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Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Announces 2006 Creative Fellowships Awards
Eleven Mid-Atlantic Region Artists to be Supported in Residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Millay Colony

Baltimore, MD – May 5, 2006 – Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation has announced the awards for its 2006 Creative Fellowships program.  The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar Fellows for 2006 include Jeff Algera (composer) of Prospect Park, NJ; Cynthia Camlin (visual artist) of Morgantown, WV; Deborah Creasy (poet) of Frankford, DE; Kendra Kopelke (poet) of Baltimore, MD; Erik Pedersen (visual artist) of St. Thomas, USVI; Jeffrey N. Johnson (fiction) of Alexandria, VA; Nancy Schoenberger (fiction) of Charlottesville, VA; and Shannon Davis Wyeth (literature) of Montclair, NJ.  The Millay Colony Fellows include Sarah M. Dohrmann (fiction) of Brooklyn, NY; Catherine Dupree (fiction) of Philadelphia, PA; and Stephen Rueckert (sculptor) of Washington, DC.

Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowships are offered annually to artists from each of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s member states (DE, DC, MD, NJ, NY, PA, USVI, VA, and WV) for two-week to one month-long residencies at either the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA or the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY. These centers cater primarily to writers, composers and visual artists allowing them undisturbed time to pursue artistic projects.

The Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA) provides a supportive environment for the world's best visual artists, writers, and composers to pursue their creative work. A residential retreat in pastoral surroundings, the VCCA provides residencies for three hundred artists each year, during which an artist is often able to accomplish several months' work during three or four weeks. Over the last twenty-five years, the VCCA has hosted nearly 2500 different artists, providing them with a comfortable bedroom, three meals a day, and a private studio where they may totally concentrate on their work. Artists residing in DE, MD, the USVI, VA, and WV are eligible for mid-Atlantic fellowships at the VCCA. The next deadline is January 15, 2007.  Please visit the VCCA website at http://www.vcca.com/regional.html and select Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for more information and application materials.

The Millay Colony for the Arts hosts writers, visual artists, and composers of all ages and in all stages of their artistic career. Groups of six to seven artists representing various disciplines are invited for month-long residencies at the Colony between the months of April and November. The Colony provides each resident a private room and studio, and meals. The strength of the Millay Colony's resident program lies in its simple setting, the small number of artists in residence at any one time, the multidisciplinary nature of each resident group, and faithful adherence to its policy of assuring complete freedom and privacy for residents. Artists residing in DC, NJ, NY, PA, and VA are eligible for mid-Atlantic fellowships at the Millay Colony. The deadline for the 2007 Millay season is October 1, 2006. Please visit the Millay website at http://www.millaycolony.org/apply.html for more information.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation celebrates and supports the richness and diversity of the region's arts resources and works to make those resources widely accessible both in the region and beyond. The region includes nine states and jurisdictions that are closely related by geography or culture: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the U.S.Virgin Islands, Virginia, and West Virginia.