News from former
Artists-in-Residence of Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
September 2011 News
Linda Byrne, Visual Artist,
2004.1
Two upcoming events featuring work by
Linda Byrne:
· "Sneak
Peak" on Sunday, October 2nd from 11am - 4pm is the second
annual preview of the new Freshkills Park in Staten Island - a day of fun and
art, showing off what will be NYC's biggest and most fascinating 2,200 acre
park. Linda will have 2 installations there, "Ghost Net" and
"Recycling Nature/The Vanishing Birds Project".
· Linda will have two works in the exhibition, Oceans, Rivers &
the Fish that Swim running September 21 - November 1, 2011 at Piermont Straus Gallery in
Piermont, NY.
Brian
Benfer, Visual Artist, May 2009
New work by Brian Benfer is on exhibit at Yeiser
Art Center, 200 Broadway, Paducah, KY from September 24 though October 22,
2011. Opening reception for this show is Saturday, September 24 from 5 –
7 p.m.
August 2011 News
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Dear Friends/ Jazz Fans,
Performing for Jazz Thursdays @ Silver
Spoon in Cold Spring, NY:
· Thursday Sept. 1 with Jamie Reynolds (piano) and
Ike Sturm (bass)
· Thursday Sept. 8 with Cameron Brown (bass) and Mike
Holober (piano)
· Thursday Sept. 15 featuring Rob Scheps
(saxophone) with Tom McCoy (piano)
· Thursday Sept. 22 featuring Core-tet Junior with Rob Scheps (saxophone), Greg Gisbert (trumpet), and Jamie
Reynolds (piano) playing Rob's original compositions
· Thursday Sept. 29 with Melissa
Stylianou (vocals) and Jamie Reynolds (piano)
· Thursday Oct. 6 Chris
Pasin (trumpet) and Bob Albanese (piano)
Music performed from 8 - 11 pm. No cover / all ages.
Mary King,
Visual Artist, 1.28.07 – 2.22.08
Woman Made Gallery is opening an exciting new show that
involves participation of non-artists that Mary curated. A show of her recent work, based on interviews with persons involved
in war (from World War I to Iraq), is also featured.
Jee
Leong Koh, Writer, June 2005
Read a recent review of Jee Leong’s book of poems
“Seven Studies for a Self Portrait”.
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Performing Saturday, October 8 in The Blue Room @ American
Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO as The Rob Scheps/ Greg Gisbert
Quintet with Roger Wilder, etc. For reservations
and info (816) 474-8463.
Nancy Van Ness, Writer, Feb/March 2008 and
Julia Karll, Visual Artist, Feb/April 2008
Nancy Van Ness with her American
Creative Dance Company and Julia Karll are again collaborating on a
project with support from the Puffin Foundation. The Puffin Foundation,
which opens its major exhibit AFTERMATH, featuring images of global significance
about what the US and the world have become since September 11, 2001, asked the
collaborative team to display part of an installation and perform in
the exhibition (opening on September 9, 2011).
The complete work, I
Do Not Resign Myself, will be a large art installation
and performance series about the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
It will feature Julia's art installation of a piece for every one of the 171
prisoners still remaining and the two who have died in mysterious circumstances
since the project began. A text about what is known about each prisoner
will be part of the installation as well. Performances of music, theater,
and dance will be staged in and with the art installation and invite
persons with knowledge of the prisoners such as British journalist, Andy
Worthington, to speak and make presentations also.
For the Puffin exhibit opening on September 9th, art objects
for some of the prisoners and the stories of about fifty of them. American
Creative Dance Company will perform at the opening and perhaps once
more before the show closes on November 9. All visitors will be invited
to write to any of the prisoners they choose to and the letters will be sent to
the prison.
It is likely that the full work will be installed in the
Puffin Space in Soho when it reopens after renovation sometime later in
2012.
Sonja Hinrichsen, Visual Artist, April 14 –
June 1, 2007
Where the Waters Meet a Video-installation by Sonja
Hinrichsen opened August 13 and runs through August 28 at the RedLine, 2350
Arapahoe, Denver, CO, www.redlineart.org
Where
the Waters Meet explores the history of Denver’s two main water
streams and the city’s changing relationships to these two rivers throughout
its existence since 1858. Where the
Waters Meet is an immersive installation with 5 video projections, sound
and narrative. The video projectors are placed so that the viewers’ shadows are
cast into the image, making them an actor in the installation and a player in
an environment that will likely be familiar to Denverites and inspire them to
reflect upon their city, while offering an overview of a part of Denver’s
history, also to those visiting from out of town.
Jac Lahav, Visual Artist, Feb. 6 – March 4,
2006
Has an animation showing in Far Rockaway Beach, NY on
Saturday, August 13 @ Marina 59. The animation, ”Shakeout IV: Life Preservers”, will show between the hours of noon and
midnight.
July 2011 News
Keith
Kirchoff, Musician, Aug. 6 – 17, 2007
The Electro-Acoustic Piano, volume one is now available! The first volume of
his Electro-Acoustic Piano series (produced by Thinking out LOUD Records) is
now available online. The album can be downloaded for FREE on CDBaby, and will be
available on iTunes, Amazon, and every other major online music distributor
within a month. Keith would particularly
like to thank Hollis Nolan for his work on mastering this album. The second
volume in this series will be recorded this November, so keep your eyes open
for volume two!
Mary Bergs, Visual Artist, March 2010
Mary has launched a new
business venture, See-Think-Do,
LLC. She is consulting with businesses and organizations to build their
creative capacity and innovation strategies using her visual thinking and
creative problem solving skills to address problems and challenges outside of
the studio.
This summer you can see her
work in the Sioux City Art Center’s 62nd Juried Exhibition. The exhibit opens July 16th
and runs through September 25, 2011. In May, her first public art commission
was installed at the St. Cloud Public Library.
June 2011 News
Keith Kirchoff, Musician, Aug. 6 – 17, 2007
Performing on June 17 in Cambridge, MA at The LilyPad at 6:00 pm. Cover charge is $10
Keith is teaming up
with English bass player Dominic Lash for an evening of experimental music. The
program's likely to include original works, as well as pieces by Christian
Wolff, John Cage, Radu Malfatti, and others.
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Upcoming performances include:
· Sunday, June 26 in Cold Spring, NY for a free
concert at Chapel
of Our Lady Restoration (45 Market St) at 4 pm w/ The Rob Scheps
Core-tet (Cameron Brown - bass; Jamie Reynolds -piano; Jim O'Connor -
trumpet/flugelhorn; Jeff Brillinger - drums)
· Monday, June 27 in Brooklyn, NY from 7 –
10:15 pm at For My Sweet (1103 Fulton St) w/ The Magnets! (Kim Clarke – basses; Benito Gonzalez -
piano/keyboards; George Gray – drums)
· Friday, July 8 in Peekskill, NY from 7:30 –
11 pm at Beanrunner
Café (201 S. Division St) w/ The Magnets! (Kim Clarke – basses; George
Cray – drums)
· Sunday,
July 10 in New York City for a free concert at St.
Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue @ East 54th Street) w/ The Rob
Scheps Core-tet
Susan Field,
Visual Artist, April 2005
July 6 – September 4, 2011: “Outlandish:
Contemporary Depictions of Nature,” Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.
Susan Field’s “Beaded Stones” are included in this
national juried exhibition that looks at landscape from all vantage points and
all media, from a tiny spec of garden to a global view. The gallery is open
Tues-Sunday, noon-5 pm, closed Mondays, and is located at 1601 Civic Drive.
May 2011 News
Vonni
Sparks, Visual Artist, April 2011
Throughout the month of June, Gallery 9
in Lincoln, Nebraska will feature “Savage Garden: New Works by Judith Andre, Su
Harvey, and Vonni Sparks”. “Savage Garden” borrows from E. B. White, “We should
spend less time trying to outwit nature and more time respecting her
seniority.” Vonni Sparks is well
known for her magical, colorfully narrative paintings that spring from a strong
theatrical sense. The artists dedicate this show to the persistence of Mother
Nature and the recognition that she does nothing uselessly. The show will hang from June 1-26, 2011 with an opening reception on
Friday, June 3 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Free parking in the lot behind
Gallery 9 (to the East) is available on opening Fridays.
Paula
Wallace, Visual Artist, February 2010
Artist Paula Wallace will present work at the Dundee
Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska with an opening reception on Friday,
June 3, 6:00-9:00 P.M. Her oil paintings explore themes important to her work:
the whimsical, figure and form, and quiet places. Included in the exhibit
will be her series with the "Damn Rabbits" and a presentation
of collaborative work done with the staff and students at the Therapeutic
School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. These pieces are part of a larger collaboration
with Heartland Family Services, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and
WhyArts.
The Dundee Gallery is located at 4916 Underwood Avenue
(lower level) in Omaha, Nebraska.
Tyler
Gilmore, Composer, November 9 – December 18, 2009
A write-up on Tyler’s recording “Static Line” which was composed
at KHN in 2009.
Rob Scheps, Composer, 2003
Article
and review on the Rob Scheps Big Band. New video of the group available
on YouTube.
Performing Wednesday, May 25th from 8 – 11:30 p.m. at Vie de
Boheme Winebar in Portland, OR. 8 pm - 11 : 30 pm.
Join
Meghan in the studios of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace
artists and writers-in-residence for an opening reception, open hours, and a
reading during the weekend of May 13 - 15. Representing all media and
genres–from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video,
and performance; from poetry and fiction to playwriting and creative
non-fiction–artists and writers will present the work they've been making
since the start of their residencies in September 2010. All events are free and
open to the public. RSVP is required for all events.
In
partnership with Downtown's generous real estate community, since 1997, Workspace,
LMCC's 9-month residency program, has provided valuable space, time, and
community for experimentation, professional development, and dialogue to
emerging visual artists and writers.
April 2011 News
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Performing
Sunday, May 15th from 1 to 4 pm at Marnie’s
Asian Kitchen @ 64 Pudding Street, Putnam Valley, NY. No cover. All
ages show with Rob
Scheps on soprano sax & flute with John
Stowell on guitar.
Linda
Byrne, Visual Artist, 2004.1
Several paintings by Linda
Byrne are included in a group show, Places
and Spaces, at the exhibition space at Warburg Realty in TriBeCa through
June. The exhibition is part of the TOAST Art Walk on Friday, April 29th from
6-8pm and on Saturday, April 30th - Monday, May 2nd from
1-6pm. There will be a reception on Wednesday, May 4th from
6:30-8:30pm. All are welcome.
Sonja Hinrichsen, Visual Artist, April 14 –
June 1, 2007
Sonja Hinrichsen just arrived in China to spend 2 ½
months for two new projects in Chongqing and Shanghai. In addition, view new
drawings she created this past winter at residencies in Colorado and upstate New York. Also check out the Citrus Grove Project at Taliesin-West in Scottsdale,
AZ.
Lizette Wanzer, Writer, May 12 – 23, 2008
Lizette Wanzer enjoyed an especially successful
literary year in 2010! She was a
finalist in Aesthetica Magazine's annual Creative Works Contest and in
Whispering Prairie Press' Writing Awards.
For the third year in a row, she was a winner in the national Soulmaking
Literary Awards, this time in the nonfiction category. She was also a winner in San Francisco's
citywide Poets 11 Competition.
Lisa presented readings of her fiction and essay at a number of venues,
including two readings at Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival,
and at the city's Odd Mondays series.
She also presented work at St. Louis' Popular Culture Association
Conference. Her recent work
appears in Callaloo, International
Journal on Literature and Theory, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Pacific
Review, Potomac Review, Glossolalia Flash Fiction, and Flashquake. You may
see several of her readings on You Tube by searching "Lizette Wanzer"
and "Lyzette Wanzer."
Sarah Sharp, Visual Artist, May 25 – June 19,
2009
Two
new pieces, commissioned by Art Connects New York for their Inaugural
Benefit and Auction, will be on display at Spattered Columns (491
Broadway, 5th Floor, northwest corner of Broadway and Broome Street) @ in New York. Tickets to the benefit on
April 3rd are available through the ACNY website. The show will be up from April 6 - May 3rd
and is open noon to 6:00 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (or by
appointment).
Her collaborative project, From Dexter To Sinister, will be included in two
shows in Massachusetts this month: Here, There and Everywhere at Transcultural
Exchange Conference in Boston from April 7-10, 2011 and The Interconnected World at Hampden Gallery at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst from March 31st - April18th. Listen to
the poets who participated in the collaboration read their work
aloud at or preview
(or purchase) a book recently published about the project.
March 2011 News
Ted Wheeler, Writer, March 15
– 26, 2010
Ted will have a number of short stories published this
spring:
- "How to Die Young in a Nebraska Winter" in The Kenyon Review
(March).
- "The Current State of the Universe" in The Cincinnati Review
(May). This story won TCR's Robert & Adele Schiff Prize for Prose,
and will appear in the journal in conjunction with that prize.
- "The Housekeeper" in Flatmancrooked 4. This story was a
finalist for the 2010 Flatmancrooked Fiction Contest.
Melanie Vote, Visual Artist, Aug. 13 – Sept.7, 2007
Lost and Found by Melanie
Vote opens next week at The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery located in Hepburn
Hall, room 323, 2039 Kennedy Blvd in Jersey City, NJ. The exhibition runs from
March 16 – April 21, 2010 with an
opening reception on March 16, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Melanie will give an
artist talk in the gallery on April 12 at 4:30 p.m.
February 2011 News
Meghan
Gordon, Visual Artist, 2007.2
Meghan has been in
residence at Workspace, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s studio
residency program since last September. They will be opening its doors for the
first time in 2011 for Works-in-Progress: Open Studios on Sunday, March 6 from
12-6pm inviting the public to meet the 18 emerging visual artists and 6 writers
currently there. Residents are working in all media
and genres in unique spaces generously donated by Downtown real estate
owners. More information about the program and current residents including
bios and work samples are available on LMCC's website. Works-in-Progress: Open Studios is presented in association with Armory Arts Week. LMCC Workspace
Studios are located at 125 Maiden Lane, 14th Floors. RSVP is required.
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Midwest Tour April 2011 - Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado
· Friday,
April 1 in Mission, Kansas (KC area) at Lucky Brewgrille (Johnson Drive,
Mission, KS) from 6-9 pm w/ Ron Carlson Trio.
· Monday,
April 4 in Altoona, Iowa (Des Moines area) at Adventureland
Inn from 6:30-9:30 pm with Greg Gisbert (trumpet) & special
guest soloists with the Des Moines Big Band, led by Jim Oatts, Adventureland
Inn, 6:30 - 9:30 pm. All ages show.
· Tuesday,
April 5 in Indianola, Iowa at Simpson College in the Great Hall at 7:30 pm. as
guest soloist.
Wednesday, April 6 in Des Moines, Iowa at Drake University in the Turner Jazz
Center in the Harmon Fine Arts Center at 7 pm with The Rob Scheps/Greg Gisbert
Quintet (Rob Scheps - tenor sax/flute, Greg Gisbert – trumpet, Roger
Wilder – piano, Bob Bowman – bass, tba- drums).
· Thursday.
April 7 in Nebraska City, Nebraska at Arbor Day Farms for a free evening
concert with The Rob Scheps/Greg Gisbert Quintet, w/ Roger Wilder, Bob Bowman )
· Monday,
April 11 in Denver, Colorado at the Dazzle Jazz Club from 9 pm – 12 am
with the Rob Scheps/Greg Gisbert Quintet.
Daniel
Christian, Composer, April 2009
Daniel will be playing at the Red Gorilla Music Festival in Austin, Texas next month.
Anthony Green,
Composer, July/August 2009
The violin/piano piece that he composed at KHN was
chosen for performance at a conference in Missouri on April 8, 2011. The piece
was one of many to be chosen out of 577 submissions internationally. He will
also be accompanying a singer in Amsterdam in April for the Gaudeamus
Interpreters Competition. And finally, the main project that he worked on at
KHN will culminate in a premiere on April 2, 2011.
Christopher
Cartmill, Visual Artist, 2003 and 2006
Christopher has launched a new website.
Solidad
deCosta, Writer, 2005
Solidad has launched a new websites, www.solidad.net and www.theuprisings.net.
Susan Field,
Visual Artist, April 2005
Her artwork will be part of a 3-person exhibit,
"In Material," at The Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA,
beginning March 4th. The work of Brooke Holve and Elizabeth Sher will also be
featured.
Mary
Mazziotti, Visual Artist, July 2005
Mary M. Mazziotti will be
exhibiting “American Memento Mori”, her continuing series of
textile pieces related to Death, at OK Harris Works of Art in New York City,
April 9th to May 14th, 2011. In her three previous
shows at the gallery, the artist exhibited both large and small-scale
paintings. Her fourth show makes the debut of her textile work at the gallery.
In her artist’s statement, Ms. Mazziotti remarks, “This series of embroidered
and appliquéd textiles present a memento mori for our nation. Each Death’s Head
figure, based on an antique American artifact, is worked in black felt and
mounted on a vintage tablecloth that bears the wear and tear of use. Sadly, it
seems like our country is slipping from the strength of our glory years into an
inevitable decline. History proves that the way of all flesh is the way of all
governments, too.”
Mike Giron,
Visual Artist, 2009
A group show curated by Mike Giron opens this weekend at the RNG, 1915
Leavenworth Street (Dixie Quicks Entrance), Omaha, NE, 68102. Opening Reception
for “9” is February 12, 2011 from 7 – 10pm. The exhibition continues
through March 6, 2011. Artists exhibiting in the show include: Jeff Carnal,
Valerie Eich, Mario Gallegos, William Holland, Vivian Kvam, Shawnequa Linder,
Tafadzwa Ndoda, Fredy Rincon and Donald Thayer. “What do you get when you put 9
artists in one room at the same time? An organized exhibition with more
viewpoints then Sybil ever had. The diversity of the mediums, styles and
thought processes is the thread that runs through this group show. 9 people, 9
talents, 9 expressions unveiled.”
David
Perez, Writer, March 2007
David’s book, WOW!, is set to launch. The cover and illustrations were drawn by
his brother, George, an acclaimed comic book artist. 11B Press is a new
publisher and Wow! is their first book. David will be in New York from
March 15 - April 13 and has some readings in the works. Information about Wow!
- including excerpts and audio clips - can be found on his
website.
Bonnie
Rough, Writer, 2006.2
Bonnie’s
memoir, Carrier:
Untangling the Danger in My DNA (Counterpoint)
has just been named a Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. It has been shortlisted
along with three other titles from 41 nominees in the "Memoir/Creative
Nonfiction" category. Here's more info and the full list of finalists. She worked on the book
during her ‘unforgettable’ 2006 residency at KHN and quite a bit takes place in
Nebraska.
Angela
Balcita, Writer, 2007.2
Her memoir, MOONFACE: A TRUE ROMANCE came out on
February 1, 2011. The books chronicle her romance with her husband, and the
kidney he donated to her before they were married. Their story and the book
were featured in USA TODAY on January 31, 2011.
January 2011 News
Justin
Quarry, Writer, 2006.2 and 2008.2
Justin's short story, "Test-Drive Baby,"
which was first published in The Southern Review, has been awarded the 2010 Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize, and will be
reprinted in the Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories anthology.
Kim Roberts, Writer, 2006.2
Winner of
the 2009 Pearl Poetry Prize is Kim’s book, “Animal Magnetism”. In “Animal
Magnetism”, published by Pearl Editions, “Kim Roberts delves into the mysteries,
anomalies, and afflictions of the human body. While caring for a terminally ill
friend, she began visiting medical museums, exploring the age-old effort to
understand the body’s workings and cure its maladies. But it wasn’t until she
faced her own illness that she began to translate what she found there into
these finely-crafted, deeply personal, and historically revealing poems”
Kyong
Mee Choi, Composer, 2010.1
View photos of her opera premiere at Roosevelt
University. A DVD of the production will be available soon.
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Upcoming Performances:
ŸTuesday
January 25 @ 9:30 p.m. with David Budway Trio @ SMALLS,
183 West 10th St., New York City
ŸSaturday,
February 19 @ 5:30 p.m. with Jazz Vespers @ 1st
Presbyterian Church of Phillipstown, 10 Academy St., Cold
Spring, NY. All ages welcome. Free admission.
ŸWednesday, February 23 @ 9:30
p.m. The Rob
Scheps Core-tet (Rob Scheps, Jamie Reynolds, Cameron Brown, Anthony Pinciotti,
& Greg Gisbert) perform @ SMALLS,183 West 10th St, New York City
Mira Rosenthal, Writer, 2005.1
Her
manuscript of poems that she worked on while a resident at KHN won the 2010
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and will be published by The Kent State University Press this coming fall.
Erika
Dreifus, Writer, 2003.1
Her new short-story collection, Quiet Americans, is being released this month by
Last Light Studio. The book includes "Matrilineal Descent," a
Pushcart-nominated story that she began writing during her KHN residency.
Linda
Byrne, Visual Artist, 2004.1
Linda has launched a new website.
December 2010 News
Koji Nakano, Musician, 2.4 – 3.14.08
and 4.3 – 4.18.10
In the fall of 2009, Ensemble Reconsil Vienna gave the
world premiere of his Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for flute, bass
clarinet, viola and violoncello as part of KOFOMI
("Composers Forum in Mittersill") in Austria. In 2010, Ein_Klang Records released CD KOFOMI
#14 including his Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky.
In 2010, he
received a MetLife Creative Connections Grant from Meet The Composer for
his participation in the Pacific Rim Music Festival as a guest composer. The
members of Del Sol String Quartet premiered his Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirits" for daegeum,
violin and violoncello as part of this festival. It was also
subsequently performed by the students of Korean National University of the
Arts during the Nong Festival in Seoul, Korea. In addition, Borealis String Quartet premiered the string
quartet version of Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit”
for the opening concert of Asian Young Musicians' Connection
at the Performing Arts Center (Soochow University) in Taipei,
Taiwan. He was also awarded a CAP Grant from American Music Center which
supported reproduction of parts for the piece and travel expenses to Taipei for
the world premiere.
In the same year, his Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio Visual work in
collaboration with filmmaker Tiffany Doesken was selected for the
2010 ISCM World New Music Days and opened the festival
at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia. It was also installed
at the Campbelltown Arts Centre during 2010 ISCM World New Music Days. He
was also a Visiting Composer in Residence for the University of Western Sydney
in Australia during May 2010. During the residency, Looking at a
Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms, another Audio Visual work in
collaboration with Tiffany Doesken, was premiered as part of the Interactive
Creative Forum.
In the fall of 2010, his
multi-media concert Music, Dance and Film: Innovation and Tradition in the
Works of Koji Nakano was presented at the Eastern Cultural Center as part
of the Annual Music and Performing Arts at Burapha University in Bangsaen,
Thailand.
In 2010, he guest lectured
at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin,
Chapman University, Sheridan College, Korean National University of the Arts,
and Taipei National University of the Arts. He also received a residency
fellowship from the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and an ASCAPlus Award. He was the recipient of The 2010 White Flowers
Residency for Composers from Yaddo.
In 2011, he will give a
lecture on his music at the University of California at Davis. Soprano Stacey Fraser will also perform his
Ancient Songs at the Salmon Recital Hall (Chapman University) on January 14, at
the Conrad Prebys Music Center's Concert Hall (University of California at San
Diego) on January 20, and at the Hong Kong Arts Centre on March 6, 2011.
On February 20 2011, she will premiere “Arigatoo” an aria from his second opera
Spiritual Forest as part of a concert sponsored by the S&R
Foundation at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. In addition, she will
give the Taiwan Premiere of the same aria at the Taipei National Concert Hall on
March 1, 2011. In addition, Del Sol String Quartet will give the US
Premiere of my Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit” at
the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Koji
will be the Visiting Professor of Composition at Taipei National University of
the Arts in the Spring Semester of 2011.
Christopher
Reiger, Visual Artist, 2009.2
December
marks the release of the Endangered Species Print Project (ESPP) red wolf
limited edition print. Per the ESPP model, the number of prints in the
edition corresponds to the (estimated) number of red wolves remaining in the
wild: 100.100% of the sales proceeds will support the work of the Point
Defiance Zoo and Aquarium Red Wolf Recovery Program. Purchase a print or read more about the red wolf and his work on the print.
Also read the Hungry Hyaena post about the print or the April 2010 ESPP interview.
Rob
Scheps, Composer, 2003
Rob Scheps, (saxophonist / composer), KHN resident artist in 2003,
toured Japan and Taiwan with the world reknowned Vanguard Jazz Orchestra from
New York City. The Rob Scheps 19 Piece Big Band performed September 13, 2010 at
Rockefeller Center in New York. Rob Scheps performed with Aretha Franklin, The
Temptations and Johnny Mathis in Massachusetts, summer of 2010.
October 2010 News
Joan Waltemath, Visual Artist, 9.17.10 – 11.9.07
Joan was recently interviewed by Mary Jones for
BomBlog. Read
the interview.
Ji
Eun Kim, Visual Artist, 3.2.10 – 3.28.10
Ji Eun Kim had a recent solo exhibition at the Brain
Factory in Seoul, Koreal. View
images and learn more.
September 2010 News
Rick Dula, Visual Artist,
10.6.03 – 11.10.03
“Architectural
+ Industrial Realism” includes paintings by Rick Dula in the Washington County Museum of Fine
Arts, 401 Museum Drive, City Park, Hagerstown, MD on view from
October 2, 2010 – January 9, 2011.
Dave Beck,
Visual Artist, 5.14.09 – 6.5.09
His
exhibition “Continuation” opens September 16, 2010 at the Roland
Gibson Gallery, Brainerd Hall, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, New York.
Opening reception is Thursday, Sept. 16 from 5 – 7 p.m.
Bonnie
Rough, Writer, 7.10.06 – 7.22.06
News re: her book “Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA”
- In the
coming days and weeks, Bonnie will speak and read in Seattle, Iowa City,
Minneapolis, St. Paul, Iowa City, and Walla Walla. Other Events
- Media coverage for CARRIER has
included NPR and national, international, and online magazines.
Coming up very soon: Talk of Iowa and Seattle's KOMO 4 News! More Press
- Recent Reviews
"The memoir is a gorgeous love story, and also reads like a medical
thriller--I was staying up late and rising early to read it." -Literary
Mama
"What is so amazing about Rough's struggle with her DNA destiny is not
just the impossibly tough choices she faces in planning her own future, but the
raw courage she exhibits in dealing with the choices made by the generations
before her." -Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"In this elegantly crafted, highly literary memoir, Rough ... highlights
the fact that, since the introduction of genetic testing, people are faced with
choices no one in history has ever had to make before." -Brain, Child
Kyong
Mee Choi, Composer, 2.23.10 – 3.6.10
A multimedia
opera, THE ETERNAL TAO, that will be premiered on Friday, October 22, 2010 at GANZ Hall,
Roosevelt University at 7:30 p.m. (430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
60605) with an exhibition of her at 4 p.m. and a pre-concert talk at 6 p.m.
Andrea Clearfield, Composer,
10.30.06 – 11.24.06
Andrea
was recently awarded a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome from the
American Composers Forum, with funding by the William Penn Foundation.
Her
new work, Kawa Ma Gyur (The Unchanging Pillar), commissioned by Network for New
Music, will
be premiered on November 21, 2010 at the Ethical Society in Philadelphia on a
concert entitled Tradewinds from Tibet. The work is inspired by a
recent trek to Lo Monthang, a remote region in northern Nepal, to document the
indigenous folk music.
Her new cantata commissioned by Singing
City, Les Fenetres, to the French poetry of Rainer Maria
Rilke, will be premiered by Singing City and the Chamber Orchestra of
Philadelphia on April 20, 2011 as part of the Philadelphia International
Festival of the Arts at Holy Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square,
Philadelphia.
Her duo for Native American and Silver flutes: Unimagined
Bridges, commissioned and recorded by Lisamarie McGrath, was premiered on
September 12, 2010 at the Birdsong Peace Chamber at a benefit concert for
Tashirat Orphanage in Mexico.
She was commissioned by acclaimed flutist, Carol
Wincenc, to compose a work for her trio, Les Amies, also featuring NY
Philharmonic principal players Cynthia Phelps (viola) and Nancy Allen
(flute). The work, “and low to the lake falls home”, was commissioned to
honor her parents Margaret and Joseph Wincenc and was premiered at the Morgan
Library in NYC on February 22, 2010. The work received critical acclaim
in the New York Times.
Her
hour long cantata on breast cancer to poetry by David Wolman, The Long
Bright, had its west coast premiere on March 11, 2010 at Royce Hall in Los
Angeles, featuring Grammy award winning soprano, Hila Plitmann. The
concert, with the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, raised over $200,000.00 for the
Israel Cancer Research Center.
Meghan Gordon, Visual
Artist, 8.13.07 – 9.14.07
Meghan Gordon’s “Tribute to an Underappreciated Trap Door” opens
Saturday, September 11 with an opening reception from 6 – 9 pm. Show continues through October 16, 2010
at Michael
Rosenthal Gallery, 365
Valencia St., San Francisco, CA
“Meghan Gordon
weaves herself in to the history of others through the objects left behind.
Straying from a museological approach, which traditionally prioritizes connoisseurship,
Gordon is interested in challenging the significance and narratives that
institutions impose upon objects. Because Gordon is interested in history as a
cumulation of fact and fiction, she sources her work in photographs, possibly
unreliable texts, and her own imagination. While in residence at the Fine Arts
Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Gordon has investigated the tenuous relationship
between the largely unknown American realist painter Edwin Dickinson
(1891-1978); Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930), an early American landscape
painter and founder of the Hawthorne School; The Fine Arts Work Center; and the
Provincetown Art community. Dickinson moved to Provincetown to study at the
Hawthorne School and maintained a studio at Day’s Lumber Yard. The Fine Arts
Work Center recently acquired Dickinson’s studio and has repurposed it as the
Hudson D. Walker Gallery. Because the remodel has rendered Dickinson’s original
studio largely unrecognizable, Gordon has used historic photographs to recreate
some of the elements of Dickinson’s studio in fragile paper sculptures. Like
plastered gauze life-casting, Gordon creates her sculptures by encasing an
original object with layers of paper to create hollow three dimensional
reliefs. Gordon then sutures together her sections to create slightly bulging
and precarious objects with surprising moments of high definition rendering. Meghan Gordon is a New York-based
artist and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a current New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Painting and studio resident at the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.”
August 2010 News
Lisa
Ko, Writer, November 19 – December 14, 2007
Narrative Magazine has published the first chapter of
her novel as their Story of the Week.
It can be read online. You'll need to create a free account to
log in. For those truly interested, please email Lisa @ iamlisako@gmail.com
for a pdf version.
Matt
Jensen, Visual Artist, March 15 – 16, 2010
An article was recently published about a project
Jensen has been working on for months and months, his first foray into
curating. The collection he has put together includes 14 artists based in NYC,
many of whom have not shown much to date.
Tyler
Gilmore, Composer, November 9 – December 18, 2009
Known as a member of the world-renowned a
cappella group the Swingle Singers,
British vocalist and composer Clare
Wheeler will be performing at Dazzle this Sunday in a rare US appearance
in collaboration with composer and leader of the Ninth+Lincoln
Orchestra, Tyler Gilmore.
Both rooted in jazz tradition while actively pushing artistic boundaries, Ms.
Wheeler and Mr. Gilmore will be premiering all new music with a seven piece
group made up of Colorado's finest musicians including Wil Swindler, Art Bouton, Mark Harris, Peter Sommer, Steve Kovalcheck,
Chris Smith, and Marty Kenney.
Laura
Madeline Wiseman, Poet, May 11 – 22, 2010
Madeline had a chapbook published recently. Find
“Ghost Girl” and listen to poems at www.lauramadelinewiseman.com
July 2010 News
Jee
Leong Koh, Poet, June 13-24, 2005
Jee wrote to us regarding Andrew Howdle's review of
his book of poetry, Equal to the Earth.
“Andrew has been a keen reader of my poetry for some
time now. His acute comments, on my blog and in emails, have inspired and
supported me in more ways than I can count. His review of my book of poetry Equal to the Earth
has finally been published in the Boxcar Poetry Review, edited by Neil Aitken.
I think the review is the best reading of my book so far. Not because it is
flattering (it is), but because it reads my work with high intelligence and
broad sympathy. It sees the many ways in which technique contributes to
emotion, and so does not fall into the trap of analyzing either in isolation,
or, worse, as if they are contradictory. I hope you enjoy reading his review,
and consider buying the book (link below).”
www.benchpresspoetry.com, jeeleong.blogspot.com
Kyong
Mee Choi, Composer, February 23 – March 6, 2010
Kyong Mee’s piano solo piece, Reminiscences, will be performed by Kuang-Hao Huang at the Festival
of Contemporary Music in San Francisco (San Francisco Community Music Center,
544 Capp Street) on July 17th
at 8 p.m. For more information visit www.newmusicforum.com . The concert will also feature music by Stephen Yip, Composer, May 19 – 30, 2008
Matt
Jensen, Visual Artist, March 15 – 16, 2010
New work by Matthew Jensen, Searching for Something Previously Unknown or Forgotten on Governors
Island and Nowhere In Manhattan,
is on exhibit July 24 – August 29.
Building 110: LMCC’s Art center at Governors Island. More www.Jensen-Projects.com
James
Woodward, Composer, January 29 – February 23, 2007
James has accepted a job as Assistant Professor of
Music at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonson, AL. His children’s book
has received a Bronze Medal in Children’s Interactive Books from the
Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. Also look for new Rebecca Woogie T-shirts
on rebeccawoogie.com.
More information available at www.jameswoodwardmusic.com
Tyler
Gilmore, Composer, November 9 – December 18, 2009
The Denver Composer's Forum is presenting a concert of
all new music by Tyler and Peter Harris this upcoming Saturday. The concert will
feature the world-class ensemble The Penumbra String Quartet and guest
musicians including baritone Chris Wittels and pianist Reggie Berg. Saturday, July 10th
at 7 pm, Sixth Ave UCC, 3250 East Sixth Ave., Denver, CO.
June 2010 News
Maria Michails, Visual Artist, April 4 – May
28, 2010
Happy Summer, Everyone! Hope this email finds you all
well. I would like to pass on the link to my new website. (www.treiastudios.net)
Rob Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27,
2003
Summer
performances:
Friday,
June 18, 2010 @ 8p.m. with Aretha Franklin @ Melody Tent, Hyannis,
Massachusetts (www.melodytent.org).
Wednesday,
June 30, 2010 from 7-8:30 p.m. @ The Fat Cat, 75 Christopher St., NYC, (www.fatcatmusic.org).
Tuesday,
July 6, 2010 @ 5 p.m. in Nyack, NY, @ The Old Fashion with Chris Pasin
(trumpet), David Budway (piano), Cameron Brown (bass), George Schuller (drums).
Saturday,
July 10, 2010 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. @ Peeksill Festival in Peeksill, NY, 201 S
Division Street.
Thursday,
July 22, 2010 @ 8 p.m. with Johnny Mathis and Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 7:30 pm.
with Aretha Franklin in Cohasset, Massachusetts @ South Shore Music Circus (http://www.musiccircus.org)
Linda Byrne, Visual Artist, March 1 – 27, 2004
Once again it is time for Figment
weekend on Governor's Island this Friday through Sunday, June 11-13. For
my second year of participation I have done a piece for the Interactive Sculpture Garden, which if you don't make
it out this weekend, is up for the entire summer till the island closes in
mid-October. Bring family, bring friends, bring yourself - it is a great time -
with lots to do and see for children of all ages! http://figmentproject.org/2010/events/figment-nyc-2010
Bevin Kelley, Composer, August 25 – Sept. 25, 2008
Upcoming performances:
Wednesday, June 9th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in
Providence RI - The Stable
Friday, June 18th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Providence RI - AS220
Saturday, July 3rd - Blectum
from Blechdom in Los Angeles CA - The Smell
Tuesday, July 13th 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Brookline MA - Cafe Fixe
Friday, July 23rd 2010 - Blevin Blectum in Brooklyn NY - Issue Project
Room
Saturday, July 31 - Blevin Blectum in Providence, RI - Wooly Fair 2010
Late July - NYC, NY. and Dortmund, Germany
May 2010 News
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, Visual Artists, Nov. 2 – Dec.
18, 2009
The
Canary Project has signed a contract with Metropolis Books and Distributed
Artist Publishers (DAP) to put out a book of Green Patriot Posters in the Fall.
Generous funders have made it possible to print this book domestically and
sustainably. More details on this to come.
Amanda Burr will join CP co-founders Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler
in the Netherlands from May 20 to June 10. The team will be
photographing, interviewing, video-taping and recording. The mission is
to investigate the "Culture of Planning" in the Netherlands and to
compare that culture of planning to New Orleans. This is part of our
effort to re-visit a number of locations for more in-depth study.
Material gathered in the trip will feed into Morris/Sayler's A History of
the Future and Burr's We Could Just Leave. Many thanks to
Tracy Metz who made this shoot possible through the loan of her apartment.
Edward Morris will be consulting with Environmental Defense Fund this
summer. Mission: find ways to fire up young people (whatever that
means!) to confront climate change. Demand accountability. www.canary-project.org contact@canary-project.org
Joan Waltemath, Visual Artist, Sept. 17 – Nov. 9, 2007
Maryland Institute College of
Art (MICA) announces the selection of abstract painter and longtime
educator Joan Waltemath as the second permanent director of the famed
Hoffberger School of Painting. Led for more than 40 years by Grace Hartigan
until her death in 2008, the M.F.A. program is noted for producing generations
of painters who have had an impact in the art world. “I am honored to step into
my new role as director of the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA,”
Waltemath said. “It is a challenge not only to uphold the important place the
College has held in American culture for nearly two centuries now but also a
unique opportunity to focus on painting at a time of multiformity in the arts
and to help shape its future.” Waltemath, who has been an educator since the
early 1990s, has taught for more than a decade at the I.S. Chanin School of
Architecture of the Cooper Union in New York and in the visual arts department
at Princeton University in New Jersey. She has also served as the
editor-at-large of The Brooklyn Rail, a critical publication of arts, politics and
culture, for nearly 10 years.
As an artist,
Waltemath has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and
internationally, including solo shows in New York; Basel, Switzerland; London;
Brussels; and Bonn, Germany. Her work is in many noted public collections,
including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in
Washington and the Muse de Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Waltemath has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has been
invited to residencies, including Insel Hombroich (Germany) and The Edward F.
Albee Foundation. “As a painter of
uncompromising excellence, a critic recognized for her penetrating
intelligence, and an educator able to both inspire and challenge, Joan
Waltemath is an incredibly fitting heir to Grace Hartigan’s extraordinary
legacy,” said Ray Allen, MICA’s vice president for academic affairs and
provost. Waltemath studied at the University of Nebraska from 1971–73 and
received a B.F.A at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. When she
realized she wanted to teach, she went back to school, receiving her M.F.A.
from Hunter College at the City University of New York in 1993. “I know Joan is eagerly looking forward
to continuing Hoffberger School of Painting’s well-deserved reputation for
providing the most promising of painters with the knowledge and experience
necessary to realizing their professional potential,” Allen said.
Matt Dehaemers, Visual Artist, April 3 – 29, 2006
Sent us images of a recent project at Regis Jesuit High
School in Denver Colorado. “The students enjoyed watching the mural
installation unfold throughout the day. We were able to get it entirely
installed just before the end of the school day.” The mural relates to
aspects of the school's history and movement throughout the last century from
New Mexico to Southern Colorado to its current location in Aurora Colorado.
It also speaks to the life of St. John Francis Regis for which the school
is name who worked with people in small medieval communities throughout the
French Alps. Some of the imagery draws a relationship between the
geography of Rocky Mountains and French Alps.
The Missouri Department of Transportation dedicated
Dehaemers’ Mixed Media public art mural commission for the I-44 Welcome Center
in Joplin to kick off Missouri tourism month. “I enjoyed hearing all the
stories the welcome center staff had about people coming through reacting to
the mural including a group of Tibetan Monks who stopped to pose for a couple
of pictures in front of it,” Dehaemers said.
He was recently awarded a public art commission to create a
public art piece for the KCATA (the Metro) at 31st and Troost for the new MAX
hybrid bus system for the Troost Corridor. Due to be completed by
September. The concept is a large scale kinetic sculpture that will move
in relationship to arriving and departing buses. And this fall, he has
been commissioned to create a multi-dimensional/faceted installation that will
involve people from the Creighton campus and Omaha community. The project
deals specifically with issues surrounding the world water crisis for Lied Arts
Center at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska--due to open September
17th.” www.matthewdehaemers.com
Steven Wingate, Writer, May 11 – 22, 2009
Next year,
Wingate will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at College of
the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Wingate notes, “It means leaving the
west, but sometimes we have to move for work. I'll get to Massachusetts in
August, and if you have any New England area applicants who have questions
about it, please feel free to send them my way.”
Rob Scheps, Musician, August 16 – 27,
2003
Saxophonist
Rob Scheps performs Wednesday, May 12 at Raphael D’Lugoff at 4pm
and at The Fat Cat (www.fatcatmusic.org), 75 Christopher St. @ 7th Ave.
South, NYC from 7 pm- 8:30 pm.
Melanie Vote, Visual Artist, Aug. 13 – Sept.7, 2007
Melanie Vote will be featured at AAI's 14th Annual
Wide Open Studios on Saturday, May 15 from 4-8PM at 107 Suffolk St, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education
Center. Organized by Artists Alliance, Inc. in cooperation with Clemente
Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center. Located in the heart of the burgeoning
Lower East Side gallery scene, this large scale event provides an exciting
opportunity to visit many contemporary artists at once who will have their
artwork on display in their studios. Open Studios offers art enthusiasts a
unique glimpse into the artist's creative process and a diverse range of
practices will be represented, including painting, sculpture, printmaking,
works on paper, photography, installation, video and new media. Artworks will
also be available for sale. This event is supported, in part, by public
funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and made possible
with the generous support of our media sponsor One Art World.
Sarah Sharp, Visual Artist, May 25 – June 19,
2009
Brooklyn-based artist, Sarah G. Sharp’s
first Houston exhibition opens Saturday, May 8 at Gallery 1724, 1724 Bissonett St.
"Family Crests for the Disenfranchised", imagines heraldic imagery
for outsiders. She uses domestic materials like contact paper,
linoleum, aluminum tape and salt, which she transforms into images and objects
that are familiar, funny and fantastical. Opening reception: Saturday,
May 8, 8-10, through Saturday, June 19 - gallery hours:
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11am-6pm, appointments recommended, call 713-582-1198. www.sarahgsharp.net
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