De Pree Art Center Hosts Borgeson Artist-in-Residence on June 25
The Borgeson Artist in Residence program is an eight-week summer artist residency which supports the creation of a new body of work, culminating in a month-long exhibition in Hope College’s De Pree Gallery. The 2026 program welcomes Brooklyn, New York-based Maggie K. Barrett as this summer’s artist in residence. On Thursday, June 25 from 4:30-6 p.m., the public is invited to a free open studio event, to meet Barrett and get a behind-the-scenes look at her process.
Visitors can expect to see the current works in production that she’ll use in her
show later this year.
Barrett’s work is grounded in an extended exploration of grief as an embodied experience — something that altered her senses and required a slower rate of moving through the world. Her practice spans print-making, paper-making, book-making, writing, installation and photography. She works in labor-intensive ways that point back to the body at work. Taking from both sport and literary culture, Barrett responds to found objects like a thank you card from her dad, passages in books like Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill or stills from YouTube videos, like a tennis player refocusing between games. Using humor, repetition and scale, her work focuses around endurance, touch and presence.
Her work has been exhibited at Guest Gallery (Brooklyn), Tufts University Art Galleries (Boston), Center for Book Arts (New York), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London), and Brackett Creek Exhibitions (Montana). She completed an MFA in 2022 at the Slade School of Art London, where she was awarded the Wolfgang Spoerl Prize and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2025.
About the Borgeson Artist in Residence
The Borgeson Artist in Residence at De Pree Art Center will be Barrett’s first residency. Barrett engages with Hope students and the West Michigan community through an open house, artist lecture, workshop, and critiques. Artists receive a private studio and full access to studio facilities, alongside a stipend, a cottage within walking distance, and travel expenses to and from the residency and for the closing reception. The program has run since 2016, thanks to the generosity and enthusiasm of alumni Clarke and Nancy Borgeson.