Happenings on the Hill

  • ON BETSY FAGIN’S WORKSHOP: Guest Post by alum Carol Mirakove

    We love that our workshops draw such amazing artists, writers, and thinkers into the Millay orbit – both the workshop leaders and the people who attend. The conversation and contemplation that was generated at Betsy Fagin’s workshop this season was so rich we wanted to offer a small glimpse into the room. We asked attendee,…

  • BRIDGING CULTURES THROUGH POETRY with Teaching Artist/poet Dave Johnson at the Hudson City School District

    This Spring, we brought poet and playwright Dave Johnson into the Hudson City High School to lead poetry workshops for over 500 students. These classes are so popular, often the library will see extra activity during the periods Dave’s teaching. On one of his visits, the teachers were talking about the large Bengali and Spanish speaking…

  • BUILDING BRIDGES: MILLAY’S ALLIANCE PROGRAM

    Equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts is more than important, it is critical to our field, and our country particularly now, when we are so deeply divided by issues of race, homophobia, Islamophobia, immigration/migration, and class. — Keryl McCord, Operations Director, Alternate ROOTS The Millay Colony, like many arts and culture organizations we admire, is…

  • MASTER CLASS WEEK RETREAT: Writing and Publishing

    Writing can be such a solitary business. You toil away, word after word, cutting, revising, submitting, waiting, persevering. At some point, it becomes crucial to have other eyes on your work. Not only on the writing, but on the process of getting it out in the world. We have designed this Writing and Publishing Intensive July…

  • MILLAY BRINGS ARTS ENRICHMENT AND CREATIVE SELF EXPRESSION TO CLASSROOMS

    Our Arts Education programs have reached hundreds of students and over a dozen teachers already this Spring. We couldn’t be more inspired than we are by the public school teachers and our visiting and alumni artists as they collaborate to offer kids ways to create with words, plaster, colored pencils, projection, and paint. From making…

  • NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Alum Suzanne Onodera on her Winter Shakers stay

    For the past seven winters I have returned to the hills of Steepletop, the home of poet Edna St Vincent Millay and the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York. In exchange for my studio and access to the Millay facilities during the off season, I offer my skills as a handywoman and…

  • MILLAY COLONY AT THE COLLEGE ARTS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NYC

    Fresh off a packed week in DC for AWP, we are teaming up with regional neighbor Art Omi for a table in NYC this Thursday through Saturday (Feb 16-18). Planning to attend the College Arts Association Conference? Stop by the Book and Trade Fair and say hello! Galleries, publishers, art materials manufacturers, residency programs (ahem!),…

  • MILLAY AT THE ASSOCIATION FOR WRITING PROGRAMS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

    We are bringing art and activism, love and laughter, parties and promise to #AWP17 in Washington DC. WE WILL BE AT: TABLE 722 with Belladonna* Collaborative. Please find us – we want to say hello IRL! To see your shining faces is why we trudge this road. AND WE WILL BE HOSTING A PARTY! JOIN US, along…

  • TEN REASONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ARTS — COURTESY OF AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS

    1) Arts promote true prosperity. The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us— fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. The arts help us express our values, build bridges between cultures, and bring us together regardless of ethnicity, religion, or age. When times are tough, art is salve for the ache. 2) Arts…