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Being affiliated with the Alliance of Artists Communities has added immeasurable value to the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. As a founding institution, we have had the opportunity to watch the Alliance mature to become the leading force for the field that is reaping huge benefits in visibility and direct support. Creating networks with our peers, advancing our collective missions, providing funding partnerships and caring about our issues are the Alliance’s strengths, and the value that we, as membership residency programs, gain from our association.
— Dennis O’Leary, Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Artists: Have you recently been in-residence? Doing a residency soon? We'd love to hear from you! We are collecting stories for our "work in progress" blog about artists' residency experiences -- challenges and triumphs, transformations and observations. Email us with your blog submission. Please include your name and the residency name.
Posted november 20, 2009 by madrono
One of the things that we hope will characterize Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing and the Environment is a strong sense of place. It's right there, implicitly and explicitly, in our mission and vision statements.
But how does one develop a sense of place?
Posted december 16, 2009 by hollywren
I am thick into the world around me. By vocation I listen, I go where my curiosities take me, I embed all over the place. Yet so much of the work and life of a writer is solitary--a beautiful aloneness--and one which at its best breeds both a secret life, and words that serve the needs and desires of readers. Just as important to the process is the occasional company of others who are similarly engaged. It is at the intersection of these values--amidst the quiet and the conviviality--that I am most able to recognize what I have to say and how I will say it. For me, it is not an overstatement to insist that an artist residency is a sort of Shangri-La--one which I can get to from here.
Posted august 2, 2010 by caitlin
It isn't often that one has the opportunity to reflect on a century of progress, but that's just what Ox-Bow asked me to do to kick off their centennial celebration at a lecture on July 9 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Several other residency programs have celebrated milestone anniversaries in recent years, and while we are always looking ahead to how we can continue to evolve as a field to meet the needs of artists, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on how we got here... The complete speech is below.
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