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October 2008

WriterAntonya Nelson - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/02/2008

Antonya Nelson is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of four other short... more

ArtistJulian Hatton - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/06/2008

Julian Hatton (b. 1956, Grand Haven, MI) received a B.A. from Harvard and also studied at the NY Studio School. He is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery in NY, and has also shown at R.B. Stevenson Gallery... more

ArtistLillian Ball - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/07/2008

Lillian Ball makes sculpture and installations often focused on environmental issues like preservation and restoration. Her work has been exhibited at Exit Art, The Queens Museum, Josselyne Naef Fine Art, Montrael, and the Sculpture Center. She has lectured... more

ArtistAndy Yoder - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/16/2008

(b. 1957, Cleveland) is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and Skowhegan. Group shows include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Reykjavik Art Museum, to name but... more

ArtistJudith Linhares - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/17/2008

Judith Linhares is a figurative painter who has exhibited at the International Print Center, Feigen Contemporary, Nancy Lurie Gallery and Edward Thorp Gallery. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three NYFA awards. Her work... more

WriterTom Bissell - ( view )

Lecture Date: 10/20/2008

Tom Bissell is the author of the travelogue Chasing the Sea, the short story collection God Lives in St. Petersburg, and The Father of All Things, a travelogue, history, and memoir about the Vietnam War. He is... 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.