Monika Burczyk

  • Our second Summer Soirée was a smashing success!

    Our second Summer Soirée was a smashing success!

    On Thursday evening, July 23rd — our 53rd birthday — we welcomed almost 200 guests to the home of our Board member Melissa Slotnick and her husband Joe, high in the Austerlitz hills. After parking, guests were whisked all the way up the mountain to Pura Vida, to take in the breathtaking vista stretching all…

  • FRANKENTHALER CLIMATE INITIATIVE AWARD 2026

    FRANKENTHALER CLIMATE INITIATIVE AWARD 2026

    We are so grateful to the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for selecting us as a 2026 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative awardee, providing crucial support for enhancements to our wonderful Main House building, ensuring sustainability and allowing us to fully steward this land we have called home for 53 years. In collaboration with Environmental Culture Partners, this initiative is the…

  • Curious about our LOGO?

    A recent discussion with Committee members became focused on the behind-the-scenes story of our logo and name change (formerly Millay Colony for the Arts), along with a singular mission revision, launched in 2021. These essential revisions all reflect our commitment to growth and timeliness. We have been delighted with the receptivity to changes and are…

  • JUNE 2026 #2 @MILLAY

    From top, left to right: Erika Lantz, Composing, Minneapolis, MN Jean Barker, Screenwriting, Los Angeles, CA Rachel Heng, Fiction, NYC Rachel Sherman, Fiction, Brooklyn, NY.

  • JUNE 2026 @MILLAY

    From top, left to right: Jess X. Snow, Poetry/Film, Philadelphia, PA Key K. Bird, Fiction, Quincy, MA Ekaterina Vanovskya, Visual Arts, Syracuse, NY Christian Hastad, Visual Arts, Austin, TX Rob Macaisa Colgate, Poetry, Chicago, IL Evan Silver, Visual Arts, Brooklyn, NY

  • MAY 2026 @MILLAY #2

    MAY 2026 @MILLAY #2

    From left to right: Vanessa Holyoak, Nonfiction, Los Angeles, CA Allie Tova Hirsch, Fiction, Ypsilanti, MI.

  • MAY 2026 @MILLAY

    MAY 2026 @MILLAY

    FROM TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT THEN CENTER: Nate Brown, Fiction; Baltimore, MD Rosalie Smith, Visual Arts; Brooklyn, NY Olivia Morgan, Nonfiction; Woods Hole, MA Simon Rivet, Composing; Montreal, Canada Joan Winter, Fiction; San Francisco, CA Amey Miller, Nonfiction; Chapel Hill, NC Hans Kuzmich, Visual Arts; Los Angeles, CA

  • MODNEY (COMPOSING, 2022) AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS 2026 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

  • APRIL 2026 @MILLAY

    From top, left to right: Sigrid Nunez, Fiction, NYC Cerulean S. Payne-Passmore, Composing, New Haven, CT Susan Edsall, Playwriting, Kailua Kona, HI Andrew Saito, Playwriting, Brooklyn, NY Liu Kincheloe, Visual Arts, Brooklyn, NY Christine Kunewa Walker, Screenwriting, Minneapolis, MN (McKnight Fellow).