Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024

The Museum for Art in Wood presents Fruition, a new exhibition featuring works created by the 2024 resident fellows of its annual Windgate Wood Arts Residency Program (WARP Wood). In this exhibition, the resident Fellows present work created during the residency, which emphasizes research, exploration, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment. Now in its 27th year, the renowned WARP Wood residency offers artists specializing in the material of wood the opportunity to test their vision and skill while developing connections with colleagues, collectors, the Museum, and the wider city of Philadelphia. Nearly all of the nine fellows in the 2024 cohort applied for the residency in 2019. In the intervening five years, development and divergence have left them in the precise position of now, which is both undeniably correct and undeniably by chance. The works in Fruition are based on seeds of ideas planted over a stretch of time that have enriched outcomes and, at times, reshaped the artists’ ways of making.