Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH <strong>2020</strong><br />
Joelle Anthony<br />
Canada<br />
www.joelleanthony.com<br />
About<br />
J. M. Kelly is the occasional pen name for the writer, actress,<br />
and playwright, Joëlle Anthony. Born in Portland, Oregon,<br />
she makes her home in British Columbia, Canada. However,<br />
she has spent the last year, traveling around the US, Canada,<br />
and Europe cat-sitting for people while they go on holiday,<br />
and intends to continue doing that indefinitely.<br />
She spent her childhood with her nose in a book, often in<br />
the backseat of whatever antique car her dad had at the<br />
time. She’s worked as an actress, a Minor League Baseball<br />
souvenir hawker, the Easter Bunny, and various other notso-odd<br />
jobs. Now she mostly writes novels, but she still<br />
dabbles in sketch comedy, nonfiction, and teaching writing<br />
to both kids and adults (www.thewritepotential.com). With<br />
a developing interest in stand-up comedy and a love of<br />
theatre, a return to acting seems to be inevitable, and while<br />
she intends to work on fiction at <strong>Arteles</strong>, she suspects there<br />
will be some comedy written as well. She hopes so!<br />
Her first four books are for children and teens. Speed of<br />
Life, Joëlle’s third novel, was a White Pine nominee, hailed<br />
by Publisher’s Weekly as: a believable portrait of blue-collar<br />
teens struggling to make it work against tough odds. She’s<br />
also the author of the 2017 Middle Grade novel, A Month of<br />
Mondays, which was an OLA Forest Kid Committee Summer<br />
Reading List pick, a VOYA Top Shelf Award winner, and a 2019<br />
Chocolate Lily Nominee. She is currently finishing her first<br />
novel for adults, an historical novel set in 1962 Vancouver, BC<br />
called Between Over and Next.<br />
Xenia<br />
While I was here at Areteles, I read Stephen Fry’s latest book,<br />
MYTHOS, a retelling of Greek mythology. It was my formal<br />
introduction to “xenia”, the Greek gods’ idea of hospitality,<br />
which Zeus prized above all else. For my entire adult life, even<br />
without a name for it, xenia had naturally been “”my thing””<br />
and I’d done it well. When I saw the kitchen at <strong>Arteles</strong>, I knew<br />
why I was here. I’d come to write, but I happily laid down my<br />
pen in exchange for a knife and cutting board.<br />
While here, instead of working on my novel, I made food for the<br />
other artists, first as they settled in, and then to comfort and<br />
nourish them as Coronavirus ravaged the world, and sent us<br />
all spinning. The kitchen became a place for hasty midnight<br />
goodbyes, breakfast sandwiches tucked into a carry-on bags<br />
for long flights, and drinking Salmiakki together in hopes of<br />
Finland leaving a good taste in our mouths to remember it by.<br />
On one of our last nights, which was right in the middle of our<br />
residency, the kitchen was a place to make pizza together,<br />
while we pretended for one night, everything was okay...<br />
I didn’t do much writing, and the fact is, fifteen days after the<br />
residency officially ended, I’m still here, still cooking for (and<br />
with) the others who are also stranded here. Now I’m writing,<br />
too, but we’ll have to wait and see what happens with that.<br />
This residency was partially funded by a generous grant from<br />
Canada Council for the Arts.