Previous Artists in Residence

Daniel Peddle and Yvette Wojciechowski were the first artists - guests of the center in June, 2004

As he wrote for himself, Danielle Peddle is a renaissance man. His life is a multifaceted layering of creation and experiment. He began drawing as a child and spent his childhood deep in the woods of rural North Carolina sketching and playing in the abandoned barns and homes of his surrounds. At the prodigious age of twelve, he began to document the dying culture of the local farming community for which he won the Aperture Award for documentary photography, becoming the youngest recipient ever.
Graduated with honors, double-majoring in Anthropology and Mass Media Studies, he is working on documentary movies, photography, visual art and casting. Top photographers have all sought Peddle's keen eye for new talents from the range of ethnic beauties for Yves Saint Laurent, Yohji Yamamoto and others.

Yvette Wojciechowski did her Master Thesis on Urban and Visual Anthropology at San Francisco State University. She is director, art director, cinematographer and post-production consultant on numerous documentary-art movies.

The spontaneous communication with the local people, especially the talks with the elder women portrayed by Daniel, motivated the two artists to record a short documentary movie about the women from the village. At the same time, they were editing a documentary dedicated to a group of women from New York's underground calling themselves "The Aggressive'. This movie was promoted in Quad Cinema, New York City, October 7th, 2005 (www.quadcinema.com)