News from former Artists Residents: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts


Mary King, Visual Artist, 1.28.08 – 2.22.08

Mary has an exhibition at the Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit, Michigan May 10 – July 12, 2008.  www.sherrywashingtongallery.com

   Information emailed to KHN in April 2008

 

Julieve Jubin, Visual Artist, 12.31.06 – 1.25.08

Julieve has an exhibit, object sense at the Limestone Art Gallery in Fayetteville, NY, April 18 – May 2, 2008   www.limestoneart.biz 

Information emailed to KHN in April 2008

 

 

Julia Freeman, Visual Artist, www.juliafreeman.com, 11.5.07 – 12.14.07

I have an exhibition coming up at the Lynnwood Arts Center in July 2008 and an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum Gallery in March 2008.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

John Skeen, Visual Artist and Musician, 10.22.07 – 12.14.07

The song/paintings performed at KHN in December are programmed on a new music concert Feb 22 at the Creative Arts Center, WV University. There will be a second new music concert later this spring, no date yet, on which I expect to present other new music/paintings, currently in progress. I'm also working on settings of three of Denise's poems, which will be music/paintings, with her poems inscribed on them. There are three poems, and five music/paintings (one of the haiku I'm dividing up among three music/paintings because each section of the poem warrants a specific treatment). I think Denise's plan is to use the three music/paintings which set the one haiku, and produce a hand-made book in an edition of 5 or maybe 10. When I'm finished with my part, I will email the images to Denise, and she will design something very beautiful and pleasing in book form. I also have an exhibit scheduled for two weeks at the Monongalia Art Center, downtown Morgantown, which I will open on April 5, with a slideshow/recital of new works. The recital is scheduled as part of an annual chamber series consisting of four or five concerts; mine provides a good opportunity for an exhibit as well. In mid June I will go on residency at Hambridge in Rabun, GA for a month. I'm guessing it will be more or less soggy and really hot at that time of year, perhaps less so there in the mountains, (I detest hot soggy weather; Neb weather was perfect for me, snow, ice, and all), but otherwise I am anticipating a very inspiring and productive experience. 

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Evan P. Schneider, Writer, www.myspace.com/evanpschneider, 10.16.07 – 10.27.07

At present, I am still working to settle myself in Atlanta; it is an enormous place. All in all, though, things are going well.

News you can note about me: I am now the managing editor of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, released thrice yearly by Wolverine Farm Publishing of Fort Collins, Colorado. Also, late this winter False Magazine will run an essay I wrote about urban consciousness entitled "Seeing Patterns." In another fantastic turn of fate, AJ Liberto (with whom I was rooming there at KHN) has included a drawing of mine in an enormous project he is working on about America. He and I keep in touch often.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

AJ Liberto, Visual Artist, 10.15.07 – 11.2.07

I am living and working in Boston. I am working at MIT and for the artist Paul Laffoley. I will be in a group show in Brooklyn in August and a two-person show in Houston in November.

      Information emailed to KHN in March 2008


Ian Williams, Writer, 10.1.07 – 10.13.07

I don't have a website yet, but I plan to develop one.  News?  Here's some decent news: Since KHN, I've placed poems in a couple of good Canadian journals, Carousel and Contemporary Verse 2, and I have fiction in the current issue of The Dalhousie Review. 

   Here's better news: Leaf Press selected my poem, "V," to be its Monday Poem, which is a public poetry project.  The press sends out a poem each Monday to its subscriber list, then the poem gets archived on the site.  My poem will appear on February 4, 2008.

   Best news: Matrix Magazine, a literary journal based in Montreal, has chosen me as one of six of Canada's best emerging poets.  My poems will be featured in issue 79.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Jamie Burmeister, Visual Artist, www.jamieburmeister.com 10.1.07 – 10.12.07
I have a new installation titled "Deconstruction" in an exhibition titled "State of the Art"  I was recently awarded the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards Best Public Artist for 2007I am presently working on an interactive public sound sculpture titled "South Omaha Sound Field" that will be installed at the new South Omaha Public Library.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Joan Waltemath, Visual Artist, 9.17.07 – 11.9.07

I recently received a Jentel Foundaton residency for August-September.

I'm teaching at Princeton University and at Cooper Union in the School of Architecture this year.

I will be in a group show in Brooklyn.

      Information emailed to KHN in March 2008

 

Melanie Vote, Visual Artist, www.melanievote.com  8.13.07 – 9.7.07
One of the works inspired from last summers stay in NE is in a group show at Flowers Gallery in New York, the website is www.flowerseast.com. 

There is a good chance more of the work will be in an exhibition in Manchester CT at Manchester Comm. College, in their on campus gallery. I will let you know if that happens.  I hope to have the new images up from last summer on my website early spring (melanievote.com).

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Meghan Gordon, Visual Artist, 8.13.07 – 9.14.07

I am here at the Fine Arts Work Center as a Winter Fellow (October 2007 to May 2008). I am having a solo show at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery opening on February 8th and I am in a group show at the Provincetown Arts Association and Museum open now until March 2nd. Also I will be in a show in Harford, CT at The Bushnell called On Paper II, put on by a group called Paper/New England.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Keith Kirchoff, Musician, www.keithkirchoff.com 8.7.07 – 8.18.07

You may be interested to know I'll be premiering the piece that I composed while at KHN on April 3, 2008  in Salt Lake City.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Jake Longstreth, Visual Artist, http://www.jakelongstreth.com  7.30.07 - 8.10.07

Thanks again for the opportunity this summer, I am still working my way though all the photographs I took and slowly making prints. I will send some your way eventually.

 

Jennifer Perrine, Writer, jperrine@gmail.com, 7.30.07 – 8.10.07

 For the last few months I've been polishing the manuscript on which I was working during my time at the KHN Center. I finally settled on a "final" version of the manuscript, titled In the Human Zoo , and I've been sending it around to publishers. No word yet from them, but I'll keep you posted if I hear any good news. In the meantime, I've started work on a new series of poems in the personae of female mystics, prophets, and heretics. Maybe that will turn into a book of its own this summer, when I have more time to dig into the research.  I don't have a website to add to the list, but feel free to use my email if you like.   jperrine@gmail.com

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Rebecca Foley, Visual Artist, www.rebeccafoley.com, 7.2.07 – 7.28.07

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008


 

Bart Vargas, Visual Artist, 7.2.07 – 7.27.07

 

Anderson O'Brien Fine Art, Omaha, NE,  presents TRAJECTORY: New Work by Bart Vargas May 2, 2008 through May 17, 2008. An opening reception with the artist will take place Friday, May 2, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00p.m. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday 10:00a.m. to 5:30p.m. and Saturdays 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. www.aobfineart.com.

Information emailed to KHN in April 2008

 

 

Kelly Sherman, www.kellysherman.net, Visual Artist, 5.14.07 – 6.15.07

In July, 2007 Kelly sent us this news:

I'm currently in residence at the Hall Farm Center in Vermont and then heading to Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska for August. The work that was conceived of and begun there at the KHN Center, I intend to compete while at these other residencies and exhibit at the Julie Chae Gallery in Boston this Fall (2007)

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007

 

Anastasia Ward, Visual Artist  4.30.07 – 6.15.07

I am an Instructor at the Science Museum of Minnesota, and teach 8-13 year olds about basic circuits, computer modeling programs, micro computers, animation, and video game programming. 

Just recently I became Education Coordinator of PIE (Playful Invention and Exploration) funded by the National Science Foundation.  I work with Libraries, Education Facilities, and Art and Science Museums within Minnesota and the Midwest. 

I was part of two group shows in November at the Minnesota Museum of American Art and The Soap Factory.   Both of these shows contained work done at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 

My boyfriend and I received a private commission to spend a Month in Frankfurt, Germany room/board/ and travel paid for. We just got back a couple weeks ago, and had a great time.  It was my first time out of the US. 

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Stephanie Elizondo Griest   Writer,  www.aroundthebloc.com  4.30.07 – 6.15.07\

In the summer and fall of 2007 taught a week-long memoir writing class at the Santa Fe Writer's Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, nearly completed my Mexico memoir at a four-week residency at the Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, went to Portland, Maine to perform at the Stonecoast Writer's Conference.

In January – February  2008 traveling in Mozambique and her book Mexican Enough will be published in August 2008.

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007 and January 2008

 

Susan Murrell, Visual Artist, 4.2.07 – 4.27.07

Since leaving KHN at the end of April I have moved from costal Georgia to Hood River, Oregon in the Columbia River Gorge.  It feels like a time of transition - and time has flown as I have gotten settled into my new home, meeting artists in my area, and figuring out the next step.  In the studio I am currently preparing for a solo exhibition, "Contrive + Classify" at the University of Montana in Missoula in September.  My work during my time at KHN has led me to more experimentation in water-based media and working with the conceptual basis of my installations within a 2-D format.  I am also busy doing research and preparing for the fall classes I will be teaching at Mount Hood Community College.  Other then that . . . enjoying the fabulous summer weather.  Hiking, camping, and soaking in the spectacular views of the Columbia River Gorge.

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007

 

Kevin Wilson, Writer, 3.13.06 – 3.22.06

Kevin Wilson's first collection of stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, is forthcoming in 2009 from Ecco/HarperCollins.  He currently teaches fiction at The University of the South and serves as the Creative Writing Administrator for the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Haran Kim, Visual Artist, 3.5.07 – 4.6.07

I am staying Bloomington. IN now. It is good to be back here where I spent 4 years to finish my graduate program. I've been working on my project at the print shop at Indiana University.  I  was invited to participate in  Hong Kong Graphic Art Festival 2007: Crossing Boundaries. The exhibition  will be in November  2007.  I will go back to Seoul August.5 and keep working on my project.  I will work  on studying  digital media and want to combine the media with printmaking.

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007

 

Andy Douglas, Writer, 2.19.07 – 3.2.07

I’ve been making headway on the memoir I was working on at KHN (Feb. 07). This past fall, I taught a new class at the University of Iowa - “The Spiritual Essay”, allowing students to write about meaning and their spiritual lives. It was a good class. Also, had a piece I revised at KHN accepted into “in situ” an anthology of area writers.

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007

 

Cara Diaconoff, Writer, 2.26.07 – 3.16.07
Currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah., During 2007-2008, I have been a doctoral research fellow in the Tanner Humanities Center at University of Utah, where I've continued to work on my second novel, “Marian Hall.”  The novel is a fictionalized imagining of the life of Elizabeth Bentley, an American Communist and Soviet spy during World War II.  My story collection, “Unmarriageable Daughters,” is due out in 2008 from Lewis-Clark Press (Lewiston, Idaho).  My first novel, “I'll Be a Stranger to You,” continues to seek a publisher; it won first place in the novel category in the 2007 Utah Original Writing Competition, an annual contest sponsored by the Utah Arts Council.  I

nformation emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

David Perez, Writer, 2.19.07 – 4.27.07

Since his six-week residency in the Spring 2007,writer/actor David Perez has continued working on his childhood memoir.  "I'd say it's about 80 percent complete.  I made tremendous progress at KHN, but had to focus on getting a new job once I returned to Taos, New Mexico.  I'm now a journalist/writer for the arts and entertainment magazine of the weekly newspaper here, The Taos News.  I write three-four articles a week, so, yeah, I'm getting paid to write and be published!  But I haven't been able to finish my memoir because of the work load."  David's daughter is getting married so that's taken up time and attention too. But he devotes a few hours a week to completing his book, which he's now envisioning as more a series of stand-alone stories, as opposed to a chronological tale of growing up in the South Bronx. "It's all the process, and the main thing is that I'm extremely happy in my life. And that means everything."

Information emailed to KHN in July 2007

 

Josh Goldman, Musician, http://www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=329  2.19.07 – 4.13.07

After leaving KHN I spent a couple months at the Montana Artists Refuge (Basin, MT) - then a couple months at the Prairie Center of the Arts (Peoria, IL). At the moment I'm living in Cincinnati pursuing a doctoral degree in music composition at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music.

  Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

A. Jacob Galle, Visual Artist, 1.29.07 – 3.23.07

I am headed to Guyana at the end of this month for 10 days to help work on a video project of a good friend. After which I am going to Wyoming for a month residency at Jentel. There I will continue working on my documentary about livestock auctions which I began while in residence at KHN. I am also working on an installation for ARTspace in New Haven, Connecticut which will be opening in November of 2008.

  Information emailed to KHN in February 2008

 

 

Emily Wortman-Wunder, Writer, 1.15.07 – 1.26.07

In May, I was awarded an Artistic Fellowship from Fort Collins Arts Alive.In October, I was a resident at the Colorado Art Ranch in Durango, Colorado, which involved a public reading, lots of community involvement, and participation in the September Durango Artposium. It was a lot of fun!

  Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Jessie Marshall, Writer, 1.15.07 – 2.2.07

Since attending KHN, I participated in residencies at the Gershwin Hotel and the Millay Colony. Last fall I started New York University's MFA program in Creative Writing, and I have a short story forthcoming in the Gettysburg Review.

   Information emailed to KHN in March 2008

 

Stefan Weisman,  Musician  www.stefanweisman.com   1.2.07 – 1.12.07

My composition for the Bang on a Can All Stars was mentioned in the New York Times’ retrospective of 2007’s best new music. (NYT, 12/23/07, Allan Kozinn, “The Spound of the New Is Heard All Over”). I had a one act opera commissioned by London-based Second Movement opera company for Summer 2008. This fall I was a guest composer at the University of Southern Maine. This summer, my opera “Darkling” was performed in Berlin, Germany and Gniezno, Poland.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Greg Singer, Visual Artist, www.gregsinger.net , 11.27.06 – 12.15.06

 I was in a juried show called Texas National Art Competition.  Next month I will be attending a residency at Vermont Studio Center.  Other than that I've just been making work and trying to survive New York City. 

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Kim Roberts, Writer, http://www.kimroberts.org 11.20.06 – 12.15.06

Kim Roberts has published her second book of poems, The Kimnama, from Vrzhu Press.  More information can be found on her website: http://www.kimroberts.org.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Andrea Clearfield, Musician, www.internationalopus.com/Andrea_Clearfield

10.30.06 – 11.24.06

Andrea Clearfield, composer, had a premiere of her violin concerto, Romanza, composed at KHN in the fall of 2006, in April, 2007 in Philadelphia.  The work was commissioned by Orchestra 2001 and premiered by Orchestra 2001, Gloria Justen, soloist, under the direction of James Freeman, Artistic Director. 

She also worked on her choral cantata to the poetry of Robert Frost, Fire and Ice, while in residence.  The 50 minute work for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the Handel Society of Dartmouth College on the occasion of their 200 Year Anniversary and was premiered in May, 2007 at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth under the direction of Robert Duff, Music Director.

She is currently working on commissions for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Network for New Music, Dolce Suono and The Turtle Creek Chorale.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Hugh Lifson, Visual Artist, 10.16.06 – 11.24.06

I’m working away, but at a slower pace—due in part to some illnesses in the family, but paintings and drawings are getting done. May goal is a local show at a local gallery, next year. I’m also showing in some other local galleries in their group shows.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Shoshana Brand, Visual Artist,  http://www.shoshanabrand.org 10.2.06 – 10.13.06

 

Shoshana continues to create installations and multi-media. This project is her first documentary.

The Documentary "Building a Home In the Antelope Valley. What Is Home? Where Is Home?", directed by the artist Shoshana Brand, will be screened in Pete Knight High School Theater in Palmdale, Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 1 PM.

   This documentary video tells the stories of people who have come to the Antelope Valley to build their homes. Five members of the older generation and six youths present their stories. They focus on the process of building a house and how a house becomes a home.

   The 45 -minute project has been funded in part by a grant from the CA Council for the Humanities as part of the council's statewide CA Stories Initiative. www.californiastories.org

   For more details go to http://www.contemporarymap.org/artprojects.html and scroll to the bottom.

 

Information emailed to KHN in March 2008

 

 

Eric Wilson, Visual Artist, 9.4.06 – 10.28.06

March, 2008, group show at Ozarks Technical Community College; Springfield, MO

June – July 2008, collaborative Show with Bryce Spped: ‘A Different Place to Dwell’ at the Bemis

Underground; Omaha, NE

August 2008, Alumni Exhibition at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Justin Quarry, Writer, 9.4.06 – 9.29.06

Since my residency at KHN in September 2006, I have received fellowships at Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation, and this summer I will be the Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando.  A story I began while at KHN--and set, in part, in Nebraska--will be published in the fall issue of TriQuarterly; I have another story forthcoming in the spring issue of Sou'wester.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Laurie Stone    Writer,  8.28.06 – 10.2.06

Laurie has had recent residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and Djerassi. Her essay "A Hand on the Neck" is included in the anthology The Other Woman (Warner, 2007). She is currently teaching an Interterm creative writing workshop at Chapman University in Orange, Ca. She will be returning to Nebraska, which she very much enjoyed during her KHN residency, next fall to give a reading and workshop at Creighton University in Omaha.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Benjamin S. Jones, Visual Artist, www.benjaminsjones.com, 8.7.06 – 9.2.06

I've been hard at work since my time at the KHN. Please take a look at my website to see some new work. Some of the work that I began at the KHN was in a solo show at ADA Gallery in Richmond, Va in April 2007. In 2007 I also taught sculpture at both Virginia Commonwealth University in RIchmond and Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Jerry Bleem, Visual Artist, 7.31.06 – 8.25.06

I was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.  It's my 5th grant; appreciated and already being put to use!

   Information emailed to KHN March 2008

 

Bonnie J. Rough, Writer, 7.10.06 – 7.22.06

Bonnie has received a 2007 McKnight Artist Fellowship in Creative Prose, a 2007 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, and a 2008 Minnesota Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.  She is currently completing her memoir about genetic heredity.  Recent essays have appeared in Isotope, Brevity, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007. New essays are forthcoming from Nightsun and The Sun magazine.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Colleen Abel, Writer, 6.19.06 – 7.29.06

 In terms of my work, I have had poems recently in Heliotrope, The Evansville Review, Salamander and Regarding Arts and Letters. Poems will appear in upcoming issues of Eclipse, the Hawaii’s Pacific Review, and The Notre Dame Review. I was recently awarded a residency at a writer's retreat in Southern Italy, and will spend part of May '08 there. My postcard collaboration with my husband, Tim, a visual artist, was recently exhibited at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Marcie (Lenke) Paper, Visual Artist, www.marciepaper.com 6.5.06 – 7.1.06

My new name is Marcie Paper (former  name,  Marcie Lenke) , and my website is www.marciepaper.com

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Magalie Guerin, Visual Artist, www.magalieguerin.com,  5.1.06 - 6.10.06

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Matthew Dehaemers, Visual Artist, www.matthewdehaemers.com, 4.3.06 – 4.28.06

Matthew’s most recent work will be shown at the  Kansas City Flate Files Exhibition at the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute(16 East 43rd Street KCMO) February 23 - April 5, 2008

  Information emailed to KHN in February 2008

 

Deirdre Shaw, Writer, www.deirdreshaw.com   4.3.06 – 4.22.06

 My first novel will be published by Random House in Spring 2009.  I wrote part of it during my residency at the KHN Center in April 2006.  I had such a lovely time during my residency; I got a lot of good work done and met so many wonderful people

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Lauren O'Leary, Writer, 3.6.06 – 4.1.06

I'm a short fiction writer who was a KHN resident in March of 2006.  Since staying with you kind folks, my news includes finishing my second Master's degree - this one in Fine Arts - from the University of Nebraska Omaha in July 2007 (where I studied under the talented Karen Gettert Shoemaker another former resident!).   Upon completion of my degree, I accepted a faculty position at Quinnipiac University outside of New Haven, Connecticut.  As an assistant professor there, I am teaching both academic and creative writing and thoroughly enjoying myself.  KHN was one of the highlights of my writing endeavors and I often think of my time there as I search for a quiet place to write now that I am living only about an hour outside of bustling, rustling New York City!

         Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Justin Chin, Writer, www.redroom.com/author/justin-chin, 2.6.06 – 2.18.06

The book of poems I was working on whilst in residency, Gutted, went to press later that year (2006), and in 2007, it won the Publishing Triangle's 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Poetry, and was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Assoc. of Asian American Studies Book Awards.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Virginia Spiegel, Visual Artist, www.virginiaspiegel.com  11.13.05 – 12.4.05

Blog:  http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/blog/
The Garbage Day Project:  http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/GarbageDayProject/
Fiberart For A Cause:   http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/NewFiles/ACSFundraiser.html

After an exciting 2007 in which I completed a month-long artist residency and a solo show, my artwork will be showing in 2008 at ArtQuilt Elements (Wayne Art Center, PA), Translations Gallery in Denver, Real Tart Gallery in New Zealand, juried and invitational Studio Art Quilt Associate exhibits at International Quilt Festival – Chicago and International Quilt Festival – Long Beach, and as part of the International Fiber Collaborative installation in New York. I continue to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Current fundraisers for Fiberart For A Cause include my online book, “Art, Nature, Creativity, Life.”

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Joseph Kudirka, Musician, 10.31.05 – 12.10.05

I had such a fabulous and productive time as a resident at KHN and sincerely hope I get a chance to come back some day.  Pieces I wrote while there in 2005 have since been performed in Los Angeles, Switzerland (one in Basel and two in Bern - the ones in Bern were part of a 50 retrospective of experimental music, performed by Ensemble Neue Horizonte Bern) and Ostrava, Czech Republic (las year, as part of the biannual Ostrava New Music Days festival) - that's just off the top of my head.... there have probably been performances in other cities too.

    In October of last year I started work as a postgraduate researcher in music at the University of Huddersfield, in England.  I'm really happy there, have a great contract, and If I meet all of my deadlines, I'll have a Ph.D. when I'm done with it.  I'm having good luck getting my works performed in the US and Europe, and am happy to have the first performance of a piece of mine in New Zealand, later this month.  Unfortunately I don't have a website to give you a link to.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Dan Giese, Visual Artist www.dangiese.com  10.17.05 – 10.29.05

I currently have work up in a group exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Arts. The Winter Salon there is, for me a New York debut in the galleries. Obviously I'm happy about the exposure  this allows me. Aside from that, I reside and continue my studio practice in Brooklyn, NY for the time being. I have a new body of work that is coming into its own, and I plan to show it off at my next opportunity.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Anna Mantzaris, Writer, www.annamantzaris.net, 10.3.05 – 10.29.05

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Kelly Madigan Erlandson , Writer, www.KellyMadiganErlandson.com 9.12.05 – 9.23.05

Kelly received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for 2008. Her book, Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days, was released in September 2007 and has gone to a second printing. The final portions of the book were completed during a KHN residency. Kelly has a poem in the recently released anthology, Best New Poets 2007.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Christina Marsh, Visual Artist, 8.15.05 – 10.8.05

 

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/lynchburg/article/edible_art_display_to_open_in_lynchburg/6913/

 

http://www.wset.com/news/stories/0308/502172.html

 

http://www.csfineartscenter.org/2008/01/interview-with-altered-space-artist.html

     Information emailed to KHN in March 2008

 

Mary Mazziotti, Visual Artist, 7.4.05 – 7.30.05

 http://www.pittsburghartistregistry.org/marymazziotti

An exhibit of miniature watercolor paintings at the Borelli-Edwards Gallery in Pittsburg, PA in 2006. Her work is also represented at O.K. Harris Works of Art in New York City. She had exhibits in Copenhagen, Denmark, Erie, PA, Grand Rapids MI and San Francisco, CA in 2006. In December 2007 she spent a month at the St. James Cavalier Center for Creativity in Malta.

Information mailed to KHN 2006 and 2007

 

Kristen Martincic, Visual Artist, kristen@kmartincic.com, 6.20.05 – 7.2.05

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Jee Leong Koh, Writer, http://jeeleong.blogspot.com  6.13.05 – 6.25.05 

I remember my time at KHN with great fondness. Reading Cather's The Professor's House there seemed strikingly appropriate.

Some news from me: My poetry chapbook Payday Loans was published in April 2007 (Poets Wear Prada Press). Marie Howe says, "Smart, irreverent, often unnerving, these sonnets smirk, smile, argue and bless. Jee Leong Koh has taken a month of days and rendered a very contemporary version of the artist as a young man." My poem "Brother" was selected by Natasha Trethewey for the Best New Poets 2007 anthology, published by the University of Virginia Press. And, most recently, my work has been anthologized in Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia, edited by John Kinsella and Alvin Pang. I blog at http://jeeleong.blogspot.com, and welcome comments on my writing there.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Leslie Pietrzyk, Writer, www.lesliepietrzyk.com, 5.9.05 – 5.21.05

It seems like so long ago that I had the pleasure of spending time at the KHN Center...but happily, I am in the process of the final revisions on the novel ms. I was working on while there.  If all goes well (though does it ever?) I will be sending my third novel out into the world in the late spring. I guess my news of interest might be that for the past year, I have been writing a blog, Work in Progress, that explores the writing life and the creative process.  Along with my own thoughts, I also feature guest essays by writers at various stages of their career, so that makes for a lively mix.  Here's the link--www.workinprogressinprogress.blogspot.com/--and I welcome readers as well as writers/artists who might be interested in submitting a guest essay.

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Susan Field, Visual Artist, www.susanfield.net, 4.4.05 – 4.30.05

Information emailed to KHN in January 2008

 

Nancy Krygowski, Writer, 3.7.05 – 4.2.05

In 2006 her poetry manuscript, which she worked on at KHN, was awarded the Starrett Poetry Prize. It was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Fall 2007

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Jess Witte, Visual Artist, http://www.jessicawitte.com    2.7.05 – 4.2.05

I am currently teaching design and drawing classes at Waubonsee Community College and serving as Coordinator of Education and Public Relations at the NIU Art Museum. I will have some exhibition news and dates coming soon, once I go to some meetings in the next few weeks.  I miss Nebraska City, and the KHN.  It will be wonderful to get to link up with other residents via their websites. 

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Mark Epstein, Visual Artist, 2.7.05 – 3.5.05

Solo Show: 2007 The Hex, The Modern Way With Color Contains Clashes as well as Harmonies, London. Group Shows: 2007     Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, Eye Tricks, South Orange, NJ, Boston Center for the Arts, Drawing the Line, Boston, MA, Romanian Academy, Spazi Aperti, Rome. Residencies:   2007   Macdowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH,Jentel Artist Residency, Lower Piney Creek, WY. Bibliography: Greg Cook, Sketch Artists, The Boston Phoenix, November 20, 2007

I don't have a website but I am included in the Drawing Center's curated online registry. I think of KHN and Nebraska City all the time--I'd really love to make it back there at some point.

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Vivienne Plumb, Writer, 11.8.04 – 11.22.04

I have been busier and busier since my time at Iowa and Nebraska in 2004. Last year my new play 'The Cape' opened in August in Wellington, and it now doing the rounds of all the major New Zealand towns. It opens in Auckland on Feb 8th. I am presently working on a new commissioning for another play for the Auckland Theatre Company. My book of poems about the Kerikeri Mission House in the Bay of Islands has just come out, entitled 'From Darkness to Light' it is about this house where the early missionaries lived, a place of first contact between Europeans and Maori. It has been published by the N.Z. Historic Places Trust who administer the

site.  Later this year I will be reading at the Cuirt International Literature Festival in Galway, Ireland, and visiting Poland where I will also give readings with my friend the Polish poet, Adam Wiedemann.  Vivienne Plumb,Auckland, New Zealand

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Eduardo Santiere, Visual Artist 3.29.04 – 5.1.04

Now in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From January 25 through March 30, 2008 I will participate in the group exhibition “Blown Away” at the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. From February 22 through April 26, 2008. Solo show at Haim Chanin Fine Arts, 121 West 19th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY

   Information emailed to KHN in March 2008

 

Linda Byrne, Visual Artist 3.1.04 – 3.27.04

Has work in 2 shows - "End of Nature" in Washington, DC April 11 – May 4, 2008

 ( www.warehousetheater.com  ) and "Women's Voices, Women's Vision", a concert and art show at St. Mark's Church in NY April 11, 2008. ( www.musiquealamode.com )

     Information emailed to KHN in April 2008

 

Rick Dula, Visual Artist, 10.6.03 – 11.1.03,

An exhibit at the George Billis Gallery in New York City Nov. 6 – Dec. 8, 2007

Information mailed to KHN in January 2007

 

Rob Scheps, Musician, www.robscheps.8m.net    8.16.03 – 8.27.03

Still Bi-Coastal between Portland, OR & NYC. He plays regularly with Oregon Symphony, The Rob Scheps-Core-tet, and the Rob Scheps Big Band. Rob did 3 CDs for the Norwegian label Jazzcode." In The Moment" and "Codes For Christmas" have been released. Rob's CD of original jazz, "Global Citizens", will be released ca. March 2008. He  performed recently with Liza Minnelli ( Vancouver,BC) ; Billy Hart ( NYC) ; Hadley Caliman(Seattle) ; Glen Moore ( Portland) ; and Roy McCurdy( Los Angeles). Rob Toured to Berlin,Oslo, and Bergen  with drummer Carl Stormer.

www.jazzcode.org  Find information about shows, watch the new documentary + free song downloads www.robscheps.8m.net www.halevymusic.com (MP3's)

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Michaela Ross, Visual Artist, www.michaelaross.com  8.25.03 – 9.6.03

I'd be really glad to have my info on the website. I still remember those few weeks in Nebraska . Updates on my work can be found at: www.michaelaross.com

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Joey Jang, Visual Artist, 6.30.03 – 7.26.03

I joined a painting club named Jen-syang in Taiwan and we're going to have a group show in Spain this year. I'm preparing for it.

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Kirsten Furlong, Visual Artist, www.kirstenfurlong.com     6.16.03 – 6.28.03

I am currently the Gallery Director at the Visual Arts Center at Boise State University in Boise, ID.  I have two upcoming exhibitions of my work:  in March 2008 at the John B. Davis Gallery at Idaho State University Pocatello, ID and in July 2008 at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Hailey, ID.

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Erika Dreifus, Writer, http://www.practicing-writer.com    6.9.03 – 6.21.03

I will send you a news update in due course, but in the meantime, here are the links to my Practicing Writer Web site and Practicing Writing blog (respectively): http://www.practicing-writer.com http://practicing-writing.blogspot.com

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Susan Brasch, Visual Artist, www.susanjbrasch.com   4.22.02 – 4.27.02
My present work is a series called "Tesselations" abstract designs based on triangles and squares and accompanied by another series called: "Morphics" You will see that most of the work on the website is realistic in nature and I will not be putting my new work on the site for another year or so.  But, you are welcome if ever in Lincoln, to please come by my studio in the Burkholder Project, 719 P. St.,or call if you have moment when you know that you will be in the area (423-6945(h) or 474-4080(studio).  I would love to see you and you can see how these new abstract series are developing. I am in most weekdays and usually work Sat. mornings.

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Greg Wortham, Visual Artist,  http://www.ronin3.com     2002

It is good to hear from KHN!. I was one of the first to be a resident there. I was able to get work done that I would not have if I hadn’t had the generous support. The results are now located in downtown Lincoln at St. Marks on Campus.Currently I teach as an adjunct professor at Florida Southern College as well as teach at Ridge Community High School in Davenport, FL. I had a one man show last year and am looking for other opportunities nearby. My web site is http://www.ronin3.com  as well as hosted on another site http://bukwessul.deviantart.com/ which is a bit more informal.

    Information emailed to KHN in January 2008