Dear Friends,

We are grateful for your support. Charitable gifts to Saltonstall underwrite every aspect of what we do to provide time and space all year long for New York State artists and writers.

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As we continue to address issues of access and equity, we will look for more ways to take down barriers and increase support so we can serve the widest possible community of artists and writers in New York State — especially those from underrepresented communities and for those with less access to resources and opportunities.

We hope you’ll join us on this path. We are so grateful for your support and encouragement. Thank you!

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In their words

“Saltonstall was a gift of focus and clarity; poems and bodies of work with which I was having trouble, I finally could make real progress. I could be a full-time poet, every day, reading, writing, rereading, rewriting. It was a deep, nourishing joy. Poetry is sustenance and Saltonstall allowed me to feast, to savor. Discoveries made at Saltonstall are ones I will carry with me for years to come.”

—CHEN CHEN (’14)

“This has been a completely wonderful, productive, epiphany-inducing two weeks! I’m leaving here full of joy, energy, commitment, and a bunch of new comrades-in-arms! The space you hold here, the atmosphere you seed and enable us to grow is magical. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

—STACIE EVANS (’19)

“Before Saltonstall, I considered myself a small poet. After the residency, where I had space to commit to meditation and to the work of the writer, I understood myself as Author. I may have gotten lost many times on the trails around the property, but what I found transformed my sense of the writer within me, and it renewed my belief in words. I fell in love with the sentence again, even in its fragmentation. Especially the fragment. And I felt brave, in a way that I had not felt in years.”

—SARAH JEFFERIS (’14)

“I would say that I arrived at Saltonstall as a filmmaker and am leaving as an multidisciplinary artist. The Saltonstall residency really came to me at an important crux in my career, as I’m trying to answer questions about what kind of a creative I am and the kind of work I want to be making. Saying that I’ve had the time to reflect on these questions is a given, but what I didn’t expect here was the immense support and fellowship of the other artists in residence. I was so surprised at how supportive, encouraging, and open-hearted the other artists were about my desire to venture into other mediums. I didn’t realize how much I needed that affirmation, just one person to say ‘yes, you can do this’, to feel like I could fully plunge myself into this uncharted territory of a ‘multidisciplinary artist.’”

– GRACE KIM (’21)

Grace Kim, smiling, sitting at a desk filled with colored pencils and a large work-in-progress
Grace Kim
“I just wanted to take a moment to thank you and the foundation for making retreat space available. My time last week was a huge boon to the novel. I was able to write 20,000+ new words and begin to shape the end, and because all I had to do was write and think and reflect, I worked 10 or more hour a day and still came home rested and renewed. What a gift!”

—SUSAN MOREHOUSE, WRITER (ALFRED)

“I had such a lovely weekend at the residency–thank you so much. It’s such a gift to have that privacy and stillness but also enough faint buzzing of other bodies to keep one oriented to the world. I loved it.”

—ELEANOR HENDERSON, WRITER (ITHACA)

“I enjoyed a perfect storm at Saltonstall this past September. It’s the convergence of so many ideal circumstances: hours of solitude in a spacious studio; exceptional food; a gracious and remarkable group of fellow artists; and a real sense of caring that makes Saltonstall feel like home—without the distractions.  I’ve gotten good work done elsewhere, but Saltonstall is unique.”

—JONATHAN BLUNK (’12)

“The parent residencies are fantastic and essential. I haven’t written as much without interruption in years. And in the most beautiful, tranquil setting. It was an incredibly productive, creative, emotional six days, and I wanted to thank you and the Board again for making it possible. I had three more poems accepted for publication while I was at Saltonstall, which seems to confirm how magic the place is.”

—REBECCA FAULKNER (’21)

“I can’t thank you enough for the opportunity to be a resident at Saltonstall during ICSD’s spring break this year. It is not often that my lives as a school-based OT and as a fiction writer can come together, and my job and role as a mother leave very little time and peace for writing. Thank you for giving me both.”

—ANGELINA MIRABELLA, TEACHER/WRITER (ITHACA)

“I just thought of you because the short story I worked on during my residency last year was published this week, and I wanted to express gratitude for the Saltonstall stay, since the piece would not have come into existence otherwise.”

—CELINA SU (’12)