Our very own "darling buds of May" have arrived and the dandelions are out to greet them! From top, left to right: Sara Bathum, Nonfiction, Seattle, WA; Regan Moro, Playwriting, Brooklyn, NY; Cindy Tran, Poetry, NYC; Erika Ji, Composing, Ridgewood, NJ; Jacqueline Surdell, Visual Arts, Chicago, IL; Savannah Reich, Playwriting, Philadelphia, PA; Lukáš Janata, Composing, San Francisco, CA; Dylan Hausthor, Visual Arts, North Bennington, VT. FOR MORE: https://reganmoro.com/ https://www.cindymtran.com/ https://www.erikaji.com/ https://www.jacquelinesurdell.com/ https://www.lukasjanata.cz/ https://dylanhausthor.com/ (fb)

CONGRATULATIONS to MOLLY SPRINGFIELD (Visual Arts, 2008) on her 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship (as well as all of the other visionary awardees). Molly "makes graphite drawings that use photocopies of printed texts as their source material. She asks how key moments within the history of information and reproduction fundamentally transform how we experience language: in art (19th-century trompe l’oeil, 1960s Conceptual art’s use of the Xerox), in literature (practices of translation and transcription), and in technology (the digitization of texts, the rise of e-readership). Her projects are usually developed over a period of many years through in-depth research and painstaking manual labor. Past projects include an interactive archive of marginalia; drawings of photocopies of books about conceptual art; and her own "translation" of the first chapter of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time in the form of drawings. Her current project considers the process of transcription and the development of modernism through the writings and photography of Virginia Woolf. The drawings are primarily inspired by two sources: a holograph draft of Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse and reproductions of her personal family photo albums. She has had fourteen national and international solo exhibitions, including shows in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Chicago, and Cologne, Germany. Museum exhibitions include the Baltimore Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; The Drawing Center, New York; Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art; and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Springfield's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004." Image shown: Da y ov, 2016 graphite on paper 16.5 x 25.5 inches 2016 To see more of her extraordinary drawings: https://mollyspringfield.com/ (fb)