Deborah Artman is a writer, editor, and wordsmith. She has worked in opera, publishing, education, theater, radio, and film and with composers, directors, performers, and visual artists. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous national journals, including American Short Fiction, Puerto del Sol and The New York Times Magazine. A long-time collaborator with Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, January 2018 marked the world premiere of the chamber version of Artman and Gordon's opera Acquanetta, featured in New York's “bracingly innovative” opera-theater Prototype Festival. Her libretti for the oratorios Shelter and Lost Objects had their U.S. premieres at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and have been performed around the world. Among her awards are ASCAP Plus Awards, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and Fiction Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and MacDowell. Her CD Lost Objects is available through Atlantic Records/Teldec Classics, and her CDs Shelter and Acquanetta (forthcoming) are available from Cantaloupe Records. A former assistant to the editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at Doubleday Publishers, Artman has a wide-ranging career as a freelance editor and currently teaches writing at the University of Hartford/Hartford Art School M.F.A. program in photography.
Deborah Artman
Studios
Heyward
Deborah Artman worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…