Buckham Fine Arts Project is pleased to announce its fifth Writer In Residence: Vivian Kao
Photo courtesy of Vivian Kao
BFAP’s 2024-2025 Writer In Residence is Vivian Kao
Buckham Fine Arts Project launched its Writer In Residence project in early 2021 to engage contemporary literary arts and Flint’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community. Buckham is pleased to announce the selection of its fifth Writer in Residence: Vivian Kao.
The 2024 - 2025 Writer In Residence collaboration invites Vivian Kao to engage with her interest in visual art, grow her creative practice, and gain exposure for her literary arts. While ensuring representation within its programming, Buckham continues to grow deeper ties within Flint’s BIPOC community. Kao’s compositions will be compiled with Buckham Gallery’s exhibition programming in a publication at the season’s end, fall of 2025.
As the resident literary artist, Kao will attend Buckham Gallery’s ten exhibitions between October 2024 and September 2025. After absorbing the visual presentations, Kao will create written compositions responding to her experience, as a catalyst for her literary practice. In addition to the residency and honorarium, Kao joins the Buckham Arts Collective with a complimentary Artist Collaborator membership.
"This opportunity fosters growth and engagement between visual and literary arts practices. We are overjoyed to work with Vivian Kao for the 2024 - 2025 residency. Kao's intuitive writing style will aid her sincere response to the visual artworks while she also delights in her own personal creative growth,” said Michele Leclaire, Executive Director.
ABOUT THE RESIDENT ARTIST : VIVIAN KAO
Vivian Kao is an associate professor of English at Lawrence Technological University. She is the author of Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor of Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities (Routledge, 2022). Her first book of poetry, Dear Mrs. River-Dragon, is forthcoming from Another New Calligraphy, and her essays and poems have appeared in East Village Magazine. She lives in Flint, MI with her husband and two small humans.
"I am extremely honored to be named the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence. I am so grateful for the opportunity to encounter and engage with the line-up of amazing works of art that will be exhibited at Buckham Gallery this next year. I hope I can walk in the footsteps of the talented writers who have held this post before me," said Kao.
2024 - 2025 BFAP: WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Buckham Fine Arts Project's Writer In Residence will receive honoraria and complimentary Buckham Artist Collaborator memberships for their participation, exemplifying BFAP’s commitment to supporting artists and contemporary arts in its community.
The 2024 - 2025 residency cycle will culminate with the compilation of Kao’s writings and images from Buckham’s exhibitions into a publication. More details will be available in Fall 2025.
Buckham Fine Arts Project launched its Writer In Residence project in early 2021 to engage contemporary literary arts and Flint’s Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community. Buckham is pleased to announce the selection of its fifth Writer in Residence: Vivian Kao.
The 2024 - 2025 Writer In Residence collaboration invites Vivian Kao to engage with her interest in visual art, grow her creative practice, and gain exposure for her literary arts. While ensuring representation within its programming, Buckham continues to grow deeper ties within Flint’s BIPOC community. Kao’s compositions will be compiled with Buckham Gallery’s exhibition programming in a publication at the season’s end, fall of 2025.
As the resident literary artist, Kao will attend Buckham Gallery’s ten exhibitions between October 2024 and September 2025. After absorbing the visual presentations, Kao will create written compositions responding to her experience, as a catalyst for her literary practice. In addition to the residency and honorarium, Kao joins the Buckham Arts Collective with a complimentary Artist Collaborator membership.
"This opportunity fosters growth and engagement between visual and literary arts practices. We are overjoyed to work with Vivian Kao for the 2024 - 2025 residency. Kao's intuitive writing style will aid her sincere response to the visual artworks while she also delights in her own personal creative growth,” said Michele Leclaire, Executive Director.
ABOUT THE RESIDENT ARTIST : VIVIAN KAO
Vivian Kao is an associate professor of English at Lawrence Technological University. She is the author of Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor of Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities (Routledge, 2022). Her first book of poetry, Dear Mrs. River-Dragon, is forthcoming from Another New Calligraphy, and her essays and poems have appeared in East Village Magazine. She lives in Flint, MI with her husband and two small humans.
"I am extremely honored to be named the 2024-2025 Writer-in-Residence. I am so grateful for the opportunity to encounter and engage with the line-up of amazing works of art that will be exhibited at Buckham Gallery this next year. I hope I can walk in the footsteps of the talented writers who have held this post before me," said Kao.
2024 - 2025 BFAP: WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Buckham Fine Arts Project's Writer In Residence will receive honoraria and complimentary Buckham Artist Collaborator memberships for their participation, exemplifying BFAP’s commitment to supporting artists and contemporary arts in its community.
The 2024 - 2025 residency cycle will culminate with the compilation of Kao’s writings and images from Buckham’s exhibitions into a publication. More details will be available in Fall 2025.
