RESIDENT SHOWCASE: CECILIA DANELL

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: CECILIA DANELL

Cecilia Danell is a Swedish artist based in Galway, Ireland. She is a painter with a multidisciplinary practice that also involves textiles and installation. Her work is in the collections of the Irish State, Trinity College, Dublin and the Irish Arts Council and she...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: Naomi Cohn

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: Naomi Cohn

Naomi Cohn is a writer and artist whose work explores reclamation. Her forthcoming book, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight (Rose Metal Press, October 2024), explores midlife vision loss, learning braille, and re-learning to read and write as an...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: DAYRON LOPEZ

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: DAYRON LOPEZ

Dayron Lopez, a Monson Arts Resident in the fall of 2023, co-founded the art collective Chachacha! in the Azcapotzalco neighborhood in Mexico City in 2010. Dayron started Chachacha! with his best friend, Raymundo Rocha, in an effort to bring art into their community...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN

Jeffery Renard Allen was a Monson Arts Resident in the Winter of 2023. He is a Chicago-based writer who has published six books of fiction and poetry. Among many other accomplishments, he is a recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Fiction, the Ernest...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: ASH DAVIDSON

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: ASH DAVIDSON

Ash Davidson is the author of the novel Damnation Spring. Her work has been supported by Monson Arts, MacDowell, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. What was the best part for you about being at Monson Arts?  Being gifted the...
RESIDENT SHOWCASE: NEENA PATHAK

RESIDENT SHOWCASE: NEENA PATHAK

Neena Pathak is a writer, producer, and editor whose work has appeared in podcasts like Invisibilia (NPR), This American Life, Another Round (BuzzFeed), The Daily and Still Processing (The New York Times). Her work has been honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board,...