SEPTEMBER 2021 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

(left to right) Sarah Einspanier - Playwriting, Jean Blackburn - Visual Arts, Fran Forman - Visual Arts, Leo Aquino - Poetry, Neil Rolnick - Composing, Andrew Milward - Fiction

One of the longest-running artist residencies in the world, Millay Arts (formerly the Millay Colony for the Arts) has hosted over 3,000 composers, poets, writers, visual artists, playwrights, screenwriters and filmmakers since its beginnings in 1973.

Founded in 1973 and located at “Steepletop,” the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay (one of the first women to win a Pulitzer Prize), Millay Arts is a nonprofit organization that offers multidisciplinary artists residencies on our campus as well as in the community. Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshire foothills of Austerlitz, New York, our sylvan seven acres border Vincent’s house and gardens (maintained by the Millay Society, a separate nonprofit) and the beautiful Harvey Mountain State Forest.