Our Artists
Since its inception, Jentel has made awards to over 1,500 creatives.
Many alumni have produced work during residency that subsequently received national recognition. Below are a selection of featured Jentel Alumni and their recent activities.
FEATURED ARTIST
Robin Starbuck
Artist StatementRobin Starbuck is a New York based international filmmaker and artist who produces experimental nonfiction films, installations, and animated media for theatre and opera. Her work employs a mixture of documentary and reflexive film styles. By working in non-traditional forms, she strives to create a cinematic space in which the world is perceived rather than known. Reflective yet imbued with an undercurrent of urgency, Starbuck’s work aims to shed light on the struggles, joys, and paradoxes within the lives of communities and individuals through the visual narratives and animism that surrounds them.
Shots of Artwork:
RS #1 Stag's Mirror, Still from film. Essay film as an adaptation of Mexican writer, Rosario Castellano's novel, The Book of Lamentations
RS #2 How We See Water, Still from film. Experimental ethnographic film on women and education in Southern Mexico
RS #3 Four Keeps: Dakaake, Still from film. Essay film as an adaptation from Pretty Shell, an Apsaalooke tale
RS #4 Iichiilish Daik: Going to the Horses. Still from film. Experimental documentary film on Crow native horse breeder, Charlie Real Bird
RS #5 Pomp: Das Kranke Tier. Still from video installation.
RS #6 Drawing for hybrid film "Cloud" 30 x 40"
FEATURED ARTIST
Jun Ishida
Artist StatementThrough representing his take of the Wyoming landscape and nature, Jun Ishida celebrates being alive in an interrelated world. He believes that absolute beauty resides in tranquility. With his art, he challenges notions of art as self-serving, self-important, and self-expressionist.
Jun envisions his art as a conduit for promoting the positive essence of human experience. He wants to wake viewers from idling in the impermanence of the floating world and make them become fully aware of living in the present moment. His goal is to advance them to a level of consciousness embodied in the following declarations: Live the life. Now is the time. Focus and concentrate.
While he was in residence at Jentel in winter 2024, Jun created new paintings, hiked for miles, collected images of the mountains, hills, and clouds for future works, made photographs for a project about a crash landed lost pilot, and recorded sounds from the Piney Creek for a multimedia work that will immerse viewers in the experience of the natural environment in northern Wyoming.
Selected Artwork:
1. Meditation on the rock, 52” w x 38” h, acrylic on canvas , September 2019
2. Rock star at dusk, 52” w x 38” h, acrylic on canvas, August 2021
3. Winter Night, 12” w x 9” h, acrylic on paper, January 2025
JENTEL ALUMNI
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Jentel enjoys seeing your exhibition announcements, new publishings, awards, and much more. We also enjoy sharing our alumni’s work on our website and social media.
For more information please reach out to alumni@jentelarts.org.
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