ARTIST OCCUPIED
The Firehouse Art Center hosts two residencies each year, working in the South Gallery for three months before a culminating solo exhibition in the Main Gallery with the opportunity to guest curate the accompanying South Gallery.
The Artist Occupied program at the Firehouse Art Center is intended as a professional development opportunity for emerging and experienced visual artists.Bring you work to a new creative level as you connect visitors to working artist environments and processes.
Previous resident artists:Heather Kegel, Sean Faling, Jessica Forrestal, Chris Blume, Kaitlyn Tucek, Roberta Restaino, Chelsea Gilmore, Barbara Rudlaff, Amy Hoagland, Janelle Anderson, Jono Wright, Nancy Eastman, Makenzie Davis, Amy Lummus, and Erica Podwoiski, Kenzie Sitterud, Saxon Martinez and Doug Felkley.
ARTIST BIO
Mollie Jackson (she/her) is a Longmont-based artist creating large-scale abstract paintings that pulse with energy. Guided by intuition, she combines layers of paint, expressive mark-making, and collage, channeling raw emotion into visual form and inviting an unspoken connection with viewers.
Mollie has held exhibitions throughout Colorado and is excited to continue growing her practice through the Firehouse residency.
“I’m excited to grow deeper roots in my community and create in a more open, shared way. Painting, for me, is about letting go, expressing, and simply being—and I hope to share that with anyone who feels drawn to explore it.”
Robyn Eubanks is an oil painter who draws on art-historical, psychological, and religious imagery to explore the interplay between individual experience and our shared humanity, often utilizing transparency, pattern, and shifting scale to challenge how the viewer perceives truth. She works in the space between abstraction and realism, using that tension as a tool for questioning what we see and why we believe it. Her work has been selected for juried exhibitions at both regional and national levels, and her paintings have found homes with collectors across Colorado and beyond. Robyn became enamored with painting in 2020 when she took her first painting class at Front Range Community College in Longmont, Colorado. She lives and paints in Louisville.
“I am looking forward to facilitating collaborative, experimental painting opportunities that invite community members to join me in stepping outside of comfort zones and taking creative risks.” states Eubanks.
