AiR/Newport

The Newport artist residency, AiR/Newport is designed to encourage the creative, intellectual, and personal growth of emerging to established visual artists and designers by giving them the time, space, and solitude needed to create, apart from the daily demands of production and deadlines. Our hope is that some aspect of Newport County’s architecture, flora, history, or oceanfront geography will result in resident artists further developing their current practice or the creation of new work. And in turn, we anticipate learning from those creatives who join us.

The mission of the Newport Art Museum is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, discovery, and connection within our Newport community and beyond. While in residence, all artists/designers reside in a studio apartment located on the Museum’s 3-acre campus and have access to a dedicated ‘clean’ studio space within the Museum’s school building, as well as the Museum’s galleries, grounds, permanent collection (by appointment) and behind-the-scene tours of other Newport cultural organizations.

Meet our June 2025 AiR/Newport artist:

June AiR: Taro Takizawa

Taro Takizawa is an artist who focuses on printmaking, wall vinyl installations, drawings and 2D designs.

Born in Japan, he has been making images connecting what he has experienced in Japan where he grew up and, and in the U.S. His works contain both western and eastern aesthetics with appreciation of traditional printmaking processes and mark making. He is fascinated with blending the boundaries of contemporary studio practice and traditional processes, printmaking and installations, influenced by traditional Japanese patterns from textile designs, architecture and crafts.

He received with his BFA with a printmaking emphasis from Central Michigan University in 2011, and MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2017. Takizawa has exhibited nationally and internationally such as at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, PARADOX European Fine Art Forum and its exhibition at CK Zamek in Poznan, Poland; and ArtPrize 10 at Grand Rapids Public Museum, LUX Center for the Arts, Ty Pawb in Wales and China Printmaking Museum. And recently went to artist residencies at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, OH, and GoggleWorks in Reading, PA. He currently teaches at University of Wilmington in North Carolina.

 

Thank you to our generous supporters

The AiR/Newport initiative was launched in 2020 thanks to the following individuals and foundations:

West Bay View Foundation
Cynthia Sinclair
EJMP Fund for Philanthropy
The Sand Foundation
Roseanne Williams
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Cultural Facilities Grant