The Artist In Residence Program
The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony is located in the Catskill Mountains, one-and-a-half miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. Founded as an Arts & Crafts community in 1903, it has been a haven for visual artists, writers, crafts people, musicians and theater artists for almost a century.
Offers writers, visual artists and composers one-month residencies from June through September. Our goal is to provide solitude in community and undisturbed time in which to concentrate on independent, creative work in company of follow artists.
Panelists in the past have included visual artists
Joan Snyder and
Donald Elder and literary panelists included
Gail Godwin, Matthew Spireng,
Robert Handel,
Evangeline Morphos and
Nancy Golliday.
Panelists for this year's program include visual artitsts Donald Elder,
Portia Munson and
Melissa Meyer. Literary panelists
include Martha Frankel (fiction),
Olga Broumas
(poetry), Gus Schulenburg, Evangeline Morphos (playwrights) and
Rob Handel (Handel Award).
Each four week session is limited to 10 individuals. The cost per session is $300 USD. Candidates may apply for additional weeks if space becomes available.
Residents are accommodated at The Villetta Inn, a spacious turn-of-the-century mountain lodge with communal dining and living rooms. Residency includes a private bedroom and separate, private studio space. Art studios are in separate buildings. Residents are responsible for providing their own meals in the large, well appointed community kitchen.
At the end of each session the residents share their work with each other and with Woodstock's artistic community. Come help us celebrate! Open studio tours begin @ 5:00, followed by Potluck dinner, please bring a dish or beverage to share. Followed by readings and party. Dates for this years open studio tours are Session 1: June 27th, Session 2: July 25th, Session 3: August 22nd, Session 4: September 19th.
Session One Residents, June 3 - June 29, 2008
Artists
- Dianne Bowen: Sculptor and painter living in New York, NY.
- Cathy Diamond: Painter from Brooklyn, New York.
- Nathan Green:
An Austin, TX based visual artist working on a series of acrylic paintings
called, Tears of Joy Are Still Tears.
- Essye Klempner: New York painter/poet of abstract nature.
- Bridget Spaeth: Sculptor and painter living in Bowdoin, Maine.
Musicians
- Bari Koral: Singer songwriter living in New York, NY. Former resident.
Writers
- Lynka Adams: San Francisco based writer, launching a first draft of her novel A Gathering of Larks.
- Barbara Blatner: Playwright, poet and composer living in New York, NY. She is working on a play called Marilyn Monroe in the Desert. Former resident.
- Brooke Shaffner: Writer, currently working on an autobiographical novel entitled Proximity. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
- Amy Veach: Writer living in New York working on her novel Tulip Stew.
Session Two Residents, June 3 - June 29, 2008
Artists (All of the visual artists this session are
Pollack Krasner Award recipients)
- Brian Michael Dunn: Assembles vividly colored scenes that assimilate icons and elements from popular cultures and daily detritus. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
- Katy Krantz: Painter, currently living in Brooklyn, NY.
- Min Ha Park: An artist who comes from the fourth dimension. She is living and working in Brooklyn for the moment.
- Maya Erdelyi Perez: Her work explores dreams, memories, archetypes, and personal myths. Through animation/video she synthesizes various mediums: performance, shadow puppetry, cut-paper, set design, installation, drawing and painting. She uses drawing/painting/sculpture as extensions of the time and space of the video/animation.
- Amy Talluto: is a painter working with the themes of landscape to explore ideas of mood, color and form. Amy lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Writers
- Sarah Beck: Sarah Beck grew up in southern California. As a New Yorker now, she chases the squirrels off her fire escape and writes fiction and nonfiction. Currently, she is working on a novel about photography and women's basketball in 1939.
- Robert G. Davidson: is the author of
Field Observations: Stories (Missouri, 2001) and The Master and the Dean: the Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells. (Missouri, 2005). An Associate Professor of English at California State University, Chico, Rob is working on a second book of short stories. Former resident.
- Lisa Interollo: Writer, living in New York, NY. Former resident.
- Demetra Kareman: Playwright from Brooklyn, NY. She is up here at Byrdcliffe developing new ideas.
- Yosefa Raz: Yosefa Raz’s poetry and fiction have been published in
Glimmer Train,
Tikkun Magazine,
Lilith, and
ZYZZYVA. Her first book of poetry, In Exchange for a Homeland, was published in 2004 by Swan Scythe Press. She is spending the summer completing her second book of poetry, after which she will return to Berkeley California, where she is working on her PhD in Biblical Hebrew Poetry.
Session Three Residents, June 3 - June 29, 2008
Artists
Writers
- Barton Bishop: Playwright living in Astoria, NY. Winner of this year's Handel Playwright Fellowship.
- Tenaya R. Darlington: Writer living in Philadelphia, PA.
- Sarah J. Gardner: Poet living in Davenport, IA.
- Suzanne Weinert: Screenwriter.
Session Four Residents, June 3 - June 29, 2008
Artists
- Madi Lanier: Painter living in New York, NY.
- Suzanne Lewis: Painter living in Austin, Texas.
- Courtnay Papy:
Visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY.
- Mia Pearlman: Visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Former resident.
Writers
- Thomas Higgins: Playwright living in New York, NY.
- Kimberly Elkins: Writer living in New York, NY.
- Twilight Eve Greenaway: Poet living in Berkeley, California.
- Tim Steffen: Writer living in New York, NY.
Mixed Media/Video
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