A multifaceted filmmaker known for his feature debut "Approaching the Unknown," distributed by Paramount Pictures and available for streaming, also helmed "Year Million," a six-hour series exploring technology's impact on humanity, aired on National Geographic. A New York native, Rosenberg holds a BA in Film from Vassar College, teaching the craft at Hunter College. During my Catslair residency, I'll be crafting "I Think You Should," a screenplay following Anders, a troubled young man returning to his Hudson Valley hometown, entangled in a tumultuous affair with Diana, "Dizzy," amidst his father's ailing health.

www.markelijahrosenberg.com 

Affiliation: Vassar College

Sue Uhlig is a a lecturer at Purdue University and a Ph.D. candidate in Art Education at Penn State University. Her dissertation uses a research-creation approach to address the pedagogical implications of collaborative collections created through social practice and critical gift exchange. In this winter residency, Sue plans to read, write, wander the grounds and the village, and continue the work from her first residency on collections and creative placemaking through several actions, including making an artist's book of archival research findings from the Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie, leading a placemaking box workshop in the village of Catskill, and writing about collections and cabinets of curiosity.

www.sueuhlig.com

Affiliation: Penn State

In her upcoming narrative non-fiction book, "Heartwood: The Intimate Connection Between Women and the Forest," Jean Zimmerman explores the extensive cultural history of women and forests, delving into their profound love, nurturing roles, and passionate connection with trees across millennia. This untold story, encompassing captivating tales of women in various roles, from Indigenous figures to modern-day arborists, is a project Jean, an experienced author and Certified Arborist, is enthusiastically poised to undertake.

www.jeanzimmerman.com

Affiliation: Columbia University

Mia de Bethune, MA, ART-BC, LCAT, ISP/SEP, is an artist and art therapy educator practicing in NY but residing in Rhode Island. She’s also in the dissertation phase of her doctoral degree at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, focusing on somatic practices in art therapy. Mia has been practicing art therapy since 2000 and has worked with numerous populations, from children and adolescents in foster care to hospice and bereavement care. Her private practice in Westchester County, NY, is focused on somatically focused trauma treatment with adults and children. She teaches at NYU and has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University, and Maharashtra Institute of Technology in India. Routledge accepted her concept for the book The Embodied Art Therapist for publication in 2026. This project and her dissertation (a qualitative study of art therapists’ lived experience of embodiment) are her focus for writing this year. Within her own artwork, she explores the energetic connection between the image of the body on the page and her body, as well as fiber sculptures made from industrial materials.

Affiliation: NYU

Kelley Linhardt, MA ATR-BC LCAT CCTP, is a New York State licensed creative arts therapist, board-certified art therapist, and certified clinical trauma practitioner. She is also an avid painter who was drawn to the field of art therapy because she has experienced the healing power of art-making in her own life. Kelley has a deep clinical and theoretical interest in how embodied/full-bodied art-making can ameliorate the symptoms and severity of complex trauma. Along with co-editors Mia de Bethune and Valeria Koutmina, Kelley is editing an anthology of the practical application and clinical importance of embodiment in art therapy for Routledge Press entitled “The Embodied Art Therapist”, which has an expected publication date of June 2026. In addition to painting, Kelley sees clients in private practice at a multidisciplinary creative arts therapy atelier in New York City and Cold Spring, NY, and is a faculty member in the graduate art therapy program at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City.

Affiliation: Collaborator with Mia de Bethune

Valeria Koutmina, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, C-MBSP, is a board-certified creative arts therapist, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction practitioner, yogi and artist. The aim of her therapeutic practice is to align clients with the right media and tools to help them attain meaningful change. She works in two group private practices in New York, as well as the Hospice of Westchester. Body-based methods, tactile and sensory integration, as well as multimodal and archetypal approaches are highlighted in her therapy sessions with diverse populations. As an artist, Valeria enjoys working with fibers, collage, drawing and painting. She is an alumna of Catwalk Institute and looking forward to the residency, where she will be focusing on writing and editing for The Embodied Art Therapist.

Affiliation: Collaborator with Mia de Bethune

Claire de Laszlo Marshall is a filmmaker and textile artist based in New York. Her recent work explores the meaning of home in the context of mass migration. In residency at Catwalk, she will be working on a collection of five experimental short documentary films. The first of the five films entitled Is This Place a Home? is a meditation on the pain of forced displacement - evictions, floods, interpersonal violence - and a celebration of the creativity and beauty with which New Yorkers put down roots. The films explore how our physical environment relates to us and how people and places change each other in the homemaking process. They invite us to consider the way our personal and ancestral histories inform the way we inhabit an area and engage in candid dialogue with others who have different stories in hopes that we can collectively take responsibility for the ways we shape our environments and help each other recover a sense of agency about the idea of home.

Affiliation: Catwalk Alum-Collaborator

Paulo K Tiról (composer, lyricist, bookwriter) and Noam Shapiro (director, dramaturg) will be returning to Catslair in February '24 to continue work on Dear America, a musical adaptation of the bestselling memoir of Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, immigration activist, and undocumented American Jose Antonio Vargas. During their first residency at Catslair in May '22, they began work on Dear America and also worked on On This Side of the World, a full-length musical about a Filipino woman flying from Manila to New York City with a one-way ticket and a suitcase of stories. In May '23, On This Side of the World had its world premiere at East West Players in Los Angeles, the country's largest and longest-running Asian American theatre, where it had a sold-out extended run and became the theatre's highest-grossing new work.

Affiliation: NYU