Master Artist Residency Schedule

Janie Geiser

interdisciplinary artist

Geiser’s interdisciplinary performance work has been recognized with an Obie Award and two Bessie Awards. “Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.” (—Holly Willis, Res,2004)

Annie Gosfield

composer/performer

"Ms. Gosfield, whose imaginative works reflect her experience in the classical, rock and jazz worlds and blend acoustic and electronic elements to alluring effect... The music’s mood reflected the nature of radio jamming — abrasive, otherworldly and, at times, unexpectedly and eerily beautiful." Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times

James Lecesne

actor / author / screenwriter

James Lecesne is an American actor, author, screenwriter, and LGBT rights activist best known for his screenplay of the Academy-award winning short film "Trevor". James Lecesne is a Pabst Endowed Writer for 2019

Cornelius Eady

poet

“Cornelius Eady’s poems are joyous, incantatory, experiential. [His] work is a glossary of earthly objects and human events, and his linguistic responses provide pleasure even when they are provoked by injustice, or by pain, or by loss.” —Dia Art Foundation

Nicole M. Mitchell

composer/performer

Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. She is perhaps best known for her work as a flutist, having developed a unique improvisational language and having been repeatedly awarded “Top Flutist of the Year” by Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association (2010-2017). Nicole Mitchell was recently awarded a "Champion of New Music" by the American Composers Forum.

Michelle Grabner

visual artist

Michelle Grabner is an American painter, conceptual artist, curator and professor. She's currently Painting and Drawing Chair at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “All of Grabner’s activities are driven by distinctive values and ideas: working outside of dominant systems, working tirelessly, working across platforms and towards community.” David Norr in the introduction to her exhibition at MoCA, Cleveland

Larry Mitchell

composer/performer/producer

Application Deadline extended to June 2, 2019 - Larry Mitchell is a Grammy award-winning producer, engineer and performer who has toured the world playing guitar with well-known artists including Tracy Chapman, Billy Squier, Ric Ocasek and Miguel Bosé. He also fronts the dynamic rock/instrumental band The Larry Mitchell Trio.

Will Cotton

visual artist

“The baker-cum-painter – and director of Katy Perry's super-kitsch California Gurls video – raids the sweetshop of 21st-century desires in his candy-coated fantasy worlds.” The Guardian

Annie-B Parson

choreographer and director

Annie-B Parson co-founded Big Dance Theater in 1991. She has choreographed and co-created over 20 works for the company, ranging from pure dance pieces, to adaptations of found text, plays, and literature, to original works combining wildly disparate materials. “It is hard to do justice to the freewheeling brilliance of Big Dance Theater.” The New York Times

Jennifer Higdon

composer and publisher

Higdon, the two-time Grammy winner, produces four or five commissions a year. “Viola Concerto is the work of a composer who is completely at home in her own idiom. She has internalized an amalgam of jazz, new-age, Americana and classical, avoided the ruminating of the minimalists, and opted for contrast over evolution." —The Washington Post

Phoebe Gloeckner

cartoonist

Vijay Iyer

composer

Margaret Schedel

composer, sound artist, author

Randall Silvis

fiction

Ryan McGinness

visual artist

TBA

visual artist

TBA

composer

Ain Gordon

playwright