Catwalk Art Residency is an invitation-only artist residency program established in 2004 by James and Purcell Palmer in Catskill New York, on the historic Catwalk estate, a 70-acre property on the Hudson River. Partners schools include NYU Tisch, Vassar, Columbia University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The mission of the CATWALK Institute is to establish Catwalk as a special retreat for art-making, collaborative projects, and scholarly discourse in a visually stimulating part of the country that has historically provided and continues to provide significant inspiration to artists, cultural historians, writers, and scholars. I completed a series of prints called “Excavation” that is now in the permanent collection.