Every winter, during the seven-month residency program, a few artists and writers are invited to come to the Work Center and meet with the Fellows. Below is a small selection of the writers and artists who have come here over the years.

Writers Ai Yehuda Amichai John Ashbery Margaret Atwood Amiri Baraka Ann Beattie Gwendolyn Brooks Raymond Carver Robert Creeley Toi Dericotte Annie Dillard Andre Dubus Jessica Hagedorn Seamus Heaney David Ignatow Gish Jen Dennis Johnson Ward Just Galway Kinnell Jhumpa Lahiri Victor Lavalle Li-Young Lee Norman Mailer Mary Oliver Michael Ondaatje Gregory Orr Patricia Smith Robert Stone

Artists Benny Andrews Luis Cruz Azaceta Jake Berthot Chris Burden Carroll Dunham Raphael Ferrer Janet Fish Tom Friedman Ellen Gallagher Robert Gober Jim Hodges Nancy Holt Yvonne Jacquette Bill Jensen Roberto Juarez Alex Katz Mel Kendrick Altred Leslie Annete Lemieux Brice Marden Daniel Joseph Martinez Elizabeth Murray Thomas Nozkowski Judy Pfaff Richard Prince Martin Puryear Nancy Rubins Sal Scarpitta Charles Spurrier Jim Surls Jack Whitten Helen Miranda Wilson Terry Winters Tim Woodman Lisa Yuskavage