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March 2009

WriterDavid Gates - ( view )

Lecture Date: 03/05/2009

David Gates is the author of two novels, Jernigan, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Preston Falls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a collection of stories, The Wonders of the Invisible... more

ArtistJulian Lethbridge - ( view )

Lecture Date: 03/09/2009

Julian Lethbridge was born in Sri Lanka, rasied in England, attending Winchester College and Cambridge University, and has spent his professional life in New York City. Lethbridge has shown since the late eighties at Paula Cooper Gallery, New... more

ArtistLauren Ewing - ( view )

Lecture Date: 03/10/2009

Lauren Ewing received an MA from Indiana University and an MFA from the U. of California. Ewing is on the faculty at Rutgers and has taught at RISD and Williams. Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally... more

ArtistTom Bills - ( view )

Lecture Date: 02/09/2009

Tom Bills (b.1948, Detroit, MI) attended Macomb County Community College in Michigan and earned a BA in 1974. He earned an MFA from Yale University in 1978. His professional career began in 1976 with a... more

ArtistMarjorie Portnow - ( view )

Lecture Date: 03/20/2009

Marjorie Portnow (b. 1942, NYC) received an MFA from Brooklyn College, and is a member of the National Academy of Design. Solo shows include Peter Rose Gallery and Fischbach Gallery, NY; Harcus-Krakow, Boston, and Contemporary Realist Gallery, San... more

WriterKevin McIlvoy - ( view )

Lecture Date: 03/19/2009

Kevin McIlvoy teaches in the Dept. of English at New Mexico State University, and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Recently, he has taught at the Bread Loaf, RopeWalk, and Arizona State University... 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.