Millay Arts

About Us We offer multidisciplinary artists time and space through various residencies. By supporting their creative processes and practices, we enrich lives, foster connections, and engage communities. History 1973-PRESENT Founded in 1973 and located at “Steepletop,” the historic estate of poet/activist Edna St. Vincent Millay (one of the first women to win a Pulitzer Prize), Millay Arts is a nonprofit organization that offers multidisciplinary artists residencies on our campus as well as in the community. Located in the Hudson Valley, nestled against the Berkshire foothills of Austerlitz, New York, our sylvan seven acres border Vincent’s house and gardens (maintained by the Millay Society, a separate nonprofit) and the beautiful Harvey Mountain State Forest. Learn More > LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We honor and acknowledge the Mohican people, the ancestral caretakers of this place; we take this time to consider the acts of violence, displacement, and unjust treatment toward them that have occurred over many generations; we offer our respect and gratitude to the elders of the past, to those living today, and to those who will come in the future, for their careful stewardship of this land and its resources and for the rich cultural legacy they will continue to create here. What We Believe In MISSION Millay Arts supports the work and creative process of multidisciplinary artists through a range of residencies that enrich lives and communities locally and globally. VALUES We are committed to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion. We take seriously our critical responsibility as a supporter of a wide range of leading artistic voices. We pledge to continue to use our platform in the effort to realize a nondiscriminatory, equal and just world. VISION We believe that the role of art and artists is essential to a just and habitable society. Artists and their works forge connection, challenge boundaries and reflect a multiplicity of voices that reveal what it is like to be alive in the world today. The gift of time and space is vital to create work that acts as a crucial catalyst for transformational change and evolution.