STAR Collaboration

The STAR Collaboration (Students, Teachers, Artists-in-Residence) at Eagle Hill advances artistic approaches to education by connecting diverse learners to accomplished artists who live, learn, and create new work on campus.

The STAR Collaboration invites artists of all disciplines to come away for a semester of focused art work, and to come together with our students and teachers to facilitate learning.

STAR residents can be at any stage of their careers — emerging and well-established artists, art teachers, and those returning to former careers in the arts. STAR artists are educators-at-heart, who want to work with young people while expanding the definition of what being an educator means; who are interested in novel, interdisciplinary educational approaches; and who thrive on collaboration with others.

We provide STAR artists with studio facilities, room and board, a monthly stipend and a materials budget, dedicated, distraction-free time to make art, and opportunities to develop teaching skills through professional relationships with mentor teachers. We work with each artist to find a healthy balance of creative sanctuary and community engagement.
 

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Matthew C. Waite

Matthew C. Waite (EHS '17) is a Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist with an M.A. in Integrated Media Arts and Design from Anna Maria College. His current work celebrates the mundane with an interest in the intersection of landscapes and language.

With his work, Waite seeks to guide the audience to actively challenge their ideas about how they interact with their landscape, the natural world, and the everyday mundane. Waite uses art as a meditative healing method and a tool for communication.