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September 28, 2016

OK picks NY artist for grant, residency

By JOURNAL STAFF

Photo by Lovis Ostenrik

Seattle-based design firm Olson Kundig selected Robin Frohardt, an artist and director living in Brooklyn for its inaugural Creative Exchange Residency Program, which comes with a $10,000 grant.

Frohardt's submission was selected from over 130. Her residency will focus on developing her current project: The Plastic Bag Store. It is part installation and part performance, and takes place in a real New York City storefront. The work addresses ideas about overconsumption and waste, using puppets, actors and sets.

Frohardt is an adjunct puppetry professor at the University of Maryland and a puppeteer at Radio City Music Hall. She has designed and directed an original play called “The Pigeoning” and two all-cardboard short films, “Fitzcardboardaldo” and “The Corrugation of Dreams.” Olson Kundig has collaborated with artists, choreographers, writers, chefs, scientists, fashion designers and horticulturists.




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