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2011 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program

We are now accepting applications for the 2011 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program available online!

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The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild offers month long Artist in Residence (AIR) opportunities for visual artists, composers, playwrights/screenwriters, and writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Longer residencies are available for ceramic artists. The AIR sessions generally occur during the months of June, July, August, and September. Our goal is to provide solitude in a community and uninterrupted time in which to concentrate on creative work alongside fellow artists. Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York, USA.

2011 Session Dates and Session Fees

For all visual arts, music composers, playwrights, and writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry:

Each four week session is limited to 10 individuals. The cost per session is $300 USD. Candidates may apply for additional weeks in the event a space becomes available. Each session concludes with an Open Studio.

• Session I: June 1 – 27, 2011
• Session II: June 29 – July 25, 2011
• Session III: July 27 – August 22, 2011
• Session IV: August 24 – September 19, 2011

For ceramic artists

Sessions are typically 4 months long and are limited to 3 individuals. The cost per session is $350 USD. Candidates may apply for one month or up to five months.

• May, June, July, August, September, and October 2011.
• Applicants will be notified by early to mid–April regarding the June session. All others will be notified by the end of April.

Process

Residents are chosen by a selection committee of professionals in the arts. The major criterion for acceptance is proof of serious commitment to one’s field of endeavor. Professional recognition is helpful for admission, but is not essential.

Panelists in the past have included: Gregory Amenoff, Jake Berthot, Joan Snyder, Portia Munson, Melissa Meyer and Donald Elder and literary panelists included Gail Godwin, Matthew Spireng, Martha Frankel (fiction), Olga Broumas (poetry), Gus Schulenburg, Evangeline Morphos (playwrights) and Rob Handel and Nancy Golladay (BMI Faculty).

Support Materials

(All materials should be of recent work. Applicants will need to upload their support materials to the “Add Media” section of the online application.)

1. Copy of your professional resume (PDF).
2. Work samples. Please see below for specific requirements for each discipline.
3. Please supply two references.

Visual and Ceramic Artists

• 10 images (5 MB max. each: JPG, PNG, GIF) of your work along with the title, date, dimensions, medium.

Music Composition

• 5 music samples (10 MB max. each: mp3) – altogether no more than 15 minutes along with the title, date.
• The scores of the uploaded work samples (PDF).

Playwrighting / Screenwriting

• One or two work samples (10 MB max. each: PDF) – up to 40 pages for a play script or treatment.

Writers of Fiction, Nonfiction, and/or Poetry

• Fiction and Nonfiction: 2 work samples (10 MB max. each: PDF) – no more than 20 pages total
• Poetry: at least 4 work samples (10 MB max. each: PDF) – no more than 12 pages total

Writer Assistance

There is tuition assistance for writers under the age of 35. Please indicate if you are interested in the fellowships on the application form.

Check out the Fall Newsletter (PDF) online. There’s a few articles about the Artist in Residence Program.

http://woodstockguild.org/newsletter/newsletter_nov2010.pdf

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Session IV: August 24 – September 19, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

• Tatiana Berg
• John Humphries: Having completed degrees in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design and a foray as a saucier and metalsmith, Mr. Humphries is a visual artist, gardener, and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of photo/watercolor constructions, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are a personal narrative coded in a tragic myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences.
  
  Significant exhibitions have been at the Dorothy Reed Gallery and Weston Galleries [Cincinnati, Ohio], Gallery See [Atlanta, Georgia], Rosewood Gallery [Kettering, Ohio], and Arlington Museum of Art [Arlington, Texas].
• Helma Kuijper lives and works in Alkmaar, Holland. She studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague painting drawing and sculpture. In 2005 she worked for three months in the European Ceramic Working Centre in Den Bosch in Holland. Her work is purchased by the ministry of economics and the ministry of agriculture and fishing in The Hague. She worked in Woodstock last year as one of the ten artist in residence from Holland for the Ulster Country Hudson 400 Celebration.
• Caroline McAuliffe
• Courtney Puckett lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an M.F.A from Hunter College and a B.F.A from Maryland Institute College. Puckett also studied in Glasgow, Scotland, New Mexico and Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has been featured in the NYTimes online Art blog.

Musicians

• Bari Koral: Singer songwriter living in New York, NY. Former resident.

Writers

• Ross Berger is a playwright and screenwriter currently working in Los Angeles. His play THE SHOEBOX OF EBBETS FIELD was the 2001 winner of the Cherry Lane Playwriting Mentorship Fellowship. During this year-long program, Ross worked under the guidance of Michael Weller, an experience which culminated into the Off-Broadway production of his play in 2001. The play also received the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship of 2001-2002. Ross was the recipient of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Dasha Epstein Next Step Fellowship for his play THE WHITETAIL SEASON in 2001, and worked under Romulus Linney for its development. In 2003, his short play SEMI COLON RIGHT PARENTHESIS won 5 awards at the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival, including Best Play and Audience Favorite. In 2004, Ross wrote an episode of LAW & ORDER entitled “Gov Love” which became the series’s 2005 Emmy Submission. Additionally, Ross won first prize in the 2007 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition (One-Hour Category) for a spec script of HOUSE M.D. He has written for New Media on the interactive series LONELYGIRL15 and, currently, for video games including the most recent adaptation of CSI. Ross is a graduate of Brandeis (BA, Philosophy) and Columbia (MFA, Playwriting) universities and is a member of the WGA (East).
• A graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television MFA Screenwriting program, Michael Hazzard has being writing plays and screenplays for far much longer than his “official” date of birth could possibly allow. At UCLA he gained a reputation for screenplays noted for their horror, humor and an “unhealthy preoccupation with sex, drugs and politics.” His screenplay “The Devil’s Whipping Boy” is the winner of the 2008 NBC/NAACP Fellowship in Screenwriting and his screenplay “Paradise” has been chosen for the 2010 Outfest Screenwriting Lab. He is currently working on a comedy set in Los Angeles and a play about Alphonso I, the first Catholic King of the Congo during the early 16th century. It is not a comedy.
• 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.
• Helen Newman, a native of Brooklyn, is crafting the final draft of her first book, titled Harrow My Heart at Zendik Farm: Coming of Age in a Hippie Cult. She lives, works, and grows food near the maw of the Lincoln Tunnel.
• Jente Posthuma is a writer living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Benjamin Sweet: School of Visual Arts Screenwriting Fellow.

Organized by Exhibition Committee member, Katharine Umsted

Exhibition Dates: September 19 – October 17, 2010
Location: Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm, or by appointment

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild proudly presents the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows Exhibition, curated by Katharine Umsted. This special exhibition features a selection of works from artists who were awarded Pollock–Krasner Foundation Fellowships during the 2009 and 2010 Byrdcliffe Summer Artist in Residence Programs. There will be an opening reception brunch on Sunday, September 19 from noon – 2 pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibition will run through October 17, 2010.

For the past four years the Pollock–Krasner Foundation has underwritten a Fellowship program for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artist in Residence Program. The grant provided fellowships for five visual artists each year, plus studio visits and critiques with a visiting Master Artist, and also funded a public lecture by each Master Artist. The 2010 Master Artist was Joan Snyder, a 2007 MacArthur Award recipient and a resident of Woodstock. The 2009 Master Artist was Gregory Amenoff. Work by the Pollock–Krasner fellows from both years will be presented in this show.

Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic sites in 1979 for its architectural and historic significance. Today it supports a wide range of artists, including writers, composers, painters and sculptors. Byrdcliffe artists in residence stay at the historic Villetta Inn – a spacious rustic building with communal dining and living rooms. Each resident has his or her own bedroom and separate studio space. Residents are chosen by a committee of professionals in the arts. The major criteria for acceptance are the quality of work samples and an indication of serious commitment to one’s field of endeavor. Applicants must submit a written application and support materials. More information on the program can be found at: www.woodstockguild.org.

2009 & 2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows

Gwen Fabricant lives and works in New York City. Educated at Cooper Union Art School and Brooklyn College Gwen has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships including a Bogliasco Fellowship in Italy, Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth grants and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.

Susan Harrington lives, works and teaches in Fort Worth, Texas. Susan’s work incorporates silhouette drawings of geese, dogs and bears on overlapping sheets of vellum with opaque felt cutouts of hands, creating an illusion of the shadow puppets from childhood memories. In her interpretation of subjects she astonishes with the freshness of invention and wit, or, when the subject demands it, profound drama.

“Etruscan Cat”, Susan Harrington

Essye Klempner is a native of Louisville, KY and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She will be starting an MFA course at Hunter College in the fall. Essye will be participating in the Byrdcliffe AIR program for the third time in 2010.

Katerina Lanfranco lives and works in NYC. She is the recipient of the 2010–2011 N.E.A and US/Japan Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship to study traditional arts in Japan for 6 months. Her work combines nature, fantasy and science. Having had many one–person exhibitions in New York and California, Katerina’s work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

“Carnivorous Beauty #5”, Katrina Lanfranco

Nathania Rubin currently lives in New York City where she was born. She makes psychologically and philosophically dense animations. She is also a musician. Nathania has shown widely in the US and also in Germany, Switzerland and Romania. In addition to the residency at Byrdcliffe she was a recent resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Cate Holt is an abstract painter and also makes temporary installations. Last year she participated in the SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media. A graduate of the Hartford Art School, she works in Brooklyn NY and lives in Putnam County, NY.

“You”, Cate Holt

Joshua Kaplan lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned his BFA from Syracuse University in 2008 and will be attending Hunter College for his MFA in the Fall. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Italy as well as throughout the USA.

Lindsay Packer is a New York–based artist whose work ranges from collage to installation and writing. Having received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material she was a 2002 recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in installation art. Packer traveled to India to study site–specific ephemeral imagery in both sacred and secular contexts.

“Get In Line”, Lindsay Packer

Heather Ramsdale lives and works in Philadelphia. A sculptor and recent MFA graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Heather was a Joan Mitchell Award nominee in 2010.

Laura Splan is based in Brooklyn, NY. Using many media Laura’s work investigates perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery as well as her body as a source to explore the dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. She often combines the visual vocabulary of science and biology with that of domesticity and decorum.

Open Studio

The Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program offers writers and visual artists one month residencies from June through October. The program provides residents with unstructured time in which to concentrate on independent creative work in the company of fellow artists.

Each session culminates in a lively and well–attended Open Studio, when residents are invited to share their work not just with each other, but with Woodstock’s artistic community. Open Studio starts at 5 pm, with guests self touring the art studios, then there’s a potluck dinner, followed by readings given by the writing residents.

A contribution to the pot–luck is the only charge.

Session III

Session III: July 27 – August 22, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

• Born on a farm in Quebec, Canada, Jane Corrigan received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2003, and MFA from Purchase College in 2009. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
• Anabel Giladi
• Katharine Hopkins
• Essye Klempner (b. 1984 – Louisville, KY) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2006, and is attending Hunter College for her MFA in Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
• William Knight
• Ian Riggs is a bassist, composer, singer and guitarist who performs and records in and out of New York City with a wide range of artists. Among them are Howard Fishman, Ethan Lipton, One Ring Zero, Blarvuster, Hilary Hawke, Likeness to Lily, The Lonesome Trio, and Giancarlo Vulcano. He has composed music for a variety of theatrical works and for Adrian Muys’ films, “Iris” and “Hands of Harvest”.
• Michelle Spark

Writers

• Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, working toward her M.F.A. in poetry, with a secondary concentration in fiction. She holds a B.A. from The University of Chicago and an M.A.T. from Dominican University, and for ten years, she taught high school creative writing, literature, Spanish, and Spanish literature. She will attend a residency at the Hambidge Center in Georgia this May. Her poems recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Review, Apparatus Magazine, Exact Change Only and Front Porch.
• Lisa Interollo
• Nick Jones is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer. Produced plays include: Jollyship the Whiz–Bang (A Pyrate Puppet Rock Odyssey), Straight Up Vampire: A History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul, Little Building, The Coward, The Sporting Life (with Rachel Shukert) and The Nosemaker’s Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon (with Rachel Shukert). He is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, where he was a recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.
• Christa Parravani is a writer/ photographer. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. She’s a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. Her photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. She’s represented by Randall Scott Gallery in NY and by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
• Phoebe Reeves teaches at Clermont College in southern Ohio. You can find her recent or forthcoming work in The Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Memorious, and Quarterly West. Her chapbook The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, published by Pecan Grove Press, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Clifton, Ohio with her husband Don.
• Rochelle Spencer received her MFA from New York University, and she has been a fellow with the Vermont Studio Center and a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Film Writers Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. Currently, Rochelle teaches at LaGuardia Community College. You can reach her at www.twitter.com/rochellespencer.

Heads / Hearts / Bodies

Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Heads / Hearts / Bodies an exhibition of sculpture and pottery by Ceramics Artist in Residence Program residents, Bob Barry, Jamie Gaul, and Marianne Levy at Barzin House, 5 West Byrdcliffe Road in Woodstock, NY. For more info, Rich Conti, ceramics[at]woodstockguild.org

Ceramic Artist in Residence Residents

• Bob Barry is a potter and sculptor who resides in Brooklyn, New York. The tattoo-embellished heads made during his residency at Byrdcliffe reflect our growing fascination with body adornment.
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• When she is not traveling, Jamie Gaul lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her ceramic work explores the dynamic between nature and industry, often fusing clean architectural elements with organic and biological forms. Working in the quiet expanses of the Byrdcliffe community has given her a new perspective on the dichotomy between urban and rural environments.
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• Marianne Levy: I came to Byrdcliffe for the summer from Austin, TX. in order to concentrate on my ceramic work in a communal and idyllic setting. In Austin, I have a studio in my backyard where I work alone on a day to day basis, so It’s been great to work amongst other artists in a relaxed atmosphere. My focus lately is on making ceramic wall pieces which are mostly figurative. I often combine the human head with other elements which result in surrealistic and humorous images. At times, these elements relate to aspects of the animal world to speak metaphorically of an animalistic side of human nature.
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