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Yaddo is a world-renowned artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Founded in 1900, its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.
John Cheever once wrote that the “forty or so acres on which the principal buildings of Yaddo stand have seen more distinguished activity in the arts than any other piece of ground in the English-speaking community and perhaps the world.”
Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 64 Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships, 61 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers' Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), and countless other honors. Past residents have included Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Philip Guston, David Sedaris, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jacob Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Coco Fuzco and Virgil Thomson.
Stephanie Sauer, originally of Rough & Ready and an alumnus of Mt. St. Mary's Academy, Nevada Union High School and California State University, Sacramento, will join the Yaddo roster in July 2011 to complete her forthcoming book and accompanying exhibition.
Sauer regularly crosses artistic disciplines, including writing, bookmaking, visual arts, sound and film. This year, she will be an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in New York. Her work has been selected by Presidential Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander for the Art Institute of Chicago's Fellowship in Writing, and by Brenda Hillman as a finalist for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 15th Annual Juried Reading. Last year, she received a Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grant for her debut short film, The Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park.
The film and her other works can be seen online at www.StephanieSauer.com.
Sauer is the founding editor and book artist for Copilot Press
(www.CopilotPress.com), which will be publishing Sacramento-based Doug Rice's Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist this summer.
John Cheever once wrote that the “forty or so acres on which the principal buildings of Yaddo stand have seen more distinguished activity in the arts than any other piece of ground in the English-speaking community and perhaps the world.”
Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 64 Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships, 61 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers' Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), and countless other honors. Past residents have included Milton Avery, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Aaron Copland, Philip Guston, David Sedaris, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Alfred Kazin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jacob Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Mario Puzo, Coco Fuzco and Virgil Thomson.
Stephanie Sauer, originally of Rough & Ready and an alumnus of Mt. St. Mary's Academy, Nevada Union High School and California State University, Sacramento, will join the Yaddo roster in July 2011 to complete her forthcoming book and accompanying exhibition.
Sauer regularly crosses artistic disciplines, including writing, bookmaking, visual arts, sound and film. This year, she will be an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in New York. Her work has been selected by Presidential Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander for the Art Institute of Chicago's Fellowship in Writing, and by Brenda Hillman as a finalist for the Poetry Center of Chicago's 15th Annual Juried Reading. Last year, she received a Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grant for her debut short film, The Ancient Documentaries of Southside Park.
The film and her other works can be seen online at www.StephanieSauer.com.
Sauer is the founding editor and book artist for Copilot Press
(www.CopilotPress.com), which will be publishing Sacramento-based Doug Rice's Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist this summer.
