Artists

VSC accepts 40 visual artists each month in painting, sculpture, new and mixed-media, drawing, printmaking, and photography.

Each VSC Resident Artist receives:

A private studio in one of five studio buildings
The presence of four Visiting Artists per month, each of whom gives a slide lecture and offers optional individual studio visit
Access to model for life drawing
Access to Sculpture Shop, Print Shop, or Darkrooms (as appropriate)

Slide Presentations / Open Studios

Four evenings each month are scheduled to provide Resident Artists the chance to share their work (in slide or digital format) if they wish to do so.
Open Studio evenings are scheduled twice each month as an additional opportunity to share work.

Studios & Facilities

For a detailed description of studios and shops, visit Studios and Facilities section.

Apply

To apply for a VSC Artist Residency, please visit the Apply section of this site.

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.