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WriterB.H. Fairchild

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 09/22/2008

B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe was a finalist for the National Book Award and also received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the William Carlos William Award. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation and is the author of Such Holy Song, a scholarly study of William Blake. His fourth book of poems, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, appeared from W.W. Norton in 2003 and received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Book Awards, and the Bobbitt Award from the Library of Congress. In 2005, Fairchild was honored with the Aiken/Taylor Modern Poetry Award from The Sewanee Review for the body of his work.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, 08/12/2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.