An Artistic
Residency Program for
The Global Majority
Jacqueline Woodson’s Vision
“After attending my first residency, I longed to create a safe and nurturing space for historically underrepresented artists. Baldwin For The Arts is that longing fulfilled. It is a place to write, to make music, to paint, sculpt, and draw. And most importantly, it is a place for artists of the Global Majority to dream.”
Our Residency Program
Exclusively devoted to people of the Global Majority, Baldwin For The Arts is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth for literary, visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists. A Baldwin Fellowship includes a one to two-week private residency, exclusive use of a solo workspace, daily meals prepared by a local chef, and all transportation costs.
Baldwin For the Arts is proud to partner with the Emerson Collective, The Columbia Center for Oral History Research and the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics on I SEE MY LIGHT SHINING: Oral Histories of Our Elders to capture unrecorded memories and life experiences before these stories are lost to history.
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Support Our Work
Your tax-deductible gift supports artists of the Global Majority, as well as Baldwin for the Arts' broader mission to ensure a future of creative liberation.
It is with deep respect that Baldwin For The Arts acknowledges the ancestral territories of the Wappinger and Munsee Lenape people—the sacred land on which our organization resides. We acknowledge and honor them just as we acknowledge our own ancestors, and we stand in solidarity in recognizing our individual and collective histories that bore witness to settler colonialism, enslavement,
Honoring the Wappinger and
Munsee Lenape People
Land Acknowledgment
and genocide. This land acknowledgement is our way—a small action— to express gratitude and highlight the legacy of the Wappinger and Munsee Lenape people. Learn more about their history in Hudson Valley here.