Goldfield artist residency — katy ann fox

From April 11 - May 11, 2022 I attended an artist residency in the Central Nevada ghost town of Goldfield, Nevada. There are thousands of piles, remnants, and stories to inspire paintings in this windblown and wonderful town. Residency housing is a gloriously converted school bus parked behind the Downer Bros. Assay office on Columbia Street across Highway 95 from the Goldfield Hotel. Steve Roberts’ vision, support of the Arts, generosity and energy has made this residency happen for me.

In 2010, I was caught off guard by the sight of the Goldfield Hotel and I have loved it ever since. My mother only asked me one time what my plans were after I graduated from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. I filled her in, I would be applying to compete in Survivor, win, and purchase the Goldfield Hotel to live out my dreams. That was 12 years ago, but my dreams of Goldfield have just been realized, tho a bit differently, I lived a month in the dusty, historic, haunted town. I witnessed life so different than my own, listened to perspectives, wandered up hills, shared encouragement to the wonderful dreamers I met in town and I painted. I painted a lot and I used all the thread I brought for my sewing machine and I made books.

Below is a collection of oil paintings inspired by Goldfield’s remnants of dreams and beautiful evidence of mother nature’s strength…and color….always color.

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