Discipline: Film/Video, Literature – nonfiction

Catherine Jelski

Discipline: Film/Video, Literature – nonfiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2012

Catherine Jelski worked on a memoir of her years as an American teenager living in East Berlin in the 1970s. Her feature film, The Young Unknowns, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in an art-house run in the U.S. in 2003.

Studios

Calderwood

Catherine Jelski worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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