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June 2008

WriterRikki Ducornet - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/12/2008

Rikki Ducornet is the author of seven novels including The Fan maker's Inquisition, a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and The Jade Cabinet, finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She has received Fellowships... more

ArtistCharles Garabedian - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/16/2008

Charles Garabedian (b. 1923, Detroit, MI) received an M.A. from UCLA and a B.A. from the U. of Southern California. Garabedian shows at Betty Cunningham in NYC and his exhibitions include the Rose Art Museum, Hirschl &... more

ArtistSarah Oppenheimer - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/17/2008

Sara Oppenheimer has exhibited at P. P. O. W., NYC, Annely Juda Fine Arts, London, Galerie Duvekleemann, Berlin, the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, and Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC. She has been awarded number grants, including... more

ArtistJoel Fisher - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/26/2008

Joel Fisher (b. 1947, Salem, OH) received a B.A. from Kenyon College. He has exhibited in Berlin, London, Paris and Amsterdam. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria... more

ArtistFrances Barth - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/27/2008

Frances Barth (b. 1946, NYC) studied at Hunter College, where she received her BFA and MA in painting. She has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, and her work is represented in numerous collections, including... more

WriterLynne Sharon Schwartz - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/30/2008

Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of 20 books, including novels, short story collections, non-fiction, poetry, and translations. Her first novel, Rough Strife, was nominated for a National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award. ... 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.