Some Serious Business generously afforded me the opportunity to escape the city and to ponder life in the desert for two weeks. I am so grateful to Susan Martin, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Matthew Contos for choosing me to participate in SSB Away and their gracious welcome. I also thank Alex for allowing me to…
Hello from Rachel Levitsky at Podere Mallabiccia, Petroio, Italy, SSB’s first Tuscany Residency I choose this one above of the many photos I’ve take to begin to tell about the wonders of the casina at Malabiccia. I don’t like describing what is better being seen or as I wanted to write on a post on Instagram (I’m at…
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New York based Composer and Bassist ARTUR KELL is SSB’s next Artist-in-Residence in New Mexico. Kell will be performing with artist Quintan Ana Wikswo in Madrid, NM and in Santa Fe, NM during his stay. Stay tuned for more details about the performances. ABOUT ARTHUR KELL Arthur Kell (bassist, composer) is one of the most…
Jasmine has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1981, and now works and lives in New York City. Her work is polyvalent in approach, including artist-run collectives, long-running collaborations with Penny Arcade and Lydia Lunch, photography, design and filmmaking.
With my time almost up at beautiful RANCHO MILAGROS I am happy to have made significant progress on my novel. It’s taken me three rewrites of the first draft to get it where it is now, the most fun revision of all: number four, in which I unhitch the story from narrative chronology. Productive times….
Writer Rachel Levitsky is the founder of the Belladonna Series, promoting feminist avant-garde poetics. Levitsky’s hybrid poetries and prose utilize politics, humor and abstraction to map the structural reality of everyday life. She is also playing with and pushing against the constrained form of the English language sentence. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna Series in…
SSB is proud to present Artist/Writer Arturo Vidich as the first SSB Away Artist in Residence at our PLAZA BLANCA location in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Vidich will be in New Mexico throughout July and August to work on his first novel, Stage Fall, as well as its screenplay and storyboard for feature animation. Stage Fall is a…