October 1 Deadline Approaching

No, summer isn't over. We promise. Still plenty of time to tuck your toes in the sand somewhere or value the shade of the nearest willow (or building). But time is, as it does, moving forward. We know you'll want to think about your work sample over weeks and not hours. Gather your thoughts for an artist statement in an inspired and organic fashion while pondering your project rather than rush in a furious manner the night before. Well, maybe you will anyway. (Oh don't we understand!)

Here's a gentle reminder nonetheless...October 1 deadline approaches.

Also, you can now apply online! http://www.millaycolony.org/apply has all the details.

Back to your regularly scheduled leisure (or workshift!).

Ronaldo Wilson Workshop!

We loved having Ronaldo V. Wilson here for his Archives and Ephemera Poetry Workshop. Photos, poems, objects, lines, language, and wine. Poof! It's gone....

Summer Party Fun!

Millay Colony on WAMC

Listen in at 11am as Caroline Crumpacker, Calliope Nicholas, and composer in residence Jen Wang appear on WAMC's Roundtable. They will talk with host Joe Donohue about the Open House and Concert this Saturday. General Colony doings bound to figure in.

Live online at http://www.wamc.org/

Cavorting at the Colony: Open House and Concert

JULY 24, 5 PM to 8 PM

Join us for our annual Open House and Concert on the lush grounds of the Colony. Composer Laura Andel will guest curate the music including Albany's own efbom. Artmakers Chris Kardambikis & Jasdeep Khaira will decorate the buildings and grounds! Fleisher's Grassfed and Organic Meats will cook up homemade sausages. Hudson Wine Merchants & Hudson-Chatham Winery will choose delicious spirits.

Open Studios!
Sale of art, books, cds!
Hula Hoop Dances!
Outrageously good food!
Music!
Incredible Wines and Hard Ciders!
Mind-Bending Art!
Fun under the stars...
Call 518-392-4144 to buy a ticket or for more info.

http://www.millaycolony.org/

Artmaking with Nina Katchadourian

June 30th to July 3rd

Family: This subject is something that is often (un)comfortably close at hand, rich with potential, and complicated to work with. The workshop aims to take an objective view of the topic on one hand, by looking at the work of artists (Janine Antoni, Patty Chang, Richard Billingham, Sally Mann, Gillian Wearing and Neil Goldberg among others) who have taken it up from a variety of proximities, but also to delve into the deeply subjective. This presents challenges: how do you allow an unknown viewer access to a story you are so close to? How do you prevent the personal from becoming solipsistic and self-indulgent? Working with this subject can obviously be personal, but it can also be a way to explore broader subjects concerning genealogy, history and origin, and the question of what it means to "be related" to someone in the first place.

The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed. Although not required, participants are encouraged to bring family documents that hold particular allure from them as possible starting points to work from.

Nina Katchadourian works in a wide variety of media including sculpture, photography, video and sound. Several times, she has worked with her family directly in collaboration (such as in "Accent Elimination," where she and her parents worked with a professional voice coach to acquire each other's accents) or other times by examining a family document in depth ("The Nightgown Pictures," based on a photo-document made by her grandmother about Katchadourian's mother). Other projects, such as "The Genealogy of the Supermarket," looks at the way family is portrayed through the images of people that appear on common grocery store products. Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. She is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, MASS MoCA, Artists Space and SculptureCenter in New York, the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled All Forms of Attraction. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco. More information on Katchadourian's work can be found at http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/.

Workshop Schedule: Each day begins with a fresh breakfast followed by a three- hour workshop at 10:00 AM. Total workshop time for the retreat will be twelve hours. The afternoon can be spent working in the studio, visiting local sites, swimming in a nearby lake or walking the mountain trails. Dinner is served overlooking our gorgeous meadows. Evening hours are devoted to worktime.

Fees: $600 includes tuition, private room, private studio and all meals. $375 includes tuition and meals only.

For more information check the website http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops or get in touch with Caroline Crumpacker at 518-392-4144 or director@millaycolony.org.

Ronaldo V. Wilson Poetry Workshop Retreat

July 30th to August 2nd
Archives and Ephemera: A Poetry Workshop with Ronaldo Wilson

What materials might we bring into the realm of the poem? With what sources can we open the life of the mind into language that captures and reveals our imaginations, intentions, and explorations? An archive is defined as "a place or collection containing records, documents," "a long term storage area," and "a repository for stored memories or information," while ephemera is marked as a "short lived thing," and "printed matter of passing interest."

This workshop asks you to bring in and work from your archives and ephemera, ideally anything that can fit in a standard sized brief case or grocery bag, depending on your records, habits, findings, and tastes. Perhaps you have a small archive of photographs, news clippings, or journals you've been collecting? Or, maybe you have a series of loose notes, sketches, objects, or partial but striking drafts that you've left untouched and wish to revisit?

Throughout the week, you will focus on your own archives and ephemera as a means of generating a cycle of new poems. Students will work on in-class exercises, as well as discuss freshly drafted works. To further inspire our writing and conversation, we will look to poets who work with various modes of the archival and the ephemeral to include Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, C.A. Conrad's Advanced Elvis Course, Harryette Mullen's Sleeping With the Dictionary, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's I Love Artists, Wayne Koestenbaum's Rhapsody of A Repeat Offender, and Meena Alexander's Quickly Changing River.

Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), and Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009). He is a graduate of the PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program. Wilson has won numerous fellowships to include the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem, Kundiman, Djerassi, and Yaddo. A co-founder of the Black Took Collective, he teaches creative writing and African American poetics at Mount Holyoke College.

www.millaycolony.org/workshops