has been awarded a 2025 Winter/Spring Visual Artists Fellowship from
the Edward F. Albee Foundation at the Barn in Montauk, New York.
During the residency, the artist will be on the journey of "A Crushed Memory Time & Space," a curatorial project scheduled to be exhibit in Venice, Italy, in 2026. She will release part of the project process sequentially through the ART NYC website.
The barn Founded in 1967 by Edward Albee, after proceeds from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? proved abundant, the Edward F. Albee Foundation has maintained the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as "The Barn") in Montauk, on Long Island in New York, for almost 60 years, which exists to serve writers and visual artists from all walks of life, by providing time and space in which to work without disturbance.
Using only talent and need as the criteria for selection, the Foundation invites any and all artists to apply.
Located approximately two miles from the center of Montauk and the Atlantic Ocean, "The Barn" rests in a secluded knoll which offers privacy and a peaceful atmosphere. The Foundation expects all those accepted for residence to work seriously and to conduct themselves in such a manner as to aid fellow residents in their endeavors.
The Edward F. Albee Foundation, started by its eponym, playwright Edward Albee, in 1967, regrets to announce the death of Mr. Albee on Friday, September 16, 2016. Mr. Albee passed away peacefully following a brief illness at his home in Montauk, Long Island, according to Jakob Holder, the Foundation’s Executive Director. Edward Albee was 88 years old.
Located in Montauk, NY, the Edward F. Albee Foundation was begun with revenue from Mr. Albee’s enormously successful play WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? The Foundation maintains a residency program known as The William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center, housed in a large, white converted barn, and was created with the intent of aiding visual artists and writers. The facility is open from June to mid-October; residencies are four or six weeks in duration, with the standards for admission simply put – talent and need. Writers are offered a room; visual artists are offered a room and studio space. The foundation accepts application between January 1st and March 1st every year through its website: www.albeefoundation.org
Notable writers and artists who have attended in past years include: John Duff, Christopher Durang, Will Eno, Spalding Gray, Cindy Hinant, A.M. Homes, Tom Holmes, Keith Milow, Sean Scully and Mia Westerlund-Roosen.
According to Mr. Holder, the Edward F. Albee Foundation will continue its mission as established 50 years ago.
“Edward created our foundation with the sole intention of assisting as many talented creative people as possible. We will continue to do exactly that, keeping his unique sensibility as our guiding force.“
EDWARD ALBEE wrote more than 30 plays, including The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, Fam and Yam, The American Dream; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award); The Ballad of the Sad Café; Tiny Alice; A Delicate Balance (Pulitzer Prize); Box and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung; All Over; Seascape (Pulitzer Prize); Listening; Counting the Ways; The Man Who Had Three Arms; Finding the Sun; Marriage Play; Three Tall Women (Pulitzer Prize); Fragments; The Play About the Baby; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Tony); Occupant; At Home at the Zoo (Homelife/The Zoo Story); and Me, Myself and I. He was a member of the Dramatist Guild Council and president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980 and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. In 2005 he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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