2025 Shadowcliff Artist Residency: Artist Talks and Performances at Grand Lake Community House
Shadowcliff Mountain Lodge, in partnership with the Grand Lake Creative District, is thrilled to present a special public event featuring artists from its new residency program. Join us on Friday, September 26, at 7:00 PM at the Grand Lake Community House.
This free event offers Grand Lake residents and visitors a unique opportunity to engage with six nationally recognized artists as they share their creative processes, present their work, and discuss their experience in residence at Shadowcliff. Attendees will gain insight into how each artist approaches their craft through a series of presentations, performances, and conversations.
Meet the Artists:
Holland Andrews (Brooklyn, NY) is a composer, vocalist, clarinetist, and improviser whose work explores themes of vulnerability, healing, and transformation through voice, clarinet, and electronics. They are a 2025 Creative Capital Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow, a 2024 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Awardee. Their work was featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
Nina Elder (Gardner, CO) is an artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice investigates ecological change, land use, and cultural memory. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.
jaamil olawale kosoko (Philadelphia, PA) is a multi-spirited Nigerian American author, performance artist, educator, and curator of Yoruba and Natchez descent whose work explores emergent Black queer theory, rest-care strategies, and the politics of fugitivity. They are a Doris Duke Foundation Performing Arts Technology Lab grantee, a Pew Fellow, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and a Princeton Arts Fellow.
yuniya edi kwon (Brooklyn, NY) is a violinist, vocalist, and interdisciplinary performance maker whose work draws from Korean folk traditions, Butoh dance, and experimental sound. She is a 2025 Creative Capital and Guggenheim Fellow, a 2023-25 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2024 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Awardee in Music/Sound, and a 2016 United States Artists Ford Fellow.
Cedar Sigo (Lofall, WA) is a poet raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. His work explores the poetic process as a translation of embodied language into textual form. He is a 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Awardee, Lannan Foundation Fellow, and Allen Ginsberg Visiting Fellow.
Nick Wylie (Chicago, IL) is an artist, organizer, and educator. His art practice incorporates video technology, performance, drawing, and queer futurity. He co-founded Harold Arts, ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), and Mana Contemporary Chicago and has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of St Francis.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP strongly recommended.