No Artist Left Behind: Residencies and Retreats

It is hard to explain what it feels like to know that when you get up in the morning you can just sit and write — a journal, poetry, prose — all day long until you are too tired to pick up a pencil or sit at a keyboard, until your ability to put words together cohesively slips from your fingers — not from the fatigue of a long day at a job but from a long day of words bumping up against each other as they struggle to get from your brain to the page.

— Valentine Pierce

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 6:30pm

Washington, DC

presented by Washington Project for the Arts

Washington Project for the Arts

WPA's No Artist Left Behind program offers a panel discussion on artists' residencies. Discover the importance of residencies to success in the art world and how the right residency can transform your artistic practice and career. Learn how to choose a residency, how to apply, and how to fit it into your already busy schedule.

"Artist Residencies and Retreats: Making it Work for You"
Date: January 31, 2012, 6:30-8pm
Location: Abramson Family Recital Hall, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC [map]

Free and open to the public

RSVP: Liz Georges at lgeorges@wpadc.org

Moderated by WPA's Lisa Gold, the panel will feature:
*Kate Haw, former Executive Director of Skowhegan
*Caitlin Strokosch, Executive Director of the Alliance of Artists Communities
*Victoria Fu, Artist and Professorial Lecturer in Media/New Practices at American University
*Christian Benefiel, Artist, recently returned from a residency in Helsinki, Finland

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