Summer 2025 Community Updates
Da Pacem Domine by Shruthi Rajasekar now available
In residence at Tusen Takk in 2022, Shruthi Rajasekar composed her choral piece Da Pacem Domine, commissioned by The Gesualdo Six. It was first performed at Kings Place, London in October 2022. The concert program that inspired this setting of "Da pacem, Domine" explores music that has been lost over time. This setting takes this context and begins in a place of feeling forsaken. But the sense of being lost is transformed upon the acknowledgement of "Deus noster"– our God. In embracing the Divine, peace is found.
Vaune Trachtman, ALL THAT IS
Work from alumni photographer-in-residence Vaune Trachtman's ALL THAT IS series was acquired by the Candela Collection in Richmond, VA and is featured in Analog Forever's Edition 11.
Nadia Sablin: Years Like Water
September 4–27, 2025
Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR
Work printed at Tusen Takk will be on view at Blue Sky as part of alumni photographer-in-residence Nadia Sablin's exhibition Years Like Water.
Composing a Living: A Music Creator’s Guide to Money, Relationships, & Business
“Composing a Living” is a new book co-authored by alumni composer-in-residence Dale Trumbore and conductor Brandon Elliott. The book offers an honest, practical guide to building a sustainable career in today’s freelance music economy. The book is based on interviews with 28 composers working across classical, opera, film, and experimental genres.
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Leilehua Lanzilotti Included in 2025-26 MetLive Arts Lineup
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
The MetLive Arts' upcoming season will highlight a significant number of new works created by female artists, including alumni composer-in-residence Leilehua Lanzilotti. The Met collection and galleries, including special exhibitions like Man Ray: When Objects Dream, will provide inspiration for several new performances.
Wayne Gudmundson: Tree Lined Avenues
July 10–October 5, 2025
North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
Alumni photographer-in-residence Wayne Gudmundson was commissioned to photograph Trampot, France by the non-profit Allées-Avenues, an organization dedicated to the preservation of tree-lined avenues. Gudmundson printed a portfolio of the resulting black and white images at Tusen Takk. One of the three portfolios is now on view at the North Dakota Museum of Art in its mezzanine gallery.
Catskill Artists Now
Opening Saturday, June 14th, 5–7pm
on view through Upstate Art Weekend, July 17–21, 2025
Beattie-Powers Place, Catskill, NY
The exhibition Catskill Artists Now includes artworks by 2025 artist-in-residence Alon Koppel with fellow Catskill-based artists Jordan Baker, Johanna Burke, Enrique Govantes, and Valerie Hammond.
The show will feature Koppel’s photographs in various sizes, from large 30" x 45" framed prints to smaller 12" x 18" prints, as well as two limited-edition photogravures made during his Tusen Takk residency. A percentage of sales income will be donated to support relief efforts in Gaza.
Image: 10 seconds of bulk carrier Genco Auvergne, Catskill, 2023 (Photogravure 2025)
Herbert Smith Freehils Kramer Portrait Award 2025
July 10–October 12, 2025
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2025 artist-in-residence Brenda Zlamany’s portrait of David Hockney was selected as one of 46 works in the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious global exhibition of contemporary portraiture.
Terra Madre: Katrina Bello
May 30–August 30, 2025
Zane Bennett, Santa Fe, NM
Terra Madre features large-scale drawings of natural textures, digital prints, and video art by 2023 artist-in-residence Katrina Bello. Inspired by her experience of displacement, adaptation, and motherhood, Bello renders the dramatic textures of soil, tree bark, and strata as evidence of Earth's journey through time, a metaphor that serves as a lens for interpreting the shifting landscapes of human life.
Duet on the Apple Blossom
through September 14, 2025
Flow Photographic Gallery, London, UK
When landscape photographers Jem Southam and 2022 artist-in-residence Barbara Bosworth decided to each document an apple tree for a year, their results were startlingly different. Their collaboration started a lively exchange that became a book: Duet on the Apple Blossom (Dust Collective).
An exhibition inspired by the book, Notes on a Duet, is at Flow Photographic Gallery in London, by appointment, until September 14, 2025.
Photo essay by The Guardian
What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape
June 8–December 7, 2025
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape is a selection of photographs from the museum's collection never before shown to the public. The exhibition features work by 2021 artist-in-residence Frank Gohlke among other landscape photographs, which help us not only to appreciate other times and places but also consider where the world has been and what it is becoming.
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