Jun 23, 2016 | News
Welcome Fellows! The summer season already feels like it’s moving so quickly. Our second group of Fellows arrived this past Monday, and we’re so happy to welcome them. They include, left-to-right in the photo above: Shanti Grumbine,...
Jun 9, 2016 | News
One wall in visual artist Becky Brown’s Saltonstall studio is covered with maps: the United States; Monmouth County, New Jersey; Nova Scotia; Lake Mead; Pompeii (from a 1950s-era issue of National Geographic); and a folding plastic map of New York State that her...
Jun 9, 2016 | News
Photographer Rachel Fein-Smolinski is a visual artist with a science-fiction heart. Saltonstall is her first residency, and her studio explodes with projects. A box of color slides discarded from the City College of San Francisco’s Astronomy Lab are becoming...
Jun 9, 2016 | News
Serendipity can often play a huge role in a residency experience. For poet Victoria Kornick, a random book she found on a shelf, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker has influenced almost everything she’s written since...
Jun 9, 2016 | News
Tracey Rose Peyton has taken a less traditional path to become a writer. A career in film editing petered out as jobs disappeared during the digital upheavals of the mid-2000s. She fell into producing for ad agencies by accident, but the work has supported her ever...