2008 Summer Artists-in-Residence

Nancy Gall-Clayton (Louisville): A one-week residency to finalize one full-length play, begin working on the first draft of another, and to re-read a text on playwriting to better inform her work.

Jennifer Gibson (Henderson): A one-week residency to work on a poetry chapbook dealing with the female struggle for identity and self-acceptance.

Christine Levitt (Lexington): A one-week residency to dye silk, wool or cotton using shibori techniques for the purpose of creating an art quilt, while also working on a mixed media/collage.

Kathy Skaggs (Campbellsville): A one-week residency to “write the poem that scares me”, creating at least five poems from stories in her life that she has never told anyone.

Margaret Stewart (Louisville): A one-week residency to select and organize a collection of poems on the topic of mountaintop removal in a short book form suitable to submit for publication.

Dawn Bunch (Louisville): A two-week residency to create a series of mixed media works that focus on promoting a more expansive, positive, healthy view of women.

Monica Crawford (Bowling Green): A two-week residency to use the outdoor grounds to develop a series of landscape studies which will be used as background information for figure paintings.

Jessi Alice Eichberger (Louisville): A two-week residency to begin to adapt a previously written script into an illustrated book geared towards adolescents and relating to the experience of gaining identity while being cast into the role of a bisexual woman.

Heather Gillispie (Louisville): A two-week residency to finish a rough draft of a novel in progress about a woman who commits suicide and is reborn out of the river where she drowned herself, remembering nothing of who she was before her death.

Rhonda Pettit (Erlanger): A two-week residency to convert a manuscript of poems about sex slavery, titled The Global Lovers, into a poetic drama suitable for performance, and set partially in Kentucky.