This all-expenses-paid creative retreat is for performing artists working in music, dance and theater. Participants have the opportunity to spend 10 days with a group of other artists in a beautiful, rural setting: making new work, rehearsing, giving and receiving critical feedback in Fieldwork workshops, and discussing their career paths. Open only to current Field Members who demonstrate a history of art making, participants are selected via lottery.
Summer 2012 will take five artists to Fire Island and will have a new twist! Applications will be available in May.
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Last summer The Field celebrated its 25th anniversary by sending 25 artists on Artward Bound!
“I got an opportunity to gain new artistic eyes that will affect my work forever.” -Kristy Dodson
“This retreat has been incredibly helpful to my process, by creating a space for me to fully focus on my art, in amazingly calm and beautiful surroundings.” -Einy Aam
Click here to read more about the Summer 2011 Artward Bound August 1-10 trip!
NACL - August 1-10, 2011
James Scruggs, residency facilitator
Einy Aam
Oren Barnoy
Onome Djere
Kristy Dodson and four more from Overturn Theatre Ensemble
Kevin Doyle
Cristina Jasen
Mount Tremper Arts - August 26 - September 4, 2011
Susan Oetgen, residency facilitator
Jean Ann Douglass & Eric Meyer
Eliza Ladd
Abigail Levine
Alice Klugherz
Sandra Rivera
Libby Skala
Jo Williamson
NACL - September 9-18, 2011
Kali Tennis, residency facilitator
Tara Burns
Corinne Cappelletti
Shalewa Mackall
Vernita Nemec
Mary Purdy
Run Shayo
Sasha Soreff
Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, just over two hours north from New York City, Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) supports contemporary artists in the creation and presentation of new works of art. The MTA campus contains a studio building, a 19th century farmhouse, organic vegetable and ornamental gardens, hiking trails, and sits adjacent to Catskill State Park land. Residents have full use of the studio building, containing a 32’ x 50’ white box space with a sprung wooden dance floor, and large picture windows with sweeping mountain views. The studio also contains a sleeping loft with five beds, one private bedroom with two single beds, and a full bathroom. The farmhouse houses the residency kitchen, living room, bath room, a covered porch, one bedroom with three single beds, and MTA office space. Wi-Fi is available in the farmhouse; cell phones do not work here. mounttremperarts.org/residencies
NACL, North American Cultural Laboratory, is located in Highland Lake, NY, 2.5 hours from New York City in the southwestern Catskill Mountains. The theater was once a Franciscan church and has been converted into an open space theatre and studio, with beautiful 36' x 72' refinished (but not sprung) wooden floors, lofty, arched, pressed tin ceilings, and all the amenities of a professional theatre. The residence is located next door to the theatre. The 1920’s gambrel-style residence was once a summer resort hotel is newly renovated with a fully-equipped kitchen, a common room, Wi-Fi cell phone service, a common computer, a wrap-around porch, outdoor eating areas, and 10 double occupancy bedrooms (both twin and queen beds available). Each room has a sink, there are shared bathroom facilities: an indoor shower, and outdoor shower and bathtub available. The Lake, across the street from the retreat center is a spring-fed lake that is accessible to all who stay at NACL. There are also lovely walking and biking roads surrounding the retreat center, and a number of hiking paths and swimming holes that are accessible by car. nacl.org/retreat_center/retreat_center.html
This program is generously supported by the NEA.
Staff Contact
Pele Bauch
212-691-6969 x 16
pele@thefield.org
