Middlebury College Professor, nature photographer, and non-fiction writer Matthew Dickerson: A how-to workshop on securing artist residence

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On Saturday, February 21, Middlebury College Professor, nature photographer, and non-fiction writer Matthew Dickerson will lead a how-to workshop on securing artist residences. This two-and-a-half-hour workshop is free with registration, thanks to generous sponsorship from The Vermont Creative Network.

The workshop will cover:

• An overview of artist residencies, including how to find them and why somebody might or might not find one valuable.
• Tips on applying (based on examples of several successful applications and conversations with those in charge of how choices are made). This part will be hands on, and participants will begin crafting a purpose statement.
• How to use the time during the actual residency if selected.
• What to do after the residency ends to get maximum benefit.

Matthew Dickerson has served as artist-in-residence at Glacier National Park, Acadia National Park, and Wood Tikchik State Park (Alaska), as well as holding the collaborative environmental writing residency for the Spring Creek Project (Oregon State University) and twice serving with McKenna Dickerson as collaborate artists-in-residence for Alaska State Parks. Six of his published books grew out of these various residencies including The Voices of Rivers (set in Glacier National Park, Acadia National Park, and Alaska), The Salvelinus, the Sockeye and the Egg-Sucking Leech (set in Wood-Tikchik State Park and national parks in the Bristol Bay drainage), A Fine-Spotted Trout on Corral Creek (Glacier National Park), and most recently Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea: Attending to Creation with Delight and Wonder. In addition to his numerous books and over a quarter of a century of outdoor and travel columns in the Addison Independent, Dickersons nature essays, poems, and/or photographs have also appeared in a variety of magazines and journals including Backcountry Journal, The Drake, American Fly Fishing, Written River, Mountain Troubador, Deep Wild, and Books and Culture.

Workshop attendees will also have the opportunity to mingle with other participants, and to take in an exhibit in Town Hall Theater’s Jackson Gallery highlighting Matthew Dickerson’s photography and writing, which also profiles his daughter-in-law McKenna Dickerson’s nature painting. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Space is limited and registration,