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WriterMichael Waters

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 02/23/2009

Michael Waters’ eight books of poetry include Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001), and Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (1997) from BOA Editions, and Bountiful (1992), The Burden Lifters (1989), and Anniversary of the Air (1985) from Carnegie Mellon UP. His several edited volumes include Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). In 2004 he chaired the poetry panel for the National Book Award. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and four Pushcart Prizes, he teaches at Monmouth University in New Jersey and in the Drew University MFA Program.

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.