Seventeen talented artists have been awarded rent-free studio space at 20 Jay Street in DUMBO thanks to the generosity of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. The jurors this year, Diana Al-Hadid, Phong Bui, Michael Berryhill, Carl Fudge, and Beverly McIver, made the selection from over 1000 applicants. Obviously, with that many […]

            Before I returned to NYC after a nearly ten-year hiatus teaching at Eastern Connecticut State University, Austin Thomas generously invited me to do a one-week residency at the original Bushwick Pocket Utopia in January 2009. The experience, which led to a longer residency the […]

I recently received an email from Helen Chellin, aritst and founder of the amazing Red Cinder Creativity Center and Artists’ Residency on the Big Island of Hawaii, where I spent time writing in 2004. After thirteen years, Helen has decided to discontinue the residency to focus on other projects. In […]

Fernand L�ger, “Les Loisirs sur fond rouge,” 1949 �ADAGP, Paris, 2002 This week I attended Camp Pocket U, an experimental artists’ residency/kids’ art camp in Rouses Point, New York. A small town on Lake Champlain on the Canadian border, Rouses Point is completely unlike the wealthy waterfront town where I […]