ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
​The TEST SITE artist residency program at Bountiful Davis Art Center is designed to foster experimentation and innovation, culminating in a solo exhibition in our Annex Gallery. Artists selected for the BDAC residency receive 24-hour access to a private studio, fully equipped with materials and tools, allowing them to create and explore their work freely. The body of work developed during the residency will be showcased in a solo exhibition in the Annex Gallery during the following calendar year, with BDAC providing comprehensive marketing and publicity support across social media, newsletters, and press releases.
In addition to studio and exhibition opportunities, resident artists are expected to contribute to the BDAC community by giving an artist talk, workshop, or leading a critique session with local artists. This engagement enriches the resident's experience while also strengthening connections within the broader BDAC community, fostering relationships, and expanding the artist’s network.
The program offers two residencies: one running from fall to spring and a summer residency. The Test Site Summer Residency provides a graduating high school student and a teacher from the Davis School District with 24-hour studio access, offering a unique opportunity to develop their skills in a professional environment.
CURRENT ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
2024–2025 BDAC Test Site
Artist-in-Residence
EMILY CATES
Artist Statement: My work reflects on notions of time and memory through the disciplines of architecture and design. Inspired by archaeological digs and the layering of historical time; I create objects which archive our histories. I attempts to transport back to specific moments by materializing shards from my memories. I am recalling spaces I'm not quite sure existed, and if they did, they are gone or unrecognizable today.
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Emily is a designer and book artist from Los Lunas, New Mexico. She graduated with her Master of Design in Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020 and holds an undergraduate degree in Multidisciplinary Design and a minor in Book Arts from the University of Utah. Her work has been exhibited nationally and was most recently granted the Design Council Advisory Award for her thesis in Design History. She currently teaches exhibition design at the U of U.
PAST ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2024 BDAC Test Site
Teacher Summer Artist-in-Residence
JACK HATTAWAY
Jack sold out early and worked for the man. In late 2018, his counter-capitalism side reasserted a degree of dominance, and he resigned from the velvet shackles of a rather luxurious job. Jack rebooted his career to teach high school art, commercial and fine. He loves teaching. He thoroughly enjoys working with young people and helping them express their ideas visually.
In addition to reclaiming his life, Jack has returned to a consistent practice of making things for himself. Jack loves paper in all of its multifarious forms. Paper can become anything; it is potential made real. Frequently, he initially works in Adobe Illustrator, creating, compositing, and modifying vector artwork, before physically altering and merging a set of prints into a final work. In July of 2022, Jack started visually exploring his personal concerns related to dementia, how memory works, and the dissolution of self over time.
Jack resides in Bountiful, Utah with his wife, two children, and a dog. He neglected to read the fine print on the marriage paperwork after falling head over teakettle for a girl from Bountiful who smelled (and continues to smell) like home. He is contractually bound to remain – without an excess of duress.
