Winter Residency Announcement for Alumni & Session Four Update from Djerassi!
Session 4 artists from left to right: Christoph N. Fuhrer, Paul Heller, Lisa Truttman,Gregory Ramos, Alex Nichols,
Residencies, Renewal, and Reconnection
The artists-in-residence of Session Four – having dubbed themselves “The Sassy Badgers” – took their collective show on the road to all corners of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program last month. They managed to accomplish periods of deep focus and productivity alongside raucous good humor and not a small number of dance parties.
Alumni Announcement: Djerassi will again offer Winter Residencies for alumni in January and February 2023. The application process is now open. The link for alumni to apply is here. Please address questions to Jewel Carter (jcarter@djerassi.org).

Summer Performance Announcement: Tickets are on sale here for the NETWORK project interactive performance and hike July 2 and 3. Join us!

Some examples of Session 4 Artists’ feedback give you a sense of their experience: :
“Here at Djerassi, for the first time in my life since I was child, I had the opportunity to be a child again. I played, hiked in the woods, hunted and gathered or collected.
I drew and mixed it all up into kind of an installation called: "The american dream / hunters and collectors / see us. Thank you all so much for this amazing experience!"


Christoph N. Fuhrer, Visual Artists, Session 4, 2022
"...just giving 5 adults unencumbered time to do what we need is such an obvious gift. At the same time, it's not obvious - some opportunities come with obligations to teach, publish, or produce. The Djerassi model is genius. We each create our own structure of walking, making art, and socializing
It's spectacular". 


Paul Heller, Playwright,
Session 4, 2022
“[What I found most useful:] Conversations and sharing with other artists over meals. Making meals on weekends with other artists. The installations that were created by other artists. The care and support provided by staff, management and board members… The residency gave me an opportunity to advance my work, not only by having the time to write in a beautiful location, but by sharing ideas and concepts with other artists. I feel the time I've had with my writing has positioned me well for a professional production of the play that I worked on while I was here. It was incredibly productive to be able to share the work and get feedback from my fellow artists.”

Gregory Ramos, Playwright, Session 4, 2022
Introducing our fourth session of artists-in-residence this year:

Christoph N. Fuhrer is a visual artist based in Regensburg, Germany whose work can be seen in numerous publications, short graphic novels, and performances as a live drawing artist. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Germany and Switzerland and created a special on-site exhibition while in residence featuring new watercolors, objects, and an outdoor installation.


Paul Heller is an award-winning playwright and two time artist in residence at the Djerassi Program. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and has taught acting and directed dozens of plays and musicals in the Bay Area as well as internationally. Paul currently serves as dramaturge for Indra’s Net, a theater company devoted to work about science and mathematics.


Alex Nichols is a San Francisco-based conceptual artist who combines writing, performance, video, photography, and installation. She has exhibited and performed locally and internationally, working with renowned institutions and is the founder of the artist collective THINK MAKE TANK. Alex is also known as ALEXANDMUSHI: a collaboration between Alex Nichols and Mushi Wooseong James examining relationships.

Gregory Ramos is an actor, director, playwright, and theatre educator originally from Los Angeles, California. He has directed plays and musicals at numerous professional theatres and universities and performed National and European Tours among many other theatrical credits. 
A proud member of The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and Actor’s Equity Association, he is Professor and Chair at the University of Redlands Department of Theatre Arts in Southern California.

Lisa Truttman is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. In her practice she ties documentary elements into staged settings and rhythmic compositions, tracing the structures of social, architectural and ecological landscapes, which she displayed first-hand at the Program creating a web between redwood trunks in a collaborative project with staff and artists. Lisa’s moving images and installations have been shown in exhibitions and film festivals and she has been teaching in Vienna since 2017.
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Images by )ewel ). Carter: Top right - Lisa Truttman, Christoph N. Fuhrer, & Alex Nichols |Top left- Session 4 Cohort with dinner guests Alexander & Dale Djerassi | Middle left - Christoph N. Fuhrer, | Middle right - Paul HellerG | Middle left - Alex Nichols | Bottom right - Gregory Ramos | Botton left - Lisa Truttman
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