News
from former Artist Residents at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
July
2010 News
Jee
Leong Koh, Poet, June 13-24, 2005
Jee wrote
to us regarding Andrew Howdle's review of his book of poetry, Equal to the
Earth.
“Andrew has
been a keen reader of my poetry for some time now. His acute comments, on my
blog and in emails, have inspired and supported me in more ways than I can
count. His review of my book of poetry Equal to the Earth has finally been published in the
Boxcar Poetry Review, edited by Neil Aitken. I think the review is the best
reading of my book so far. Not because it is flattering (it is), but because it
reads my work with high intelligence and broad sympathy. It sees the many ways
in which technique contributes to emotion, and so does not fall into the trap
of analyzing either in isolation, or, worse, as if they are contradictory. I
hope you enjoy reading his review, and consider buying the book (link below).”
www.benchpresspoetry.com, jeeleong.blogspot.com
Kyong
Mee Choi, Composer, February 23 – March 6, 2010
Kyong
Mee’s piano solo piece, Reminiscences, will be performed by Kuang-Hao Huang at the Festival of
Contemporary Music in San Francisco (San Francisco Community Music Center, 544
Capp Street) on July 17th
at 8 p.m. For more information visit www.newmusicforum.com . The concert will also feature music by Stephen Yip,
Composer, May 19 – 30, 2008
Matt
Jensen, Visual Artist, March 15 – 16, 2010
New
work by Matthew Jensen, Searching for Something Previously Unknown or
Forgotten on Governors Island and Nowhere In Manhattan, is on exhibit July 24 –
August 29. Building 110: LMCC’s
Art center at Governors Island. More www.Jensen-Projects.com
James
Woodward, Composer, January 29 – February 23, 2007
James
has accepted a job as Assistant Professor of Music at Jacksonville State
University in Jacksonson, AL. His children’s book has received a Bronze Medal
in Children’s Interactive Books from the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards.
Also look for new Rebecca Woogie T-shirts on rebeccawoogie.com. More information
available at www.jameswoodwardmusic.com
Tyler
Gilmore, Composer, November 9 – December 18, 2009
The Denver
Composer's Forum is presenting a concert of all new music by Tyler and Peter Harris this upcoming Saturday. The concert will feature the
world-class ensemble The Penumbra String Quartet and guest musicians including
baritone Chris Wittels and pianist Reggie Berg. Saturday,
July 10th at 7 pm, Sixth Ave UCC, 3250 East Sixth Ave., Denver, CO.
June
2010 News
Maria
Michails, Visual Artist, April 4 – May 28, 2010
Happy
Summer, Everyone! Hope this email finds you all well. I would like to pass on
the link to my new website. (www.treiastudios.net)
Rob
Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Summer
performances:
Friday,
June 18, 2010 @ 8p.m. with Aretha Franklin @ Melody Tent, Hyannis,
Massachusetts (www.melodytent.org).
Wednesday,
June 30, 2010 from 7-8:30 p.m. @ The Fat Cat, 75 Christopher St., NYC, (www.fatcatmusic.org).
Tuesday,
July 6, 2010 @ 5 p.m. in Nyack, NY, @ The Old Fashion with Chris Pasin
(trumpet), David Budway (piano), Cameron Brown (bass), George Schuller (drums).
Saturday,
July 10, 2010 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. @ Peeksill Festival in Peeksill, NY, 201 S
Division Street.
Thursday,
July 22, 2010 @ 8 p.m. with Johnny Mathis and Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 7:30 pm.
with Aretha Franklin in Cohasset, Massachusetts @ South Shore Music Circus (http://www.musiccircus.org)
Linda
Byrne, Visual Artist, March 1 – 27, 2004
Once again
it is time for Figment weekend on Governor's
Island this Friday through Sunday, June 11-13. For my second year of
participation I have done a piece for the Interactive
Sculpture Garden, which if you don't make it out this weekend, is up for
the entire summer till the island closes in mid-October. Bring family, bring
friends, bring yourself - it is a great time - with lots to do and see for
children of all ages! http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010
Bevin
Kelley, Composer, August 25 – Sept. 25, 2008
Upcoming performances:
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Providence RI -
The Stable
Friday,
June 18th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Providence RI - AS220
Saturday,
July 3rd - Blectum from Blechdom
in Los Angeles CA - The Smell
Tuesday,
July 13th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Brookline MA - Cafe Fixe
Friday,
July 23rd 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Brooklyn NY - Issue Project Room
Saturday,
July 31 - Blevin Blectum in Providence, RI - Wooly Fair 2010
Late July -
NYC, NY. and Dortmund, Germany
May
2010 News
Susannah
Sayler and Edward Morris, Visual Artists, Nov. 2 – Dec. 18, 2009
The
Canary Project has signed a contract with Metropolis Books and Distributed
Artist Publishers (DAP) to put out a book of Green Patriot Posters in the Fall.
Generous funders have made it possible to print this book domestically and
sustainably. More details on this to come.
Amanda
Burr will join CP co-founders Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler in the
Netherlands from May 20 to June 10. The team will be photographing,
interviewing, video-taping and recording. The mission is to investigate
the "Culture of Planning" in the Netherlands and to compare that
culture of planning to New Orleans. This is part of our effort to
re-visit a number of locations for more in-depth study. Material gathered
in the trip will feed into Morris/Sayler's A History of the Future and Burr's We Could
Just Leave. Many thanks to Tracy Metz who made this shoot possible
through the loan of her apartment.
Edward
Morris will be consulting with Environmental Defense Fund this summer.
Mission: find ways to fire up young people (whatever that means!) to
confront climate change. Demand accountability. www.canary-project.org contact@canary-project.org
Joan
Waltemath, Visual Artist, Sept. 17 – Nov. 9, 2007
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
announces the selection of abstract painter and longtime educator Joan
Waltemath as the second permanent director of the famed Hoffberger School of
Painting. Led for more than 40 years by Grace Hartigan until her death in 2008,
the M.F.A. program is noted for producing generations of painters who have had
an impact in the art world. “I am honored to step into my new role as director
of the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA,” Waltemath said. “It is a
challenge not only to uphold the important place the College has held in
American culture for nearly two centuries now but also a unique opportunity to
focus on painting at a time of multiformity in the arts and to help shape its
future.” Waltemath, who has been an educator since the early 1990s, has taught
for more than a decade at the I.S. Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper
Union in New York and in the visual arts department at Princeton University in
New Jersey. She has also served as the editor-at-large of The Brooklyn Rail, a
critical publication of arts, politics and culture, for nearly 10 years.
As
an artist, Waltemath has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and
internationally, including solo shows in New York; Basel, Switzerland; London;
Brussels; and Bonn, Germany. Her work is in many noted public collections,
including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in
Washington and the Muse de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Waltemath has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has been
invited to residencies, including Insel Hombroich (Germany) and The Edward F.
Albee Foundation. “As a painter of
uncompromising excellence, a critic recognized for her penetrating
intelligence, and an educator able to both inspire and challenge, Joan
Waltemath is an incredibly fitting heir to Grace Hartigan’s extraordinary
legacy,” said Ray Allen, MICA’s vice president for academic affairs and
provost. Waltemath studied at the University of Nebraska from 1971–73 and
received a B.F.A at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. When she
realized she wanted to teach, she went back to school, receiving her M.F.A.
from Hunter College at the City University of New York in 1993. “I know Joan is eagerly looking forward
to continuing Hoffberger School of Painting’s well-deserved reputation for
providing the most promising of painters with the knowledge and experience
necessary to realizing their professional potential,” Allen said.
Matt Dehaemers, Visual Artist, April 3 – 29, 2006
Sent
us images of a recent project at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver Colorado.
“The students enjoyed watching the mural installation unfold throughout the
day. We were able to get it entirely installed just before the end of the
school day.” The mural relates to aspects of the school's history and
movement throughout the last century from New Mexico to Southern Colorado to
its current location in Aurora Colorado. It also speaks to the life of
St. John Francis Regis for which the school is name who worked with people in
small medieval communities throughout the French Alps. Some of the
imagery draws a relationship between the geography of Rocky Mountains and
French Alps.
The
Missouri Department of Transportation dedicated Dehaemers’ Mixed Media public
art mural commission for the I-44 Welcome Center in Joplin to kick off Missouri
tourism month. “I enjoyed hearing all the stories the welcome center
staff had about people coming through reacting to the mural including a group
of Tibetan Monks who stopped to pose for a couple of pictures in front of it,”
Dehaemers said.
He
was recently awarded a public art commission to create a public art piece for
the KCATA (the Metro) at 31st and Troost for the new MAX hybrid bus system for
the Troost Corridor. Due to be completed by September. The concept
is a large scale kinetic sculpture that will move in relationship to arriving
and departing buses. And this fall, he has been commissioned to create a
multi-dimensional/faceted installation that will involve people from the
Creighton campus and Omaha community. The project deals specifically with
issues surrounding the world water crisis for Lied Arts Center at Creighton
University in Omaha, Nebraska--due to open September 17th.” www.matthewdehaemers.com
Steven Wingate, Writer, May 11 – 22, 2009
Next year,
Wingate will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at College of
the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Wingate notes, “It means leaving the
west, but sometimes we have to move for work. I'll get to Massachusetts in
August, and if you have any New England area applicants who have questions
about it, please feel free to send them my way.”
Rob
Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Saxophonist
Rob Scheps performs Wednesday, May 12 at Raphael D’Lugoff at 4pm
and at The Fat Cat (www.fatcatmusic.org),
75 Christopher St. @ 7th Ave. South, NYC from 7 pm- 8:30 pm.
Melanie Vote, Visual Artist, Aug. 13 – Sept.7, 2007
Melanie
Vote will be featured at AAI's 14th Annual Wide Open Studios on Saturday, May
15 from 4-8PM at 107 Suffolk St, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education
Center. Organized by Artists Alliance, Inc. in cooperation with Clemente Soto
Velez Cultural and Education Center. Located in the heart of the burgeoning
Lower East Side gallery scene, this large scale event provides an exciting
opportunity to visit many contemporary artists at once who will have their
artwork on display in their studios. Open Studios offers art enthusiasts a
unique glimpse into the artist's creative process and a diverse range of
practices will be represented, including painting, sculpture, printmaking,
works on paper, photography, installation, video and new media. Artworks will
also be available for sale. This event is supported, in part, by public
funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and made possible
with the generous support of our media sponsor One Art World.
Sarah
Sharp, Visual Artist, May 25 – June 19, 2009
Brooklyn-based
artist, Sarah G. Sharp’s first Houston exhibition opens Saturday, May 8 at Gallery 1724, 1724 Bissonett St. "Family
Crests for the Disenfranchised", imagines heraldic imagery for outsiders.
She uses domestic materials like contact paper,
linoleum, aluminum tape and salt, which she transforms into images and objects
that are familiar, funny and fantastical. Opening reception: Saturday,
May 8, 8-10, through Saturday, June 19 - gallery hours:
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-6pm, appointments recommended, call 713-582-1198. www.sarahgsharp.net
April 2010 News
Jenni
Brant, Visual Artist, October 26 – November 6, 2009
Jenni
Brant has been named the Executive Director of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
for the Arts. Most recently, Brant
worked at LUX Center for the Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska as the education director
for the last 2 1/2 years. www.jennibrantceramics.com
Susannah
Sayler and Edward Morris, Visual Artists, November 2 – December 18, 2009
The
Columbus State University Department of Art presented an exhibition by The
Canary Project “Double Blind” . www.canary-project.org
Michael
Giron, Visual Artist, March 2 – 10, 2009
Upcoming
art exhibit at the Hot Shops (Omaha, NE). It is called the Future of
Painting. The show takes on questions regarding our future through the
medium and topic of painting. The show opens during the Hot Shops open
house, May 1, 12-8pm, & May 2, 12-5pm with an artist’s reception on
Saturday, May 22nd, 6-9pm. The exhibit runs through the 30th.
www.mikegiron.com.
Christopher Reiger, Visual Artist, September 7 – 18, 2009
Endangered
Species Print Project: Javan Rhino limited edition
April
marks the release of my Endangered Species Print Project Javan Rhino
limited edition print. The number of prints in the edition corresponds to
the number of animals remaining in the wild. Sadly, there are just
49 Javan Rhinos left in the world, so the edition is a mere 49!
100% of the sales proceeds will support the work of the International
Rhino Foundation. To
purchase a print, read more
about the Javan Rhino and my work on the print, or read
my ESPP interview follow the links. :
ESPP
Exhibition at Barbara&Barbara Gallery, Chicago, IL
In
conjunction with Jenny Kendler and Linsey Burritt's installation "Early Thaw
of the Northwest Passage," the first Endangered Species Print Project
exhibition will be on view at Chicago's Barbara&Barbara Gallery. All
ESPP prints released so far will be included, along with an exclusive preview
of unreleased prints. On view: April 24 - May 24, 2010 Opening reception: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 6:30 -
11:00 PM http://barbaraandbarbaraloveyou.com/
The
Beholder Print Sales
Limited
edition, non ESPP prints for sale through the Beholder. The prints are
being sold per a charitable sales model; 50% of the sales price is a
tax-deductible contribution to WorldChanging, one of the terrific non-profit
organizations. For more information, please visit The Beholder website, www.beholder-art.com,
or Christopher’s
Beholder profile page.
Rob
Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Saxophonist
Rob Scheps performs Saturday, May 15, 2010 at Jazz Vespers, 1st
Presbyterian Church of Philipstown, 10 Academy St., Cold Spring, NY
10516
from 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. With Tom McCoy and the Hudson Valley Debut of
Magnets!, Rob Scheps (George Russell, Al Grey, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra) &
Kim Clarke's (Defunkt, Joe Henderson, Robert Palmer) New York City based
jazz/funk co-op band. The group has performed in Oregon, Washington State, NYC,
Philly, Maine,Santa Cruz, CA, and FINLAND, at Pori Jazz Festival in
2009." Magnets! Live at Earshot Jazz Festival" was recorded live
in Seattle on Halloween night, 2000. The cd is available www.cdbaby.com.
Magnets! established in 1997 includes Rob Scheps (tenor/soprano
saxophone), Kim Clarke (basses), Bruce Edwards (guitar, synth), John Cooksey
(drums). Performing Saturday, May 29, 2010 at Bean Runner Café, 201 S Division
St., Peekskill, NY from 7:30-10:30 p.m.
www.beanrunnercafe.com, www.magnets.8m.net, www.jazzcode.org,
Kim
Roberts, Writer, November 20 – December 15, 2006
Edited by
Kim Roberts, Full Moon on K Street, the tenth anniversary anthology of Beltway Poetry
Quarterly, www.beltwaypoetry.com
is available at some bookstores and online at planbpress.com and amazon.com. It
is 101 poems, written by current and former residents of Washington, DC between
1950 and the present.
Karina
Noel Hean, Visual Artist, January 5 - February 27, 2009
Karina’s
drawings were in a show at the Krause Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island.
“Landlines” was the name of the exhibit which ran from March 30 – April
23, 2010
Tyler
Gilmore, Composer, November 9 – December 18, 2009
Tyler
continues to premier new music.
See his website for a list of future performances. www.9thandlincoln.com
Nancy
Vining Van Ness, Writer, February 25 – March 7, 2008
Video clips of part of the performances from the March 20, 2010
Preview Party are now online at American Creative www.americancreativedance.org
Caleb
Taylor, Visual Artist, October 20 – November 21, 2008
Started
a blog where images of studio progress,
collaborative projects and weekly happenings are posted. Become a
follower and keep in touch!
Ted
Wheeler, Writer, March 15 – 26, 2010
Sarah
Sharp, Visual Artist, May 25 – June 19, 2009
Work is
featured in Future Tense: Landscape in Transition, curated by Dede Young at Stephan
Stoyanov Gallery. Artists in the show include: Erik Benson, Sebastiaan Bremer,
Peter Bynum, Blake Carrington, Nicole Cohen, Claire Ellen Corey, Cliff Evans,
Ellen Harvey, Peter Hildebrand, Ezra Johnson, Mary Mattingly, William Meyer,
Johan Nobell, Judy Pfaff, Jane Rosen, Jean-Pierre Roy, Kristen Schiele, Sarah
Trigg, Markus Wetzel, and Marion Wilson.
The exhibition will be
on view through May 22, 2010.
Stephan Stoyanov is located at 29 Orchard
St. (between Canal and Hester)
Gallery hours are Wed through Sat 11 am
to 6 pm, Sundays noon until 6 pm. www.sarahgsharp.net
Manya
Fox, Visual Artist, August 24 – September 25, 2009
Recently,
Manya’s work was part of a group show entitled 'A about bauhaus . . . harm nue
tues' curated by Matthew Brandt at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art in
Culver City, CA. www.manyafox.com
David
Perez, Writer, March 19 – April 27, 2007
My
website now exists! The link http://www.davidperezwow.com
. Also, if you want me to
link your website and/or blog on my page, just send it to me and I'll be happy
to add it. Conversely, feel free to post my website link to your own page.
Lizette Wanzer, Writer, May 12 – 23, 2008
I'm happy to announce that I'm one of
the winners representing District 6 in the annual, local Poets 11
competition. The district kick-off
is on March 24th; the citywide kickoff event is May 8th at 1 PM, at the SFPL
Main Branch. I am reading at both
events.
Stephanie Elozondo Griest, Writer, April 30 – June 15,
2007
Hola, beautiful people! I hope this
finds you in good health and spirits. Just wanted to share some news with you.
I recently started a little blogito called Around the Blog — aroundthebloc.wordpress.com
February 2010 News
Carrie
Dickason, Visual Artist, March 23 – May 8, 2009
Has a solo exhibition Cultivating
Culture at the
Sculpture Center in Cleveland. The opening reception is March 5 from 5:30 - 8
pm.
See her website
for news of this and other exhibitions at http://carriedickason.com/news.html
Rob Scheps, Composer, August
16 – 27, 2003
Saxophonist
Rob Scheps in 2 Rare Hudson Valley area shows - Saturday Feb. 20,
Jazz Vespers, 1st Presbyterian Church, 10 Academy St., Cold Spring, NY 10516,
5:30 - 6:45 pm, Free admission, w/ Tom McCoy, Renee Bailey, etc., Great
jazz, pretty church, good vibe. AND Friday March 12, at Whistling Willie's, 184
Main St.(at intersection of Rte. 301 & Rte. 9D), Cold Spring, NY 10516
, 8 - 11 pm, with Painted Betty, a hip band featuring Sonya, Tim, Deb, Andrew,
etc., Free admission; great hang, food, booze, etc.
www.robscheps.8m.net www.jazzcode.org.
January 2010 News
Lizette Wanzer, Writer, May
12 – 23, 2008
Lizette Wanzer, MFA, is a second-place winner in the
national Soulmaking Literary Awards, in the Flash Fiction category. She will be
reading at the annual awards event in March at the San Francisco Public
Library's main branch. Lizette will also be reading on three panels (poetry,
fiction, and essay) at the American Culture Association's annual conference in
St. Louis, also in March. Lizette was invited to read from her fiction at San
Francisco's Odd Mondays series in Noe Valley in January. The reading was in
memory of Martin Luther King Jr. And finally, Lizette 's lyrical essay,
entitled "Signatures," is due out in the spring 2010 issue of The
Yalobusha Review. Learn more about Ms.
Wanzer's work at http://www.redroom.com/member/lwanzer.
Rick Dula, Visual Artist,
October 3 – November 1, 2003
I am one of 17 international artists chosen to participate
in an exhibition of installation art titled EMBRACE! at the Denver Art Museum. This is a groundbreaking
exhibition with many German artists; China, Mexico, Russia, and New York are
also represented, with only three Colorado artists.
My piece, A Moment in Time: Here is an 18' x 32' wall mural, painted on an interior
wall of the new museum wing, depicting the skeletal steel structure that was
visible during that phase of construction. I had taken many photographs of the
steel structure, and painted many views of the same, so my inclusion in EMBRACE! was apt, as well as a great honor to be selected.
A couple of videos are on You Tube - just look for Rick
Dula, Denver Art Museum to see a time lapse and a short interview on the
process. Other D.A.M. paintings can be found on my website: www.rickdula.com.
The best news is that the work has received rave reviews by
the public, and is now likely to be preserved (as opposed to being removed at
the exhibition's end)
Ian Williams, Writer,
October 1 – 12, 2007
Listen online to a radio interview with Ian Williams, author
of the forthcoming poetry collection, You Know Who You Are, at noon on Wednesday January 20 (part 1) and again
on January 27 (part 2). Listen live online at WCUW
91.3 FM. More information at www.ian-williams.ca
Bill Miles, Writer,
September 1 – 26, 2008
Bill was the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at the end of last
year . . . “three months living in the house in which he wrote DHARMA BUMS.
Lots of work done, culminating in the conclusion of a novel just last
week. Now, to try to find an agent/publisher. I'll keep you posted.”
Marian Pierce, Writer, June
7 – July 3, 2003
Marian Pierce won the 2009 Wordstock Literary Festival short
fiction contest; her story is at: http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/articles/grocery-store-1009/.
She was shortlisted for the 2008 David Wong Fellowship at the Univ. of East
Anglia for an author writing fiction about the Far East.
Virginia Spiegel, Visual
Artist, November 13 – December 4, 2005
“It's 2010 and time for a tour through my new basement
painting studio and
more:http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/NewsletterJF2010.html
My new book: Wild at the Edges: Inspiration from a
Creative Life http://bit.ly/7RMmrS
Website: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com
Blog: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/
Tweets: http://twitter.com/vspiegel
Carrie Dickason, Visual
Artist, March 23 – May 8, 2009
In
October/November Carrie Dickason was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio
Center. She continued collage work which began while at KHN. The recent
versions are double-sided and are made from cheese labels attached to frosted
mylar. She also began building tower-like sculptures made from kabob skewers
and aluminum tape, which developed in response to the carscape she made while
in Nebraska last spring. Some of these sculptures will be included in the
exhibition 'This World, Other World', at the Firehouse Gallery, in Burlington,
VT. (February-March)
Carrie is
currently working in Detroit on a solo exhibit called 'Cultivating Culture',
which opens on March 5, at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland. The exhibit is
one of six solo shows included in the center's Windows to Emerging Sculpture
series. Following the opening she will move to Santa Fe to participate as an
artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute for three months. She will be
working on collages and installations, and with high school students in
workshops which address environmental issues while working with scavenged
materials. www.carriedickason.com
Anthony Green, Musician,
July 13 – August 7, 2009
“I've been keeping extremely busy. The transcription that I
finished while I was at the center was successfully premiered in London, and
now Dame Evelyn Glennie and Philip Smith will perform it in Manchester, Zurich,
Hamburg, and Abu Dhabi! No one has sent me programs though, and I want to make
sure KHN is mentioned! But KHN definitely is mentioned on the score.
My dissertation is very slowly coming together, and I can't
wait to start putting it together physically in the fall. I just came back from
a rather busy winter break: a week in the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Leiden and
Nordwijk), and 10 days in Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and random caves), and
then 3 days in St. Louis, accompanying a singer. The overseas travel was
definitely vacation, and amazing at that! Now I'm back here, teaching a class
and overseeing an independent study, teaching composition and piano lessons (3
private students now), accompanying a singer, a percussionist, and playing
piano in 2 upcoming shows, and I'm about to start taking Koto lessons, which is
Japan's national instrument. This on top of my own course work, and trying to
compose. But there will be some fun times ahead - I'm going back to the
Netherlands for Spring Break, and then to Spain in April for a performance of
one of my older pieces.” http://www.agreencomposer.com
Christopher Reiger, Visual
Artist, September 7 – 18, 2009
“Happy Twenty-Ten, everyone! I am delighted to announce that
one of my 2007 paintings, "a cruel and beautiful faraway place," is
included in VISION
QUEST, a group show curated by the celebrated artist/art blogger/musician
Pam Grossman. The exhibition will be on view (through February 21st) at OBSERVATORY (543 Union
Street) in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. (The gallery is a short walk from the N
train's Union subway stop.) I also hope that all of you have had a healthy and
auspicious start to the new year!” http://www.christopherreiger.com/
http://www.hungryhyaena.blogspot.com/
Leslie Iwai, Visual Artist,
September 22 – November 7, 2008
Leslie’s show called, "Timekeeper: Anachronism &
Chrysalis" was at Briar Cliff University this month, they invite one
artist a year for this solo exhibit. There were five performances. The last one
is Friday, January 22nd: artist talk, performance and closing reception at 7:00
p.m. The gallery is located inside the Student Center in the Clausen Art
Gallery at Briar Cliff University http://www.briarcliff.edu/campus/campus_map.aspx
You can see her work on her Picassa Page. Timekeeper:
Anachronism & Chrysalis
Andrea Clearfield, Composer,
October 30 – November 24, 2006
Andrea was recently awarded The American Academy in Rome
Fellowship from the American Composers Forum and will be living and composing
in Rome next fall. Andrea's cantata, Kabo Omowale (Welcome Home Child),
commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered in 2008, was performed
again on January 18, 2010 to celebrate Martin Luther King with Charlotte Blake
Alston, narrator, the Philadelphia All City Choir and The Philadelphia
Orchestra, Maestro Thomas Wilkins, conductor. World premiere of a 5 movement
work, "...and low to the lake falls home" (A Memoriam to Joseph and
Margaret Wincenc) for acclaimed flutist, Carol Wincenc with Cynthia Phelps
(principal viola, NY Philharmonic) and Nancy Allen (principal harp, NY
Philharmonic), February 22, 2010, The Morgan Library, New York City, 8pm. www.themorgan.org/public/program.asp?id=240
The Golem Psalms, a
30 minute cantata for baritone, chorus and orchestra on the legend of the Golem
of Prague will have an upcoming performance on March 21, 2010, 3pm at Verizon
Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia with baritone
Sanford Sylvan and the Temple University Concert Choirs and Orchestra. www.kimmelcenter.org
Andrea's hour long cantata on breast cancer, The Long
Bright, for soprano soloist, treble chorus
and orchestra will have its West Coast Premiere on March 11, 2010, 8pm at Royce
Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles with Grammy award winning soprano, Hila Plitmann and
Kol Isha, a multi-generational and interfaith women's choir with the Los
Angeles Jewish Symphony, Noreen Green, conductor. The concert will serve as a
fundraiser for the Israel Cancer Research Center. (323) 651-1200.
Andrea traveled through the Himalayas on a trek to the
remote northern region of Lo Monthang, Nepal, in 2008 to gather research for a
commission from Network for New Music for large chamber ensemble in
collaboration with visual artist Maureen Drdak. The resulting work, Lung-Ta (The Windhorse) was premiered in Philadelphia in March, 2009. Andrea and
anthropologist Katey Blumenthal received a grant from The Rubin Foundation to
return to Lo Monthang to record and document the music of royal court singer,
Tashi Tsering. They will embark on a trek to this restricted region in May/June
2010. More information at www.andreaclearfield.com
Jilly Morris, Visual Artist,
March 19 – May 4, 2007
Jilly is three months into a yearlong residency in
Northumberland in England. Follow her story at www.jillymorris.blogspot.com
Caleb Taylor, Visual Artist,
October 20 – November 21, 2008
CUMULUS: A UCP
Studio Residency Focus Exhibition Paragraph / 23 E 12th, Kansas
City, MO 64105 Exhibition on view January 15 - March 4, 2010 Hours: Thursdays +
Saturdays, 12 - 5pm
Cumulus is a
multi-media, multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring select projects developed
by current Urban Culture Project Studio Residents. UCP’s Studio Residency
Program for Visual and Performing Artists currently provides free studios for
more than 30 artists and groups. The exhibition encouraged studio residents to
“consider collaboration or interactivity in the making and /or presentation of
the work,” resulting in a dynamic group of projects that open room for audience
participation, invite the response of peers, and directly offer “gifts” to
visitors of the exhibition. Sculptor Juniper
Tangpuz and I created a large-scale paper-cutting of “coded” images based
on a series of questions we have posed for ourselves to respond to visually. If
you have a chance, stop in and enjoy the show.” www.calebtaylorart.com calebtaylor@hotmail.com
Kim Roberts, Writer,
November 20 – December 15, 2006
January 13, 2010: My third book has just been released this
week, and it looks gorgeous. Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington
DC includes 101 poems by former and current
residents of Washington written between 1950 and the present. The release of
the book is part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of Beltway Poetry
Quarterly, the online journal I edit. In addition to the new book, there's a
special anniversary issue of the journal celebrating guest editors, and a
series of readings (at
least one a month!) planned for throughout 2010. Full
information can be found here www.washingtonart.com/beltway/tenth
www.kimroberts.org
Manya Fox, Visual Artist,
August 24 – September 25, 2009
I just updated my website with new work I shot while at KHN.
I am looking to show it in the new year, so if you know of
anything you think I would be right for please let me know! I am working on
putting together a book of some of my best images. I have landed in Brooklyn,
NY. I am really liking it here so far and hope to stay for a while. www.manyafox.com
Keith Meatto, Writer,
October 26 – December 18, 2009
My latest book review of The Glass Room by Simon Mawer. (And note the KHN Center in my bio
at the bottom). http://www.forward.com/articles/123870
I also had one of my short-short stories picked up for publication, though that
will not come out until later in the spring. I'll keep you posted.”
Koji Nakano, Musician, February
4 – March 14, 2008
It's my pleasure to announce the opening event of Asian
Young Musicians' Connection, which will be held May 15, 2010 at Soochow
University Performing Arts Center in Taipei. Co-funded by Composers Janet Jieru
Chen and myself, Asian Young Musicians' Connection promotes new music by
commissioning compositions from emerging Asian composers along side with
worldwide professional musicians for its regular concert in Asia and North
America.
The renowned Canadian string quartet, Borealis String
Quartet, will join with us in organizing the 2010 inaugurating concert in which
six string quartet pieces will be given their world premiere. Five Asian young
composers selected to the Borealis SQ commission project are from four
different Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. The
project will also feature one world-premiered piece by a senior advisor of
AYMC, Prof. Shyhji Pan of Taiwan will join with us and will premiere her latest
composition for a string quartet. This event will be sponsored by Canada-Taiwan
Music and Arts Exchange.
Matt Dehaemers, Visual
Artist, April 3 – 29, 2006
In December 2009 Matt installed a public art project
commissioned by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDot). The project
is for the I-44 Joplin Welcome Center. It is one of the first exits you come to
as you cross over into Missouri from Oklahoma on the I-44 corridor. If you are
heading out of Missouri into Oklahoma you can take the last exit before
Oklahoma and double back a mile east to exit into the welcome center. I hope
you enjoy the Joplin Globe article: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_352211833.html.
And I have also posted new images of the project to my website www.matthewdehaemers.com .
Wish me luck as I am a double shortlisted as finalist for a
project in Miami, Florida the first week of January and aalso for the Troost
Corridor Max Bus expansion project the second week of January
December 2009 News
Stephanie Elozondo Griest,
Writer, April 30 – June 15, 2007
Is currently enrolled in the
University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. www.aroundthebloc.com
Matt Dehaemers, Visual
Artist, April 3 – 29, 2006
Matt launched his new art website.
It has a few new projects and links to articles, his resume and some embedded
videos of certain projects. www.matthewdehaemers.com
Kristin Pluhacek, Visual
Artist, May 25 – June 19, 2009
Participated in a small works show at Jackson Artworks in
December 2009 along with Eddith Buis, Helen Brough, Heidi Bartlett, Nicholas
Bohac, Caleb Coppock, Susan Knight, Kristae, Swanee, Watie White among others. www.kkpluhacek.com Jackson Artworks, 1108
Jackson Street Omaha, NE 68102 www.jacksonartworks.com,
(402) 341-1832, Gallery Hours Fridays/Saturdays 1-9 pm Sundays 1-5 pm or by
appointment (402) 541-9229
Sonja Hinrichsen, Visual
Artist, April 14 – June 1, 2007
http://sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com/
Check out her recent project "Layered Perspectives", a collaboration
with art students at UNC-Charlotte.
Christopher Reiger, Visual
Artist, September 7 – 18, 2009
One of his drawings was included in "Two Degrees of
Separation," at Gallery Satori. New York City. "The show investigated
the web-like interrelationship between many of the artists working in New York,
as well as a few artists working in London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Sydney who
have connections to the artists based in New York."
For information about his limited edition prints of
2008 drawings, "further murmuration" and "Synesthesia
#1," go to http://www.christopherreiger.com/drawings.html#prints
“The prints measure 11 x 14 inches and were produced using archival inks
on acid-free cotton rag paper. Each print in the editions of 25 is titled,
signed, and numbered in pencil. All prints are shipped with a certificate of
authenticity. Because the prints are part of my charitable sales model, 50% of
every print sale will be donated to one of the four non-profit organizations I
am currently partnered with. For more information on how this works, please
contact me or visit: http://www.christopherreiger.com/charity.html
“
Recent press:
Phil Barcio, art editor of Tikkun Daily
Blog, profiled my work. http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2009/11/11/beasts-burden-paintings-by-christopher-reiger/
Artist and art blogger Chris Rywalt reviewed my recent solo
show, "Some Species of Song." http://www.crywalt.com/blog/2009/10/october-8-2009.html
The L Magazine
printed a positive blurb about "Some Species of Song."
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/Event?oid=1370871
Robin Adsit, Visual Artist,
November 3, - 28, 2008
Robin had a residency at 18th Street Art Center in Santa
Monica, May 2009, and was part of their open studios. She also was a part of a
group exhibition Brand 38, Works on Paper at the Brand Library Art Gallery in
Sept., and was lucky enough to receive a patron award. In December she was part
of a group exhibit at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles. It was a survey of emerging
Southern California artists. www.robinadsit.com
November
2009 News
Joan
Waltemath, Visual Artist, September 17 – November 9, 2007
Joan has work in an exhibition at the 210 Gallery, 210 24th
St., Brooklyn, NY. The exhibit, “Censored Inquires”, opens November 14 with a
reception from 3 – 7 pm. The show runs through December 20. Hours at the
gallery are Friday – Sunday 12 – 6 pm or by appointment. Take the R
train to 25th St., Brooklyn. http://www.210gallery.blogspot.com
Phone 718.499.6056
Julie
Lequin, Visual Artist, January 5 – Feb. 27, 2009
My video
"Car Talk" is exhibited in Unusual Behavior at the Santa Barbara Contemporary
Art Forum. The exhibition is curated by Heather Jeno Silva and opens on
Saturday November 14th at 7pm. The website of the gallery: http://www.sbcaf.org/main.html. It's
the first time that this video is screened, so make sure you wear your gloves
and prom dress for the occasion.
My other
new project "Top 30" will be screened at the Horton & Liu Gallery
in New York City (504 West 22nd street) on Tuesday November 17 at 7 pm. The
screening is called Seven Easy Steps: Loving Relationships and it's curated by Amanda Schmitt.
See http://hortongallery.com/exhibitions/.
For those
of you living on the beach in Miami, my video project "Sounds like
Julie" (it's older) will be exhibited at Gallery Diet. The exhibition is
called Second Skin
and it starts on November 14. To know where to go: http://www.gallerydiet.com.
Also,
ta-ta-taaaa! I will be performing parts of the "Top 30" at the Forum
Lounge of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum on Thursday December 3rd at
7pm. I hope you can come because I am taking the airplane only for that.
October 2009 News
Jilly Morris, Visual Artist,
March 19 – May 4, 2007
For one whole year I will be an artist in residence, living
in a remote part of Northumberland, away from the hectic hustle and bustle of
urban life in Bristol.
Jeff Harms, Musician, Dec.
31, 2007 – January 31, 2008
Jeff has
a new job working for Music National Service. He invites you to check out their
website at http://www.musicnationalservice.ning.com.
Abshalom Jac
Lahav, Visual Artist, 2/6/06 - 3/4/06
I’m having a show at the Miami Jewish Museum of Florida
(Miami Beach): ww.actiondocument.com.
Show opens Monday October 19th. It is a solo show, and there is also a great
Judy Chicago retrospective in their other building. The show will be up for the
next 7 months, and during Art Basel Miami so if you go to the fairs, check it
out.
Dave Beck, Visual Artist,
May 14 – June 5, 2009
Has an exhibition, “The Interior Plot”, opening soon. He
started this project at KHN during his residency this year and now it will be
on exhibit from October 23 – January 3 at the Overture Gallery III in
Madison, Wisconsin. (201 State St.) www.overturecenter.com/community/overture-galleries
Caleb
Taylor, Visual Artist, October 20 – November 21, 2008
As October races by, I wanted to send out a studio update
before the end of the month. My residency at Urban Culture Project is going
well and I'm gearing up to begin a series of large drawings. Stop in on the
Third Friday of each month (7-9 pm) and check out my progress.
I am excited to be included in Beyond Bounds, a benefit for
the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art celebrating Johnson County Community
College’s 40th (Ruby) anniversary. Regional and national artists have used ruby
red materials to make work specifically for this exhibition. Ticket information
and a preview is available on the museum website.
Jerry Bleem, Visual Artist,
July 31 – August 26, 2006
His newest show, “Allegiance”, a collection of works in
crochet, drawings and collage opens October 16 at the Packer Schopf Gallery,
942 West Lake St., Chicago, IL 60607. Opening reception Friday October 16, 5-8
pm.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 5:30
www.packergallery.com
312.226.8984
Christopher Reiger, Visual
Artist, September 7 – 18, 2009
“Denise
Bibro Fine Art presents Christopher
Reiger: Some Species of Song, on view in our Platform
project space October 8 through November 7, 2009. Reiger's muses are ecology,
natural history, philosophy, and theology. His elegant and exquisitely executed
mixed media paintings and drawings explore the interconnectedness and
interdependency of human, plant, and animal life. The artist notes that
"Every creature's song is at once insignificant and grand." In the
case of this exhibition, the artwork sings a melody woven by the delicate
balance of our life on earth.” platform@denisebibrofineart.com
212-647-7030 http://platform.denisebibrofineart.com
Reception Thursday, October 8, 6-9pm 529 West 20th Street, 4W, Chelsea, NYC
James Woodward, Composer,
1/29/07 - 2/23/07
James Woodward's, musical children's book and audio CD, When
Rebecca Woogie Came to Town, have recently been published. See http://www.rebeccawoogie.com/About_the_Creators.html.
The illustrations, narration, and music have been getting great reviews. For
children in Kindergarten to 3rd grade, parents who want to read to their
children, educators, musicians, actors, artists, and book collectors alike, the
collaboration with illustrator and writer has been six years in the making.
September 2009 News
Sarah Sharp, Visual Artist, May 25 – June 19, 2009
www.sarahgsharp.net Sarah is
participating in a group show that is opening Thursday, Oct. 1 in Soho.
“Derived, Borrowed, and Stolen” brings together artists whose work addresses
the nature of originality and its complicated relationship with the visual
arts. The central theme and title is inspired by the well-known quote,
“talent borrows, genius steals,” which is said by some to have come from
none other than Picasso (rumor has it that it might also have been
Morrissey’s, of the rock band Smiths, or even Oscar Wilde’s). The
uncertainty surrounding the origins of the quote is ironically apt. Linked
by this common thread, the works in this show raise questions about what
constitutes creativity in today’s world, one in which the Internet has
rendered copying and plagiarizing in the visual arts easier and
more socially acceptable. Over a plethora of visual styles, these
innovative artists find new ways to pay homage to their artistic
inspirations while producing wildly inventive pieces. The viewer sifts
through the rich layers and discovers, through the eyes of the artist, the
difference between simple pastiche and ingenious reinterpretation. Derived
Borrowed and Stolen at
Broadway Gallery Featuring Sarah G. Sharp, Katie St
Claire, Martha Clippinger, Parsley Steinweiss, Sara Wight
and Jordan Tate
October 1-15, 2009, Opening reception
Thursday October 1st 6-8pm Broadway Gallery, 473 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York,
NY 10013, Tel: (212) 274-8993 Email: info@broadwaygallerynyc.com
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Martin Brief, Visual Artist,
April 7 – May 16, 2008
www.martinbrief.com
I am happy to announce that I have been selected as one of the three recipients
of the 2010 Great Rivers Biennial award. Given by the Contemporary Art Museum
St. Louis it provides each artist with a $20,000 award and a solo exhibition at
the museum in the spring of 2010. This year's jurors are: Douglas Fogle, Chief
Curator and Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Hammer
Museum, Melissa Franklin, Director of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts,
Philadelphia, Laura Steward Phillips, Director of SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For more information about the Great Rivers Biennial please
visit http://www.contemporarystl.org/greatriversbiennial.php
For a press release about the 2010 Great Rivers Biennial
recipients please visit http://www.contemporarystl.org/documents/GRBwinners.pdf
Sung Won Yun, Visual Artist,
August 25 – September 19, 2008
I have solo show at the Wilson Chapel Gallery, Andover
Newton Theological School in Massachusetts in this September 1 – December
31. The title of the show is THE TWO SILENCES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. Opening
reception September 24, 5 – 8 PM. Information at http://www.ants.edu/calendar/event/exhibition-the-two-silences-of-heaven-and-earth/.
August 2009 News
Karina Hean, Visual Artist,
January 5 – February 27, 2009
Karina’s work is part of an exhibition at the Arthous66
Gallery in Albuquerque, NM. The show, “Shifting Topographies” opened August 15
and runs through September 25. Opening Reception, Friday, Sept. 4, 5 -9 pm.
HYPERLINK http://www.arthaus66.com.
Sonja Hinrichsen, Visual
Artist, April 14 – June 1, 2007
Photos and information about "Reflections", a
media installation at PlatteForum Denver are now on my blog. Please check it
out: HYPERLINK http://sonjahinrichsen.wordpress.com/
Justin Quarry, Writer,
9.4.06 – 9.29.06 and 10.27.08 – 12.19.08
Justin recently received the Visiting Fellowship in Creative
Writing at Lyon College. Earlier this year he was awarded a grant from the
Elizabeth George Foundation.
Jee Leong Koh, Writer,
6.13.05 – 6.25.05
I was interviewed on the Joe Milford Poetry Show HYPERLINK http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/
last night (8.13.09): one-and-a-half hour unedited reading and conversation
about my new book of poems Equal to the Earth. We talked about my Singaporean background, art and
autobiography, the mythic sea, use of meter and form, sense of humor (!),
the objective correlative, children's playfulness, Chinese homosexuals, and
love. I hope you enjoy some of it. Bench Press: HYPERLINK "http://www.benchpresspoetry.com"
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Blog: HYPERLINK "http://jeeleong.blogspot.com" \t "_blank" http://jeeleong.blogspot.com
Eduardo Santiere, Visual
Artist 3.29.04 – 5.1.04
Currently participating in two group shows:
"Summer Shortcuts: a Drawing
Forecast"
at Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York, and "Summer Docks" at Curator's Office in
Washington DC. Last April "Calm Complexities", a solo show, at Curator's
Office in Washington
DC.
Susannah Mira, Visual
Artist, Nov. 10 – Dec. 19, 2009
I am currently artist-in-residence at the Border Art
Residency, a ten-month live-work opportunity in southern New Mexico based out
of a renovated cotton gin. One of the projects I'm working on right now is a
temporary public sculpture that will go up in Las Cruces in September,
commissioned by the Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts.
Jessica Witte, Visual
Artist, February 7 – April 2, 2005
Announces her new installations (August 17 – September
25, 2009) “Re:Place” , “Documents Upon Arrival” and “Natural Defenses” at
McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL. For information call 815-455-8785
Clifford Garstang, Writer,
May 25 – June 5, 2009
“The award-winning stories that make up the linked
collection IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY by Clifford Garstang showcase ordinary men
and women in and around Rugglesville, Virginia. But according to National Book
Award winner Tim O’Brien and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout
there is nothing ordinary about Garstang’s new collection of stories from Press
53. “IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY is an impeccably
written, sumptuously imagined, and completely enchanting book of stories,” says
Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried and National Book
Award-winning Going After Cacciato. “Clifford Garstang is the
real thing—a writer loaded with talent. And this book is a reminder of
the delightful miracles a good story can perform in a reader's
heart.” Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge,
says, “This collection delivers on its title: each story takes us into an
area—emotional and geographic—where we may not have been before.
There is an impressive variety here, and Garstang's ability as a storyteller is
on display each time.” IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY will debut on September
9, 2009. Garstang, an international lawyer turned fiction writer, lives in
Staunton, Virginia. His stories and book reviews have appeared in numerous
publications. A regional book tour is set to kick off on September 9. To
pre-order an autographed copy, visit HYPERLINK http://www.press53.com/BioCliffordGarstang.html
Ushio Torikai, Musician,
June 30 – August 22, 2008
I am now working on a commission
from Japan Broadcasting Corporation for Orchestra of traditional Japanese
instruments which will be premiered on 3/25 2010 at NHK Hall in Tokyo and will
be broadcasted both on National TV and National FM radio in Japan.
July 2009 News
Kim
Roberts, Writer, Nov. 20 – Dec. 15, 2006
I am writing this from the Hambridge Center, an art colony
in northern Georgia, where I am in residence for the month of August – my
twelfth art colony! I have reached an even dozen. My news: The Kimnama, was published by Vrzhu Press in 2007. It has been
getting great reviews! You can read more on my website: http://www.kimroberts.org . My other news:
I am under contract to Plan B Press to edit an anthology of poems about
Washington DC written by current and former residents. The book will be
published in January 2010.
Angela Woodward, Writer,
June 30 – July 31, 2008
The novella manuscript I was working on last summer will be
published in 2010 by Ravenna Press, under the title The End of the Fire Cult. I've had other recent short fiction publications in
Sidebrow, Storyglossia, and elimae.
Betsy Boyd, Writer, Jan. 28
– Feb. 22, 2008
I just returned from a month-long writing residency in
France, the Alfred and Trafford Klots Artist Residency, in Rochefort-en-Terre,
a little 500-person town in Brittany. Very beautiful. Serene. All 11th-century
charm well preserved for eager tourists, from the clean-scrubbed stone
buildings to the shiny cobblestone roads. I loved the countryside and the fresh
bread and yogurt. Fun to look at life with new eyes. I'm completing the big
book I started at KHNC. Hope to return there again in the not too distant
future.
Don Williams, Visual Artist,
August 18 – Oct. 3, 2008
I have been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for
$18,000. It could not have come at a better time. This means I can look forward
to a full year of concentrated work in the studio without the usual money
worries. I'm working more with oil on canvas now--in addition to the
pastels — and can now hopefully complete enough new pieces for a show in
Fall of 2010.
Virginia Spiegel, Visual
Artist, Nov. 13 – Dec. 4, 2005
Virginia has been selected curator for the Studio Art Quilt
Associates’ invitational exhibit, A Sense of Direction: Sightlines. She will select fourteen artists to complete
between five and eight artworks. The exhibit will tour beginning in 2010 and a
catalog will be published. She also recently juried, Blurred
Boundaries, a mixed-media/fiber exhibit.
Spiegel’s artwork has been shown at Foto-Fiber-Fabulous, Salvaged Threads, and
the Surface Design Associates’ member show.
Sarah Stonich, Writer, Jan.
14 – Feb. 2, 2008
I've just signed on with Borealis Books to publish a memoir,
Shelter, for 2010, and my novel The
Ice Chorus is now available in paperback,
issued by Alma Books of London. Check out the book trailer on youtube - here's
the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DR9LztWKpc.
Also a few short stories from my collection Vacationland were published this year. One, “Assimilation,” is
featured in an anthology of MInnesota writers titled Fiction On A
Stick by Milkweed Editions.
Hugh Lifson, Visual Artist,
Oct. 16 – Nov. 24, 2006
I've been continuing to show in Los Angeles at the Infusion
Gallery. (Their web site has a nice assortment of pieces currently on exhibit.)
I just finished having a show at the Hudson River Gallery in Iowa City, where
I'm a regular exhibitor. (You can check out their web site.) The Grace Chosy
Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin, has about six of my pieces. Thanks to my web
site I've just landed a show starting in August at a new gallery in Moline. I'm
also actively working on our historical commission in Mt. Vernon. Speaking of
Mt. Vernon, the Cornell College Art department has been named one of the top
art departments in the country. (Although I've retired I still feel like I'm
part of the dept.)
Nancy Van Ness, Writer, Feb.
25 – March 7, 2008
American Creative Dance presented
its contemporary version of the traditional story of Judith in an evening-length
piece which featured art objects created especially for it by Julia Karll (KHN
resident-artist 2.11.08 – 4.4.08). Some of the objects were made for the
dancers to wear including three made for the Elders who had abandoned their
traditions and were paralyzed with fear and doubt. Two of the objects were made
of newspaper latch-hooked onto backing. The third was of VHS tape. Judith
herself had a "garment" rather like a long belt made of crocheted VHS
tape worn bandolier style. Julia attached metal washers to the garment which
clanked as Judith moved. The villain Holophernes had a headpiece made of the
newspaper prepared by Julia. A theater designer actually constructed worked
with Julia on that piece, to fit securely, be light-weight, and permit movement.
You can find links to two sections
of the Judith on the American Creative
Dance website. Scroll down on the page linked to see the two sections:
http://americancreativedance.org/performances.html
Don Chamberlain, Musician,
April 30 – May 25, 2007
The piece that I wrote during my residency, Tristan Gets
the Blues, was premiered by the Symphony of
Oak Park and River Forest (Chicago) at the end of May. The reception of the
piece was very positive. I will be shopping the piece around and hope for
additional performances soon.
Shoshana Brand, Visual
Artist, Oct. 2 – 13, 2006
I'm living now overseas, and it's an adventure in itself.
I live in Israel now, and in November will have an exhibit
in the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, Israel. More details will follow
soon. http://www.jancodada.co.il/en/
http://www.shoshanabrand.org
http://www.contemporarymap.org http://www.knockingonbricks.com
Steven Wingate, Writer, May
11 – 22, 2009
I started doing a regular column of essays on fiction and
the writing life at Fiction Writers Review
<http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays>.
A new one will post on the tenth or so of every month. www.stevenwingate.com www.stevenwingate.com/Wifeshopping
Mary Mazziotti, Visual
Artist, July 4 – 30, 2005
Mary M. Mazziotti will be exhibiting the newest work in her
series of contemporary memento mori at the Borelli-Edwards Galleries, July 11
– August 1, 2009. “Domestic Death” features vintage textiles and clothing
which the artist has embellished with paint and embroidery. DOMESTIC DEATH:
CONTEMPORARY MEMENTO MORI IN TEXTILES, an exhibit of new work by Mary M.
Mazziotti at the Borelli-Edwards Galleries.
The artist states, “Memento mori are meant as gentle
reminders that life is fragile and death is the universal destination. I
incorporate the figure of Death into scenes of daily life to indicate his
ubiquitous and lurking presence even in our most quotidian moments. I like
using these colorful vintage textiles because they reflect an imagined
nostalgic period of simple home comforts which somehow makes Death’s presence
all the more unexpected.” The work can be seen online at www.begalleries.com. Mazziotti also
embellishes vintage clothing with text and images relating to the remembrance
of Death. Using clothing as canvases for memento mori was an idea sparked by
seeing an engraving of a 17th century Death Crier dressed in an outfit
embroidered with symbols of mortality. Ms. Mazziotti says, “If we’re willing to
wear alligator emblems and little guys playing polo, why not become billboards
for a message with real meaning?” The Borelli-Edwards Gallery is located in
Lawrenceville at 3583 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA
15201, 412-687-2606, begalleries@mac.com. The neighborhood was recently
featured in The New York Times as a “go-to destination” and “hub for arts,
fashion and interior design”. Mary M. Mazziotti lives
in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work is represented at the Borelli-Edwards Gallery in
Pittsburgh and O. K. Harris Works of Art in New York City.
Jerry Bleem, Visual Artist,
July 31 – Aug. 26, 2006
Jerry Bleem: Repeated Gestures is currently on view at The
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri, through August 22. A group
exhibition, All American: Defining Ourselves in a Time of Change, organized by
the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, includes two works: The
Flag of the Un-United States of America
(crocheted U. S. and Texas flags) and Give Me (nearly 10,000 stamps mounted on canvas.) This show
closes October 31. Jerry Bleem: Allegiance opens at the Packer Schopf Gallery
in Chicago on October 16, 2009. The show, inspired by the divide between the
public voice of nationalism and the private lives of citizens of the U.S.A.,
closes on November 14.
Laurie Stone, Writer, August
28 – October 2, 2006
Laurie Stone's recent
and near-future residencies include: Yaddo, VCCA, the Millay Colony, and
the Edward Albee Colony. Her reviews appear in the LA Times, and her memoir
essays are included in the upcoming anthologies The Face in the Mirror and Lost and Found.
She is teaching creative writing workshops at Arizona State University and at
the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, NY. She will have at short residency at
Shippensberg College in October.
Stefan Weisman, Musician,
Jan. 2 – 12, 2007
My piece Supersoft
was a winner of the soundON Festival of Modern Music's 2009 International Call
for Scores, and it was performed at the festival in June 2009. My one act opera
Fade was premiered in London in
October 2008, and it was featured on BBC Radio 3. This opera has also been
presented by opera companies in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.
Upcoming, I will have a three performances of my opera Darkling in September 2009 by Center City Opera Theater in
Philadelphia.
For more: stefanweisman.com and fadeopera.com
June
2009 News
Jee Leong Koh, Writer, June
13 - 25, 2005
Bench Press: Poetry that exerts pressure at every point, and
so achieves a momentary rest. Bench Press, an independent publisher of poetry,
will be launched on July 4, 2009. On that day its website www.benchpresspoetry.com will go
"live," and unveil its logo. The press is pleased to announce
its first title: Jee Leong Koh's Equal to the Earth. Of Koh's book, Vijay Seshadri writes: "Jee
Leong Koh is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive
power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet
in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The
contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems." You can
read a poem from the book on the press website, and purchase a copy of the
book.
“If you can receive Manhattan Neighborhood Network, you will
be able to see me read my poetry and give an interview on June 24 Wed at the
unearthly hour of 12.30 AM. If you live at the outer edges of the universe, and
cannot receive MNN, you may still like to know I will be on planet TV.”
Bill Miles, Writer,
September 1 – 26, 2008
“If you recall, I worked on a western while with you. As a
result of that specific work, I've just been named the Writer-in-Residence for
the Kerouac Project. Come September, I move to Orlando for three months to
fulfill the obligations. If you want to catch my latest short story, it's in THE
CHRISTENDOM REVIEW. The magazine is hard to
find, but you can see the story online: http://christendomreview.com.”
Lizette Wanzer, Writer, May
12 – 23, 2008
Miriam Fitting, May 19
– 30, 2008
On Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, the San Francisco
Writers’ Panel gave a reading of sudden fiction, also known as flash fiction.
The event occurred at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, at
100 Larkin Street (at Grove), in Latino/Hispanic Community Room B on the lower
level. Lizette Wanzer, MFA, will chair
the panel of five writers, featuring Lisa Carlson, Miriam Fitting, Li Miao Lovett, Kathleen McClung, MA., and Lizette
Wanzer.
Joan Waltemath, Visual
Artist, 9.17.07 – 11.9.07
Upcoming exhibition in Bonn
Germany: Passages http://www.arton-art.de/index.php?id=5
Rob Scheps, Musician, August
16 – 27, 2003
Thursday June 25th, Magnets! jazz/funk/world beat
etc. St. Nicks’ Pub, 773 St. Nicholas Ave @W. 149th Street, Harlem,
NYC 10:30 PM - 2 :30 AM Friday, June 26, Latin Jazz w. Los Tainos, BSP, Backstage
Studio Productions, 323 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 9 PM
InJoo
Whang, Visual Artist, November 12 – December 7, 2007
Her newest exhibition, “Collective Senses” is showing at the
Earlville Opera House Gallery, 22 E Main Street, Earlville, NY through July 11,
2009. www.earlvilleoperahouse.com,
www.injoowhang.com
Frank
Sheehan, Visual Artist, March 9 – March 20, 2009
Exhibited work at the Lana Santorelli gallery, 110 W 26th
Street, NYC earlier this year. www.franksheehan.com
Caleb
Taylor, Visual Artist, October 20 – November 21, 2008
Received a Joan Mitchell Foundation 2008 MFA Grant and will
be exhibiting at CUE, 511W 25th Street in NYC June 11 – July
31. See www.cueartfoundation.org
for more information. www.calebtaylorart.com
Rob Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Upcoming
performances w/ Magnets!- Kim Clarke, Marcello Pellitteri, Bruce Edwards,
Ingrid Jensen. Special Guests include: Shunzo Ono Victor Jones Nikita White,
Wednesday, June 17 noon – 2 PM, Jamaica Funk Concer Series; 165th
Street Mall, Queens, NY.
Thursday, June 18th, and Thursday, June 25th, St. Nick’s
Pub, 773 St. Nicholas Ave @ West 149th St., Harlem, NYC; 10 pm -2:30
am www.stnicksjazzpub.net
Pori Jazz Festival, Pori Finland,
Saturday, July 18 at Café’ Jazz (sold out) and Sunday, July 19 at Kirjurinluoto
Arena
Also view:www.robscheps.8m.net www.halevymusic.com (MP3) www.jazzcode.org (MP3) www.youtube.com www.vimeo.com
www.magnets.8m.net
Bryce Speed, Visual Artist,
Aug. 21 – Sept. 29, 2006
Has an exhibit in New York City at the PS 122 Gallery 150
First Ave..Gallery. It is open Thurs - Sun 12-6. This is a two man show with
artist Chris Fennell.
April
2009 News
Julia Karll, Visual Artist,
February 11 – April 4, 2008
Nancy Van Ness, Writer,
February 25 – March 7, 2008
“Judith” will be performed on Thursday, April, 23, 2009 at
the White Rave John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, 25 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NYC at 7:30
PM. Six dancers, two musicians and art work by Julia Karll. Nancy Van Ness is
one of the dancers. Video footage is now available t the American Dance
Performance Web page: http://americancreativedance.org/performances.html
March
2009 New
Sonja
Hinrichsen, Visual Artist, April 14 – June 1, 2007
“Many greetings from Anderson Ranch
Art Center in Colorado, where I am
currently an artist-in-residence.
I am in a group show ("Terroir
- a Sense of Place") at the Cheese
Factory in Petaluma, California. The
opening reception is coming up this
Sunday,
March 22. Unfortunately I won't be there in person, however, my installation
"Paradise Tree" will be in
the show. I will most likely offer a special event or talk later during the
show (the beginning of June). I'll keep you posted. Here are details for the
Cheese factory: http://artatthecheesefactory.blogspot.com/
Also, "Gold Rush: Artist as
Prospector", a traveling exhibition I co-curated, is now on view at
OP-Nord Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany (until April 5th), and will be at the Lab
in San Francisco from May 13 - June 6 http://goldrushshow.blogspot.com/
“
Bevin
Kelley, Musician, August 25 – Sept. 5, 2008
“I was accepted into the Electronic Music and Multimedia PhD
program at Brown University here in Providence, so I will be starting there in
the Fall! It's a five year program that comes with a full scholarship and
stipend!”
Ben
Jones, Visual Artist, August 2006
“I have two group shows opening the weekend of the Armory
Show in NY”
Friday March 6 & Saturday
March 7., Friday, March 6: Reception: 7-9 pm Invisible Duck Tape Curated by Eun
Young Choi Gallery Satori, 164 Stanton, New York, NY 10002
Saturday, March 7: Reception: 6-9pm Abstractions and
Contractions
Curated by Eun Young Choi, Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver St
(Bushwick)
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Heidi
Jensen, InJoo Whang, and Julia Freeman, 2007 Session 2 residents
Exhibited
together in a show titled “In Close Formation” in the Lee Gallery at Clemson
University
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/leegallery/exhibition_archive/in_close_formation.html#In%20Close%20Formation
Keith
Kirchoff, Musician, Aug. 6 – 17, 2007
“I am currently at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta;
one month left in a three month residency. It has been really great so far;
meeting excellent artists and getting in some wonderful collaborations. Also,
the piece I wrote while in residence at KHN in '07 is getting released on CD
later this year.”
Rob
Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Upcoming performances
Saxophonist Rob Scheps Performs: Saturday, March 7th
in Queens, NYC at the Steinway Reformed Church, 41st Street and
Ditmars Blvd, Astoria, NYC at 7:30 PM. Classical concert with Goliard ensemble
www.goliardconcerts.com
Call 718.728.8927
On Thursday, March 12th at the Old Fashioned Restaurant 81-83 S.
Brdwy, NYACK, NY. Jazz/Funk, no cover/no minimum. 8:30 – 11:30 PM with
Joel Newton Situation
On Friday, March 13th the Jaco Pastorius Tribute
Band, The Regatta Bar, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, 2 shows, 7:30 and 10 PM
www.robscheps.8m.net
www.jazzcode.org
www.halevymusic.com
www.myspace.com
www.facebook.com
www.youtube.com
January 2009 News
Kirsten
Furlong, Visual Artist, June 16 – 28, 2003
New work in exhibit “twice:migration”, at the Friesen
Galleries, Northwest Nazarene University, Brandt Center, Second Floor, 623
Holly Street, Nampa, ID Reception, Thursday, January 29, 6 – 9 pm.
Lecture Thursday, Jan. 29, 11 am in the Fine Arts Design Room. All events are
free and open to the public.
Rob Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Rob’s Oregon performance calendar:
Wednesday, March 18th, ACMA School in Beaverton,
OR, 7 PM Location TBA
Thursday, March 19th, 8 PM, Salem OR, Smith Hall, Willamette
University
Friday, March 20, 8 PM, Newberg, OR
Saturday, March 21st, 7:30 PM, Sunday, March 22nd,
3 PM, Saturday, April 4th through Tuesday April 7th
evening performances Portland, OR, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
www.orsymphony.org
New live shows of Rob on www.youtube.com
search Marvin " Bugalu " Smith + Rob Scheps
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www.jazzcode.org
www.halevymusic.com
www.robscheps.8m.net
www.magnets.8m.net
2 new cd's of Rob Scheps now available at
www.amazon.com In The Moment by Jazzcode
w/ Cameron Brown, Jamie Ryenolds, Georg Wadenius, Carl Stormer
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Codes For Christmas by Jazzcode
w/ Bruce Barth, Scott Wendholt, Doug Weiss ,Carl Stormer.
December 2008 News
Jen-Kuang Chang, Musician,
June 2 – June 13, 2008
I like to again thank fellows' sound contribution in my
audiovisual work "Drishti III." The work has been well-received. For
your kind reference, I am writing to report that the work was part of the
following events in 2008:
Becoming-Screen Video Exhibition, France
DMI Electroacoustic Juke Joint Festival 2008
B-Seite Verein für Visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur, Germany
FIAD08 Festival Internacional de Arte Digital, El Salvador
Society of Composer Region VIII Conference
13th Canariasmediafest Gran Canaria International Festival of Arts and Digital
Cultures, Gran Canaria, Spain
Mystery Cabal Series
and it will be a small part of following events in 2009:
KcEMA Kansas City Electroacoustic Music Alliance Concert Series
2009 Society of Composer National Conference
2009 CMS South Central Conference
UCM New Music Festival 2009, University of Central Missouri
2009 Society of Composer Region VI Conference, Oklahoma City University
Rob Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27, 2003
Jazz fans & friends, Rob Scheps
' new Holiday CD , available this week at amazon, i-tunes, nokia, etc,
Codes for Christmas by JAZZCODE includes Rob Scheps - tenor & soprano
saxes, flute. This is a great swinging cd with NYC's best jazz musicians,
Xmas Carols, swingin' stuff,a tune from Charlie Brown's Xmas, and Norwegian
carols.
The Rob Scheps Big Band returns Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
at ACMA School in Beaverton, Oregon, 7 PM, for all ages, a benefit show for the
music program.
www.robscheps.8m.net
www.jazzcode.org ( free MP3's and
Documentary)
www.halevymusic.com (free Mp3's)
www.youtube.com New live shows of Rob w/
Marvin " Bugalu" Smith ; Billy Hart ; Kim Clarke .
Ian
Williams, Writer, 10.1.07 – 10.12.07
"I’m glad to
share that my first collection of poetry, You Know Who You Are,
has been accepted for publication in 2010 by Wolsak and Wynn in Canada. Also, I
recently created a website for myself (www.ian-williams.ca) where one can find
information on readings and publications.”
November 2008 News
Ben
Jones, Visual Artist, 8.7.06 – 9.1.06
“I've had a great first semester at Bucknell University.
I've been able to carve out a lot of time to work in the studio, and even have
had time to post some of the new work to my website.Below is a gallery of some
of the work I created for a collaborative event with some colleagues in
writing, dance and film. http://www.benjaminsjones.com/Studio/Exhibitions/Bucknell2008/photos/
Also, check out the updated sculpture gallery http://www.benjaminsjones.com/Studio/3d/Sculpture//
If you've got any questions about the work or just want to
say hi, hit
me back.I've got a few other tricks up my sleeve, I should
be pulling them out
in early 2009, so check back.”
Julieve Jubin, Visual Artist, 12.31.07 – 1.25.08
Julieve has work in an exhibit in the String Room Gallery at
Wells College, 170 Main Street, Aurora, NY. “Repetitive Structures”, work by
Julieve Jubin and Richard Zakin will be on exhibit from November 12 –
December 18. www.wells.edu/stringroomgallery
Cara Diaconoff , Writer, 2.26.07 – 3.6.07
“Hello (from Walla Walla, Washington, for those of you who
might not have been in touch with me [and I hope everybody remembers me!] in a while)--
It's just to let you know that my book of stories, Unmarriageable Daughters,
is now available. You can go to Lewis-Clark Press's website (http://www.lewisclarkpress.org) to
find out more about it, and you may order through the mail from them or online
from Amazon.com. On another note, a few of you know that I've had another book
accepted recently: my novel about the gay Mormon, I'll Be a Stranger to You. It will be out by next summer, but the earlier
target date is late winter '09, from Juniper Press/Oxide Books. I'll be giving
a reading at Whitman College on November 13 to celebrate the release of Unmarriageable
Daughters, and I also hope to be traveling
to Salt Lake City and other locations where some of you are (Texas? South
Dakota? Maine?) in the winter or spring to promote both that book and IBASTY.
Thanks so much!
October
2008 News
YunJung
Kim, Visual Artist, 5.1.04 – 6.5.04
“After
working on fine Arts for a while, I moved to San Francisco and joined Clone
wars on TV series at Lucasfilm animation and some movies as a texture artist
and lighting TD(Technical Director) in computer. Now I came back to my
country(Korea) and teaches students. This time I'm applying for a professor in
a university in Korea.” www.yunjungkim.com
Bevin
Kelley, Composer, 8.25.08 – 9.5.08
You can
find news re: Bevin on her Facebook page
Facebook
(blevin blectum) or Myspace ( http://myspace.com/blevinblectumandsagan )
News of
upcoming performances:
10/22/2008:
Rocky’s Rock Star Bar, 351 Kent Ave at S. 5th, Brooklyn, New York 11211
BLECTUM
FROM BLECHDOM
BARNWAVE
Bad Party
(from Detroit) http://www.myspace.com/badpartyhatesyou
Future
Blondes (from Houston) http://www.myspace.com/apinkcloud
Telecult
Powers (from Brooklyn) http://www.myspace.com/telecultpowers
Legs (from
Brooklyn) http://www.myspace.com/legsgel
12/14/2008:
Cafe Du Nord (http://www.cafedunord.com),
2170 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94114
Blevin
Blectum, Freddy McGuire and Dominique Leone performing.
September
2008 News
Melanie
Vote, Visual Artist, 8.13 - 9.7.2007
“Dear
Friends, I wanted to let you know that the ‘Girls’ series will be shown in the
small room of DFN Gallery. If you are available, it would be great to see you
at the opening of the exhibit on Thursday, October 2nd.There will be a
reception from 6:00-8:00 p.m. The show will remain open until October 25th.” http://www.dfngallery.com
DFN Gallery, 210 West 11th Avenue (at 25th Street,) 6th Floor, New York, NY
Jen-Kuang
Chang, Composer, 6.2.08 – 6.13.08
“I hope this email
finds both of you well! I just want to share the news that "Drishti
III", completed during the KHN residency, will be presented in the FIAD08
Festival Internacional de Arte Digital in San Miguel (Nov. 8-13, 2008). As
always, the role of KHN center will be stated in the program note. Thank you.“
http://www.myspace.com/jenkuangchang
AJ
Liberto, Visual Artist, 10.15.07 – 11.2.07
AJ’s work “Return to Ooze” will be
on exhibit at the Rotch Art and Architecture Library, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Building 7-238 (77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139).
Opening Reception: Oct 3, 5-6:30pm, exhibition on view until Oct 24, 2008.
Masha
Ryskin, Visual Artist, 8.7.06 – 8.18.06
“Just
wanted to share a recent piece I did for I-Park in East Haddam, CT, for their
outdoor stage...
http://www.picasaweb.google.com/mryskin/IPark?authkey=PzmihRiGr5k#
Laurie
Stone Writer,
8.28.06 – 10.2.06
Returned to
Nebraska in September 2008. She will read from her work at Creighton University
on Wed, Sept. 17,present a workshop to graduate writing students on Sept. 18,
and participate in panel discussions (The Word on the Street: The future of the
free alternative press & Image and Imagination: Visual art and literature.)
on writing at the Omaha Lit Festival http://www.omahalitfest.com/events.html
Saturday, Sept. 20
August
2008 News
Jen-Kuang
Chang, Composer, 6.2.08 – 6.13.08
Reports
that "Drishti
III", the work that was completed during KHN residency, is being accepted
for inclusion in Canariasmediafest of Gran Canaria and Electroacoustic Juke
Joint Festival in MI.
Cybe’le
Clark-Mendes, Visual Artist, 10.16.06 – 11.17.06
Cybe’le is
a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow
Andrea
Clearfield, Musician, 10.30.06 – 11.24.06
www.internationalopus.com/Andrea_Clearfield
Andrea
Clearfield recently had a premiere of a cantata for narrator, chorus and
orchestra with The Philadelphia Orchestra. The piece, Kabo Omowale (Welcome
Home Child) was commissioned by The Philadelphia Orchestra and was premiered on
July 25, 2008 with Charlotte Blake Alston, narrator, an inter-generational
chorus consisting of the Camden Creative Arts High School Chorus, Temple
University Music Prep Children's Chorus, Christina Cultural Arts Center chorus
and The Philadelphia Singers and The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by
Rossen Milanov. She is embarking on a trek to Nepal this August (2008) to
research and record indigenous Nepalese music for a new collaborative work
commissioned by Network for New Music. The work, Lung-Ta (The Windhorse) will
be premiered in March with large chamber ensemble, visual art (Maureen Drdak)
and dance (Group Motion Dance Company). She also working on commissions from
The Turtle Creek Chorale and Dolce Suono Chamber Music Series
E. Louise Beach, Writer, 6.2.08
– 6.13.08
“A
poem, "Marital Sex," was accepted by HazMat Review for January 2009.
In addition, my review on the newest collections by Martin Espada and
Benjamin Grossberg will come out in Poet Lore in October, 2008. A
song-cycle based on Rilke's The White Princess will be performed next
year in Birmingham, Alabama. I collaborated with composer Bryan Page on
that project. In addition, I've submitted three
other poem sequences to various composers for their consideration: Winter
Wanderer, based on Wilhelm Mueller's Winterreise; Endurance, based on Ernest
Shackleton's account of his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole; and Ophelia's
Flowers, 22
poems in the voice of mythic women.
Sariah
Ha, Visual Artist, 12.31.07 – 2.8.08
Solo
Exhibition: Art-Loft of the Florence Mill - 9102 North 30th Street
Omaha, NE 68112, August 1 -September 30, 2008
And
the galleries that are representing me are:
Lowe
Gallery: June 2007-Present - 2034 Broadway, Santa Monica CA 90404, 310-449-0184
Bill
Lowe Gallery: June 2007-Present - 1447 Peachtree St, Suite 180, Atlanta, GA
30309
Jeff
Harms, Musician, 12.31.07 – 1.25.08 http://www.jeffharms.net
Jeff Harms'
film, A Thing as Big as the Ocean, was invited to the IFP Narrative Film Lab
Summer 2008. The film is nominated with 2 others for a $50,000 finishing grant.
Julieve
Jubin, Visual Artist, 12.31.07 – 1.25.08
AMPEX
Corporation: Julieve Jubin and Edythe Wright Photo-installation, camac/centre d’art marnay art.
science. technology, Marnay sur Seine, France, 2008
Artist-in-Residence,
camac/centre d’art marnay art. science. technology, Marnay sur Seine, France,
2008
She was
also awarded an honorable mention for the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention, Paris, France,
with over 8000 entries.
Stephanie
Elizondo Griest Writer,
4.30.07 – 6.15.07 www.aroundthebloc.com
My big news is that Washington Square Press/Simon &
Schuster just published my third book, a memoir about cultural identity called
“Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines.” At the end of August, I’ll
be launching a “Border Party Book Tour” to more than 20 cities nationwide and
speaking at universities, libraries, cultural centers, bookstores, and literary
festivals. For details, please see www.mexicanenough.com
www.myspace.com/mexicanenoughthebook
.
Sonja Hinrichsen, Visual Artist, 4.14.07
– 6.1.07
“As some of
you might know I am currently co-curating "Gold Rush: Artist as
Prospector", a traveling exhibition of artists from the San Francisco Bay
Area. On August 5th we had our first opening at Vzigalica Gallery in Ljubljana,
Slovenia. Our show was well received, and we had the honor to have the US
Ambassador of Slovenia as a guest for our reception. Please visit our blog for
images and more information. http://www.goldrushshow.blogspot.com/
Also an
audio city tour, as part of "Zooming in on Wilmington", a city
exploration project in collaboration with girls from Girls Incorporated of
Delaware can now be found online http://www.sonja-hinrichsen.net/projects/zooming_wilmington/zooming_wilmington.html
For more
information on the project please visit: http://www.thedcca.org/programsair.html
Shoshana
Brand, Visual Artist, 10.2.06 – 10.13.06 http://www.shoshanabrand.org
Shoshana
Brand participates in a group show titled "The Art of Thought" at the
City of Brea Art Gallery, on display from August 10 to September 12, 2008.
Curator: Kim Abeles. The exhibit has a catalogue, for sale at the gallery's
gift shop. City of Brea Art gallery, 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, CA 92821
http://www.contemporarymap.org
Jerry
Bleem, Visual Artist, 7.31.06 – 8.25.06
“I
just moved to Phoenix for the 2008-9 academic year; I've been named visiting
assistant professor of fibers at Arizona State University. So I'm in the midst
of settling in now and getting ready for the fall semester to begin.
Another
bit of news: I'll be presenting a paper entitled "When Men Crochet"
at a conference in Helsinki, Finland, at the end of September. The conference
is entitled "Crafticulation and Education" and it's sponsored by
the University of Helsinki.
Next
year I'll have solo exhibitions at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City,
Missouri, from May 23 through July 18, and at the Packer Schopf Gallery in
Chicago in the fall.”
Christina
Marsh, Visual Artist, 8.15.05 – 10.8.05 www.MarshArtOnline.com
I attended
KHN after graduating from graduate school in preparation for my first solo show
in Chicago. I found the atmosphere peaceful and creative and developed great
relationships with the other residents. I not only was productive in my studio,
but had a great experience in the community. I wish that everyone knew that a
portion of the underground railroad is less than 10 minutes away, that if you
visit during Harbor Day you can get a funnel cake right outside of your door
and the World's Largest Nutcracker is only a 15 minute drive away. Honestly, I
had the best and most balanced time while at KHN. Actually, I saw my first
shooting stars while in the woods at night with another resident- she wrote a
poem about that evening and gave it to me prior to here leaving. I do not know
the new faces at KHN, but I am so glad that you keep us updated and nostalgic.
Rob
Scheps, Musician, 8.16.03 – 8.27.03 www.robscheps.8m.net
"Crestfallen" the piece I wrote at KHN has been
recorded in Oslo, Norway , and will be on my new cd in the Fall.”
Linda Byrne, Visual Artist 3.1.04 – 3.27.04
“I have a new work/installation "Ghost Net"
premiering: Projects '08 The Carriage House at the Islip Museum,East Islip,
Long Island, NY August 16th - October 5, 2008; artists reception: Sunday, Oct
5th 2-4 pm for information on museum hours and directions:
http://www.islipartmuseum.org/home.html
I also have one of my nest sculptures in a group show; Wills' Creek Survey 2008
Saville Gallery, 9 N. Centre Street, Cumberland, Maryland; September 6 -
October 3, 2008 opening reception: Saturday, Sep 6th 5-8 pm”
June
2008 News
Julia
Karll, Visual Artist, 2.11.08 – 4.4.08 is now teaching in Kirksville, MO
May
2008 News
Erika
Dreifus, Writer, 6.9.03 – 6.21.03 http://www.practicing-writer.com
Erika Dreifus reports that
"Matrilineal Descent," a short story she began writing during her KHN
residency, has been published in TriQuarterly 130. For more news about Erika,
please visit her Web site http://www.practicing-writer.com
and/or her blog http://practicing-writing.blogspot.com
. “You might also enjoy an interview I recently published with
Stephanie Elizondo Griest a 2007 KHN resident: http://practicing-writing.blogspot.com/2008/05/talking-about-writers-residencies.html
Matthew
Dehaemers, Visual Artist, 4.3.06 – 4.28.06 www.matthewdehaemers.com , My public art installation will
open in the Chicago area on Sunday June 1st at the Evanston Art Center. More information
on the project can be found at www.evanstonartcenter.org under
Sculpture on the Grounds. This project involves local history of Lake Michigan,
the historic Grosse Point Lighthouse and thousands of messages written by local
people from the Evanston community encapsulated in 6,000 bottles that are apart
of the five structures. It will be on display for one year. I was also excited
to recently be awarded a public art commission for the L.A. County California
Public Art Commission. If you are in the Chicago area over the next year you
might take an opportunity to see the installation.
April
2008 News
Mary
King, Visual Artist, 1.28.07 – 2.22.08
Mary has an
exhibition at the Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit, Michigan May 10 –
July 12, 2008 www.sherrywashingtongallery.com
Bart Vargas, Visual Artist,
7.2.07 – 7.27.07
Anderson O'Brien Fine Art, Omaha,
NE, presents TRAJECTORY: New Work by Bart Vargas May 2, 2008 through May 17,
2008. An opening reception with the artist will take place Friday, May 2, from
6:00 p.m. to 9:00p.m. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday 10:00a.m. to
5:30p.m. and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m www.aobfineart.com
March
2008 News
AJ
Liberto, Visual Artist, 10.15.07 – 11.2.07
I am living
and working in Boston. I am working at MIT and for the artist Paul Laffoley. I
will be in a group show in Brooklyn in August and a two-person show in Houston
in November.
Joan
Waltemath, Visual Artist, 9.17.07 – 11.9.07
I recently
received a Jentel Foundaton residency for August-September.
I'm
teaching at Princeton University and at Cooper Union in the School of
Architecture this year.
I will be
in a group show in Brooklyn.
Eduardo
Santiere, Visual Artist 3.29.04 – 5.1.04
Now
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From January 25 through March 30, 2008 I
will participate in the group exhibition “Blown Away” at the Krannert Art
Museum in Illinois. From February 22 through April 26, 2008. Solo show at Haim
Chanin Fine Arts, 121 West 19th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY
February
2008 News
A. Jacob
Galle, Visual Artist, 1.29.07 – 3.23.07
I am headed
to Guyana at the end of this month for 10 days to help work on a video project
of a good friend. After which I am going to Wyoming for a month residency at
Jentel. There I will continue working on my documentary about livestock
auctions which I began while in residence at KHN. I am also working on an
installation for ARTspace in New Haven, Connecticut which will be opening in
November of 2008.
January
2008 News
Julia
Freeman, Visual Artist, 11.5.07 – 12.14.07www.juliafreeman.com
I have an exhibition coming up at the
Lynnwood Arts Center in July 2008 and an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum
Gallery in March 2008.
John
Skeen, Visual Artist and Musician, 10.22.07 – 12.14.07
The
song/paintings performed at KHN in December are programmed on a new music
concert Feb 22 at the Creative Arts Center, WV University. There will be a
second new music concert later this spring, no date yet, on which I expect
to present other new music/paintings, currently in progress. I'm also
working on settings of three of Denise's poems, which will be
music/paintings, with her poems inscribed on them. There are three
poems, and five music/paintings (one of the haiku I'm dividing up among three
music/paintings because each section of the poem warrants a specific treatment).
I think Denise's plan is to use the three music/paintings which set the one
haiku, and produce a hand-made book in an edition of 5 or maybe 10. When I'm
finished with my part, I will email the images to Denise, and she will design
something very beautiful and pleasing in book form. I also have an exhibit
scheduled for two weeks at the Monongalia Art Center, downtown Morgantown,
which I will open on April 5, with a slideshow/recital of new works. The
recital is scheduled as part of an annual chamber series consisting of four or
five concerts; mine provides a good opportunity for an exhibit as well. In mid
June I will go on residency at Hambridge in Rabun, GA for a month. I'm guessing
it will be more or less soggy and really hot at that time of year, perhaps
less so there in the mountains, (I detest hot soggy weather; Neb weather was
perfect for me, snow, ice, and all), but otherwise I am anticipating a very
inspiring and productive experience.
Ian
Williams, Writer, 10.1.07 – 10.13.07
I don't
have a website yet, but I plan to develop one. News? Here's some decent news:
Since KHN, I've placed poems in a couple of good Canadian journals, Carousel
and Contemporary Verse 2, and I have fiction in the current issue of The
Dalhousie Review.
Here's better
news: Leaf Press selected my poem, "V," to be its Monday Poem, which
is a public poetry project. The press sends out a poem each Monday to its
subscriber list, then the poem gets archived on the site. My poem will appear
on February 4, 2008.
Best news: Matrix Magazine, a
literary journal based in Montreal, has chosen me as one of six of Canada's
best emerging poets. My poems will be featured in issue 79.
Evan P.
Schneider, Writer,.10.16.07 – 10.27.07 www.myspace.com/evanpschneider
,
At present,
I am still working to settle myself in Atlanta; it is an enormous place. All in
all, though, things are going well.
News you can note about me: I am now the managing editor of Boneshaker:
A Bicycling Almanac,
released thrice yearly by Wolverine Farm Publishing of Fort Collins, Colorado.
Also, late this winter False Magazine will run an essay I wrote about urban consciousness
entitled "Seeing Patterns." In another fantastic turn of fate, AJ
Liberto (with whom I was rooming there at KHN) has included a drawing of mine
in an enormous project he is working on about America. He and I keep in touch
often.
Jamie
Burmeister, Visual Artist, 10.1.07 – 10.12.07
www.jamieburmeister.com
I have a new installation titled "Deconstruction" in an
exhibition titled "State of the Art" I was recently awarded the Omaha
Entertainment and Arts Awards Best Public Artist for 2007I am presently working
on an interactive public sound sculpture titled "South Omaha Sound
Field" that will be installed at the new South Omaha Public Library.
Melanie
Vote, Visual Artist, 8.13.07 – 9.7.07 www.melanievote.com
One of the works inspired from last summers stay in NE is in a group show at
Flowers Gallery in New York, the website is www.flowerseast.com.
There is a good chance more of the work will be in an
exhibition in Manchester CT at Manchester Comm. College, in their on campus
gallery. I will let you know if that happens. I hope to have the new images up
from last summer on my website early spring (melanievote.com).
Meghan
Gordon, Visual Artist, 8.13.07 – 9.14.07
I am here
at the Fine Arts Work Center as a Winter Fellow (October 2007 to May 2008). I
am having a solo show at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery opening on February 8th
and I am in a group show at the Provincetown Arts Association and Museum open
now until March 2nd. Also I will be in a show in Harford, CT at The
Bushnell called On Paper II, put on by a group called Paper/New England.
Keith
Kirchoff, Musician, 8.7.07 – 8.18.07, www.keithkirchoff.com
You may be
interested to know I'll be premiering the piece that I composed while at KHN on
April 3, 2008 in Salt Lake City.
Jake Longstreth,
Visual Artist, 7.30.07
- 8.10.07
http://www.jakelongstreth.com Thanks again for the opportunity
this summer, I am still working my way though all the photographs I took and
slowly making prints. I will send some your way eventually.
Jennifer
Perrine, Writer, 7.30.07 – 8.10.07 jperrine@gmail.com
For the last few months I've been polishing the manuscript
on which I was working during my time at the KHN Center. I finally settled on a
"final" version of the manuscript, titled In the Human Zoo , and I've been sending it around to
publishers. No word yet from them, but I'll keep you posted if I hear any good
news. In the meantime, I've started work on a new series of poems in the
personae of female mystics, prophets, and heretics. Maybe that will turn into a
book of its own this summer, when I have more time to dig into the research. I
don't have a website to add to the list, but feel free to use my email if you
like. jperrine@gmail.com
Rebecca
Foley, Visual Artist, 7.2.07 – 7.28.07 www.rebeccafoley.com
Anastasia
Ward, Visual Artist
4.30.07 – 6.15.07
I am an
Instructor at the Science Museum of Minnesota, and teach 8-13 year olds about
basic circuits, computer modeling programs, micro computers, animation, and
video game programming.
Just recently I became Education Coordinator of PIE (Playful
Invention and Exploration) funded by the National Science Foundation. I work
with Libraries, Education Facilities, and Art and Science Museums within
Minnesota and the Midwest.
I was part of two group shows in November at the
Minnesota Museum of American Art and The Soap Factory. Both of these shows
contained work done at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
My boyfriend and I received a private commission to spend a
Month in Frankfurt, Germany room/board/ and travel paid for. We just got back a
couple weeks ago, and had a great time. It was my first time out of the US.
Cara Diaconoff, Writer, 2.26.07 –
3.16.07
Currently living in
Salt Lake City,
Utah., During
2007-2008, I have been a doctoral research fellow in the Tanner Humanities
Center at University of Utah, where I've continued to work on my second novel,
“Marian Hall.” The novel is a fictionalized imagining of the life of Elizabeth
Bentley, an American Communist and Soviet spy during World War II. My story
collection, “Unmarriageable Daughters,” is due out in 2008 from Lewis-Clark
Press (Lewiston, Idaho). My first novel, “I'll Be a Stranger to You,” continues
to seek a publisher; it won first place in the novel category in the 2007 Utah
Original Writing Competition, an annual contest sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council.
Kevin
Wilson, Writer, 3.13.06 – 3.22.06 (Kevin was also a writer in residence in August 2008)
Kevin
Wilson's first collection of stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, is
forthcoming in 2009 from Ecco/HarperCollins. He currently teaches fiction at
The University of the South and serves as the Creative Writing Administrator
for the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Josh
Goldman, Musician, 2.19.07 – 4.13.07
http://www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=329
After leaving
KHN I spent a couple months at the Montana Artists Refuge (Basin, MT) - then a
couple months at the Prairie Center of the Arts (Peoria, IL). At the
moment I'm living in Cincinnati pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition
at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music.
Emily Wortman-Wunder, Writer, 1.15.07 – 1.26.07
In May, I was awarded an Artistic Fellowship from Fort
Collins Arts Alive.In October, I was a resident at the Colorado Art Ranch in
Durango, Colorado, which involved a public reading, lots of community
involvement, and participation in the September Durango Artposium. It was a lot
of fun!
Jessie
Marshall, Writer, 1.15.07 – 2.2.07
Since
attending KHN, I participated in residencies at the Gershwin Hotel and the
Millay Colony. Last fall I started New York University's MFA program in
Creative Writing, and I have a short story forthcoming in the Gettysburg
Review.
Stefan
Weisman, Musician, 1.2.07
– 1.12.07 www.stefanweisman.com
My
composition for the Bang on a Can All Stars was mentioned in the New York
Times’ retrospective of 2007’s best new music. (NYT, 12/23/07, Allan Kozinn,
“The Spound of the New Is Heard All Over”). I had a one act opera commissioned
by London-based Second Movement opera company for Summer 2008. This fall I was
a guest composer at the University of Southern Maine. This summer, my opera
“Darkling” was performed in Berlin, Germany and Gniezno, Poland.
Greg
Singer, Visual Artist, 11.27.06 – 12.15.06 www.gregsinger.net , I was in a juried show called Texas
National Art Competition. Next month I will be attending a residency at Vermont Studio Center.
Other than that I've just been making work and trying to survive New York City.
Kim
Roberts, Writer, 11.20.06 – 12.15.06 http://www.kimroberts.org
Kim Roberts has
published her second book of poems, The Kimnama, from Vrzhu Press. More information
can be found on her website
Hugh
Lifson, Visual Artist, 10.16.06 – 11.24.06
I’m working
away, but at a slower pace—due in part to some illnesses in the family,
but paintings and drawings are getting done. May goal is a local show at a
local gallery, next year. I’m also showing in some other local galleries in
their group shows.
Eric
Wilson, Visual Artist, 9.4.06 – 10.28.06
March,
2008, group show at Ozarks Technical Community College; Springfield, MO
June
– July 2008, collaborative Show with Bryce Spped: ‘A Different Place to
Dwell’ at the Bemis Underground; Omaha, NE
August
2008, Alumni Exhibition at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Mt.
Vernon, IA
Justin
Quarry, Writer, 9.4.06 – 9.29.06
Since my
residency at KHN in September 2006, I have received fellowships at Vermont
Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation, and this summer I will be the Kerouac
Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando. A story I began
while at KHN--and set, in part, in Nebraska--will be published in the fall issue
of TriQuarterly; I have another story forthcoming in the spring issue of Sou'wester.
Laurie
Stone Writer,
8.28.06 – 10.2.06
Laurie has
had recent residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and Djerassi. Her essay "A Hand
on the Neck" is included in the anthology The Other Woman (Warner, 2007).
She is currently teaching an Interterm creative writing workshop at Chapman
University in Orange, Ca. She will be returning to Nebraska, which she very
much enjoyed during her KHN residency, next fall to give a reading
and workshop at Creighton University in Omaha.
Benjamin
S. Jones, Visual Artist, , 8.7.06 – 9.2.06 www.benjaminsjones.com
I've been hard at
work since my time at the KHN. Please take a look at my website to see some new
work. Some of the work that I began at the KHN was in a solo show at ADA
Gallery in Richmond, Va in April 2007. In 2007 I also taught sculpture at both
Virginia Commonwealth University in RIchmond and Denison University in
Granville, Ohio.
Bonnie
J. Rough, Writer, 7.10.06 – 7.22.06
Bonnie
has received a 2007 McKnight Artist Fellowship in Creative Prose, a 2007 Bush
Foundation Artist Fellowship, and a 2008 Minnesota Arts Board Artist Initiative
Grant. She is currently completing her memoir about genetic heredity. Recent
essays have appeared in Isotope, Brevity, and The Best American Science and
Nature Writing 2007. New essays are forthcoming from Nightsun and The Sun magazine.
Colleen
Abel, Writer, 6.19.06 – 7.29.06
In terms of my work, I have had poems
recently in Heliotrope, The Evansville Review, Salamander and Regarding Arts and Letters. Poems will appear in upcoming
issues of Eclipse,
the Hawaii’s Pacific Review, and The Notre Dame Review. I was recently awarded a residency
at a writer's retreat in Southern Italy, and will spend part of May '08 there.
My postcard collaboration with my husband, Tim, a visual artist, was recently
exhibited at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Marcie
(Lenke) Paper, Visual Artist, 6.5.06 – 7.1.06, www.marciepaper.com
My new name
is Marcie Paper (former name, Marcie Lenke) ,
Magalie
Guerin, Visual Artist, 5.1.06 - 6.10.06, www.magalieguerin.com
Deirdre
Shaw, Writer, 4.3.06 – 4.22.06 www.deirdreshaw.com
My first novel will be published by
Random House in Spring 2009. I wrote part of it during my residency at the KHN
Center in April 2006. I had such a lovely time during my residency; I got a lot
of good work done and met so many wonderful people
Lauren
O'Leary, Writer, 3.6.06 – 4.1.06
I'm a short
fiction writer who was a KHN resident in March of 2006. Since staying with you
kind folks, my news includes finishing my second Master's degree - this
one in Fine Arts - from the University of Nebraska Omaha in July 2007 (where I
studied under the talented Karen Gettert Shoemaker another former
resident!). Upon completion of my degree, I accepted a faculty position at
Quinnipiac University outside of New Haven, Connecticut. As an assistant
professor there, I am teaching both academic and creative writing and
thoroughly enjoying myself. KHN was one of the highlights of my writing
endeavors and I often think of my time there as I search for a quiet place to
write now that I am living only about an hour outside of bustling,
rustling New York City!
Justin
Chin, Writer, 2.6.06 – 2.18.06 www.redroom.com/author/justin-chin
The book of
poems I was working on whilst in residency, Gutted, went to press later that year
(2006), and in 2007, it won the Publishing Triangle's 2007 Thom Gunn Award for
Poetry, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Assoc. of
Asian American Studies Book Awards.
Virginia
Spiegel, Visual Artist, 11.13.05 – 12.4.05 www.virginiaspiegel.com Blog: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/
The Garbage Day Project: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/GarbageDayProject/
Fiberart For A Cause: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/NewFiles/ACSFundraiser.html
After an exciting 2007 in which I completed a month-long
artist residency and a solo show, my artwork will be showing in 2008 at
ArtQuilt Elements (Wayne Art Center, PA), Translations Gallery in Denver, Real
Tart Gallery in New Zealand, juried and invitational Studio Art Quilt Associate
exhibits at International Quilt Festival – Chicago and International
Quilt Festival – Long Beach, and as part of the International Fiber
Collaborative installation in New York. I continue to raise funds for the
American Cancer Society. Current fundraisers for Fiberart For A Cause include
my online book, “Art, Nature, Creativity, Life.”
Joseph
Kudirka, Musician, 10.31.05 – 12.10.05
I had such
a fabulous and productive time as a resident at KHN and sincerely hope I get a
chance to come back some day. Pieces I wrote while there in 2005 have since
been performed in Los Angeles, Switzerland (one in Basel and two in Bern - the
ones in Bern were part of a 50 retrospective of experimental music, performed
by Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern) and Ostrava, Czech Republic (las year, as part
of the biannual Ostrava New Music Days festival) - that's just off the top of
my head.... there have probably been performances in other cities too.
In October of last year I started work
as a postgraduate researcher in music at the University of Huddersfield, in
England. I'm really happy there, have a great contract, and If I meet all of my
deadlines, I'll have a Ph.D. when I'm done with it. I'm having good luck getting
my works performed in the US and Europe, and am happy to have the first
performance of a piece of mine in New Zealand, later this month. Unfortunately
I don't have a website to give you a link to.
Dan
Giese, Visual Artist 10.17.05 – 10.29.05 www.dangiese.com
I currently have work up in a group exhibition at Denise
Bibro Fine Arts. The Winter Salon there is, for me a New York debut in the
galleries. Obviously I'm happy about the exposure this allows me. Aside from that,
I reside and continue my studio practice in Brooklyn, NY for the time being. I
have a new body of work that is coming into its own, and I plan to show it off
at my next opportunity.
Anna
Mantzaris, Writer, 10.3.05 – 10.29.05 www.annamantzaris.net
Kelly
Madigan Erlandson , Writer, 9.12.05 – 9.23.05
Kelly
received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for 2008. Her book, Getting
Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days, was released in September 2007 and
has gone to a second printing. The final portions of the book were completed
during a KHN residency. Kelly has a poem in the recently released anthology, Best
New Poets 2007.
Mary
Mazziotti, Visual Artist, 7.4.05 – 7.30.05
http://www.pittsburghartistregistry.org/marymazziotti
An exhibit
of miniature watercolor paintings at the Borelli-Edwards Gallery in Pittsburg,
PA in 2006. Her work is also represented at O.K. Harris Works of Art in New
York City. She had exhibits in Copenhagen, Denmark, Erie, PA, Grand Rapids MI
and San Francisco, CA in 2006. In December 2007 she spent a month at the St.
James Cavalier Center for Creativity in Malta.
Information mailed to KHN 2006 and 2007
Kristen
Martincic, Visual
Artist, 6.20.05 – 7.2.05 kristen@kmartincic.com,
Jee
Leong Koh, Writer, 6.13.05 – 6.25.05 http://jeeleong.blogspot.com
I remember
my time at KHN with great fondness. Reading Cather's The Professor's House
there seemed strikingly appropriate.
Some news from me: My poetry chapbook Payday Loans was
published in April 2007 (Poets Wear Prada Press). Marie Howe says, "Smart,
irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee
Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of
the artist as a young man." My poem "Brother" was selected by
Natasha Trethewey for the Best New Poets 2007 anthology, published by the
University of Virginia Press. And, most recently, my work has been anthologized
in Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, edited by John Kinsella and
Alvin Pang. I blog at http://jeeleong.blogspot.com ,
and welcome comments on my writing there.
Leslie Pietrzyk, Writer, 5.9.05 –
5.21.05 www.lesliepietrzyk.com
It seems like so long ago that I had the
pleasure of spending time at the KHN Center...but happily, I am in the
process of the final revisions on the novel ms. I was working on while there.
If all goes well (though does it ever?) I will be sending my third novel out
into the world in the late spring. I guess my news of interest might be that
for the past year, I have been writing a blog, Work in Progress, that explores
the writing life and the creative process. Along with my own thoughts, I also
feature guest essays by writers at various stages of their career, so that
makes for a lively mix. Here's the link-- www.workinprogressinprogress.blogspot.com
/--and
I welcome readers as well as writers/artists who might be interested in
submitting a guest essay.
Susan
Field, Visual Artist, 4.4.05 – 4.30.05 www.susanfield.net
,
Nancy
Krygowski, Writer, 3.7.05 – 4.2.05
In 2006 her
poetry manuscript, which she worked on at KHN, was awarded the Starrett Poetry
Prize. It was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2007
Jess Witte, Visual Artist, 2.7.05 – 4.2.05 http://www.jessicawitte.com
I am
currently teaching design and drawing classes at Waubonsee Community College
and serving as Coordinator of Education and Public Relations at the NIU Art
Museum. I will have some exhibition news and dates coming soon, once I go to
some meetings in the next few weeks. I miss Nebraska City, and the KHN. It will
be wonderful to get to link up with other residents via their websites.
Mark
Epstein, Visual Artist, 2.7.05 – 3.5.05
Solo Show:
2007 The Hex, The Modern Way With Color Contains Clashes as well as Harmonies,
London. Group Shows: 2007 Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University,
Eye Tricks, South Orange, NJ, Boston Center for the Arts, Drawing the Line,
Boston, MA, Romanian Academy, Spazi Aperti, Rome. Residencies: 2007 Macdowell Colony Residency,
Peterborough, NH,Jentel Artist Residency, Lower Piney Creek, WY. Bibliography:
Greg Cook, Sketch Artists, The Boston Phoenix, November 20, 2007
I don't have a website but I am included in the Drawing
Center's curated online registry. I think of KHN and Nebraska City all the
time--I'd really love to make it back there at some point.
Vivienne
Plumb, Writer, 11.8.04 – 11.22.04
I have been
busier and busier since my time at Iowa and Nebraska in 2004. Last year my new
play 'The Cape' opened in August in Wellington, and it now doing the rounds of
all the major New Zealand towns. It opens in Auckland on Feb 8th. I am
presently working on a new commissioning for another play for the Auckland
Theatre Company. My book of poems about the Kerikeri Mission House in the Bay
of Islands has just come out, entitled 'From Darkness to Light' it is about
this house where the early missionaries lived, a place of first contact between
Europeans and Maori. It has been published by the N.Z. Historic Places Trust
who administer the
site. Later
this year I will be reading at the Cuirt International Literature Festival in
Galway, Ireland, and visiting Poland where I will also give readings with my
friend the Polish poet, Adam Wiedemann. Vivienne Plumb,Auckland, New Zealand
Rick
Dula, Visual Artist, 10.6.03 – 11.1.03,
An exhibit
at the George Billis Gallery in New York City Nov. 6 – Dec. 8, 2007
Rob
Scheps, Musician, 8.16.03 – 8.27.03 www.robscheps.8m.net
Still
Bi-Coastal between Portland, OR & NYC. He plays regularly with Oregon
Symphony, The Rob Scheps-Core-tet, and the Rob Scheps Big Band. Rob did 3 CDs
for the Norwegian label Jazzcode." In The Moment" and "Codes For
Christmas" have been released. Rob's CD of original jazz, "Global
Citizens", will be released ca. March 2008. He performed recently with
Liza Minnelli ( Vancouver,BC) ; Billy Hart ( NYC) ; Hadley Caliman(Seattle) ;
Glen Moore ( Portland) ; and Roy McCurdy( Los Angeles). Rob Toured to
Berlin,Oslo, and Bergen with drummer Carl Stormer.
www.jazzcode.org
Find information
about shows, watch the new documentary + free song downloads www.robscheps.8m.net
www.halevymusic.com (MP3's)
And from
information emailed to KHN August 2008: "Crestfallen" the piece I
wrote at KHN has been recorded in Oslo, Norway , and will be on my new cd in
the Fall.”
Michaela
Ross, Visual Artist, 8.25.03 – 9.6.03 www.michaelaross.com
I'd be really glad
to have my info on the website. I still remember those few weeks in Nebraska .
Updates on my work can be found at: www.michaelaross.com
Joey
Jang, Visual Artist, 6.30.03 – 7.26.03
I joined a
painting club named Jen-syang in Taiwan and we're going to have a group show in
Spain this year. I'm preparing for it.
Kirsten
Furlong, Visual Artist, 6.16.03 – 6.28.03 www.kirstenfurlong.com
I am currently the Gallery Director at the Visual Arts
Center at Boise State University in Boise, ID. I have two upcoming exhibitions
of my work: in March 2008 at the John B. Davis Gallery at Idaho State
University Pocatello, ID and in July 2008 at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts
in Hailey, ID.
Susan
Brasch, Visual Artist, 4.22.02 – 4.27.02 www.susanjbrasch.com My present work is a series called
"Tesselations" abstract designs based on triangles and squares and
accompanied by another series called: "Morphics" You will see that
most of the work on the website is realistic in nature and I will not be
putting my new work on the site for another year or so. But, you are welcome if
ever in Lincoln, to please come by my studio in the Burkholder Project, 719 P.
St.,or call if you have moment when you know that you will be in the area
(423-6945(h) or 474-4080(studio). I would love to see you and you can see how
these new abstract series are developing. I am in most weekdays and usually
work Sat. mornings.
Greg
Wortham, Visual Artist, 2002 http://www.ronin3.com
It is good
to hear from KHN!. I was one of the first to be a resident there. I was able to
get work done that I would not have if I hadn’t had the generous support. The
results are now located in downtown Lincoln at St. Marks on Campus.Currently I
teach as an adjunct professor at Florida Southern College as well as teach at
Ridge Community High School in Davenport, FL. I had a one man show last year
and am looking for other opportunities nearby. My web site is http://www.ronin3.com
as well as hosted on another site http://bukwessul.deviantart.com/ which
is a bit more informal.
July
2007 News
Kelly Sherman,
www.kellysherman.net , Visual Artist, 5.14.07 –
6.15.07
In July,
2007 Kelly sent us this news:
I'm
currently in residence at the Hall Farm Center in Vermont and then heading to
Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska for August. The work that was conceived of and
begun there at the KHN Center, I intend to compete while at these other
residencies and exhibit at the Julie Chae Gallery in Boston this Fall (2007)
Haran
Kim, Visual Artist, 3.5.07 – 4.6.07
I am
staying Bloomington. IN now. It is good to be back here where I spent 4 years
to finish my graduate program. I've been working on my project at the print
shop at Indiana University. I was invited to participate in Hong Kong Graphic
Art Festival 2007: Crossing Boundaries. The exhibition will be in November
2007. I will go back to Seoul August.5 and keep working on my project. I will
work on studying digital media and want to combine the media with printmaking.
Andy
Douglas, Writer, 2.19.07 – 3.2.07
I’ve been
making headway on the memoir I was working on at KHN (Feb. 07). This past fall,
I taught a new class at the University of Iowa - “The Spiritual Essay”,
allowing students to write about meaning and their spiritual lives. It was a
good class. Also, had a piece I revised at KHN accepted into “in situ” an
anthology of area writers.
Susan Murrell, Visual Artist, 4.2.07
– 4.27.07
Since
leaving KHN at the end of April I have moved from costal Georgia to Hood River,
Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge. It feels like a time of transition - and
time has flown as I have gotten settled into my new home, meeting artists in my
area, and figuring out the next step. In the studio I am currently preparing
for a solo exhibition, "Contrive + Classify" at the University of
Montana in Missoula in September. My work during my time at KHN has led me to
more experimentation in water-based media and working with the conceptual
basis of my installations within a 2-D format. I am also busy doing research
and preparing for the fall classes I will be teaching at Mount Hood Community
College. Other then that . . . enjoying the fabulous summer weather. Hiking,
camping, and soaking in the spectacular views of the Columbia River Gorge.
David Perez, Writer, 2.19.07 – 4.27.07
Since his six-week residency in the Spring 2007,writer/actor
David Perez has continued working on his childhood memoir. "I'd say it's
about 80 percent complete. I made tremendous progress at KHN, but had to focus
on getting a new job once I returned to Taos, New Mexico. I'm now a
journalist/writer for the arts and entertainment magazine of the weekly
newspaper here, The Taos News. I write three-four articles a week, so, yeah,
I'm getting paid to write and be published! But I haven't been able to finish
my memoir because of the work load." David's daughter is getting married
so that's taken up time and attention too. But he devotes a few hours a week to
completing his book, which he's now envisioning as more a series of stand-alone
stories, as opposed to a chronological tale of growing up in the South Bronx.
"It's all the process, and the main thing is that I'm extremely happy in
my life. And that means everything."