Join us in the 100 West studios showcasing two-months of residency work by artists Jarrod Beck from Terlingua, Texas, and Hai-Wen Lin from Chicago, Illinois. At 4pm in the first-floor woodshop we feature interdisciplinary poet S. Erin Batiste from Brooklyn, New York. Reception follows. Our Bookstore for publications by residents and their recommendations is open 10am - 4pm.
12:00 - 4:00 PM
100 WEST - 100 W. 3rd Ave. second & third floors
JARROD BECK - Drawing, Sculpture, Environment - Terlingua, Texas
HAI-WEN LIN – Sculpture, Installation - Chicago, Illinois
ANTEROOM - 411 N. Beaton St.
BOOKSTORE - 201 N. Commerce St.
books by residents and their recommendations
4:00 - 5:00 PM
100 WEST - first floor presentation, reading
S. ERIN BATISTE - Interdisciplinary Poetry – Brooklyn, New York
reception follows across the street behind Anteroom
JARROD BECK
Drawing, Sculpture, Environment - Terlingua, Texas - 2nd floor studio
Jarrod Beck will create a series of mural size drawings on handcast paper and canvas exploring connections between compressed geological layers of the earth and the unpeeling of the medically studied body. These drawings will also instruct a series of occupiable “caves” created in paper pulp and pigment.
Jarrod Beck is an installation artist, printmaker and sculptor. In 2011 he traded sculpture for 5 acres of land in far west Texas and began a ground-drawing on the property. His practice is now centered in the Big Bend where he explores the massive and fragile geological evidence of the deep time of our planet.
As an artist trained as an architect, he creates large scale spaces for the contemplation of our connection to the physical and spiritual realms of the universe. He studies the shared shamanic practices of the world and works with people to discover the inner resources they already have to sit with trauma and grief.
HAI-WEN LIN
Sculpture, Installation - Chicago, Illinois - 3rd floor studio
This is a practice that walks the motions of daily life and invites the company of naturally occurring phenomena. It is an attempt to attune one’s body to the environment, to unsettle static markers of identity and offer instead the wind, sun, and sky as relational anchors to gather and situate oneself. Hai-Wen Lin works through the language of fashion as a sculptural approach to kitemaking in an effort to free, fly, and extend their body. While in Corsicana, Lin intends to continue work on their largest kite to date in preparation for an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Fall 2026. They are interested in rituals of time, of listening, of tending to a single piece as if a garden.
Hai-Wen Lin is an artist living somewhere beneath the sky. Their work explores constructions of their body and the attunement of oneself to the environment, often moving through metaphor, etymology, sunlight, wind, and the way time passes perfectly when you are out walking on a beautiful day. Lin is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received a M.Des in Fashion, Body and Garment from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of California, Davis. Recent accolades include the Museum of Art and Design’s 2025 Burke Prize, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation’s 2025 Visual Arts Award, and a 2025 Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship. Lin has been an artist-in-residence of MacDowell, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Lighthouse Works, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Grand Canyon National Park, among many others. They have offered workshops in partnership with the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Mint Museum, the Heritage Museum of Asian Art, and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.
S. ERIN BATISTE
Interdisciplinary Poetry – Brooklyn, New York - writing studio
S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. While in Corsicana, she is grateful for the opportunity to work between two projects. Hoard, her debut poetry manuscript examines 1980’s-1990’s Black America: the era of the middle class, the nuclear family, malls and suburbs. Hoard confronts its devastating domestic failure and what survives the Black American Dream: temporary upward mobility, exceptionalism, late capitalism and consumption. Batiste will also work to complete the final collages for her coffee table book, And The Glory Will Be Revealed, which reclaims early 20th century archives of Black women and girls from the New Orleans Public Library, forthcoming from University of New Orleans Press.
S. Erin Batiste is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Additionally, she has received fellowships and generous support from Cave Canem, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brown University and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Powerhouse Arts, Loghaven Artist Residency, and San Francisco Center for the Book among other honors. Her poetry has been published and anthologized internationally in wildness, Interim, and New Letters. Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage — a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. She has exhibited at Burnaway Magazine's Book//Zine Fair, Volume 8 MTL in Montreal, LA Zine Fest, Black Zine Fair NYC, and the Center for Afrofuturist Studies Ordinary Survival Inaugural Film Festival. Her collages have appeared in Create!, MQR, Obsidian, Southern Cultures, and Vassar Review. Batiste says her practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. Her work centers Black women—and examines themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories.
BOOKSTORE
All books by our artists & writers 20%-off through the holidays.
Our Bookstore brings the books and printed matter by our residents back to here - two blocks from 100W, where germination, writing and final edit fed these publications across the last twelve years of residencies. This collection by our alumni is a wonderfully eclectic spread of poetry, play, essay, novel, nonfiction, memoir, art, translations, with recommended titles, their sources and inspirations, contemporary hits, classics, children’s, a Texas section, and local authors. It’s where literature you first heard read aloud at Open Studios becomes available. All profits support our nonprofit mission.
Open Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10a - 4p | 201 N. Commerce St.
