Last day to apply 🧡

I am so, so excited for this book—which I got to preview Virginia Center for the Creative Arts this December. Order your copy of Jesse Lee Kercheval’s beautiful graphic memoir at crowdfundr.com/frenchgirl_hot…

Reading a beautiful and well-loved copy of Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems from the Wavetree Library Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

You're invited! Please join us Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Mt. San Angelo in Amherst, VA, for a night of food, fun, dancing, and art.

Proceeds will support VCCA’s Annual Fund. Learn more, get your ticket(s), or make a donation online at vcca.com/gala.

Our congrats to two #VCCAFellows on 2024 #Pulitzer Prizes: Jayne Anne Phillips for Fiction (NIGHT WATCH) and Brandon Som for Poetry (TRIPAS)!! 🧡🧡 The Pulitzer Prizes pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

Photo by John Steen, current VCCA Fellow in studio W8 where Jayne Anne Phillips worked in 2018.

Welcome to the newest cows and calves in residence at Mt. San Angelo. 🧡 #vccafellows #VCCA #mtsanangelo #artistcommunity

Home from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts && missing it already 💘

ty for letting me reside, write, read, watch, listen, sing, play, hike, traipse, lounge, linger & gab w the best group of artists evR

Settling in, settling in! Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Pretty easy task when everything is taken care of! And this is just my studio! (Note the daybed!)

We're one month out from our next application deadline! Apply by May 15, 2024, to be considered for:

🧡 Winter 2025 residencies at Mt. San Angelo in Virginia
🧡 2025 Wachtmeister Award for Music Composition

View Open Applications: vcca.slideroom.com

Last year, I dedicated time to complete 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts winning the 2013 Barrow St Press Editors Prize, out on October 15, 2024.

Next week, I leave for #JentelArts to complete 𝘓𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘢, a poetry book & opera. 🙏I couldn't have done this without you.

Slight pause in the countdown to pre-orders for my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL coming out from Fieldmouse Press for very human reasons ! Upside, not launching on Tax Day/ Trump NY Trial Day! Will keep you posted! Meanwhile, art I did for the book while Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in December!

Tonight! Join us for the next VCCA Salon of Sweet Briar College's spring semester. #VCCAFellows Jenny Molberg and SA Smythe will present their work in the Pannell Art Gallery on Sweet Briar’s campus. vcca.com/news-events/ev…

Join us at VCCA on Saturday, May 11, for SheilaPalooza! — a dance party dedicated to celebrating the remarkable career and retirement of Sheila Gulley Pleasants, whose profound impact has touched the lives of countless artists.

🧡 Learn more and RSVP: vcca.com/sheilapalooza/

Leave it to Resident Fellow Paige Critcher to photograph a celestial event from #MtSanAngelo . 🧡

Hey artists/writers/poets/musicians—if you’re wanting or needing space and time to create, take a look at VCCA—multiple fellowships, excellent community and great space—your own room AND your own studio!
Reach out to me or to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts if you want to learn more or are curious.

Spring Volunteer Day and Open Studios are coming up this Saturday and Sunday at VCCA! We hope to see new and familiar faces at #MtSanAngelo for these free, public events this weekend.

🌸🌼🌷 vcca.com/volunteer-day
🎨✍️🎼 vcca.com/open-studios

We're looking for volunteers to join us at VCCA for some light spring gardening on Saturday, April 6! Lunch will be provided. Please sign up by Tuesday, April 2, to help us best plan for food. vcca.com/news-events/vo…

Happy equinox, everyone! It's officially spring at #MtSanAngelo .