Celeste Allen writer from London / Pittsburgh native
December
31, 2007 to January 25, 2008
A
Pittsburgh native, Celeste Allen received her BA in English Literature and
Creative Writing from Ohio University in 1984. She spent several years in the
San Francisco Bay Area before going on to teach English during four summer
semesters at colleges and universities in China and Mongolia. Celeste has
published short stories in literary, science fiction and fantasy, mystery,
western, and historical fiction magazines and anthologies. Her poetry and
non-fiction works have appeared in newspapers and devotional collections across
the United States. In 2000 she moved to England, where she lives in the London
metro area and works for an international charity.
Harms,
Jeff composer
currently in Chicago
December
31, 2007 to January 25, 2008
Jeff
Harms is an actor and musician from Chicago and Seattle. He's a co-founder of
Four Birds Pictures and a teacher of drawing and art history at Westwood
College. He has toured nationally over the past two years promoting his first
album Big Amazing Songs with Naivete Records and is planning a European tour for
next year for his 2007 album The Myth of Heroics, on the DRP label. In
2007 Jeff also produced and starred in the film A Thing As Big As the Ocean (currently in
post-production), and toured film festivals with his animated short, The
Bite.
Jeff received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his BFA
in painting from The University of Washington, and a Post-Bac in sculpture from
Brandeis University. http://www.jeffharms.net
Evans,
Maggie visual
artist from Denton, TX
December
31, 2007 to January 11, 2008
Maggie Evans graduated from Utah
State University with a BFA in illustration in 2003 and received an MFA in
painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007.
Maggie’s
art is perpetuated by her intimacy with music. Her current portfolio is based
on her experiences playing bass in a blues band in bars throughout Georgia and
South Carolina. Working from memory in charcoal on paper, Maggie uses an
improvisatory approach to explore the gritty character of bars from her
perspective as a musician.
Maggie’s
work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. She was
awarded the Graduate Fellows Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design
in 2005 and has received placement awards in several juried exhibitions,
including Best of Show. Maggie has had five solo exhibitions and has been
included in several invitational exhibits as well as over twenty-five group
shows. In addition to working as an artist, she performs regularly throughout
the southeast as the bassist and vocalist of Silver Lining, David Lugo and
Latin Jazz Motion, and
the Hitman Blues Band.
Ha, Sariah visual
artist from Diamond Bar, CA
December
31, 2007 to February 8, 2008
As
an artist, I try to convey my innermost thoughts and feelings through my
subjects. The key to the expression of my own identity and cultural struggles is
the use of Asian Americans as the subject of my work. I characterize each
subject with one emotion and I do my best to have those feelings grasp the
viewer. In that way, I reveal my "self-expression" through other
Asian Americans. To me, the process is what matters: the experience of shaping
my artwork. As my portraits transmit the inner workings of Asian Americans, I
cannot help but feel confined and guilty. It is almost as if all my expressions
are seen as taboo and to illustrate this, my figures are constricted to a
specific amount of space. My artwork is a way of expressing the optimism and
introspection, innocence, wisdom, grace and complexity of my life. It is the
voice I cannot use to speak, it is the dream I envision, and it is the
expression of my belief. The final impact I hope to achieve is to define who I
am, a Korean-American. www.sariahha.com
Jubin,
Julieve visual
artist from Oswego, NY
December
31, 2007 to January 25, 2008
Julieve
Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She is a
photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the
photographic image. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre in
the Canadian Rockies and most recently at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson
Vermont. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and London. Her work is
in the collection of the New York University Law School, the Peddler
Foundation, and several private collections. She has worked and taught at The
Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue
University, and now teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Stonich,
Sarah Writer from
Minneapolis, MN
January
14, 2008 to February 8, 2008
Sarah Stonich’s most recent novel is The Ice Chorus, which will be released in paperback
in 2008. She’s
the author of These Granite Islands, translated into eight languages and short-listed for
France’s prestigious Grand Prix de Lectrices d’Elle. Her forthcoming collection of short
stories, Vacationland will be published in ’08. She is the recipient of numerous honors,
including a Loft McKnight Award, and a Minnesota States Arts Board Grant. Sarah
has been a Drue Heinz Fellow at Hawthornden’s International Writers Programme,
and residencies both abroad and in the US include the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in
Ireland, Gibraltor Pointe, Toronto, The Ragdale Foundation, and Art OMI/Ledig
House International Writers Programme.
Sarah is
currently writing a collection of essays, Shelter, and is a frequent contributor to
magazines and journals. To read reviews of her books or samples of new work,
visit sarahstonich.com.
Boyd,
Betsy Writer from
Baltimore, Maryland
January
28, 2008 to February 22, 2008
Betsy
Boyd was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. A fiction writer and journalist
currently living in Baltimore, she has published short stories in Shenandoah, Unpleasant Event
Schedule,
and on CD through Verb: An Audioquarterly. In 2003, she graduated from the Johns
Hopkins Writing Seminars with an M.A. in fiction writing—she spent her
postgraduate year as an Elliot Coleman Fellow at the university, teaching
creative writing and completing a book of short fiction. Betsy received a James
A. Michener Fellowship in screenwriting. As a writer in residence at the Kimmel
Harding Nelson Center, she will continue to work on her first novel, Rose
Town,
the story of a mostly fake psychic living in Baltimore.
King,
Mary visual artist
from Baltimore MD and Chicago
January
28, 2008 to February 22, 2008
Mary King has always
made art. She began by writing curly lines in old receipt books her mother had
used when people came out from town to buy eggs. Later King graduated to
producing life-sized paper dolls which she kept rolled up in her desk at
school.
King has been exhibiting professionally for
thirty six years. She has had 4 one-person shows in New York and 2 in Chicago.
Other solo exhibitions were in Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Saugatuck, and Battle
Creek, Michigan. King’s work has been exhibited in group shows at: The Detroit
Institute of Arts, The Butler Art Institute, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Detroit
Focus, The Detroit Artists Market,and The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Her most
recent show was “Distinguished Alumni” at the new Richmond Center of Western
Michigan University.
King has received grants from the Arts Council
of Greater Kalamazoo and from Education For The Arts of Kalamazoo County. She
has been awarded a 4-week residency at the Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the
Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska for February 2008. There she will interview
people who are in their 80’s and 90’s and draw their remembered stories. For
the past 12 years King has regularly exhibited her work at Denise Bibro Fine
Art in New York. Currently her work can be seen at Woman Made Gallery in
Chicago and Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit. Her work has been favorably reviewed by The Kalamazoo
Gazette, The Ann Arbor News, Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The New Art
Examiner, The Chicago Reader, and The New York Times.
King’s work is included in the collections of
Western Michigan University, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, The Battle
Creek Art Center, The Michigan Education Association, and The Anderson Fine
Arts Center of Anderson Indiana.
Paula
Wallace,
Visual Artist from Omaha, NE
February
4 – 8, 2008
Paula Wallace is a true farmer’s
daughter and has been making art since her first days with crayons. Ms. Wallace
began her studies at Iowa State University and later graduated from the
University of Iowa. She continued her training in Ireland and Chicago. In
addition to fine art, Paula has worked as an illustrator and muralist, curator
and arts facilitator. She has been involved with liturgical and public art,
interior design and art as the “medium for internal design.”
Much of
her work found its genesis in literature, theatre, music, or the spiritual.
While most of her work is figurative with an emphasis on the human face, her
range of styles may be from representational to whimsical. Her work often
employs an uncluttered or almost austere
background permitting the viewer to
be wholly engaged with the subject of the painting or print, concentrating on
the intimacy of that encounter.
Paula
enjoys the collaborative process, understanding that collaboration is not only
key to enriched creativity, but also to successful personal, professional, and
community relationships. Art is the language of her work: to delight in beauty
and to share in the human experience and its many emotions are aspects of that
language.
Currently,
Paula maintains a studio at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She
exhibits in the United States and her work is held in private collections
internationally. In July 2008 she will present new work exploring the
narratives and imagery of folktales, myths, and
legends along with emerging artist,
Victoria Hoyt, and ceramic artist, John Dennison at the Hot Shops Art Center in
Omaha.
Nakano,
Koji composer from
Japan / Boston
February 11,
2008 to March 14, 2008
As a
composer and an educator, Mr. Nakano’s musical activities have included
community service and outreach to help bridge Western and Eastern musical
cultures together. His recent works show the merging of both musical
traditions, and also makes reference to theatre, philosophy, rituals and
spiritualities in a series of compositions entitled Time Song.
Mr. Nakano received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees
with the highest honors in composition from the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston, where he studied with Lee Hyla and John Harbison. Later, he
studied with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam and at the Royal
Conservatory of Hague as the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program Artist.
He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San
Diego, where he studied with Chinary Ung.
In addition to being the first recipient of the Toru Takemitsu Award in
Composition from the Japan Society of Boston, Mr. Nakano has also received
composition awards, fellowships and grants from the Tanglewood Music Center,
the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs, the Composers Conference at Wellesley
College, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Millay Colony for
the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Atlantic
Center for the Arts, the American Music Center, ASCAP, the Ernest Bloch Music
Festival, the New School University, the New England Conservatory and the
University of California at San Diego.
During Mr. Nakano’s residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2008, he is planning
to compose a new piece for the Cambodian Pin Peat ensemble with one or two Western
instruments and his second chamber opera (as yet untitled) for Toshiaki
Murakami, conductor of the Hanover State Opera. This music theater piece will
be based on the sensuality and ritualism found in his native culture such as Ikebana
(flower
arrangement), various metrical arts, and the Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies.
Mr. Nakano is a member of the American Music Center, the
College Music Society and ASCAP.
Karll,
Julia Transitional
visual artist from St. Peters, MO
February
11, 2008 to April 4, 2008
I am from
the Midwest and have been a student all my life. I see myself as a lifelong
learner, continually pursuing my interests through reading, conferences,
personal discussions and exhibiting my artwork. I love to explore; I enjoy
seeing new places and trying new things, but it is also a challenge to be out
of my comfort zone, a challenge which I embrace. I have had many opportunities
for travel and research during my college career, attending Haystack in Maine,
Arrowmont and SECAC in Tennessee, OCAC in Portland and even an independent
research trip to Santiago, Chile and Mendoza, Argentina. These trips and
experiences have informed my teaching and interpersonal skills by allowing me
to interact with many types of personalities. Travel and education have both
honed my problem solving skills, enhanced my creativity, as well as leaving me
with a love of adventure. My limitations, strengths, weaknesses continue to
evolve as does my awareness of them.
Gleeson,
Tom Writer from New
York City
February
11, 2008 to March 7, 2008
Tom Gleeson is an Irish writer and artist. He completed a Masters Degree
in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London in 1998. He has written and
directed several short films and more recently written a feature-length
screenplay entitled “The Other Woman” about three middle-aged English sisters
traveling across America: one has a secret life, one is living in denial, and
one wants to experience life. In 2003 he published a book of his photographs
entitled “Dark Continent.” He lives and works in New York City where he is
currently putting the finishing touches to his first novel entitled “Cougar”
about a post-punk existentialist and nihilist in New York’s East Village who
believes his life is over because he just turned thirty. His next project is a
collection of short stories about desire, fear and denial called, “Crazy Love.”
Van
Ness, Nancy Vining Writer
from Brooklyn, NY
February
25, 2008 to March 7, 2008
Nancy Vining Van Ness is a dance
innovator who created the system of dance and musical accompaniment used by
American Creative Dance, an ensemble of dancers and musicians in New York. She
has performed and directed in the United States and performed at the Atelier de
la danse in Paris, the oldest modern dance institution in that city. She was a
member of the Barbara Mettler Dance Company in Tucson and founded Dallas Dance
Vision where she did much of the work of putting her system of dance and
musical accompaniment in practice.
Van Ness founded American Creative Dance in 1995. Her vision
for performance is dance free of classical and other dance conventions and
performance where all the artists create instead of a choreographer and
composer or author doing so. American Creative Dance is the vehicle for
continuing production of new dance, music, and theater.
Van Ness has danced in New York with the art installations
of artist Jaime Davidovich and interpreted a monologue by author Suzanne McCoy.
She studied intensively in Buenos Aires with tango legend, maestro de maestros,
Puppy Castello.
She and her
partner George Lilly, in daring departure from tango work seen today, danced to
three of Astor Piazzolla's classical compositions, played by brilliant young
cellist Wendy Law. The collaboration resulted in a trio for two dancers and
cellist.
Van Ness
also starred in the romantic comedy film Tango Passion which has been presented at film
festivals in 2007.
The author of articles published in the United States east
coast tango magazine ReporTango and in the Women's International Perspective online journal www.thewip.net, Van
Ness is writing a book about being an avant garde modern dancer who has taken
up tango.
Robinson,
Rebecca Screenwriter
from Hollywood
CA
February 25, 2008 to April 18, 2008
Rebecca
Robinson is a writer born and raised outside of Fresno, California. Her fiction
and screenplays respect traditional family values while exploring, with humor
and pathos, the ways in which modern life tests them. She was a finalist in the
2007 Disney screenwriting fellowship program with her feature-length
screenplay, More Than Words. Her original one-hour drama pilot, Second Chance, is currently in development as a
series. She has assisted film writers and directors including Miguel Arteta and
Mike White. As an actress in theater, she has performed Off-Broadway and toured
nationally. She received her BFA from NYU and was a National Merit Scholar.
Yang,
Kevin Visual Artist from New York City March 10, 2008 – April 4, 2008
Kyungmo Kevin Yang is a
Korean-American painter and video artist who immigrated to U.S in his
adolescence. For the first few years in suburban New Jersey, Kevin has led a
solitary life and consistently made various drawings and paintings. He attended
The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City and studied Video/Animation,
drawing and painting with Tim Rollins, Paul Chan, Dore Ashton and Jason Fox.
He has been
teaching painting/drawing classes at WOW Art Studio in New Jersey and New York
since 2004 while working in his studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn. He is a recipient to
various awards such as Peter Cooper Full Scholarship, Vermont Studio Artist
Grant, Chashama North Residency Grant and Kimmel Harding Nelsen Fellowship. U
Gallery, who will participate Art Now Fair ‘08 in New York City, currently
represents him.
Stanley,
Troy Visual Artist
from Kingwood, TX
scheduled
for March 10, 2008 to April 4, 2008
I never planned on being an artist,
but then again who does? I spent my High School years preparing for an
education in engineering. I focused on math, science, and drafting and never
really on form, mass, and scale. Once I began an engineering degree at Texas
A&M Corpus Christi I quickly realized that I did not want to be an engineer
any longer. I ended up declaring pre-Med and spent 3 ½ years of my life in
biology labs memorizing anatomical models and dissecting textbooks for test
questions. Pre-med never really set well with me and I changed my focus yet
again. I declared a nursing major about 2 and half years into college at the
University of Texas Pan-American and took a crash courses in psychology and
wellness before applying to nursing school. I finally got my notification to a
top school in the U.S. for nursing and instead checking the box that said “I
accept this invitation” I checked the other one. I moved back to Houston and
began attending the University of Houston where I took heavy course loads in
studio practiced and finished a degree in sculpture.
Very early on in my sculpture career, I realized that all
those years preparing for engineering, medicine, and nursing were not all
wasted. I think my work arose out of a confusion of what was an object and what
was a living thing. I was not the only one that shared this confusion when at
the time genes were being patented, glow in the dark rabbits were born out of
test tubes, and peoples IPODS began to die rather than breakdown. I began to
seriously question landscaping practices, ideas of living objects, and people’s
relationship to the world around them rather than context of art history. I
guess I had a different perspective than most people who were attending to art
school, and I was able to share a different way of seeing that was founded in
my divergent education.
Since then, the highlights of my
career have been having a large scale solo show at Lawndale Art Center, and
also attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as a student not
yet attending graduate school. These two events greatly shaped the scope and
the scale of my work and have kept me committed thoroughly to art and art
practice. I hope this commitment will continue to offer me opportunities at
home as well as abroad.
Brief,
Martin Visual
Artist from Chicago
and Maine
scheduled
for April 7, 2008 to May 16, 2008
Trained as a photographer, Martin
Brief is an artist who has worked in a variety of media including small-scale
sculpture, drawing, artist’s books, and photography. Martin’s recent work,
long-term, absurd, drawing-based tasks, explores the abstract nature of
language and how we use it to define and codify our existence. Martin’s work
has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally
including exhibitions in New York, Paris, Zurich, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
In addition, his work is in several public collections, including those of the
Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, the Center for
Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona and the State Foundation on Culture and
the Arts in Honolulu, Hawaii. Martin has been an Assistant Professor at Texas
Woman’s University and Longwood University. Born in Chicago he is currently living
in Ellsworth, Maine.
Andrews,
Betsy Poet from Brooklyn NY
scheduled
for April 28, 2008 to May 9, 2008
Betsy
Andrews is the author of “New Jersey,” the winner of the 2007 Brittingham Prize
(University of Wisconsin Press). She is also author of the chapbooks,
“She-Devil” (Sardines Press, 2004) and “In Trouble” (Boog, 2005), and the
artist's book, “Supercollider,” a collaboration with artist Peter Fox. Her work
has appeared most recently in Twenty-Six, Five Fingers Review, PRACTICE, O
Poss, and Torch. She is the recipient of a 2007 NY Foundation for the Arts
fellowship in poetry.
Linneweh,
David Visual Artist
scheduled
for April 7, 2008 to May 2, 2008
As
a painter, David Linneweh has been traveling over the past year documenting the
landscape and architecture of towns and cities in which he either has lived or
visited. His work over the past
year has investigated the sprawl, decay, and re-newel of these environments and
how they might pertain to ideals within past and present America.
David earned his BFA Honors Degree while attending Illinois State University in 2002 and recently earned his MFA degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2007.
As an emerging artist, David has put together a number of professional activities including solo exhibitions at Snowflake City stock (St. Louis, MO) and the Presidents Gallery at Black Hills State University (Spearfish, SD.) Other group exhibition Highlights have included shows at Mad Art Gallery (St. Louis, IL), The McLean County Art Center (Bloomington, IL), and Phoenix Gallery (Bloomington, IL); Selected Group Exhibitions Unit 2 Gallery (Chicago, IL), OSP Gallery (Boston, MA), White Flag Projects (St. Louis, MO), UMKC Gallery (Kansas City, MO), Gescheidle Gallery (Chicago, IL), Nash Gallery (Minneapolis, MN.) Additionally David has been published in New American Paintings competition three times, most recently in the 2004-2006 MFA edition.
During his residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center
for the Arts, he will continue his body of work with sources utilized from
Nebraska City as well as those he’s compiled in his recent travels across the
country from Wyoming to Vermont.
Siegel,
Karen Musician from
Astoria, NY
scheduled
for April 21, 2008 to May 2, 2008
This
past spring Karen was a winner of the Manhattan Choral Ensemble Commissioning
Project Competition. The resulting
work Saguaro, evoking the landscape of
the Tucson desert, was premiered by the ensemble in June. Karen has also
received commissions from the vocal group Trio Eos and the mixed instrumental
group The Matrix Music Collaborators.
Her compositions for voice and chamber ensemble won the 2004 NYU Chamber
Music Award (Carmen) and the NYU
Chamber Ensemble Competition (Rose Dear).
Karen is an accomplished soprano, specializing in new music and frequently performing her own works. Her performing activities include singing with, conducting, and composing for the composers and conductors choral collective C4, of which she is a founding member. Karen also is a cellist with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, Karen is a PhD candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where she studies with Tania León. She is also adjunct faculty in music at City College. Karen holds a MA in music composition from NYU's Steinhardt School, where she studied with Marc Antonio Consoli, and a BA in Psychology from Yale University. Additional studies include Juilliard Evening Division coursework in composition with Conrad Cummings. www.karensiegel.com
Holmes,
Alicia Shandra Writer
from Michigan
scheduled
for April 21, 2008 to May 16, 2008
Alicia Shandra Holmes lives in
Escanaba, Michigan. Her fiction has been published in The Bitter Oleander, Rosebud, and CRATE, and is forthcoming in Many
Mountains Moving.
She recently received a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation
grant to fund a creative nonfiction project about Detroit. She studied writing
at Western Michigan University and the University of Alabama.
Cognard-Black,
Jennifer Writer from
California, MD
scheduled
for May 5, 2008 to May 16, 2008
Jennifer
Cognard-Black is an Associate Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of
Maryland where she teaches nineteenth-century literature and fiction writing
and is the Chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. Recipient of the
Norton T. Dodge Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement, her critical work
includes articles in MS. Magazine, College English, American Literary Realism, the National Women’s Studies Association
Journal, and the Popular
Culture Review as
well as a book-length study of the nineteenth-century cultures of letters among
women writers, Narrative in the Professional Age (Routledge 2004); a writing
textbook, Advancing Rhetoric (Kendall / Hunt 2006); and a co-edited anthology of
unpublished letters by nineteenth-century women writers, Kindred Hands (University of Iowa Press 2006). A
Pushcart Prize nominee, her short fiction has appeared under the pseudonym J.
Annie MacLeod in Another Chicago Magazine, The Briar Cliff Review, The Cream City Review, Roanoke
Review, South
Dakota Review, The
River Gazette, The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Literary Mama, and, most recently, Pisgah as well as the forthcoming
anthology, Mama PhD. In addition to her teaching, critical work, and creative writing,
Cognard-Black plays the piano, sings in the college choir, and perfects recipes
for her special topics class on the literatures of food, “Books that Cook.”
Fine, Aaron Visual Artist from Kirksville Missouri
scheduled
for May 5, 2008 to May 16, 2008
Born in
Milwaukee in 1971, Aaron Fine moved to a dozen different homes in four college
towns before he was 18. Raised in an intellectual, creative, politicized, and
loving environment, Aaron had chosen his career as artist before kindergarten.
He attended Ohio University in Athens Ohio, where he wrote a Philosophy honors
thesis on Spinoza and received a BFA in Painting in 1993. Moving to Los
Angeles, Mr. Fine attended Claremont Graduate University where he studied art
in an interdisciplinary environment, learned the basics of drywall
installation, and received his MFA in Painting in 1996. In 1999 Aaron Fine
accepted his current position as Professor of Art and Gallery Director at
Truman State University in Kirksville Missouri. At Truman he met his wife,
artist Priya Kambli. Their son Kavi Fine was born in 2005. From May 2007 to
August 2008 Mr. Fine is on sabbatical drawing toy cars and wooden blocks,
reading books by Walter Mosley, and watching Food Network.
Wanzer,
Lizette Writer from San Francisco
scheduled
for May 12, 2008 to May 23, 2008
Lizette
Wanzer is a native New Yorker currently residing in San Francisco. Her stories
have appeared or are forthcoming in Tampa Review, Pleiades, West Wind
Review, Philament, Iris: A Journal About Women, Apalachee Review, Bryant
Literary Review, artisan, a journal of craft, Curious Rooms and AIM Magazine. One story is due out in a collection
entitled Gender On Our Minds. Poems are forthcoming in Poetry Motel and Small Brushes. She is a winner in the southeast
region’s 2005 Porter Fleming Writing Competition, in the short fiction
category. She was named a 2004 Fulbright Finalist for an Australian-based
fiction proposal, and was a 2004 finalist in the National League of American
Pen Women’s literature grant competition. In 2003 she won $1000 in a National
Scholarship essay contest sponsored by the Mensa Education and Research
Foundation. In 2001, she was a writer-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center.
Ms. Wanzer presented work at the Malappropriation Nation conference in
Riverside, CA in April 2007, Sigma Tau Delta convention in Portland, OR in
March 2006, and at the College English Association Conference in Austin, TX in
April 2006. She will also present at the Popular Culture Conference in San
Francisco in March 2008. Ms. Wanzer is listed in Poets & Writers’ Directory
of Writers.
Ahl,
Liz Writer from
Plymouth, NH
scheduled
for May 19, 2008 to May 30, 2008
Liz Ahl is
a poet and teacher who lives in New Hampshire. Her poems, some of which have received Pushcart Prize
nominations, have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Four Corners, White Pelican Review, 5AM, Court Green, Margie, The Women’s Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Alimentum, and North American Review. Her work has also been included in several anthologies,
including Red, White and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2004), Mischief,
Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen
Press, 2004), and Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence (University of Iowa Press, 2002). A
limited edition (30) collection of poetry, On The Avenue of Eternal Peace, was designed and printed by Joe
Ruffo (Lyra Press) and beautifully bound by Denise Brady.
After a
childhood and adolescence globe-trotting as a Navy brat, Ahl was educated at
Emerson College (B.F.A.), The University of Pittsburgh (M.F.A.), and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ph.D.).
She is currently Associate Professor of English at Plymouth State
University.
Largely as
a result of her itinerant childhood, Ahl’s poetry often focuses on images and
narratives of place, as well as on the posture or point of view of the
“outsider.” Historical figures and
events, and the concepts of memory, nostalgia and spectacle are also key themes. She is interested primarily in
narrative free verse, though recently she has been writing a lot of
villanelles. Ahl’s other interests
as a poet include performance, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary work
(letterpress printing, working with musicians, dancers and visual
artists). Her work has been set to
original symphonic music, combined with dance choreography, and riffed to
improvisational jazz. She has read
in galleries in collaboration with thematic visual art shows. She has published broadsides and
chapbooks of both her own work and the work of others.
While in
residence at KHN, Ahl will be working on writing and revising poems to complete
a new manuscript.
Volkmer, Jon Writer from Pennsylvania
scheduled
for May 19, 2008 to June 13, 2008
A native of
Nebraska City, Jon Volkmer lives in Pennsylvania, where he is the Director of
Creative Writing at Ursinus College. He is the author of a poetry collection, The
Art of Country Grain Elevators, and a travel memoir, Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction
Love Story. His
essays, poems and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals. He
has an MA in creative writing from Denver University and a PhD in English from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Fitting,
Miriam Writer from San
Francisco
scheduled
for May 19, 2008 to May 30, 2008
Miriam
Fitting is originally from New York, but she has made her home on the West
Coast for the last decade and so feels entirely at home or out of place in each
place, depending on her mood. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of Washington, Seattle, and has published fiction, translations, and
nonfiction through a variety of literary journals and small presses including
The Indiana Review, Optimism, and Bohemian Ventures. She is currently using the
break between drafts of her novel-in-progress, The Prague Moment, to write a
collection of linked stories tentatively titled Why I Don't Have A Boyfriend.
She likes crusty bread and jasmine green tea very much, though not together,
and hates okra because of the way the seeds slither from the pulp when you bite
in.
Yip,
Stephen composer
from Houston TX
scheduled
for May 19, 2008 to May 30, 2008
Stephen
Yip was born in
Hong Kong, and currently lives in Houston, Texas. He obtained music degrees,
DMA (2001) and MM (1997) from Rice University, with mentors Arthur Gottschalk
and Ellsworth Milburn and BFA (1996) from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts with mentors Law Wing-fai, Clarence Mak and Yip Wing-sie (conducting). He
has attended music festivals such as: the Aspen Music Festival, Colorado; the
Asian Composers’ League, Philippines; the California E.A.R. Unit Composer
Seminar, the June in Buffalo, New York; the Music X Festivals, Ohio; the 13th
International Summer Program, Czech Republic, the IMPULS Ensemble Akademie,
Austria, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, and the Kimmel Harding
Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraka.
Yip’s works have been performed in
the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Israel, Austria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Hong Kong, China, and Philippines. He was the finalist in the 2001
Composition Competition of the international New Music Consortium, and the
Foundation Orchestra Association’s International composition Competition;
received “Honorable Mentions” in the 1st International EPICMUSIC Composition
Prize, and 2004 International Biennial Competition, by the Debussy Trio Music
Foundation and won the “Haifa International Composition Prize”, Molinari
Quartet’s Third International Composition Competition, the 2006 NODUS/New Music
Miami Festival Composition Competition, the Accent/Music05 composition
competition, “ERM Masterworks” composition prize, the 2007 St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra Emerging Composers Competition, ALEA III composition Competition.
His works are recorded in the label
of ERM-Media compact disc series, "Masterworks of the New Era" and
the ATMA Classique label performed by Molinari Quartet.
His
music has been selected in the program of several major music conferences and
festivals such as: National Society of Composers Conference, College Music
Society International Conference, CMS South Central Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
Chapter, the National Association of Composers/USA, New Mexico Composers’
Symposium and SCI Region VII conference, ISCM World Music Days 2005, in Zagreb, Croatia and 2005, 2006 Musicarama
new music festival, Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Art Festival.
Yip is a member of the Hong Kong
Composers’ Guild, Society of Composers, College Music Society and the American
Society of Composer, Authors and Publishers. Yip has served as music director
and organist at catholic churches in 1999 to 2005. He has also served as the
music panelists for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston in 2001 to 2003.
Currently, he serves music faculty at Houston Community College.
During the residency at the Kimmel
Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in 2008, he is planning to compose a new
piece for a large western ensemble.
Shepherd,
Annette D. visual
artist from Raymond NE
scheduled
for May 26, 2008 to June 13, 2008
As a visual
artist, Annie Shepherd’s creations are inspired by and reflect still frames of
her life. Glass and sculpture have been her primary passions, and she is
constantly exploring new techniques and mediums to help express her emotions
and ideas.
Shepherd
will complete her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in December 2008 from the New York
College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has studied under artists such as
Angus Powers and Fred Tschida while at Alfred. Before her time at NYCC, she
studied glass under the direction of Tom Kreager for two years at Hastings
College. She has been a glass studio assistant at the Penland School of Crafts,
an assistant to the glass professors that she has studied under, and a head
gaffer and assistant at Fireborn Studios in Yankton, South Dakota. Recently,
she was awarded the Pilchuck Partner Scholarship, and will be attending a
session in summer 2008 at the world renowned glass school located outside of
Seattle, WA.
While at
the Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts in 2008, she is planning on beginning
her work for her thesis exhibition. Both two and three-dimensional works will
be created. After graduation in December, Shepherd plans on continuing her
education and studio practice.
Williams, Tyrone poet from Cincinnati
scheduled
for June 2, 2008 to June 13, 2008
Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier
University in Cincinnati, Ohio. His book, c.c., was published by Krupskaya Books
in 2002, the chapbooks AAB and Futures, Elections were published in 2004, and a chapbook, Musique Noir, was published in 2006. A new book,
On Spec, is
forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2008. He is currently writing a book for Atelos
for publication in 2009.
Beach,
E. Louise transitional
writer from Potomac, MD
scheduled
for June 2, 2008 to June 13, 2008
Despite having written a doctoral
thesis on arguably the longest novel in the Western canon – Proust’s “A
la recherche du temps perdu”-- I prefer the concision and precision of poetry.
A lyric poet, I write about the usual subjects of that genre: love and loss.
Five years ago, at the age of 55 – having raised three daughters alone
– I felt that I could finally devote myself to my writing. I collaborated
with the composer, Bryan Page, on three works: a song-cycle, “Death of the
Virgins”, performed in Princeton, New Jersey in 2003; a liturgical piece,
“singjoy”, performed in Huntsville, Alabama in 2005; and a one-act opera based
on Rilke’s play, “The White Princess”. I wrote the libretto for this last piece
while in residence at The Anderson Center in September of 2005. In December of
2006, Finishing Line Press published “Blue Skies”, my first chapbook of poems.
In January 2007, I completed an MFA degree in Poetry from Bennington College.
My first full-length book, “Intertidal”, is presently making the rounds of
publishers.
Chang, Jen-Kuang composer from Taiwan, now in Lincoln NE
scheduled
for June 2, 2008 to June 13, 2008
Jen-Kuang
Chang, a native of Taiwan, received his B.M. from Berklee College of Music,
where he studied with distinguished jazz educators George Garzone and Fred
Lipsius, and his M.M. from Emporia State University. He is currently pursuing his D.M.A. in music composition
under the guidance of Randall Snyder at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Mr. Chang is the
recipient of numerous awards, including the Harold Durst Graduate Research
Award, the Ida M. Vreeland Award in Music, the Diverse Practice Composition
Competition Award, I-Park Artists' Enclave Residency Award, and the Music Omi
International Musicians Residency Award.
His thesis, “Charlie Parker: the Analytical Study of Twenty-two
Performance Versions of Now’s the Time,” was named the winner of the Laurence C. Boylan
Thesis Award. In the 5th
edition of the Yorgos Foudoulis Composition Competition in Volos, Greece, Mr.
Chang’s “Bodhisattva” was named the First Prize winner in the orchestral
ensemble category and his “Karma” was named the Second Prize winner in the
music technology category. His “Drishti
II” was named the winner in the international audiovisual category for the CLIC
Foundation Digital Art International Contest. His “Chakra” was named the Second Prize winner of the JIMS
International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music “Stadtpfeifer”
in Salzburg. His music has been
featured in the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the DMI Electroacoustic Juke
Joint Festival, the Vox Novus 60x60 Midwest Minutes Mix 2007, the “War &
Peace” Electroacoustic and Fixed Media Concert at La Salle University, the 11th
Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, the Spark
Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2008, the GVSU Free Play 10: Listening
Chamber, the Orquestra del Caos: Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Barcelona, the
Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music Salzburg 2007, and the
International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival "Sonoimágenes" in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008,
Mr. Chang will present his works in the 17th Annual Florida
Electroacoustic Music Festival, the SMart Multimedia Art Festival 2008, SCI
Region VI Conference, the ElectroMediaWorks ’08 in Athens, the International
Festival of Digital Art FIAD in El Salvador, the Signal and Noise Festival in
Vancouver, and the 5th edition of ASTAS ROMAS 404 Festival in
Trieste, Italy.
Additionally,
Mr. Chang co-authored an article with Dr. James Starr and Prof. Elaine Edwards
in “An Introduction, Analysis, and Performance Evaluation of Selected Piano
Trio Literature of the Twentieth Century,” published by the Edwin Mellon Press
in 2003. He also serves as a music
engraver for Dr. Steve Larson’s upcoming publication “Analysis of Jazz: A
Schenkerian Approach,” which will be published by the Pendragon Press.