The McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency exemplifies Skidmore’s commitment to experiential learning, close faculty-student collaboration, and interdisciplinary exploration. The residency is a signature academic program that brings internationally recognized artists and scholars to Skidmore College for an intensive, week-long residency during the academic year. It is designed as a total-immersion experience that embeds the visiting artist directly into the academic and creative life of the College, with sustained focus on student learning and faculty collaboration.
McCormack Residents represent the highest levels of artistic achievement across visual, performing, and literary arts, including recipients of major honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Grammy Award, Tony Award, and Nobel Prize in Literature. Through classroom engagement, studio practice, mentorship, and public scholarship, the McCormack Residency advances Skidmore’s mission by uniting theory and practice and modeling interdisciplinary inquiry within a liberal arts context.
2026 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence
Pam Tanowitz
Acclaimed Choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow
Photo credit: Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp
Residency details coming soon.
About Pam Tanowitz
Pam Tanowitz is a celebrated New York-based choreographer and founder of Pam Tanowitz
Dance who has steadily delineated her own dance language through decades of research
and creation. She is the first-ever choreographer in residence at the Fisher Center
at Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and is an assistant professor of professional
practice at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Other honors include
the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, LMCC Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, Doris
Duke Artist Award, Herb Alpert Award, BAC Cage Cunningham Fellowship, and Bessie Awards,
among others. She has created works for the Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet,
Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, The Royal Ballet,
Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Dance, Ballet
Austin, and New York Theatre Ballet. Originally from New Rochelle, New York, Tanowitz
holds degrees from Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College.
The residency is presented by Skidmore’s Office of Special Programs and Dance Department.