Westbeth Chronicles
a 50th Anniversary website event

Coming soon!!!
Short works of 300 words or less by Westbeth residents writing about life at Westbeth during the past 5 decades.

Explore the personal experiences, memorable episodes, unexpected insights, interaction with amazing people, thoughts on the creative process, and the financial burdens to support work and family. These stories will illuminate how artists confront the intersection of desire and need.

Stories will be grouped according to the decade the story takes place.

In this revelatory page, visitors will discover what Westbeth Artists Housing has meant to the lives of artists, and in so doing what it has meant to the cultural growth of the city, and the globe.

Westbeth’s programming is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State. Westbeth is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.