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January 2009

WriterLarry Woiwode - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/08/2009

Larry Woiwode is the author of five novels, including Beyond the Bedroom Wall, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Poppa John, What I'm Going to Do, I Think, and... more

ArtistDavid Kapp - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/12/2009

David Kapp received his BFA from Windham College in Vermont, and his MFA from Queens College in NY. Solo exhibitions include Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica CA; Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe; Tibor de... more

ArtistPeter Schumann - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/13/2009

(b. 1934, Poland) trained as a sculptor, puppeteer, and baker in Germany. He moved to the U.S. in 1961, taught puppetry at the Putney School and founded the Bread & Puppet Theater in NYC. Bread & Puppet... more

ArtistJerilea Zempel - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/22/2009

Jerilea Zempel (b. 1947, Pittsburgh, PA) received a BA and MA from Penn State and an MFA from Columbia. As well as exhibiting in NY galleries and museums, she has built a number of site-specific projects using... more

ArtistKathleen Gilje - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/23/2009

(b. 1945 Brooklyn, NY) Kathleen Gilje holds a BFA from the City College of New York, and studied 16th and 17th century italian art at the Museum of Capodimonte, Naples from 1967-71. She has had numerous major... more

WriterMargot Livesey - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/26/2009

Margot Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. After taking a BA in literature and philosophy at the University of York in England, she spent most of her twenties in Toronto... 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.