Earlier this year, multimedia artist Nadia DeLane (MFA 2015 Visual Narrative) and Savona Bailey McClain, executive director of the West Harlem Art Fund, a public arts organization, established Visual Muze, a new residency dedicated to artists whose lives have been displaced or adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and whose practices focus on storytelling.

Based out of a 19th-century military house on Governors Island and supported by The Trust for Governors Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Visual Muze hosts a total of 18 participants for four- to 10-week sessions in both summer and fall, offering four studio rooms as well as outdoor work space, from 8:30am – 3:00pm on weekdays and 8:00am – 4:00pm on weekends. Artists can create collaboratively or independently, creating original works that explore narrative forms through a variety of mediums—whether performance, film, environmental, fine art, print or digital. The program also offers prompts for inspiration.

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