Meeson Pae Yang to Receive California Visions Grant
and Artist-in-Residency at Exploratorium

Meeson Pae Yang (www.meesonpaeyang.com) is the recipient of the California Visions Grant that enables her to be an artist-in-residence at the Exploratorium in the coming year. This young artist creates installations and sculptures based on biology.

Her residency is made possible by a collaborative initiative of six California artists’ residency programs, funded by The James Irvine Foundation. The award supports highly talented, yet under-recognized, California visual artists who represent the new California demographic. The Alliance of Artists Communities, the nation’s only service organization for artists’ communities and residency programs, administers and directs the Visions from the New California project.

Meeson Pae Yang was selected from a pool of over 300 visual artists state-wide. One of six award recipients to receive residencies in the Bay Area, she will receive a one-month residency and a $4000 unrestricted stipend.

Exploratorium Artist-in-Residency Programs
For almost forty years, 4-6 artists have been in residence each year, creating artworks that become exhibits. The art and artists have been diverse: stand-alone artworks that describe nature from the artist’s perspective; music series featuring the biggest names in experimental music; poets-in-residence, theater companies-in-residence, guerilla artworks that were one-night installations by multiple artists, a kind of Burning Man breeding ground without the desert, and long-term exhibitions on science phenomena using the works of artists.

The Exploratorium is a laboratory for artistic investigations. Its main goal remains identical to the mission set out in the museum’s first days: to provide artists with the chance to use the shop with its rich human and mechanical resources; to explore the unique opportunity for access to expert scientific instruction, collaborative investigation, and construction; and to provide new exhibits or experiences for the museum’s audiences.