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Announcing Hewnoaks' 2026 Artists-In-Residence
Lovell, ME, May 11, 2026 — Hewnoaks is honored to announce its invited artists for the 2026 summer residency season. Beginning in just a few short weeks, our cabins on the eastern shore of Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine, will once again open their doors to a cohort of writers, visual artists, musicians, performance artists, and multidisciplinary practitioners – each arriving with their own questions, projects, and creative ambitions, and each given the unencumbered time and space to explore them.
Hewnoaks offers short-term, fully subsidized residencies purpose-built for artists balancing busy lives. Tucked into a landscape of towering pines and lakefront solitude, our rustic cabins provide a rare chance to disconnect from the pressures of daily life and dive deep into creative practice. There are no output requirements, no expectations to share a finished work, and no mandatory community-facing obligations. Whether residents arrive to draft a novel, edit a body of visual work, compose new music, develop a performance, or simply think, Hewnoaks is a place to become fully immersed in the creative process, whatever shape it takes.
The 2026 cohort spans a wide range of disciplines and career stages. 41% of this year’s residents are writers – poets, novelists, essayists, journalists, and memoirists – and 34% are visual artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, and design. Rounding out the cohort are multidisciplinary artists, musicians and sound artists, and performance artists, whose practices contribute to the cross-disciplinary exchange that defines a season at Hewnoaks.
This year’s cohort emerged from a competitive applicant pool, reviewed by an independent jury of working artists, writers, and arts professionals whose expertise spans the disciplines represented at Hewnoaks. Each application was read carefully and discussed in depth, with jurors weighing the strength of the proposed work, the fit between the artist’s practice and what Hewnoaks can offer, and our continued commitment to supporting artists at every stage of their careers.
The 2026 cohort is, in every meaningful sense, the result of their thoughtful work – and we extend our sincere thanks to each of them for the care, rigor, and generosity they brought to the process.
The 2026 Hewnoaks Jury
Elizabeth Atterbury – Multidisciplinary artist (Maine)
Sadie Bliss – Arts administrator, Maine arts organizations (Maine)
Taryn Bowe – Writer, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance (Maine)
Fabio Fernandez – Artist, National Sculpture Society (New York City)
Christoph Gelfand – Filmmaker and photographer (Maine)
Jude Marx – Writer, The Telling Room (Maine)
CoCo McCracken – Writer, photographer, and marketing professional (Maine)
Moises Nuñez – Musician, Bowdoin College (Maine)
Partner Fellowships & Programs
Each year, Hewnoaks’ partnerships with local organizations shape our cohort in meaningful ways. These relationships connect Hewnoaks to artists and communities we are proud to be in conversation with, and they reflect a shared belief in the value of giving all artists unencumbered time and space to do their work. We are honored to welcome five artists in the 2026 cohort through these collaborations.
Indigo Arts Alliance
Artists in Residence
Stephen Hamilton and Anna Tsouhlarakis join the cohort as Indigo Arts Alliance Artists in Residence, through our partnership with Indigo Arts Alliance.
We’re honored to help create space where Black and Brown artists can build lasting relationships, experiment, and grow in Hewnoaks’ environment.
Warren Memorial
Foundation Fellowship
Isabel Neal and Paige Gronhovd join the cohort as recipients of the Warren Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
This fellowship, which provides stipends for two Westbrook, Maine-based artists, further supports our commitment to Maine’s local art community.
Bodwell
Fellowship
This year’s Bodwell Fellow will be announced at the Maine Literary Awards on May 28, 2026.
The Bodwell Fellowship, offered in partnership with the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, is awarded annually to one emerging Maine writer in honor of former MWPA Executive Director Joshua Bodwell.
Meet the 2026 Residents
Symin Adive – multidisciplinary
Anne Kamilla Alexander – visual arts
Michael Annear – visual arts
Ingrid Ansel-Mullen – visual arts
Julia Arredondo – multidisciplinary
Stephanie Barber – multidisciplinary
Lila Rachel Becker – performance
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán – writing
Kristina Buckley – visual arts
Susannah Cahalan – writing
capacity – Hannah Stone and Daniel Knapp – music
Neville Caulfield – visual arts
K Chiucarello – writing
Josie Colt – performance
Eleanor Conover – visual arts
Libby Edwardson – writing
Jared Fairfield – writing
Sam Finkelstein – multidisciplinary
Nick Fuller Googins – writing
Asya Graf – writing
Paige Gronhovd – visual arts
Rajani Gudlavalleti – writing
Stephen Hamilton – visual arts
Emory Buco Harger – visual arts
Intricate Mouse Work – music
Greg Jamie – visual arts
Mark Jamra – visual arts
Danielle Klebes – visual arts
Hazel Koziol – writing
Kea Krause – writing
Kristin Leffler – writing
Meredith McCarroll – writing
Virginia Moore – writing
Isabel Neal – writing
Shelby Pinkham – writing
Reuben Son – multidisciplinary
Mollie Thompson – music
Anna Tsouhlarakis – visual arts
Judy Williams – writing
Maya Williams – writing
Jing Zhou – visual arts
About Hewnoaks
Hewnoaks Artist Residency provides artists across all disciplines and career stages unencumbered time to think, work, and experiment. We offer short-term residencies on a wooded lakeside historic property, knowing that this kind of time and space is essential to the creative process and the growth and development of artists and their work.
The core embodiment of Hewnoaks’ mission is the free residency program, offered through ten sessions each summer. Each season, our programming also includes retreats with partnering groups and organizations, public events, and fee-based workshops led by creative leaders.
Hewnoaks was established as a summer home by artists Douglas and Marion Volk over 100 years ago. In 2012, artists and community members envisioned and reactivated the property as a contemporary artist residency, intentionally building a program shaped by those it serves. Today, Hewnoaks is governed by a board of directors that includes Hewnoaks alumni, Lovell-area community members, and arts administrators, ensuring lived experience and local perspective continue to inform and guide its vision. Learn more: www.hewnoaks.org
Support and Stay Connected
Hewnoaks is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your support helps us offer fully subsidized residencies to artists across disciplines and career stages, granting them time and space in natural surroundings to reflect, explore, and create. To make a tax-deductible gift, visit hewnoaks.org/donate. To be notified when applications open for the 2027 season, sign up for our newsletter.