Centroid Towns

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all the residents of the Centroid Towns for their patience with my many questions, allowing me into their lives, and for making me feel welcome as I endeavor to learn about their communities. 

Thank you to the Greater Reston Arts Center, especially Lily Siegel, Ginny Friend, and Sofia Blom, for supporting and funding the “Like a Passing Shadow” chapter and exhibition. Thank you to the Waterford Foundation, and especially Stephanie Thompson and Margaret Good, for partnering with my time in Waterford.

Thank you to the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City (MASBC) and Baltimore Office for Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) for funding the Bloomington phase of the project with the 2017-2018 Artist Travel Prize.

Thank you to Mike Behle and Paul ArtSpace in St. Louis for supporting our first project residency in June 2017. Thank you to Marilyn Welch and the Mascoutah Heritage Museum for facilitating conversations with Mascoutah citizens during my time in STL.

Thank you to Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud for hosting the inaugural exhibition "Watershed Moment: A Centroid Towns Project" in Baltimore at 'Sindikit and organizing related group discussion at the Washington Project for the Arts. 

Thank you for editing support and project feedback to the Artists U Working Group Baltimore: Zoë Charlton, Helen Glazer, Alex Heilner,  Marcia Wolfson Ray, Tony Shore, Olu Butterfly Woods, and Jowita Wyszomirska. 

Thank you for editing support and project feedback to the #MDphotoCrew: Liz Donadio, Todd Forsgren, Jay Gould, and Matthew Moore.

Most of all, thank you to my wife, LaRonika Thomas, for patience and love. 

Centroid Towns is grateful for seed funding from a Faculty Research and Creative Development Grant (2015) and a Marcella Brenner Grant for Faculty Research Development (2014) from the Maryland Institute College of Art.