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President + Executive Director 3 Spotlight on FELLOWS 5 VCCA Mission Statement Legacy Society: VCCA Fellow • Board Member Sandell Mors 15 Spotlight on the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation 17 Endowed + Sponsored Fellowships VCCA advances the arts by providing a creative space in 19 The Commission 2015 25 which our best national and international artists produce WAVERTREE 27 their finest literature, visual art and music. Contributors 29 Art + Books + Score Donations 38 In-Kind Donations 39 VCCA-France 39 Legacy + Honorary Donations 41 Foundations + Government + Corporate Support 43 Fellows in Residence 45 VCCA Board of Directors/International Oversight 51 Honorary + Advisory Boards 53 VCCA Staff 54 Audited Financial Information 55 Credits 58

Cover: EXALT, 2014, mixed media, David Farrar In his practice, which incorporates printmaking, woodwork, sculpture and installation, British artist David Farrar makes use of humble materials and objects, subtly altering them in unexpected and, indeed, quite dysfunctional ways. A printing technician at the Glasgow School of Art where he studied, David is influenced and guided in his practice by “Ephemeral moments of beauty and comedy.” These include: “Lines of light cast through a Venetian blind, a toilet roll dancing uninhibitedly in the gentle breeze of an extraction fan, the strong shadow cast from a streetlight illuminating a wooden pallet on the street. I repackage these moments as ethereal worlds isolated from the imperfections and noise of reality so that more people might appreciate the beauty of everyday occurrences.”

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each year. We are so grateful to the anonymous donor for so generously supporting VCCA-Abroad.

The old Chinese adage that is both a blessing and a curse, “May you live in interesting times”, took on special significance this past spring. Life is always interesting at VCCA, thanks to the presence of our Fellows, but things got VERY interesting when it was announced that Sweet Briar College, a vanguard in women’s education, would close, and the prospect cast a dark cloud over the final quarter of fiscal year 2015.

As everyone now knows, Sweet Briar was given a second chance. It was a welcome denouement for the institution we have shared such a close relationship with for going on five decades. With the college now under the most capable leadership of President Philip C. Stone working in concert with its passionate alumnae, we are confident that Sweet Briar has many, many bright years ahead.

Going forward, we want to ensure VCCA is most advantageously positioned for success. To this end, VCCA Executive Director, Board of Directors and Strategic Planning Committee have been diligently pursuing a long-term home for VCCA.

Cameron Littleton Photography While we continue to weigh other options, our deepest wish is to stay put and move forward together with “Without culture,” wrote Albert Camus, “And the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a Sweet Briar, but wherever we end up, one thing is certain, VCCA will remain strong. Our strength derives from jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” the high caliber of our Fellows, the commitment of our staff and board and the support of our many donors who understand that sustaining arts and culture is of vital importance to the health and well-being of society. Every day artists at VCCA are fashioning precious gifts for the future. Between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, 452 national and international artists passed though VCCA. Of these, 247 were writers, 129 visual artists and 39 Artists continue to flock to VCCA from all corners of the earth finding here the haven where they can tap into composers. Twenty-three had residencies at the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar and 14 more went on international the rich veins of creativity found deep within themselves, bringing forth the literature, visual art and music that exchanges to Germany, Ireland, Malta and Austria. bear the truth, beauty and mystery of the human heart and will embellish lives for many generations to come. Thank you to all who have made this possible. We know how transformative, indeed, life changing these residencies can be to individual artists, inspiring ideas, instilling confidence, providing the time and place to create. They also transform culture, enhancing it with works created right here in Amherst, Virginia and in Auvillar, France.

Calendar year 2015 started off with a bang when it was announced that VCCA-Abroad was the recipient of a $1 million anonymous gift. One of the largest in VCCA’s history, the gift, to be known as the Elizabeth Coles Robert O. Satterfield Gregory Allgire Smith Langhorne Memorial Endowment Fund for VCCA in France, is to be used solely by VCCA for improvement of President, VCCA Board of Directors Executive Director the current French properties to include the purchase of additional real and personal property, and operation July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015 to include the payment of utilities and taxes, and in particular, the funding of Fellowships and transportation of VCCA-qualified United States artists for residencies in Auvillar.

This gift represents a significant imprimatur on the important work VCCA does in support of hundreds of artists

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It would be impossible to include all the 452 amazing Fellows who passed through our doors in fiscal year 2015. Following are VCCA Fellows who were in residence at Mt. San Angelo between July 1, 2014 start to find forms and then refine and approach details. I start with detail and zoom out. It’s like the details are super precise and controlled and I know what I’m going for. In the beginning, I’m using a tiny brush; it’s and June 30, 2015. They represent just a sampling of the incredible creativity and talent that is painstakingly slow and then as the paintings progress, I’m relinquishing control of this thing I labored on. The nurtured at VCCA. backgrounds often involve splatters and poured paint—chance things and a little bit of chaos so I’m not exactly quite sure what the finished work is going to look like from the front anymore.” Aaron Johnson’s vibrantly colored, densely packed compositions feature a profoundly macabre subject After Aaron has finished the painting/liquid polymer stage, he lays the painting surface flat, plastic side down, matter where Mexican Day of the Dead imagery vies with and then after pouring on a final coat of polymer, he transfers it onto stretched netting. The polymer saturates East Indian iconography for visual whammy. The work, the net, congealing all those layers of paint to the net as the polymer dries. The plastic sheeting is peeled away which is created through a complicated technique Aaron once the piece is completely dry. Aaron began using netting because canvas wasn’t porous enough and when refers to as “reverse painted acrylic polymer peel he tried to use his multi-layer technique he ended up with a lot of air bubbles. He got the idea to use the painting”, is also generously larded with potent political unconventional material walking past a construction site in New York where he spotted the orange net and societal themes. barricades.

Aaron’s multi step process starts with a preliminary There’s plenty of blood and grossness in Aaron’s work, but it’s handled in such an irreverent and intentionally drawing. “For the small paintings with their hyper detail it outlandish way, it comes across as darkly funny rather than truly disturbing. In one, a bizarre feast/operation helps for me to plan it all out in advance,” he says. is depicted. It’s a grotesque comedy featuring a cast of oddball death’s headed characters arranged around a “Narratives come easily when I’m drawing with pencil table. and paper—letting things enter my mind and having fun with it.” The drawings get messy with all the erasing and Aaron’s mother grew up in Assam and his childhood house was filled with Indian art. He says the Indian smudges of graphite and so he makes a tracing of them aesthetic is so ingrained in him he references it without thinking about it. This explains the ease with which he that he tapes to the front of the polyethylene plastic incorporates the sumptuous palette, marvelously inventive patterns and flame-like gestures that enliven his sheeting attached to stretchers that he uses as his paintings and recall Indian miniatures. In some works, Aaron makes more direct reference: inserting the painting surface. “For the bigger ones, I’ll just draw right elephant foot stool he inherited from his grandfather in one, a Ganesh-like figure in another. onto the plastic because it’s a looser piece.” Aaron’s paintings have three layers of paint each separated by Aaron enjoys putting “little things for people to discover” in his paintings like familiar food items. He keeps the a layer of liquid acrylic polymer that’s poured onto the meaning very open. “I’m not really thinking why the fries and hamburger would be dancing on the piano… it’s painted surface and left overnight to harden. The layering just available iconography to me. I wanted something on the tabletop to punctuate the wood grain.” The food adds dimension and a luscious sheen to the work. adds a welcome note of levity. It’s just one of Aaron’s inventive choices that go into the production of this work that is so elaborate in terms of both subject and process. Aaron paints in reverse. He first puts down the detail. Disembodied from the rest of the components making up the form, these floating elements (teeth, eyes, nails, Courtesy of the artist Visual Artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been collaborating since 2000, producing numerous etc.) don’t make much sense to anyone at this point other than the artist. This layer is followed by the under coat expanded cinema installations and performances that go beyond the category of moving image to incorporate of color which completes the figures. Finally, the background layer is applied. To grasp how hard this is, you have the visual, mechanical and conceptual qualities of film projection. to understand that from the working side, it’s impossible to tell what the painting looks like, it has to be turned around in order to see its true appearance. “The art of projection is an area we’ve been working in for 15 years creating ways of articulating the material substance of light,” says Luis. “In the same way a sculptor might work with a material they chisel away at we find “The way I paint is the opposite of how most painters work,” Aaron explains. “They start with broad strokes and ways of carving, subtracting and adding light.”

7 8 S P O T L I G H T O N F E L L O W S FISCAL YEAR 2015 The camera obscura is a form of found art, since it records what is already there. It’s also low tech–you only need Sandra and Luis produce both performance and installation work. When performing, they are sometimes in front a darkened room and a small opening for light–and it’s ancient; Aristotle himself makes note of the phenomenon. of an audience, while at other times they are in the projection booth each operating a projector. They work in tandem with traditional film, experimental film and sometimes no film, just light. They come equipped with glass, Sandra and Luis have taken things that appear antiquated and overlooked: the camera obscura or film colored filters and a humidifier that produces vapor. As the projector rolls, they each interact with the technology with all its interesting retro looking artifacts and somehow made it cutting edge. They’ve done it by projected light creating a cinematic progression of light and color that is accompanied by sound produced by a taking a completely different approach, highlighting the means (the equipment, the methodology) rather than collaborator. the end (a precise recreation of the world outside/the moving image) to create thought-provoking and visually compelling work. During their residency at VCCA, Sandra and Luis set up a number of camera obscuras. These were beautiful, fragile and mysterious. Sandra and Luis are co-opting a naturally occurring scientific phenomenon, but they’re doing it in such an interesting way, making you think about light—its fragility and power and also about Irish playwright Stacey Gregg came to VCCA armed with an ambitious project: to begin and end a play perception itself. commissioned by the Abbey Theater in Dublin. She Yes, we are looking accomplished her goal, leaving Mt. San Angelo with at reality, but a completed first draft and even got to experience because of the “a sense of completeness” in her last two days. nature of optics, it’s upside down. Stacey writes for theater, film and TV. She’s The light/image prolific, having written numerous plays including is further altered the award-winning Perve, several television scripts, depending on a couple of films and even an opera. “I’ve always aperture size and operated at a high energy level,” she explains. where it’s directed. “Though it never feels that way.” Stacey also Sandra and Luis performs as an actor in other people’s work. She use wrinkled and started acting because “I just needed a break from torn paper and myself. Acting’s a really good way to be in a room, supermarket plastic to be physical and yet be out of your brain for a bags blown about Courtesy of the artists while. It’s galvanizing to disrupt patterns.” by electric fans to add texture and movement. These various techniques transform the image into something blurred and fleeting, quite separate from the outside world it’s capturing. It’s as if we’re looking at it from a From East Belfast, Gregg read English at Cambridge remove of distance or time. University and received a master’s in documentary Photo: Nina Sologubenko film from Royal Holloway. One piece used filters so the image was abstracted and the work became more a study of colored light and shadow. Another used a revolving glass vase as a lens to bend and warp the light creating dynamic projected When describing her writing process, Stacey says: “I look for a voice and a form that suits the subject matter, reflections. “We’re moving away from the obvious camera obscura ‘how’s it done’ mechanical thing,” says Luis. more so maybe than other writers would. While they have a particular voice that becomes, you could argue, kind “People tend to get hung up on trying to figure out what it is. We want to put layers in front of that so people of like their brand. You know what you’re going to get with them. Maybe I’m just naive; maybe objectively my can experience it first and then ask that question.” work is like that as well.”

“We see the camera obscura as micro-cinema, or more precisely, live cinema projection,” says Sandra. When you “The first play I had produced was probably the most conventional play I have ever written. It’s totally ironic to think about it, this is exactly right because the light that the camera obscura captures recreates an exact image of me that it’s the one that started my career and subsequent commissions. I think I had an expectation that I was the living, breathing, moving world. going to have to write in a conventional way in order to be successful. But in the last couple of years, I’ve been able to push the work back towards where I originally come from and where my excitement lies. Some people

9 10 S P O T L I G H T O N F E L L O W S FISCAL YEAR 2015 might refer to this as post-dramatic theater—it’s theater that’s aware of its form; it isn’t trying to trick you.” Hailed as “brilliant and funny” by The New York Times, Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s first novel Panic in a Suitcase recounts two decades Commissions vary from project to project. There’s always a balance between buying the freedom or earning the in the life of a Ukrainian immigrant household living in Brighton Beach, money to have the freedom to write what you want to write and then hope to find a home for it. “In terms of Brooklyn. cold hard cash, which is what you need when you’re starting out, commissions are a great way of supporting yourself,” says Stacey. “Sometimes theaters will come to you with a brief or sometimes because we’re so The book parallels Yelena’s own experience. Her family emigrated in 1992 financially conservative at the moment, it’s gotten more like TV where even though they don’t like to admit it, when Yelena was just seven years old. In Ukraine, family members were it’s more and more expected that you go in and pitch an idea and then they’ll commission you. But I don’t tend doctors and poets; arriving on the U.S. shores, Yelena’s educated parents to take very restrictive briefs that are more for TV. In theater, you can kind of be your own boss and that’s the were forced back to square one. Beginning the steep ascent back to the privilege of being able to write in that medium.” socio-economic standing they had once enjoyed, they took menial jobs; their only child, who previously had been tutored at home by her Stacey is pretty hands-off when it comes to a play’s production. She likes the idea of the refraction of ideas. How grandfather, was sent to school for the first time. It was a traumatic first the director’s vision, then the actors’ interpretation followed by the audiences’ experience all shape the work experience, which the family all seems to have repressed; none of them in different ways. “I get really excited about the audience having a polyphonic experience that is really hard to have memories of the period. translate into something clear and safe that marketers can sell.” One area where Stacey does want to maintain control is the imagery used in promotional material, believing a production can sink or swim just because of a bad Yelena began writing poems in junior high school. Poetry is very much poster or poor marketing campaign. in her DNA. Her mother writes poetry and her uncle and grandfather are both published poets. Soon Yelena switched to writing stories. She Stacey’s more recent dramatic work deals with the intersection of ethics and technology and the debates and wrote many, many stories. The one thing they all had in common was discussions that we should all be having right now about them, but aren’t. According to Stacey, for a long time, they bore no resemblance to her life. “It took me a long time until I got theaters were really nervous about dealing with anything that dealt with the future or technology. Two years ago to the point where I realized I could write about my own experience she wrote Override a play about body augmentation. This was not mere plastic surgery, but explored the very Courtesy of the artist fictionalizing it as needed,” she says. frontier of human enhancement and biometric medicine. Her play posited the question, how far can we take this? When she first pitched it, everyone seemed quite apprehensive at the idea of a sci-fi play, but it ended up “I’m always writing,” explains Yelena. “Writing for me is kind of the same thing as living.” She writes in English in being just ahead of the curve. Sci-fi plays are now all the rage. Stacey finds this exciting. “Because the thing about longhand, which she subsequently transcribes into a computer. Though seemingly laborious, this approach theater is, it’s magical; you can go anywhere you want. I think people forgot that for a long time. But now, we’re enables her to revise the work as she goes. seeing a reinvigorated wave of really bold experimental and hypothetical works.” Yelena has a complicated relationship with both her birth and adopted countries. Much like her character, Frida, Stacey divides her time between Dublin, London and Belfast. The different cities offer different attractions for she feels the pull of Ukraine. Nowadays it’s possible for émigrés to go back for visits and perhaps more. Yelena her: the theater scene in Dublin is very European in feel, more expressive and experimental, whereas in London, speaks wistfully of Lviv, a beautiful, peaceful city. (The fighting is largely confined to Eastern Ukraine, which has a the taste is for traditional social realism. Belfast is home. She feels enriched by exposure to these three cities and high concentration of Russians.) proud of her felicitous relationship with them because they’re very different. She’s also become very adept at moving between Irish and British culture and navigating the different ways that people work and think. At VCCA, Yelena was engrossed in writing her second book filling notebooks with words that flowed out of her. “I’m completely in the thick of it. It’s been really hard going,” she says. “As soon as I finished the last book, I “I’m still waiting on making that piece of work where I go, yes. I’ve nailed it. So I think I’m still learning, certainly wanted to start on the next thing. It takes about a year between when a book is bought and when it comes out. and that’s the funny thing about theater and having work produced: it’s only after it’s had an opening in front of So, I’ve been writing like a mad woman.” In the end, she deemed none of it useable. “I had to throw it all out— an audience that you really know what the play is.” One thing you do know is Stacey’s rigorous and challenging basically two years of work. It was a very dark time.” But, Yelena is philosophical about it now, realizing that the plays are expanding theater’s boundaries into exciting new territory. effort wasn’t a complete loss. “I see it’s okay because you’re practicing and exercising muscles that you’re going to need.”

This was Yelena’s first residency, but surely not her last because it was valuable in terms of the amount of work

11 12 S P O T L I G H T O N F E L L O W S FISCAL YEAR 2015 she produced. “Coming here is so incredible,” Yelena says. “Because everything comes into focus.” That focus is (Scribner, by Perry Knize), and Temperament (A. Knopf, by Stuart Isacoff). http://www.michaelharrison.com sure to translate into another literary triumph for this young author.

Richly evocative of experience and place, Patricia Spears Jones’ elegant, carefully parsed poems also Described as an “American Maverick” by Philip Glass, describe with rare perceptiveness the depth and breadth of human emotions. composer Michael Harrison has forged an impressive career in the contemporary classical music scene with works Originally from Arkansas, Brooklyn–based Patricia was that pair the ancient with the modern, the East with the West. educated at Rhodes College and earned her M.F.A. from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has resided in New York The co-founder and president of the American Academy of City since the early 1970s where she has been involved in Indian Classical Music, Michael has been deeply involved in the numerous organizations and projects centered around musical form since 1979. He has performed solo at numerous culture and social activism. Among her many noteworthy concerts in India, and with Terry Riley, as a vocalist, pianist, and accomplishments, Patricia was the first African American on tamboura. A disciple of the late Pandit Pran Nath, Michael program coordinator at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s has studied with master Indian vocalist Ustad Mashkoor Ali Church where she subsequently served as mentor for Emerge, Khan since 1999. Surface, Be, a new fellowship program. From 1994-96, Patricia was the director of Planning and Along with his many accomplishments as composer and Development at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. performer, Michael also designed and created the “harmonic Currently, Patricia curates Words Sunday, a literary and piano” in 1986. A grand piano that has been extensively altered performance series focused on Brooklyn-based writers and so that it can play 24 notes per octave, the harmonic piano artists. Patricia’s writing is not limited to poetry. She has is included in the second edition of the Grove Dictionary of written exhibition catalog essays for Jane Dickson, Rhonda Musical Instruments. Schaller and Richard J. Powell among others and plays commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. Patricia has At VCCA, Michael presented his Just Ancient Loops collaborated with musicians and artists such as Jason Hwang, collaboration of music and film. The piece, which includes Ras Moshe Burnett, Lenora Champagne and Danny Tisdale. the rich polyphonic sound of 20 tracks of pre-recorded cellos She is a contributing editor to Bomb magazine and a senior together with a live performance by cellist Maya Beiser. fellow at Black Earth Institute. Patricia teaches at CUNY. was presented as part of the BAM’s 2015 Next Wave Festival. Courtesy of the artist Patricia writes of VCCA: “During my residency, I did two Michael has taught graduate seminars at the Manhattan School of Music, and was on the faculty of the Bang on a amazing things: organized and edited poems that became A Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA. He has performed his music and received premieres at the Spoleto Festival, Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press). The Klavier Festival Ruhr in Germany, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, American Academy in Rome, Newman Center VCCA staff are super because I lost the first section of the Courtesy of the artist for the Performing Arts in Denver (solo and with composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn), Music in the Morning in manuscript into cyberspace and they helped me Vancouver (with author Stuart Isacoff), Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, and in New York City at Lincoln reconstruct it. Center for the Performing Arts, United Nations, Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd St. Y, Wordless Music Series, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, numerous Bang on a Can Marathons at “The second major project was to create a new poem, a commission organized by Elizabeth Alexander for the the World Financial Center, and with Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall performing with his mentor Terry Riley. Museum of Modern Art for a forthcoming exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations Series, which opened in April 2015. In about 48 hours I wrote the first major draft of Lave, which is now in the exhibition’s catalog along Recordings of Harrison’s works have been released on Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music, New Albion Records, with poems by eminent poets such as Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Tretheway, et al. I wrote a few new Important Records, and Fortuna Records, and chapters are devoted to his work in the books Grand Obsession poems as well, one of which has been published. More importantly, I met and befriended wonderful poets,

13 14 S P O T L I G H T O N F E L L O W S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Alexandria’s essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford painters, composers and heard glorious music in the barn.” American, Fourth Genre, Bookslut, TriQuarterly Online, Bellingham Review (as the winner of the Patricia is the author of poetry collections Painkiller, Femme Du Monde (Tia Chucha Press) and The Weather That Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction) and other Kills (Coffee House Press), and several chapbooks includingLiving in the Love Economy. Patricia was the editor publications. Her essay “Origins of a Murder” was and contributor to the blog project: Thirty Days Hath September: Another Kind of Noise and editor and anthologized in True Crime and honored as “notable” by contributor to Think: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat. Patricia co-edited the groundbreaking Best American Essays 2013. For Any One of Us Alexandria anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women from the late 1970s. Her received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, poetry has also appeared in Callaloo, The Yalobusha Review, Lights Camera, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Ikon, The VCCA, and other organizations, as well as a work-study American Voice, The Black Scholar, Nimrod, and numerous anthologies. Patricia is the recipient of a 1994 National scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Endowment of the Arts Poetry Fellowship, as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Award. Alexandria earned a J.D. at Harvard Law National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Interdisciplinary Projects program, Foundation for School, a B.A. in Sociology from Columbia, and an MFA in Contemporary Art, the New York Community Trust and the Goethe Institute. Her poem, Beuys and the Blonde Non-fiction Writing from Emerson. was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Patricia is 2015 recipient of a Money for Women/The Barbara Deming Fund award for her memoir in progress. www.psjones.com Currently, Alexandria is an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and teaches at the Memoir Incubator Program at Grub Street, a nonprofit When Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich came to VCCA, she was at a crossroads. She had been working on a writing center in Boston. book for years, which hadn’t sold: “I’d realized that was because the conception of the book expressed in the proposal didn’t match my secret, more ambitious aspirations for it—aspirations that I didn’t know how to “I value so much about VCCA: the community that arises Courtesy of the artist achieve.” After it failed to sell, she put together an outline that more closely reflected her vision and was amongst residents there; the wonderful staff who create a place where it is possible to focus on work; and above rewarded with a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Buoyed by that vote of confidence, but still all that it exists, that this haven of devotion to art has been carved out in such a beautiful place, a reminder that unsure of how to fully realize her vision, Alexandria arrived at VCCA. “There, working away in my studio with the art matters and so does the chance to just focus and create it.” mountains always in the distance, I sketched out three possible executions of my vision, and quickly realized, after so many years, what I needed to do. VCCA gave me the space that gave me the courage to start anew.”

When she returned in early 2015, the book she reworked at VCCA the previous year had just sold. (The U.K. auction took place while she was in residence.) With a contract in hand, she needed to write. “I was completely unprepared for what it feels like to sell a first memoir, the feeling you suddenly have that the world is looking over your shoulder. But at VCCA, sheltered in my studio, I was able to dig back into the book, free to dream and free to imagine, and write. VCCA means this to me: a place of beauty where I get things done.”

Alexandria’s book Any One of Us is part memoir, part literary journalism about a Louisiana murder and death penalty case and about the abuse in her own family’s past. The book is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (Macmillan), in the U.K., the Netherlands and Taiwan. “With four pedophiles and four dead children in it, and spanning some 50 years and three families, the book has at times such darkness and difficulty that I have found beauty a crucial rescue at the end of the day’s work. It can be difficult to delve deeply into the material in my home, difficult to bring myself to invite the ghosts into where I live. But at VCCA having the Blue Ridge Mountains always in sight puts me in mind of memory—the wavelength of blue light, the color of the blanket wrapped around one of the dead children in my book—but also provides the calming balm of perspective, the reminder that the world is large and the sky vast and stories of both pain and beauty abound.”

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LEGACY SOCIETY – Friends Funding the Future

The VCCA Legacy Society honors donors like Sandell Morse who are helping to secure the future of VCCA through a planned gift, making sure support will always be here for exceptional, national and international writers, visual artists and composers.

Even the smallest gift can contribute significantly to VCCA’s ability to support artists for the long term, and it can be as uncomplicated as a simple bequest in your will. If you would like to learn more about gift planning for the future, please contact Carol O’Brien, 434 946 7236, [email protected].

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My connection to VCCA is long and deep, beginning in the late 1980’s when Bill Smart was director. I remember Sheila’s and Craig’s arrival with their two young daughters. I remember the birth of their third daughter. I remember when Suny Monk became director. Always I have been grateful for each residency, for it is at Mt. San Angelo in each of those spare, quiet studios that magical things happen both to me and to my work. I go deeper. I surprise myself. These are only two of the gifts of a residency at the VCCA. I have benefited from working among composers and visual artists. I have made lifelong friendships. Perhaps, VCCA’s greatest gift to me was the review board’s belief in my work when I had lost any sense of myself as a writer. For that I am grateful.

I live and write on the coast of Maine, the muted grays and blues of the sea rolling toward me. Eternity rests on the horizon, and lately I’ve been thinking about what I’ll leave behind when I’m gone, not money, but values. I believe in giving, and I believe in the arts, so I am remembering VCCA in my will to fund writers, particularly women, so others will have the opportunity to experience these transformative residencies I have shared with so many wonderful artists in both Virginia and France. Remembering VCCA now, enriches my life.

Sandell Morse Photo: Katey Schultz January 2016

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VCCA offers a wide range of sponsored fellowships. Some of these support artists from specific areas of the photograph from Pakistan reveals. In the forefront of this image two men and a boy are capering happily, big country, while others are tailored to offer support to artists of specific demographics or working in specific smiles grace their faces. It looks like an image from The Family of Man. But then you realize that the form being media. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, which, at VCCA, supports African American and Latino pulled behind them is the remains of one of the two men falsely accused of bombing a church in Lahore. visual artists, is one of such opportunities. Despite their difficult subject matter, Lisa’s Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Jacques Gelman amassed a fortune in film distribution and production paintings are anything but bleak. She in France and Mexico. He met and married his wife Natasha Zahalka from Czechoslovakia in Mexico. Unable to incorporates bold color, dynamic line, return to Europe because they were Jewish and the Second World War was raging, the Gelmans settled in Mexico writing and familiar images from pop City and became Mexican citizens. Jacques Gelman’s greatest success came from his lengthy professional culture to create works that are relationship with the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno known as “Cantinflas” whose films he produced. This deceptively light-hearted. This false enabled the Gelmans to assemble what is regarded as one of the world’s most significant private holdings of 20th joviality stands in such stark contrast to century art. Natasha Gelman continued collecting contemporary works after her husband’s death in 1986 until she what’s being depicted that it succeeds in died in 1998. The Gelman’s Mexican collection remains in Mexico, while their European works are on permanent underscoring it. Depicting things in this display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Gelmans’ circle of friends included Frida Kahlo, Diego fashion also allows Lisa to deal with things Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In addition to their VCCA sponsored fellowship, the Gelman Foundation that are too hard to talk about or really supports many initiatives that benefit emerging and under-recognized visual artists at any career stage. show.

The recipient of a Gelman Fellowship, visual artist Lisa Beane is based in Los Angeles. All spring, Lisa had been In her larger works, Lisa organizes her galvanized by the story of Farkhunda, the 27-year old Afghani woman who was brutally murdered by a mob on composition into broad fields of color March 19 in Kabul. The incident occurred after Farkunda confronted a mullah selling charms outside the interspersed with highly detailed Shah-e-Doshamshera shrine. Farkunda was a devout woman and was offended by what she saw as unseemly passages and expressive brushstrokes. Lisa activity occurring so close to the holy site. It’s ironic that it was her very piety that was her undoing. Because the uses words in pithy colloquial sentences mullah became so enraged by Farkunda’s scolding that he turned around and accused her of burning a Koran. to drive home her point, and images from Word of this spread quickly through the crowd, which turned on Farkhunda savagely attacking her. In a frenzy, pop culture in ironic ways. So the Keebler they beat, stoned and ran over her. Eventually, they threw what was left of her body “into a river and set it ablaze elf’s tree becomes the gallows and the elf in the presence of policemen.” is transformed from jolly baker to evil instigator. The scrawl of words and Repelled by it all, Lisa also saw in the outcry here in the U.S. a form of hypocrisy, or at least convenient amnesia. splintered composition impart an edgy After all, it wasn’t that long ago that we were doing much the same thing. Between the years 1877-1950 there were street vibe to Lisa’s work almost as if the 3,959 lynchings in 12 Southern states according to an article in The New York Times. And it wasn’t limited to the paintings are an urban wall peppered with South. The iconic photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith surrounded by Saturday night graffiti and the layered visual fragments of Photo: Sarah Sargent revelers was taken in Indiana in 1930. In a heartbreaking aside, as Abram (on the right in the photograph) was being old handbills. hanged he instinctively grabbed at the noose around his neck, so the men lowered him back down, broke his arms and then strung him back up again. Lisa wove together the narratives of these two events, depicting the martyred In the original photograph of the Shipp/Smith lynching, there’s an older woman at the center looking out toward Farkunda and Abram with halos. Soulfully beautiful with a head covered by a hajib, Farkunda bears a striking the viewer. Lisa has canonized her placing a halo on her head. Her speech bubble asks “Where he Momma at?” resemblance to the Virgin Mary. For Lisa, Farkunda is also a stand-in for women everywhere. reminding everyone that this man hanging from the tree has a mother; he is a human being.

What transfixes the artist is the degree of hatred that propels people to behave in such a depraved way toward This was Lisa Beane’s first residency experience. “I had no idea what to expect, and I must say it was beyond another human being. In these extreme cases, the hatred is so intense that the victim no longer has a human anything I could imagine. My work is extremely difficult; it is deep and emotional. To go in and face it each day is identity. One of the more disturbing qualities of the famous photograph of the Indiana lynching is the carnival challenging and to be in this peaceful place that buzzed with phenomenal creative energy was an incredible gift. atmosphere that’s captured. It’s hard to fathom people reacting in such a way and yet it continues as a recent The support and friendship from other Fellows helped sustain me in this demanding work.”

19 20 ENDOWED + SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS FISCAL YEAR 2015 THE GEORGE EDWARDS AND RACHEL HADAS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWS We are so appreciative of the generosity of our supporters like the Gelman Foundation, which have Established in 2012 by VCCA Fellow Rachel Hadas in memory of her husband Fellow George Edwards, this established sponsored and endowed fellowships at VCCA. fellowship is awarded annually in rotation to a composer, writer and visual artist. Zaid Jabri, Composer – Kraków, Poland ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS THE PHILLIP AND ERIC HEINER ENDOWED RESIDENCY JANE GEUTING CAMP FELLOWSHIP Established in 2005 by Frances S. Heiner of Lynchburg, VA, the residency honors her sons and benefits a writer, Established in 1988 in memory of former VCCA Board President Jane Camp by her family and the J. L. Camp visual artist or composer. Foundation. Monica Bill-Hughes, Visual Artist – Peru, New York Sarah Gamble, Visual Artist – Roswell, New Mexico Shigeki Yoshida, Visual Artist – Brooklyn, New York THE PATRICIA AND JERRE MANGIONE FELLOWSHIP FUND Established in 2003, the fund supports artists over 65 years of age. COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ENDOWMENT Established in 2003 to support writers, visual artists and composers with preference given to teachers and alumnae BETHEA SCOTT OWEN FELLOWSHIP of the Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, Ohio. Established in 2013 through a bequest of Bethea Scott Owen. Sebastian Collett, Visual Artist – Asheville, New York Sandra Gibson, Visual Artist – New York, New York Aaron Johnson, Visual Artist – Irvington, New Jersey Elizabeth A. Kelly, Composer – Denton, Texas WILLIAMS GRAVES SACKETT ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP Dong Li, Writer – New York, New York Established in 2007, the fellowship is funded through the bequest of VCCA Board Member Bill Sackett. Kala Pierson, Composer – Haverford, Pennsylvania Jeremy Hawkins, Writer – Chapel Hill, North Carolina Luis Recoder, Visual Artist – New York, New York Daniel Reitz, Writer – New York, New York KAREN SHEA AND GABE SILVERMAN ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP Established in 2006, the fellowship is in memory of VCCA Fellow and Board Member Karen Shea and later in memory of her husband, developer and arts supporter Gabe Silverman. ALONZO DAVIS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPS Established in 2004 by VCCA Fellow and Board Member Alonzo Davis to support writers, visual artists and Mariana Escribano, Visual Artist – Wichita, Kansas composers who are American citizens of African and Latino descent. Stephanie Snider, Visual Artist – Brooklyn, New York Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Writer – Silver Spring, Maryland Ladee Hubbard, Writer – Champaign, Illinois CY TWOMBLY ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPS Established in 2011, the fellowship is supported by the Cy Twombly Foundation in memory of VCCA Fellow and Advisory Council member Cy Twombly. SARAH STANLEY GORDON EDWARDS AND ARCHIBALD CASON EDWARDS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPS Established in 2013 by VCCA Fellow Mary D. Edwards in honor of her parents Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and Archibald David Farrar, Visual Artist – Oxford, England Cason Edwards, the residency supports women painters ages twenty-five and older with preference given to Native Ameri- Holen Sabrina Kahn, Visual Artist – San Francisco, California can painters. The first fellowship is scheduled for 2016.

THE GOLDFARB FAMILY FELLOWSHIP Established in 2000 through The Aida Goldfarb Art Law Library Fund by Fellow and former board member Ronald Goldfarb to support a creative non-fiction writer. Brandel France de Bravo, Writer – Washington, DC

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VCCA MEMORIALS FUND SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS Fellowships are presented annually on a rotating basis to recognize one or more of those honored or memorialized through this pooled fund. The 2015 fellowships were awarded for the following: ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIES In Memory of Marjory Bassett Residency fellowships are given to 3Arts awardees through a partnership between 3Arts and the Hayley Kelsey, Writer – Charleston, South Carolina Alliance of Artists Communities. Haven Kimmel, Writer – Durham, North Carolina Meredith Miller, Visual Artist – Chicago, Illinois

In Memory of Quita Broadhead THE BAMA WORKS FUND OF DAVE MATTHEWS BAND IN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA Beatrix Gates, Writer – Penobscot, Maine COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Calendar Year) Beth Krebs, Visual Artist – Oakland, California Supporting residencies for artists from the greater Charlottesville area. Michelle Gagliano, Visual Artist, Scottsville, Virginia The Robert Johnson Fellowship Jody Hobbs Hesler, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Initiated in 2006 by the VCCA Fellows Council in memory of long-time employee Robert Johnson. S. Hope Mills, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Robin Jebavy, Visual Artist – Brookfield, Wisconsin Alyssa Phoebus Mumtaz, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia BettyJoyce Nash, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Suny Monk Fund for Fellows Heidi Johannesen Poon, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Initiated in 2011 to honor Suny Monk, VCCA Executive Director 1997-2011 Ellen Reid, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia, Michael Rose, Composer – Brooklyn, New York Millee Tibbs, Visual Artist – Detroit, Michigan J&E BERKLEY FOUNDATION (Calendar Year) Supporting residencies for artists from the greater Charlottesville area. In Memory of Elizabeth G. Schneider Michelle Gagliano, Visual Artist, Scottsville, Virginia Jodie Hollander, Writer – Mintum, Colorado Jody Hobbs Hesler, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Patricia Spears Jones, Writer – Brooklyn, New York S. Hope Mills, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Alexander Lumans, Writer – Denver, Colorado Alyssa Phoebus Mumtaz, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia Emily Mitchell, Writer – Silver Spring, Maryland BettyJoyce Nash, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia Heidi Johannesen Poon, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia John and Ruth Woodburn Memorial Writers Fund Ellen Reid, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia April Sopkin, Writer – Richmond, Virginia THE HARRY D. FORSYTH FELLOWSHIP FOR VISUAL ARTISTS THE WACHTMEISTER AWARD Established in 1999 to support alumnae from Sweet Briar College. Established in 2003 and funded by the L.E.A.W Family Foundation, the award honors artists who have made Catherine Peek, Visual Artist – Winchester, Virginia significant achievements in the arts. Awarded biennially, it is administered through the VCCA Fellows Council. The award will be given to a non-fiction writer in 2016. THE JACQUES AND NATASHA GELMAN FOUNDATION Established in 2013, the Gelman Foundation provides fully funded two-week residencies for visual artists VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ENDOWMENT FUND IN THE GREATER LYNCHBURG of African or Latino descent. COMMUNITY TRUST – ANN ELDER BESTOR MEMORIAL FUND Lisa Beane, Visual Artist – Burbank, California Established in 2002 by VCCA Fellow Charles Bestor in memory of his wife Ann Elder Bestor. Michael K. Taylor, Visual Artist – Houston, Texas

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KOMAKI FELLOWSHIP NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS – ARTISTS COMMUNITIES Established in 2010 by VCCA Fellow Judi Komaki, this fellowship supports a playwright, screenwriter or filmmaker whose Two NEA grants provided support during FY2015. One grant provided three to five week fully funded residencies work celebrates the behind-the-scenes story of an activist striving to make his or her vision of a more perfect world a for African-American and Latino visual artists and composers, the other supported artists working in reality. Eligible for award in 2016. community-based, socially engaged, or relational artwork. One of the artists was selected to create a piece for the community of Amherst County, Virginia. MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART FELLOWSHIP Edgar Endress, Visual Artist – St. Augustine, Florida Established in 2015 by the L.E.A.W. Foundation in partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art to support MICA Ayesu Lartey, Composer – Brooklyn, New York faculty and alumni. Carolyn Case, Visual Artist – Cockeyesville, Maryland UNESCO ASCHBERG BURSARIES FOR ARTISTS Supporting Latin American and African composers under the age of 45. MID-ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION Sergio Núñez, Composer – Santiago, Chile Funding fellowships for artists from Mid-Atlantic Region. Simen Johan, Visual Artist – New York, New York CAROLE AND MARCUS WEINSTEIN FUND A FELLOW Magnolia Laurie, Visual Artist – Baltimore, Maryland Supporting writers from Virginia. James Pate, Writer – Shepherdstown, West Virginia Laura Browder, Writer – Richmond, Virginia Claudia Smigrod, Visual Artist – Alexandria, Virginia Sue Eisenfeld, Writer – Arlington, Virginia Natalie Sypolt, Writer – Kingwood, West Virginia LuAnn Kenner-Mikenas, Writer – Madison Heights, Virginia Jeff Martin, Writer – Charlottesville, Virginia MONTANA FELLOWSHIP Janet Peery, Writer – Norfolk, Virginia Established in 2005 and funded through the L.E.A.W. Foundation to support artists from Montana. Jane Waggoner Deschner, Visual Artist – Billings, MT

MOULIN À NEF SCHOLARSHIPS, AUVILLAR, FRANCE Joellyn Duesberry, Visual Artist – Greenwood Village, Colorado Kathy Flann, Writer – Baltimore, Maryland Alexandra Kleeman, Writer – Staten Island, New York Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Writer – Brooklyn, New York Polly Pen, Composer – Rosendale, New York Isabelle Smeets, Visual Artist – Broekhuizen, The Netherlands Gerald Sticker, Writer – New York, New York Jeffrey Weaver, Writer – Hatfield, Massachusetts

25 26 T H E C O M M I S S I O N 2015 with all the other pieces of music in each pod, created an overlapping sonic composition for the viewer. The individual musical works featured electronically manipulated sounds with various source materials connected to the story of Free Union. Sounds of a blacksmith’s shop and of local birds and insects, the sounds of wind and water all figured prominently. Several of the sound modules projected works created by reductively processing and fragmenting material from a handful of American shape note hymns. The original hymns are ones that would have been part of life in Free Union at its founding, but the new compositions were much more spacious, empty and still.

The live performance featured Shockley playing a Native American bass flute, a lap steel guitar, and various melodicas and small instruments, along with a laptop computer running Max/MSP for the live electronic manipulation of the sounds generated by all of these instruments. This performance worked with the very same source materials as all of the other sound components, making for a non-discursive, interactive sonic environment, which with many of its sounds coming from nature made for a sound world that is always part inside, part outside, part music, and part natural environment.

The title of the installation references the tradition of still life painting, where titles are often formed of simple lists of the objects depicted. Its length is characteristic of 18th century titles (the era from which some of the musical materials were drawn), and also referenced the organic images that inform the sound modules’ fabric walls. The title also links with the story and background of the town of Free Union, as well as the ephemeral and Cameron Littleton Photography collaborative nature of the installation. Part vernissage, part rollicking good time, VCCA’s The Commission is a major event on the art and social scenes of central Virginia and beyond.

This year, visual artist Brice Brown (New York, NY) and composer, Alan Shockley (Lakewood, CA) won the commission with Glass and Bridle, Pomegranate and Pears: On the Viability and Transience of a Free and Perfect Union. A site-specific work combining sound, performance, sculpture, printing and painting, the work draws on themes related to the history of nearby Free Union, Virginia, namely its founding by a freed blacksmith slave named Nick.

Modular units were organized into a maze-like arrangement through which The Commission guests could wander while experiencing a shifting sonic and visual landscape. Each of these modular units was composed of wood frames charred in the Shou-sugi-ban style, giving them a luminous black color. Hanging from the center of the frames were printed/hand-painted textiles featuring imagery derived from The Batsford Colour Book of Roses as well as 19th-century etchings of alchemical processes. These created a landscape within a landscape, and referenced the transformation from one state of being to another—from potential to fully realized form — inherent in the blacksmithing process. In the middle of this maze was a special 4-panel unit containing a live sound performance.

Contained within each modular structure, speakers played an independent piece of music, which, when combined

Cameron Littleton Photography

27 N U R T U R I N G C U L T U R E A T I T S R O O T 28 W A V E R T R E E FISCAL YEAR 2015 Wavertree Benefactors Wavertree Sustainers Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burn Old Dominion Box Company Foundation, Inc. $100,000 + $2,500 to $4,999 Fay Chandler Robert Reed Anonymous Donor Laura and George Bilicic Alonzo Davis Richmond Community Foundation Serving The Bilicic Family Fund Molly H. Dodge Richmond and Central Viginia $50,000 to $99,000 Page and Sanford Bond Dominion Virginia Power Barbara Schaff L.E.A.W. Family Foundation, Inc. J. L. Camp Foundation, Inc. Mary Page Evans Elizabeth G. Schneider Charitable Lead Unitrust James L. Camp, IV Shelby Fischer Gregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts $25,000 to $49,999 Coran Capshaw Florence Bryan Fowlkes Fund of The Community Margo Solod Virginia Commission for the Arts Donna and Gary Clark Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia Stillfield Fund I in the Charlottesville Area Greater Lynchburg Community Trust Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Fowlkes, II Community Foundation $10,000 to $24,999 Cynthia Henebry Glad Manufacturing Company Natasha Trethewey Herndon Foundation The Martin Johnson Family Fund of The Greater Quinn F. and Scott A. Graeff Trethewey and Gadsden Advised Fund Marc Schewel Lynchburg Community Trust Linda Griego of the National Philanthropic Trust The Cynthia R. Tremblay Foundation, Inc. Kenneth H. Jones Elizabeth Logan Harris Mr. and Mrs. David van Roijen Wonder Fund of The Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William M. Massie Jr. Hayward Family Foundation Tina Walls Serving Richmond and Central Virginia McKinnon and Harris Inc. Colleen Hayward Woodward Foundation, Inc. Nisbet Family Foundation Thomas B. Hayward Mr. and Mrs. John E. Woodward, III Wavertree Patrons Shirley Mossman Nisbet Heiner Family Fund in the Charlottesville Area $5,000 to $9,999 Sue and Bob Satterfield Community Foundation Anonymous Donor Starr Hill/Red Light Fund in the Charlottesville Area Janice and Pinkney Herbert Alliance of Artists Communities Community Foundation Elizabeth Ray Hessler The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band The Elizabeth and Herbert Thomson Sr. Fund of The Lisa and Steven High in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Greater Lynchburg Community Trust Mr. and Mrs. David Hilliard Melanie Christian Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Lauren and Ben Hilyard Marie G. Dennett Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mclver Winstead Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Horsley Thomas Y. Hiner Wonder Fund of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hunt Jr. Charles Jacob Foundation Margaret B. Ingraham Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marion Johnson, III Wavertree Supporters Marilyn Kallet MCM Foundation $1,000 to $2,499 Alieda and Adrian Keevil Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Anonymous Donors Judi Komaki Sandell Morse Susan Newbold and Ernst Benzien Laura Edge Kottkamp Ann and Rick Ramsey Deborah Ager and Bill Beverly Elizabeth L. Langhorne Tatem Webb Read Mr. and Mrs. John H. Birdsall, III John Langhorne The Honorable and Mrs. Elliot Schewel The Boston Foundation - Martin Fund Natasha and Nick Lawler Cynthia Davis and Don Swofford Christine and Andrew Brennan Estate of Anne Adams Robertson Massie Alice Templeton L.S. and J.S. Bryan Fund of The Community Sally and Bill Meadows Carole and Marcus Weinstein Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia The Melville Foundation Sheila and R. Ted Weschler Lissy and Stewart Bryan Mr. Wallace B. Millner Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Buhler Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Copper Beech, woodcut by VCCA Fellow Jacques Hnizdovsky

29 30 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 $500 to $999 Ophir Agassi Suzanne T. Chitwood Will Trinkle and Juan Granados Anonymous Donors Judy and Geoff Alexander Blair and Chad Ciesil Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Grayson, Jr. Jay Barrows Chris Alexander Ann Goette and Rick Claus L.B. Green BB&T Scott & Stringfellow The Anchor Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Denise Emanuel Clemen Nana Gregory Irma Bell Phoebe F. Antrim Arika and Charles Cocke Joan Grubin Ann Elder Bestor Memorial Fund, Greater The Associated: Jewish Community Federation Thomas Colbert Dr. and Mrs. Marcus M. Gulley Lynchburg Community Trust of Baltimore Karen Collins Mary Hall Howland Ralph and Jackie Bradley Helène Aylon Trish and David Crowe Susan Hand Van K. Brock Mary Azrael Crutchfield Corporation Cathryn Hankla Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Craddock Colleen and Brian Bassett Mr. and Mrs. Warner Dalhouse Sharon Harper Betsy and Jay Dalgliesh Charitable Fund, Joanne Bauer Eva Davidova Sharon Harrigan Schwab Charitable Alex and Carolyn Bell Allen Davis III Jil and Hiter Harris Larry and Alice Dark Helen Benedict Kathy Davis Bryce and Monty Harris Mr. and Mrs. Calvert de Coligny Jr. Mary Clay Berry Linda Davis Lois Marie Harrod Mrs. Powell G. Dillard Robert Bertoletti Frank Day Jessica and Roland Hartley-Urquhart Elphaba Fund of the Boston Foundation Pam Black Eva and Calvert de Coligny Fund of Foundation Molly Haskell Cary Brown and Steven Epstein Joan Dix Blair for Roanoke Valley Elizabeth and Bob Head C. B. Fleet Company, Inc. Karen Kolb Blair Mr. and Mrs. William G. de Coligny Cali and Rick Hendricks Annie and Alex Gould Felicity and Carroll Blundon Virginia Derryberry Will Hermes Katherine Kadish Page Bond Gallery Danielle Dimston Katherine Hill Pat and Jim Kermes Mrs. Mary Morris Booth Jean Dooley Susan Hillyard Josie Merck Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Boucher Holly Downing Fred and Mary Buford Hitz The Murray and Grace Nissman Foundation Carole and David Bowen Mr. and Mrs. H. Stewart Dunn, Jr. Cheryl Hochberg Wendy R. Flanagan and Christopher B. O’Malley Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Boyle Katherine and Coleman Easterly Mary and Tom Horton Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Ohrstrom Prilla Smith and George C. Brackett Dr. & Mrs. Porter B. Echols, Jr Lori Horvitz Elaine Neil Orr Betty Branch George Ellenbogen Mary Alice Hostetter Nina Ozbey Eleanor Riggins Brawley Judy L. Esau Mr. and Mrs. John Howard The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Drs. Teresa and Robert Brennan Constance Evans Alexis Ryan and Lex Hrabe David Rakowski David Bristol Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund David Huddle Mary Shockey Katharine and Michael Brooks Ruth Fields Jacqueline Humphrey Ned and Anne Slaughter Andrea Carter Brown Glen Finland Rene Lynch and Julian Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stickley Donnaldson Brown Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Fisher Blinn Jacobs Judith Taylor Catherine and Tyler Brown Anne H. Freeman Charlotte Jacobs The University of Virginia Preston M. Browning Jr. Margaret R. Freeman Judy Jashinsky Virginia Boxwood Company Olivia Brumfield Catherine Gammon Irene and Elliott Jennings Katherine Kane and Olin West Dana Cann Jean Sousa Pam and Rob Jiranek Rachel Cantor Clifford Garstang Cori Jones $100 to $499 Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Carrington III Perry Glasser Libby Falk Jones Anonymous Donor Megan and Joel Carter Mr. and Mrs. R. Edward Godsey Drs. Lee and Neal Kassell Patricia Aaron Joy A. Crompton and Joe Cashman Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Goins III Barrie Lyn Kaufman Vivian Ciolli Ackerman Cecilia Cassidy Edith Brodhead Good Edmund Keeley Mark Adamo CBRE Gwen and Howard Goodkin Jessica and Dean King Samuel H. Adler Bivas Chaudhuri Chris A. and N. Brooks Graebner Roger King

31 32 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Peter Klappert T. Justin Moore, III Jay Schwarz and Abigail Beckel Julie Wakeman-Linn Timothy T. Kloth, D.M.A. Lorca Morello Massie Scott Fund of The Community Foundation Bonnie Walker Jane and Joe Knox Pamela Taylor Morton Serving Richmond and Central Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Walker Koppelman/Dinner Fund of the Elizabeth H. Muse Mr. and Mrs. Strother R. Scott Ann Wallace Scranton Area Foundation Margaret Woodson Nea Catherine Lynn and Vincent Scully Nancy Wallace Geeta Kothari Dottie and Eric Nelson Elizabeth Seamans Jessica and Peter Ward Christine Koubek Ryan and Charlotte Nelson Charitable Fund Suzanne and Joe Seipel Patricia C. Waring Cathy and Chris Kramer The New York Community Trust - Georgia and Barbara Selfridge Lyn B. Warren and Russ Warren Margo Kren Michael de Havenon Fund James Sherman Ann Hay Hardy and Adam Wayland Gail Kriegel Mr. and Mrs. Alex M. Newmark Nathan Shields Katie and Gene Webb Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Landon Ellen and Michael O’Hare Enid Shomer Mr. and Mrs. George West Elizabeth T. Larew Lisa H. Perkins Susan Shreve Jane and Ken White Jeanne Larsen Mrs. Edgar J. T. Perrow Anita Skeen Anne and Vance Wilkins Anna and Tom Lawson Gary Eldon Peter Louise Farmer Smith R. Kennon Williams Honey Lazar Steven Petrow E. H. Sorrells-Adewale Susan Settlemyre Williams Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lee Judith Raphael and Anthony Phillips Gail South Beau and Mary Wilson Les Yeux Du Monde Leslie Pietrzyk Zoe Winstanley-Spence and Matthew Spence Rebecca Winterer Kathryn Levy Sheila and Craig Pleasants Cheryl L. Steele Shannon Worrell Holen and John Lewis Pedro Ponce Sue Knapp-Steen and Robert G. Steen Carrie and Zack Worrell Andrea Lilienthal Scott Ponemone Jill and Andy Stefanovich Karla Wozniak Marilee and George Lindbeck Nancy Potter Gerald Stern Susan Bacik and Andrew Wyndham Ginny MacKenzie Lynne Potts Lynn and Gib Stevenson Laura E. Young Logan and John MacKethan Wanda S. Praisner Andrea and Reidar Stiernstrand Amy Sue and John Zakaib Mary Mackey Florence Putterman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stockhausen Mary Zeppa Frances Maclean Virginia Pye and John Ravenal Laura-Gray Street Christy J. Zink Kristen-Paige Madonia Karin and Sean Reed Suzanne and Todd Sturman Alan Margolis Paul Reisler K.M.A. Sullivan Gifts up to $99 Benjamin Marshall Liz and Al Rider Manil Suri Donna G. Aarons Sarah Kathryn Masters Libby and Greg Robertson Linda Taylor Iddo Aharony Mrs. Bonnie Matheson Deborah A. Rockman Sandra Beasley and Champneys Taylor Mary Akers Margaret McCarthy Bobby C. Rogers Jim and Toni Thompson Elisa Albert Meredith and Matthew McClellan Laura Browder and Allan Rosenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Clay Thomson Cheryl Fortier and John Alexander Amanda and Matt McCorry Carolyn and John Rosenblum Linda and John Thornton Caroline Allen Gardner McFall Marcy Rosewater Jane Little and Jay Tolson Idris Anderson Frances Thompson McKay Ann Marie Rousseau Tara Katherine Trails Maggie Anderson Ann L. McLaughlin Eleanor Rufty Brian Trapp T. J. Anderson Lisa Phillips and Bill Mead Mary K. Ryan Donald Ubben, Esq. Robert R. Angell Deb Mell Susan Saandholland Catherine A. MacDonald and John E. Ulmschneider Sharron Antholt Meriwether-Godsey, Inc. Pamela Redmond Satran Virginia Reiser and Gary S. Urgonski Allen Appel Lynn and Chuck Mills Allison and David Saunier Craig Urquhart Nancy Arbuthnot Carol Minarick SCARPA Kay and Kent Van Allen Ross Arkell Valerie Miner Ann Schaumburger Lucy and James Veltri Kathryn Armstron Suny and Joe Monk Linda Schrank Virginia National Bank Christina Askounis

33 34 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Augustine, Jr. Jessica Cadkin Dr. and Mrs. Parham Fox Stephen S. Dankner Serena Joan Fox Bonnie Auslander Robert A. O. Calvert Ruth Danon Nanie An Saison and Daniel Azuelos Oliver Caplan Brandel France de Bravo Kristina Marie Darling Robert François Vincent Baldassano Lisa Carey Marty Moon and Butch Davies JoAnn Balingit Robert Carioscia Barbara Frank Elizabeth Davis John H. Franklin Marilyn Banner Claude Carmie Ms. Peggy C. Davis Simon Bartolo Susan and Berch Carpenter John M. Freeman Heidi Dawidoff Eileen French Abigail Beckel Carolyn Case Alexandra de Gonzalez James Bergin Philippe Casemode Sasha Waters Freyer Renate Debrun Leslie Fry Martin B. Bernstein Kelly Parisi Castro Jane Waggoner Deschner Roslyn Bernstein Laura Maria Censabella Janice Moore Fuller Jenn Dierdorf Kiki Gaffney Isabelle Patin and Philippe Besse Priyanka A. Champaneri Tamar Diesendruck Shelby and Jason Bingham Alison Chandler Debra Galant Nicholas DiGiovanni Sylvie and Jean-Marc Gales Ann Birstein Sharon L. Charde Gray S. Dodson Mary Carter Bishop Viviane Falc and Alain Chatenet Beatrix Gates Laura Donnelly Edward G. Gauthier Julie E. Bloemeke Kelly Cherry Fiona Donovan Joyce Blunk Jan Cherubin Annette Gendler Jeanne Dorsey Jane Goldberg Nicholas Boggs Abigail Child Sarah B. Dorsey Karen Bondarchuk Ruby Chishti William Goldstein Douglas K. Dorst Janet M. Gorzegno Mary Bonina Sang-ah Choi Michael Downs Beatrice and Sylvester Booker Angie Chuang Ellen Grabiner Corinne Duchesne Anthony Green Isabel Case Borgatta Yong-Wook Chung Martha Tod Dudman Annick and Robert Bourges Kim Church Lynn Buck and Jonathan Green Valerie Duff Rob Greene Sally Bowring Tom Cipullo Jessica Dunne Ms. Clarke Brady Jenyle Clark Mark Greenside Travis DuPriest Anya Groner Maureen Brady Jan Clausen Frank Eastburn Rachel Breen Andrea Clearfield Julie Gross David Ebenbach Ned and Wendy Gulley Harvey Breverman Helen Degen Cohen Mary D. Edwards Alexandra Broches Meredith Mileti Cohen Erik Karl Gustafson Dale Emmart Rachel Hadas Stan Brodsky Martine and Gilles Compagnat Mariana Escribano Renate Haimerl Brosch Josette and Francis Comte Joy Hakim Alexandra and Jean Espiau Michelle Spark and Bernie Handzel Brice Brown Carolyn Conrad Judith M. Faris Laura Catherine Brown Janet Cook-Rutnik Susie Hara Melissa Febos Ellen and Gary Harkrader Timothy J. Brown Carol Cooley Emily Feinstein Sarah Browning John Copenhaver Penny Harter Betsy and Greg Feldmann Virginia Hartman Janet Bruce Maysey Craddock Diane Fine Lynne Bundesen Elizabeth Crisman Daniel Hauben Charles Adès Fishman Shelley Haven Elizabeth Burger Louie Cronin Kathy Flann Gerd Burger Barbara Crooker Gary Hawkins Olwyn and John Fleming Jeremy Hawkins Christopher Bursk Beth Cross Michael Folie Caroline Burton Darcy Cummings David Haynes Laurie Foos Kylie Heidenheimer Linda van der Linde and Jeff Bushman Elke Daemmrich K.K. Fox Irene Buszko Barbara Daniels Marion E. Held Christine Herrmann

35 36 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Heather Hertel Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Lynda Reeves McIntyre Joan Perlman Jody Hobbs Hesler Sarah LaBrie Mark McKain Benjamin Peterson John Meredith Hill Patrick Lagarrigue Darren McManus Howard Pflanzer Emily Hipchen Linda Laino Jenny Lynn McNutt Anna Lena Phillips Susan Tyler Hitchcock Lindsey Landfried Michael McSorley Kala Pierson Amy Hoffman Douglas and Rebecca Massie Lane Donna and Tom Meeks Judith Podell Barbara Hoffman Dorianne Laux Janice and Michael Metzger Heidi Johannesen Poon Anne Warren Holland Marie Myung-Ok Lee Tim and Virginia Michel Judith Pratt Jodie Hollander Mr. and Mrs. W. Tucker Lemon Lilianne Milgrom Christopher Preissing Sarah Collins Honenberger Chris Leslie-Hynan Joseph Millar Rose Marie Prins Jackie Hoysted Shara Lessley Inette Miller Christina Pugh Virginia Ewing Hudson Jessica Levine Deborah Miranda Serge Rabouin Monica A. Bill Hughes Serge J-F. Levy Carol Pellman Mishler Elizabeth Raby Doris Iarovici Katherine Reynolds Lewis Emily Mitchell Ani and Jean Claude Rafin Mary Margaret Isbell Dong Li Nancy Mitchell Leonard Ragouzeos Greg Jackson David Licata Eric Moe Peter Ramos Jeff Jackson Greg Lichtenberg Edna Moore Erika Raskin Sara Jaffe Mu-Xuan Lin Nancy Mooslin Daniel Reitz Arlette Jassel David R. Lincoln Michael Morse Christine and Olivier Renaud Simen Johan Karl Lindstrom West Moss Ethel Renek Julia Campbell Johnson Rodney Lister BettyJoyce Nash Sharon Mauldin Reynolds Holen Sabrina Kahn Taliaferro Logan Miriam Mörsel Nathan Heiner Riepl Ilya Kaminsky Ruth Lomon Richard Nelson Nancy Ring Elizabeth Lide and Paul Kayhart Laura D. Long Linda Lee Nicholas Elisavietta Ritchie LuAnn Keener-Mikenas Ramona DeFelice Long John Nichols III Dani L. Roach Sally Keith Patte Loper Susan Northington Leslie Roberts Samuel L. Kelley Nancy J. Lord Sergio Núñez Judith Robertson Laurie and Blair Kelly Stacey Luftig Carol Dyche O’Brien Lisa M. Robinson Hayley Kelsey Joan and Bob MacCallum Stephen O’Connor Megan Marlatt and Richard Robinson Joshua C. Kendall Carol MacDonald Ione O’Hara Jeannette Rogers Leslie C. Kerby Alec MacGillis Morgan O’Hara Randel Rogers Jesse Lee Kercheval Ron MacLean Amie Oliver Jane Roper Caroline Keys Claude and Vincent Madaule Barbara Page Claire Rosenfeld Nancy Kilgore John Mann Jeffery M. Paine Natania Rosenfeld Joyce Watkins King Peter T. and Arielou Marcy Rumit Pancholi Fiona Donaghey Ross Karen Klein Jeff Martin Nicole Parcher John Rowell Nancy Kline Steve Martin Alan Michael Parker Anna Rubin Kathleen Valenzi Knaus Mr. Charles T. Matheson James Pate Andrew Rudin Harry Kollatz, Jr. Charlotte Matthews Caroline E. Patterson Ken Rumble Ellen Kozak Anna Jean Mayhew Peter Pazmino Thaddeus Rutkowski Jessica Krash Lady McCrady Catherine Peek Nicole Ryan Richard Krawiec Mary McDonnell Janet Peery Tammy Ryan Beth Krebs Carol and Tom McIntosh Polly Pen Mr. and Mrs. John E. Sadler, Jr.

38 37 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Alyssa C. Salomon Ian Strasfogel Tamar Zinn Hayley Kelsey Scott Loring Sanders Barbara Buckman Strasko Marilyn Martin Zion Leslie C. Kerby Nancy Brokaw and David Sanders James Strazzella, Esq. Deborah Zlotsky Nancy Kilgore Jacques and Annick Sarraut Darren Tanti Mary Kay Zuravleff Nick Krieger Annita Sawyer Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Dorianne Laux Margie Sawyer Nicole and Greg Terrill Art/Books/Score Chris Leslie-Hynan Seth Sawyers Maria Terrone Deborah B. Ager Greg Lichtenberg Lisa Schamess Michael Paul Thomas Mary Akers Moira Linehan Bill Schmidt Phyllis Hoge Thompson Elisa Albert Ginny MacKenzie Jennifer Schmidt David Y. Todd Katherine Arnup Debra Marquart Marie-José Ballouhey and Gerhard Schneider Jim Tomlinson Mary Azrael Melanie McCabe Roland Schön Linda Trice JoAnn Balingit Gardner McFall Christine Schutt Meryl Truett Joan Baranow Meredith Mileti Cohen Edward Schwarzschild Memye Curtis Tucker Roslyn Bernstein Joseph Millar Benton Sen Elsie and Mike Underwood Kim Church Emily Mitchell Foon Sham Patricia Valdata Jan Clausen Nancy Mooslin Julie Shapiro Felicia van Bork Barbara Crooker Elizabeth Seydel Morgan Rone Shavers John Van Kirk Barbara Daniels John Nichols III James Sheppard Jennifer Vanderbes Angela Davis-Gardner Sergio Núñez Vicki Sher Joan Vannorsdall Nicholas DiGiovanni Barbara Page Beth Shipley Tabitha Vevers Sharon Dolin Cecily Parks Gary Short Maryjan and Frans Wackers Holly Downing Anna Lena Phillips Marie Retat Sigal Kris Waldherr Michael Downs Lisa A. Phillips Faye-Ellen Silverman G.C. Waldrep Joellyn Duesberry Joanne Pottlitzer Isabelle Smeets Joelle Wallach Valerie Duff Lynne Potts Claudia Smigrod Kit Warren David Ebenbach Wanda S. Praisner Paula Smith Michael Waters Moira Egan Laura Van Prooyen Bruce Snider Sally Weare David Farrar Peter Ramos Tanja Softic Joan Weber Charles Adès Fishman Nancy Reisman Isabelle and Francis Sohier Eric Weiner Brandel France de Bravo Rachel Richardson April Sopkin Barbara Weissberger Janice Gary Heiner Riepl Larry Specht Susan Wheeler Becky Gould Gibson Jeannette Rogers Ms. Sallie Hickok Spiller Paula Whyman Bunny Goodjohn Lucy Rosenthal Sue Standing Susan Wicks Kelle Groom Ken Rumble Meg Stein Jill E. Widner Susie Hara Lisa Sewell Marjorie Stelmach Mame Willey Gwen Hardie Julie Sheehan Aaron Stepp Florence Williams Lois Marie Harrod Gary Short Michelle Meran Sterling Cydney Crichter Willis Penny Harter Faye-Ellen Silverman Elisabeth Stevens Janet Wondra Kylie Heidenheimer Paula Smith Kim and Dan Stiffler Caroline Wright Neva Herrington R.T. Smith Linda Stillman Sarah Boyts Yoder Conrad Hilberry Michelle Spark Judith Gold Stitzel Cabell and Cooper Youell Lauren Hilger Eileen Tabios Gail Donohue Storey Patricia Zalisko Jeffrey N. Johnson Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

39 40 C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Nicole Teeny Maidenhead Bagel Shop Isabelle Patin and Philippe Besse Janice and Pinkney Herbert Maria Terrone Andrea and Charles Matheson Karen Bondarchuk Elizabeth Ray Hessler Shigeki Yoshida Charlotte Matthews Annick and Robert Bourges Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Hunt Jr. Meredith and Matthew McClellan Pierre and Marie-Hélène Brettes Marilyn Kallet IN-KIND – GENERAL Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz François Brogly and Sabine Van Den Bergh Maïthé and Patrick Lagarrigue A Pimento L.B. Moody Andrea Carter Brown Jacqueline Jones LaMon ACE Hotel Downtown Los Angeles Foxie and Richard Morgan Anne-Marie and Francis Brune Leslie Lord Adventure Farm Natural Retreats Odile Cariteau Claude and Vincent Madaule Karen Bell Shirley Mossman Nisbet Claude Carmié Anna Jean Mayhew Lori Bookstein Fine Art Pharsalia Martine and Patrick Carrouché Gardner McFall Bottlerocket Bella Pollen Philippe Casemode and France Alvin Nancy Mitchell Brentwood Arts Exchange Riverviews Artspace Alison Chandler Suny and Joe Monk Carrie and John Gregory Brown Alexis Ryan Viviane Falc and Alain Chatenet Sandell Morse Andrea Carter Brown Susan Saarinen Denise Emanuel Clemen Susan Newbold Brice Brown Robert O. Satterfield Stephane Coaziou Polly Pen Fred Butler, Metropolitan Museum of Art The Honorable and Mrs. Elliot Schewel Dominique Péraldi and Thierry Combarel Françoise and Jean François Picard Caspari Second Street Gallery Martine and Gilles Compagnat Sheila and Craig Pleasants Mrs. E. Morris Chisholm Alan Shockley Josette and Francis Comte Bella Pollen WG Clark, Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor The Family of Karen Shea Silverman Ted Craddock Lynne Potts of Architecture Zoe Winstanley-Spence and Matthew Spence Elizabeth Crisman Judith Pratt Georgia and Michael de Havenon Dan Stiffler Elke Daemmrich Serge Rabouin Gray S. Dodson Nancy Bockstael and Ivar E. Strand Beth Dary Ani and Jean Claude Rafin Fiona Donovan Linda Wachtmeister and Bob Strini Claude and Raymonde Dassonville Candance Reaves Mary D. Edwards T-N Printing, Inc. Angela Davis-Gardner Christine and Olivier Renaud Shelby Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Clay Thomson Mr. and Mrs. Calvert de Coligny Jr. Paula Maenza Roland Janice Gary J.W. Townsend, Inc Jean-Paul and Simone Delachoux Susan Saarinen Richard Glass Cynthia Tremblay Lucy and Alain Delsol Annick and Jacques Sarraut Nancy Gray and Jean Stewart University of Virginia School of Architecture Camille Durin Marie-José Ballouhey and Gerhard Schneider L.B. Green Virginia Tent Rental Julien Eric Linda Schrank Hemphill Fine Arts Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Alexandra and Jean Espiau Julie Shapiro Pinkney Herbert Waterperry Farm Josiane Falc Isabelle Smeets Helen Hilliard Katherine Kane and Olin West Kathy Flann Sarah Perkins Smither Lauren Hilyard Zulu Nyala Private Game Reserve Olwyn and John Fleming Societé Franco Allemagne (SFA) Amy Hoffman Robert François Isabelle and Francis Sohier Hunton & Williams VCCA-France Debra Galant Cynthia Tremblay Lisa Johnston Anonymous Donors Sylvie and Jean-Marc Gales Meryl Truett Ynestra King Judy and Geoff Alexander Clifford Garstang Elsie and Mike Underwood Ashley Kistler Cheryl Fortier and John Alexander Léa Gauthier Marjan and Frans Wackers Los Angeles County Museum of Art Nanie An Sainson and Daniel Azuelos Janet M. Gorzegno Jill E. Widner Natasha and Nick Lawler Catherine Balco Ariel Gout Art Winslow Camden Littleton Georges Barre Sayre Graves Frances and John Maclean Karen Bell Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Grayson, Jr.

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LEGACY DONATIONS HONORARY DONATIONS In Honor of VCCA Kitchen Staff In Memory of Ann Elder Bestor In Honor of Cal de Coligny, Jr. Margo Solod Ann Elder Bestor Memorial Fund, Greater Lynchburg Mr. and Mrs. George West Community Trust In Honor of Bea Booker, Dana Jones, Carol O’Brien In Honor of Elizabeth Forsyth Harris and Sheila Gulley Pleasants In Memory of Corinne, Jeffrey, Jackson and Meriwether Buckalew Nancy Forsyth Sykes Steven Petrow Laura and George Bilicic Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Goins III In Honor of Adelbert Heil In Honor of Linda Wachtmeister for service Wendy R. Flanagan and Christopher B. O’Malley Lorca Morello on the VCCA Board of Directors Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stickley Gregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts In Honor of Pinkney Herbert In Memory of Julia Sadler de Coligny Beau and Mary Wilson In Honor of Garie Waltzer Mr. and Mrs. William G. de Coligny Honey Lazar In Honor of Sally Keith In Memory of Robert Johnson Mr. and Mrs. George West Sheila and Craig Pleasants In Honor of Jane Larew In Memory of Elizabeth C. Langhorne Elizabeth T. Larew John Langhorne WITH SPECIAL APPRECIATION In Honor of Elizabeth Seydel Morgan In Memory of Daniel Meltzer Laura-Gray Street Allen Davis III In Honor of Sheila Gulley Pleasants In Memory of Cindy Neuschwander Dr. and Mrs. Marcus M. Gulley Jay Barrows In Honor of Robert O. Satterfield for service In Memory of Robert Reed as VCCA Board President, 2013 – 2015 Josie Merck Gregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts

In Memory of Karen Shea and Gabe Silverman In Honor of Barbara Schaff Rose Marie Prins James Strazzella, Esq. Robert Reed w In Honor of the marriage of Sandra Beasley In Memory of Jay Solod, who always wanted to write a novel and Champneys Taylor Margo Solod K.K. Fox Elizabeth and Bob Head In Memory of J. Hume Taylor Gray S. Dodson In Honor of Cynthia Tremblay for service on the VCCA Board of Directors In Memory of Selma Waltzer Gregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts Honey Lazar

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45 46 F E L L O W S I N R E S I D E N C E FISCAL YEAR 2015 Writers Judith Cooper, Chicago, Illinois Kelle Groom, New Smyrna Beach, Florida Nick Krieger, San Francisco, California Deborah B. Ager, Hyattsville, Maryland John Copenhaver, Washington, DC Sharon Guskin, Brooklyn, New York Sarah LaBrie, Los Angeles, California Mary Akers, Lockport, New York Louie Cronin, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Cathryn Hankla, Roanoke, Virginia Sasha Laing, Brooklyn, New York Yelena Akhtiorskaya, New York, New York Barbara Crooker, Fogelsville, Pennsylvania Susie Hara, San Francisco, California Sheila R. Lamb, Chester Gap, Virginia Elisa Albert, Albany, New York Dana Crum, Beacon, New York Sharon Harrigan, Charlottesville, Virginia Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Brooklyn, New York Idris Anderson, San Carlos, California Barbara Daniels, Sicklerville, New Jersey Elizabeth Logan Harris, Brooklyn, New York Dorianne Laux, Raleigh, North Carolina Allen Appel, Upper Marlboro, Maryland Ruth Danon, New York, New York Kenneth Hart, Long Valley, New Jersey Roberta Lawrence, New York, New York Amy T. Arden, Bowie, Maryland Kathy Davis, Rockville, Virginia Penny Harter, Mays Landing, New Jersey Samuel Leader, Province Town, Massachusetts Katherine Arnup, Ottawa, Canada Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Silver Spring, Maryland Virginia Hartman, Rockville, Maryland Marie Myung-Ok Lee, New York, New York Christina Askounis, Durham, North Carolina Angela Davis-Gardner, Raleigh, North Carolina Gary Hawkins, Black Mountain, North Carolina Chris Leslie-Hynan, Portland, Oregan Bonnie Auslander, Bethesda, Maryland Nicholas DiGiovanni, Highland Park, New Jersey Jeremy Hawkins, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Shara Lessley, Broadlands, Virginia Kurt Ayau, Amherst, Virginia Sharon Dolin, New York, New York Elizabeth Heaney, Marshall, North Carolina Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Potomac, Maryland JoAnn Balingit, Newark, Delaware Laura Donnelly, Oswego, New York Will Hermes, New Paltz, New York Dong Li, New York, New York Joan Baranow, Mill Valley, California Jeanne Dorsey, New York, New York Patricia Herrera, Richmond, Virginia Greg Lichtenberg, New York, New York Simon Bartolo, Brussels, Belgium Sarah B. Dorsey, Greensboro, North Carolina Jody Hobbs Hesler, Charlottesville, Virginia David R. Lincoln, Brooklyn, New York Stefan Bechtel, Earlysville, Virginia Michael Downs, Baltimore, Maryland Amy Hoffman, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts Ramona DeFelice Long, Newark, Delaware Abigail Beckel, Takoma Park, Maryland Martha Tod Dudman, Northeast Harbor, Maine Jodie Hollander, Mintum, Colorado Nancy J. Lord, Homer, Alaska Helen Benedict, New York, New York Valerie Duff, Belmont, Massachusetts Lori Horvitz, Asheville, North Carolina Charles Lowe, West Hartford, Connecticut A.K. Benninghofen, Asheville, North Carolina Jonathan Durbin, New York, New York Ladee Hubbard, Champaign, Illinois Alexander Lumans, Denver, Colorado Roslyn Bernstein, New York, New York David Ebenbach, Washington, DC Virginia Ewing Hudson, Raleigh, North Carolina Alec MacGillis, Baltimore, Maryland William Beverly, Hyattsville, Maryland Sue Eisenfeld, Arlington, Virginia Doris Iarovici, Durham, North Carolina Ron MacLean, Roslindale, Massachusetts Julie E. Bloemeke, Alpharetta, Georgia Rodney Evans, Brooklyn, New York Margaret B. Ingraham, Alexandria, Virginia Caitlin Mary Maling, Houston, Texas Nicholas Boggs, Brooklyn, New York Melissa Febos, Brooklyn, New York Greg Jackson, Brunswick, Maine Jeff Martin, Charlottesville, Virginia Mary Bonina, Cambridge, Massachusetts Charles Adès Fishman, E. Patchogue, New York Jeff Jackson, Charlotte, North Carolina Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Cambridge, Massachusetts Amy Bonnaffons, Brooklyn, New York Kate Flora, Concord, Massachusetts Shanley Jacobs, San Francisco, California Charlotte Matthews, Crozet, Virginia Ami Sands Brodoff, Montreal, Canada Sylvia Foley, Brooklyn, New York Chelsey Johnson, Richmond, Virginia Melanie McCabe, Falls Church, Virginia Kimberly Brooks, Chicago, Illinois Laurie Foos, Centerport, New York Cori Jones, Whitehouse, New Jersey Stephen McCauley, Cambridge, Massachusetts Laura Browder, Richmond, Virginia Hazel Foster, San Antonio, Texas Patricia Spears Jones, Brooklyn, New York Laren McClung, Bensalem, Pennsylvania Alan Brown, New York, New York Brandel France de Bravo, Washington, DC Marilyn Kallet, Knoxville, Tennessee Joseph Millar, Raleigh, North Carolina Andrea Carter Brown, Los Angeles, California Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hattiesburg, Mississippi LuAnn Keener-Mikenas, Madison Heights, Virginia Valerie Miner, San Francisco, California Laura Catherine Brown, New York, New York Janice Moore Fuller, Salisbury, North Carolina Sally Keith, Washington, DC Deborah Miranda, Lexington, Virginia Dana Cann, Bethesda, Maryland Kenneth Garcia, South Bend, Indiana Hayley Kelsey, Charleston, South Carolina Carol Pellman Mishler, Singers Glen, Virginia Lisa Carey, Portland, Maine Jessica Garratt, Washington, DC Joshua C. Kendall, Boston, Massachusetts Emily Mitchell, Silver Spring, Maryland Priyanka A. Champaneri, Lorton, Virginia Clifford Garstang, Staunton, Virginia Jesse Lee Kercheval, Madison, Wisconsin Michael Montlack, New York, New York Jan Cherubin, Santa Monica, California Janice Gary, Annapolis, Maryland Ruth Kessler, Rochester, New York Rod Val Moore, Los Angeles, California Angie Chuang, Washington, DC Beatrix Gates, Penobscot, Maine Nancy Kilgore, Burlington, Vermont Michael Morse, Brooklyn, New York Yong-Wook Chung, New York, New York Annette Gendler, Chicago, Illinois Annie Kim, Charlottesville, Virginia Sandell Morse, York, Maine Kim Church, Raleigh, North Carolina Bunny Goodjohn, Lynchburg, Virginia Haven Kimmel, Durham, North Carolina West Moss, West Milford, New Jersey Jan Clausen, Brooklyn, New York Richard Goodman, New Orleans, Louisiana Roger King, Leverett, Massachusetts Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Stevenson, Maryland Carin Clevidence, Northampton, Massachusetts L.B. 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47 48 F E L L O W S I N R E S I D E N C E FISCAL YEAR 2015 Mil Norman-Risch, Richmond, Virginia Margo Solod, Lexington, Virginia Leslie Andrade, Plantation, Florida Sandra Gibson, New York, New York Kim Anne O’Connell, Arlington, Virginia Sandy Solomon, Nashville, Tennessee Kathryn Armstrong, Indianapolis, Indiana Alex Gingrow, Brooklyn, New York Stephen O’Connor, New York, New York April Sopkin, Richmond, Virginia Sophie Barbasch, New York, New York Mille Guldbeck, Grand Rapids, Ohio Elaine Neil Orr, Raleigh, North Carolina Gail South, Charlottesville, Virginia Lisa Beane, Burbank, California Gwen Hardie, New York, New York Jeffery M. 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Bill Hughes, Wynantskill, New York Anna Lena Phillips, Wilmington, North Carolina Natalie Sypolt, Kingwood, West Virginia Brice Brown, New York, New York Fanny Jacquier, Regensburg, Germany Judith Podell, Washington, DC Sara Mansfield Taber, Silver Spring, Maryland Elizabeth Burger, Westminster, Maryland Robin Jebavy, Brookfield, Wisconsin Bella Pollen, London, United Kingdom Joselyn Takacs, Los Angeles, California Robert A. O. Calvert, Sag Harbor, New York Simen Johan, New York, New York Heidi Johannesen Poon, Charlottesville, Virginia Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Washington, DC Cynthia Camlin, Mount Vernon, Washington Aaron Johnson, Brooklyn, New York Joanne Pottlitzer, New York, New York Maria Terrone, Jackson Heights, New York Carolyn Case, Cockeyesville, Maryland Holen Sabrina Kahn, San Francisco, California Lynne Potts, Boston, Massachusetts Michael Paul Thomas, Asbury Park, New Jersey Janice Caswell, New York, New York Lauren Kalman, Detroit, Michigan Christina Pugh, Evanston, Illinois Eric Thompson, Roanoke, Virginia Ruby Chishti, Brooklyn, New York Caroline Kapp, Seattle, Washington Peter Ramos, Amherst, New York Jim Tomlinson, Berera, Kentucky Sang-ah Choi, Portland, Oregon Anne Marie Karlsen, Los Angeles, California Daniel Reitz, New York, New York Brian Trapp, Cincinnati, Ohio Sebastian Collett, Asheville, North Carolina Leslie C. Kerby, Brooklyn, New York Rachel Richardson, Greensboro, North Carolina Natasha Trethewey, Decatur, Georgia Paige E. Critcher, Monroe, Virginia Jahae Kim, Seoul, South Korea Jane Roper, Melrose, Massachusetts Debbie Urbanski, Syracuse, New York Maeve D’Arcy, Jackson Heights, New York Joyce Watkins King, Raleigh, North Carolina Natania Rosenfeld, Galesburg, Illinois Patricia Valdata, Elkton, Maryland Alexandra de Gonzalez, Cambridge, Massachusetts Nicholas Kovatch, Hudson, Wisconsin Lucy Rosenthal, New York, New York John Van Kirk, Huntington, West Virginia Renate Debrun, Dublin, Ireland Beth Krebs, Oakland, California Ken Rumble, Durham, North Carolina Kris Waldherr, Brooklyn, New York Jennifer DePalma, Washington, DC Heidi Kumao, Ann Arbor, Michigan Tammy Ryan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lizette Wanzer, San Francisco, California Jane Waggoner Deschner, Billings, Montana Lindsey Landfried, State College, Pennsylvania Annita Sawyer, North Branford, Connecticut Michael Waters, Ocean, New Jersey Cathy Diamond, Glendale, New York Mary Laube, Ypsilanti, Michigan Seth Sawyers, Baltimore, Maryland Eric Weiner, Silver Spring, Maryland Jenn Dierdorf, Brooklyn, New York Magnolia Laurie, Baltimore, Maryland Lisa Schamess, Washington, DC Stephanie Whetstone, Durham, North Carolina Holly Downing, Sebastopol, California Jessica Levine, Lewisburg, West Virginia Nat Schmookler, Broadway, Virginia Paula Whyman, Bethesda, Maryland Corinne Duchesne, Burlington, Ontario, Canada David Licata, New York, New York Patricia Schultheis, Baltimore, Maryland Florence Williams, Washington, DC Jessica Dunne, San Francisco, California Elizabeth Lide, Atlanta, Georgia Edward Schwarzschild, Albany, New York Suzanne Wise, Brooklyn, New York Tori Ellison, Los Angeles, California Andrea Lilienthal, Brooklyn, New York Benton Sen, Honolulu, Hawaii Amy Wright, Clarksville, Tennessee Edgar Endress, Saint Augustine, Florida Terri Lindbloom, Tallahassee, Florida Lisa Sewell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Clare Wu, Silver Spring, Maryland Mariana Escribano, Wichita, Kansas Taliaferro Logan, Roanoke, Virginia Rone Shavers, Albany, New York Melissa Wyse, Baltimore, Maryland David Farrar, Oxford, England Natasha Maidoff, Venice, California Julie Sheehan, East Quogue, New York Hananah Zaheer, Durham, North Carolina Emily Feinstein, Brooklyn, New York John Mann, Tallahassee, Florida Gary Short, Oxford, Mississippi Mary Kay Zuravleff, Washington, DC Cheryl Fortier, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Lady McCrady, New Haven, Connecticut Sarah Mollie Silberman, Arlington, Virginia Suzanne Zweizig, Washington, DC Barbara Frank, Washington, DC Jenny Lynn McNutt, Brooklyn, New York Beatrice Smigasiewicz, Iowa City, Iowa John H. Franklin, Princeton, New Jersey Michael McSorley, North Versailles, Pennsylvania Paula Smith, Grinnell, Iowa Visual Artists Sasha Waters Freyer, Richmond, Virginia Joe Meiser, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania R.T. Smith, Fairfield, Virginia Michael Adno, Brooklyn, New York Sarah Gamble, Roswell, New Mexico Lilianne Milgrom, Fairfax, Virginia Bruce Snider, San Francisco, California Caroline Allen, Loghborough, England David Garratt, Amherst, Virginia Meredith Miller, Chicago, Illinois

49 50 F E L L O W S I N R E S I D E N C E FISCAL YEAR 2015 Nancy Mooslin, Los Angeles, California Patricia Zalisko, Estero, Florida INTERNATIONAL Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburg, Germany Lorca Morello, Brooklyn, New York Alexandra de Gonzalez, Cambridge, Massachusetts Megan Mosholder, Kennesaw, Georgia Composers Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France Miriam Mörsel Nathan, Silver Spring, Maryland Judah E. Adashi, Baltimore, Maryland Elizabeth Crisman, Baltimore, Maryland St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta Karl Nussbaum, Brooklyn, New York Iddo Aharony, Chicago, Illinois Elizabeth Dary, Brooklyn, New York Jennifer D. Anderson, Roanoke, Virginia Amie Oliver, Richmond, Virginia James Bergin, North Adams, Massachusetts Joellyn Duesberry, Greenwood Village, Colorado Barbara Page, Trumansburg, New York Hayes Biggs, Bronxville, New York Kathy Flann, Baltimore, Maryland Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan, Ireland Nicole Parcher, New York, New York Tyler Capp, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Debra Galant, Glen Ridge, New Jersey BettyJoyce Nash, Charlottesville, Virginia Catherine Peek, Winchester, Virginia Chin Ting Chan, Kansas City, Missouri Janet M. Gorzegno, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Benjamin Peterson, New York, New York Andrea Clearfield, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ariel Gout, Berlin, Germany MOULIN À NEF, AUVILLAR, FRANCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS Luis Recoder, New York, New York William David Cooper, Davis, California Alexandra Kleeman, Staten Island, New York Cuyler Remick, Brooklyn, New York Nathan Currier, New York, New York Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Brooklyn, New York O Taste And See: Writing the Senses in Deep France Heiner Riepl, Kelheim, Germany Stephen S. Dankner, Williamstown, Massachusetts Wendy Lewis, Union City, New Jersey Deborah Bono, Westport, Connecticut Leslie Roberts, Brooklyn, New York Maggie Dubris, New York, New York Anna Jean Mayhew, Hillsborough, North Carolina Julie Jacob, Branson West, Missouri Judith Robertson, Miami Beach, Florida Michael Harrison, Yonkers, New York Deirdra McAfee, Richmond, Virginia RJ Jacob, Branson West, Missouri Ann Ropp, Johnson City, Tennessee Drew Hemenger, New York, New York Nancy Mitchell, Salisbury, Maryland Sarah Cooper, Knoxville, Tennessee Nicole Ryan, Mercer, Pennsylvania Zaid Jabri, Kraków, Poland Sandell Morse, York, Maine Linda Marion, Knoxville, Tennessee Bill Schmidt, Baltimore, Maryland Paul Kayhart, Atlanta, Georgia Susan Newbold, Fairfield, Connecticut Christine Parkhurst, Farragut, Tennessee Roland Schön, Neudrossenfeld, Germany Elizabeth A. Kelly, Denton, Texas Polly Pen, Rosendale, New York Rose Raney, Knoxville, Tennessee Paul Schuette, Cincinnati, Ohio Caroline Keys, Missoula, Montana Bella Pollen, London, United Kingdom Jeanne Ridley, Knoxville, Tennessee Foon Sham, Springfield, Virginia Ayesu Lartey, Brooklyn, New York Judith Pratt, Alexandria, Virginia Maria James Thiaw, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Vicki Sher, Brooklyn, New York Missy Mazzoli, Brooklyn, New York Isabelle Smeets, Broekhuizen, The Netherlands Jon-Phillip Sheridan, Richmond, Virginia Eric Moe, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gerald Sticker, New York, New York Etchings Music Festival Participants Claudia Smigrod, Alexandria, Virginia Reinaldo Moya, Northfield, Minnisota Meryl Truett, Savannah, Georgia Ethan Braun, Austin, Texas Stephanie Snider, Brooklyn, New York John Nichols III, Savoy, Illinois Jeffrey Weaver, Hatfield, Massachusetts Tristan Coelho, Sydney, Australia Tanja Softic, Richmond, Virginia Sergio Núñez, Santiago, Chile Jill E. Widner, Yakima, Washington Wesley Devore, Centennial, Colorado Michelle Spark, Phoenicia, New York Rene Orth, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Georgi Dimitrov, Los Angeles, California Susan Stainman, Brooklyn, New York Kala Pierson, Haverford, Pennsylvania Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany Hakki Cengiz Eren, Los Angeles, California Meg Stein, Durham, North Carolina Christopher Preissing, Chicago, Illinois Agnes L. Carbrey, Lexington, Virginia Turkar Gasimzada, Baku, Azerbaijan Suzy Sureck, New York, New York Paul Reisler, Washington, Virginia Vanessa Diaz, Jupiter, Florida Sean Harold, Champaign, Illinois Darren Tanti, Zebbug, Malta Michael Remson, Houston, Texas Lauren Kalman, Detroit, Michigan Derek Holden, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Lauren Marie Taylor, Oakland, California Michael Rose, Brooklyn, New York Laren McClung, Bensalem, Pennsylvania Tsung-Jen Hsieh, Taipei City, Taiwan Nicole Teeny, Cambridge, Massachusetts Anna Rubin, Columbia, Maryland Gregory Mertl, New Milford, Connecticut Ravi Kittappa, San Francisco, California Millee Tibbs, Detroit, Michigan Andrew Rudin, Allentown, New Jersey Anne Mills McCauley, Marshall, Michigan Ursula Kwong-Brown, Berkeley, California Anthony Ulinski, Raleigh, North Carolina Alan Shockley, Lakewood, California Laura Elise Schwendinger, Madison, Wisconsin Julien Malaussena, Asnieres-sur-seine, France Felicia van Bork, Davidson, North Carolina Marie Retat Sigal, Toulouse, France Gerald Sticker, New York, New York Timothy Melbinger, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania Kit Warren, Brooklyn, New York Faye-Ellen Silverman, New York, New York Cem Özçelik, Istanbul, Bakirköy, Turkey Barbara Weissberger, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Aaron Stepp, Georgetown, Kentucky Salzburg, Austria Leonardo Silva, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Caroline Wright, Austin, Texas Juan Sebastian Vassallo, Villa Mercedes, Argentina Amie Oliver, Richmond, Virginia Cheng-Che David Tsai, Hsinchu, Taiwan Sarah Boyts Yoder, Charlottesville, Virginia Joelle Wallach, New York, New York Guang Yang, Boston, Massachusetts Shigeki Yoshida, Brooklyn, New York Anna Weesner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ruzica Zajec, Kaarz, Germany Evan Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio

51 52 V C C A B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 I N T E R N A T I O N A L O V E R S I G H T FISCAL YEAR 2015

Robert O. SatterfieldAfton, Virginia President

Kenneth Haller Jones Richmond, Virginia Treasurer Committee on Programs Abroad Elizabeth Mason Horsley Richmond, Virginia Pinkney Herbert, Chair Secretary Ted Craddock w Eva de Coligny Tina Walls Denver, Colorado Cal de Coligny Immediate Past President Sayre Graves Dick Grayson Page Bond Richmond, Virginia Suny Monk Shelby Fischer Charlottesville, Virginia Sandell Morse Mary Fowlkes Richmond, Virginia Sheila Pleasants Quinn Feldmann Graeff Roanoke, Virginia Sarah Perkins Smither Elizabeth Logan Harris Brooklyn, New York Cynthia Tremblay Cynthia Henebry Richmond, Virginia Pinkney Herbert Memphis, Tennessee VCCA-Abroad Board Steven Samuel High Sarasota, Florida Cynthia Tremblay, President Helen M. Hilliard Free Union, Virginia Sarah Perkins Smither, Secretary Lauren Hilyard Washington D.C. Cal de Coligny, Treasurer Thomas Y. Hiner New York, New York Ted Craddock William E. Hunt Lynchburg, Virginia Sayre Graves Margaret B. Ingraham Alexandria, Virginia Dick Grayson Martee Stephens Johnson Charlottesville, Virginia Suny Monk Alieda Keevil Charlottesville, Virginia Sandell Morse Laura Edge Kottkamp Richmond, Virginia Robbie Mascotte Charlottesville, Virginia VCCA-France Board Sandell Morse York, Maine Pinkney Herbert, President Alexander Lee Nyerges Richmond, Virginia Eva de Coligny, Secretary Ann W. Ramsey Richmond, Virginia Francis Sohier/Patrick Lagarrigue, Treasurers Tatem Webb Read Mill Valley, California Cynthia Tremblay Greenwood, Virginia Donald Ubben Ivy, Virginia Linda E. A. Wachtmeister Scottsville, Virginia R. Kennon Williams Charlottesville, Virginia

53 54 V C C A H O N O R A R Y + A D V I S O R Y B O A R D S FISCAL YEAR 2015 F E L L O W S C O U N C I L + V C C A S T A F F FISCAL YEAR 2015 HONORARY BOARD ADVISORY COUNCIL FELLOWS COUNCIL VCCA STAFF

James L. Camp, IV Samuel Adler Andrea Carter Brown Gregory Allgire Smith Virginia Beach, Virginia Composer, Perrysburg, Ohio Chair Executive Director Writer, Los Angeles, California Calvert de Coligny, Jr. David Del Tredici Carolyn Angus, Housekeeping Roanoke, Virginia Composer, New York, New York Sally Bowring Beatrice Booker, Office Manager Vice-Chair Eugenia Botea, Chef Elizabeth Forsyth Harris Rita Dove Visual Artist, Richmond, Virginia Kameron Davis, Kitchen Staff Lynchburg, Virginia Poet, Charlottesville, Virginia Lindale Dawson, Kitchen Staff Ami Sands Brodoff Cheryl Fortier, Resident Artist, VCCA-France Lucy Levis Hazlegrove Teresita Fernández International Fellows Representative Richard Glass, Accounts Payable Roanoke, Virginia Artist, Brooklyn, New York Writer, Montreal, Canada Gwen Hodnett, Facilities Staff Dana Jones, Admissions Coordinator Carter McNeely Harper Lee Charles Adès Fishman and Assistant to the Director of Artists’ Services Charlottesville, Virginia Writer, Monroeville, Alabama Writer, Bellport, New York Josephine Lloyd, Kitchen Staff Nancy McAndrew, International Programs Coordinator Tracy G. Savage Sally Mann Holen Sabrina Kahn Tabitha Moore, Sous Chef Saratoga Springs, New York Photographer, Lexington, Virginia Filmmaker, Holmes, New York Carol O’Brien, Director of Annual and Planned Giving Amanda Patten, Kitchen Staff Elliot S. Schewel Alice McDermott Jacqueline Jones LaMon Michael Patterson, Facilities Manager Lynchburg, Virginia Writer, Bethesda, Maryland Writer, Brooklyn, New York Sheila Gulley Pleasants, Director of Artists’ Services Sarah Sargent, Director of Communications Mrs. John D. Varner Gregory Maguire Amie Oliver and Grants Management Charlottesville, Virginia Writer, Concord, Massachusetts Visual Artist, Richmond, Virginia Kimberley Stiffler, Development and Grants Assistant Evangelia Thomas, Kitchen Staff Claus Oldenburg Christopher Preissing Bonnie Wine, Accountant Sculptor, New York, New York Composer, Chicago, Illinois RESIDENT ARTISTS William Jay Smith Lisa Schamess Poet, Cummington, Massachusetts Writer, Washington, D.C. Barbara Bernstein David Garratt David Weiss Lisa Sewell Theater Designer, Charlottesville, Virginia Poet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Naomi Wolf Enid Shomer Writer, New York, New York Poet/Fiction Writer, Tampa, Florida Suzy Sureck Visual Artist, Gardner, New York

55 56 A U D I T E D F I N A N C I A L I N F O R M A T I O N FISCAL YEAR 2015 ASSETS

Current assets 2015 2014 Cash and Cash Equivalents Support and Revenue 2015 2014 Operating $ 54,115 $ 79,030 Contributions Campaign Endowment 07 418,242 374,962 Individuals 257,466 255,340 Investments 2,422,272 2,573,649 Foundations & Corporations 34,875 43,525 Pledges Receivable 293,218 362,456 Government and Other Grants 35,500 12,000 Accounts Receivable 11,064 9,335 Bequests 1,000 25,000 Accounts Receivable-Abroad 25,000 31,436 Events and Sales 71,685 82,594 Prepaid Expenses 2,925 2,154 Other 3,273 2,010 Net Assets Realized from Restrictions - - Total Current Assets 3,226,836 3,433,022 Residency Fees 327,229 330,253 Interest and Dividend Interest 95,410 77,582 Property and equipment Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) (55,809) 285,638 Property and equipment 1,954,503 1,949,538 Total Public Support and Revenue 770,629 1,113,942 Less: accumulated depreciation 1,710,011 1, 637,334 Operating Expense Total Property and Equipment 244,492 312,204 Program Expenses (Fellows) 574,781 690,648 Management and General 259,352 311,633 Other Assets 638,211 596,963 Fundraising Expenses 167,227 200,937 Total Expenses 1,001,360 1,203,218 Total Assets $ 4,109,539 $ 4,342,189 Increase/Decrease in Net Assets (230,731) (89,276) LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Current Liabilities Accounts Payable $ 12,365 $ 14,720 Payroll Liabilities 5,903 5,844 Sales Tax Payable 396 19

Total Current Liabilities 18,664 20,583

Net Assets Unrestricted 1,514,121 1,606,250 Temporarily Restricted 1,929,821 2,068,423 Permanently Restricted 646,933 646,933

Total Net Assets $ 4,090,875 $ 4,321,606

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 4,109,539 $ 4,342,189

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