Joanna Haigood participated in a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Symrna Beach (Fla), with lead artists Katsutaka Murooka (Aerial Kite Photographer), Marc Ricketts (Kite Maker & Kite Theater Artist) and Tal Streeter (Kite Builder). There she met and collaborated with Patricia Burgess on Watermelon Moon, Burgess' opera inspired by the life of Amelia Earhardt.