Trillium Arts Announces An Exciting Lineup of Fall 2023 Resident Artists

Photo by Mike Amalfitano, @amalfiphotography

Trillium Arts is delighted to welcome a roster of four individual artists from around the U.S. in October and November. The awarded artists are working in a variety of disciplines and will each have a solo week in the Firefly Creek apartment to rejuvenate and further their creative endeavors. They were selected from an application pool based on their artistic merit and the quality of the exciting projects they will advance while here at Trillium. We can’t wait to see what grows out of these residencies this fall!

MEET THE FALL 2023 ARTISTS

ALLISON ELLIS
Seattle, WA
www.allisonellis.com

Allison Ellis is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Assay, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, Barzakh, and elsewhere. Allison’s nonfiction is the recipient of multiple Pacific Northwest Writers Association literary awards and her memoir-in-progress won the 2021 First Pages Prize/Sandra Carpenter Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She holds a MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars, a BA from Smith College in American Studies and teaches creative writing at Hugo House near her home in Seattle.

Residency Plans:
Allison is grateful for the opportunity to write without distraction and immerse herself in the surrounding landscape. She will finish revisions on her manuscript Ready About, a memoir of reckoning with the dead, and begin drafting her next creative nonfiction project.

GRACE SPULAK
Valencia County, NM

Grace Spulak is a queer writer and attorney based in Valencia County, NM. Her work deals with trauma, undoing gender conventions, and how story and narrative may or may not help us make sense of our lives. Grace's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was awarded Witness Magazine's 2021 Literary Award in fiction. Her writing has appeared in Witness Magazine, Nimrod International Journal, Southwest Review, Pembroke Magazine, and Arkana. She is a third semester MFA student in the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. At this time, she is at work on a novel, Loose on Earth.

Residency Plans:
For this residency, Grace will work on her novel-in-progress, Loose on Earth. This novel addresses two serious acts of violence from a multiplicity of perspectives and touches on themes central to all of Grace's work: cycles of trauma, how and whether redemption is possible, and how our social structures perpetuate and cause harm.

SCOT J. WITTMAN
Philadelphia, PA
www.mapographer.com

Scot J. Wittman is a Philadelphia-based artist with an international reach. The recipient of a National Endowment grant, he has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, Art|Basel, and numerous galleries. His Grand Jeté Series was recently shortlisted/featured by both The Royal Photographic Society and LensCulture. Wittman has presented at Yale, Rutgers and Swarthmore Universities. Residencies in the United States and Iceland have allowed him to collaborate with noted bionano engineers and famous dancers. A life-sized 3d-print of a dancer in a Boston 2023 Solo Exhibition brought his Grand Jeté ‘print’ Series into the round. Wittman received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy, holds the office Dean of Arts at Rutgers Preparatory School, and leads as President of the Independent School Art Instructors Association.

Residency Plans:
"My Grand Jeté photography series will grow at Trillium. I am excited to be returning to gorgeous North Carolina where I have scouted locations in years past but was never able to bring photographs to fruition. Now with the serenity and centrality of the artist residency I am excited to collaborate with dancers in Trillium's orbit and create exciting new works."

LYNDA WRIGHT
Raleigh, NC

Lynda Suzanne Wright is a Mixed Media Artist/Photographer, retired vocal music educator and professional singer. Born and educated in Texas, she and her husband, Jeff, live in Raleigh, NC. Lynda was a professional singer with a Grammy Award-winning choral ensemble both here and in Europe. She is a published lyricist and has won awards for teaching and educational leadership. Visual art during her life began with drawing and painting, and progressed to photography, then morphed into mixed media. She holds a B.M.E. (Vocal) degree from Texas Christian University (Fort Worth) and an M.F.A. (Vocal Performance) from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Residency Plans:
"My goal is to create at least 4 new works, some of which could have newly created backgrounds, since they might be based upon photographs which I create at Trillium in the inspiring settings. A completed work might include: photography, dried botanicals, metallic acrylic paint, black ink, wax seals."