Master Artist Residency Schedule

Suzanne Bocanegra

visual artist

“One thing that makes Bocanegra’s work so smart and powerful in dealing with the relentless characterizations of women as lost and misguided and in need of one kind of surveillance or another is her deft use of farce and satire. In this case, she comically juxtaposes high culture’s fetishizing of rural life with the drudgery of rural reality, simultaneously skewering the trends of high culture in both contemporary America and eighteenth-century France.” – Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker

Sibyl Kempson

playwright

Sibyl Kempson is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright at Mid-Career, for writers working indisputably at the highest level of achievement. She is a 2014 USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow, a MacDowell Colony Fellow and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Kempson and collaborator David Neumann’s play, I Understand Everything Better, received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production in 2015.

Marcos Balter

composer

“Marcos Balter is a prolific and sought-after composer entering midcareer with a head of steam.” - Christian Carey, Musical America

Carol Becker

writer/cultural critic

“For Carol Becker, traveler, there are no roads; she makes her path as she walks and takes the only road that can be taken, the ethical one. And along her extraordinary path, she creates spaces of hope and resistance. Her long journey takes us to centers of western culture and helps us separate the culture from the spectacle―and identifies the difficulties ahead…” -Alfredo Jaar, artist, architect, filmmaker, MacArthur Fellow

Phoebe Gloeckner

cartoonist

''Her drawing conveys a lot of the underlying feeling of what's going on in the same way a movie can have a shot without dialogue that's a major turning point or a major insight into a character. It's a delicate balancing act. The pictures have to propel the story without overtaking it. That balance -- it's almost a tension -- occurs when a cartoonist is equally good as a writer and artist, and it's very rare.'' – Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead. Phoebe Gloeckner is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers

Gregg Deal

visual / performance artist

“Gregg Deal is a husband, father, artist and a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. As a provocative contemporary artist-activist much of Deal’s work deals with Indigenous identity and pop culture, touching on issues of race relations, historical consideration and stereotype. With this work—including paintings, mural work, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues within Indian country such as decolonization, the Native mascot issue and appropriation.” – TEDx Boulder

Bob Holman

poet

Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. He was described by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The New Yorker as "the postmodern promoter who has done more to bring poetry to cafes and bars than anyone since Ferlinghetti.” Bob Holman is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers

Shahzad Ismaily

composer/performer

Shazhad Ismaily is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer, born to Pakistani immigrant parents, he is currently based in New York City. He composed the score for the critically acclaimed movie Frozen River, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Jaquira Díaz

writer

“It takes courage to write a book like “Ordinary Girls,” and Díaz does not shy away from her deepest, most troubling truths. She jumps into the writing of her story and gets her hands dirty, her heart broken, her spirit bruised.” – Reyna Grande, NY Times

Guadalupe Maravilla

transdisciplinary artist

” Maravilla’s exceptional show is teeming with humanity—both on a personal scale and also as a larger picture of contemporary immigration. It is a visceral punch to the stomach.” – Kathleen Hefty, Brooklyn Rail

Timo Andres

composer / performer

” A pianist of formidable capabilities and a composer who has already written for a number of respected performers and ensembles, Timo Andres is evidently a figure of the moment.” – Gramophone

Philip Ewell

music theorist, and performer

“Ewell’s research specialties include critical-race studies, Russian music and music theory, modal theory, hiphop and popular music, and cello performance. He has over 30 published items in top journals in the U.S. and abroad. His most recent work entails a critical-race examination of music theory.”

Patrick Martinez

visual artist

“Through a study of the lack of diverse representation in historical portrait painting, a medium traditionally used to celebrate ones successes and wealth, Martinez was led to the portrait cake paintings. The cake acts as a globally and socio-economically understood medium of celebration, now featuring the faces of not only white historical figures but the faces of freedom fighters of all races.” – NY Art Beat

Eileen Myles

poet / writer

“Myles is often referred to as an “institution”—the way one speaks of a terrific restaurant that’s endured the waves of gentrification as a “New York institution.” But the word bounces off her: there is nothing official about her, nothing staid or still. She is exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because she has gone her own way.” – Ben Lerner, Paris Review

Carmelita Tropicana aka Alina Troyano

writer / performer

“As a writer and performer, Tropicana straddles the world of performance art and theatre using humor and fantasy as subversive tools to re-write history from the point of view of woman, man, child, and assorted animals and insects.” – Vermont Performance Lab

Margaret Schedel

composer/performer

Margaret Schedel is a composer and cellist whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University and serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is the Director of cDACT, the consortium for digital arts, culture and technology.

Ryan McGinness

visual artist

“McGinness cultivates a visually cacophonous style that features layer upon layer of luminous graphic designs and computer-style icons—all original creations derived from everyday street signage, advertising and pop-cultural insignia.” -Gregory Galligan, Art in America

Kwame Dawes

poet / writer / critic

Nora Chipaumire

choreographer / performer

Defiantly charismatic, the Zimbabwean-born choreographer Nora Chipaumire has long been a kind of rock star of dance. She calls her three-part work “#PUNK 100% POP*NIGGA” a “live performance album,” and it’s as much a punk-style concert as it is a dance show she works the crowd with a microphone, channelling a different musical hero in each fifty-minute section: Patti Smith, Grace Jones, and the Congolese barrier breaker Rit Nzele. – The New Yorker

Pamela Z

composer / performer / media artist

“Pamela Z made electronica performance into a natural extension of the way artists could explore the contemporary world, mirroring its complexity in layers of sound that helped make her point, rather than being the point.” – Michael Zwiebach