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 Andrew Glasgow Writers Residency
The Andrew Glasgow Writer’s Residency, a new Penland program in 2010, will provide emerging and established writers, scholars, and curators with time to conduct research and write on topics designed to advance the field of crafts. This program is intended for writers who would benefit from focused time in a retreat environment, who have specific project goals related to craft, and who want to interact with studio artists in the Penland community.
With this program, we will invite writers to participate in Penland’s creative community —a place that encourages artistic diversity and exchange between media and disciplines. We offer writers time to observe, experience, and write without interruption, using an active crafts community as a catalyst for new ideas.
The program will support two writers each year with room, board, and a private work space for up to four weeks each. The residencies will coincide with Penland’s fall and spring sessions. Each writer will be asked to engage with Penland’s artist community, make an informal presentation on their writing or ideas, and contribute in some way to the content of Penland’s website.
Penland’s goals for this program are to support writing about craft by offering writers time, space, and resources to create new work; to engage writers with campus and local arts communities; and to bring new language into the craft culture.
Writers will be invited by a committee initially comprised of Penland’s program director Dana Moore, writer Lydia Matthews, who is an associate dean at Parsons The New School for Design, and Andrew Glasgow. The resident writers selected for 2010 are Ingrid Schaffner and Barry Lopez.
Schaffner is a senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. In addition to curating numerous exhibitions, she has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Her publications include Salvador Dali’s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse at the 1939 World’s Fair (Princeton Architectural Press) and an essay on wall text in Questions of Practice: What Makes a Great Exhibition? (Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative). Her residency will happen in August, 2010
Lopez is an acclaimed author of essays, journalism, and fiction. His books include Arctic Dreams (which won a National Book Award), Field Notes, About this Life, and Resistance. He has written about the work of various visual and craft artists and has worked collaboratively with a composer, a playwright, several illustrators, and a book artist. His residency will happen in the summer of 2011.
The program is named in honor of Andrew Glasgow, who has served as the director of the American Craft Council, the director of the Furniture Society, and director of education and collections at the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Andrew is also a well-regarded curator, lecturer, and essayist, who has been a consistent intellectual force in the craft community.
To endow the Andrew Glasgow Writer’s Residency, we seek contributions totaling $181,500. Gifts to this program may be made by writing to the Andrew Glasgow Writers Residency Program, Development Office, Penland School of Crafts, PO Box 37, Penland, NC 28765 or using our online donation form.
If you use the online form please write "Andrew Glasgow Writers Residency" in the Additional Gift Information box.
If you would like to talk to the development office about supporting this program, contact Mike Davis:
For information about the program contact Dana Moore: |
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