Albee Fellows: Summer/Fall 2026
Visual Artists
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Aleksandra Azbel: Aleksandra Azbel is a textile artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, specializing in natural dyes. Originally from Kazakhstan, her work explores belonging and our interdependence with the ecosystems we inhabit. She grows and forages dye plants and seaweed and serves as an adjunct professor of architecture at Roger Williams University. Influenced by her architectural background, Azbel creates site-specific textile installations. She has presented solo exhibitions at AS220 Galleries in Providence; the Redfield Auditorium Lobby at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the George Marshall Store Gallery. Her work has also been exhibited at the New England Center for the Arts, Cambridge Art Association, Providence Art Club, Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Machines with Magnets, and the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, RI. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to Sri Lanka (2020), the DesignXRI Catalyst Award (2021), and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Supporting Artist Grant (2023). Bethenie Carriaga: Bethenie Carriaga (b.2001) is an artist from Yate, Bristol and from the Philippines, currently living and working in London. They completed a Master's in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology at Oxford, after finishing a BA from Brown University. Through paintings, prints, and collages of muffled colours, some shooting reds, and devoted creatures of moths, sheep, and trees, they explore themes of home and belonging. They believe in image-making as a form of sympathetic magic, where desires conjure into being. Swayed by the interplay between Catholicism and animism, they focus on how these beliefs shape understandings of nature, time, death, queerness, and desire. Robin Crookall: American, b. 1985 - Robin Crookall is a visual artist whose work merges sculpture and photography to explore the uncanny intersections of reality, illusion, and constructed space. She earned her MFA from New York University in 2016 and her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington in 2007, a foundation that continues to inform her tactile, materials-driven approach to image-making. Her awards and residency include Yaddo, Abbotts Watts Residency for Photography, LightHouse Works, Light Work, The Print Center's 95th Annual International Competition and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography. Crookall's solo exhibitions include Real Spaces at Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY (2024) and Part Fact, Part Aspect at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2021). She's exhibited in group shows at Candela Gallery, (Richmond VA), Headlands Center for the Art (San Francisco, CA), and Gallery 4Culture (Seattle, WA). Her work has been featured in Art Dialogues (2023), and Musée Magazine (2021). Danielle Hatch: Danielle Hatch is an interdisciplinary Peruvian American artist based in the Arkansas Ozarks. She received her BA in Architecture from Wellesley College and MFA in Spatial Studies from UCSB. In her site specific installations, sculptures, and performances, Hatch makes women's lived experiences and aesthetic interventions into the built environment visible beyond traditionally domestic spaces. She applies the techniques of quilting and other needlework, often on a monumental scale. Hatch is a Creative Capital State of the Art Prize Recipient and has been selected for residencies at MacDowell, Sculpture Space, and The Momentary. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, the Inverse Performance Art Festival, the AD&A Museum in Santa Barbara, CA, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, and the Tephra ICA in Reston, VA. Selina Martinez: Selina Martinez is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Xicana architect in training, artist, and educator from Phoenix, Arizona.. Her practice explores Indigenous knowledge, architecture, cultural sustainability, and community storytelling through digital media, installation, and built work rooted in the Sonoran Desert and Rio Yaqui homelands. Martinez creates channels for Indigenous communities to engage in architecture, embedding their worldviews and reclaiming Indigenous knowledge as integral to design. Her work revalidates suppressed identities while reshaping the profession through inclusivity, cultural depth, and connection to place. Martinez is the founder of Juebenaria, a platform documenting Yaqui lived experiences through art, architecture, and digital media. In 2024 she received a United States Artists Fellowship. She developed Species of the River in collaboration with the British Museum's Santo Domingo Centre. She is also cofounder of HEKIU: An Indigenous Artist Continuum supporting Indigenous creative exchange. selinamartinez.com Caroline Minchew: Caroline Minchew (b. 1992 Arlington, VA, USA) is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BA from Sewanee University of the South. Caroline has attended residences at High-Desert Test Sites, NARS Foundation, Mudhouse Arts, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, and Burren College of Art. Her work has been exhibited most recently at Muscarelle Museum of Art, Bond Millen Gallery, NARS Foundation, and Candela Gallery. Caroline's photographs are housed in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American History and the National Gallery of Art Photograph Study Collection in Washington, DC. Natalie Ortiz: Natalie Ortiz is a Mexican-American artist from the Bay Area, CA. She holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo (2025), Chautauqua School of Art (2024), and at arts, letters and numbers (2019). Her work has appeared in exhibitions with New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA, NYC), Morgan Lehman Gallery (NYC), Field Projects (NYC), and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (CA), as well as at art fairs including SPRING/BREAK and Art Fair 14C. Accolades include the Yaddo Access Grant, Friends of Chautauqua Visual Arts Scholarship, and two Segal AmeriCorps Awards, with press coverage in ArtNet News, Two Coats of Paint, and Collect Bean. Work from her practice lives in permanent collections including The New York Public Library, and her collaborations include Art in Odd Places. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Barbara Owen: Barbara Owen was raised in Maine, where the air was crisp, cool, scented with pine, and highly oxygenated. She currently lives and works in Rhode Island and Brooklyn, NY. An interdisciplinary artist, she works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her practice investigates the perceptual possibilities of the non-representational through vibrant color, dynamic form, and material interplay. Drawing on modernist and feminist lineages, she creates painted objects that function as both formal studies and evocative metaphors. Owen received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, and an Interdivisional BA in Sculpture and Poetry from Bennington College in Bennington, VT. Her recent exhibitions include Overlap Gallery, (RI), Art Cake (NY), Spring/Break Los Angeles (CA), Untitled Miami (FL), Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL (NC), Chelsea Walls (NY), Jamestown Art Center (RI), Dedee Shattuck Gallery (MA), Redwood Library and Athenaeum (RI), Collar Works (Troy, NY), LabSpace (Hillsdale, NY), Bristol Art Museum (RI), Newport Art Museum (RI), UMass Dartmouth (MA), and Art-in-Embassies (Papua New Guinea and Suriname). Emily Weiskopf: Emily Weiskopf (b. Syracuse, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and occasional curator. She received a BFA from the Hartford Art School (CT) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia /Rome, Italy). Weiskopf has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center (2011), the Wassiac Project (2012) the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2023), ECOCA Keyhole Residency (2024), Jentel Foundation (2024), among the 2021 ReClaim Award winners in Cologne, Germany and nominated for the Rome Prize in 2011. Most recently her work has been exhibited with Spring Projects, NY; Flag Foundation, NY; M.David & Co., NY; and White Columns, NY. She is Chair of the Curatorial Advisory Board at the Ely Center for Contemporary Art since 2024 and faculty at the Hartford Art School (University of Hartford, CT). She lives in New Haven, CT with her 3 rescue dogs–her daily inspiration, Bunny, Banana, and Bear. |
Writers |
Key K. Bird: Key K. Bird (they/her) is a Syrian Mvskoke genderplural writer. They have had short stories and essays published in Diagram, Mizna, The Rumpus, and The Massachusetts Review, among others, and have won awards or honors for her fiction from The Cincinnati Review, Fourteen Hills, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Creative Writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Literature grant from the Mass Cultural Council, Key has been at artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Arts, Foundation House, and others. Beyond writing, they have worked as an editor at Agni and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and they cofounded the nonprofit theatre company and literary press Aforementioned Productions, editing the literary journal apt for fifteen years. Key holds a PhD in Creative Writing and is currently at work on a novel about the surveillance state.
Kazden Brackett: Kazden Brackett's fiction has appeared in The Southampton Review, The Barcelona Review, and New Papers. He received his BA from Bennington College and is currently enrolled in Stony Brook's MFA program. He is at work on his debut novel. Lily Camp: Lilly Camp is a queer Brooklyn-based writer from Los Angeles, the child of a stand-up comedian mother and a film industry father, determined to make their fortune as a playwright. Lilly's first non-FanFiction story was about their own secret lesbian love affair, which went pre-viral-viral at their Catholic high school weeks before graduation; a villain origin story for the big-feelings oversharing they've since wrangled into an artistic practice. Ever evolving, their most recent play is about a Taylor Swift conspiracy theory. Last fall they taught their first college class in playwriting at their undergrad alma mater, the University of Rochester. Outside of the arts, Lilly is a runner, an animal person, and a good hang. If you want to see where their work has been done, have opinions on where they went to school, or find out if Taylor Swift is indeed gay: www.lillycamp.com Rose Himber Howse: Rose Himber Howse is a queer writer from North Carolina. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University, where she was a 2021-23 Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction. Rose has also been a Steinbeck fellow in fiction at San Jose State University, and has received fellowships or supported residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Monson Arts, and Jentel. Her short fiction and essays appear in ZYZZYVA, Joyland, Hobart, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere, and she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review. Her debut novel, Tricks of the Light, is forthcoming from Celadon Books in 2028. Sylvia Jones: Sylvia Jones (b.1994) was born in Staten Island, New York and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. Jones is the author of Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) and Dope Calisthenics (Relegation Books, 2026). Through her work, Jones considers notions of class inequality, the autobiographical lives of objects, the fraudulent nature of generational wealth, hero-worship, and artifacts of the public domain. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Annulet, DIAGRAM, Shenandoah, The Hopkins Review, Smartish Pace, and Common Place Poetics. Jones is an associate poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press, a senior reader for Ploughshares, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She has held residencies and fellowships with the Mastheads at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Peaked Hill Trust, and the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. She earned her MFA from American University and is currently based in Baltimore. Maija Mäkinen: Finnish-born writer and translator Maija Mäkinen grew up next to the USSR in a family of migrants and moved to the US when she was young. Her debut collection, THE GHOSTS OF OTHER IMMIGRANTS, was published by New American Press in 2023, selected for the New American Fiction Prize. Her writing has appeared in The Iowa Review, Porter House Review, The Bare Life Review, SAND, and Short, Vigorous Roots – A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices, and earned an Honorable Mention in The Best American Short Stories. She is a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Program, winner of the Iowa Review Award in Fiction, University of Cambridge Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and Nadia Christen Prize in Translation, with fellowships from Art Omi, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Monson Arts, VCCA, TSKW, Key West Literary Seminar, American-Scandinavian Society, and Finland's Kone Foundation Saari Residency. After seven transatlantic moves, she lives in Brooklyn and writes mostly in English. Edwin Rivera-Arias: Edwin Rivera-Arias is a Cuban-Colombian playwright and fiction writer from New Jersey. Rivera-Arias is a resident playwright with New Dramatists (2024-2031). He was awarded a 2024 Prose Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Lippmann Family "New Frontier" Award for Travel in 2025, and residencies from Willapa Bay AiR, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Norman Mailer Center, among others. His full-length play Stubbornness & Bone was recently featured as the part of the Experiments Reading Series at La MaMa, and his short play Fried Live Skin, selected for the Downtown Urban Arts Festival, was given a live production at La MaMa in June. He is a former member of the United Steelworkers, and is one of the key organizers of the faculty union at the School of Visual Arts. He is represented by the Gurman Agency. Heather Laszlo Rosser: Heather Laszlo Rosser is a fiction writer, poet and teacher. She has taught developmental writing for New York University and worked as an arts administrator both for the University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers' House and the University of Vermont's Summer Writing Program. Aside from such pursuits, she co-founded a progressive grammar school and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Central West Africa. She holds a BA in English Literature from Boston University, an MA in English Literature from The University of Vermont and an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Novus, The Baltimore Review, Gray Sparrow Journal and elsewhere. She sometimes posts on Substack, teaches at Montclair State University and is finishing her first novel, set in Gabon. Nicole Sellew: Nicole Sellew is a writer and teacher based in New York City. Her novel Lover Girl--a Lit Hub and Our Culture most anticipated book of 2026--was published by Clash Books in February 2026. Her short fiction has appeared in Hobart, Volume 0, and The Rose Books Reader, among other places. She is the recipient of the Galley Beggar 2024/25 short fiction prize and an MLitt in fiction from the University of St Andrews, where she is currently studying for her PhD. nicolesellew.com Ashley Yang-Thompson: The product of a Chinese immigrant and a white polygamist from Fort Scott, Kansas, Ashley Yang-Thompson is famous to approximately eleven people. In 2025, she meditated so hard she broke her foot. Prior to that, she almost won a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of How to be the worst laziest fattest most incontinent piece-of-shit in the world EVER and Still Worm, both published by Bateau Press. |
