Return to Cill Rialaig
by colleen | December 3, 2025 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
In October 2025, I returned to Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat with some of my dear friends I met here in 2019: Eoin Maclochlainn, Jacques Descoteaux, and Jean Sanders. For 6 years, through a pandemic, then grad school and more, I’ve been mentally here and dreaming of...
Lucid Art Foundation
by colleen | December 2, 2025 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
From The Lucid Art Foundation: “Colleen Blackard was our most recent artist-in-residence. She says, “My artwork blends landscape and myth to create an otherworld for viewers to enter. I utilize methods of printmaking, drawing, and painting to connect external...
2025 Jerry Manson Residency
by colleen | December 2, 2025 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
From Flatbed Press: “Flatbed welcomed Colleen Blackard to Flatbed for the 2025 Jerry Manson Residency in February. After a decade in Brooklyn, Colleen Blackard recently returned home to Austin, TX. She received her MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas in...
Conversation in the Thousand Acres at Sage Arts, Sheridan, WY
by colleen | December 2, 2025 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
Conversation in the Thousand Acres “All of us loved this country: the wildly varied landscape, from mountains to deep arroyos and on to the Powder River Breaks; the vast space and far horizons; the way of life; the light on the landscapes...” Neltje, “North of Crazy”...
Return to Jentel Artist Residency
by colleen | November 13, 2024 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
In September 2021, I was invited to Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming. I spent a month creating artwork alongside artists Karen Marston, Amy Robson, Frank Sheehan, and writer David Naimon. Inspired by our time together, we proposed a group show for Sage...
Assisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2024
by colleen | September 15, 2024 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
After our artist residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy, my monotypes and my partner Sam Teeter's poems were included in the XV edition of Assisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition 2024 at Art Gallery Le Logge, Palazzo dei Priori, from August...
Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy
by colleen | July 30, 2024 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
In July 2024, my partner, Sam Teeter, and I traveled to Assisi, Italy as artist-and-writer in residence at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, founded by Marina Merli. We spent the week creating work and exploring this sacred village and its many winding cobblestone paths,...
Texas Emerging: Volume IV at Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX
by colleen | November 16, 2023 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
Texas Emerging: Volume IV, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX, Sept. 9 - Oct 28, 2023 Beginning on September 9, 2023, Foltz Fine Art will present Texas Emerging: Volume IV, the fourth iteration of an annual exhibition featuring emerging visual artists across disciplines...
Atelierhaus Hilmsen Artist Residency, Germany
by colleen | July 11, 2023 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
Atelierhaus Hilmsen, Germany, July 2023 During this month-long residency at Atelierhaus Hilmsen, I am using my time to create work inspired by my recent adventures in Scandinavian woodlands, fjords, and islands. The resulting monotypes are also influenced by the...
Frauen Kunst at Mönchskirche Gallery in Salzwedel, Germany
by colleen | July 11, 2023 | Art Updates | 0 Comments
"Women's Art" Exhibition of contemporary women artists is an inspiring exhibition that exclusively presents works by female artists. The exhibition includes media such as painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video. Each work of art reflects the...