Since 2024, our Board of Directors has been inviting writers and artists to our villa in Sezze, Italy, when space is available, outside of our regular residency programs. No applications. No requirements. Just uninterrupted time for guests to focus on their work.
DIRECTORS’ GUESTS
2025
Giorgio Celin (B. 1986, Barranquilla, Colombia)
Giorgio Celin lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. He creates vibrant works that explore human relationships: the longing for intimacy and the tenderness and melancholy of living in a lonely world where individualism is rampant. He aims to celebrate the beauty, the queerness, and the complexity of the Latinx-diaspora.
Celin has recently exhibited his work at galleries and institutions including MACRO Museum (Rome, Italy), Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto (Venice, Italy), 68 Projects (Berlin, Germany), König Gallery, (Berlin, Germany), Taymour Grahne (London, UK), Eve Liebe Gallery (London, UK), Asia Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan), Beers (London, UK), Annarumma Gallery (Naples,Italy), Spinello Projects (Miami), Breach (Miami), Steve Turner (LA, USA).
Celin’s work has been featured in Monopol, XIBT, It’s Nice that, Metal Magazine, Exibart, among other publications.
Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti (Oberlin College Press 2018) and Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla (Princeton University Press 2023), among other works from Italian. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship and the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at John Cabot University and co-curates Policromia, an international festival of poetry and translation in Siena, Italy. Read more at wcschutt.com.
2024
Athena Kokoronis is an interdisciplinary artist whose work expands across art, food, dance, pedagogical engagements, and design. Born out of motherhood, her art brand, Domestic Performance Agency (DPA), is a creative protective container for process, hospitality, and experimentation. Costuming dance is elemental to the DPA. She was the 2023 Cynthia Hazen Ponsky and Leon Ponsky Rome Prize fellow with Jasmine Hearn for their design collaborations. DPA is represented by the Lydia Rodrigues Collection (LRCNYC.ONLINE). Kokoronis published CookBook Domestic Performance Agency with Yonkers International Press (YIP) in conjunction with Dance & Process series at The Kitchen in 2018, and a second book in 2019 in conjunction with The New School. Her performance works have been presented at Danspaceproject in the Draftwork series and by Movement Research at Judson. She was a 2019–2022 Movement Research Artist in Resident. A notable work is her 24-hr Diner performance. domesticperformanceagency.com
Sean Thor Conroe is an American writer. He wrote the novel Fuccboi, which was edited and curated by the great Giancarlo DiTrapano. He was a guest editor of New York Tyrant Magazine. His essays and stories are in The Paris Review, Heavy Traffic, and GQ, and his podcast is 1storypod.
Tea Hačić-Vlahović is a Croatian-American writer based in LA. She's a columnist for Spike Art Magazine and Vogue Adria. Previously a columnist for Vice and Wired Italy, contributor to Columbia Journal, Vogue Italia, i-D, Dazed, and contributing editor of Wonderland magazine. She's the author of LIFE OF THE PARTY (2020), A CIGARETTE LIT BACKWARDS (2022), and GIVE ME DANGER (2025). She's the host of the TROIE RADICALI podcast.