.
Maysey received an MFA from Maine College of Art. Throughout her career spanning over 25 years, she has participated in countless solo exhibitions across the United States and Germany. She has received awards, grants, and residencies, including the Tennessee Artist Fellowship from Austin Peay State University; an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Tennessee Arts Commission; Artist-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany; Artist-in-Residence at Maine College of Art; and sculpture and painting residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
www.MayseyCraddock.com
Tomiko Jones
Tomiko Jones’ photography and multidisciplinary installations explore social, cultural, and geopolitical transitions, considering the twin crises of too much and too little in the age of climate change.
Tomiko received the Grand Challenge Seed Grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education (2019-2022) for These Grand Places, a photographic project on public land. She is the recipient of awards including the En Foco New Works Fellowship (New York, 2014), 4Culture and City Artists (Seattle, 2010), and Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, France (2008). She was an invited resident artist at Museé Niépce in Chalon-Sur-Saône, France (2008), and selected for a project-specific Fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France (2009). She has received recognition for her photographic works by Analog Sparks (2023) and Photo Lucida’s Critical Mass Top 200 (2022). Tomiko received her MFA and Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Arizona. She has held several teaching appointments and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
www.TomikoJonesPhoto.com
