Residency

Recognizing the need for rest, research, and retreat in the creative process, Oberon places no demands on how artists engage the residency. The space is intentionally crafted to host a single artist or a small collective, ensuring a personalized and intimate experience. Invited residents have the opportunity to live and work in a secluded home, surrounded by serene forests and waterways, for periods ranging from six to twelve weeks.

Each resident is invited to recommend ten books to be added to our growing library.

The residency is invitation-only at this time.

Past Residents

sonia louise davis

Ivan Forde

Natalie Diaz

Adrienne Edwards

Carolyn Lazard

Selections from the Library
at the Oberon Residency

A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic by Nirmala Erevelles

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong

The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

The Epic of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sanders

Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris Thompson

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed by Jack Whitten

Japanese Art in Perspective: East-West Encounters by Takashina Shuji

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter by Lee Ufan

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem

On Value by Ralph Lemon

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Sundiata: An Old Epic Of Mali by D.T. Niane

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M. Schweik

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coates-Lewis

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor

Blank Forms 06: Organic Music Societies edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren

Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy

David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale by Elena Filipovic