Saturday November 5, 2022 Mac Steel will be hosting a pop-up show for the Mac Steel Artist Residency’s inaugural artists, Anthony Cafritz and Richard Criddle.

Mac Steel is located at 296 N Main St., Rutland, VT.

Mac Steel is offering artists the opportunity to utilize and explore a fifty-acre scrap steel yard in Rutland, Vermont. Mac Steel allows resident artists the time to imagine and create from mountains of discarded and scrapped objects from the immediate area and the Northeast Corridor.

For the first time, two artists will make this dream residency a reality over a three-week period spanning from Friday, September 30 thru October 21, 2022. Each artist will push their own boundaries of what is possible and foray into the unknown.

Shards of material from industry, agriculture, and domestic life will immerse the artists, fueling the potential for innovation, discovery, and growth. These piles of scrap material, like mounds of broken words or phrases, resonate with the last 160 years of human intent. Every day different material arrives and the landscape and offerings are forever changing.

Artists Anthony Cafritz and Richard Criddle have been selected for the inaugural residency. Anthony Cafritz is an artist who works in all media, and the founder of Salem Art Works in Salem, New York.

Richard Criddle also works in all media, and recently retired as a Chief Preparator at the world-renowned contemporary art destination Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

The residency at Mac will culminate in a one-day exhibition on-site at Mac Steel on November 5, from 2 - 4 pm, as well as a group shows thru Salem Art Works on North Main Gallery, 196 N Main St, Salem, NY on Thursday, December 15, 2022.