CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2023 ARTIST RESIDENTS!
Thank you so much to everyone who applied! We received nearly 400 applications this year and WOW, the talent! We are so deeply inspired by all of your work, and absolutely cannot wait to welcome our 2023 Artist Residents to the Inn this November!
Julie Baumgardner, writer / Nicholas Day, writer / Jessica Goldstein, writer / Arti Gollapudi, writer & performer / Andy Griffiths, writer / Christina Hunt Wood, visual artist & writer / Chukwuebuka Ibeh, writer / Ishita Jain, visual artist & writer / Joy Lanzendorfer, writer / Rachel Mannheimer, poet / Kate McKean, writer / Roman Muradov, visual artist / Janelle Nanos, writer / Billy Recce, lyricist & composer / Alexandra Tanner, writer / Preeti Torul, writer & performer / Sarah Wheeler, writer
And special congrats to Arti Gollapudi for receiving the Tracy Kennard Emerging Writer Award! (Scroll down for more details on that.)
WHAT’s THE ARTIST RESIDENCY?
Every August we accept applications online from writers and 2D artists, about twelve of whom are awarded a no-cost, 5-night Artist Residency here at the Inn in the fall. We don’t require that you produce anything in particular or show us your work when you're here. That said, one of favorite parts of this Residency is chatting with the Artists and learning more about what you all are up to! We've had 96 artists stay with us over 10 seasons. We can’t wait to host more!
Scroll down for more details about how to apply next year and sign up for our mailing list below for all our announcements about the program.
2023 details and how to apply: [CLOSED AS OF 8/14/23]
Artist Residents will receive a no-cost, 5-night stay in one of our Kitchenette rooms in early November. (Stays are Tuesday to Sunday, 10/31 to 11/5, 11/7 to 11/12, and 11/14 to 11/19. You will be able to request a preferred week once notified of your acceptance.) Plenty of time and space to get into a creative groove on your own, plenty of time and space to connect with other Artists too!
Applications are open August 1st through August 14th (11:59pm EST). APPLICATIONS SENT BEFORE OR AFTER THIS DATE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Please email artistresidency@sprucetoninn.com the following information:
Subject line: Artist Residency 2023
Your FULL NAME.
A less than 200 word answer to the question: WHAT DO YOU PLAN TO WORK ON AS AN ARTIST RESIDENT AT THE INN?
For writers: a less than 500 word WRITING SAMPLE PASTED IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL.
For writers, please answer: Would you like to be considered for the Tracy Kennard Emerging Writer’s Award as well? Scroll down for more details on this.
For visual artists, A LINK TO YOUR WEBSITE(S) AND/OR A MAXIMUM OF THREE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THE EMAIL.
Additional requirements/details:
Writers and 2D visual artists only.
We do not accept collaborations.
Must be 21 + yrs old.
Sorry, no spouses or pets as roommates during the Residency.
Residents are announced online here, via Instagram, and our mailing list mid-September.
The Inn does NOT provide meals or transportation and we do NOT have a restaurant on site. We highly recommend access to a car! (See more about our remote location/transportation here.)
TRACy KENNARD EMERGING WRITER’s AWARD:
In memory of our dear friend and talented writer Tracy Kennard, one Artist Resident will receive two personalized, one-on-one guidance/coaching sessions from Tracy’s writing teacher Joselin Linder. Feedback can be for a current working draft (submitted ahead of the Residency) or a piece of writing produced during the Residency. Sessions will be held remotely and within a 3 month period surrounding the residency. Please specify in your application if you’d like to be considered for this award.
Joselin Linder is the author of the memoir The Family Gene (Ecco/Harper Collins), and co-author of The Gamification Revolution (McGraw Hill), Game-Based Marketing (Wiley and Sons), and The Good Girl’s Guide to Living in Sin (Adams Media), The Stoned Family Robinson (Adams Media) and The Purity Test (St. Martin’s Press). Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, Elle, This American Life, NPR’s Morning Edition, StoryCollider, Life of the Law, and the New York Post. She is a faculty member at Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City.
This award is sponsored by Tracy’s husband Jamie Kennard.
PREVIOUS RESIDENTS:
2022:
Kelli Anderson, writer + visual artist / Ruth Chan , writer + illustrator / Joshua Cochran, illustrator + muralist / Gaia Cornwall, writer + illustrator / Angela Garbes, writer / Molly Gillis, filmmaker / Stephanie Gravalese, writer + photographer (recipient of the Tracy Kennard Emerging Writer’s Award) / Michelle Hart, writer / Jordan Mann, writer + performer / Chanel Miller, writer + visual artist / Jeremy Nguyen, cartoonist + illustrator / Aimee Pokwatka, writer /Jeremy Shellhorn, visual artist + designer / Whitney Sherman, visual artist / Daniel Sitts, documentarian + writer / Leigh Stein, writer / Isvett Verde, writer / Justin J. Wee, photographer
2021:
Simon Arizpe, visual artist / Pooja Bhatia, writer / Marcus Anthony Brock, writer / Susannah Cahalan, writer / Jesus Ian Kumamoto, writer / Whitney McGuire, writer / Anne Elizabeth Moore, writer / Christine Rai, cartoonist / Daniel Salmieri, children’s book author & illustrator / Liza St. James, writer
2020:
Ariel Aberg-Riger, visual storyteller / D. Arthur, writer / Sage Brown, photographer / Rachael Cole, author & illustrator / Meg Day, poet / Micheal Foulk, writer & performer / Shanita Hubbard, writer & performer / Heather Jones, writer & designer / Alexandra Marvar, writer / Glynnis MacNicol, writer / Jovanna Tosello, animator
2019
Kamee Abrahamian, visual artist & writer / Lucy Ruth Cummins, visual artist & writer / Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, visual artist & writer / Aditi Natasha Kini, writer / Christina Wood Martinez, writer / Jenny Rosenstrach, writer / Sofia Warren, visual artist & writer / Alexandra Zsignmond, visual artist
2018
Chloe Caldwell, writer / Georgia Clark, writer / Jen Doll, writer / Ian Frisch, writer / John Gall, collage artist and designer / Danielle Jackson, writer / Josephine Livingstone, writer / Matthew Puccini, writer and director / Rajat Singh, writer / Grant Snider, cartoonist / Jillian Steinhauer, writer and editor / Dasha Tolstikova, illustrator
2017
Sari Botton, writer and editor / Esther Levy Chehebar, writer / Jess Keefe, writer / Zacharia Ohora, kids' book writer and illustrator / Margaux Weisman, writer and editor / Sarah Williamson, illustrator / Sarah Wilmer, photographer / Ping Zhu, illustrator
2016:
Theresa Bloise, visual artist / Buddy Valentine, writer and designer / Erin Dorney, poet / Carmen Maria Machado, writer / Zora O'Neill, writer / Eleanor Wilson, screenplay writer and director
2015:
Allison Burtch, writer and conceptual artist / Alana Chernila, cookbook writer / Stephanie Danler, writer / Celia Gerard, visual artist / Alyssa Leanne Hoppe, painter and stylist / Sarah Jacoby, illustrator