Deadline for Applications: October 1!

Each year Millay Colony invites 52 visual artists, writers and composers for a colony residency. Residents are chosen anonymously by a panel of jurors in each discipline. The application process is competitive and based solely on on the merit of the artist statement and work sample. Past jurors and their bios can be viewed on our Juries page. An article on the jury process can also be found in our Spring 2008 newsletter.

The Millay Colony for the Arts is pleased to announce that, starting this year, we are adding three new offerings to our roster of artist residencies on its pastoral upstate New York/Berkshire area campus. While continuing to offer month-long residencies to visual artists, writers and composers, the Millay Colony is now offering three new ways to spend time as a resident: Two-week Residencies in the month of September, Virtual Residencies and Group Residencies.

The Millay Colony accepts residents on the basis of artistic merit. Our admissions policy does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, sexual preference, religion, marital status, disability or nation of origin.

http://www.millaycolony.org/apply

Millay Alum Mauro Zamora's New Show

Parallax View
PLM associates
September 7 – 30, 2012
Vox Populi Gallery
319 North 11th Street

Gallery Talk:
Sunday, September 16th, 3pm with Paddy Johnson, Artfagcity

Special Performance September 23rd, 2pm:
by Ina Polis, PLMA's Davenport Predator Material Transfer
Agreement/Discussion with Mary Ebeling, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University 

Working in a multidisciplinary practice that includes graphic design, drawing, video, and installation, artists Anita Allyn & Mauro Zamora probe the dark side of international business practices. Posing as PLM Associates, Allyn & Zamora’s fictional private contracting firm provides end-capital solutions for wealthy individuals, multinational corporations and governments. PLM Associates helps clients assert their dominance in the market while taking advantage of the current political climate.

For their first exhibition Allyn and Zamora offer the boardroom as a loci of abstraction, where campaigns, schemes, meetings and covert planning take place. PLM associates' boardroom serves as a defunct stage where the visuality of corporate rhetoric plays out in secret. Through this project Allyn & Zamora reflect corporate rhetoric and values to call attention to the impermeable facade of the capitalist structure while highlighting a rupture of capitalism itself.

Workshop Wrap-Up

Today is the last day of the Workshop Retreat with Tracie Morris, Generating Sound in Poetry. What an extraordinary time it has been. Smart, sweet, relaxed, illuminating, magnificent. Thank you to Tracie for bring her effervescent, patient and brilliant teaching to our humble campus...

Tracie began the class with body work and breathing techniques and guided everyone skillfully through a range of poetics and performance modalities, sound poems, song and more...it was an amazing class. Our thanks to Tracie and all the participants for transforming our space with their voices, their ideas, their hard work and brilliant performances.

We had some delicious walks and great (blue) moon watching...

And gracious thanks to Chef Donna for amazing vegan meals and fresh fruit and vegetables. The gardens overfloweth...

With xoxox to all. Come back soon...

Tracie Morris Workshop Retreat at the Colony

Generating Sound in Poetry with Tracie Morris
August 30 to September 2 2012

In this course we will explore the relationship between body, page and voice. At the end of the course students can present page-based or space-based work to the community.

We'll be doing physical exercises and writing. The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed.

Tracie Morris is an multidisciplinary poet, performer and scholar and works extensively as a sound artist, writer, bandleader and actor. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and the New Museum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Dr. Morris is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Her poetry book, TDL: To Do w/ John(2012) is published by Zasterle Press. Rhyme Scheme, a longer poetic manuscript is published by Chax Press for publication in 2012. She is also developing two audio projects: The Tracie Morris Band and sharpmorris, a collaboration with composer Elliott Sharp. 

http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops

Millay Alum Darren Francis McManus in Upcoming Show

Millay Alum Darren Francis McManus has seven pieces in the upcoming exhibit CHROMA: a group show exploring color, pattern and texture in contemporary art.
The opening reception is on SATURDAY, JULY 7th from 6 to 11 pm at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ. Parlor Gallery stays open until 11pm every first Saturday of the month in honor of “First Saturday Asbury Park” and is located on the “arts bloc” at 717 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712. For more info, visit their website: www.parlor-gallery.com

Poetry Chapbook Winner Gets A Week at the Colony!

From our Cultural Partners, The Center for Book Arts:

The Center for Book Arts is proud to announce that the winner of our 2012 Poetry Chapbook Competition is V. Penelope Pelizzon, from Willimantic, Connecticut. Her manuscript Human Field was chosen from a pool of over 300 submissions, to be produced this summer in an edition of 100, hand bound and letterpress printed.

 

2012 judge Phillis Levin has this to say about Pelizzon's work:

"The imaginative range of Human Field is vast, the method of its maker both subtle and bold—marrying bravado of spirit to maturity of vision. It is thrilling to behold such protean shapes of feeling and thought, to hear the voices inside a voice whose lines achieve a clarity that gives us access to mystery."

Along with the publication of her chapbook, and the reading in September, Pelizzon will have the opportunity to spend a week at the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, New York as one of their Winter Shakers. The Millay Colony generously promotes the development of writers, visual artists, and composers by providing a retreat for creative work.

There will be a celebratory reading at the Center in NYC on Wednesday, September 12th to honor Pelizzon, as well as our two Honorable Mentions, False Idols by Rob Stephens of Tallahassee, Florida and Women of Troy by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett of Austin, Texas. Along with printing the winning chapbook, The Center will also print up limited-edition broadsides of a poem by each of the honorable mentions, and a special edition by this year's judge, Phillis Levin. All of the published works will be available at the reading in September. 

Congrats!

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2010), a study of the relations among sensation journalism, photography, and film between 1927-1958. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals including Poetry, FIELD, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Fourth Genre, and her writing has received awards including an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, a John N. Wall Fellowship in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award.

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