Introducing the PBF's Fall 2026 Artist-in-Residenc

The Peter Bullough Foundation is pleased to announce 9 new residents for its Fall 2026 artist residency program in downtown Winchester, Virginia. Each of these artists will spend a month in Winchester, working on their craft and interacting with the local community through a workshop, lecture or event. These artists, all from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, were chosen in a competitive selection process. 

Arriving in August, will be artist and RISD-graduate Rowan Raskin, writer and journalist Ema O’Connor, and artist and graphic designer Lily Crocamo. While all three plan to work on very different projects, there are some similar threads exploring experiences that come outside the expected boundary lines  Raskin’s work explores their Southwestern queer experience as well as the queer dancing communities of North America. O’Connor is at work on a creative nonfiction book chronicling the destruction of reproductive rights in the US, for which she has traveled the country over the past decade. Finally, Crocamo’s work explores the lived experiences of queer and neurodivergent people, in addition to investigating the significance of religion and spirtuality of the human experience. 

From top, left to right: Rowan Raskin, Ema O'Connor (Photo credit: Chris Risch), Lily Crocamo, Jaime Bird, Sok Song (Photo by Chen Xiangyun), Wisteria Deng, .CHISARAOWKU., Rian Crane, Anindit Dutta

In September, Jaime Bird, Wisteria Deng, and Sok Song will be in the studios at the PBF. While once again, their work takes different forms, each artist is used to working across multiple mediums. Bird is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture and stop-motion animation, crafting all manner of underwater creatures and weaving narratives of the human condition. Song is an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from Yale, working across printmaking, textiles, sculpture, folding, and installation. Deng is poet, theater-maker, and clinical psychologist with a PhD from Yale, exploring how we create meaning and belonging when the world we call home becomes unstable. She’s also the founding artistic director of the Vermilion Theater, which creates bilingual performance and community based mental health programming. 

Finally, October’s cohort includes .CHISARAOKWU., MD, Rian Crane, and Anindit Dutta. All three artists are exploring a wide variety of themes but are united in the depth and detail of their exploratory journeys. .CHISARAOKWU. is an Igbo transdisciplinary poet artist and 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow whose practice explores the mediums of archive, collage, and film alongside her experience as a physician to explore the African diaspora. Crane’s work as a post-disciplinary artist and curator focuses on elements of the Black, queer, and trans experience in relation to nature and against the background of anti-Blackness, displacement, and colonial violence. Finally, Dutta is a fiction writer from Guwhati, working on a novel that touches on folklore, the impact of colonial rule, and rapid contemporary industrialization as it impacts populations across rural Assam. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. 

The Peter Bullough Foundation will provide a supportive space for these exceptional artists to collaborate, create, and explore their artistic endeavors this fall. More information on each artist is available at https://www.peterbulloughfoundation.org/current-artists-in-residence. Events and workshops for the fall 2026 season will be forthcoming via newsletter and instagram. For further information, please contact Katie Mooney Buzby at info@peterbulloughfoundation.org.