The City of Auburn program offers the opportunity for an artist to pursue their work in, and to be inspired by, the unique and beautiful setting of the Mary Olson Farm in Auburn, Washington. The residency lasts two months, providing the artist with a large indoor barn studio, a stipend, and access to the 67 acre farm.

About the Artist: 

Jahnvi Madan is a clarinetist and composer from Seattle whose music reflects her lived experience -- a response to the invisibility she felt growing up as a first generation Indian American, unsure of how she was living every day when nothing reflected who she was or how she felt.

She strives to now make those experiences visible through sonic expression, and concretely create a true space of belonging that brings an audience together, brings more first- generation people of color, Asian people, into these rooms they are absent from, and through that, allow jazz music to find new audiences within her city.

"Music for me has always been a method of storytelling and self-expression. I would love the opportunity to connect my own story to the story of this historic farm by composing a new instrumental work, and then share it through a performance for Auburn’s local community. The piece would be focused on themes of permanence and displacement, as well as the link between my own family’s farming story against that of the Olson’s. (I would donate a score and/or recording to the city.)"

 -Jahnvi Madan

For more information about the Mary Olson Farm, please visit the White River Valley Museum website