Where Art Originates: Artists & The Creative Process

This series explores the creative process and personal approaches to artistic growth in seven lively presentations featuring 2009 Djerassi Resident Artists Program artists.

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Cristina Ibarra is at work on a new screenplay, Love & Monster Trucks, for which she received a Rockefeller Media Fellowship and support from Creative Capital. Her films include The Last Conquistador, a PBS P.O.V. documentary (2008); Blood Quantum, a short web film on the PBS series, Natives, produced by American Experience; Home, a video documentary commissioned by the Heard Museum of Native American Culture in Phoenix, Arizona; and Wheels of Change, a trailer for the NY International Latino Film Festival. A graduate of the University of Texas, she received a 2004 Best Short Fiction Award at CineFestival.

Composer Frances White, based in Princeton, NJ, is currently at work on a new composition for viols that reflects her ongoing interest in the application of classical and ancient compositional techniques to the creation of music for instruments with electronic sound. White’s selected recordings include Centre Bridge, Mode Records; The Old Rose Reader, Bridge Records; and Birdwing, One World Records. White, who holds MA degrees from Brooklyn College and Princeton University, received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2004-2005 and a 2007 grant from The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.