Shadowcliff Artist Residency
Creative Reflections and Practice Sharing
Friday, September 11 7:30 PM
Grand Lake Community House, 1026 Park Ave, Grand Lake, CO 80447
Shadowcliff, in partnership with the Grand Lake Creative District, invites you to an event featuring artists from the Shadowcliff Artist Residency. Join us on Friday, September 11, at 7:30 PM, at the Grand Lake Community House.
For as long as people have gathered at Shadowcliff, it has offered an environment that broadens people's creative horizons by allowing for serious encounter and reflection. In 1972, Warren Rempel, one of Shadowcliff's founders, wrote:
"The majesty of the mountains seems to draw people into both structured self-reflection and unstructured searching for deeper values."
That has been true of Shadowcliff for more than fifty years, and it is one of the reasons we chose to bring artists here for unstructured time to rest, reflect, research, and make.
This year, we welcome five nationally recognized artists working across dance, photography, poetry, music, and visual art. Each will offer a window into their practice—a reading, a performance, a conversation, an artist talk. Their work has occupied museums, galleries, and stages across the country. For one evening, they will share their work with Grand Lake in the intimacy of the Grand Lake Community House, followed by an opportunity for you to meet them and ask about their work.
This event is open to the community, including Grand Lake residents, community partners, and guests.
The 2026 Shadowcliff Artist Residency was supported, in part, by a grant from the Teazey Foundation.
This event is offered on a community-supported, sliding-scale basis, starting at $5.
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Performance still from bLUr at New York Live Arts, New York, NY, 2025. Pictured: Donovan Reed, Jacoby Pruitt, Burr Johnson, Ashley Merker, and Joanna Kotze. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Installation view of Flatlands at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, 2025. Photo by Julia Featheringill.
Performance still from Consequences Upon Arrival at MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ, 2024.
Performance still from Internal Audit at The Kitchen, New York, NY, 2026. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Prayers for Water (Jemez Feast Day version), digital image printed on antique ledger paper stained with Kool-aid, 2016.
Meet the Artists
Kimberly Bartosik
Kimberly Bartosik (Brooklyn, NY) is a choreographer, performer, educator, and writer. A Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, her work has been commissioned by BAM Next Wave, New York Live Arts, Bates Dance Festival, and American Dance Festival, among others, and toured internationally across the U.S., France, Italy, and Australia. She is a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for Outstanding Production and received a previous Bessie Award for Exceptional Artistry as a nine-year member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She currently advises the Ailey School/Fordham BFA Program and teaches at SUNY Purchase and for the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha (Brooklyn, NY) is a photographer born in Memphis, Tennessee. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, and the New Yorker, with solo shows at Higher Pictures, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery. His first museum solo exhibition, Other Things Uttered, opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 2025. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMoMA, and the High Museum, among others.
Saretta Morgan
Saretta Morgan (Atlanta, GA) is a writer from the U.S. South, born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. She is the author of the poetry collection Alt-Nature and the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival and room for a counter interior. Her work draws on grassroots social and environmental justice movements and on personal and intergenerational experiences of incarceration and land stewardship, engaging poetry and landscaping as ways of mapping collective health and belonging.
Ethan Philbrick
Ethan Philbrick (Brooklyn, NY) is a cellist, artist, and writer whose interdisciplinary work spans music, theater, and dance, including the musical-theatrical project DAYS. His work moves between the politics of musical instruments, the history of anticapitalist critique through vocal collectivity, and the relationship between music and dance. His performances have been called "overwhelmingly beautiful" and "extremely strange" by The Nation, and his writing has been described as "rich and fascinating" by e-flux.
Debra Yepa-Pappan
Debra Yepa-Pappan (Chicago, IL; Jemez Pueblo/Korean) is a visual artist and co-founding director of exhibitions and programs at the Center for Native Futures, a contemporary art space supporting Native artists in downtown Chicago. Her multimedia practice combines digital collage and photography to explore mixed-race identity, cultural heritage, and home, blending Pueblo and urban aesthetics. She previously helped develop the Field Museum's Native Truths exhibition and currently serves on the Terra Foundation's Indigenous Advisory Committee and Chicago's Cultural Advisory Council. She lives in Chicago with her husband, artist Chris Pappan, and their daughter, performing artist Ji Hae Yepa-Pappan.