News – Sheridan Media
On Tuesday, September 9, Ucross Foundation, the acclaimed artist residency program, announced its Fall 2025 Fellows. From August to early December, 65 writers, visual artists, composers, choreographers and interdisciplinary artists will complete residencies on Ucross’s 20,000-acre ranch in northeastern Wyoming.
“We are honored to welcome artists from across disciplines and around the world to Ucross this fall,” said Caitlin Addlesperger, Ucross President and Executive Director. “Fellows are already experiencing our unique balance of solitude and community, from self-directed work in their private studios to hikes among the High Plains to shared dinners in the School House. We look forward to hearing how the Ucross experience influences these artists’ creative process.”
Among this session’s distinguished fellows is author Maud Casey from Washington, D.C., whose fiction writing has earned her the Italo Calvino Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the St. Francis College Literary Prize.
Wade Patton (Oglala Lakota), a mixed-media artist from Rapid City, South Dakota, has been awarded a Ucross Fellowship for Native American Artists. Also in residency this fall will be acclaimed Brooklyn-based playwright Justine Gelfman, whose work has been produced at Pete’s Candy Store and New York Fringe, among other accomplishments.
In music composition, Maxx McGathey from Chicago, Illinois, has written and performed eight feature-length live film scores for clients such as the historic Music Box Theatre, 91.5 WBEZ and the Chicago Park District’s “Movies in the Parks.” Nayana Keshava of Salzburg, Austria, is a choreographer and a contemporary dance practitioner who founded “INFLUX – Network for Dance, Theatre and Performance” and is a recipient of the Annual Fellowship Prize by the Federal State of Salzburg.
Fellowships range from two to six weeks, with a maximum of 10 artists in residence at a time. Ucross Fellows receive a private studio, living accommodations, meals prepared by a professional chef and the opportunity to work in solitude amid the vast and inspiring landscape of the High Plains. The residency is fully funded and includes a stipend to offset expenses.
This session’s roster includes artists selected from 740 applicants by an independent jury of established artists, critics and arts leaders, as well as the 2025 recipients of the Ucross Fellowship for Native American Artists. In addition, several artists will join the program through partnerships with esteemed national organizations, including Herb Albert Award in the Arts, Yale School of Art, Yale School of Drama, Yale School of Music, the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, Houston Ballet, Alley Theatre and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming.
The Fall 2025 Fellows represent three continents, including 22 U.S. states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming and Washington, D.C. — as well as Germany, Austria and Brazil.
The Fall 2025 Ucross Fellows are:
Literature – Liz Duffy Adams; Playwriting; Northampton, MA; Isabelle Appleton; Fiction; Brooklyn, NY; L.J. Atkinson; Poetry; San Bruno, CA; Pooja Bhatia; Fiction; Palo Alto, CA; Maggie Bourque; Nonfiction; Laramie, WY; Lily Brooks-Dalton; Fiction; Los Angeles, CA;
Jen Bryant; Nonfiction; Dublin, OH; Maud Casey; Fiction; Washington, DC; Diana Cejas; Nonfiction; Rougemont, NC; River Huiying Dandelion Chan; Poetry; Staten Island, NY; Lydi Conklin; Fiction; Nashville, TN; Jennifer Croft; Fiction; Tulsa, OK; Rucy Cui; Fiction; Menlo Park, CA; Laramie Dennis; Screenwriting; Los Angeles, CA; Javi Fuentes; Fiction; Santa Clara, CA; Justine Gelfman; Playwriting; Brooklyn, NY; Michele Harper; Nonfiction; Chevy Chase, MD; Miah Jeffra; Fiction; Santa Clara, CA; Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong; Poetry; Portland, OR; Jessica Kahkoska; Playwriting; Poughkeepsie, NY; Juliana Leite; Fiction; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jami Nakamura Lin; Fiction; Des Plaines, IL; Cassandra Lopez; Poetry; San Diego, CA; Francisco Marquez; Poetry; Brooklyn, NY; Rob Melrose; Playwriting; Houston, TX; Bradley Michalakis; Playwriting; Houston, TX; Loubna Mrie; Nonfiction; Brooklyn, NY; Ricardo Nuila; Nonfiction; Houston, TX; Katherine Profeta; Nonfiction; New Haven, CT; Nat Wisehart; Nonfiction; Binghamton, NY.
Nayana Keshava (Photo Courtesy of Carl Largent, Ucross Foundation)
Music, Dance & Performance – Sarah Dahlinger; Performance/Video; Long Island City, NY; Ryuta Iwashita; Dance; New York, NY; Nayana Keshava; Performance; Salzburg, Austria; Dan Langa; Music Composition; Northampton, MA; Alan Liu; Music Composition; New Haven, CT; Jacquelyn Long; Dance; Houston, TX; Gustavo Alonso López; Music Composition; Walla Walla, WA;
Dan Langa (Photo Courtesy of Carl Largent, Ucross Foundation)
Maxx McGathey; Music Composition; Chicago, IL; Glenn Potter-Takata; Dance; Bronx, NY; Benjamin Rieke; Music Composition; New Haven, CT; Grace Shepard; Music Composition; Lighthouse Point, FL;
Kate Campbell Strauss; Music Composition; Windham, ME; Song Teng; Dance; Houston, TX; Sayako Toku; Dance; Houston, TX; Ellen Winter; Music Composition; Brooklyn, NY
Visual Arts – Markus Baenziger; Sculpture; Brooklyn, NY; Broersma; Painting; Long Beach, CA; Gabe Brown; Painting; Elizaville, NY; Burak Cevik; Film/Video; Berlin, Germany; Beatriz Cortez; Sculpture/Printmaking; Altadena, CA; Diana Fine; Photography; Nassau, NY; Matthew Gilbert; Mixed Media; Newburgh, NY; Mokha Laget; Printmaking; Santa Fe, NM; Aitor Lajarin-Encina; Painting; Fort Collins, CO; Siobhan McBride; Painting; Staten Island, NY; Arny Nadler; Drawing; University City, MO; Landon Newton; Installation; Brooklyn, NY; Wade Patton; Mixed Media; Rapid City, SD; Kameelah Rasleed; Mixed Media; Brooklyn, NY; Jennifer Rife; Mixed Media; Cheyenne, WY; Kelly Tapia-Chuning; Sculpture; Eureka, MT
Latipa, (Photo Courtesy of Carl Largent, Ucross Foundation)
Interdisciplinary – Erin Elder; Interdisciplinary; Albuquerque, NM; Latipa; Interdisciplinary; Riverside, CA; Evan Silver aka Tiresias; Interdisciplinary; Brooklyn, NY; Stephanie Williams; Interdisciplinary; Washington, DC
Since Ucross’s first residencies were awarded in 1983, more than 3,000 artists have received the gift of time and space. Distinguished Fellows include Annie Proulx, Terry Tempest Williams, Elizabeth Gilbert, Ann Patchett, Bill Morrison, Theaster Gates, Anthony Hernandez and Tayari Jones. National Book Award winners Susan Choi, Sigrid Nunez and Sarah M. Broom have been residents, as have Academy Award and Tony winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Emmy Award winner Billy Porter, Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead and former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
To learn more about Ucross and its residency program, visit ucross.org.
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