b'artist-in-residence AMANDA WILLIAMS 34AMANDA WILLIAMSA DISTINGUISHED VISUAL digital. I find myself doing a lot of facilitating for myartist who recently received a co-commission for abig institutional and public projects, she notes, and Brooklyn, New York, monument commemorating very little making with my own hands.Shirley Chisholm (New York congresswoman, 196983) My hope, she said in June, is that at the launched SCMAs artist-in-residence program in end of the residency Ill have reconnected with this summer 2019.thing that has always been fundamental to my work. The June residency, Williams says, was anAnd I also hope that this experience will create a road opportunity to pause in the middle of a really fantasticmap for the next phase.two years of high activityto take stock, take a breakWilliams took advantage of all that a Smith and to get back to making things on an intimate scale.summer offers, exploring the botanic garden, visiting Painting is my first love, says the artist, know downtown and spending time with the museums most recently for her site-specific installations. And I lov expansive collection.color. This felt like a moment to reconnect with that. She said she was blown away by the collec-In mid-June, Williams studio in Smiths Hillyertion itself, and also by the generosity of the alumnae Hall fairly exploded with color. Three large glass paletteswhose gifts have contributed to it. These women are erupted with gradients of blues, yellows and reds.leaving a wonderful legacy. Its a collection of artbut Williams said she wanted the work she did duringalso a collection of uniquely Smith stories. Viewing feels her Smith residency to be tactile and haptic, instead oflike opening up an album, rather than a stock portfolio.artist-in-residence: Amanda Williams'