Millay Colony for the Arts continues its collaboration with Cave Canem with the second annual CC Residency for the 2012 season. The Colony, which offers one-month residencies to six visual artists, writers and composers every month between April and November, has designated one of each year’s 48 coveted spots for a Cave Canem poet.
Founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in MFA programs and writing workshops, Cave Canem is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.
“We’re pleased to partner with the Millay Colony for the Arts to establish an annual residency for a Cave Canem poet,” said Cave Canem Executive Director Alison Meyers. “Opportunities for writers to work uninterrupted in tranquil surroundings are rare—so this residency is a very welcome addition to our program of services.”
Caroline Crumpacker, Executive Director of the Millay Colony, agreed. “All of us at The Millay Colony are honored to be working with Cave Canem, a generous/generative organization that has added so much depth and intelligence to the conversation around and within contemporary poetry. We very much look forward to welcoming Cave Canem fellows to our Colony and, thereby, expanding the conversation that takes place here.”
The Colony offers comfortable private rooms, private studio spaces, and ample time to work in a quiet, pastoral atmosphere. The facilities are located on the property where the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay lived at the height of her literary career. The campus has seven-acres of meadows and forest in Austerlitz, New York, USA, adjacent to the former Millay home and gardens and the exquisite Harvey Mountain State Forest.
The Millay Colony provides food for breakfasts, lunches, and weekend dinners. On Monday through Friday evening meals are prepared by an excellent local chef. There is no obligation, however, to be present with the group at the prepared evening meal. We have a share in a nearby bio-dynamic farm and so the bulk of our food is local and farm-fresh.
To Apply:
Cave Canem Fellows will go through the juried application process. One Fellow is guaranteed a residency. The rest of the Cave Canem Fellows who’ve applied will also be considered for additional spots.
Online application submission for 2012 Residency Program. http://millaycolony.submishmash.com/submit
Application submissions via mail also available for 2012 season. http://www.millaycolony.org/apply
Cave Canem applicants should indicate their status as fellows in response to the application question, "How did you hear of Millay Colony?" Details and form are available on the website.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Domain Has Properly Propagated!
Website is up and running and lively as usual. Application process back on track. All the information you need and the online forms are available.
www.millaycolony.org/apply
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Website Up Shortly
Quick post to note the temporary nap for our website. Lots of you wonderful artists are working on your applications and have been stymied by domain issues. Not to worry! All will be back online very soon...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
New Residency Options and Deadline
The Millay Colony for the Arts today announced three important new additions to its 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. "In our continuing efforts to meet the ever-evolving needs of the artistic community," says Executive Director Caroline Crumpacker, "we are now able to support artists who can't manage a full month away, but for whom a shorter residency could provide a tremendous boost. We also want to recognize the importance of collaborations and collectives to and within contemporary art-making."
The Two-Week Residency
In order to accommodate artists who cannot partake of a month-long residency, Millay is now offering two two-week sessions in the month of September only, for up to seven artists per session. These sessions function exactly as our popular longer sessions do, highlighted by private bedrooms, private studios, and all meals.
The Virtual Residency
This new residency is specifically for working artists and/or artists with children who cannot spend prolonged time away from home but could benefit from the support of a residency in modified form. The 'Virtual Resident' can participate in one of The Millay Colony's month-long residency on weekends only and will receive a stipend of $1,000 to assist in securing time off/childcare/art supplies or other resources necessary to the making of new work.
The Group Residency
The Millay Colony awards one five-day Group Residency each year to a group of between three and seven collaborating artists. This is available to any artists groups, including but not limited to musicians and bands, publishing collectives, theater and dance troupes, galleries, etc. -- or simply individuals collaborating on a project.
"Millay Colony's new residency formats demonstrate the Colony's responsiveness to the needs of today's artists," says Alliance of Artists Communities' executive director, Caitlin Strokosch. "Artists with young families and artists with a collective practice are particularly under-served by other resources and it is exciting to see residency programs developing creative solutions to these challenges."
The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists' residency program and artists' center located on the extraordinary property of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY. Its mission is to nurture and promote the vitality of the arts by providing artists with a rural home that encourages intensity and exploration in the context of nurturing artistic community.
The deadline for 2012 residencies is September 15, 2011.
To apply for any of these residencies visit www.millaycolony.org/apply or for more information call Residency Director Calliope Nicholas at 518-392-3103
The Two-Week Residency
In order to accommodate artists who cannot partake of a month-long residency, Millay is now offering two two-week sessions in the month of September only, for up to seven artists per session. These sessions function exactly as our popular longer sessions do, highlighted by private bedrooms, private studios, and all meals.
The Virtual Residency
This new residency is specifically for working artists and/or artists with children who cannot spend prolonged time away from home but could benefit from the support of a residency in modified form. The 'Virtual Resident' can participate in one of The Millay Colony's month-long residency on weekends only and will receive a stipend of $1,000 to assist in securing time off/childcare/art supplies or other resources necessary to the making of new work.
The Group Residency
The Millay Colony awards one five-day Group Residency each year to a group of between three and seven collaborating artists. This is available to any artists groups, including but not limited to musicians and bands, publishing collectives, theater and dance troupes, galleries, etc. -- or simply individuals collaborating on a project.
"Millay Colony's new residency formats demonstrate the Colony's responsiveness to the needs of today's artists," says Alliance of Artists Communities' executive director, Caitlin Strokosch. "Artists with young families and artists with a collective practice are particularly under-served by other resources and it is exciting to see residency programs developing creative solutions to these challenges."
The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists' residency program and artists' center located on the extraordinary property of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, NY. Its mission is to nurture and promote the vitality of the arts by providing artists with a rural home that encourages intensity and exploration in the context of nurturing artistic community.
The deadline for 2012 residencies is September 15, 2011.
To apply for any of these residencies visit www.millaycolony.org/apply or for more information call Residency Director Calliope Nicholas at 518-392-3103
Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Kevin Vaughn Innaugurates the Cave Canem Residency at Millay
Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
"My proposed project for my time at Millay is to further work on my debut collection of poems. In it, I appropriate the titles of the original series of "Star Trek" from the 1960s. I chose the titles for their poetic beauty, such as "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" and "Who Mourns for Adonais", but not out of any specific reference to the television program itself. However, when I arrive at Millay, I will have come directly from the University of Missouri's Greece Summer Seminars, where I will be studying literary translation and at work on the Polish National poet, Adam Mickiewicz's, "Crimean Sonnets". With hope, the two projects can cross-pollinate each other."
Kevin's publication credits include: Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and the anthologies "The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume V: Georgia" ed. William Wright and "Killer Verse: Poems about Mayhem and Murder," eds. Kurt Brown and Howard Schlecter.
Millay Colony for the Arts has partnered with Cave Canem to support the development of African-American Poetry with the dedication of a residency to a CC poet. 2011 is the first of many to come.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
PARTY! Come one, come all...
July 23rd
5 to 8pm
BENEFIT
Artmaking is not a luxury.
Supporting it is fun!
For details and to buy tickets: www.millaycolony.org/events
5 to 8pm
BENEFIT
Artmaking is not a luxury.
Supporting it is fun!
For details and to buy tickets: www.millaycolony.org/events
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