Instructions on Waving | Sidney Stretz

Special Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Sidney Stretz (Greensboro, NC) 
Elsewhere Goes To Madison. April 2018. Photographs & real life observations, ink, paper, xerox copies.

“Waving to your neighbors is a customary sign that you belong to a place. Individuals have expressed this greeting (when traveling to and from) in a myriad of ways, from short gestures to exaggerated movements.”

After studying and noting a variety of greetings used within small neighborhoods and rural regions in Madison, NC and surrounding areas, Stretz illustrated diagrams of the symbols of rightful place for audiences to recreate site-specific ways of saying “Hello.” These greetings range from frequently used to rare, and are all acceptable as a way to communicate with your neighbor.

Installed inside of Box Tire Mobile (a 35-foot bus renovated to exhibit works for the town’s Bicentennial), Instructions On Waving acknowledges questions and experiences that address community, trust, property, and change.

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Sidney Stretz
Sidney Stretz

Sidney Stretz is an artist and educator originally from Columbia, MO. She received her MFA from the California College of Arts and her BFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Stretz makes work about everyday struggles, strange social situations, and failure. As an artist she works to highlight and improve circumstances and situations that others may not feel are valid or important. Through attempts to build community and mutual benefit, she develops a sense of engagement with a wide variety of groups of people that are looking for creative solutions to their community-based dreams. Sidney likes the Titanic, dogs, and making pies.

Stretz is currently an artist-in-residence for the Southern Constellations 2018: Rural Residency in Rockingham County–an Elsewhere Elsewhere project in partnership with the Reckon Holler Homestead.

During her residency with Elsewhere Goes To Madison at Reckon Holler, Stretz created Instructions On Waving.

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