“Meet the Artist”
Jenica Heintzelman and Kevin Kunstadt
July 20, 2023
5:30-7:30 pm
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY
On Thursday, July 20, we welcome Jenica Heintzelman and Kevin Kunstadt to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Heintzelman will be sharing her project “Down a Stream” and will talk about her artistic process from initial idea, to the final iteration of her riso book, which she will have available for sale. Kunstadt is putting together a new talk for the evening, tentatively titled: “The Return of the Hand.”
Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
Jenica Heintzelman is a Guatemalan-American photographer from Orlando, Florida. She attended Brigham Young University where she completed her BFA degree in photography and documentary film. Jenica received her MFA in photography from the Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency program in 2020. She has been named by the British Journal of Photography for the “2021 Ones to Watch: Community” and exhibited internationally at C/O Berlin and BFOTO Festival in Spain. In 2022, she was awarded the Risograph Residency at the Penumbra Foundation to publish her first book “Down a Stream”. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY her work explores themes of vulnerability, trauma and the notion of healing.
Kevin Kunstadt (b. 1982, New York, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School in 2017. Since 2010 Kunstadt has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects such as: asphalt road resurfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics.” These have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, Fiebre, and La Fabrica Dummy Awards.His risograph photobook All for the Best was published by Penumbra Foundation in 2020 and he coordinates Penumbra’s Risograph Print and Publication Residency Program, while simultaneously serving as a critic in its’ Long Term Photobook course.
Top left image © Kevin Kunstadt
Top right image © Jenica Heintzelman