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All Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowships awarded from 1995 to 2020 are listed below. "Residence" denotes the fellow's places of residence at the time when the fellowship fellowship was given.
The following abbreviations for the fellowship funders are used:
- Baron = Robert and Charlotte Baron
- Hearst = William Randolph Hearst Foundation
- Last = Jay and Deborah Last
- Sigety = Sigety Family Foundation
- Wallace = Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund
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Name | Image | Present Rank | Fellowship | Year | Project |
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Jen Bervin | poet and interdisciplinary artist | Last | 2023 | Research for “Measuring the Sun,” encompassing new and ongoing work on Emily Dickinson focused on artworks in the form of composites, concordances, visual indexes, and artist books | |
Monique Celeste Hayes | historical novelist | Baron | 2023 | Research for “Sally Forth,” on African-American experience during the American Revolution from the years 1771-1785 | |
Danielle Legros Georges | poet | Hearst | 2023 | Research for “Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England,” a series of poems about Black self-determinism and articulations of freedom within and against the context of Northern slavery | |
Maureen Fouratt and Mary Eileen Egan | creative writers | Baron | 2022 | Research for nonfiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, 19th-century folk artist | |
Shirley Hunt | musician | Hearst | 2022 | Research for concert/lecture which focuses on early 19th-century lutherie in New England | |
Darryl Lauster | sculptor | Hearst | 2022 | Research for a series of bronze sculptures that will visually identify with scrolls and parchment manuscripts | |
Janet Pritchard | Professor of art emerita | Last | 2022 | Research for photographic project about the Connecticut River and its rich history from early European settlement to 19th-century industrialism to protected land | |
Darlene Taylor | writer | Baron | 2022 | Research for novel that follows the lives of two people fighting for freedom and trying to restore their lives after the Civil War | |
Melanie Cataldo | illustrator | Hearst | 2020 | The Making: An illustrated novel that focuses on the struggle of two young girls living by 19th century standards in mid 20th century New England | |
Diane Glancy | poet | Baron | 2020 | Quadrille: A poetry manuscript that explores the effect of Christianity on the Native American | |
Eireann Lorsung | writer | Baron | 2020 | Non-fiction work that examines the history of gardens in Europe and the U.S. | |
Marianne Petit | mixed media artist | Last | 2020 | Mouth & Toes: The World of 19th-Century (Performative) Silhouette Artists with Disabilities | |
Michael Schlitt | storyteller | Hearst | 2020 | The Pursuit of Happiness podcast: a multi-episode audio series about Americans' quest for an elusive, aspirational ideal of happiness | |
Brece Honeycutt | mixed media artist | Hearst | 2019 | A series of artworks that demonstrate at their core a respect for the natural world in ages past | |
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson | interdisciplinary artist | Last | 2019 | Contraband: Visual pieces that explore how the industry of slavery laid the blueprint for drug crimes, gang culture, and mass incarceration in Black communities | |
Laurie McCants | actor | Baron | 2019 | Solo performance about Frances Slocum, who in 1778 was abducted by the Lenape at 5 years of age | |
David Mills | poet | Hearst | 2019 | After Mistic: A poetry manuscript that focuses on slavery in Massachusetts and New York | |
Trudy Williams | playwright | Baron | 2019 | Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads | |
James Arthur | poet | Last | 2018 | On a Portrait Bust in Worcester, Massachusetts: A poem inspired by an anonymous marble portrait bust acquired on behalf on the Antiquarian Society in 1881 | |
Lisa Bielawa | composer, producer, performer | Hearst | 2018 | Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice, focusing on immigration | |
Brian Mullin | playwright | Hearst | 2018 | Play inspired by the community of freed African-American slaves who lived freely in an abandoned British garrison in the West Florida territory following the end of the War of 1812 | |
TaraShea Nesbit | writer | Baron | 2018 | Beheld: The story of the Mayflower pilgrims told through the eyes of two women, Alice Bradford, a puritan, and Eleanor Billington, an indentured servant | |
Leila Philip | writer | Baron | 2018 | Non-fiction book about the experiences of contemporary New England fur trappers, offering a compelling, if startling window through which to reconsider environmentalism | |
Arielle Ballard | poet | Hearst | 2017 | Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry | |
Erik Rodgers | fiction writer | Baron | 2017 | Research for a novel entitled “The Broken World” | |
Linwood Rumney | poet | Baron | 2017 | Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means” | |
Steven Subotnick | filmmaker | Last | 2017 | Tender Parts: A series of short animated films | |
Shana Youngdahl | Poet and author | Hearst | 2017 | Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry | |
Matt Dellinger | non-fiction writer and digital artist | Baron | 2016 | The Brooklyn 14th Regiment | |
Krista Elrick | photographer | Last | 2016 | A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon | |
Denise Miller | creative writer | Hearst | 2016 | Travelogos: African Americans and the Struggle for Safe Passage | |
Catherine Sasanov | poet | Baron | 2016 | Markd Y (Archives and Invocations) | |
Susan Stinson | novelist | Hearst | 2016 | Research for a novel about Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards | |
Annie Bissett | printmaker | Last | 2015 | A series of woodblock prints about the spiritual and religious influences on American identity during the colonial period | |
Stephanie Carpenter | fiction writer | Hearst | 2015 | Many and Wide Separations: Two novellas that focus on fictional female artists in mid-nineteenth-century New England | |
Erin Lyons | fiction writer | Hearst | 2015 | Historical novel about Anne Hutchinson and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630-1638, told from the point of view of a servant girl | |
Jeanne Schinto | independent writer | Baron | 2015 | Research for 5-part series about the Walpole Society | |
Sara Smith | choreographer | Baron | 2015 | Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of The Soft Earth: A multimedia dance project | |
Meganne Fabrega | writer | Last | 2014 | Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls | |
Carolyn Kras | writer, screen (TV, theater, stage) | Hearst | 2014 | Research for a TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire | |
Margaret Rozga | poet | Baron | 2014 | Pestiferous Questions: A collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont | |
Sarah Stern | playwright | Hearst | 2014 | Research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s | |
Holly Wendt | novelist | Baron | 2014 | Holystone: A novel based on the early eighteenth century pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy | |
Amina Gautier | fiction writer | Hearst | 2013 | Band of Gideon: A historical novel about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island | |
Aimee Parkison | fiction writer | Hearst | 2013 | Sister Seance: A historical literary novel set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, that explores the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans | |
Melissa Range | poet | Baron | 2013 | Poetry project about the abolitionist movement | |
Lynn Thomson | dramaturg, theater director | Baron | 2013 | The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls | |
Stephanie Wolff | visual artist | Last | 2013 | Artist books and prints focusing thematically on weather and its intersection with human experience, with specific focus on the diaries of Anna Blackwood Howell | |
Nancy Bowen | mixed media artist | Last | 2012 | Series of collages titled "Angels and Almanacs" | |
Deborah Brevoort | playwright | Baron | 2012 | Research for a historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in shaping American identity | |
Ansel Elkins | poet | Hearst | 2012 | A collection of poems about the lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy | |
Anne Harley | musician, soprano | Hearst | 2012 | True Witness: A multi-choral civil rights cantata inspired by the texts of Charlotte Forten | |
Catherine Reid | writer, essayist | Baron | 2012 | Research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823). | |
Mary Beth Ellis | non-fiction writer | Last | 2011 | PBS documentary under development by historian and author Richard Brookhiser about theory that Hamilton and other Founding Fathers were "proto-bloggers" | |
Kelle Groom | poet | Hearst | 2011 | Memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA | |
Lisa Hayes | playwright | Baron | 2011 | Research on colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm | |
Brian Teare | poet | Hearst | 2011 | Inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism | |
Cam Terwilliger | fiction writer | Baron | 2011 | The Counterfeiter: A novel set in New York and Québec during the French and Indian War (1754–1763) | |
Wendy Call | non-fiction writer | Baron | 2010 | Series of literary essays about the grieving process | |
Sean Hill | poet | Hearst | 2010 | Dangerous Goods: A series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s | |
Kathryn Nuernberger | poet | Hearst | 2010 | A collection of poems that merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos | |
Suzanne Rivecca | fiction writer | Baron | 2010 | Novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff | |
Stephanie Solomon | performer | Last | 2010 | Research in order to collect visuals for film titled "American Voices: Spirit of Revolution" | |
Carol Flueckiger | mixed media artist | Last | 2009 | Mixed media works about feminism and early American reform practices | |
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | poet | Baron | 2009 | Research for book of poems whose centerpiece is a series about Phillis Wheatley, which imagines her interior life | |
Ann Lovett | photographer | Hearst | 2009 | Artist book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Massachusetts mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them | |
Robert Strong | poet | Hearst | 2009 | Bright Advent: A work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War | |
Lauren Yee | playwright | Baron | 2009 | interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America" | |
Martha Carlson-Bradley | poet | Baron | 2008 | Begin with Trouble: A collection of poems inspired by the 1727 New England Primer | |
Debra Gwartney | non-fiction writer | Baron | 2008 | I am a Stranger Here Myself: A memoir and history of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and womanhood in the patriarchal American West | |
Sandra Jackson-Opoku | novelist | Hearst | 2008 | God's Gift to the Natives: A novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora | |
Janet Pritchard | photographer | Last | 2008 | More Than Scenery: Yellowstone, An American Love Story | |
Celeste Roberge | sculptor | Hearst | 2008 | Granite Sofa (sculpture) | |
Laurie Block | filmmaker | Hearst | 2007 | Documentary about Helen Keller | |
Gino Dilorio | playwright | Baron | 2007 | Research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment | |
Heidi Durrow | fiction writer | Baron | 2007 | Research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era | |
Kimberly Elkins | fiction writer | Hearst | 2007 | What is Visible: A novel about the lives of Laura Bridgman and Julia Ward Howe | |
Sarah McCoubrey | painter | Last | 2007 | Hannah Morse: A fictive archive of the mid 19th century landscape painter | |
Robert Shuster | writer | Baron | 2006 | The Indestructible Soldier: A non-fiction book on America's culture of war and the military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries | |
R. Sikoryak | Cartoonist | Baron | 2006 | Comic strip adaptation of Moby Dick | |
Ginger Strand | non-fiction writer | Baron | 2006 | Inventing Niagara: A non-fiction work on Niagara Falls | |
Tess Taylor | Poet | Baron | 2006 | Book of poems titled The Family Chest | |
Kriota Willberg | choreographer and cartoonist | Hearst | 2006 | Updated version for a performance of the 1866 Broadway production of 'The Black Crook' | |
Amy Brill | writer | Baron | 2005 | Movement of the Stars: A fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket | |
Camille Dungy | poet | Hearst | 2005 | Suck on the Marrow | |
Charles Hirshberg | writer | Baron | 2005 | Vistas of Destiny: Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Worcester | |
Nancy Rubin Stuart | writer | Hearst | 2005 | The Muse of the Revolution; The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation | |
Joanne Dobson | writer | Baron | 2004 | The Kashmiri Shawl: A historical novel set in New York City, 1860 | |
Martha Morss | writer | Hearst | 2004 | Mary Katherine Goddard, colonial printer | |
Alyson Pou | performance artist | Hearst | 2004 | A Slight Headache (solo performance) | |
James Thomas Stevens | poet | Baron | 2004 | Alphabets of Letters: A poem that explores propaganda found in Native American children's primers | |
Ruth Lopez | writer | Hearst | 2003 | Research in the McLoughlin Brothers archive toward a social history on the artists who helped create children's literature in America | |
Lavonne Mueller | playwright | Hearst | 2003 | A collection of short one-story plays about six notable American women, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Sacagawea, Lucy Stone, Harriet Tubman, and Martha Washington | |
David Roderick | poet | Baron | 2003 | Blue Colonial: A collection of poems on the cultural interaction between the colonists and the Wampanoag tribe in the early seventeenth-century | |
Britta Sjogren | filmmaker | Baron | 2003 | A Chain of Windows | |
Elisa Tamarkin | assistant professor | Sigety | 2002-3 | American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and National Culture, 1820-1865 | |
Deborah Dancy | painter | Hearst | 2002 | The Conjurer's Apprentice or The Legend of Yellow Mary: A Slave Girl's Tale of Survival by her Wit and Extraordinary Powers, as written by herself | |
Ellen Wiener | painter, printmaker, book artist | Hearst | 2002 | A new 'Book of Hours' using imagery from nineteenth century sources | |
Matthew Raffety | Ph.D. candidate | Sigety | 2001-02 | The Republic Afloat: Labor and 'Liberty' in Mutinies on American Ships, 1789-1861 | |
Geoffrey Brock | poet | Hearst | 2001 | Voices Bright Flags: Poems based on American historical events | |
Hallie Hobson | playwright | Hearst | 2001 | Watchnight: A play on the eve of Emancipation | |
Emily Laurance | musician, harpist | Baron | 2001 | Sacred Music and Theatrical Songs in Early Nineteenth Century America | |
Katrina Browne | filmmaker | Hearst | 2000 | Traces of the Trade: Research on the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England | |
Maureen Cummins | book artist | Hearst | 2000 | Anthro(A)pology | |
Sue Johnson | painter | Sigety | 2000 | The Alternate Encyclopedia | |
Joann Mazzio | writer | Baron | 2000 | Fremont Expeditions in the 1840's | |
Nicole Cooley | poet | Wallace | 1999 | The Afflicted Girls: A book of poetry about the Salem witch trials | |
Jeanne Mackin | novelist | Wallace | 1999 | The Sweet By and By: Maggie and Katie Fox | |
Sarah Messer | non-fiction writer, poet | Wallace | 1999 | Red House: A non-fiction memoir that explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses | |
Cassandra Fay Smith | Historian, Miniaturist, Writer | Wallace | 1999 | Slaves, free blacks, runaways: dolls of the antebellum United States | |
Christopher Cokinos | creative writer | Wallace | 1998 | Hope is the Thing With Feathers | |
Thomas Dunn | playwright | Wallace | 1998 | Research for a play about Winslow Homer and his early career,1856-1875 | |
Cornelia Nixon | novelist | Wallace | 1998 | Jarrettsville: The true story of Martha Jane Carines, a Maryland woman who killed her fiancé in 1869 and was acquitted | |
Barbara Weisberg | writer and producer | Wallace | 1998 | Talking to the Dead: A non-fiction children's book about Kate and Maggie Fox | |
Marilyn Arsem | performance artist | Wallace | 1997 | Spirit Messages: A performance based on 19th century Spiritualism, as well as late 19th century daily life in New England | |
Pamela Keech | visual artist and independent curator | Wallace | 1997 | Nurseries: An installation picturing the lives of children in post Civil War America | |
Stephen O'Connor | non-fiction writer | Wallace | 1997 | Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed | |
Robert Begiebing | writer | Wallace | 1996 | The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life | |
Deborah DeFord | writer | Wallace | 1996 | Young adult novel about the female American Revolutionary soldier Deborah Sampson Gannett | |
Catherine Gammon | writer | Wallace | 1996 | Nightbirds in an Age of Light: A novel about the Salem witchcraft trials | |
John Lee | playwright | Wallace | 1996 | Orphan Trains | |
Aubrey Wertheim | playwright | Wallace | 1996 | A full length one woman show about Fanny Fern, the first female American columnist | |
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon | Performance poet | Wallace | 1996 | Life and Times of Lucy Terry | |
Andrea Woods | dancer, choreographer | Wallace | 1996 | Ballad of the Black Cowboy | |
Laurie Block | filmmaker | Wallace | 1995 | Television documentary on the Mexican War | |
Nancy Vieira Couto | poet | Wallace | 1995 | Book of poems and prose pieces on America Vesspucci | |
Jeffrey Hatcher | playwright | Wallace | 1995 | Sockdology: A play about the actors in the play Our American Cousin | |
Yuri Rasovsky | radio documentary producer | Wallace | 1995 | Radio documentary on the history of Thanksgiving | |
Christina Tree | non-fiction writer | Wallace | 1995 | History of New England Tourism |