Yaddo
Sign in to saveYaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment." On March 11, 2013, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Other
- Founded
- 1900
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Revenue
- 3301866
- Official website
- www.yaddo.org
- Image
- The Mansion at Yaddo (ca. 1905).jpg
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- Commons category
- Yaddo
- inception
- 1893-00-00
- donations
- 1872258
- total assets
- 55031584
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10 sectionsContents
- History
- Artists' colony
- Recent years
- Facilities and gardens
- Alumni artists-in-residence
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment." On March 11, 2013, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.
It offers residencies to artists working in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 82 Pulitzer Prizes, 34 MacArthur Fellowships, 70 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers' Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), at least one Man Booker Prize (Alan Hollinghurst, 2004) and countless other honors. Yaddo is included in the Union Avenue Historic District.
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