ON::View Residency Program
Selection Committee 2023
Sharon Norwood
Sharon Norwood is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans several media to include painting, drawing and ceramics. Born in Jamaica, she grew up in the cultural landscape of Toronto. Her practice explores her personal identity as a black woman. In her work the curly line is both metaphor for the black body and also a decorative, ornate mark that speaks to drawing. Norwood’s exhibition record includes solo exhibitions, group collaborations, and site-specific installations. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in Canada, the US and abroad including Carleton University Museum, the Mint Museum, the High Museum, Atlanta Contemporary, The National Gallery of Jamaica, The Telfair Museum, Canton Museum, and Florida State Museum.
She has participated in residencies at the Banff Center, the Gardiner Museum, the McColl Center, Hambidge, Vermont studio center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work is included in the permanent collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in DC, The Gardiner Museum in Canada and Washington and Lee University in Virginia. In 2018 Norwood became a Joan Mitchell grant nominee. Sharon currently maintains a full time studio practice in Savannah.
Betsy Cain
Betsy Cain has maintained a roving independent studio for over 40 years in Savannah, Georgia, and her discipline includes paintings, cut-outs, mixed media works on paper and photography. In her work, she explores the dissolving line between abstraction and the figurative...internal and external landscapes with imagery infused from the visually powerful and textural “low country,” and the language of the body.
Earning her MFA (and BFA) from The University of Alabama, with associated studies at Auburn University and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Cain has been engaged in the Savannah arts community for decades, co-founding and participating in several collaborative and performative artist groups, curating exhibitions, and sponsoring art forums and lecture series. Among her many awards are The Macon Museum’s Bowen Award 2018 for Artistic Excellence; Georgia Women in the Visual Arts, Governor’s Award; and Southern Expressions Regional Purchase Award, High Museum of Art.
Betsy’s most recent exhibitions include both solo and group shows at Laney Contemporary and at the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, and her work is included in the corporate collections of Google, Coca-Cola USA, King and Spaulding, Alston Bird, Price Waterhouse and Cooper, and Chemical Bank, NYC as well as the Macon Museum of Arts & Sciences, Telfair Museum, High Museum of Art, and Roswell Museum & Art Center, just to name a few.
Jeanette McCune
Jeanette McCune (b. Oklahoma City, OK) received a BFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art. Since then she has lived in Melbourne, Montreal, and Florence, working as a curatorial intern for No One Special and a book binding assistant for Anteism. She currently resides in Savannah, GA and is the Director at Cleo the Project Space.
Jackie Black
Jackie Black was born to US Army parents of Chinese/Japanese and Caucasian descent. She graduated from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1994.
Jackie identifies as a Southern Yankee who divides her time between New York, NY and Savannah, GA. She continues to advocate for social justice, affordable housing, animal rescue and road biking safety through her photography practice and through direct action.
Joshua Alexander
Joshua “JXANDER” Alexander is a Savannah-based artist, composer and educator. Currently seeking an MFA in Sound Design from SCAD, he borrows from and challenges his background as a musician to artfully harness and shape sound and silence into contemplative experiences. Alexander’s conceptual works explore the aural imagination, subvocalization and concentration, amongst other phenomena. His audiovisual works have been featured at the Telfair Museum, Sulfur Studios, and Savannah State University’s Kennedy Fine Arts Gallery. Joshua is currently a music teacher in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and teaches music technology at the Frank Callen Boys and Girls Club, Horizons Savannah and Georgia Tech Summer Programs.
Jon Witzky
Jon is an artist, educator and independent curator from Columbus, Ohio. He received his BFA in Painting from Ohio State University and an MFA in Painting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Jon is Program Director at ARTS Southeast as well as Co-founder/Editor of IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine. Jon maintains an active artistic practice and can often be found working in his studio in Savannah’s Starland District.
Emily Earl
Emily is a fine art photographer, a Savannah native and Executive Director & co-founder of ARTS Southeast + Sulfur Studios. She is also the Co-founder/Editor of IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine. She received her BFA in Photography from SCAD in 2007. In 2020, she published a monograph of her Late Night Polaroids series, a document of Savannah’s nightlife scene from 2012 - 2020, which was released in conjunction with her first museum solo exhibition at Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center.
