Macdowell Fellowship Winter 2023

I have graciously accepted an offer to spend a few weeks in residency at the internationally acclaimed artist retreat Macdowell. I will be bringing my project, America, Home, Heart, which loosely adapts Carlos Bulosan’s America Is In The Heart. This project has a two-pronged approach: a stage adaptation of parts of the novel as well as an oral history project that maps recent Filipino-Californian history onto the locations found in the novel. I plan to both draft portions of the novel as well as conduct preliminary research.