contents MISSION STATEMENT Yaddo’s mission is to further the creative process by providing an opportunity Report from the Co-Chairs 3 President’s Report 4 for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment. Chosen on Yaddo Guests 2016 6 a competitive basis by panels of widely recognized artists, guests work in both Sponsored Residencies 10 New York City Benefit 12 traditional and nontraditional media. They include emerging and well-known Saratoga Summer Benefit 13 artists, reflecting a broad range of contemporary styles and creative perspectives. Yaddo in the Community 14 Financial Information 15 They are welcomed to Yaddo without regard for their financial circumstances. Yaddo Contributors 16 Gifts in Honor/Memory Of 22 Trask Society 23 Cover background photo taken by composer Chao-Jan Chang while in residence. Directors and Members 24 This page: True North by Jenny Snider. Staff 24

2 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 REPORT FROM THE CO-CHAIRS

The five new live-work studios which have been up and running for a year are functional, beautiful, and bring Yaddo’s facilities into the 21st century.

ast year we began our report The second half of 2016 saw us Yaddo’s endowment remains steady in by reminding ourselves of how retain the firm Lacey Thaler Reilly the midst of expansion and renovation, grateful we are for Yaddo and Wilson to oversee that process, from our thanks, as always, to Candace Weir, for the inspiration, creativity, documentation to scope of work and who oversees our finance committee. and refuge that it provides to bidding negotiations. Construction artists of high caliber at all will begin this year and should be Of course, Yaddo could not run without stages of their careers. completed in 2018. the dedication and hard work of our wonderful staff. Thanks to Elaina LThis year, as we consider the potential As we approach a celebratory moment Richardson, our president, who has threat to federal arts funding and in achieving these goals, the board been working non-stop on our behalf, its widespread actual and symbolic and membership must continue overseeing all aspects of development, effects, maintaining the support and to chart a course for Yaddo, post- membership, and the Yaddo day-to- sanctuary that Yaddo offers any and restoration. The capital campaign, day operations. She is also our best all artists who meet our high criteria of which has made this important work advocate, spreading the word about admissions is even more crucial. possible thus far, will continue to be Yaddo in the world at large. just as is crucial as we move forward. Thanks to the persistence, vision, The campaign continues to grow in We firmly believe that Yaddo ought and generosity of our board and our strength and creativity, reaching out to be maintained for generations to membership, we continue to make to a wider community of donors. To come, and that our work right now great strides in implementing Yaddo’s date we have raised over 6.2 million, is essential in achieving that goal. strategic plan. After almost 8 years of putting us a year ahead of our initial As always, we look forward to your preparation and strategic long-range timetable and allowing us to deepen our feedback and new ideas. thinking, completion of the major goals preservation goals. of our first phase is in sight. The five new live-work studios which have Keeping with our mandate of building been up and running for a year are and invigorating our membership, we functional, beautiful, and bring Yaddo’s are delighted to welcome four exciting facilities into the 21st century. In new members, Tamara Jenkins, A.M. Homes and Susan Unterberg, addition, these facilities increase our Joseph Keckler, Tarik O’Regan, and Co-Chairs capacity for residents. Huberta von-Voss Wittig. Sadly, our membership lost two dedicated and We are almost ready to begin work longstanding members, Michael on the stabilization of the Mansion. Harper and Aileen Ward.

3 PRESIDENT’S REPORT

key element of Yaddo’s mission the Yaddo story since the beginning. The has always been the provision great cache of letters and files known as of a buffer between artists and the Yaddo Records, housed at the New the demands of regular life. York Public Library, is filled with vivid Here on the forty acres that reminders of this. For instance, there’s Ahouse our studios and living quarters, James T. Farrell noting in September of the dominant sounds are birds chirping, 1938 that “The war situation has gotten leaves crunching underfoot, and nearly every one every where hanging on the (admittedly less bucolic!) steady the ropes … . Anyway, it was a nice old murmur of traffic on the Northway. world while it lasted. There was injustice, No television, the protective shade of and some got more than others, and it ancient trees, and respect for quiet was inequitable, but it was not so bad hours all help to provide a cocoon-like sometimes, and anyway, it was neither state, leaving the 200 artists we serve as bad nor as good as it had been each year freer than usual to invent, cracked up to be, and it’s all going think, create. But, of course, the world down the creek now.” And Carson has a way of knocking loudly enough McCullers, writing in May of 1944, even on Yaddo’s secluded door that it “I am in the same anxious boat as the has to be heard. Artists have told me rest of us – waiting for the invasion. I one thing over and over again of late: have nightmares about it almost every it’s harder than ever to maintain focus night and wake up to rush for the radio and fall into the imaginative space the first thing in the morning.” More required to produce extraordinary work. recently, Adam Haslett addressed the Poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, intricate balance between community composers, filmmakers, visual artists and retreat: “One of the paradoxes of and performance artists alike say that writing is that in order to fulfill the urge now, more than ever, the sanctuary of to communicate something to others, Yaddo is essential to them. And yet, as you end up spending huge amounts of the distinguished poet, Nancy Sullivan, time on your own … . The irony being once put it, “Yaddo is not an island unto that one of the reasons many writers itself, nor should it be.” have the urge to communicate to begin with is that they’ve experienced This constant calibration between retreat loneliness earlier in life and writing and engagement has been a hallmark of seems like a means to overcome it, to

4 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 The power of art and literature to help us make sense of the world has never been more evident or more urgently in need of support and so I’m especially pleased to report that on the program side Yaddo shone brightly in 2016.

connect to others. A solitude imposed in guests over the decades, we are still, Head Chef, Michael Blake – both youth becomes a condition of work … as our founders Spencer and Katrina bring immense talent and creativity you remove yourself from the world in Trask mandated, “few in number,” of their own to Yaddo. Our Co-chairs, order to be closer to it.” and the Yaddo magic continues to A.M. Homes and Susan Unterberg, have a transforming impact, as was and Vice-Chair, Jaime Wolf, worked evident from the large number of tirelessly and with great enthusiasm on The power of art and literature to artists who last year testified in letters, Yaddo’s behalf. As we move steadily help us make sense of the world has dedications, and interviews to the into this new era for Yaddo, it’s fitting never been more evident or more staggering impact time at Yaddo had to take a moment to acknowledge the urgently in need of support and so I’m on their output and creativity. strong base we build upon, and so I especially pleased to report that on thank the dedicated Members and the program side Yaddo shone brightly Our capital campaign’s first phase Directors of the Corporation and our in 2016. We welcomed 225 guest continued apace, with the successful generous community of supporters artists. They came to Yaddo from 42 opening of our 5 new live/work for proving once more that belief in states and the District of Columbia, in studios and planning for the initial the Trasks’ initial idea – that support addition to several foreign countries, restoration of our historic mansion. for individual artists is the cornerstone including Canada, England, Germany, As always, we did all that we could to of a vibrant and engaged culture – is India, Ireland, and Spain. We received minimize interruptions resulting from stronger than ever. over fifteen hundred applications the renovation and to ensure that we from choreographers, composers, accepted the same number of artists filmmakers, painters, performance on an annual basis. The campaign has artists, photographers, printmakers, been galvanizing and its early success sculptors, video artists, and writers, (we have raised over $6.2 million) working both alone and collaboratively is reason for optimism – however, in teams of up to three. Nearly half both the construction work itself and Elaina Richardson, were guests at Yaddo for the first the events and travel required to President time and the artists ranged in age support this essential fund-raising, from early-20s to late-80s. Our five inevitably has put additional burdens Admissions Panels once again did an on all departments. I thank all of outstanding job reviewing applicants, my colleagues for their assistance and I am indebted to the Chair of each throughout the year. A warm welcome and to the artists who generously goes to two new staff members in agreed to help us with this essential particular: Christine Holle who joined task. Despite the gradual increase in our team as VP/Finance and our

5 YADDO GUESTS 2016

Yaddo welcomed 225 artists in 2016, chosen by our admissions committees from almost 1500 applicants from 42 states and 26 foreign nations.

ive new live/work studios opened Writer Michael in April, 2016, Snediker, designee of the Philip Guston complementing and Musa McKim FYaddo’s time-honored Residency rooms and studios with contemporary, universally accessible spaces designed to accommodate both traditional and cutting edge art practices.

Yaddo is increasingly recognized as a welcoming space for performance artists, film and video artists, collaborative teams, and artists investigating social practice - 19 filmmakers, 19 performance artists and 6 collaborative artists were in residence in 2016. These artists, along with 2016’s 22 composers, 102 writers, and 57 visual artists, are called “guests” throughout their residencies, reminding us all of Yaddo’s steadfast commitment to the hospitality and protected space for creative endeavor envisioned by founders Spencer and Katrina Trask.

6 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 PICTURED (outer arc, clockwise from left): Andrew Ginzel, Michelle Herman, Stephen O’Connor, Brian Rogers, Sadia Shirazi, Elizabeth Kelly, Susan Brynteson, Michael Snediker, Elaina Richardson, Justin St. Germain, Haley Bueschlen, Ariel Stess, Mezna Qato, Artis Henderson, Jay Shinn, Camille Guthrie, Steven Burke, Beth Raymer. FIRST ROW: Michael Torke, Joseph Caldwell, Richard Danielpour. SECOND ROW: Anthony Gatto, Ushio Torikai, Jacki Lyden, Danny Mitarotondo, Magdalena Edwards. THIRD ROW: Charlotte Hallberg, Kora Radella, Pelle Cass, Julia Bland. FOURTH ROW: Salvatore Scibona, John McManus, Lizzie Stark, Andrew Gorin.

Marilyn Abildskov, a writer from Ron Baron, a visual artist, from Michelle Boule, a performance artist James Cañón, a writer from Emeryville, CA Brooklyn, NY from Brooklyn, NY Sunnyside, NY Rania Abouzeid, a writer from Beirut, Jarrod Beck, a visual artist from Nathan Boyer, a visual artist from Sophie Cash-Goldwasser, a composer Lebanon Brooklyn, NY Columbia, MO from Morgantown, WV Romy Achituv, a visual artist from Roberto Bentivegna, a film and video Colette Brooks, a writer from Pelle Cass, a visual artist from Hewlett, NY artist from Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY Brookline, MA André Aciman, a writer from New Jeremey Bessoff, a film and video artist Haley Bueschlen, a performance artist Christa Cassano a visual artist from York, NY from Chicago, IL from New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Yelena Akhtiorskaya, a writer from Pippa Bianco, a film and video artist Rose Bunch, a writer from Elkins, AR Brian Cassidy, a collaborative artist New York, NY from East Hampton, NY from Outremont, Quebec, Canada Austin Bunn, a film and video artist from Becca Albee, a visual artist from James Biederman, a visual artist from Astoria, NY Janice Caswell, a visual artist from New Brooklyn, NY Laurinburg, NC York, NY Steven Burke, a composer from Henry Alberto, a film and video artist Jerry Blackman, a visual artist from New York, NY Sharon Charde, a writer from Lakeville, from Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY CT Leah Byrne, a film and video artist from Jacob Appel, a writer from New Lydia Blaisdell, a writer from Austin, TX Dawson, Yukon, Canada Clifford Chase, a writer from York, NY New York, NY Julia Bland, a visual artist from Joseph Caldwell, a writer from Kenseth Armstead, a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Peter Child, a composer Brooklyn, NY from Cambridge, MA Nicholas Boggs, a writer from Crystal Campbell, a visual artist from Diana Arterian, a writer from Los Brooklyn, NY Oklahoma City, OK Anna Clyne, a composer from Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY Natalie Bookchin, a visual artist from Ellen Campbell, a visual artist from Shimone Attie, a visual artist from New Brooklyn, NY Chicago, IL Dan Colburn, a writer from Portland, OR York, NY Marianne Boruch, a writer from Ana Candida de Carvalho Carneiro, a Marie-Therese Connolly, a writer from Kevin Augustine, a performance artist West Lafayette, IN writer from Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy Washington, DC from Brooklyn, NY continues

7 Michelle Keita, a writer from Lauren Moseley, a writer from YADDO GUESTS 2016 (continued) Philadelphia, PA Durham, NC Nicole Kelby, a writer from St. Paul, MN Lexi Mountain, a performance artist from Art Corriveau, a writer from Charlotte, VT Tony Grooms, a writer from Atlanta, GA Baltimore, MD Elizabeth Kelly, a composer from Richard Danielpour, a composer from Allan Gurganus, a writer from London, United Kingdom Julie Ann Nagle, a visual artist from New York, NY Hillsborough, NC Providence, RI Nancy Kelly, a film and video artist from Kristina Darling, a writer from Camille Guthrie, a writer from Eagle Greenbrae, CA Koji Nakano, a composer from Ballwin, MO Bridge, NY Boston, MA Emily Kiacz, a visual artist from Jack A. Davidson, a visual artist from Alex Halberstadt, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Richard Nelson, a composer from Barcelona, Spain Brooklyn, NY Brunswick, ME Sam Kim, a performance artist from Lisa Corinne Davis, visual artist from Charlotte Hallberg, a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY Stephen O’Connor, a writer from New Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY York, NY Dave King, a writer from Philmont, NY Kyle deCamp, a performance artist from Caleb Hammond, a performance artist Andrew Ondrejcak, a performance artist New York, NY from Brooklyn, NY Jerome Kitzke, a composer from from Brooklyn, NY New York, NY LaShea Delaney, a writer from Los James Hannaham, a writer from Susan Orlean, a writer from Pine Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY Perri Klass, a writer from New York, NY Plains, NY Tamar Diesendruck, a composer from Trish Harnetiaux, a writer from Robert Klitzman, a writer from Andrew Palmer, a writer from Arlington, MA Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Duluth, MN Rebecca Donner, a writer from Michael Harrison, a composer from Karla Knight, a visual artist from North Jake Paltrow, a film and video artist from Brooklyn, NY Yonkers, NY Salem, NY New York, NY Caitlin Doyle, a writer from East John Haskell, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Alison Kobayashi, a performance artist Carter Pann, a composer from Hampton, NY from Brooklyn, NY Louisville, CO Carl Hazelwood, a visual artist from Emily Duffy-Comparone, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Neerja Kothari, a visual artist from Philip Pardi, a writer from Phoenicia, NY Portsmouth, NH Kolkata, India Dale Megan Healey, a writer from Jaclyn Perlmutter, a writer from Cheryl Dunye, a film and video artist from Brooklyn, NY Paul Kruse, a collaborative artist, from Brooklyn, NY Oakland, CA Pittsburgh, PA Kyle Heidenheimer, a visual artist from David Petersen, a film and video artist Halina Duraj, a writer from New York, NY Denise Kupferschmidt, a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY San Diego, CA from Ridgewood, NY Susanna Heller, a visual artist from Anna Petrisko, a performance artist from Magdalena Edwards, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Reese O. Kwon, a writer from San Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA Francisco, CA Artis Henderson, a writer from Fort Roger “Boomer” Pinches, a writer from Andrea Elliott, a writer from New York, NY Myers, FL Sarah LaBrie, a writer from Northampton, MA Los Angeles, CA Charles Elton, a writer from London, David Hendren, a visual artist from Los Theo Popov, a composer from Los United Kingdom Angeles, CA Thanhhá Lai, a writer from Croton-on- Angeles, CA Hudson, NY Rodney Evans, a film and video artist Michelle Herman, a writer from Brittany Powell, a visual artist from from Brooklyn, NY Columbus, OH Doron Langberg, a visual artist from Portland, OR Ridgewood, NY Kevin Everson, a film and video artist Will Hermes, a writer from New Paltz, NY Hanna Pylvainen, a writer from from Charlottesville, VA Pat Lasch, a visual artist from Brooklyn, NY Jay Hodges, a writer from Austin, TX New York, NY Andrew Ewell, a writer from Lexington, KY Menz Qato, a collaborative artist from Marietta Hoferer, a visual artist from Anne LeBaron, composer from Cambridge, United Kingdom Laurel Farrin, a visual artist from Iowa New York, NY Valencia, CA City, IA Kora Radella, a performance artist from Denise Hofmann, a composer from Adrian LeBlanc, a writer from New Gambier, OH Farnoosh Fathi, a writer from New York, NY York, NY Brooklyn, NY Zia Haider Rahman, a writer from Glen Holland, a visual artist from Young Jean Lee, a performance artist London, United Kingdom Avner Finberg, a composer from Columbus, OH from Brooklyn, NY Ithaca, NY Beth Raymer, a writer from West Palm A.M. Homes, a writer from New York, NY Jennifer Lunden, a writer from Beach, FL Keith Fitch, a composer from Cleveland Portland, ME Heights, OH Jihyun Hong, a visual artist from Chaenny Rhee, a visual artist from Seoul, Brooklyn, NY Jacki Lyden, a writer from Silver South Korea Martine Fougeron, a visual artist from Springs, MD Bronx, NY Adam Hurwitz, a visual artist from Frances Richey, a writer from New York, NY Carmen Machado, a writer from New York, NY Ru Freeman, a writer from Bala Philadelphia, PA Cynwyd, PA Lewis Hyde, a writer from Cambridge, MA Susanna Rivecca, a writer from San Alessandro Magania, a performance Francisco, CA Gabrielle Fuentes, a writer from Vera Ivanova, a composer from Newport artist from Brooklyn, NY Athens, GA Beach, CA Walter Robinson, a writer from Jonatah Manno, a visual artist from Boston, MA Laura Furman, a writer from Austin, TX Maya Jasanoff, a writer from Cambridge, MA Lecce, Italy Brian Rogers, a performance artist from Anthony Gatto, a composer from Nicolas Mastracchio, a visual artist from New York, NY Brooklyn, NY Len Jenkins, a writer from, Granville, OH Buenos Aires, Argentina Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a writer from Linda Geary, a visual artist from Jenny Johnson, a collaborative artist, Julie Mayo, a performance artist, from Austin, TX Oakland, CA Pittsburgh, PA Brooklyn, NY Joshua Sanchez, a film and video artist Sarah Gerard, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Kima Jones, a writer from Los Angeles, CA Siobhan McBride, a visual artist from from Brooklyn, NY Andrew Ginzel, a visual artist from New Ann Arbor, MI Jonathan Santlofer, a visual artist from York, NY Shaun Kadlec, a film and video artist from Los Angeles, CA Richard McCann, a writer from New York, NY Jackie Goldfinger, a film and video artist Washington, DC Vibanna Santos, a visual artist from San from Philadelphia, PA Beena Kamlani, a writer from New York, NY Beverly McIver, a visual artist from Diego, CA Andrew Gorin, a writer from Durham, NC Dick Scanlan, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Jodi Kaplan, a film and video artist from John McManus, a writer from Norfolk, VA New York, NY New York, NY Elizabeth Graver, a writer from Helina Metaferia, a performance artist Wade Schaming, a visual artist from Lincoln, MA Pardiss Kebriaei, a writer from New from Oakland, CA York, NY Brooklyn, NY Elliott Green, a visual artist from Tyler Mills, a writer from Las Vegas, NV Heidi Schwegler, a visual artist from Athens, NY Danny Mitarotondo, a writer from Portland, OR Cliffside Park, NJ 8 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Our Program Associate, Christy Williams, ready to meet arriving guests.

Salvatore Scibona, a writer from New Bennett Sims, a writer from Baton Susan Steinberg, a writer from Aynsley Vandenbroucke, a performance Haven, CT Rouge, LA San Francisco, CA artist from New York, NY James Scott, a writer from Whatley, MA Alexandria Smith, a visual artist from Ariel Stess, a writer from Astoria, NY Michael Waugh, a visual artist from New York, NY Jennifer Shapland, a writer from Fiona Sze-Lorrain, a writer from Brooklyn, NY Austin, TX Michael Snediker, a writer from Paris, France Houston, TX Andrea Weiss, a film and video artist Melanie Shatzky, a collaborative artist Anne Tenenbaum, a writer from from New York, NY from Outremont, Quebec, Canada Jenny Snider, a visual artist from New New York, NY York, NY Kendra Shaw, a writer from Billings, MT David Thomson, a performance artist Jody Wood, a visual artist from Tony Solitro, a composer from from Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn, NY Normandy Sherwood, a performance Philadelphia, PA artist from Brooklyn, NY Ushio Torikai, a composer from Mount Shay Youngblood, a writer from Justin St. Germain, a writer from Vernon, NY Denton, TX Craig Shilowich, a film and video artist Albuquerque, NM from Brooklyn, NY Michael Torke, a composer from Las Michael Stamm, a visual artist from Vegas, NV Javier Zamora, a writer from Jay Shinn, a visual artist from Dallas, TX Brooklyn, NY San Rafael, CA Peter Trachtenberg, a writer from Sadia Shirazi, a collaborative artist from Lizzie Stark, a writer from Somerville, MA Pittsburgh, PA Brooklyn, NY Deborah Zlotsky, a visual artist Meg Stein, a visual artist from Guinevere Turner, a film and video artist from Delmar, NY Shelly Silver, a film and video artist from Durham, NC from Los Angeles, CA New York, NY

9 SPONSORED RESIDENCIES

Sponsored residencies support Yaddo’s fundamental mission by underwriting the cost of visits by creative artists. Through this program, foundations, corporations, and individual donors enable artists to enjoy the opportunity to work without interruption in the supportive environment that Yaddo provides.

ENDOWED RESIDENCIES Elizabeth Ames Residency Curtis Harnack Residency for Writers Howard Moss Residency in Poetry Established in 2006 for an artist working Established in 1984 in honor of the Established in 1991 in honor of the late in any discipline. Offered every other year Yaddo writer and former Yaddo President. poet and Yaddo Board member. Designee in in honor of Yaddo’s first Executive Director. Designee in 2016: Hanna Pylväinen. 2016: Kima Jones. Designee in 2016: Aynsley Vandenbroucke. Dorothy and Granville Hicks Ann Wadsworth Olberg Residency Milton and Sally Michel Avery Residency in Literature for Creative Writers Residency for a Visual Artist Established in 1983 by Stephanie Craib in Established in 2006 by Yaddo poet and Established in 1985 by Yaddo artist Sally honor of her mother, Dorothy, and father, Member of the Corporation Gardner McFall Michel Avery in honor of her late husband, Granville Hicks, who served as Acting and Peter Olberg in memory of his mother, Milton, who was also a Yaddo artist. Executive Director of Yaddo in 1970, to Ann Wadsworth Olberg, for a poet or fiction Designee in 2016: Julia Bland. support young and promising writers. writer having a special relationship to the Designee in 2016: James Scott. State of Iowa through birth, residence, or Louise Bourgeois Residency education. Designee to be named in 2017. for a Sculptor Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Established in 1995 by Louise Bourgeois to Residency Plumsock Endowed Residency support young sculptors. Designee in 2016: Established in 1995 by Yaddo artist Patricia Established in 1995 to support creative Kenseth Armstead. Highsmith. Designee in 2016: Jake Paltrow. artists, preferably from Central America. Designee in 2016: Javier Zamora. Abigail Angell Canfield and Cass The LeSage-Fullilove Residency Canfield Jr. Residency for Writers for a Writer Yvonne Porter Endowed Residency Established in 2004 by Mr. and Mrs. Cass Established in 2004 in honor of Dr. Alain Established in 2000 by the Louisa Stude Canfield Jr. to support one writer, preferably LeSage and Dr. Roland (Jack) Fullilove Sarofim Charitable Trust to honor Yvonne from Latin America, every other year. to support a young or emerging writer of Porter, and awarded every other year to an Designee deferred to 2017. exceptional talent and promise. Designee in artist working in any discipline and residing 2016: Boomer Pinches. in Texas awarded every other year. Designee Eli Cantor Residency for Writers in 2016: Jay Shinn. Established in 1984 in honor of the Yaddo John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur writer. Designee in 2016: Bennett Sims. Foundation Residencies Donald and Genie Rice Residency Established in 1990 by The MacArthur Established in 2001 by Donald and Genie David Del Tredici Residency for a Foundation. Designees in 2016: Lewis Hyde Rice to support a filmmaker. Designee in Composer, funded by the Aaron and Adrian LeBlanc. 2016: Guinevere Turner. Copland Fund for Music Established in 2013 by the Aaron Copland Meredith S. Moody Residency George Rickey Endowed Residency Fund for Music. Designee in 2016: Vera Established in 1997 by the Moody family Established by the artist in 2000 to support Ivanova. for a female photographer in honor of the young visual artists. Designee in 2016: late Meredith S. Moody. Designee in 2016: Crystal Campbell. Philip Guston and Becca Albee. Musa McKim Residency Nora Sayre Residency for a Established in 2004 by Musa Guston Carson McCullers Residency Nonfiction Writer Mayer in honor of her parents, Yaddo artists Established in 2014 in honor of Mary Established in 2006 in honor of the Yaddo Philip Guston and Musa McKim, to support Mercer for artists in any discipline. Designee writer Nora Sayre and awarded every third a visual artist or a poet. Designee in 2016: in 2016: Kora Radella. year. Designee to be named in 2018. Michael Snediker.

10 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 support creative artists, with a preference for Carson McCullers those from northern New England. Designee Residency designee in 2016: Emily Dufy-Comparone. Kora Radella. Photo by Michelle Hackbardt. SINGLE YEAR RESIDENCIES Amazon Literary Partnership Residency Established in 2013 in support of Yaddo’s New York City Benefit. Designee in 2016: Tony Grooms.

The Ford Family Foundation Residency Established in 2016 by The Ford Family Foundation to support visual artists residing in Oregon. Designees in 2016: Brittany Powell and Heidi Schwegler.

Hudson River Bank and Trust Co. Foundation Residency Established by the Hudson River Bank and Trust Co. Foundation in 2012 to support an artist working in any discipline living in Columbia County. Designee in 2016: Dave King.

Janice Y. K. Lee & Joseph Bae Alma B.C. Schapiro Residency of Michael Sundell, to support the visits of four Residency for a Woman Painter creative artists, working in any medium, who Established in 2016 through a gift to Established by the M.A. Schapiro Fund served as Special Assistants to the President. Yaddo’s New York City benefit, to support in honor of the late painter Alma B. C. Designees in 2016: Ron Baron, Will Hermes, an artist working in any discipline. Designee: Schapiro. Designee in 2016: Susanna Heller. Art Corriveau, and Trish Harnetiaux. Marie-Therese Connolly.

James Silberman and Harriet and Esteban Vicente Residency National Endowment for the Arts Selma Shapiro Residency Established by Harriet and Esteban Vicente Residency for Collaborative Teams Established in 2004 by Selma Shapiro in 2001 to support a painter, preferably from Established in 2015 by the NEA to support and James Silberman to support a writer Spain. Designee in 2016: Jack A. Davidson. artistic collaborative teams. Designees in and awarded every other year. Designee in 2016: Brian Cassidy/Melanie Shatzky, 2016: Zia Haider Rahman. Jane Adams Wait Residency Mezna Qato/Sadia Shirazi, Paul Kruse/ Established in 1996 by The Adirondack Trust Jenny Johnson. Janet Sloane Endowed Residency Company to honor the dedication and service Established in 1996 by Alfred Z. Solomon of Jane A. Wait to the Corporation of Yaddo, New York State Council on the Arts in honor of his late sister, a Member of the to support a composer or choreographer. Residency in Film & Electronic Media Corporation. Designee in 2016: Pelle Cass. Designee in 2016: Peter Child. Established in 2010 to support the residency of a filmmaker or media artist. Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency Wallace Foundation Residency for Desgnee in 2016: Austin Bunn. Established by The New York Times Distinguished Writers Foundation in honor of Iphigene Ochs Established in 1983 by The Dewitt Wallace Martha Walsh Pulver Residency Sulzberger. Designee in 2016: Alex Fund/Reader’s Digest Foundation. Designee for a Poet Halberstadt. in 2016: Lizzie Stark. Established in 2001 by the family of Martha Walsh Pulver in her honor, to support a Michael and Nina Sundell Residency The White Flowers Residency for female poet. Designee in 2016: Kristina Established in 2001 in honor of Michael Composers Darling. Sundell, former President of Yaddo, and his Established in 2001 by Chris Flowers wife, Nina, to support a creative artist in any and Mary White to support a composer. Kevin Kimberlin/Spencer Trask medium. Designee in 2016: Pippa Bianco. Designee in 2016: Michael Torke. Residency Established in 2016 through a gift to The Sundell Residency for Special Bernard V. Winebaum Residency Yaddo’s New York City benefit, to support Assistants Established in 1995 by the estate of poet an artist working in any discipline. Designee: Established by Nina Sundell in 2013, in honor and visual artist Bernard V. Winebaum to Anthony Gatto. 11 NEW YORK CITY BENEFIT addo’s annual New York City Benefit took place on May 18 at Three Sixty° in lower Manhattan. The recipient of the Yaddo Artist YMedal, which is given annually for career achievement and dedication to our community, was sculptor Martin Puryear. Robert Storr, professor of art at the Yale School of Art, introduced the honoree, with Mike Albo as emcee, a special tribute performance to 1 2 Martin by Alicia and Jason Moran and an exhibition of Yaddo photographs produced by Laumont.

BENEFIT CO-CHAIRS: James Siena, Robert Storr, Barbara Toll

COMMITTEE Jan and Stefan Abrams 3 4 Marina Abrams and Stanley Whitney Susan Brynteson Steve Burke Melissa Feldman Thelma Golden Marilynn and Willis Goldsmith Gail Gregg Agnes Gund 5 6 Richard R. Howe Kemi Ilesanmi and Steven Kest Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici Ariane Lopez-Huici and Alain Kirili Glenn Lowry Gardner McFall and Peter Olberg Beverly McIver Melissa Meyer Thomas Nozkowski and Joyce Robins Odili Odita

7 8 Philip and Dorothy Pearlstein Katia Santibañez and James Siena Suzanne Slesin and Michael Steinberg Deborah Solomon Robert Storr and Rosamund Morley John Vinci Patricia Volk Darren Walker Stanley Whitney and Marina Adams

9 10 Doug Wright

1. Martin Puryear; 2. Andrew Solomon and Janice Lee; 3. Lisa Randall and Laura Marmor; 4. Laurence Anthony, Peter Kayafas, Kemi Ilesanmi, Steven Kest, Felicia Hercules, Dorothy Blackmun; 5. Susan Crile, Martin Puryear, James Siena; 6. Brooke Kamin Rapaport and Richard Rapaport; 7. Suzanne Snider and Sheri Fink; 8. Susan Unterberg and A.M. Homes; 9. Michael DelGuidice, Candace Wait, Jaynne Keyes, Charles Wait, Elizabeth Gaffney; 10. Robert Storr and Martin Puryear. (Photographs by Thatcher Keats.)

12 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SUMMER BENEFIT uests at our 2016 Benefit were entertained by award-winning Yaddo artists, Young Jean Lee and Joseph Keckler, who Gperformed excerpts from Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth, a play based on thirty years of correspondence between Yaddo poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, who were together at Yaddo in 1949.

1 2 The sold-out event was a huge success, raising $153,905. Thanks to the generosity of the Saratoga and Capital Region communities, and the hard work of the members of the volunteer committees, Yaddo was able to devote more than ninety percent of the proceeds directly to the artist residency program. 3 4 BENEFIT PLANNING COMMITTEE Kim Swidler, Chair Sue Allerdice Barbara S. Bennett Susan Bokan Lisa Clark Susan DePaula Tamie Ehinger Christine R. Fox 5 6 7 Patricia A. Friesen Beth Harker Sally King Betty Kirkpatrick Joann Long Jean L. Maloy Maryanne Moerschell Christianne Smith Judy Soukup Tamara Backer Tepper 8 9

SPONSORSHIP COMMITTEE Stacie H. Arpey, Chair Wallace W. Allerdice M. Bruce Cohen Daniel Fortier Elizabeth Giblin Cynthia D. Hollowood Jennifer Leidig 10 11 Peter Nemer 1. Mara and Evan deJonghe; 2. Joseph Keckler and Young Jean Lee; 3. Susan Unterberg, Elaina Richardson, Frederick A. Partyka Gardner McFall; 4. Bidding up the silent auction! 5. Shelly and Greg Burns; 6. Marci and Mike Phinney; Michael R. Phinney 7. Beth Harker and Tamie Ehinger; 8. Christine Fox, Rachel Person, Steve Sheinkin; 9. Alfred and Kelly Hollis; Candace K. Weir 10. Bob and Heidi West; 11. Laurel Farrin, Sally and Larry King. (Photographs by Saratoga Photographic Arts.)

13 YADDO IN THE COMMUNITY Installation view of Breathing Lights. On the Road with Jennifer Weiner challenge he set for himself Photo: hyers+mebane. Courtesy of the Community Foundation for with his public art project the Greater Capital Region. wo hundred and seventy-five people Breathing Lights, which packed Congregation Shaara Tfille was on display through in Saratoga Springs on October the end of November. 16 to hear best-selling author To draw attention to the TJennifer Weiner interviewed by Yaddo impact of deindustrialization president Elaina Richardson. Weiner is and disinvestment in the currently on tour promoting her new book Capital Region, Frelin, with Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, architect Barbara Nelson, and Writing; she was invited to Saratoga by installed frames of lights Northshire Bookstore, one of Yaddo’s local in the windows of over two partners. The pair talked about living in a hundred abandoned homes beauty-obsessed culture and what writing in Albany, Schenectady, and “for women” means. As Richardson noted, Troy. The soft lights rose the conversation was timely in the midst of and fell in brightness on a timer set to the duration of a human breath. Breathing Lights was supported by a $1 million dollar Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge grant – one of just four winners across the country. Frelin, an associate professor of art at SUNY Albany, was a finalist when he was in residence at Yaddo in spring 2015. Frelin underlined that art cannot a general election campaign centered to an solve the problems unusual degree on women’s appearance wrought by a half-century of economic feelings of envy towards her more brilliant and experiences. The interview took a change and political choices. Citing Christo (but also more fortunate) friends is the surprisingly dark turn when Weiner spoke as an artistic influence, Frelin said that central preoccupation of the novel. In the about her late father, whose mental illness that he had wanted to create something Q&A, Wolitzer said that she had wanted and opiate addiction hid several other “beautiful” for the neighborhoods that also to write a novel about “talent over time.” secrets. “Sometimes,” she said ruefully, “you had a social message. Proceeds from ticket sales were divided by should just stop digging!” UPH and Yaddo.

Fast Friends Illuminations: Adam Frelin’s Breathing Lights Evokes the here’s something about braving bad Capital Region’s History of Tweather to attend a cultural event Innovation that makes an audience especially jovial. That was the situation when Meg Wolitzer he photographs were striking: two- came to town on October 27, during the Tfamily houses with peeling siding; floors first snowstorm of the season, to read at of living rooms a vivid green with weeds Universal Preservation Hall as part of our and wildflowers, beneath windows without Yaddo Presents series. Wolitzer visited panes; handsome brick buildings, ominously Yaddo in 1983, shortly after her debut empty. Photographs of urban blight, within novel, Sleepwalking, was published. At commuting distance of Yaddo. UPH she read a scene from 2014’s The At the September 2016 Annual Meeting Interestings, a group portrait of artsy here at Yaddo, visual artist Adam Frelin friends from adolescence in the late showed our board members the scope of the 1970s to early midlife. The narrator’s

14 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 2016 SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

FOR FISCAL YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2016 & 2015

Statement of Revenues, Expenses and Other Changes in Net Assets (Unrestricted & Temporarily Restricted Fund Classes) 2016 2015 REVENUES AND GAINS TOTAL TOTAL Contributions Individuals $1,047,027 $814,131 Estates & Bequests 2,900 432,181 Foundations & Corporations 810,700 1,430,389 Government Grants 25,000 130,689 Events 421,965 464,047 Royalties 193,578 622,433 Application Fees 41,732 49,654 Income on Investments 433,642 321,892 Other 41,660 105,096

Subtotal 3,018,203 4,370,512 Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Investments 910,530 (1,201,264)

Total Revenues, Gains, and Other Support 3,928,733 3,169,248

EXPENSES Artistic Program Services 1,807,198 1,722,165 Administration and Development Services 1,322,258 1,433,216 Garden Expenditures 52,693 125,211

Total Expenses 3,182,149 3,280,592

Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets $746,584 ($111,344)

ENDOWMENT FUNDS at 12/31/16 at 12/31/15 Unrestricted Funds $20,641,267 $21,257,873 Temporarily & Permanently Restricted Funds 7,109,050 6,672,567

Total Endowment Funds $27,750,317 $27,930,440

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e are grateful As Yaddo is a resilient, to all of our resourceful and unique donors for community, it is no recognizing in surprise that it has 2016 the power been consistently of art to find recognized by other Wtruth and understanding in our communities, starting world. The base of support that with our friends and funds the ongoing operations neighbors in Saratoga of the residency program, and Springs and the Albany/ addresses the need for such Capital District. It’s space, starts with our Board of a network of private Directors and Members of the individuals, foundations, Corporation, who remain as corporations and generous as ever, even as they government agencies, face the additional challenge which extends to New of moving forward with our York City, across the ambitious capital campaign. country to such cities as San Francisco Our Yaddo artists demonstrated and Washington, an equally strong commitment DC and around the and appreciation for the world. We have long- Garden Association celebrated this commitment, with its program that benefits them in standing partnerships with our 25 years of service with a party first phase fully funding the so many ways, with the total institutional donors, many of in September of 2016, another construction of five year- gifts in 2016 from residents them from the publishing world, high point of the calendar round, live/work studios, which surpassing any amounts raised as well as first time relationships year. Founded in 1991, this welcomed their first guests in in recent years. Our Yaddo with funders such as the Ford dedicated corps of volunteers, April of 2016. The next priority artists similarly distinguished Family Foundation, which is currently 70-strong, fundraises for the campaign is the initial themselves with their loyalty, helping to make it possible to and conducts tours to help with restoration of the iconic Yaddo with giving histories going extend the geographic reach of the ongoing maintenance of the mansion, the architectural back 20, 30 and even 40 our core residency program. formal rose garden and rock centerpiece of our 400-acre years. Once again, artists and garden for the enjoyment of the property, where generations of individuals alike rallied around With special thanks to over 50,000 annual visitors. artists have lived, worked, and a Giving Tuesday campaign our chairs and organizing gathered to dine together and for Yaddo on December 1. committees, we celebrated As a 21st century iteration support one another in their This special effort brought community as well at our of a proven, well-tested and creative endeavors. in new constituents, as well benefit events in New York City necessary solution to the as renewals from those who and Saratoga Springs, both of needs of the artist, we know At Yaddo, we salute the following had lapsed, with all of them which once again served as an that good working conditions individuals, institutions and public motivated by the opportunity to occasion to generate critical are critical to our mission’s agencies that made gifts and leverage matching funds from revenues and visibility for the success. Our capital campaign pledge in 2015 to the annual two anonymous donors. residency program. The Yaddo launched in 2014 has affirmed fund and capital campaign.

16 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Public Funding The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Yaddo Capital Campaign Donors: 2014 - 2016 Region’s Susan and Bill Dake Fund EHA Foundation, Inc. Anonymous (5) Richard Ellsworth Robert and Doris Fischer Karen Schiff* Blair England Malesardi and Peter Carlin André Aciman* Laurel Farrin* Richard and Leslie Bridget Fawcett John Mannino Schmidt Pat Adams* John Forester Danielle Ganek Jeffrey Marchand James Siena* Corporate American Express Helen Frankenthaler* Sponsors Catherine Gellert Foundation Foundation Cathy and Elliott Masie Julia Simet Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Jo Andres* Laura Furman* Hilary Masters* Mona Simpson* Willis J. Goldsmith Stacie and Michael Arpey Elizabeth Gaffney* Jacob Matthews Christian R. Sonne Peter C. Gould Balsamo Byrne Cipriani Gerry Charitable Trust The Greenwich Richard McCann* & Ellsworth Dena M. Steele Collection Ltd. Andrew Ginzel* Joseph and Anne Steeltoes Dance Gail Gregg* John* and Penny Barr McCann Gina Gionfriddo* Studio, Inc. Agnes Gund Martin Bax* Gardner McFall* and Paul Gluck Stacey Steers* Richard and Peter Olberg Gifts of $100,000 Elizabeth Howe Barbara Berntsen or more Amy Godine* Hume R. Steyer Meredith and Susan Brynteson Heather McGowan* Kathy Goldman Anonymous (1) Benjamin Jenkins Robert V. Storr* Prime Buchholz Stuart McGregor Helen Frankenthaler* Madelyn Pulver Willis J. Goldsmith Elizabeth Strout* Foundation Jennings/The Pulver Steven Burke* Beverly McIver* Estate of Patricia Family Peter C. Gould Vital Projects Fund Nancy Sullivan* Highsmith* Dana Wallach Jones Janet Lee Burnet Christopher Gow Bequest of Nina Sundell Peter Kayafas* and James and Jennifer Melissa Meyer* Ms. Annie Sulzberger Gail Gregg* Candace King Weir Dorothy Blackmun Cacioppo Rick Moody* Natasha Sweeten* Kevin and Joni Kimberlin Joseph Caldwell* Mary Jo Ann Guinchard $50,000 to $99,999 Elizabeth Kojima Geoffrey Movius Judith Taylor* Laura Callanan Allan Gurganus* Anonymous (1) Nancy Lampton Joan Murray* Marion Taylor Daron Hagen* Gerry Charitable Trust Gardner McFall* and Peter Cameron* The New York State Jean Marie Hitchen and Peter Olberg Mary Stewart Hammond* The Evelyn Toll Family Marianne Carroll Office of Parks, Robert Thompson Anne Cooke Mitchell Foundation and Arthur Yorke Allen/ Recreation and Kathryn Murdoch John L. Cassis The Walbridge Fund, LTD. Historic Preservation, The Tocci Group $25,000 to $49,999 Newman’s Own Susan Cheever* Elizabeth Hazan* in cooperation with Governor Andrew Cuomo Barbara Toll Stacie and Foundation Ann Chen A. M. Homes* and State Senator Kathy Michael Arpey Scott and Amie Nuttall Marchione The Evelyn Toll Family Susan Brynteson Colleen Olson Marilyn Chin* Richard Howe Foundation Tarik O’Regan* Ann and Paul Chen Perri Peltz Thomas Cipullo* Mary-Beth Hughes* Patricia Towers The Ford Family Penguin Random David Packer* Foundation House, LLC Marcelle Clements* Hyde and Watson The Tube Museum Foundation Anne Palamountain New York Spencer Trask & Co. Brenda R. Potter Maureen Coen Janice Y.K. Lee* Amy and Madelyn Pulver Jennings The Plumsock Fund Josette Urso* Consulting For and Joseph Bae Alexander Rotter Architects, Inc. Barry Johnson Sheila Pompan Helen Vendler* Joyce Menschel James Siena* and Katia Santibañez* M. Bruce Cohen Beena Kamlani* National Endowment Jill Posnick Patricia Volk* for the Arts The Walbridge Tony Cokes Peter Kayafas* and Lawrence Raab* Candace King Weir New York State Council Fund, LTD. Dorothy Blackmun on the Arts Sara and Nat Zilkha Henri Cole* David Rakowski* and Paula Whyman* Joseph Keckler* Beth Wiemann* Genie and Donald Rice/ Michael J. Coleman The Genie and Donald $3,000 to $9,999 John Kelly* Joan Wickersham* Rice Charitable Trust Donald Crawshaw Donald and Genie Rice Anonymous (1) Ann Tenenbaum* Nancy Lampton Jaime Wolf Susan Crile* Nathaniel Rich* and Thomas H. Lee The Adirondack Trust Starling R. Lawrence* Charles R. Wood Company Elaina H. Richardson Pamela Bock Cromey Foundation $10,000 t0 $24,999 Sue and Wally Allerdice/ Anne LeBaron* Allerdice Building Sebastian Currier* Ned Rorem* Alexi Worth* Anonymous (1) Supply, Inc. Katy Lederer* Lisa Corinne Davis* Steven Sacco* John* and Penny Barr Douglas Wright* Michael and Janice Y.K. Lee* and Mary Louise Coleman Theresa Salierno Kathryn Beal, MD Aubrey DeBordenave Joseph Bae Chen Yi* Anthony and Deborah Berke Whitney DeBordenave Matthew Santirocco* Susan DePaula Young Jean Lee* Barbara K. Bristol Shay Youngblood* Isabel Fonseca* David Del Tredici* Jan Heller Levi* and The Morris and Alma Mona Wakim Brown Christoph Keller Schapiro Fund John and Mary Yrizarry Ann and Gordon Getty Rackstraw Downes* David and Jamie Caro Foundation Amy G. Loyd* Susan Scher Tom Zoellner* Bruce and Ellen Cohen continues Stephen Dunn*

17 James H. Silberman and Lisa Cortes James and YADDO CONTRIBUTORS 2016 (continued) Selma Shapiro Anne Morrissey Cotter Foundation Andrew Solomon* and John and Courtyard by Marriott- John Habich Solomon Rosemary Munter Higgins Family Joseph Caldwell* International Creative Saratoga Springs Foundation Management, Inc. Deborah Solomon Joan Murray* Peter Cameron* Crawford Door and The Hyde and Watson Tamara Jenkins* Abigail Angell Canfield Howard and Window Sales/Pella Gerald A. Novack Foundation Barry Johnson Sarah Solomon Windows & Doors Capital District Thomas Nozkowski and Jones Day Physicians Health Susanna Kaysen* Michael Steinberg and Cudney’s Launderers & Joyce Robins Suzanne Slesin Dry Cleaners/ Lynette Carita and Ned Kelly Plan, Inc. Andrew O’Hagan* Keeler Motor Car and Daniel Whaley Susan Steinberg* Katherine Lederer* Joanne Leonhardt Company Charitable Tim and Colleen O’Hara Cassullo/Dorothea L. Foundation Sebastian Currier* Musa and Tom Mayer Stewart’s Shops Leonhardt Frederick A. Partyka King Wealth Marsha Dammerman Myrtle Street Obstetrics Foundation, Inc. Robert V. Storr* Management Group Philip and & Gynecology, PC Whitney deBordenave Jeanne Collins and John Elizabeth Strout* Dorothy Pearlstein Walter Kirn* David Del Tredici* Nemer Motor Group Elderfield Nancy Sullivan* William and Mary Perez Starling R. Lawrence* Charlie DiSanto The New York Racing Joel Conarroe* Cathy Sulzberger and Jill Posnick Association, Inc. Richard M. Leder Joseph Perpich Sam and Dawn Donadio Consigli Construction Richard Rapaport Thomas R. Newkirk NY, LLC Little Brown and John J. Thomas Stephen and and Brooke Kamin Company/ Hachette Michael R. and Christopher Corkery* Dr. Susan Dorsey Rapaport Book Group John Vinci Marcia C. Phinney Tamie and Jane Richards Donald Crawshaw/The W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. MacMillan Inc. George Ehinger Joseph Ehrlich and Donald Crawshaw Sheila Johnson Robbins Jane Adams Wait Katherine Rosman* and Matthew Hoffman Lenore Malen* Empire Quality Elizabeth Rosenman Matthew Santirocco* Charitable Fund Robert and Ms. Kate Walbert* and Services, Inc. Mr. Rafael Pelli Saratoga National Bank Susan Crile* Doris Fischer Malesardi Mr. and Mrs. Saratoga Casino Hotel & Trust Co. Sheri Warshauer-Riskind* The D.A. Collins Ellen Chesler and Irvine D. Flinn Alicia Zarou Scanlon Saratoga Paint and Companies Matthew Mallow Heidi and Bob West Lynn Freed* George Schwarz Sip Studio Helen Degen Cohen* Jean and Peter Maloy Jeffrey Wodicka and Avram and Steven Schrader Jim Silverman / Opaleye Neil Castro Ken Dornstein* Jack Bankowsky and Rhoda Freedberg Management, Inc. Jay Shinn* Matthew Marks Jaime Wolf Jean Dugan and Jill and Jonathan Gainor Simon & Schuster, Inc. Paula D. Silver Ben Ford Cathy and Elliott Masie Alexi Worth* and Amy Godine* / Bernice Margaret Sundell Erika Belsey Worth Susanna Sirefman Mr. Pancks’ Fund Kathy Mattes and B. Godine Family The Swyer Foundation Andy Marsh Migs and Bing Wright Foundation Michelle and Laurel Farrin* Ronald Slone Barbara Toll Kathryn McAuliffe and Douglas Wright* and James Hannaham* Mary and Rich Flaherty Patricia Towers Jay Kriegel David Clement Linda Haswell Kevin and Judy Soukup Flynn, Walker, Diggin Beverly McIver* Karen Sulzberger and Towne, Ryan C.P.A., P.C. Richard Hayes* & Partners, P.C. Pat Meaney and Eric Lax Four Winds-Saratoga Elizabeth Hazan* James and Susan Towne Joseph Zarzynski $500-$999 Kim and Robert Swidler Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox Milton Higgins III Sean Mewshaw and Verena and Tohru Margo and Anonymous (2) Ingeborg Hilberg Anthony Viscusi Julie Fuller and Desiree Van Til Takekoshi Marcus Dean Fuller Denny Abrams Hoffman’s Car Wash and John and Joanne Meyer Dr. Sanjay Taneja and Patricia Volk* Jiffy Lube Laura Furman* Jan and Stefan Abrams Mrs. Shweta Taneja Charles and Melissa Meyer* Elizabeth Gaffney* Adirondack Tree Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Hollis Candace Wait Virginia and Timothy Judith Taylor* Surgeons, Inc. Brien and Galusha & Sons, LLC Millhiser Tamara and and Commercial Ayad Akhtar* Cindy Hollowood Daniel D. Moerschell/ Jason Tepper Paving, LLC Albany Valve & Fitting Lewis Hyde* $1,000 to $2,999 Morgan Stanley Pauls Toutonghi Michael and Co., Inc. Anna Journey* Ellen Morton Lucy Tower Anonymous (5) Anne Golden Bart and Jeff Altamari Jodi Kaplan* Geoffrey Movius Alice Walker* Marilyn Abildskov* Elaine Goldman Aztech Technologies, Inc. Alain Kirili and Audrey Niffenegger* Stewart Wallace* Pat Adams* Bill Goldston Balsamo Byrne Cipriani Ariane Lopez-Huici Northshire Saratoga, LLC Leslie Wayne* Benjamin and Kelly and Lou Gonda/ & Ellsworth The LA Group, PC India Adams The Gonda Family Olde Bryan Inn/ Charlotte Weber Brett and Terri Balzer Jeremy Lansford and Foundation Longfellows Hotel and Heather Althoff Frederick Wertheim Restaurant Richard and Kerri Laura Faulk and Donald Bailey/ Allan Gurganus* Bartlett Marc and Jennifer Leidig John Witt Statesman Robert Owens and Mary Stewart Hammond* Foundation, Inc. Eve Klein Battenkill Valley Jan Heller Levi* and Workman Publishing and Arthur Yorke Creamery Christoph Keller Company, Inc. Jonathan Ames* Allen/The Walbridge Prime Buchholz Elisabeth Bentley* Marilyn Madden John A. Zanetti Jo Andres* and Fund, LTD. Richard Prince Studio Leslie C. Berlowitz* Zanetti Architectural Steven Buscemi Beth and Gary Harker David Rakowski* and Lauren and Michael Marrus Millwork Alberta Arthurs HarperCollins Publishers Beth Wiemann* Dorothy Berwin Christina and Associates of Susan Haswell Lawrence and Lucy Bowditch Anthony Mason Glens Falls, Inc. Lucy Ricciardi Hill & Markes, Inc. James and Jennifer Norman and Adam Bartos and Frank A. Rogers Cacioppo $250-$499 A. M. Homes* Micki Massry Mahnaz Ispahani- Bruce Rosenblum and Carusone & Carusone Anonymous (4) Bartos/Pannonia Ralph and Lynn Huber Joseph and Lori Laitman Marilyn Chin* André Aciman* Foundation Mary-Beth Hughes* Anne McCann Jordan Roth/Jujamcyn David Cohen* Carol Allen and Ms. Blair Brown and Duke Beeson Richard McCann* Theaters Michael Mason Colonie Mechanical Diane and Anthony R. Ianniello, Esq. Mark Meltzer Saratoga Arms, Ltd. Contractors, Inc. Jessie Anson and Clyde Brownstone Informz David and Allison Meyers Sean McNulty Linda N. Schapiro Ann Cook Robert E. Buckholz Rick Moody*

18 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Patricia and Marianne Boruch* Kelsey Cottone and Cassandra Richardson Jane Hirshfield* John Kelly* William Arpey Tracy Perkins and Gregory Frankian Henry Brown* Jay Hodges* Meredith Kenny and David Auburn* Mary A. De Bare Patricia McBride Friesen Andrew Smith Aifric Campbell* Linda Hoyt Peter Balakian* Isabelle Dervaux Deborah Fuller Charles and Margaret Justin Campbell and Daniel Izzo and Kuenzel Suzana Barros and Rachelle Lyford John Dilg* Ann Walker Gaffney Hillary DeGrasse BreAnn French Reese Kwon* John L. Cassis Gary and GE Foundation Rebecca Jablonsky and Andrew Bassett and Mary DiSanto-Rose Andrew Barbour Joseph Leahy Elysa Baron-Cavayero Mary Jo Ann Guinchard Jennifer Philbin and Keith Cavayero Sarah Donahue Desireé Johnson and Anne LeBaron* Dorothy and Richard and Paul Natale Lan Samantha Chang* Ellen and Todd Downing Stephen Harran Mary Levin and Robert Donna Bates Jonathan Perkins and Legnard Helen Chase Susan Dryfoos Judy Harrigan, PhD Matthew and Rachael Johnson Jonathan Lethem* Eileen Battle Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Alan Effron Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Jones and Clark, III Donald Haswell Joann Long Aimee Bender* Richard Ellsworth Jessica Sherman Marie-Therese Connolly* Ryan Hayner and Raymond A. Mahr Barbara and Sheri Fink* Laura Karetzky* Leslie Meyer William Bennett Jane and John Corrou Mario and Dawn Daniel and Dorothy Kelliher Barbara Hefter Martinez Corinna Bishop Kathleen Fortier continues

19 YADDO CONTRIBUTORS 2016 (continued) Ron Baron* Janice Caswell* Brian DeLeeuw* Mark Barr* Ward A. Cavanaugh Marilyn and Dominick DeLorio John Barrow* Edmund and Debra Cechnicki Tamar Diesendruck* Jacob Matthews Mr. John R. Rudd, II Up to $249 Tracy Battles Sharon Charde* Danielle Dimston* Susan Nisenbaum Alice Mattison* Jonathan Santlofer* Anonymous (18) Becker* Susan Cheever* Rebecca Donner* Terry McMillan* Dick Scanlan* Robert E. Abrams Dan Bellm*and Peter Child* Josh Dorman* David Means* Paul and Kathy Schwartz John and Lynn Adams Yoel Kahn Lisa Cholodenko* Matthew J. Dorsey Katie Michel Joseph Seney and Elizabeth Agnew and Marvin and Tiffany Mattison Audrey Christensen Nancy Downing Carmen Milligi Michael Butchino Miriam Belsky Henry and Kevin Doyle* Mark Shalonis Phyllis and Judith Belzer* and Maggie Moss-Tucker Pamela Christiansen and Michael Moss Theresa Sheffer and Alexander Aldrich Michael Pollan Patricia Duval and Nancy Church and Monte Franke Mark Robbens Mr. and Mrs. Suzanne Bennett* John and Lee Nelson Stephen Buonome Joseph Alexander Barbara Eaton Amy Sillman* Joan Berns Sheila and Gloria Ciejka Judith Amdur* Jonathan Elliott* Donald Nelson Jenny Snider* Barbara Berntsen Anne Clark Florence Andresen Barbara Ellmann* Joseph E. Nichols, Esq. James and Anne Bertram* Heather Clark Nehreen Spiezio Sean Andrews Margaret Condon Elting Patrick and Jill Bialosky* Catherine A. Clarke Marie O’Connell Dena M. Steele Michele Araujo* Carolina Escobar* Hayes Biggs* Marcelle Clements* Rodney Evans* Ralph Black* Rachel Cline* Jacquelyn Aronson Falk Bill Blando Paul and Judith Coburn Lynn M. Farenell Amy Bloom* Maureen Coen Kate Feiffer Boeing Company’s Gerald Cohen* Matching Gift Program Heather Ferri Lisa and Clem Cohen Heather Bohm Tallman Lucy Ferriss* Tony Cokes Susan Bokan Paul Festa* Thomas Colbert* Terri Cosma Boor John and Terry Forester Michael Coleman Andrea Bossone Martine Fougeron* Susan Coll* Nancy Bowen* Suzanne Fox* Vivien* and Eleanor Boyle Sohrab Homi Fracis* David Collens Leslie Brack* Jeffrey Frederick* Mary Collins* Peg and Jerry Bradley Christy Funsch* Anne Connell* Timothy Brandoff* Jack Gallagher* Janice Conners* Ben Brandt* Patricia Gallagher Ronald Conover and Terry Braunstein* Christine Stevens Marcia G. Galloway Michael Nancy Brett* Consulting For Gay Gamage Bruno Architects, Inc. Jamie Brisick* Reverend Francis and Katie Diane Cook* Gargani Rosman Stan Brodsky* and Linda Garramone at our Jeanne M. Hewitt Debra Copeletti Tuxedo Park Colette Brooks* Celeste Cornell Stanley and Phyllis Getzler celebration. Debra Brown Ms. Joanne Cosiol Wendy Gifford and Ellen Brown Jane R. Costello Gerald Degenhardt Sandra Brown Sherman JoAnn Cote-Round Margaretta Gilboy* Suzanne Brunelle Jose Luis Crespo Gina Gionfriddo* Rosanna Bruno* Jean-Marie Crocker Glenville Hills A’Lelia Bundles* Pamela Bock Cromey Garden Club

Rachel Person and Hume R. Steyer David B. Armbruster Austin Bunn* Linda Cummings* Philip and Steve Sheinkin Marie Glotzbach Martha Strohl Jeffrey and Teresa Armon Steven Burke* Ellen-Deane Cummins Guinevere Phelps Paul and Teakwood Builders Janet Lee Burnet Mark Allen Cunningham* Michael and Barbara Glotzbecker Tony Phillips* and Ralph Vincent and Nancy Swire Arons Sandra G. Butler Michele Curry Judith Raphael* Gerard J. Glowniak Steven Golime Christopher J. Arpey Sharon Butler* Mary Curtis Phoenix Life Insurance Paul Gluck Shirley and Diana Arterian* Tracey Buyce Daniel Czech Company Neil Goldberg* Robert Voelker Photography Shimon Attie* Richard Danielpour* Thomas H. Pierce Ronald Goldblatt Amelia and Terry Weir David Cale* B & B Plumbing & Alice Dark* Elizabeth Pratt Kathy Goldman Londa Weisman* Heating, Inc. Ellen Campbell* Kristina Darling* Price Chopper’s William Goldstein* Lawrence Weschler* Blake Bailey and Eve LaSalle Caram* Golub Foundation Laura Davis Mary Brinkmeyer Guido Goluke* Thomas Whitman* Henry and Dr. Robert Rapoport and Daniel Thomas Davis* Dr. Suzanne Rapoport Joan Wickersham* Norman Ballard Lauriann Cardinali Joe Goode* Lisa Corinne Davis* Charles and Nancy and David Wilder Charles A. Ballew Robert Carioscia* Philip Gourevitch* Nicholas Dawidoff* Katie Richman The Honorable Frank Bank of America Claudia Carman Christopher Gow Merrill Lynch Aubrey DeBordenave Jay Rogoff* and B. Williams and Mrs. Marianne Carroll Holly K. Grande Penny Howell Jolly Sharon L. Williams Judith Banks Kyle deCamp* Pelle Cass* Elizabeth Graver* Jessica Rose Kristen Barkenhagen Ellen M. deLalla Nancy Cassell* Jeannette Green

20 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Elliott Green* Lt. Col. Edward Kelly and Alison Manheim* Jonathan Parker* Daniel and Ardie Russell Jane and Gordon and Phyllis Kelly Jane Thompson Katharine Hackett* John Mannino Richard Parker Gregory Sale* Ruth Kessler* Jean Marie Hitchen and Meron Hadero* Henrietta Mantooth* Paul and Theresa Salierno Robert Thompson Joanne Killian Audrey Parobeck Daron Hagen* and Jeffrey Marchand Britt Salvesen* The Tocci Group Gilda Lyons Starlee Kine* Barbara Parrish James Marcus* Eleonor Sandresky* Ushio Torikai* Charles Hagen* Dave King* Vincent L. Passaro* Regina Marler* Saratoga Living Maureen Torrens Sarah Haimes Adam Klein* Gelah Penn* Magazine Barbara Marra Sarah Tortora* Aaron Hamburger* and Kim Klopstock Jaclyn Perlmutter* Dee Sarno Steve Marston Anthony Palatta Peter Trachtenberg* Karla Knight* Lisa Phillips* and Stephanie Sauer* Randy and Alice Martin Lisa Hamilton* William Mead William Trowbridge* Barbara J. Kolapakka Barnet Schecter* Beverley Mastrianni Gabrielle Hamilton* Roger Phillips* George Tsontakis* Maran Kosz Victoria and Mary Hickey Mattes David and Carolyn Barbara Pierce Frank Schepps Harvey Tulcensky* Tom Kotik* Hampton Jerrilyn Matthews Daryl Pierce Susan Scher Lewis Turco* Margo Kren* Trish Harnetiaux* Nyla Matuk* Kala Pierson Richard and Kelly Underwood Matthew Kuenzel Kathryn and James Hart Janet McAdams* Leslie Schmidt Burton Pike Deborah van Eck Julia Kunin* Patty Hasbrouck/ Michelle McCabe* Kathleen Schneider* Roger Pinches* Martha and Madison Healthcare Paul LaFarge* R. Paul and John Schuetz* Grant Van Patten Russell Platt* Advisors Michael Lane Kathleen A. McCarty Sarah Schulman* Jane Van Rensselaer Dean Haspiel* Denise Polit and Eric Lane* Estate of Susannah Hines Alan Janosy Christine Schutt* Mellicent and William McCorkle* Mary L. Larkin, PhD Aynsley Vandenbrouke* Francesca Giuliana Polo Marilyn and Hawke Julie McDonough Mary Ann Larkin* Bill Schweiker Catherine Vanhentenryck Sheila Pompan Valerie Hegarty* Stuart McGregor Patricia Lasch* Marlene Sellers* Vauhini Vara* Elena and Steven Porter Kylie Heidenheimer* T.M. McNally* Wayne Lawson Alex Shakar* Nicholas Varchaver Helen Porter Nate Heiges Jane McSpirit Adrian LeBlanc Dolores Shapiro Helen Vendler* Nancy Potter* Sylvia Heiner Cathleen Medwick* Rolland and Lisa Shea* Robert Vessels Michael and Marian Heiskell Wendy LeBlanc John Mesch Anne-Marie Pratt Lorraine Shemesh* Amanda Vitti Susanna Heller* James and Lesley Leduc Jack Millea Martha Precheur Lynne and Dan Shorey Beth and Amy Hempel* Young Jean Lee* Michele Millen George Vodapivc Nina Preston Alice Shure David Hendren* Natalie Robins* and Susan Miller* Huberta von Voss-Wittig Bonnie Printz* Julia Simet Heritage Garden Club Christopher Tyler Mills* Mary Joan Waid* Lehmann-Haupt Lauren Proctor Mary Taylor Simeti* Michelle Herman* Alex Mishkin G.C. Waldrep* Deirdre Leland Adele, Josh, Liz, Ali and Simons Foundation Brianna Herman Elizabeth B. Moore* John/Pulver Irene Wanner* Tania Leon* Carla H. Skodinski Will Hermes* Nancy Pierce Morgan David and Shannon Ward* Daniel Levenson* Robert H. Smith, Jr. Katherine and William Caroline Putman Nancy Jane Morris Dalit Warshaw* Hickey Murray and Tina Levith Michael Snediker* Jane Quinn Tracie Morris* Linda Watters Sally Higgins Joseph Levy* Suzanne Snider* Kora Radella* Mary N. Morrow Annette Weintraub* Kathy High* Maureen Lewi Harry and Helen Snyder Mahmud Rahman* Lauren Moseley* Jason Weiss* Leslie Hirst* Sydney Licht* and William and David Rand Tom Summer Jennifer Moses* Patricia Snyder Vera and Marvin Weiss Ms. Caren Hoffman Phyllis Raphael* Joan Linder* Mary Muraski Christian R. Sonne Dan Welcher* Phyllis Hoge* Benita Raphan Deena Linett* Deboraheliz Murphy Soroptimist International Susan M. Wendelgass Field Horne* Kevin Ray of Saratoga County Pamela Lins* Peter E. Murphy* Scott Wheeler* Patricia and Robert Hoyt Beth Reisman* Dennis P. Spates Mark Lipman* and Sarah Murray* Paula Whyman* Mary C. Huber Helen Cohen Susan Retersdorf Kathleen Spivack* Brooke Nellis and Lex Williford* Adam Hurwitz* Nicole Lodowski Jacob Tennis Carlos Reyes* Jeff Stark* Sari Wilson* William Hutnick* Jim and Barbara Andrew Neuman* Deborah Reynolds and Steeltoes Dance Carolin Jane Window* Frank Huyler Lombardo Darlene Newey Carol J. Kautzman Studio, Inc. Mark Winegardner* Olukemi Ilesanmi Ruth Lomon* Laura Newman* Alice Higgins Rice and Nancy Stevens Mark C. Perkins Ruth Wolf* Elizabeth Ireland M. G. Lord* Rhoda Nimsker Dr. and Mrs. Twitty Styles Frances Richey* Theresa Wong* Diana Ivans Andrea Louie* Thomas O’Brien Cheryl Pearl Sucher* Martin Ries* Bert Yarborough* Kiyomi Iwata* Jennifer Lunden* Maryalice O’Brien-Smith Nova Ren Suma* Elizabeth Riggle* James Yeara Margaret Jacobson Ms. Margaret I. Lynch and Owen Smith Rita Jean Sutcliffe* Mary Robison* Domenique Yermolayev Phyllis Janik* John and Odili Odita* Barbara Sutherland Donna MacFadden John and Bee Roblee William and Nicolette Jones Virginia Snyder Kathleen Sweet Barbara Young Charles MacFarland O’Donnell Christine Root Bruce Jordan Kimi Takesue* Shay Youngblood* Sandra Macica Nancy and Joan Rorick Shaun Kadlec* Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan* Edward O’Leary John and Mary Yrizarry Linda E. Macica Kaylee Kraus and Jennifer Karady* Caesar & Barbara Marie Oppenheim Bradley Rose Mr. and Mrs. Audrey Ellsworth Maehl Taormina, Judith Prehn Vincent Katz* Stephen J. Zabala Tarik O’Regan* Christopher Rose & Marge Mei Tim Main* Jonathon Keats* Joseph and The Pages Michele Rosenthal Marion Taylor Alexander Maksik* John Keene* Joyce Zanchelli Faith Palma Marcy Rosewater* The Tube Museum Marilyn J. Malina Judith Zassenhaus Donald Keene* New York Richard Panek* and Dawn and Mark Rosso Charles Malley Deborah Zlotsky* Nancy Kelly* Meg Wolitzer* Kamara Thomas* Andrew Rudin* Patricia Mangini Tom Zoellner* Philip Pardi* 21 GIFTS MADE IN HONOR OF

A.M. Homes Gail Gregg Martin Puryear Madelyn Pulver Jennings Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo/Dorothea Susan Dryfoos Agnes Gund Adele, Josh, Liz, Ali and John L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc. Jane Richards Olukemi Ilesanmi

Cathy Sulzberger and Joseph Perpich Mike Frankfurt Deborah Berke Stacie and Mike Arpey Benita Raphan Adam Bartos and Mahnaz Susan Crile David and Carolyn Hampton Ispahani-Bartos/Pannonia Foundation Kate Feiffer Don Rice Michele Millen Anne Palamountain Sheila Johnson Robbins Clifford Chase Mary-Beth Hughes* and Duke Beeson Helen Chase Brien and Cynthia Hollowood Don and Genie Rice and Lawrence and Jennifer Alice Higgins Rice and Goichman Michelle Obama Mark C. Perkins Susan Unterberg Avram and Rhoda Freedberg Nicolette Jones Mary A. De Bare

Katie Rosman Joan Murray* Janice Y.K. Lee Margie and Dick Roussin Suzanne Snider* Linda N. Schapiro Catherine Gellert Bruce Jordan Stanley and Phyllis Getzler

Alexi Worth Jim Silverman / Opaleye Gardner McFall Management, Inc. Nancy Sullivan Anonymous Wendy Gifford and Gerald Degenhardt Marilyn J. Malina

Stephen Sandy Barbara Toll Geoffrey Movius Ellen Chesler and Matthew Mallow

GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY OF

Aileen Ward DeLora Hannaham Michaell Kendall Pat Adams* James Hannaham* Joseph Levy* Joan Berns Sandra Brown Patricia Waddon Carole Dunson Sherman Moreau Katherine and William Susan Brynteson Hickey Linda E. Macica Nancy Potter* Joseph Homes Maggie Estep Gisela Matta A. M. Homes* Michelle McCabe* Jamie Brisick* Jim Harrison Audrey S. Pratt and Dr. Robert L. Pratt Galway Kinnell Walter Kirn* Elizabeth Pratt Barbara K. Bristol

Byron Burford Katrina Trask Gerry Griffin Margo Kren* Anonymous Robert Carioscia*

Michael Harper Melisande Kopp Nancy Whitney Pat Adams* Walley Frank A. Rogers Nancy Lampton Michael Coleman

Carryl Cudney and Pina Pasquantonio Mildred Whaley Myrtle Cole Garisson Patricia Lasch* Lynette and Daniel Marcia G. Galloway Jenny Snider* Whaley

Deborah Erwin Dora Ferran Aaron Hamburger* and Tania Leon* Anthony Palatta

22 YADDO ANNUAL REPORT 2016 TRASK SOCIETY THE TRASK SOCIETY: MEMBERS Another Enduring Legacy for Yaddo Anonymous (14) Susan R. Malloy+ Helene Aylon Alison Manheim John Barrow Adrianne Marcus+ David Loren Bass Cleopatra Mathis Leslee Becker Richard McCann Chana Bloch Susannah McCorkle+ Susan Bokan Gardner McFall Mrs. Edward Milan Boor Mark Meltzer Jamie Brisick Estate of Mary Mercer+ Susan Brynteson Melissa Meyer J. Byrne+ Rick Moody Eli Cantor+ John and Lee Nelson William Claire Acosta Nichols+ Jane M. Cooper+ Anne Palamountain+ Allen Davis III Andras Petocz Peter Davison+ Estate of Sidney Phillips+ Louis DeMattei Denise Polit Katharina Denzinger Nancy Potter Garry DuFour Harold Reed+ Stephen Dunn Louise Reisman+ Janice Eidus Donald S. Rice Alice Fellows Katherine R. Rich+ Lynn Freed Harvena Richter+ Robert Garis+ Leonard Roberts+ Amy Godine Thomas Rogers+ Jane Goldberg Taney Roniger Morris Golde+ Andrew Rudin Julius Goldstein+ Jonathan Santlofer Peter C. Gould PHOTO: PETERPHOTO: KAYAFAS Sapphire Julie Gross Rudy Shackelford Daron Hagen he poet Helen Degen Cohen came to Yaddo that Helen finally felt Rachel Shteir Priscilla Haley had two Yaddo residencies, in “affirmed” as an artist. Eileen Simpson+ Curtis Harnack+ Alfred Z. Solomon+ 1987 and 1991. She especially Nanette Heiman+ J. Jason Stewart appreciated the company of We are grateful to Helen for so Estate of Patricia Highsmith+ Jancey Stockly+ Ther fellow guests, which at the time generously acknowledging the role A.M. Homes Nancy Sullivan included the writers Erica Jong, Jay Yaddo played in her development Cyrus G. Jabarzadeh Karen A. Sulzberger McInerney, Mona Simpson and David as an artist. She is a part of a Madelyn Pulver Jennings Nina Sundell+ Foster Wallace and the composer long-standing tradition of former Buffie Johnson+ Amy R. Tan Michael Torke. In addition to an residents such as Patricia Highsmith Beena Kamlani Elizabeth Thompson The Estates of Jane+ Martha Tinker+ impressive body of work, including and Milton and Sally Avery, as well and Leslie+Katz Patricia Towers poetry, short stories, and novels, as many individuals who simply Beth Kissileff Anne Truitt+ Mary Alice Kremp+ Helen’s legacy includes a bequest to believe in creativity, and who have Esteban Vicente+ Rosette Lamont+ Yaddo, following almost 30 years of her all thoughtfully considered Yaddo in Aileen Ward+ Ingeborg Lauterstein+ support of the annual fund. Helen, her making their long-term financial plans. Gerald Weales+ Sharon Lerch George W.S. Wen mother and father were all Holocaust Maurice Alain LeSage+ Anita Weschler+ survivors, and her parents reportedly The Trask Society is named for our Jan Heller Levi Holly Woodward Marshall Levin had a hard time understanding and founders, Spencer and Katrina, and Nancy Wilson-Ross respecting her decision to become a serves to recognize those who have Estate of Romulus Young+ Linney+

writer. According to Helen’s daughter, supported Yaddo in an important and Bernard Malamud+ +Deceased Laura Cohen, it was only when she enduring fashion with a bequest. Lenore Malen

23 DIRECTORS AND MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION OF YADDO As of December 31, 2016

BOARD OF DIRECTORS ACTIVE MEMBERS

A.M. Homes - Co-Chair Ayad Akhtar Pat Adams David Del Tredici Beverly J. McIver Jonathan Ames Lynn Freed Melissa Meyer Susan Unterberg - Co-Chair Stacie H. Arpey Jo Andres Laura Furman Rick Moody Laura Callanan Jaime Wolf - Vice-Chair Alberta Arthurs Elizabeth Gaffney Geoffrey Movius Peter Cameron John W. Barr Peter C. Gould Tarik O’Regan Candace K. Weir - Treasurer Ann Chen Noah Baumbach Allan Gurganus Donald S. Rice Gail Gregg - Corporate Secretary Willis Goldsmith Deborah Berke Daron Hagen Ned Rorem Madelyn P. Jennings Leslie C. Berlowitz Richard Howe Susan Brynteson - Recording Katherine Rosman Blair Brown Mary-Beth Hughes Secretary John Kelly Jonathan Santlofer Susan Brynteson Tamara Jenkins Janice Y.K. Lee James Siena Elaina H. Richardson - President Steven Burke Barry E.A. Johnson James H. Silberman Ellen W. Morton Joseph Caldwell Peter Kayafas Christine Holle - Vice President/ Robert Storr Finance & Operations Matthew Santirocco Alex Castro Joseph Keckler Nancy Sullivan Andrew Solomon Susan Cheever Carita D. Kelly Barbara Toll Marilyn Chin Kevin Kimberlin Jill Viney Patricia Towers Marcelle Clements Nancy Lampton Patricia Volk George Tsontakis Bruce Cohen Anne LeBaron Stewart Wallace Margo Viscusi Lisa Cortes Young Jean Lee Alexi Worth Susan Crile Jan Heller Levi Huberta von Voss-Wittig Doug Wright Sebastian Currier Richard McCann J. Stanley Yake Kyle deCamp Gardner McFall Shay Youngblood

STAFF As of December 31, 2016

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