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ArtistMarjorie Portnow

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 01/18/2010

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 Francisco. Group exhibitions include the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Corcoran Gallery. Collections include the Metropolitan Museum, Boston MFA, and Middlebury College. She has received grants from the NEA, Ingram Merrill, Radcliffe (Bunting) Institute, and the Tiffany Foundation. She teaches at Western Connecticut State U. and lives in New York.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, August 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.

MARY HAMBLETON

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2009

Mary Hambleton's solo exhibitions include Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, in NYC (where she is represented), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NYC, and Knoedler Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions are numerous: The National Academy of Design, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Painting Center, Robert Gilson Fine Arts, Robert Steele Gallery, and Max Protech. Articles and reviews of Hambleton’s paintings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Chicago Tribune.