Tara Cuthbert is one half of the collaboration of Bushwick Farms. The couple is obsessed with actualizing the history and genealogy of their conceptual company. The family farm sponsors a traveling variety show, run by Cuthbert and Solzberg, which integrates photography, performance art, theater, interactive installation, and constructed mythologies. The Traveling Variety Show has performed in spaces ranging from parking lots and RV parks to contemporary art centers throughout America. Components of the show have been exhibited in conjunction with Santa Fe Center for Photography and Rose Gallery. Cuthbert and Solzberg have been Artists in-Residence at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell, and Visual Studies Workshop. In 2005 they were awarded a grant from the Nevada Arts Council. Cuthbert received a B.F.A. from Southern Cross University, Australia, and Solzberg earned his B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Tara Cuthbert
Studios
Nef
Tara Cuthbert worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…