Winter 2025 Community Updates
Leilehua Lanzilotti awarded a 2025 Creative Capital Award
2023 artist-in-residence Leilehua Lanzilotti was awarded a 2025 Creative Capital Award for Liliʻu, an experimental opera project connecting performance, community activations, and indigenous language revitalization.
Set in 1895, when Queen Lili‘uokalani was imprisoned for almost a year in ʻIolani Palace for her alleged knowledge of an attempt to take back the Kingdom of Hawai‘i, Lili‘u is a story of resilience and hope.
For more information, visit https://liliuopera.com/
The 2025 Creative Capital Awards in Visual Arts, Technology, Performing Arts, Film/Moving Image, and Literature represent 49 projects by 55 artists from all over the country. Creative Capital awarded innovative projects focused on painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, video, installation, dance, theater, jazz, opera, multimedia performance, narrative film, experimental film, documentary film, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
At Water’s Edge: Reflections on 200 Years of the Erie Canal
Opens January 18, 2025
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
Participants of the 2024 Erie Canal Artists-in-Residence—Alon Koppel (2025 TTF artist-in-residence), Judit German-Heins, and Clara Riedlinger—each embarked on a year-long photographic exploration contemplating the Canal’s current condition, activating the landscape, and considering the waterway’s lasting impacts on present-day American culture. At Water’s Edge: Reflections on 200 Years of the Erie Canal highlights the culmination of these artists’ projects.
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
Carolyn Drake / Andres Gonzalez
Published by MACK
Photographers and longtime partners Carolyn Drake (2023 Artist-in-Residence) and Andres Gonzalez embark on a collaborative journey along the US-Mexico border, creating an imaginative portrait of life in these borderlands.
NOW IS ALWAYS and
ALL THAT IS
January 13–February 28, 2025
Hess Center for the Arts, Deerfield, MA
Vaune Trachtman’s (2021 Artist-in-Residence) series ALL THAT IS began in the 1950s when her parents were first dating. Decades later, Trachtman found their notes and love letters, which she combined with archival family photos and her own images to make this series of photogravures. Their written marks evoke the tension you feel when you recognize language but can’t decipher it—memory can work the same way. In ALL THAT IS, Trachtman explores this feeling of trying to touch what can’t be touched, trying to understand what can’t be understood. It's a feeling we all share when we recall a first love, a first loss, a first awareness of how quickly time passes.
THAT TIME OF YEAR
Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 7pm
Spotty Dog Books, Hudson, NY
THAT TIME OF YEAR is a quarterly-ish reading series featuring writers sharing work around a theme. January’s theme is “Deep.”
Featuring writers Dawn Lundy Martin, Anna Moschovakis, Marianne Shaneen (2021 artist-in-residence)
Shaneen is a writer of fiction, essays, and poetry. She has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, and the Tusen Takk Foundation. Her work has been published in The Kenyon Review, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Vanitas, and elsewhere. She is currently finishing her first novel, Homing.
Dan Webb Selected for Washington Public Art Project
King County Metro South Annex Base
Tukwila, WA
Dan Webb (2021 Pilot Artist-in-Residence) will design and build ten functional and conceptually linked tables for interior and exterior King County Metro locations in Washington state. Currently represented by Greg Kucera Gallery, Webb has over two decades of exhibition experience in galleries and museums and has contributed significantly to the field of public art. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Glass, Tacoma; New Museum, New York; Portland Art Museum; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Seattle Art Museum; and Tacoma Art Museum.
“There are two things that draw me to the community tables opportunity,” Webb says. “The first is the focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship. My work and designs will be deeply impacted by starting with this approach. The second thing is to make tables that will occupy lots of different contexts, from the meeting rooms to the shop and the places in between. I look forward to making things that fit logically into many different spaces and provide a throughline to connect them all. Working in collaboration with Metro, the architects, and Haddad|Drugan, the goal is to make tables that will be useful, memorable, and long-lasting.”
Image: Dan Webb. Right Here, 2023. Madrone, glass, and steel. Seattle Convention Center | Summit, WA. Photo: joefreemanjunior.com. Courtesy of the Collection of the Seattle Convention Center | Summit
Fritz Horstman: Geometry of Light
November 2, 2024 - January 4, 2025
Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA
Municipal Bonds is pleased to announce Geometry of Light, a solo exhibition of works by Fritz Horstman (2025 Artist-in-Residence). In Horstman's series Folded Cyanotypes, he explores the relationship between light and form through geometric abstraction.
