Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Denise Kumani Gantt

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Joppa, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Denise Kumani Gantt worked on her new play, The Gift, a brief history of everything we have ever known. Her poetry collection, conjuring the dead, was winner of the Maryland Emerging Writers Award in 2003.

Studios

Veltin

Denise Kumani Gantt worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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