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VCCA ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2015V

VCCA Mission Statement

VCCA advances the arts by providing a creative space in which our best national and international artists produce

their finest literature, visual art and music.

Cover: EXALT, 2014, mixed media, David FarrarIn his practice, which incorporates printmaking, woodwork, sculpture and installation, British artist David Farrar makes use of humble materials and objects, subtly altering them in unexpected and, indeed, quite dysfunctional ways. A printing technician at the Glasgow School of Art where he studied, David is influenced and guided in his practice by “Ephemeral moments of beauty and comedy.” These include: “Lines of light cast through a Venetian blind, a toilet roll dancing uninhibitedly in the gentle breeze of an extraction fan, the strong shadow cast from a streetlight illuminating a wooden pallet on the street. I repackage these moments as ethereal worlds isolated from the imperfections and noise of reality so that more people might appreciate the beauty of everyday occurrences.”

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President + Executive Director Spotlight on FELLOWS Legacy Society: VCCA Fellow • Board Member Sandell Mors Spotlight on the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Endowed + Sponsored Fellowships The Commission 2015 WAVERTREE Contributors Art + Books + Score Donations In-Kind Donations VCCA-France Legacy + Honorary Donations Foundations + Government + Corporate Support Fellows in Residence VCCA Board of Directors/International Oversight Honorary + Advisory Boards VCCA Staff Audited Financial Information Credits

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each year. We are so grateful to the anonymous donor for so generously supporting VCCA-Abroad.

The old Chinese adage that is both a blessing and a curse, “May you live in interesting times”, took on special significance this past spring. Life is always interesting at VCCA, thanks to the presence of our Fellows, but things got VERY interesting when it was announced that Sweet Briar College, a vanguard in women’s education, would close, and the prospect cast a dark cloud over the final quarter of fiscal year 2015. As everyone now knows, Sweet Briar was given a second chance. It was a welcome denouement for the institution we have shared such a close relationship with for going on five decades. With the college now under the most capable leadership of President Philip C. Stone working in concert with its passionate alumnae, we are confident that Sweet Briar has many, many bright years ahead.

Going forward, we want to ensure VCCA is most advantageously positioned for success. To this end, VCCA Executive Director, Board of Directors and Strategic Planning Committee have been diligently pursuing a long-term home for VCCA.

While we continue to weigh other options, our deepest wish is to stay put and move forward together with Sweet Briar, but wherever we end up, one thing is certain, VCCA will remain strong. Our strength derives from the high caliber of our Fellows, the commitment of our staff and board and the support of our many donors who understand that sustaining arts and culture is of vital importance to the health and well-being of society. Artists continue to flock to VCCA from all corners of the earth finding here the haven where they can tap into the rich veins of creativity found deep within themselves, bringing forth the literature, visual art and music that bear the truth, beauty and mystery of the human heart and will embellish lives for many generations to come. Thank you to all who have made this possible. Robert O. Satterfield Gregory Allgire SmithPresident, VCCA Board of Directors Executive DirectorJuly 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015

“Without culture,” wrote Albert Camus, “And the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” Every day artists at VCCA are fashioning precious gifts for the future. Between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015, 452 national and international artists passed though VCCA. Of these, 247 were writers, 129 visual artists and 39 composers. Twenty-three had residencies at the Moulin à Nef in Auvillar and 14 more went on international exchanges to Germany, Ireland, Malta and Austria. We know how transformative, indeed, life changing these residencies can be to individual artists, inspiring ideas, instilling confidence, providing the time and place to create. They also transform culture, enhancing it with works created right here in Amherst, Virginia and in Auvillar, France.

Calendar year 2015 started off with a bang when it was announced that VCCA-Abroad was the recipient of a $1 million anonymous gift. One of the largest in VCCA’s history, the gift, to be known as the Elizabeth Coles Langhorne Memorial Endowment Fund for VCCA in France, is to be used solely by VCCA for improvement of the current French properties to include the purchase of additional real and personal property, and operation to include the payment of utilities and taxes, and in particular, the funding of Fellowships and transportation of VCCA-qualified United States artists for residencies in Auvillar.

This gift represents a significant imprimatur on the important work VCCA does in support of hundreds of artists

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It would be impossible to include all the 452 amazing Fellows who passed through our doors in fiscal year 2015. Following are VCCA Fellows who were in residence at Mt. San Angelo between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015. They represent just a sampling of the incredible creativity and talent that is nurtured at VCCA.

Aaron Johnson’s vibrantly colored, densely packed compositions feature a profoundly macabre subject matter where Mexican Day of the Dead imagery vies with East Indian iconography for visual whammy. The work, which is created through a complicated technique Aaron refers to as “reverse painted acrylic polymer peel painting”, is also generously larded with potent political and societal themes. Aaron’s multi step process starts with a preliminary drawing. “For the small paintings with their hyper detail it helps for me to plan it all out in advance,” he says. “Narratives come easily when I’m drawing with pencil and paper—letting things enter my mind and having fun with it.” The drawings get messy with all the erasing and smudges of graphite and so he makes a tracing of them that he tapes to the front of the polyethylene plastic sheeting attached to stretchers that he uses as his painting surface. “For the bigger ones, I’ll just draw right onto the plastic because it’s a looser piece.” Aaron’s paintings have three layers of paint each separated by a layer of liquid acrylic polymer that’s poured onto the painted surface and left overnight to harden. The layering adds dimension and a luscious sheen to the work.

Aaron paints in reverse. He first puts down the detail. Disembodied from the rest of the components making up the form, these floating elements (teeth, eyes, nails, etc.) don’t make much sense to anyone at this point other than the artist. This layer is followed by the under coat of color which completes the figures. Finally, the background layer is applied. To grasp how hard this is, you have to understand that from the working side, it’s impossible to tell what the painting looks like, it has to be turned around in order to see its true appearance.

“The way I paint is the opposite of how most painters work,” Aaron explains. “They start with broad strokes and

start to find forms and then refine and approach details. I start with detail and zoom out. It’s like the details are super precise and controlled and I know what I’m going for. In the beginning, I’m using a tiny brush; it’s painstakingly slow and then as the paintings progress, I’m relinquishing control of this thing I labored on. The backgrounds often involve splatters and poured paint—chance things and a little bit of chaos so I’m not exactly quite sure what the finished work is going to look like from the front anymore.”

After Aaron has finished the painting/liquid polymer stage, he lays the painting surface flat, plastic side down, and then after pouring on a final coat of polymer, he transfers it onto stretched netting. The polymer saturates the net, congealing all those layers of paint to the net as the polymer dries. The plastic sheeting is peeled away once the piece is completely dry. Aaron began using netting because canvas wasn’t porous enough and when he tried to use his multi-layer technique he ended up with a lot of air bubbles. He got the idea to use the unconventional material walking past a construction site in New York where he spotted the orange net barricades.

There’s plenty of blood and grossness in Aaron’s work, but it’s handled in such an irreverent and intentionally outlandish way, it comes across as darkly funny rather than truly disturbing. In one, a bizarre feast/operation is depicted. It’s a grotesque comedy featuring a cast of oddball death’s headed characters arranged around a table.

Aaron’s mother grew up in Assam and his childhood house was filled with Indian art. He says the Indian aesthetic is so ingrained in him he references it without thinking about it. This explains the ease with which he incorporates the sumptuous palette, marvelously inventive patterns and flame-like gestures that enliven his paintings and recall Indian miniatures. In some works, Aaron makes more direct reference: inserting the elephant foot stool he inherited from his grandfather in one, a Ganesh-like figure in another.

Aaron enjoys putting “little things for people to discover” in his paintings like familiar food items. He keeps the meaning very open. “I’m not really thinking why the fries and hamburger would be dancing on the piano… it’s just available iconography to me. I wanted something on the tabletop to punctuate the wood grain.” The food adds a welcome note of levity. It’s just one of Aaron’s inventive choices that go into the production of this work that is so elaborate in terms of both subject and process.

Visual Artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been collaborating since 2000, producing numerous expanded cinema installations and performances that go beyond the category of moving image to incorporate the visual, mechanical and conceptual qualities of film projection.

“The art of projection is an area we’ve been working in for 15 years creating ways of articulating the material substance of light,” says Luis. “In the same way a sculptor might work with a material they chisel away at we find ways of carving, subtracting and adding light.”

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Sandra and Luis produce both performance and installation work. When performing, they are sometimes in front of an audience, while at other times they are in the projection booth each operating a projector. They work in tandem with traditional film, experimental film and sometimes no film, just light. They come equipped with glass, colored filters and a humidifier that produces vapor. As the projector rolls, they each interact with the projected light creating a cinematic progression of light and color that is accompanied by sound produced by a collaborator.

During their residency at VCCA, Sandra and Luis set up a number of camera obscuras. These were beautiful, fragile and mysterious. Sandra and Luis are co-opting a naturally occurring scientific phenomenon, but they’re doing it in such an interesting way, making you think about light—its fragility and power and also about perception itself. Yes, we are looking at reality, but because of the nature of optics, it’s upside down. The light/image is further altered depending on aperture size and where it’s directed. Sandra and Luis use wrinkled and torn paper and supermarket plastic bags blown about by electric fans to add texture and movement. These various techniques transform the image into something blurred and fleeting, quite separate from the outside world it’s capturing. It’s as if we’re looking at it from a remove of distance or time.

One piece used filters so the image was abstracted and the work became more a study of colored light and shadow. Another used a revolving glass vase as a lens to bend and warp the light creating dynamic projected reflections. “We’re moving away from the obvious camera obscura ‘how’s it done’ mechanical thing,” says Luis. “People tend to get hung up on trying to figure out what it is. We want to put layers in front of that so people can experience it first and then ask that question.”

“We see the camera obscura as micro-cinema, or more precisely, live cinema projection,” says Sandra. When you think about it, this is exactly right because the light that the camera obscura captures recreates an exact image of the living, breathing, moving world.

The camera obscura is a form of found art, since it records what is already there. It’s also low tech–you only need a darkened room and a small opening for light–and it’s ancient; Aristotle himself makes note of the phenomenon.

Sandra and Luis have taken things that appear antiquated and overlooked: the camera obscura or film technology with all its interesting retro looking artifacts and somehow made it cutting edge. They’ve done it by taking a completely different approach, highlighting the means (the equipment, the methodology) rather than the end (a precise recreation of the world outside/the moving image) to create thought-provoking and visually compelling work.

Irish playwright Stacey Gregg came to VCCA armed with an ambitious project: to begin and end a play commissioned by the Abbey Theater in Dublin. She accomplished her goal, leaving Mt. San Angelo with a completed first draft and even got to experience “a sense of completeness” in her last two days.

Stacey writes for theater, film and TV. She’s prolific, having written numerous plays including the award-winning Perve, several television scripts, a couple of films and even an opera. “I’ve always operated at a high energy level,” she explains. “Though it never feels that way.” Stacey also performs as an actor in other people’s work. She started acting because “I just needed a break from myself. Acting’s a really good way to be in a room, to be physical and yet be out of your brain for a while. It’s galvanizing to disrupt patterns.”

From East Belfast, Gregg read English at Cambridge University and received a master’s in documentary film from Royal Holloway.

When describing her writing process, Stacey says: “I look for a voice and a form that suits the subject matter, more so maybe than other writers would. While they have a particular voice that becomes, you could argue, kind of like their brand. You know what you’re going to get with them. Maybe I’m just naive; maybe objectively my work is like that as well.”

“The first play I had produced was probably the most conventional play I have ever written. It’s totally ironic to me that it’s the one that started my career and subsequent commissions. I think I had an expectation that I was going to have to write in a conventional way in order to be successful. But in the last couple of years, I’ve been able to push the work back towards where I originally come from and where my excitement lies. Some people

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might refer to this as post-dramatic theater—it’s theater that’s aware of its form; it isn’t trying to trick you.”

Commissions vary from project to project. There’s always a balance between buying the freedom or earning the money to have the freedom to write what you want to write and then hope to find a home for it. “In terms of cold hard cash, which is what you need when you’re starting out, commissions are a great way of supporting yourself,” says Stacey. “Sometimes theaters will come to you with a brief or sometimes because we’re so financially conservative at the moment, it’s gotten more like TV where even though they don’t like to admit it, it’s more and more expected that you go in and pitch an idea and then they’ll commission you. But I don’t tend to take very restrictive briefs that are more for TV. In theater, you can kind of be your own boss and that’s the privilege of being able to write in that medium.”

Stacey is pretty hands-off when it comes to a play’s production. She likes the idea of the refraction of ideas. How first the director’s vision, then the actors’ interpretation followed by the audiences’ experience all shape the work in different ways. “I get really excited about the audience having a polyphonic experience that is really hard to translate into something clear and safe that marketers can sell.” One area where Stacey does want to maintain control is the imagery used in promotional material, believing a production can sink or swim just because of a bad poster or poor marketing campaign.

Stacey’s more recent dramatic work deals with the intersection of ethics and technology and the debates and discussions that we should all be having right now about them, but aren’t. According to Stacey, for a long time, theaters were really nervous about dealing with anything that dealt with the future or technology. Two years ago she wrote Override a play about body augmentation. This was not mere plastic surgery, but explored the very frontier of human enhancement and biometric medicine. Her play posited the question, how far can we take this? When she first pitched it, everyone seemed quite apprehensive at the idea of a sci-fi play, but it ended up being just ahead of the curve. Sci-fi plays are now all the rage. Stacey finds this exciting. “Because the thing about theater is, it’s magical; you can go anywhere you want. I think people forgot that for a long time. But now, we’re seeing a reinvigorated wave of really bold experimental and hypothetical works.”

Stacey divides her time between Dublin, London and Belfast. The different cities offer different attractions for her: the theater scene in Dublin is very European in feel, more expressive and experimental, whereas in London, the taste is for traditional social realism. Belfast is home. She feels enriched by exposure to these three cities and proud of her felicitous relationship with them because they’re very different. She’s also become very adept at moving between Irish and British culture and navigating the different ways that people work and think.

“I’m still waiting on making that piece of work where I go, yes. I’ve nailed it. So I think I’m still learning, certainly and that’s the funny thing about theater and having work produced: it’s only after it’s had an opening in front of an audience that you really know what the play is.” One thing you do know is Stacey’s rigorous and challenging plays are expanding theater’s boundaries into exciting new territory.

Hailed as “brilliant and funny” by The New York Times, Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s first novel Panic in a Suitcase recounts two decades in the life of a Ukrainian immigrant household living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

The book parallels Yelena’s own experience. Her family emigrated in 1992 when Yelena was just seven years old. In Ukraine, family members were doctors and poets; arriving on the U.S. shores, Yelena’s educated parents were forced back to square one. Beginning the steep ascent back to the socio-economic standing they had once enjoyed, they took menial jobs; their only child, who previously had been tutored at home by her grandfather, was sent to school for the first time. It was a traumatic experience, which the family all seems to have repressed; none of them have memories of the period.

Yelena began writing poems in junior high school. Poetry is very much in her DNA. Her mother writes poetry and her uncle and grandfather are both published poets. Soon Yelena switched to writing stories. She wrote many, many stories. The one thing they all had in common was they bore no resemblance to her life. “It took me a long time until I got to the point where I realized I could write about my own experience fictionalizing it as needed,” she says.

“I’m always writing,” explains Yelena. “Writing for me is kind of the same thing as living.” She writes in English in longhand, which she subsequently transcribes into a computer. Though seemingly laborious, this approach enables her to revise the work as she goes.

Yelena has a complicated relationship with both her birth and adopted countries. Much like her character, Frida, she feels the pull of Ukraine. Nowadays it’s possible for émigrés to go back for visits and perhaps more. Yelena speaks wistfully of Lviv, a beautiful, peaceful city. (The fighting is largely confined to Eastern Ukraine, which has a high concentration of Russians.)

At VCCA, Yelena was engrossed in writing her second book filling notebooks with words that flowed out of her. “I’m completely in the thick of it. It’s been really hard going,” she says. “As soon as I finished the last book, I wanted to start on the next thing. It takes about a year between when a book is bought and when it comes out. So, I’ve been writing like a mad woman.” In the end, she deemed none of it useable. “I had to throw it all out—basically two years of work. It was a very dark time.” But, Yelena is philosophical about it now, realizing that the effort wasn’t a complete loss. “I see it’s okay because you’re practicing and exercising muscles that you’re going to need.”

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she produced. “Coming here is so incredible,” Yelena says. “Because everything comes into focus.” That focus is sure to translate into another literary triumph for this young author.

Described as an “American Maverick” by Philip Glass, composer Michael Harrison has forged an impressive career in the contemporary classical music scene with works that pair the ancient with the modern, the East with the West.

The co-founder and president of the American Academy of Indian Classical Music, Michael has been deeply involved in the musical form since 1979. He has performed solo at numerous concerts in India, and with Terry Riley, as a vocalist, pianist, and on tamboura. A disciple of the late Pandit Pran Nath, Michael has studied with master Indian vocalist Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan since 1999.

Along with his many accomplishments as composer and performer, Michael also designed and created the “harmonic piano” in 1986. A grand piano that has been extensively altered so that it can play 24 notes per octave, the harmonic piano is included in the second edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

At VCCA, Michael presented his Just Ancient Loops collaboration of music and film. The piece, which includes the rich polyphonic sound of 20 tracks of pre-recorded cellos together with a live performance by cellist Maya Beiser.was presented as part of the BAM’s 2015 Next Wave Festival.

Michael has taught graduate seminars at the Manhattan School of Music, and was on the faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA. He has performed his music and received premieres at the Spoleto Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr in Germany, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, American Academy in Rome, Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver (solo and with composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn), Music in the Morning in Vancouver (with author Stuart Isacoff), Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, and in New York City at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, United Nations, Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Concert Hall at the 92nd St. Y, Wordless Music Series, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, numerous Bang on a Can Marathons at the World Financial Center, and with Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall performing with his mentor Terry Riley.

Recordings of Harrison’s works have been released on Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music, New Albion Records, Important Records, and Fortuna Records, and chapters are devoted to his work in the books Grand Obsession

(Scribner, by Perry Knize), and Temperament (A. Knopf, by Stuart Isacoff). http://www.michaelharrison.com

Richly evocative of experience and place, Patricia Spears Jones’ elegant, carefully parsed poems also describe with rare perceptiveness the depth and breadth of human emotions.

Originally from Arkansas, Brooklyn–based Patricia was educated at Rhodes College and earned her M.F.A. from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has resided in New York City since the early 1970s where she has been involved in numerous organizations and projects centered around culture and social activism. Among her many noteworthy accomplishments, Patricia was the first African American program coordinator at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church where she subsequently served as mentor for Emerge, Surface, Be, a new fellowship program. From 1994-96, Patricia was the director of Planning and Development at The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently, Patricia curates Words Sunday, a literary andperformance series focused on Brooklyn-based writers and artists. Patricia’s writing is not limited to poetry. She has written exhibition catalog essays for Jane Dickson, Rhonda Schaller and Richard J. Powell among others and plays commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. Patricia has collaborated with musicians and artists such as Jason Hwang, Ras Moshe Burnett, Lenora Champagne and Danny Tisdale. She is a contributing editor to Bomb magazine and a senior fellow at Black Earth Institute. Patricia teaches at CUNY.

Patricia writes of VCCA: “During my residency, I did two amazing things: organized and edited poems that became A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press). The VCCA staff are super because I lost the first section of the manuscript into cyberspace and they helped me reconstruct it.

“The second major project was to create a new poem, a commission organized by Elizabeth Alexander for the Museum of Modern Art for a forthcoming exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations Series, which opened in April 2015. In about 48 hours I wrote the first major draft of Lave, which is now in the exhibition’s catalog along with poems by eminent poets such as Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Tretheway, et al. I wrote a few new poems as well, one of which has been published. More importantly, I met and befriended wonderful poets,

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painters, composers and heard glorious music in the barn.”

Patricia is the author of poetry collections Painkiller, Femme Du Monde (Tia Chucha Press) and The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press), and several chapbooks including Living in the Love Economy. Patricia was the editor and contributor to the blog project: Thirty Days Hath September: Another Kind of Noise and editor and contributor to Think: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat. Patricia co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women from the late 1970s. Her poetry has also appeared in Callaloo, The Yalobusha Review, Lights Camera, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Ikon, The American Voice, The Black Scholar, Nimrod, and numerous anthologies. Patricia is the recipient of a 1994 National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Fellowship, as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Interdisciplinary Projects program, Foundation for Contemporary Art, the New York Community Trust and the Goethe Institute. Her poem, Beuys and the Blonde was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Patricia is 2015 recipient of a Money for Women/The Barbara Deming Fund award for her memoir in progress. www.psjones.com

When Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich came to VCCA, she was at a crossroads. She had been working on a book for years, which hadn’t sold: “I’d realized that was because the conception of the book expressed in the proposal didn’t match my secret, more ambitious aspirations for it—aspirations that I didn’t know how to achieve.” After it failed to sell, she put together an outline that more closely reflected her vision and was rewarded with a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Buoyed by that vote of confidence, but still unsure of how to fully realize her vision, Alexandria arrived at VCCA. “There, working away in my studio with the mountains always in the distance, I sketched out three possible executions of my vision, and quickly realized, after so many years, what I needed to do. VCCA gave me the space that gave me the courage to start anew.”

When she returned in early 2015, the book she reworked at VCCA the previous year had just sold. (The U.K. auction took place while she was in residence.) With a contract in hand, she needed to write. “I was completely unprepared for what it feels like to sell a first memoir, the feeling you suddenly have that the world is looking over your shoulder. But at VCCA, sheltered in my studio, I was able to dig back into the book, free to dream and free to imagine, and write. VCCA means this to me: a place of beauty where I get things done.”

Alexandria’s book Any One of Us is part memoir, part literary journalism about a Louisiana murder and death penalty case and about the abuse in her own family’s past. The book is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (Macmillan), in the U.K., the Netherlands and Taiwan. “With four pedophiles and four dead children in it, and spanning some 50 years and three families, the book has at times such darkness and difficulty that I have found beauty a crucial rescue at the end of the day’s work. It can be difficult to delve deeply into the material in my home, difficult to bring myself to invite the ghosts into where I live. But at VCCA having the Blue Ridge Mountains always in sight puts me in mind of memory—the wavelength of blue light, the color of the blanket wrapped around one of the dead children in my book—but also provides the calming balm of perspective, the reminder that the world is large and the sky vast and stories of both pain and beauty abound.”

Alexandria’s essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, Bookslut, TriQuarterly Online, Bellingham Review (as the winner of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction) and other publications. Her essay “Origins of a Murder” was anthologized in True Crime and honored as “notable” by Best American Essays 2013. For Any One of Us Alexandria received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, VCCA, and other organizations, as well as a work-study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Rona Jaffe Award. Alexandria earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School, a B.A. in Sociology from Columbia, and an MFA in Non-fiction Writing from Emerson.

Currently, Alexandria is an Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and teaches at the Memoir Incubator Program at Grub Street, a nonprofit writing center in Boston.

“I value so much about VCCA: the community that arises amongst residents there; the wonderful staff who create a place where it is possible to focus on work; and above all that it exists, that this haven of devotion to art has been carved out in such a beautiful place, a reminder that art matters and so does the chance to just focus and create it.”

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My connection to VCCA is long and deep, beginning in the late 1980’s when Bill Smart was director. I remember Sheila’s and Craig’s arrival with their two young daughters. I remember the birth of their third daughter. I remember when Suny Monk became director. Always I have been grateful for each residency, for it is at Mt. San Angelo in each of those spare, quiet studios that magical things happen both to me and to my work. I go deeper. I surprise myself. These are only two of the gifts of a residency at the VCCA. I have benefited from working among composers and visual artists. I have made lifelong friendships. Perhaps, VCCA’s greatest gift to me was the review board’s belief in my work when I had lost any sense of myself as a writer. For that I am grateful.

I live and write on the coast of Maine, the muted grays and blues of the sea rolling toward me. Eternity rests on the horizon, and lately I’ve been thinking about what I’ll leave behind when I’m gone, not money, but values. I believe in giving, and I believe in the arts, so I am remembering VCCA in my will to fund writers, particularly women, so others will have the opportunity to experience these transformative residencies I have shared with so many wonderful artists in both Virginia and France. Remembering VCCA now, enriches my life.

Sandell Morse January 2016

LEGACY SOCIETY – Friends Funding the Future

The VCCA Legacy Society honors donors like Sandell Morse who are helping to secure the future of VCCA through a planned gift, making sure support will always be here for exceptional, national and international writers, visual artists and composers.

Even the smallest gift can contribute significantly to VCCA’s ability to support artists for the long term, and it can be as uncomplicated as a simple bequest in your will. If you would like to learn more about gift planning for the future, please contact Carol O’Brien, 434 946 7236, cobrien@vcca.com.

LEGACY SOCIETY: VCCA FELLOW • BOARD MEMBER SANDELL MORSE L E G A C Y S O C I E T Y

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE JACQUES AND NATASHA GELMAN FOUNDATION

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VCCA offers a wide range of sponsored fellowships. Some of these support artists from specific areas of the country, while others are tailored to offer support to artists of specific demographics or working in specific media. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, which, at VCCA, supports African American and Latino visual artists, is one of such opportunities.

Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Jacques Gelman amassed a fortune in film distribution and production in France and Mexico. He met and married his wife Natasha Zahalka from Czechoslovakia in Mexico. Unable to return to Europe because they were Jewish and the Second World War was raging, the Gelmans settled in Mexico City and became Mexican citizens. Jacques Gelman’s greatest success came from his lengthy professional relationship with the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno known as “Cantinflas” whose films he produced. This enabled the Gelmans to assemble what is regarded as one of the world’s most significant private holdings of 20th century art. Natasha Gelman continued collecting contemporary works after her husband’s death in 1986 until she died in 1998. The Gelman’s Mexican collection remains in Mexico, while their European works are on permanent display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Gelmans’ circle of friends included Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In addition to their VCCA sponsored fellowship, the Gelman Foundation supports many initiatives that benefit emerging and under-recognized visual artists at any career stage.

The recipient of a Gelman Fellowship, visual artist Lisa Beane is based in Los Angeles. All spring, Lisa had been galvanized by the story of Farkhunda, the 27-year old Afghani woman who was brutally murdered by a mob on March 19 in Kabul. The incident occurred after Farkunda confronted a mullah selling charms outside the Shah-e-Doshamshera shrine. Farkunda was a devout woman and was offended by what she saw as unseemly activity occurring so close to the holy site. It’s ironic that it was her very piety that was her undoing. Because the mullah became so enraged by Farkunda’s scolding that he turned around and accused her of burning a Koran. Word of this spread quickly through the crowd, which turned on Farkhunda savagely attacking her. In a frenzy, they beat, stoned and ran over her. Eventually, they threw what was left of her body “into a river and set it ablaze in the presence of policemen.”

Repelled by it all, Lisa also saw in the outcry here in the U.S. a form of hypocrisy, or at least convenient amnesia. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that we were doing much the same thing. Between the years 1877-1950 there were 3,959 lynchings in 12 Southern states according to an article in The New York Times. And it wasn’t limited to the South. The iconic photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith surrounded by Saturday night revelers was taken in Indiana in 1930. In a heartbreaking aside, as Abram (on the right in the photograph) was being hanged he instinctively grabbed at the noose around his neck, so the men lowered him back down, broke his arms and then strung him back up again. Lisa wove together the narratives of these two events, depicting the martyred Farkunda and Abram with halos. Soulfully beautiful with a head covered by a hajib, Farkunda bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary. For Lisa, Farkunda is also a stand-in for women everywhere.

What transfixes the artist is the degree of hatred that propels people to behave in such a depraved way toward another human being. In these extreme cases, the hatred is so intense that the victim no longer has a human identity. One of the more disturbing qualities of the famous photograph of the Indiana lynching is the carnival atmosphere that’s captured. It’s hard to fathom people reacting in such a way and yet it continues as a recent

photograph from Pakistan reveals. In the forefront of this image two men and a boy are capering happily, big smiles grace their faces. It looks like an image from The Family of Man. But then you realize that the form being pulled behind them is the remains of one of the two men falsely accused of bombing a church in Lahore.

Despite their difficult subject matter, Lisa’s paintings are anything but bleak. She incorporates bold color, dynamic line, writing and familiar images from pop culture to create works that are deceptively light-hearted. This falsejoviality stands in such stark contrast to what’s being depicted that it succeeds in underscoring it. Depicting things in this fashion also allows Lisa to deal with things that are too hard to talk about or really show.

In her larger works, Lisa organizes her composition into broad fields of color interspersed with highly detailed passages and expressive brushstrokes. Lisa uses words in pithy colloquial sentences to drive home her point, and images from pop culture in ironic ways. So the Keebler elf’s tree becomes the gallows and the elf is transformed from jolly baker to evil instigator. The scrawl of words and splintered composition impart an edgy street vibe to Lisa’s work almost as if the paintings are an urban wall peppered with graffiti and the layered visual fragments of old handbills.

In the original photograph of the Shipp/Smith lynching, there’s an older woman at the center looking out toward the viewer. Lisa has canonized her placing a halo on her head. Her speech bubble asks “Where he Momma at?” reminding everyone that this man hanging from the tree has a mother; he is a human being.

This was Lisa Beane’s first residency experience. “I had no idea what to expect, and I must say it was beyond anything I could imagine. My work is extremely difficult; it is deep and emotional. To go in and face it each day is challenging and to be in this peaceful place that buzzed with phenomenal creative energy was an incredible gift. The support and friendship from other Fellows helped sustain me in this demanding work.”

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We are so appreciative of the generosity of our supporters like the Gelman Foundation, which have established sponsored and endowed fellowships at VCCA.

ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS

JANE GEUTING CAMP FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 1988 in memory of former VCCA Board President Jane Camp by her family and the J. L. Camp Foundation.Sarah Gamble, Visual Artist – Roswell, New Mexico Shigeki Yoshida, Visual Artist – Brooklyn, New York

COLUMBUS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ENDOWMENTEstablished in 2003 to support writers, visual artists and composers with preference given to teachers and alumnae of the Columbus School for Girls, Columbus, Ohio.Sebastian Collett, Visual Artist – Asheville, New YorkAaron Johnson, Visual Artist – Irvington, New JerseyElizabeth A. Kelly, Composer – Denton, Texas Dong Li, Writer – New York, New York Kala Pierson, Composer – Haverford, Pennsylvania Luis Recoder, Visual Artist – New York, New YorkDaniel Reitz, Writer – New York, New York

ALONZO DAVIS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPSEstablished in 2004 by VCCA Fellow and Board Member Alonzo Davis to support writers, visual artists and composers who are American citizens of African and Latino descent.Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Writer – Silver Spring, MarylandLadee Hubbard, Writer – Champaign, Illinois

SARAH STANLEY GORDON EDWARDS AND ARCHIBALD CASON EDWARDS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPSEstablished in 2013 by VCCA Fellow Mary D. Edwards in honor of her parents Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards and Archibald Cason Edwards, the residency supports women painters ages twenty-five and older with preference given to Native Ameri-can painters. The first fellowship is scheduled for 2016.

THE GOLDFARB FAMILY FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2000 through The Aida Goldfarb Art Law Library Fund by Fellow and former board member Ronald Goldfarb to support a creative non-fiction writer.Brandel France de Bravo, Writer – Washington, DC

THE GEORGE EDWARDS AND RACHEL HADAS ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSEstablished in 2012 by VCCA Fellow Rachel Hadas in memory of her husband Fellow George Edwards, this fellowship is awarded annually in rotation to a composer, writer and visual artist.Zaid Jabri, Composer – Kraków, Poland

THE PHILLIP AND ERIC HEINER ENDOWED RESIDENCYEstablished in 2005 by Frances S. Heiner of Lynchburg, VA, the residency honors her sons and benefits a writer, visual artist or composer.Monica Bill-Hughes, Visual Artist – Peru, New York

THE PATRICIA AND JERRE MANGIONE FELLOWSHIP FUNDEstablished in 2003, the fund supports artists over 65 years of age.

BETHEA SCOTT OWEN FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2013 through a bequest of Bethea Scott Owen.Sandra Gibson, Visual Artist – New York, New York

WILLIAMS GRAVES SACKETT ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2007, the fellowship is funded through the bequest of VCCA Board Member Bill Sackett.Jeremy Hawkins, Writer – Chapel Hill, North Carolina

KAREN SHEA AND GABE SILVERMAN ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2006, the fellowship is in memory of VCCA Fellow and Board Member Karen Shea and later in memory of her husband, developer and arts supporter Gabe Silverman.Mariana Escribano, Visual Artist – Wichita, Kansas Stephanie Snider, Visual Artist – Brooklyn, New York

CY TWOMBLY ENDOWMENT FOR FELLOWSHIPSEstablished in 2011, the fellowship is supported by the Cy Twombly Foundation in memory of VCCA Fellow and Advisory Council member Cy Twombly.David Farrar, Visual Artist – Oxford, EnglandHolen Sabrina Kahn, Visual Artist – San Francisco, California

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VCCA MEMORIALS FUNDFellowships are presented annually on a rotating basis to recognize one or more of those honored or memorialized through this pooled fund. The 2015 fellowships were awarded for the following:In Memory of Marjory BassettHayley Kelsey, Writer – Charleston, South CarolinaHaven Kimmel, Writer – Durham, North Carolina

In Memory of Quita BroadheadBeatrix Gates, Writer – Penobscot, MaineBeth Krebs, Visual Artist – Oakland, California

The Robert Johnson FellowshipInitiated in 2006 by the VCCA Fellows Council in memory of long-time employee Robert Johnson.Robin Jebavy, Visual Artist – Brookfield, Wisconsin

Suny Monk Fund for FellowsInitiated in 2011 to honor Suny Monk, VCCA Executive Director 1997-2011Michael Rose, Composer – Brooklyn, New York Millee Tibbs, Visual Artist – Detroit, Michigan

In Memory of Elizabeth G. SchneiderJodie Hollander, Writer – Mintum, Colorado Patricia Spears Jones, Writer – Brooklyn, New York Alexander Lumans, Writer – Denver, Colorado Emily Mitchell, Writer – Silver Spring, Maryland

John and Ruth Woodburn Memorial Writers FundApril Sopkin, Writer – Richmond, Virginia

THE WACHTMEISTER AWARDEstablished in 2003 and funded by the L.E.A.W Family Foundation, the award honors artists who have made significant achievements in the arts. Awarded biennially, it is administered through the VCCA Fellows Council. The award will be given to a non-fiction writer in 2016.

VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ENDOWMENT FUND IN THE GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY TRUST – ANN ELDER BESTOR MEMORIAL FUNDEstablished in 2002 by VCCA Fellow Charles Bestor in memory of his wife Ann Elder Bestor.

SPONSORED FELLOWSHIPS AND RECIPIENTS

ALLIANCE OF ARTISTS COMMUNITIESResidency fellowships are given to 3Arts awardees through a partnership between 3Arts and the Alliance of Artists Communities.Meredith Miller, Visual Artist – Chicago, Illinois

THE BAMA WORKS FUND OF DAVE MATTHEWS BAND IN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Calendar Year)Supporting residencies for artists from the greater Charlottesville area.Michelle Gagliano, Visual Artist, Scottsville, VirginiaJody Hobbs Hesler, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaS. Hope Mills, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaAlyssa Phoebus Mumtaz, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, VirginiaBettyJoyce Nash, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaHeidi Johannesen Poon, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaEllen Reid, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia,

J&E BERKLEY FOUNDATION (Calendar Year)Supporting residencies for artists from the greater Charlottesville area.Michelle Gagliano, Visual Artist, Scottsville, VirginiaJody Hobbs Hesler, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaS. Hope Mills, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaAlyssa Phoebus Mumtaz, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, VirginiaBettyJoyce Nash, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaHeidi Johannesen Poon, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaEllen Reid, Visual Artist – Charlottesville, Virginia

THE HARRY D. FORSYTH FELLOWSHIP FOR VISUAL ARTISTSEstablished in 1999 to support alumnae from Sweet Briar College.Catherine Peek, Visual Artist – Winchester, Virginia

THE JACQUES AND NATASHA GELMAN FOUNDATIONEstablished in 2013, the Gelman Foundation provides fully funded two-week residencies for visual artists of African or Latino descent. Lisa Beane, Visual Artist – Burbank, CaliforniaMichael K. Taylor, Visual Artist – Houston, Texas

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KOMAKI FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2010 by VCCA Fellow Judi Komaki, this fellowship supports a playwright, screenwriter or filmmaker whose work celebrates the behind-the-scenes story of an activist striving to make his or her vision of a more perfect world a reality. Eligible for award in 2016.

MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2015 by the L.E.A.W. Foundation in partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art to support MICA faculty and alumni.Carolyn Case, Visual Artist – Cockeyesville, Maryland

MID-ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATIONFunding fellowships for artists from Mid-Atlantic Region.Simen Johan, Visual Artist – New York, New YorkMagnolia Laurie, Visual Artist – Baltimore, MarylandJames Pate, Writer – Shepherdstown, West VirginiaClaudia Smigrod, Visual Artist – Alexandria, VirginiaNatalie Sypolt, Writer – Kingwood, West Virginia

MONTANA FELLOWSHIPEstablished in 2005 and funded through the L.E.A.W. Foundation to support artists from Montana.Jane Waggoner Deschner, Visual Artist – Billings, MT

MOULIN À NEF SCHOLARSHIPS, AUVILLAR, FRANCEJoellyn Duesberry, Visual Artist – Greenwood Village, ColoradoKathy Flann, Writer – Baltimore, MarylandAlexandra Kleeman, Writer – Staten Island, New YorkJacqueline Jones LaMon, Writer – Brooklyn, New YorkPolly Pen, Composer – Rosendale, New YorkIsabelle Smeets, Visual Artist – Broekhuizen, The NetherlandsGerald Sticker, Writer – New York, New YorkJeffrey Weaver, Writer – Hatfield, Massachusetts

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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS – ARTISTS COMMUNITIESTwo NEA grants provided support during FY2015. One grant provided three to five week fully funded residencies for African-American and Latino visual artists and composers, the other supported artists working in community-based, socially engaged, or relational artwork. One of the artists was selected to create a piece for the community of Amherst County, Virginia.Edgar Endress, Visual Artist – St. Augustine, FloridaAyesu Lartey, Composer – Brooklyn, New York

UNESCO ASCHBERG BURSARIES FOR ARTISTSSupporting Latin American and African composers under the age of 45.Sergio Núñez, Composer – Santiago, Chile

CAROLE AND MARCUS WEINSTEIN FUND A FELLOWSupporting writers from Virginia.Laura Browder, Writer – Richmond, VirginiaSue Eisenfeld, Writer – Arlington, VirginiaLuAnn Kenner-Mikenas, Writer – Madison Heights, VirginiaJeff Martin, Writer – Charlottesville, VirginiaJanet Peery, Writer – Norfolk, Virginia

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T H E C O M M I S S I O N 2015

Part vernissage, part rollicking good time, VCCA’s The Commission is a major event on the art and social scenes of central Virginia and beyond.

This year, visual artist Brice Brown (New York, NY) and composer, Alan Shockley (Lakewood, CA) won the commission with Glass and Bridle, Pomegranate and Pears: On the Viability and Transience of a Free and Perfect Union. A site-specific work combining sound, performance, sculpture, printing and painting, the work draws on themes related to the history of nearby Free Union, Virginia, namely its founding by a freed blacksmith slave named Nick.

Modular units were organized into a maze-like arrangement through which The Commission guests could wander while experiencing a shifting sonic and visual landscape. Each of these modular units was composed of wood frames charred in the Shou-sugi-ban style, giving them a luminous black color. Hanging from the center of the frames were printed/hand-painted textiles featuring imagery derived from The Batsford Colour Book of Roses as well as 19th-century etchings of alchemical processes. These created a landscape within a landscape, and referenced the transformation from one state of being to another—from potential to fully realized form —inherent in the blacksmithing process. In the middle of this maze was a special 4-panel unit containing a live sound performance.

Contained within each modular structure, speakers played an independent piece of music, which, when combined

with all the other pieces of music in each pod, created an overlapping sonic composition for the viewer. The individual musical works featured electronically manipulated sounds with various source materials connected to the story of Free Union. Sounds of a blacksmith’s shop and of local birds and insects, the sounds of wind and water all figured prominently. Several of the sound modules projected works created by reductively processing and fragmenting material from a handful of American shape note hymns. The original hymns are ones that would have been part of life in Free Union at its founding, but the new compositions were much more spacious, empty and still.

The live performance featured Shockley playing a Native American bass flute, a lap steel guitar, and various melodicas and small instruments, along with a laptop computer running Max/MSP for the live electronic manipulation of the sounds generated by all of these instruments. This performance worked with the very same source materials as all of the other sound components, making for a non-discursive, interactive sonic environment, which with many of its sounds coming from nature made for a sound world that is always part inside, part outside, part music, and part natural environment.

The title of the installation references the tradition of still life painting, where titles are often formed of simple lists of the objects depicted. Its length is characteristic of 18th century titles (the era from which some of the musical materials were drawn), and also referenced the organic images that inform the sound modules’ fabric walls. The title also links with the story and background of the town of Free Union, as well as the ephemeral and collaborative nature of the installation.

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Cameron Littleton Photography

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Copper Beech, woodcut by VCCA Fellow Jacques Hnizdovsky

W A V E R T R E E FISCAL YEAR 2015 Wavertree Benefactors$100,000 +Anonymous Donor

$50,000 to $99,000L.E.A.W. Family Foundation, Inc.

$25,000 to $49,999Virginia Commission for the Arts

$10,000 to $24,999Herndon FoundationMarc SchewelThe Cynthia R. Tremblay Foundation, Inc.Wonder Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia

Wavertree Patrons$5,000 to $9,999Anonymous DonorAlliance of Artists CommunitiesThe Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community FoundationMelanie ChristianMarie G. Dennett Foundation, Inc.Thomas Y. HinerCharles Jacob Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marion Johnson, IIIMCM FoundationMid Atlantic Arts FoundationSandell MorseAnn and Rick RamseyTatem Webb ReadThe Honorable and Mrs. Elliot SchewelCynthia Davis and Don SwoffordAlice TempletonCarole and Marcus WeinsteinSheila and R. Ted Weschler

Wavertree Sustainers$2,500 to $4,999Laura and George BilicicThe Bilicic Family Fund Page and Sanford BondJ. L. Camp Foundation, Inc.James L. Camp, IVCoran CapshawDonna and Gary ClarkGreater Lynchburg Community TrustCynthia HenebryThe Martin Johnson Family Fund of The Greater Lynchburg Community TrustKenneth H. JonesMr. and Mrs. William M. Massie Jr.McKinnon and Harris Inc.Nisbet Family FoundationShirley Mossman NisbetSue and Bob SatterfieldStarr Hill/Red Light Fund in the Charlottesville Area Community FoundationThe Elizabeth and Herbert Thomson Sr. Fund of The Greater Lynchburg Community TrustVirginia Museum of Fine ArtsMr. and Mrs. Alexander Mclver WinsteadWonder Fund of the Renaissance Charitable Foundation

Wavertree Supporters$1,000 to $2,499Anonymous DonorsSusan Newbold and Ernst BenzienDeborah Ager and Bill BeverlyMr. and Mrs. John H. Birdsall, IIIThe Boston Foundation - Martin FundChristine and Andrew BrennanL.S. and J.S. Bryan Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central VirginiaLissy and Stewart Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Buhler

Mr. and Mrs. Harry BurnFay ChandlerAlonzo DavisMolly H. DodgeDominion Virginia PowerMary Page EvansShelby FischerFlorence Bryan Fowlkes Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central VirginiaMr. and Mrs. R.W. Fowlkes, IIGlad Manufacturing CompanyQuinn F. and Scott A. GraeffLinda GriegoElizabeth Logan HarrisHayward Family FoundationColleen HaywardThomas B. HaywardHeiner Family Fund in the Charlottesville Area Community FoundationJanice and Pinkney HerbertElizabeth Ray HesslerLisa and Steven HighMr. and Mrs. David HilliardLauren and Ben HilyardMr. and Mrs. Shelton HorsleyMr. and Mrs. W. E. Hunt Jr.Margaret B. IngrahamMarilyn KalletAlieda and Adrian KeevilJudi KomakiLaura Edge KottkampElizabeth L. LanghorneJohn LanghorneNatasha and Nick LawlerEstate of Anne Adams Robertson MassieSally and Bill MeadowsThe Melville FoundationMr. Wallace B. MillnerElizabeth Seydel Morgan

Old Dominion Box Company Foundation, Inc.Robert ReedRichmond Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central ViginiaBarbara SchaffElizabeth G. Schneider Charitable Lead UnitrustGregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. WattsMargo SolodStillfield Fund I in the Charlottesville Area Community FoundationNatasha TretheweyTrethewey and Gadsden Advised Fund of the National Philanthropic TrustMr. and Mrs. David van RoijenTina WallsWoodward Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. John E. Woodward, III

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$500 to $999Anonymous DonorsJay BarrowsBB&T Scott & StringfellowIrma BellAnn Elder Bestor Memorial Fund, Greater Lynchburg Community TrustRalph and Jackie BradleyVan K. BrockMr. and Mrs. Theodore J. CraddockBetsy and Jay Dalgliesh Charitable Fund, Schwab CharitableLarry and Alice DarkMr. and Mrs. Calvert de Coligny Jr.Mrs. Powell G. DillardElphaba Fund of the Boston FoundationCary Brown and Steven EpsteinC. B. Fleet Company, Inc.Annie and Alex GouldKatherine KadishPat and Jim KermesJosie MerckThe Murray and Grace Nissman FoundationWendy R. Flanagan and Christopher B. O’MalleyMr. and Mrs. Christopher F. OhrstromElaine Neil OrrNina OzbeyThe David and Lucile Packard FoundationDavid RakowskiMary ShockeyNed and Anne SlaughterMr. and Mrs. Robert StickleyJudith TaylorThe University of VirginiaVirginia Boxwood CompanyKatherine Kane and Olin West

$100 to $499Anonymous DonorPatricia AaronVivian Ciolli AckermanMark AdamoSamuel H. Adler

Ophir AgassiJudy and Geoff AlexanderChris AlexanderThe Anchor Fund of The Pittsburgh FoundationPhoebe F. AntrimThe Associated: Jewish Community Federation of BaltimoreHelène AylonMary AzraelColleen and Brian BassettJoanne BauerAlex and Carolyn BellHelen BenedictMary Clay BerryRobert BertolettiPam BlackJoan Dix BlairKaren Kolb BlairFelicity and Carroll BlundonPage Bond GalleryMrs. Mary Morris BoothMr. and Mrs. Bruce BoucherCarole and David BowenMr. and Mrs. Clifford BoylePrilla Smith and George C. BrackettBetty BranchEleanor Riggins BrawleyDrs. Teresa and Robert BrennanDavid BristolKatharine and Michael BrooksAndrea Carter BrownDonnaldson BrownCatherine and Tyler BrownPreston M. Browning Jr.Olivia BrumfieldDana CannRachel CantorMr. and Mrs. Richard A. Carrington IIIMegan and Joel CarterJoy A. Crompton and Joe CashmanCecilia CassidyCBREBivas Chaudhuri

Suzanne T. ChitwoodBlair and Chad CiesilAnn Goette and Rick ClausDenise Emanuel ClemenArika and Charles CockeThomas ColbertKaren CollinsTrish and David CroweCrutchfield CorporationMr. and Mrs. Warner DalhouseEva DavidovaAllen Davis IIIKathy DavisLinda DavisFrank DayEva and Calvert de Coligny Fund of Foundation for Roanoke ValleyMr. and Mrs. William G. de ColignyVirginia DerryberryDanielle DimstonJean DooleyHolly DowningMr. and Mrs. H. Stewart Dunn, Jr.Katherine and Coleman EasterlyDr. & Mrs. Porter B. Echols, JrGeorge EllenbogenJudy L. EsauConstance EvansFidelity Charitable Gift FundRuth FieldsGlen FinlandMr. and Mrs. Alexander M. FisherAnne H. FreemanMargaret R. FreemanCatherine GammonJean SousaClifford GarstangPerry GlasserMr. and Mrs. R. Edward GodseyMr. and Mrs. J.F. Goins IIIEdith Brodhead GoodGwen and Howard GoodkinChris A. and N. Brooks Graebner

Will Trinkle and Juan GranadosDr. and Mrs. Richard J. Grayson, Jr.L.B. GreenNana GregoryJoan GrubinDr. and Mrs. Marcus M. GulleyMary Hall HowlandSusan HandCathryn HanklaSharon HarperSharon HarriganJil and Hiter HarrisBryce and Monty HarrisLois Marie HarrodJessica and Roland Hartley-UrquhartMolly HaskellElizabeth and Bob HeadCali and Rick HendricksWill HermesKatherine HillSusan HillyardFred and Mary Buford HitzCheryl HochbergMary and Tom HortonLori HorvitzMary Alice HostetterMr. and Mrs. John HowardAlexis Ryan and Lex HrabeDavid HuddleJacqueline HumphreyRene Lynch and Julian JacksonBlinn JacobsCharlotte JacobsJudy JashinskyIrene and Elliott JenningsPam and Rob JiranekCori JonesLibby Falk JonesDrs. Lee and Neal KassellBarrie Lyn KaufmanEdmund KeeleyJessica and Dean KingRoger King

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T. Justin Moore, IIILorca MorelloPamela Taylor MortonElizabeth H. MuseMargaret Woodson NeaDottie and Eric NelsonRyan and Charlotte Nelson Charitable FundThe New York Community Trust - Georgia and Michael de Havenon FundMr. and Mrs. Alex M. NewmarkEllen and Michael O’HareLisa H. PerkinsMrs. Edgar J. T. PerrowGary Eldon PeterSteven PetrowJudith Raphael and Anthony PhillipsLeslie PietrzykSheila and Craig PleasantsPedro PonceScott PonemoneNancy PotterLynne PottsWanda S. PraisnerFlorence PuttermanVirginia Pye and John RavenalKarin and Sean ReedPaul ReislerLiz and Al RiderLibby and Greg RobertsonDeborah A. RockmanBobby C. RogersLaura Browder and Allan RosenbaumCarolyn and John Rosenblum Marcy RosewaterAnn Marie RousseauEleanor RuftyMary K. RyanSusan SaandhollandPamela Redmond SatranAllison and David SaunierSCARPAAnn SchaumburgerLinda Schrank

C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Jay Schwarz and Abigail BeckelMassie Scott Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central VirginiaMr. and Mrs. Strother R. ScottCatherine Lynn and Vincent ScullyElizabeth SeamansSuzanne and Joe SeipelBarbara SelfridgeJames ShermanNathan ShieldsEnid ShomerSusan ShreveAnita SkeenLouise Farmer SmithE. H. Sorrells-AdewaleGail SouthZoe Winstanley-Spence and Matthew SpenceCheryl L. SteeleSue Knapp-Steen and Robert G. SteenJill and Andy StefanovichGerald SternLynn and Gib StevensonAndrea and Reidar StiernstrandMr. and Mrs. Robert StockhausenLaura-Gray StreetSuzanne and Todd SturmanK.M.A. SullivanManil SuriLinda TaylorSandra Beasley and Champneys TaylorJim and Toni ThompsonMr. and Mrs. Clay ThomsonLinda and John ThorntonJane Little and Jay TolsonTara Katherine TrailsBrian TrappDonald Ubben, Esq.Catherine A. MacDonald and John E. UlmschneiderVirginia Reiser and Gary S. UrgonskiCraig UrquhartKay and Kent Van AllenLucy and James VeltriVirginia National Bank

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Gifts up to $99Donna G. AaronsIddo AharonyMary AkersElisa AlbertCheryl Fortier and John AlexanderCaroline AllenIdris AndersonMaggie AndersonT. J. AndersonRobert R. AngellSharron AntholtAllen AppelNancy ArbuthnotRoss ArkellKathryn ArmstronChristina Askounis

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C O N T R I B U T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015 Dr. and Mrs. D. C. Augustine, Jr.Bonnie AuslanderNanie An Saison and Daniel AzuelosVincent BaldassanoJoAnn BalingitMarilyn BannerSimon BartoloAbigail BeckelJames BerginMartin B. BernsteinRoslyn BernsteinIsabelle Patin and Philippe BesseShelby and Jason BinghamAnn BirsteinMary Carter BishopJulie E. BloemekeJoyce BlunkNicholas BoggsKaren BondarchukMary BoninaBeatrice and Sylvester BookerIsabel Case BorgattaAnnick and Robert BourgesSally BowringMs. Clarke BradyMaureen BradyRachel BreenHarvey BrevermanAlexandra BrochesStan BrodskyRenate Haimerl BroschBrice BrownLaura Catherine BrownTimothy J. BrownSarah BrowningJanet BruceLynne BundesenElizabeth BurgerGerd BurgerChristopher BurskCaroline BurtonLinda van der Linde and Jeff BushmanIrene Buszko

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Ian StrasfogelBarbara Buckman StraskoJames Strazzella, Esq.Darren TantiYermiyahu Ahron TaubNicole and Greg TerrillMaria TerroneMichael Paul ThomasPhyllis Hoge ThompsonDavid Y. ToddJim TomlinsonLinda TriceMeryl TruettMemye Curtis TuckerElsie and Mike UnderwoodPatricia ValdataFelicia van BorkJohn Van KirkJennifer VanderbesJoan VannorsdallTabitha VeversMaryjan and Frans WackersKris WaldherrG.C. WaldrepJoelle WallachKit WarrenMichael WatersSally WeareJoan WeberEric WeinerBarbara WeissbergerSusan WheelerPaula WhymanSusan WicksJill E. WidnerMame WilleyFlorence WilliamsCydney Crichter WillisJanet WondraCaroline WrightSarah Boyts YoderCabell and Cooper YouellPatricia Zalisko

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Maidenhead Bagel ShopAndrea and Charles MathesonCharlotte MatthewsMeredith and Matthew McClellanThelonious Monk Institute of Jazz L.B. MoodyFoxie and Richard MorganNatural RetreatsShirley Mossman NisbetPharsaliaBella PollenRiverviews ArtspaceAlexis RyanSusan SaarinenRobert O. SatterfieldThe Honorable and Mrs. Elliot SchewelSecond Street GalleryAlan ShockleyThe Family of Karen Shea SilvermanZoe Winstanley-Spence and Matthew SpenceDan StifflerNancy Bockstael and Ivar E. StrandLinda Wachtmeister and Bob StriniT-N Printing, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Clay ThomsonJ.W. Townsend, IncCynthia TremblayUniversity of Virginia School of Architecture Virginia Tent RentalVirginia Museum of Fine ArtsWaterperry FarmKatherine Kane and Olin WestZulu Nyala Private Game Reserve

VCCA-FranceAnonymous DonorsJudy and Geoff AlexanderCheryl Fortier and John AlexanderNanie An Sainson and Daniel AzuelosCatherine BalcoGeorges BarreKaren Bell

Isabelle Patin and Philippe BesseKaren BondarchukAnnick and Robert BourgesPierre and Marie-Hélène BrettesFrançois Brogly and Sabine Van Den BerghAndrea Carter BrownAnne-Marie and Francis BruneOdile CariteauClaude CarmiéMartine and Patrick CarrouchéPhilippe Casemode and France AlvinAlison ChandlerViviane Falc and Alain ChatenetDenise Emanuel ClemenStephane CoaziouDominique Péraldi and Thierry CombarelMartine and Gilles CompagnatJosette and Francis ComteTed CraddockElizabeth CrismanElke DaemmrichBeth DaryClaude and Raymonde DassonvilleAngela Davis-GardnerMr. and Mrs. Calvert de Coligny Jr.Jean-Paul and Simone DelachouxLucy and Alain DelsolCamille DurinJulien EricAlexandra and Jean EspiauJosiane FalcKathy FlannOlwyn and John FlemingRobert FrançoisDebra GalantSylvie and Jean-Marc GalesClifford GarstangLéa GauthierJanet M. GorzegnoAriel GoutSayre GravesDr. and Mrs. Richard J. Grayson, Jr.

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In Honor of VCCA Kitchen StaffMargo Solod

In Honor of Bea Booker, Dana Jones, Carol O’Brien and Sheila Gulley PleasantsSteven Petrow

In Honor of Linda Wachtmeister for service on the VCCA Board of DirectorsGregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts

In Honor of Garie WaltzerHoney Lazar

WITH SPECIAL APPRECIATION

LEGACY DONATIONSIn Memory of Ann Elder Bestor Ann Elder Bestor Memorial Fund, Greater Lynchburg Community Trust

In Memory of Corinne, Jeffrey, Jackson and Meriwether BuckalewLaura and George BilicicMr. and Mrs. J.F. Goins IIIWendy R. Flanagan and Christopher B. O’MalleyMr. and Mrs. Robert Stickley

In Memory of Julia Sadler de ColignyMr. and Mrs. William G. de Coligny

In Memory of Robert JohnsonSheila and Craig Pleasants

In Memory of Elizabeth C. LanghorneJohn Langhorne

In Memory of Daniel MeltzerAllen Davis III

In Memory of Cindy NeuschwanderJay Barrows

In Memory of Robert ReedJosie Merck

In Memory of Karen Shea and Gabe SilvermanRose Marie PrinsRobert Reed

In Memory of Jay Solod, who always wanted to write a novelMargo Solod

In Memory of J. Hume TaylorGray S. Dodson

In Memory of Selma WaltzerHoney Lazar

HONORARY DONATIONSIn Honor of Cal de Coligny, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George West

In Honor of Elizabeth Forsyth HarrisNancy Forsyth Sykes

In Honor of Adelbert HeilLorca Morello

In Honor of Pinkney HerbertBeau and Mary Wilson

In Honor of Sally KeithMr. and Mrs. George West

In Honor of Jane LarewElizabeth T. Larew

In Honor of Elizabeth Seydel MorganLaura-Gray Street

In Honor of Sheila Gulley PleasantsDr. and Mrs. Marcus M. Gulley

In Honor of Robert O. Satterfield for service as VCCA Board President, 2013 – 2015Gregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts

In Honor of Barbara SchaffJames Strazzella, Esq.wIn Honor of the marriage of Sandra Beasley and Champneys TaylorK.K. FoxElizabeth and Bob Head

In Honor of Cynthia Tremblay for service on the VCCA Board of DirectorsGregory Allgire Smith and Susan E. Watts

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FOUNDATIONS + GOVERNMENT + CORPORATE

Gifts of 100,000 and AboveAnonymous

Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999L.E.A.W. Family Foundation, Inc.

Gifts of $25,000 to 49,999Virginia Commission for the Arts

Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999Herndon Foundation

The Cynthia R. Tremblay Foundation, Inc.Wonder Fund of The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia

Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999Alliance of Artists Communities

The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community FoundationMarie G. Dennett Foundation, Inc.

Charles Jacob Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation

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WritersDeborah B. Ager, Hyattsville, MarylandMary Akers, Lockport, New YorkYelena Akhtiorskaya, New York, New YorkElisa Albert, Albany, New YorkIdris Anderson, San Carlos, CaliforniaAllen Appel, Upper Marlboro, MarylandAmy T. Arden, Bowie, MarylandKatherine Arnup, Ottawa, CanadaChristina Askounis, Durham, North CarolinaBonnie Auslander, Bethesda, MarylandKurt Ayau, Amherst, VirginiaJoAnn Balingit, Newark, DelawareJoan Baranow, Mill Valley, CaliforniaSimon Bartolo, Brussels, BelgiumStefan Bechtel, Earlysville, VirginiaAbigail Beckel, Takoma Park, MarylandHelen Benedict, New York, New YorkA.K. Benninghofen, Asheville, North CarolinaRoslyn Bernstein, New York, New YorkWilliam Beverly, Hyattsville, MarylandJulie E. Bloemeke, Alpharetta, GeorgiaNicholas Boggs, Brooklyn, New YorkMary Bonina, Cambridge, MassachusettsAmy Bonnaffons, Brooklyn, New YorkAmi Sands Brodoff, Montreal, CanadaKimberly Brooks, Chicago, IllinoisLaura Browder, Richmond, VirginiaAlan Brown, New York, New YorkAndrea Carter Brown, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLaura Catherine Brown, New York, New YorkDana Cann, Bethesda, MarylandLisa Carey, Portland, MainePriyanka A. Champaneri, Lorton, VirginiaJan Cherubin, Santa Monica, CaliforniaAngie Chuang, Washington, DCYong-Wook Chung, New York, New YorkKim Church, Raleigh, North CarolinaJan Clausen, Brooklyn, New YorkCarin Clevidence, Northampton, MassachusettsMeredith Mileti Cohen, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCarol Cooley, Wake Forest, North Carolina

Judith Cooper, Chicago, IllinoisJohn Copenhaver, Washington, DCLouie Cronin, Jamaica Plain, MassachusettsBarbara Crooker, Fogelsville, PennsylvaniaDana Crum, Beacon, New YorkBarbara Daniels, Sicklerville, New JerseyRuth Danon, New York, New YorkKathy Davis, Rockville, VirginiaTeri Ellen Cross Davis, Silver Spring, MarylandAngela Davis-Gardner, Raleigh, North CarolinaNicholas DiGiovanni, Highland Park, New JerseySharon Dolin, New York, New YorkLaura Donnelly, Oswego, New YorkJeanne Dorsey, New York, New YorkSarah B. Dorsey, Greensboro, North CarolinaMichael Downs, Baltimore, MarylandMartha Tod Dudman, Northeast Harbor, MaineValerie Duff, Belmont, MassachusettsJonathan Durbin, New York, New YorkDavid Ebenbach, Washington, DCSue Eisenfeld, Arlington, VirginiaRodney Evans, Brooklyn, New YorkMelissa Febos, Brooklyn, New YorkCharles Adès Fishman, E. Patchogue, New YorkKate Flora, Concord, MassachusettsSylvia Foley, Brooklyn, New YorkLaurie Foos, Centerport, New YorkHazel Foster, San Antonio, TexasBrandel France de Bravo, Washington, DCRebecca Morgan Frank, Hattiesburg, MississippiJanice Moore Fuller, Salisbury, North CarolinaKenneth Garcia, South Bend, IndianaJessica Garratt, Washington, DCClifford Garstang, Staunton, VirginiaJanice Gary, Annapolis, MarylandBeatrix Gates, Penobscot, MaineAnnette Gendler, Chicago, IllinoisBunny Goodjohn, Lynchburg, VirginiaRichard Goodman, New Orleans, LouisianaL.B. Green, Davidson, North CarolinaStacey Gregg, Belfast, Northern IrelandAnya Groner, New Orleans, Louisiana

Kelle Groom, New Smyrna Beach, FloridaSharon Guskin, Brooklyn, New YorkCathryn Hankla, Roanoke, VirginiaSusie Hara, San Francisco, CaliforniaSharon Harrigan, Charlottesville, VirginiaElizabeth Logan Harris, Brooklyn, New YorkKenneth Hart, Long Valley, New JerseyPenny Harter, Mays Landing, New JerseyVirginia Hartman, Rockville, MarylandGary Hawkins, Black Mountain, North CarolinaJeremy Hawkins, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaElizabeth Heaney, Marshall, North CarolinaWill Hermes, New Paltz, New YorkPatricia Herrera, Richmond, VirginiaJody Hobbs Hesler, Charlottesville, VirginiaAmy Hoffman, Jamaica Plain, MassachusettsJodie Hollander, Mintum, ColoradoLori Horvitz, Asheville, North CarolinaLadee Hubbard, Champaign, IllinoisVirginia Ewing Hudson, Raleigh, North CarolinaDoris Iarovici, Durham, North CarolinaMargaret B. Ingraham, Alexandria, VirginiaGreg Jackson, Brunswick, MaineJeff Jackson, Charlotte, North CarolinaShanley Jacobs, San Francisco, CaliforniaChelsey Johnson, Richmond, VirginiaCori Jones, Whitehouse, New JerseyPatricia Spears Jones, Brooklyn, New YorkMarilyn Kallet, Knoxville, TennesseeLuAnn Keener-Mikenas, Madison Heights, VirginiaSally Keith, Washington, DCHayley Kelsey, Charleston, South CarolinaJoshua C. Kendall, Boston, MassachusettsJesse Lee Kercheval, Madison, WisconsinRuth Kessler, Rochester, New YorkNancy Kilgore, Burlington, VermontAnnie Kim, Charlottesville, VirginiaHaven Kimmel, Durham, North CarolinaRoger King, Leverett, MassachusettsYnestra King, New York, New YorkHarry Kollatz, Jr., Richmond, VirginiaRichard Krawiec, Durham, North Carolina

Nick Krieger, San Francisco, CaliforniaSarah LaBrie, Los Angeles, CaliforniaSasha Laing, Brooklyn, New YorkSheila R. Lamb, Chester Gap, VirginiaJacqueline Jones LaMon, Brooklyn, New YorkDorianne Laux, Raleigh, North CarolinaRoberta Lawrence, New York, New YorkSamuel Leader, Province Town, MassachusettsMarie Myung-Ok Lee, New York, New YorkChris Leslie-Hynan, Portland, OreganShara Lessley, Broadlands, VirginiaKatherine Reynolds Lewis, Potomac, MarylandDong Li, New York, New YorkGreg Lichtenberg, New York, New YorkDavid R. Lincoln, Brooklyn, New YorkRamona DeFelice Long, Newark, DelawareNancy J. Lord, Homer, AlaskaCharles Lowe, West Hartford, ConnecticutAlexander Lumans, Denver, ColoradoAlec MacGillis, Baltimore, MarylandRon MacLean, Roslindale, MassachusettsCaitlin Mary Maling, Houston, TexasJeff Martin, Charlottesville, VirginiaAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Cambridge, MassachusettsCharlotte Matthews, Crozet, VirginiaMelanie McCabe, Falls Church, VirginiaStephen McCauley, Cambridge, MassachusettsLaren McClung, Bensalem, PennsylvaniaJoseph Millar, Raleigh, North CarolinaValerie Miner, San Francisco, CaliforniaDeborah Miranda, Lexington, VirginiaCarol Pellman Mishler, Singers Glen, VirginiaEmily Mitchell, Silver Spring, MarylandMichael Montlack, New York, New YorkRod Val Moore, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMichael Morse, Brooklyn, New YorkSandell Morse, York, MaineWest Moss, West Milford, New JerseyDonna Jackson Nakazawa, Stevenson, MarylandCleyvis Natera, Montclair, New JerseyHeather Newton, Asheville, North CarolinaRandon Billings Noble, Washington, DC

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Mil Norman-Risch, Richmond, VirginiaKim Anne O’Connell, Arlington, VirginiaStephen O’Connor, New York, New YorkElaine Neil Orr, Raleigh, North CarolinaJeffery M. Paine, Washington, DCAlan Michael Parker, Davidson, North CarolinaJames Pate, Shepherdstown, West VirginiaCaroline E. Patterson, Missoula, MontanaPeter Pazmino, Chester Gap, VirginiaJanet Peery, Norfolk, VirginiaSteven Petrow, Hillsborough, North CarolinaAnna Lena Phillips, Wilmington, North CarolinaJudith Podell, Washington, DCBella Pollen, London, United KingdomHeidi Johannesen Poon, Charlottesville, VirginiaJoanne Pottlitzer, New York, New YorkLynne Potts, Boston, MassachusettsChristina Pugh, Evanston, IllinoisPeter Ramos, Amherst, New YorkDaniel Reitz, New York, New YorkRachel Richardson, Greensboro, North CarolinaJane Roper, Melrose, MassachusettsNatania Rosenfeld, Galesburg, IllinoisLucy Rosenthal, New York, New YorkKen Rumble, Durham, North CarolinaTammy Ryan, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaAnnita Sawyer, North Branford, ConnecticutSeth Sawyers, Baltimore, MarylandLisa Schamess, Washington, DCNat Schmookler, Broadway, VirginiaPatricia Schultheis, Baltimore, MarylandEdward Schwarzschild, Albany, New YorkBenton Sen, Honolulu, HawaiiLisa Sewell, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaRone Shavers, Albany, New YorkJulie Sheehan, East Quogue, New YorkGary Short, Oxford, MississippiSarah Mollie Silberman, Arlington, VirginiaBeatrice Smigasiewicz, Iowa City, IowaPaula Smith, Grinnell, IowaR.T. Smith, Fairfield, VirginiaBruce Snider, San Francisco, California

Margo Solod, Lexington, VirginiaSandy Solomon, Nashville, TennesseeApril Sopkin, Richmond, VirginiaGail South, Charlottesville, VirginiaLarry Specht, Washington, DCPeter Spiegler, Northampton, MassachusettsMarjorie Stelmach, Manchester, MissouriMichelle Meran Sterling, Cambridge, MassachusettsGerald Sticker, New York, New YorkBarbara Buckman Strasko, Lancaster, PennsylvaniaDeirdre Sugiuchi, Athens, GeorgiaNatalie Sypolt, Kingwood, West VirginiaSara Mansfield Taber, Silver Spring, MarylandJoselyn Takacs, Los Angeles, CaliforniaYermiyahu Ahron Taub, Washington, DCMaria Terrone, Jackson Heights, New YorkMichael Paul Thomas, Asbury Park, New JerseyEric Thompson, Roanoke, VirginiaJim Tomlinson, Berera, KentuckyBrian Trapp, Cincinnati, OhioNatasha Trethewey, Decatur, GeorgiaDebbie Urbanski, Syracuse, New YorkPatricia Valdata, Elkton, MarylandJohn Van Kirk, Huntington, West VirginiaKris Waldherr, Brooklyn, New YorkLizette Wanzer, San Francisco, CaliforniaMichael Waters, Ocean, New JerseyEric Weiner, Silver Spring, MarylandStephanie Whetstone, Durham, North CarolinaPaula Whyman, Bethesda, MarylandFlorence Williams, Washington, DCSuzanne Wise, Brooklyn, New YorkAmy Wright, Clarksville, TennesseeClare Wu, Silver Spring, MarylandMelissa Wyse, Baltimore, MarylandHananah Zaheer, Durham, North CarolinaMary Kay Zuravleff, Washington, DCSuzanne Zweizig, Washington, DC

Visual ArtistsMichael Adno, Brooklyn, New YorkCaroline Allen, Loghborough, England

Leslie Andrade, Plantation, FloridaKathryn Armstrong, Indianapolis, IndianaSophie Barbasch, New York, New YorkLisa Beane, Burbank, CaliforniaNelleke Beltjens, Roermond, The NetherlandsBarbara Bernstein, Amherst, VirginiaJohanna Binder, Salzburg, AustriaKaren Bondarchuk, Kalamazoo, MichiganPrilla Smith Brackett, Boston, MassachusettsRachel Breen, Minneapolis, MinnisotaRenate Haimerl Brosch, Regensburg, GermanyBrice Brown, New York, New YorkElizabeth Burger, Westminster, MarylandRobert A. O. Calvert, Sag Harbor, New YorkCynthia Camlin, Mount Vernon, WashingtonCarolyn Case, Cockeyesville, MarylandJanice Caswell, New York, New YorkRuby Chishti, Brooklyn, New YorkSang-ah Choi, Portland, OregonSebastian Collett, Asheville, North CarolinaPaige E. Critcher, Monroe, VirginiaMaeve D’Arcy, Jackson Heights, New YorkAlexandra de Gonzalez, Cambridge, MassachusettsRenate Debrun, Dublin, IrelandJennifer DePalma, Washington, DCJane Waggoner Deschner, Billings, MontanaCathy Diamond, Glendale, New YorkJenn Dierdorf, Brooklyn, New YorkHolly Downing, Sebastopol, CaliforniaCorinne Duchesne, Burlington, Ontario, CanadaJessica Dunne, San Francisco, CaliforniaTori Ellison, Los Angeles, CaliforniaEdgar Endress, Saint Augustine, FloridaMariana Escribano, Wichita, KansasDavid Farrar, Oxford, EnglandEmily Feinstein, Brooklyn, New YorkCheryl Fortier, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaBarbara Frank, Washington, DCJohn H. Franklin, Princeton, New JerseySasha Waters Freyer, Richmond, VirginiaSarah Gamble, Roswell, New MexicoDavid Garratt, Amherst, Virginia

Sandra Gibson, New York, New YorkAlex Gingrow, Brooklyn, New YorkMille Guldbeck, Grand Rapids, OhioGwen Hardie, New York, New YorkKylie Heidenheimer, New York, New YorkAdelbert Heil, Bamberg, GermanyGina Herrera, Bakersfield, CaliforniaSusan Hillyard, Santa Cruz, CaliforniaCameron Hockenson, Danville, CaliforniaJackie Hoysted, Bethesda, MarylandMonica A. Bill Hughes, Wynantskill, New YorkFanny Jacquier, Regensburg, GermanyRobin Jebavy, Brookfield, WisconsinSimen Johan, New York, New YorkAaron Johnson, Brooklyn, New YorkHolen Sabrina Kahn, San Francisco, CaliforniaLauren Kalman, Detroit, MichiganCaroline Kapp, Seattle, WashingtonAnne Marie Karlsen, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLeslie C. Kerby, Brooklyn, New YorkJahae Kim, Seoul, South KoreaJoyce Watkins King, Raleigh, North CarolinaNicholas Kovatch, Hudson, WisconsinBeth Krebs, Oakland, CaliforniaHeidi Kumao, Ann Arbor, MichiganLindsey Landfried, State College, PennsylvaniaMary Laube, Ypsilanti, MichiganMagnolia Laurie, Baltimore, MarylandJessica Levine, Lewisburg, West VirginiaDavid Licata, New York, New YorkElizabeth Lide, Atlanta, GeorgiaAndrea Lilienthal, Brooklyn, New YorkTerri Lindbloom, Tallahassee, FloridaTaliaferro Logan, Roanoke, VirginiaNatasha Maidoff, Venice, CaliforniaJohn Mann, Tallahassee, FloridaLady McCrady, New Haven, ConnecticutJenny Lynn McNutt, Brooklyn, New YorkMichael McSorley, North Versailles, PennsylvaniaJoe Meiser, Lewisburg, PennsylvaniaLilianne Milgrom, Fairfax, VirginiaMeredith Miller, Chicago, Illinois

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Nancy Mooslin, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLorca Morello, Brooklyn, New YorkMegan Mosholder, Kennesaw, GeorgiaMiriam Mörsel Nathan, Silver Spring, MarylandKarl Nussbaum, Brooklyn, New YorkAmie Oliver, Richmond, VirginiaBarbara Page, Trumansburg, New YorkNicole Parcher, New York, New YorkCatherine Peek, Winchester, VirginiaBenjamin Peterson, New York, New YorkLuis Recoder, New York, New YorkCuyler Remick, Brooklyn, New YorkHeiner Riepl, Kelheim, GermanyLeslie Roberts, Brooklyn, New YorkJudith Robertson, Miami Beach, FloridaAnn Ropp, Johnson City, TennesseeNicole Ryan, Mercer, PennsylvaniaBill Schmidt, Baltimore, MarylandRoland Schön, Neudrossenfeld, GermanyPaul Schuette, Cincinnati, OhioFoon Sham, Springfield, VirginiaVicki Sher, Brooklyn, New YorkJon-Phillip Sheridan, Richmond, VirginiaClaudia Smigrod, Alexandria, VirginiaStephanie Snider, Brooklyn, New YorkTanja Softic, Richmond, VirginiaMichelle Spark, Phoenicia, New YorkSusan Stainman, Brooklyn, New YorkMeg Stein, Durham, North CarolinaSuzy Sureck, New York, New YorkDarren Tanti, Zebbug, MaltaLauren Marie Taylor, Oakland, CaliforniaNicole Teeny, Cambridge, MassachusettsMillee Tibbs, Detroit, MichiganAnthony Ulinski, Raleigh, North CarolinaFelicia van Bork, Davidson, North CarolinaKit Warren, Brooklyn, New YorkBarbara Weissberger, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCaroline Wright, Austin, TexasSarah Boyts Yoder, Charlottesville, VirginiaShigeki Yoshida, Brooklyn, New YorkRuzica Zajec, Kaarz, Germany

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ComposersJudah E. Adashi, Baltimore, MarylandIddo Aharony, Chicago, IllinoisJames Bergin, North Adams, MassachusettsHayes Biggs, Bronxville, New YorkTyler Capp, Mechanicsburg, PennsylvaniaChin Ting Chan, Kansas City, MissouriAndrea Clearfield, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWilliam David Cooper, Davis, CaliforniaNathan Currier, New York, New YorkStephen S. Dankner, Williamstown, MassachusettsMaggie Dubris, New York, New YorkMichael Harrison, Yonkers, New YorkDrew Hemenger, New York, New YorkZaid Jabri, Kraków, PolandPaul Kayhart, Atlanta, GeorgiaElizabeth A. Kelly, Denton, TexasCaroline Keys, Missoula, MontanaAyesu Lartey, Brooklyn, New YorkMissy Mazzoli, Brooklyn, New YorkEric Moe, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaReinaldo Moya, Northfield, MinnisotaJohn Nichols III, Savoy, IllinoisSergio Núñez, Santiago, ChileRene Orth, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaKala Pierson, Haverford, PennsylvaniaChristopher Preissing, Chicago, IllinoisPaul Reisler, Washington, VirginiaMichael Remson, Houston, TexasMichael Rose, Brooklyn, New YorkAnna Rubin, Columbia, MarylandAndrew Rudin, Allentown, New JerseyAlan Shockley, Lakewood, CaliforniaMarie Retat Sigal, Toulouse, FranceFaye-Ellen Silverman, New York, New YorkAaron Stepp, Georgetown, KentuckyJuan Sebastian Vassallo, Villa Mercedes, ArgentinaJoelle Wallach, New York, New YorkAnna Weesner, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaEvan Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, FranceElizabeth Crisman, Baltimore, MarylandElizabeth Dary, Brooklyn, New YorkJoellyn Duesberry, Greenwood Village, Colorado Kathy Flann, Baltimore, Maryland Debra Galant, Glen Ridge, New JerseyJanet M. Gorzegno, Hattiesburg, MississippiAriel Gout, Berlin, GermanyAlexandra Kleeman, Staten Island, New YorkJacqueline Jones LaMon, Brooklyn, New YorkWendy Lewis, Union City, New JerseyAnna Jean Mayhew, Hillsborough, North CarolinaDeirdra McAfee, Richmond, VirginiaNancy Mitchell, Salisbury, MarylandSandell Morse, York, MaineSusan Newbold, Fairfield, ConnecticutPolly Pen, Rosendale, New YorkBella Pollen, London, United KingdomJudith Pratt, Alexandria, VirginiaIsabelle Smeets, Broekhuizen, The NetherlandsGerald Sticker, New York, New YorkMeryl Truett, Savannah, GeorgiaJeffrey Weaver, Hatfield, MassachusettsJill E. Widner, Yakima, Washington

Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, GermanyAgnes L. Carbrey, Lexington, Virginia Vanessa Diaz, Jupiter, FloridaLauren Kalman, Detroit, Michigan Laren McClung, Bensalem, Pennsylvania Gregory Mertl, New Milford, ConnecticutAnne Mills McCauley, Marshall, MichiganLaura Elise Schwendinger, Madison, WisconsinGerald Sticker, New York, New York

Salzburg, AustriaAmie Oliver, Richmond, Virginia

Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburg, GermanyAlexandra de Gonzalez, Cambridge, Massachusetts

St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, MaltaJennifer D. Anderson, Roanoke, Virginia

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan, IrelandBettyJoyce Nash, Charlottesville, Virginia

MOULIN À NEF, AUVILLAR, FRANCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

O Taste And See: Writing the Senses in Deep FranceDeborah Bono, Westport, ConnecticutJulie Jacob, Branson West, MissouriRJ Jacob, Branson West, MissouriSarah Cooper, Knoxville, TennesseeLinda Marion, Knoxville, TennesseeChristine Parkhurst, Farragut, TennesseeRose Raney, Knoxville, Tennessee Jeanne Ridley, Knoxville, TennesseeMaria James Thiaw, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania

Etchings Music Festival ParticipantsEthan Braun, Austin, TexasTristan Coelho, Sydney, Australia Wesley Devore, Centennial, ColoradoGeorgi Dimitrov, Los Angeles, California Hakki Cengiz Eren, Los Angeles, CaliforniaTurkar Gasimzada, Baku, Azerbaijan Sean Harold, Champaign, IllinoisDerek Holden, Tuscaloosa, AlabamaTsung-Jen Hsieh, Taipei City, TaiwanRavi Kittappa, San Francisco, California Ursula Kwong-Brown, Berkeley, CaliforniaJulien Malaussena, Asnieres-sur-seine, France Timothy Melbinger, Hollidaysburg, PennsylvaniaCem Özçelik, Istanbul, Bakirköy, TurkeyLeonardo Silva, Belo Horizonte, BrazilCheng-Che David Tsai, Hsinchu, TaiwanGuang Yang, Boston, Massachusetts

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V C C A B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S FISCAL YEAR 2015

Robert O. Satterfield Afton, VirginiaPresident

Kenneth Haller Jones Richmond, VirginiaTreasurer

Elizabeth Mason Horsley Richmond, VirginiaSecretary

wTina Walls Denver, Colorado

Immediate Past President

Page Bond Richmond, VirginiaShelby Fischer Charlottesville, Virginia

Mary Fowlkes Richmond, VirginiaQuinn Feldmann Graeff Roanoke, Virginia

Elizabeth Logan Harris Brooklyn, New YorkCynthia Henebry Richmond, Virginia

Pinkney Herbert Memphis, TennesseeSteven Samuel High Sarasota, FloridaHelen M. Hilliard Free Union, Virginia

Lauren Hilyard Washington D.C.Thomas Y. Hiner New York, New York

William E. Hunt Lynchburg, VirginiaMargaret B. Ingraham Alexandria, Virginia

Martee Stephens Johnson Charlottesville, VirginiaAlieda Keevil Charlottesville, Virginia

Laura Edge Kottkamp Richmond, VirginiaRobbie Mascotte Charlottesville, Virginia

Sandell Morse York, MaineAlexander Lee Nyerges Richmond, Virginia

Ann W. Ramsey Richmond, VirginiaTatem Webb Read Mill Valley, CaliforniaCynthia Tremblay Greenwood, Virginia

Donald Ubben Ivy, VirginiaLinda E. A. Wachtmeister Scottsville, VirginiaR. Kennon Williams Charlottesville, Virginia

I N T E R N A T I O N A L O V E R S I G H T FISCAL YEAR 2015

Committee on Programs AbroadPinkney Herbert, Chair

Ted CraddockEva de ColignyCal de ColignySayre GravesDick GraysonSuny Monk

Sandell MorseSheila Pleasants

Sarah Perkins SmitherCynthia Tremblay

VCCA-Abroad BoardCynthia Tremblay, President

Sarah Perkins Smither, SecretaryCal de Coligny, Treasurer

Ted Craddock Sayre GravesDick GraysonSuny Monk

Sandell Morse

VCCA-France BoardPinkney Herbert, PresidentEva de Coligny, Secretary

Francis Sohier/Patrick Lagarrigue, Treasurers

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HONORARY BOARD

James L. Camp, IVVirginia Beach, Virginia

Calvert de Coligny, Jr.Roanoke, Virginia

Elizabeth Forsyth HarrisLynchburg, Virginia

Lucy Levis HazlegroveRoanoke, Virginia

Carter McNeelyCharlottesville, Virginia

Tracy G. SavageSaratoga Springs, New York

Elliot S. SchewelLynchburg, Virginia

Mrs. John D. VarnerCharlottesville, Virginia

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Samuel AdlerComposer, Perrysburg, Ohio

David Del TrediciComposer, New York, New York

Rita DovePoet, Charlottesville, Virginia

Teresita FernándezArtist, Brooklyn, New York

Harper LeeWriter, Monroeville, Alabama

Sally MannPhotographer, Lexington, Virginia

Alice McDermottWriter, Bethesda, Maryland

Gregory MaguireWriter, Concord, Massachusetts

Claus OldenburgSculptor, New York, New York

William Jay SmithPoet, Cummington, Massachusetts

David WeissTheater Designer, Charlottesville, Virginia

Naomi WolfWriter, New York, New York

FELLOWS COUNCIL

Andrea Carter BrownChairWriter, Los Angeles, California

Sally BowringVice-ChairVisual Artist, Richmond, Virginia

Ami Sands BrodoffInternational Fellows RepresentativeWriter, Montreal, Canada

Charles Adès FishmanWriter, Bellport, New York

Holen Sabrina KahnFilmmaker, Holmes, New York

Jacqueline Jones LaMonWriter, Brooklyn, New York

Amie OliverVisual Artist, Richmond, Virginia

Christopher PreissingComposer, Chicago, Illinois

Lisa SchamessWriter, Washington, D.C.

Lisa SewellPoet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Enid ShomerPoet/Fiction Writer, Tampa, Florida

Suzy SureckVisual Artist, Gardner, New York

VCCA STAFF

Gregory Allgire SmithExecutive Director

Carolyn Angus, HousekeepingBeatrice Booker, Office ManagerEugenia Botea, ChefKameron Davis, Kitchen StaffLindale Dawson, Kitchen StaffCheryl Fortier, Resident Artist, VCCA-FranceRichard Glass, Accounts PayableGwen Hodnett, Facilities StaffDana Jones, Admissions Coordinator and Assistant to the Director of Artists’ Services Josephine Lloyd, Kitchen StaffNancy McAndrew, International Programs CoordinatorTabitha Moore, Sous ChefCarol O’Brien, Director of Annual and Planned GivingAmanda Patten, Kitchen StaffMichael Patterson, Facilities ManagerSheila Gulley Pleasants, Director of Artists’ ServicesSarah Sargent, Director of Communications and Grants ManagementKimberley Stiffler, Development and Grants AssistantEvangelia Thomas, Kitchen StaffBonnie Wine, Accountant

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Barbara BernsteinDavid Garratt

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A U D I T E D F I N A N C I A L I N F O R M A T I O N FISCAL YEAR 2015

Support and Revenue 2015 2014 Contributions Individuals 257,466 255,340 Foundations & Corporations 34,875 43,525 Government and Other Grants 35,500 12,000 Bequests 1,000 25,000 Events and Sales 71,685 82,594 Other 3,273 2,010 Net Assets Realized from Restrictions - - Residency Fees 327,229 330,253 Interest and Dividend Interest 95,410 77,582 Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) (55,809) 285,638 Total Public Support and Revenue 770,629 1,113,942

Operating Expense Program Expenses (Fellows) 574,781 690,648 Management and General 259,352 311,633 Fundraising Expenses 167,227 200,937 Total Expenses 1,001,360 1,203,218 Increase/Decrease in Net Assets (230,731) (89,276)

ASSETS

Current assets 2015 2014 Cash and Cash EquivalentsOperating $ 54,115 $ 79,030Campaign Endowment 07 418,242 374,962Investments 2,422,272 2,573,649Pledges Receivable 293,218 362,456Accounts Receivable 11,064 9,335Accounts Receivable-Abroad 25,000 31,436Prepaid Expenses 2,925 2,154

Total Current Assets 3,226,836 3,433,022

Property and equipmentProperty and equipment 1,954,503 1,949,538Less: accumulated depreciation 1,710,011 1, 637,334

Total Property and Equipment 244,492 312,204

Other Assets 638,211 596,963

Total Assets $ 4,109,539 $ 4,342,189

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Current LiabilitiesAccounts Payable $ 12,365 $ 14,720Payroll Liabilities 5,903 5,844Sales Tax Payable 396 19

Total Current Liabilities 18,664 20,583

Net AssetsUnrestricted 1,514,121 1,606,250Temporarily Restricted 1,929,821 2,068,423Permanently Restricted 646,933 646,933

Total Net Assets $ 4,090,875 $ 4,321,606

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 4,109,539 $ 4,342,189

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STATEMENT OF POLICYVCCA complies with all applicable laws and regulations regarding non-discrimination in admissions and employment.

ANNUAL AUDIT REPORTVCCA’s 2015 audit was prepared byBurnett & Snead, LLC, CPA

NONPROFIT STATUSVCCA is classified as a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service and all contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. To obtain a copy of the most recent financial statement, please write to:

VCCA 154 San Angelo DriveAmherst, VA 24521

FY2015 ANNUAL REPORT Design + Writing + Editing Sarah Sargent

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DONATIONSFor donation links, including the VCCA Endowment Fund of the Lynchburg Community Trust, please visit our website vcca.com and click on the orange “Donate” button

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