Baldwin For The Arts

02/07/2025

A big congrats to 2024-2025 BFTA Fellow: Ebony LaDelle (She/Her) 
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Ebony has now released her second young adult novel and her anthology of short stories set at HBCUs.

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02/07/2025

Congratulations to 2024 - 2025 BFTA Fellow: Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz!
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NEWS: Check out the article on fellow Yolanda to get to know the Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award honoree:
 Sealey-Ruiz wins Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award
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02/05/2025

Looking forward to welcoming 2024 - 2025 BFTA Fellow: Andrè Lee to the BFTA Fam!
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02/03/2025

Welcome to the Baldwin Fam 2024 - 2025 BFTA Fellow: Jungwon Kim!
Jungwon Kim is a writer and cultural worker exploring the confluence of personal, collective, and historical grief. As a 2024-25 Soros Equality Fellow, she is researching, producing, and writing about traditional and contemporary rituals to transmute han (한)—a Korean word for the embodied experience of accumulated grief and rage resulting from historical violence. Learn more about her work at
www.jungwonkim.earth
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12/13/2024

Congrats! Fellow: Krishan Trotman

Krishan Trotman is the co-author of the Queens of the Resistance series and Vice President, Publisher of Legacy Lit, an imprint at Hachette Book Group in New York. She was recently celebrated in the New York Times and Essence magazine as one of the few African American publishing executives. New York magazine called her as one of Publishing’s New Power Club, and she’s been featured in Salon, Shondaland, Cheddar TV, MSN, and more. She has committed over fifteen years to publishing books by and about multicultural voices and social justice. Throughout her career, she has proudly worked with leaders and trailblazers on this frontier such as John Lewis, Stephanie Land, Malcolm Nance, Zerlina Maxwell, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Al Roker, Ed Gordon, Lindy West, and other dynamic celebrity and bestselling authors. She is the self-described Beyoncé of Books, and mom to her son Bleu. To learn more, follow her or KrishanTrotman.com.

12/12/2024

Congratulations Fellow: Joanna Ho

Joanna’s book: We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian American was a Kirkus Prize Young Reader’s Literature finalist!

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11/26/2024

12/09/2020

For the next couple of weeks we are going to be introducing our past Baldwin For The Arts grant recipients!
Our first introduction is to poet, performer, and educator Denice Frohman. Denice Frohman came to BFTA in August of 2020
She writes, “Baldwin for the Arts was a transformative experience. It lives in the answer to the rhetorical question Gloria Anzaldúa once posed in the seminal anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: “Who gave us permission to perform the act of writing?” It’s a question I return to often, and at Baldwin the answer was clear. Everything felt more possible; I felt more possible.
I’m forever grateful for the uninterrupted time I was afforded to sit with my creative obsessions. For the time to think, to write, to be. I’ve been working on my debut poetry manuscript for some time, knowing the stories I needed to tell required a different set of tools. At Baldwin, those tools were ignited and alive. I felt courageous enough to write the poems that haunted me and safe enough to ask the harder questions of drafts I was revising.
As I worked on a series of basketball sonnets exploring my own relationship to diaspora, language, queerness, and the colonial relationship between the U.S and Puerto Rico—I’d shoot hoops in the driveway each afternoon and somewhere in that geography, find another breakthrough (another “lane” into the work). The path toward my own eye was made clearer, more available to me, because Baldwin for the Arts intimately understands what feeds the work: it provided a stillness and sense of care that I’ve felt in very few places. To put it plainly, this space put me back in my bones.
It was truly an honor to be welcomed into this vibrant community. I’m incredibly humbled and grateful for Baldwin’s vision and Jacqueline Woodson’s deep generosity. Baldwin for the Arts is a creative harbor, a literary lighthouse, and above all, a place to dream…"
You can learn more about Denice’s work at https://www.denicefrohman.com

12/04/2020

Our latest Why MacDowell NOW essay was written by Fellow in literature Jacqueline Woodson, recent MacArthur Fellow and Hans Christian Andersen Award winner. Her essay, "Let the Circle be Unbroken," describes her inspiration behind creating a residency program for artists of color.

10/30/2020

“Black culture is flourishing. Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew want to preserve it.”

"Black Futures” is hitting shelves on December 1st. Look out for this exciting non-fiction project that Jenna Wortham worked on during her Baldwin For The Arts residency.

“Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more—to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics.”

Check out “See The Black Art Remaking Our Culture” in the NYT Magazine Culture Issue:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/07/magazine/black-futures.html

10/24/2020

Located just 60 miles north of New York City on four beautiful acres, Baldwin for the Arts is a safe and nurturing space for BIPOC artists. It is a place to go and not have to explain. It is a place to create system-changing work. It is a place to gather safely with other BIPOC artists who are writing, composing and creating visual work.

Featuring multiple residential buildings, common spaces and organic food grown onsite, BFTA offers artists the ability to enjoy the freedom and creativity that comes with space, good food, and great company.

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A place to write.A place to make music.A place to paint, sculpt, and draw.A place to dream. Located just 60 miles north of New York City on four beautiful acres, Baldwin for the Arts is a safe and nurturing space for BIPOC artists. It is a place to go and not have to explain. It is a place to create...