Willowtail is a unique property, offering one – three week residencies that have a special appeal to artists. Sixty acres tucked away in the high, alpine desert of the Four Corners Region writers come to begin or work on novels, poems, memoirs, screenplays, musicians practice, compose and rehearse, visual artists paint, draw, sculp, and photograph. However, the best quality of Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center is its ability to offer a quiet inspiring space to reflect, research, experiment, explore, laugh and create, easily, intensely.
Willowtail Springs Artist Residencies
Andrew Allport
Poet
2018 Durango Art Center Scholarship
Tyana Arviso Photographer
Vanessa Blakeslee Poet
Delbert Anderson
Jazz Trumpeter/ Composer
Ilze Aviks
Fabric Artist, Painter, Photographer
Annie Brooks
Visual Artist/Writer
Lapita Arviso Photographer
Bethany Bachmann
Painter
Rosie Carter
Visual/Mix Media Artist
Cindy Coleman
Painter/Graphic designer
Tina Deschenie Poet, Artist
Michael Thompson Writer
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Scholarship
Margy Dudley Photographer
Nina Elder
Artist, Painting, Drawing
2015 Willowtail Scholarship
Elizabeth Ferrill
Printmaking
2014/2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Kit Frost
Photographer, Videographer
Leesa Zarinelli Gawlik
Artisan of Textile assemblages
2017, Artist Residency
Barbara Grist
Photographer
Dan Groth
Collage Artist, Painter
Eirene Hamilton
Writer, Ethnobotanist, Environmental Activist and Language Educator
Crystal Hartman
Watercolor, Pen and Ink, Jeweler
2015 Durango Arts Center and Willowtail Scholarship
2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Tammi Hartung
Ethnobotanical Herbalist, Organic Farmer
Theatre Director/ Writer\ Performer
Tara S. Holl
Mixed Media/Teaching Artist
David Holub
Writer, journalist, playwright
2016 Durango Art Center Scholarship 2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Sonja Horoshko
Visual Artist
Blossom Johnson
Dramatist / Dramaturg
Matt Jones
Writer
2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Tim Kaputska
Graphic Designer
2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Leslie Lloyd
Painter
Elizabeth Kinahan
Painter
2014 Durango Arts Center Scholarship
Kate Loague
Public Art
2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Rebecca Koeppen
Photographer, Pastel artist
2015 Durango Arts Center and New Face Productions Scholarship
Shay Lopez
Artist/Writing
2014 Willowtail Scholarship
Heather Leavitt Martinez
Design/Lettering
2015
Maureen May
Visual and Performance Artist
Carol Meckling
3 Dimensional Mixed Media and Painting
2016 Durango Arts Center Scholarship 2018/2019 Willowtail Scholarship
Roxie Mitchell
Experimental Digital Photography
Daniel Nester
Bassoonist
Jeremy Pataky
Writer, Photographer
2015 Willowtail Scholarship
Jane Pedersen
Handmade Paper and Book Artist
Renee Podunovich
Poet
Wendy Rasmussen
Writer
Susan Reed
Visual Art
2016
Judy Richardson
Sculptor
2016 Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Scholarship
Mary Robinson
Painter
2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Kim Russell
Painter, Teacher at Mancos Public Schools
2016, Durango Art Center Scholarship
Ann Salviazul
Visual Artist
2016 Durango Arts Center Scholarship
Laura Schiavone
Encaustic Monoprints Artist
2017, Durango Art Center Scholarship 2019, Artist Residency
Bronwyn Strickland Beatta
Painter
2017 Durango Art Center Scholarship
Deborah Sussex
Painter / Photography
2014 Open Shutter Gallery & 2015 Willowtail Scholarship, 2020 Artist Residency
Lisa C Taylor
Short Story Writer
Kira Taylor
Poet
Mariposa Velez Sentner
Art form
2015 Durango Arts Center Scholarship
Lorena Williams
Writer
2017/2018 Willowtail Scholarship
Suze Woolf
Plein Air Painter, Sculptor
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Willowtail Scholarship
Jenny Wrenn
Poet
6 Dollar String Band
Musicians
2018, Durango Art Center & New Face Productions Scholarship
20 Moons Dance Theatre
Dance/Performance
2017 Durango Art Center Scholarship