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December 2008

WriterForrest Gander - ( view )

Lecture Date: 11/27/2008

Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia. His first college degree was in geology, and earth science continues to inform his writing. His book A Faithful Existence is a lyrical exploration... more

ArtistBarbara Grossman - ( view )

Lecture Date: 12/01/2008

Barbara Grossman is a figurative painter from New York. Her canvases deal with color and pattern, and place the human figure in domestic interiors. For three decades, Grossman has been showing at Bowery Gallery, NYC, and exhibits... more

ArtistPat DeGogorza - ( view )

Lecture Date: 12/02/2008

Patricia de Gogorza received her M.A. from Goddard College in 1975, and her B.A. from Smith College in 1958. Recent solo and group exhibitions include the Akaroa Museum in New Zealand, the Hillyer Gallery at Smith College,... more

ArtistEd Smith - ( view )

Lecture Date: 12/11/2008

Ed Smith (b. 1956, Baltimore) is a Guggenheim Fellow in Sculpture and Drawing. His work is represented in public and private collections in the United States and abroad. These include The British Museum, The Royal Museum of... more

ArtistHugh O'Donnell - ( view )

Lecture Date: 12/12/2008

Hugh O’Donnell (b. 1950, England) received a BA at Falmouth College of Art and attended Birmingham College of Art. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London and received a Fellowship at Kyoto U.... more

WriterSusan Mitchell - ( view )

Lecture Date: 12/15/2008

Susan Mitchell has won many awards for her poetry, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. She has authored three books of poems, most recently Erotikon and Rapture, which... more

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.

WOLF KAHN

In Back of the Vermont Studio Center, 2001.
Oil on canvas. 52 x 66 inches.

Wolf Kahn is a Founding Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and an annual Visiting Artist for the past 20 years. As such he has had a major role in the Center?s success since its founding in 1984.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Kahn immigrated to the United States in 1940 where he studied with the well-known teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman. From 1956 ? 1995 he showed at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, and now shows at Ameringer and Yohe in New York and in galleries all over this country and abroad.
His work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum.
He has received a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. He is member of the National Academy of Design, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He lives in New York and spends summers and autumns in Vermont.