Biographies of Kimmel Harding Nelson Residents
2010 Session 1: January 1 – June 18, 2010
Janice Baker, Visual Artist, Eugene, OR
January 4 – 29, 2010
I
am a 57-year-old artist living and working in Eugene, Oregon. I work part time
as a nurse educator for our hospital inpatient mental health unit. I love to
paint. It's a challenge and a puzzle. Creating a narrative with art is what I
was meant to do in this life. The last year I have been working on Xerox
transfer paintings using my own drawings, and a project to create 100 small,
2-sided paintings that the viewer can arrange.
Val D. Phillips, Writer, Gardner, CO
January 4 – 29, 2010
Val
Phillips lives in Southern Colorado in a small intentional community on
seventy-five acres of land. Her community's work centers on teaching
sustainable living strategies, supporting peace and social justice efforts, and
sharing a non-coercive spiritual practice. Val's short stories have received
awards from Glimmer Train, the Women's
Art Center of Denver, and the Alamosa County Public Library, as well as
scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and Flight of the Mind women's
writing workshops. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Messages
from the Hidden Lake, Fast
Forward, The Friend and Friends Journal. She was named one of three featured poets at Denver
Poets Day in 2002, and her poem, "Afternoon at Deheishe," was
featured on Sam Hamill's Poets Against The War website in 2007. Val is working
to complete a collection of short stories inspired by the years she spent
living and working in Palestine, and a novel.
Skye Gilkerson, visual Artist, Berkley, MI
January 4 – 29, 2010
Skye
Gilkerson’s work in drawing and site-specific installation explores places and
objects from everyday life that are often unassuming and easily overlooked.
Subtle, yet often labor intensive processes serve to unfold our awareness of
our surroundings and destabilize familiar structures. Space, time, light, and
language, as well as household dust and the pages of a newspaper all become the
materials for this exploration. Skye has been in over 20 shows including
Paperworks, juried by Maura Heffman, Exhibition Manager at the Whitney Museum
of Art. In 2008, Skye was an artist-in-residence with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, and this spring she will be an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch
in Snowmass, Colorado. Her work is in the Robert F. Pfannebecker Collection,
the Bethel University Collection, and numerous personal collections. Skye
received her MFA in 2009 from Cranbrook Academy of Art. www.skyegilkerson.com
January
4 – 29, 2010
Stefanie
Wortman is a poet originally from Kansas City, Missouri. Her poems have
appeared in the Yale Review, New Orleans Review, Smartish Pace, and the online
audio archive From the Fishouse. She is currently finishing a PhD at the
University of Missouri, where she teaches courses in creative writing,
literature, and film.
Suzanne
Kehm has a Masters in Fine Arts, Creative Writing, and a Masters in Adult and
Continuing Education from the University of Nebraska. She was named an
Individual Arts Scholar by the Nebraska Arts Council, and has served for three
years as Editor of the newsletter, “Many Voices, One Song.” She is working on a
novel and a collection of essays called “Seeing Things, Insight in Ordinary Times.”
Paula
Wallace, Visual Artist, Omaha, NE
Jen
Bergmark is a fiction writer who received her MFA from Bennington College. Her
work has appeared in Indiana Review, Cream City Review
Lauren
Whalen studied theatre and law, but was inspired to write two and a half years
ago, after a bout with unrequited love and a viewing of the musical Cinderella
Mary King has been
exhibiting professionally for thirty eight years. She has had 4 solo shows in
New York and 2 in Chicago. Other solo exhibitions were in Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor,
Saugatuck, and Battle Creek, Michigan. Her work has been exhibited in group
shows at: The Detroit Institute of Arts, The Butler Art Institute and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. King earned a BFA from The University of Chicago and
a MA from Western Michigan University. She studied advanced painting at The
School of The Art Institute of Chicago. King has been awarded grants by The
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and by Education For The Arts of Kalamazoo
County. She has received two residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for
the Arts. King’s 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. 
Dora Lisa Rosenbaum
received her MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University and her BA from
Wesleyan University. Her work centers the everyday, individuals’ un-theorized,
taken-for-granted experiences and understandings of their worlds. Dora’s work
has been exhibited across the United States and Italy in both solo and group
shows. 
Mark
Barr was reared in the wilds of Arkansas before moving to Austin, Texas, where
he likes to build things and cook. He has received fellowships from Jentel Arts
and Blue Mountain Center and his work will appear in spring 2010 in The
Austin Anthology: Emerging Writers of Central Texas
Tim
Bauer is a San Francisco playwright. His work for the stage includes the
full-length plays Exit Wounds (Lark Playwright’s Week finalist; PlayLabs
semifinalist), Gyroball (Magic Theatre commission), Zombie Town (Sleepwalkers
Theatre), and Beyond Words (Aurora Theater Global Age Project finalist); and
the one-act plays Hot Spot (National 10-Minute Play Contest finalist), Starting
Over (National 10-Minute Play Contest finalist), The Magic Word (Sleepwalkers
Theatre) and I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Best of PlayGround Festival). He has
received full-length play commissions from Magic Theatre and PlayGround, and he
has been a two-time finalist for the Humana Festival’s Heideman Award, a
finalist for the Lark Playwright’s Festival and a winner of two PlayGround
Emerging Playwright Awards. Tim is a member of the Magic Artists Lab at
Magic Theatre, the PlayGround Writers Pool in residence at Berkeley Rep, and
the Dramatists Guild. http://timbauer.wordpress.com
Matthew
Jensen (b. 1980) is a conceptual landscape artist based in New York City. He
received his MFA from the University of Connecticut and BA from Rice
University. Jensen’s work is predominantly photo-based and examines the
contemporary experience of American landscape. The idea of “nowhere” as both
idea and aesthetic is central to each of his varied works. His recent project
Nowhere In Manhattan has received wide attention and will continue through the
end of 2010. Excerpts and information of each project can be viewed at
www.Jensen-Projects.com.
Jenn
Koiter lives in Wyoming, where she works for a cultural nonprofit and teaches
Hinduism from time to time. Her poems have appeared in No Tell Motel
March
15 – 26, 2010
Mary
Bergs works in 2D and 3D media, she uses materials from nature and culture to
create work that cultivates careful examination and appreciation of beauty
found in everyday experience. Bergs completed her BFA degree in 1999 at the
University of Minnesota. She also has degrees in psychology and social work.
Bergs has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Midwest.
Her work is included in the juried on-line artist registry of the Drawing
Center in New York. She has been the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board
Career Opportunity Grant and Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grant. Bergs has
taught in a variety of educational settings and worked with community groups
using art as a means of creating conversation and dialogue. She was a fellow in
the Institute for Cultural Community Development, and participant in the Twin
Cities Community Cultural Leadership Summit. She has provided Art and Design
consultation to healthcare and arts organizations interested in working in
healthcare environments.
Maria
Michails is a multi-disciplinary artist whose art practice bridges the
sciences, engineering and architecture. Her human-powered mechanisms are the
nucleus of interactive installations that parallel human expenditure with human
consumption to address broader ecological and social issues specific to place.
She's a recipient of numerous creative and research grants and her work has
been exhibited in Canada, United States, France and Greece. Recent residency
fellowships include Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute and Sculpture
Space in Utica, NY. Ms. Michails has taught foundation studies in art at
Arizona State University and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. She earned
an MFA from Arizona State University (2008), and a BFA from Concordia
University in Montreal (1996).
Caroline
Goyette is a fiction writer and journalist based in New Orleans. She earned her
MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon and her MA in English at Marquette
University. Her articles and essays have appeared in BUST
Composer
Koji Nakano's works reflect the relationship between beauty, form and
imperfection through the formality of music. In addition to being the recipient
of The American Artists and Museum Professionals in Asia Fellowship 
Andrew
C. Gottlieb is the winner of the 11th American Fiction prize from New Rivers
Press, and his short fiction and poetry has appeared in many journals including
the American Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, DIAGRAM, Ecotone,
Provincetown Arts, Poets & Writers, and Terrain.org. A chapbook of poems,
Halflives, was published in 2005 by New Michigan Press. He’s been twice
nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has received grants and awards from the
Seattle Arts Commission and the Artists Trust Foundation. He’s been
writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists’ Refuge and on Isle Royale National
Park, and he has his M.F.A. from the University of Washington and his M.A. from
Iowa State University. When he’s not writing, he enjoys spending time with his
wife and her two children.
Jane
Waggoner Deschner earned an MFA from Vermont College in 2002. Recently, she has
exhibited at Ampersand Gallery, Portland, Oregon, and Lorinda Knight Gallery in
Spokane, Washington. For two years, her work traveled throughout Montana and
Wyoming on their ArtMobiles.. In September 2009, she joined Montana State
University–Bozeman Department of Art’s National Advisory Council. In
addition to freelancing as a graphic designer, she teaches with the Writer’s Voice
and at Rocky Mountain College where she is the gallery director. Her work is in
the collections of Federal Reserve Banks in Minneapolis, MN, and Helena, MT;
University of Montana; Montana State University– Billings Foundation;
Yellowstone Public Radio; Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; Archie Bray
Foundation, Helena, MT; and individuals across the US and in South Korea.
Summer
Zickefoose is an interdisciplinary artist who currently resides in Ohio. She
grew up amidst the square miles and cornfields of Iowa. The smells of fresh cut
hay, horse manure, and hog pens lodged permanently in her subconscious have, in
one way or another, led to artwork that is deeply influenced by Midwestern and
rural American culture and landscape. Zickefoose received degrees in both Art
History and Studio Art from the University of Iowa in 2000, and in 2004
received a MFA in Multimedia Art and Ceramics from the University of Florida.
Her objects, performances, videos, and installations have been exhibited
nationally, most notably at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in
Athens, Georgia and the New Harmony Gallery for Contemporary Art in New
Harmony, Indiana. Summer will also be an artist-in-residence at Flaxart Studios
in Belfast, Northern Ireland this summer and fall.
Hailing from
Portsmouth, Virginia, Christine Carr received degrees from the Corcoran College
of Art and Design in Washington, DC and the Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park,
PA. Her work has been included in the 4th edition of Exploring Color
Photography and in the 3rd edition of Photographic Possibilities, both by
Robert Hirsch. She is a two-time recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Fellowship, and has recently lectured on contemporary landscape photography at
the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA. She has exhibited in solo shows in
Washington, DC, Richmond, VA and Roanoke, VA, and in numerous group shows. Carr
is currently teaching photography at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
Jennifer Perrine’s
first book of poetry, The Body Is No Machine, was published by New Issues in
2007 and won the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Other recent
awards include first prize in The Ledge 2008 Poetry Award, the Black Warrior
Review Fourth-Ever Poetry Contest, and the Virginia Arts of the Books Center
Taste 'Test. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including
Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, RATTLE, and Third Coast. Perrine lives
in Des Moines, Iowa, and works at Drake University, where she runs the Writers
& Critics Series and teaches a variety of courses in creative writing,
queer literature and theories, Holocaust literature, and women’s studies.
www.jenniferperrine.org