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Each year our National Curatorial Council of experts in their disciplines selects more than 70 artists for Hermitage residencies. Members of the Curatorial Council are connected to some of the most renowned American cultural institutions.

2020 CURATORIAL COUNCIL

Eric Booth, Arts Education Author and Speaker

Christopher Burney, Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film

Daniel Byers, Director at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Claire Chase, Flutist, Avery Fisher Award Winner, MacArthur Fellow

Jennifer Clement, President, PEN International

Kimberly Drew, Writer, Activist, and Curator of Black Experiences

Mandy Greenfield, Artistic Director of Williamstown Theater Festival

Emily Mann, longtime Artistic Director of The McCarter Theater, Princeton University

Christopher Merrill, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Iowa

Emily Nemens, Editor of The Paris Review

Kiki Petrosino, Director of Creative Writing Program, University of Louisville

Robert Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Limor Tomer, General Manager, Live Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art

EMERITUS:

Dan Cameron, art curator

Michael Bigelow Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theater, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY

Linda S. Golding, Founder/Director, The Reservoir

Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Executive Director, Arizona State University Gammage, Tempe, AZ

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York, NY

PRIOR MEMBERS:

Darrell Ayers, retired Vice President for Education and Jazz, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; now in Sarasota, FL

Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Anne Cattaneo, Dramaturg and Director, LCT Directors Lab, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

Kenneth Fischer, retired President, University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Josip Novakovich, Writer; Professor, Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Christopher Offutt, writer, formerly with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Carey Perloff, retired Artistic Director, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Franklin Sirmans, Director, Perez Museum of Art, Miami, FL

George Steele, at the time with the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, New York, NY

Coming Up Next…

Dec

Fri

“Illuminating the Transcendent” @ Hermitage Artist Retreat Beach

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Dec 4 @ 5:00 pm

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The Hermitage Artist Retreat continues its popular beachfront series with “Illuminating the Transcendent,” Friday, December 4, 5 p.m., at the Hermitage Beach, 6660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood.

This outdoor event features composers Krists Auznieks and Robert Pound (pictured), and poet Jason Schneiderman. These three artists-in-residence will share how they express complex and transcendent ideas and emotions through music and poetry as the sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico.

Admission is free but registration is required. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Capacity will be limited to accommodate safe social distancing, so early reservations are recommended. Masks are strongly encouraged.

The New York City-based Latvian composer Krists Auznieks has been praised for his “exhilarating, stunning and luminous” music (San Francisco Classical Voice), possessing “astonishing complexity and beauty” (Broadway World), and “old-fashioned elegance” (Herald-Tribune). His quintet, “Piano,” was featured in The New York Times among the week’s best classical music moments; he is also a recipient of Aspen Music Festival’s Jacob Druckman Prize and the youngest composer to ever receive the Latvian Grand Music Award for best composition of the year. Recent commissions include works for the Atlanta Symphony and Bang on A Can Marathon; choral pieces for Cappella Amsterdam and Latvian Radio Choir; a guitar concerto for Sinfonietta Riga and JiJi; works for the New York-based new music ensemble Unheard-Of; a multimedia work for Canadian soprano Meghan Lindsay, and a piece for the Los Angeles- based Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Auznieks’ music has been performed at prestigious concert halls and festivals around the world. He has served on the faculty of Yale School of Music as a lecturer of musicianship and analysis and has taught for NY Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program.

Composer and conductor Robert Pound’s compositions include works for chamber, orchestra, band, vocal, and choral groups and have been featured by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, and the Corigliano Quartet. Pound has served as guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony and the June-in-Buffalo Festival. He is a professor of music at Dickinson College and director of the Dickinson Orchestra. For more information, visit RobertWPound.com.

Jason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (2020), Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016); Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). Schneiderman’s poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He is an associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. For more information, visit JasonSchneiderman.net.

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