Ragdale Announces 2025 Cohort of Artists-In-Residence

LAKE FOREST, ILLINIOS (11 February, 2025) - Ragdale is pleased to announce its cohort of 2025 Artists-In-Residence, including 11 Cohort fellows. Ragdale has awarded residencies to artists from 22 states and 4 countries. Over the course of 2025, these artists-in-residence, who work in a wide variety of artistic disciplines, will converge on Ragdale, an idyllic Arts-and-Crafts campus located in Lake Forest, Illinois, for 18 days of uninterrupted time and space to advance their creative work.

“The 2025 cohort of incoming artists has been thoughtfully selected from the largest applicant pool in Ragdale history,” said Ragdale Artistic Director Regin Igloria. “Our Curatorial Council has done an incredible job in curating this group of artists, and we’re thrilled to be welcoming them to Ragdale over the course of the following year. We can’t wait to see the incredible work they produce with their time here.” 

Ragdale is also pleased to award fellowships to a variety of artists working in all disciplines. These fellowships provide a fee-waived stay at Ragdale, plus a stipend for the artist to further their work. This year’s fellows include KB Brookins, awarded the Alice Judson Hayes Social Justice Fellowship; S.M. Sukardi, awarded the Anne Searle Bent Spiritual Arts Fellowship; Carmen Lizardo, awarded the Prairie Fellowship; Anne-Marie Oomen, awarded Ragdale’s Youth Engagement Fellowship; Jean Shon, awarded the Robin and Sandy Stuart Photography Fellowship; Andre Barker, awarded the Judy Sigunick Fellowship in Visual Arts; Diana Guerrero- Maciá, awarded the Schumann Family Fellowship; Christopher Williams, awarded the Sybil Shearer Fellowship for Dancemakers; Ken Saragosa and Joe Martinez awarded the 2025 and 2024 Waud Fellowships for Formerly Incarcerated Artists, respectively; Darius Jones, Jessica Pavone, and Conrad Tao, awarded the William and Solange Brown Fellowship for New Musical Composition through Ragdale’s partnership with the Herb Alpert Awards; and Lindsay Rhyner, Hilal Isler and Rita Mitra Mustaphi, awarded McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowships through Ragdale’s partnership with the McKnight Foundation and Artist Communities Alliance. 

Ragdale’s 2025 Artists-In-Residence Include:

Nicole Arocho Hernández (Poetry)
Rabha Ashry (Nonfiction)
Rodlyn-mae Banting (Nonfiction)
Andre Barker (Visual Arts)
Hannah Batsel (Fiction)
Gregory Beam (Playwriting)
Shlagha Borah (Poetry)
KB Brookins (Nonfiction)
Laura Catherine Brown (Graphic Novel)
Paige Brown (Music)
Holly Cahill (Fiber)
Oliver Caplan (Music)
Jessamine Chan (Fiction)
Leland Cheuk (Fiction)
Rob Collier (Music)
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion(Poetry)
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen (Playwriting)
Dej (Poetry)
Annette Elliott (Moving Image)
Marnie Galloway (Graphic Novel)
Lorena Garcia (Nonfiction)
Marie B Gauthiez (Visual Arts)
Nicolei Buendia Gupit (Sculpture)
Beatriz Guzman Velasquez (Visual Arts)
Diana Guerrero-Maciá (Visual Arts)
Colleen Hagerty (Nonfiction)
Shanelle Harrison (Interdisciplinary Art)
Darryl Alexander Hines (Fiber)
Luther Hughes (Poetry)
Christine Hume (Nonfiction)
Hilal Isler (Fiction)
Malloy James (Music)
Jac Jemc (Fiction)
Paula Kamen (Playwriting)
Rachel Keown (Playwriting)
Anne Korkeakivi (Fiction)
Daniel Kraus (Fiction)
Kunaka (Nonfiction)
Richard Scott Larson (Nonfiction)
Maud Lavin (Poetry)
Margaret Juhae Lee (Nonfiction)
Shawn Lent (Dance)
Su-Yee Lin (Fiction)
Carmen Lizardo (Photography)
Lucie Lomová (Graphic Novel)
Kelly Luce (Fiction)
Jennifer Lunden (Nonfiction)
M.E. Macuaga (Nonfiction)
Shivani Manghnani (Fiction)
Amanda Maraist (Dance)
Joe Martinez (Performance)
Sayuri Matsuura Ayers (Poetry)
Quincy Gray McMichael (Nonfiction)
Kathleen Melin (Nonfiction)
Rachel Miller (Interdisciplinary)
Dipika Mukherjee (Fiction)

Kieran Mundy (Fiction)
Rita Mitra Mustaphi (Dance)
Najee-Zaid (Interdisciplinary Art)
Sook Jin Ong (Poetry)
Anne-Marie Oomen (Poetry)
Rich Orloff (Playwriting)
Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone (Dance)
Jeremy Owens (Playwriting)
Hallie Palladino (Playwriting)
Jessica Pavone (Music)
Melissa Perrin (Nonfiction)
Phree (Dance)
Alison Pick (Nonfiction)
Hannah Pittard (Fiction)
Monika Plioplyte (Visual Arts)
Pedro Ponce (Fiction)
Christina Pugh (Poetry)
Kathleen Quigley (Nonfiction)
Eia Radosavljevic (Poetry)
Farheen Raparthi (Fiction)
Joy Ray (Fiber)
Senghor Reid (Visual Arts)
LeBrie Rich (Sculpture)
Megan Rich (Nonfiction)
D’onminique (Ndosi) Riley (Interdisciplinary)
Whitney Scharer (Fiction)
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer (Poetry)
Katrin Schnabl (Installation)
Diana Schoenbrun (Graphic Novel)
Kathy Lou Schultz (Poetry)
Reena Shah (Fiction)
Jessica Shattuck (Fiction)
Jean Shon (Photography)
Rachel Shteir (Nonfiction)
Elizabeth L. Silver (Fiction)
Hannah Spiegelman (Nonfiction)
S.M. Sukardi (Nonfiction)
Erin Swan (Fiction)
Anca L. Szilágyi (Nonfiction)
Hannah Penrose Thurman (Fiction)
Wendy Vardaman (Poetry)
Michael Velliquette (Sculpture)
Cecilia Villarruel (Nonfiction)
Phuong T. Vuong (Poetry)
Christine Wallers (Visual Arts)
Tianjiao Wang (Moving Image)
Cynthia Weiss (Visual Arts)
Christopher Williams (Dance)
Em Williamson (Fiction)
Folayemi Wilson (Nonfiction)
Dana Y. Wu (Nonfiction)
Yoona (Fiction)
Irina Zadov (Interdisciplinary Art)
Toby Zallman (Visual Arts)
Xingyi Zhao (Fiber)
Erica Zhan (Interdisciplinary Art)