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NEWS | FALL 2018 “It’s all about the sentences. It’s about the way the sentences move in the paragraphs. It’s about rhythm. It’s about ambiguity. It’s about the way emotion, in difficult circumstances, gets captured in language. It’s about instances of consciousness. It’s about besieged consciousness. It’s about love trouble. It’s about death. It’s about suicide. It’s about the body. It’s about skepticism. It’s against sentimentality. It’s against cheap sentiment. It’s about regret. It’s about survival. It’s about the sentences used to enact and defend survival.” − Rick Moody VICKI TOPAZ VICKI INSIDE: The Year of Yaddo Firsts Connections: Artists on Artists Top 5 Yaddo Firsts Spotlight on Screen On Amy Hempel (above); Jonathan Lethem From expanding our community to Tamara Jenkins, Matthew Weiner, and Sylvia Plath, among others, in our special launching new initiatives, this has been an A’Lelia Bundles, Jason Reitman feature on admiration and influence extraordinary year and more THE YEAR OF YADDO FIRSTS From first-time guests to new initiatives and partnerships, we’re celebrating a banner year. resh off the Yaddo Artist Reunion, where we found old (and and continue the multimillion-dollar stabilization and restoration new!) friends, danced to the Dog House Band, and ignited of our historic Mansion. Bolstered by our community, we’re ready another Renaissance in Harlem, plus bestowed the 2018 to meet the challenges ahead. Our outstanding board leadership Yaddo Artist Medal upon the incomparable Amy Hempel, we has inspired us to make like the Trasks and tinker with all the Fare entering into the spirit of the season and reflecting on gratitude. possibilities inherent in the way we bear Yaddo forward into its With your support (thank you!), we’ve reached major milestones second century of service and “perpetual house parties,” to quote in our efforts to expand our community, launch new initiatives, Katrina, where artists live for “creating, creating, creating!” “This residency changed [GONE GLOBAL] my life. Thank you!” ARTISTS – Allie Tova Hirsch, writer from Ann Arbor, MI FROM 38 COUNTRIES HAVE VISITED YADDO IN THE PAST DECADE. Gates Open Over the past 12 years, some 60 percent of guests who came to Yaddo did so for the Australia, first time (and we’ve long been trending at least half female!). We’ve also made strides Greece, Hungary, in heterogeneity. As we anticipate the reopening of our Mansion, we’re continually Ireland, Mexico, engaged in conversations about capacity and the question, Who is Yaddo for? We live Netherlands, United in a dynamic world; artists mirror that world. Yaddo celebrates community and artistic Kingdom, Argentina, achievement, from the grass-roots level of those who labor in obscurity, to the strata of Canada, France, accomplished supernovas who’ve demonstrated a lifetime of mastery. India, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, Spain, FIRST VISITS: 2007-2018 China, Germany, 70% New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, 60% Colombia, Cuba, 50% Czech Republic, Portugal, Brazil, 40% Croatia, Jamaica, OF ARTISTS WERE FIRST- Israel, Ghana, 30% 68% TIME GUESTS IN 2018 Russia, Sweden, 20% Hong Kong, Iran, Tunisia, Japan, 10% South Africa, 0% Palestine 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2 Yaddo News FOUNDATION TO ROOF, specially engineered scaffolding enfolds our TOP 5 YADDO FIRSTS historic Mansion COCKTAILS & CONVERSATION From left: Kenseth Armstead, Mitch McCabe, Mary Frank, Jacki Lyden re-opening of our Mansion, we anticipate future innovative initiatives to bring together our artists with the general public. Five years ago, we kicked off the Stewart’s Shops and The Dake Family, a Contending with construction 1 largest capital campaign in our fund of The Community Foundation for the 5 closures inspired history to raise $10 million to stabilize Greater Capital Region, signed on with a experimentation: This summer, and restore our historic Mansion. In 2018, $5,000 grant to support we held an outdoor feast on the patio “Access to Yaddo,” our at West House, with Yaddo Chef 15 TONS cultural enrichment Michael Blake improvising a meal mortar program for used for by firepit: grilled salmon, mussels repointing ILLUSTRATORS, in a wok, pita with smoked a new residency eggplant, whipped has arrived! feta and zhoug; students: Yaddo and plancha- 756 WINDOW SASHES Club facilitates roasted peaches removed & research projects as repaired with homemade part of Saratoga Springs High School’s honey ice cream. humanities curriculum. New tradition! we reached great heights in realizing that GONE WILD Outdoor feast! goal. With more than $8 million committed, we’ve taken the plunge to renew Yaddo for BANNER future generations. YEAR for Yaddo Club This year, specially engineered 2 scaffolding (foundation to roof!) enveloped our historic Mansion, which is undergoing unprecedented restoration This fall, in partnership with the and stabilization. 4 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, we presented Cocktails & New Partners: In concert with The Conversation—a new series on the AND… OUR FIRST BOARD MEMBER 3 Maurice Sendak Foundation, we intersection of art, ideas and culture—made TO MEET THE QUEEN! unveiled The Sendak/Glynn Narrative possible by a grant from The Maurer Family “The Queen had sparkling eyes, a warm and kind attitude, a subtle humor and asked thoughtful Illustration Residency—designated for Foundation, which also sponsored our and sensitive questions—all qualities that have artists whose primary media is work on “Celebration of Yaddo Firsts” programming become so rare among world leaders.” paper through the use of non-digital tools. in the Yaddo Artist Reunion. With the – Huberta von Voss-Wittig Fall 2018 3 Passion, betrayal, art, plus an Italian opera diva and Coming Attractions must-see movies: The personal is political this season in new work by Yaddo artists. SPOTLIGHT ON SCREEN Holly (Julia Roberts) stops at nothing to classic—has its New York debut as part Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life charmed the unite her family in this moving drama (in of the 2018 Next Wave Festival at BAM, film festival circuit, and now is on Netflix: theaters Dec. 7) that offers an intimate view Dec. 12 – 15: Founded and directed Starring Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Molly of America’s opiate crisis. by Marianne Weems, The Builders Shannon (and Yaddo!), the story centers on On Her Own Ground: The Life and Association blends performance, text, video a couple’s attempt to form a family. Times of Madam C.J. Walker, A’Lelia and sound to tell this story of a governess Novelist and Mad Men creator Matthew Bundles’ biography of her great-great in a haunted estate. Weiner’s The Romanoffs, an anthology grandmother—one of the first female Black Light—set to pop, rock, soul and series on Amazon, follows contemporary African American millionaires of the disco—tours the darkness of personal characters who believe they are early 20th century—is in development to and political upheaval in an immersive descendants of Russian royalty. become a Netflix series starring Oscar- performance piece featuring the “very In Viper Club, the latest drama from winner Octavia Spencer (The Help). particular radiance” (The New Yorker) Maryam Keshavarz, Susan Sarandon plays of Jomama Jones, alter ego of Daniel a working-class mom struggling to secure GOTH, DANCE, DRAG the release of her son, a war correspondent Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw—a taken hostage by ISIS. new interpretation of Henry James’ gothic Jason Reitman’s The Front Runner follows the rise of Senator Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman)—the Democratic presidential candidate poised to succeed Ronald Regan—and the scandal that derailed his bid. Inspired by Enemies: A History of the FBI—Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner’s book on our fraught system of checks and balances—a new documentary series premieres on Showtime, with the first of four installments on Nov. 18. A prodigal son returns from rehab in Ben is Back by Peter Hedges; Ben’s mother 4 Yaddo News Alexander Jones, whose Off-Broadway revival plays Greenwich House Theater YADDO WELCOMES NEW LEADERSHIP through Dec. 31. Peter Kayafas and Janice Y.K. Lee have was translated into 26 languages worldwide) Choreographer Christopher Williams been elected to serve as new co-chairs of and The Expatriates (which will be adapted shares excerpts of his Bessie Award- the board, succeeding A.M. Homes and as a television series for Amazon Studios winning work Ursula and the 11,000 Susan Unterberg, who have stepped down by Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films). Her Virgins and The Golden Legend on Dec. after five successful years. A member of writing has appeared in ELLE, Mirabella, 2 as part of “Sundays on Broadway” at Yaddo’s board since 2000, Peter Kayafas Glamour, and Travel & Leisure, among WeisAcres. Excerpts from his new ballet, is a photographer, publisher, curator and other publications. Yaddo President Elaina Narcissus, will be on view at Douglas teacher, as Richardson said Dunn Studio, Dec. 3 – 8. well as the the change Director of the in leadership FEAST YOUR EYES Eakins Press comes at a Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image Foundation. His particularly (Bronx Museum, through March 3) is the photographs are crucial period in first comprehensive survey of the artist’s in the collections Yaddo’s history. work in the U.S. Louis Stettner: Traveling of the Museum “Yaddo has Light (SFMoMA, through May 27) presents of Modern Art, been remarkably a thematic retrospective of his street the Brooklyn fortunate photography of New York and Paris—his “two Museum of Art, in its board loves.” Alfred Leslie: Pixel Scores (Butler The New York leadership, with Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, Public Library, the San Francisco Museum of dedicated and forward-thinking stewardship Jan. 13 – March 10) offers the acclaimed Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, for almost a century,” she said.
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