Gay LeCleire Taylor talks about Frank Wheaton coming up with their fellowship program. Oral history interview with Gay LeCleire Taylor, March 23, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:00.

Gay LeCleire Taylor: Yes, and we all went down the river in Mr. [Frank] Wheaton’s yacht [laughter] and talked about the idea of coming up with a fellowship program which was established in 1983. We bought a little house around the corner and juried artists, and the first group was six artists which included Mary Van Kline and Steve Tobin and Jim Harmon—realized six didn’t work, that four was better, and that it then became three sessions a year for three months, a stipend was given, a house was given for you to live so everything was paid for so a young artist coming out of a college program would have a place to build a small body of work. It eventually moved on to being much more than that—of over these 300 artists, and the facility grew and new equipment was built and so it was always a stimulating situation.