In Process | Open Studios @ The Watermill Center

In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of studio visits and open rehearsals that invite the community to gain unique insight into the creative process of our Artists-in-Residence, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.

Join us for IN PROCESS on Friday, November 14, from 5:30–7:30pm to meet our current Artists-in-Residence: Holland Andrews + yuniya edi kwon, Samora la Perdida, Kat Thompson, and Dale Going.

Holland Andrews (they/them) and yuniya edi kwon (she/her) are Brooklyn-based composer-improvisers and interdisciplinary artists whose collaborative work is an extension of their lives as ritualists, spiritual practitioners, and partners. Holland combines voice, clarinet, and electronics to address vulnerability and healing, and yuniya connects sound, movement, and ceremony to explore transformation and mythology. Their opera-in-progress, How does it feel to look at nothing, is a transdisciplinary space for their shared queer-trans family and creative lineages. They are recipients of the Guggenheim & United States Artists Fellowships, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, and the Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship at the Watermill Center.

Samora la Perdida (she/her) is a trilingual creator and performer, Princess Grace Award winner, YoungArts Fellow, and inaugural Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Labs resident. Her musicals SPANGLISH SH!T and pato, pato, maricón appear on PLAYBILL’s Songwriter Series and her TEDx Talk: Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Her work has been supported by Berkeley Rep, Pocantico Center, NYSCA, and En Garde Arts. On stage, she’s starred in Galas, Quiara Alegria Hudes’ My Broken Language, Notes On Killing…, A Transparent Musical, and can be seen on screen in Queens of the Dead. She holds degrees in Drama and Global Studies from Carnegie Mellon.

Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist from Virginia who explores Afro-Caribbean selfhood within the African Diaspora through photography, textiles, collages, and installations. Drawing on her Jamaican heritage, her work reflects her family’s journey using personal and found materials to reveal shared histories and futures. Her art has been shown at galleries including Page Bond, Fenwick, and Tephra Institute. Thompson holds a BFA from George Mason University and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a Young Alumni Commissioning Award recipient and a current Hamiltonian Artists Fellow.

Dale Going's poetry collection The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster appeared in 2025 from Codhill Press alongside her chapbook For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings (Albion Books). Her previous works include The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press) and As/of the Whole (SFSU Award). Supported by the Fund for Poetry and California Arts Council, she has held residencies at Yaddo, Wedding Cake House, and Djerassi. Her poems appear in BlazeVOX, New American Writing, Posit, and VOLT. She lives in Manhattan and the Adirondack Park.

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