Edge Effects

Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Frances Ashforth, for being selected to illustrate  the book 'Headwaters', by Dylan Tomine.   Frances Ashforth was  selected to draw over 30  images for the book, ‘Headwaters’ by author & friend Dylan Tomine. The book was published...

Congratulations to PLAYA alum, Jennifer Gunlock on receiving a 2022 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Based in Los Angeles, Jennifer Gunlock received an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. She has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as...

Debora Coombs, from Readsboro, Vermont had a Paper published, for the very first time, at an international math conference in 2020 that resulted in a show at The 2021 Mathematical Art Exhibition "for aesthetically pleasing works that combine mathematics and art. Her...

Congratulations to PLAYA alumn, Leslie Kirk Campbell on her debut novel. Leslie Kirk Campbell, of San Fransisco, California has had her debut novel, The Man With Eight Pairs Of Legs, a collection of fiction short stories, published by Sarabande Books in 2022. Campbell...

Nancy Floyd from Bend, Oregon and, Kelli Connell from Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois were awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded to 180 scientists, writers, scholars and artists in 51 fields. Floyd and Connell were two of 13...

It’s not the worst of pandemic privations, but I am suffering Great Basin withdrawal. Sticking close to home, I really miss visiting those beloved open spaces. No whiffs of sage and juniper after an evanescent rain. No hyperventilated vistas across rabbitbrush flats...

Katelyn and Richie, what led you to Playa? Two of our mentors did residencies at PLAYA and both recall their experiences with palpable adoration. Because of those accounts, we have daydreamed about coming to PLAYA for years but did not anticipate having the...

James Reed is a South African visual artist currently living in Portland, Oregon. He holds a Masters of Art in Social Sculpture with distinction from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom (2007). He works in diverse genres of visual art and social practice, much...

This September, photographers Owen Gump and Peter De Lory stayed at PLAYA in a collaborative residency. As they explored the high desert, as their studio walls filled with images they'd made on the playa and beyond, staff and residents alike felt privileged to view...