The distinguished tap-dancer and tap-dance historian Jane Goldberg has had several residencies at Wassard Elea, together with partner Owen Gray (see separate blog entry), most recently in the Autumn of 2025. As artistic director of Changing Times Tap Dance Company Inc., a non-profit preservation, promotion, and performing entity, begun in 1979, Goldberg began teaching atContinue reading “Featured Guest: Jane Goldberg, Changing Times Tap Dance Company inc.”
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Changes at Wassard Elea
We are developing our focus towards events and other cultural activities, and are in the process of selling the apartment we called “The Artist”, aka Nr. 41, to better enable our other plans. After almost 20 years of ownership, we are passing this apartment on to good hands.
Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist
“A village is a work of survival, of crumbling and repaired corridors, curling up hills for protection, for worship, community, for beauty and time to remember its story. Places built for protection are beautiful. Beauty is a kind of camouflage.” Jerilyn Jurinek What, René, did I get out of staying in Wassard Elea’s apartment inContinue reading “Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist”
Spring repairs!
We are carrying out repairs and upgrades on the apartments this week.
Featured guest: Prof. Mads Nygaard Folkmann, scholar
Featured Wassard Elea guest: Prof. Mads Nygaard Folkmann is Professor of Design Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.
Featured Guest: Jaana Lönnroos, visual artist
Visual artist Jaana Lönnroos was resident at Wassard Elea during 2022, and we are delighted to share some images of work she produced while there. These artworks were part of an exhibition at Galeria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland.
Jaana Lönnroos art exhibition
Visual artist Jaana Lönnroos was in residence at Wassard Elea for about two months during September-November 2022. During this residency she finished a series of works which are featured in an exhibition entitled ‘Dettagli Divini’ in Kotka, Finland, that is opening this Saturday, December 3rd.
Featured guest: Anna Jacobina Jacobsen, illustrator
We were delighted to host Anna Jacobina Jacobsen from Denmark for the month of September, 2022. She came to Ascea to work on ideas for a new picture book.
Wassard Elea Revista
Back issues (Volumes I to VII) of Wassard Elea Revista, the journal for arts and scholarship, are now available for perusal and download from the activities page on our web site. Pages with information about the Wassard Elea Symposium are also under construction.
Featured guest: Megan Wynne, author
Megan Wynne is the author of The House on Hawthorn Road. Recently we were delighted to host her as she worked on her second novel.