Summer Project Residency

During the summer months the Anchorlight gallery closes to the public and is converted into studio space for the Summer Project Residency. One artist or collaborative team uses the gallery as a studio workspace to create a body of work, installation, or performance to be exhibited during our fall exhibition schedule. The Summer Project Residency is by invitation only at this time.

Harrison Haynes
2025 Summer Project Residency Artist

Harrison Haynes's work centers around the reconstruction of fragments of personal narrative. With the time and space afforded by the Anchorlight Summer Project Residency, in preparation for his solo exhibition there, he will tackle the fabrication of a series of sculptural systems of display for his collage-based imagery. 

Untitled maquette, 2025, hand-cut inkjet print, collage, magnets, plexiglass, wood, 21.5 x 17.25 x 8.5 inches

Palmetto Blind, 2024, hand-cut archival pigment print, magnets, tape, glue, wood, plexiglass, spray paint, 57 x 38 x 12 inches

Bio

Harrison Haynes’s visual art practice moves between drawing, painting, photography and sculpture. He received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in photography from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in New York. In 2015, Haynes was the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship grant. That same year his work was featured in the exhibition Point/Counterpoint organized by Cora Fisher at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Haynes’s work has been included in numerous other exhibitions, including Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont at the Nasher Museum of Art, Art on Paper 2021 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and Flat Affect at Lump Projects in Raleigh, NC, which he also organized. Old Us, a solo exhibition of Haynes’s work, opened at Gallery OneOneOne in April of 2024, and his solo exhibition at Anchorlight Gallery will open in September. 

Harrison Haynes. Photo credit: Cindy Spuria

2024 Summer Project Resident Artist
Stacey L. Kirby

During her residency at Anchorlight Gallery, Kirby is focusing on the research and development of a new performance work titled "The Division of Ancestral Deeds." This work explores our connections to ancestors and lineage, both individually and collectively. Kirby is delving into family histories—spoken and unspoken—generational trauma, and the diverse interpretations of truths passed down through ancestral lineage. Her time at Anchorlight will culminate in a fall/winter exhibition in the gallery, inviting the public to participate in her research and development through performance and installation.