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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
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 Headshot of 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 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 Headshot of 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 Melanie Cataldo. Photo Credit: Nathan Fiske 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 Diane Glancy poet Baron 2020 Quadrille: A poetry manuscript that explores the effect of Christianity on the Native American
Eireann Lorsung headshot of Eireann Lorsung writer Baron 2020 Non-fiction work that examines the history of gardens in Europe and the U.S.
Marianne Petit Marianne Petit mixed media artist Last 2020 Mouth & Toes: The World of 19th-Century (Performative) Silhouette Artists with Disabilities
Michael Schlitt 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 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 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 David Mills poet Hearst 2019 After Mistic: A poetry manuscript that focuses on slavery in Massachusetts and New York
Trudy Williams headshot of Trudy Williams playwright Baron 2019 Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads
James Arthur Image of James Arthur. Photo Credit: Nathan Fiske 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 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 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 Erik Rodgers fiction writer Baron 2017 Research for a novel entitled “The Broken World”
Linwood Rumney Linwood Rumney poet Baron 2017 Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means”
Steven Subotnick Steven Subotnick filmmaker Last 2017 Tender Parts: A series of short animated films
Shana Youngdahl 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 Krista Elrick photographer Last 2016 A Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon
Denise Miller Denise Miller creative writer Hearst 2016 Travelogos: African Americans and the Struggle for Safe Passage
Catherine Sasanov Photo Credit: Paul M. Miller poet Baron 2016 Markd Y (Archives and Invocations)
Susan Stinson Susan Stinson novelist Hearst 2016 Research for a novel about Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards
Annie Bissett Image of 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 Stephanie Carpenter. Photo Credit: Brockit, Inc fiction writer Hearst 2015 Many and Wide Separations: Two novellas that focus on fictional female artists in mid-nineteenth-century New England
Erin Lyons 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 Meganne Fabrega writer Last 2014 Tell Me a Story: Amy Ella Blanchard and Ida Waugh's World of Girls
Carolyn Kras 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 Margaret Rozga poet Baron 2014 Pestiferous Questions: A collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont
Sarah Stern 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 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 Melissa Range poet Baron 2013 Poetry project about the abolitionist movement
Lynn Thomson 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 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 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 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 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 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 Wendy Call non-fiction writer Baron 2010 Series of literary essays about the grieving process
Sean Hill 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 Carol Flueckiger mixed media artist Last 2009 Mixed media works about feminism and early American reform practices
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 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 Kimberly Elkins. Photo credit: Sarah Shatz 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 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 Tess Taylor Poet Baron 2006 Book of poems titled The Family Chest
Kriota Willberg Kriota Willberg choreographer and cartoonist Hearst 2006 Updated version for a performance of the 1866 Broadway production of 'The Black Crook' 
Amy Brill Amy Brill. Photo Credit: Christina Paige 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 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 Alyson Pou performance artist Hearst 2004 A Slight Headache (solo performance)
James Thomas Stevens 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 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 Geoffrey Brock. Photo Credit: Martin Miller 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 Maureen Cummins. Photo Credit: Kelly Sinclair 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 Nicole Cooley. Photo Credit: Lisa Kolberg 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 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 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 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 headshot of 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

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