Yaddo

Yaddo

Yaddo, circa 1905
Formation	1926
Type	Artist colony
Purpose	To nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment
Headquarters	Saratoga Springs, New York
Region served	United States
Website	yaddo.org

Coordinates: 43°04′07″N 73°45′29″W / 43.06848°N 73.75813°W / 43.06848; -73.75813

Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre (1.6 km²) estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment." On March 11, 2013 it was designated a National Historic Landmark.

It offers residencies to artists working in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 66 Pulitzer Prizes, 27 MacArthur Fellowships, 61 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers' Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), and countless other honors. Yaddo is included in the Union Avenue Historic District.