Tal•e•a•mor is an invented word. “Talea” is a cutting for the propagation of a plant. “Tale” implies story. “Amor” is love. An internet search for “taleamor” found the opening words of Leonora's aria in Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore: "Di tale amor che dirsi mal può dalla parola..." —a love that can scarcely be put into words.
TALEAMOR PARK offers a creative, contemplative, and safe environment free of distractions in which to pursue a scholarly, artistic, personal, or work-related project. We welcome applications from scholars, artists, scientists, writers, humanists, and remote workers in all fields or from those with no specific product-oriented project in mind other than to simply unwind, walk, and reset.
WHAT
Taleamor Park offers self-directed residencies for one or more friends/partners who will share a floor of the residence. All residents must be 21 or older.
WHO
We particularly welcome those who wish to integrate their projects with learning about and interacting with the local ecology and culture.
Residents may be writers or poets, playwrights or painters, sculptors or architects, dancers or craftspersons, photographers or video filmmakers, composers or musicians, web or landscape designers, installation or performance artists.
Scholars are welcome from any field, whether in literature or ecology, peace studies or art history, philosophy or environmental studies, public policy or horticulture, women’s studies or anthropology, biology or ethnic studies.
Recent Taleamor Park residents
Taleamor Park 2018-2019 residents
Taleamor Park 2016-2017 residents
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WHEN
Two-, three-, and four-week residencies are scheduled from April to September. For inquiries about residencies longer than four weeks or in other months of the year, contact us.
WHERE
Situated in the heart of LaPrairie Farms—a 350-acre working farm, Taleamor Park lies between the towns of LaPorte and Rolling Prairie in northern Indiana. Lake Michigan, South Bend, and the University of Notre Dame are close, and downtown Chicago is about an hour away by car or commuter rail.
RESIDENCY GUIDELINES and APPLICATION
Before completing an application, please read the Taleamor Park residency guidelines, which have been carefully designed to ensure a positive experience for all. Application instructions can be found on the application page.
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WHO
Clifford and Lisa Lee Peterson share the artistic, administrative, and practical responsibilities of Taleamor Park.
Clifford has lived on and off the farm that is now home to Taleamor Park since 1950. With degrees from Harvard in visual studies, Notre Dame in environic design, and the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology, Clifford is Taleamor Park’s resident scholar, artist, and farmer visionary. Examples of his artwork can be viewed at www.taleamor.art. All images on this site are Clifford's unless otherwise noted.
In 2015, Lisa retired after thirty years at Purdue University where she served as professor of textile arts, chair of the department of art and design, and designer/director of the MFA program. Lisa’s artistic genre has evolved from weaving cloth with yarn to weaving yarns out of whole cloth. Her current work-in-progress, Tropic of Exclusion, is a multigenerational story that sweeps across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu, to a village near the Pearl River Delta in China, to San Francisco. The lives of four women in a Chinese American family reveal the consequences of exclusion—whether by law, abandonment, betrayal, rejection, or intolerance. Lisa is the webmaster for this site.
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