Edgewood Arts

Welcome to Edgewood Arts, a 501(c)(3) arts-education organization and writer's workshop founded by Yale graduates and located in Savannah, Georgia.

In other news, our StoryBoard Program, an after-school creative writing initiative, has been a big success. Check out some of our student work here! This fall, we are planning an extensive expansion of the StoryBoard Program. Through incorporating a new legion of volunteer teachers into our classrooms, we will be triple the number of students we teach! Click here to help support our efforts.

Watch testimonials from a poetry class for young women at Hubert Middle School.

Welcome

How We Got Started

What We Do

How We Do It

How We Got Started

Edgewood Arts was born when three friends realized that they liked writing and that they liked learning from each other. They agreed that art could teach us about ourselves and our fellow humans, it could cultivate compassion, and it could strengthen community. It could be something important.

So these friends created Edgewood Arts, named after a house on Edgewood Avenue in New Haven where they first became friends and schemed together: a place where art and community could be happily and inextricably intertwined.

What We Do

Our mission is twofold:

* To build a residency program in which emerging writers will be able to learn from each other, hone their craft, and devote themselves to their work.

* To provide arts education for middle school students in our larger community, the town of Savannah, GA.

How We Do It

Our three directors are currently building an artistic collective of promising young fiction-writers, poets, and playwrights who will participate in a series of four-month Artistic Residencies. Unlike other arts residencies – which often place a participating artist in isolation – the Edgewood Arts Residency Program asks its writers to engage with each other and, more importantly, with the community at large.

Currently, two resident writers, live and work together with the program’s directors. The residency program provides structured opportunities for regular feedback, as well as the mutual inspiration that comes from living together as a community of writers.

Next, Edgewood Art involves this group of writers in the greater context of Savannah. Through Edgewood Arts’ StoryBoard Program, our directors and resident writers serve as teachers and workshop leaders in local middle schools.

The easiest way to contact us is via email:

Catherine Killingsworth, Executive Director: catherine@edgewoodarts.org

Emma Lunbeck, Residency Director: emma@edgewoodarts.org

Alex Borinsky, Education Director: alex@edgewoodarts.org

We can also be reached by mail or phone:

Edgewood Arts

PO Box 5582

Savannah, GA 31414

912-233-5244

About the Edge

We are pleased to announce that we have selected our fall resident writers: Eleanor Liu, Gino Orlandi, and Adeeba Rana! We are thrilled to have these three talented writers and look forward to working with them over the fall.