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Writers relaxing and chatting during open studio

Writers relaxing and chatting during open studio

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Here you will find a list of previous Artist in Residents from 2009. A list from 2008 is also available.

Session One, June 2 – June 28, 2009

Artists

  • Michelle Given: Photography and video artist living in Bloomington, Indiana.
  • Ariel Gout: Born and raised in Paris, France, Ariel moved to Boston in 2005 to do research. She recently graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and works abstractly.
  • Yeowoon Kim: Work and live in Seoul, Korea. Graduated Seoul National University major in fine art–painting. Held several solo exhibitions, a number of group exhibitions in Korea and USA. Museum of Korean Buddhist Art has my work for their collection. I work with earnest and deep subjects to tell about us, humans.
  • Ruth Sproul: Painter living in Ithaca, New York. Avery Fellow recipient. *
  • Michelle Seigei Spark: Painter living in Phoenicia, New York.

* Funded by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation for a visual artist. Fellowship includes $700 stipend and a waiver of the session fee. This will be the first Avery Fellowship to be awarded for the 2009 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program.

Writers

  • Merrill Feitell: Merrill Feitell's first book, Here Beneath Low–Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for short fiction. She is at work on a novel, Any Minute Now, and teaches in the MFA Program at University of Maryland in College Park.
  • Suzanne Johnstone: Writer living in Princeton, NJ.
  • Jeanne Larsen: Poet living in Roanoke, Virginia.
  • Octavia Randolph: Working on a novel about eminent Victorian John Ruskin, who was an inspiration to Ralph Whitehead in creating Byrdcliffe.
  • Brian T. Silberman: Brian Silberman’s plays include Manifest, a recipients of the 1998 Clauder Prize and the 2003 Pinter Review Prize for Drama and published by the University of Tampa Press, Walkin’ Backward, which appears in the anthology “Best American Short Plays of 2001,” Salvage Bass, anthologized in “New American Short Plays 2005,” Capgras Delusion, Chattanooga: a series of monologues for a solo performer, The Yip, Throw Sugar Down Billie Hoak, Feral Music, Half Court, Retrenchment, and The Gospel According to Toots Pope. Selections from both Half Court and Sugar Down Billie Hoak appear in Smith and Kraus’s “Best Stage Scenes of 1995,” and “Best Women’s Monologues of 1995.” He teaches in the Theatre Department at Franklin and Marshall College and is currently at work on a new play entitled The Romeo and Juliet is Sarajevo.

Session Two, June 30 – July 26, 2009

Artists

All of the visual artists this session are Pollock Krasner Award recipients. Visual artists receive a $1,000 stipend, free tuition and the opportunity to work with this year's Byrdcliffe master artist, Gregory Amenoff.

  • Gwen Fabricant: Lives and works in New York City. Educated at Cooper Union Art School and Brooklyn College. (BA 1955). Teaching: Most recently at Sarah Lawrence College and National Academy School of Art.
  • Susan Harrington: Artist living in Fort Worth, Texas.
  • Essye Klempner: Artist living in New York, NY.
  • Katerina Lanfranco: Lives and works in NYC. Katerina holds an M.F.A. in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting from Hunter College, City University of New York. Her recent solo show, "Below a Sea of Stars" was exhibited at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, in New York, earlier this year. She is the recipient of the 2010–2011 N.E.A and US/Japan Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship to study traditional arts in Japan for 6 months. Her work combines nature, fantasy and science.
  • Nathania Rubin: Nathania Rubin currently lives in New York City where she was born. She makes psychologically and philosophically dense animations. She is also a musician.

Writers

  • Eugenie Chan: Playwright living in San Francisco, California. Handel Fellowship recipient*
  • Iris Marble Cushing: Iris grew up in Northern California. She has received the Suzanne Tito Prize for Poetry, a fellowship from the Frederick Sommer Foundation, and “Alligator Juniper’s” National Nonfiction Prize. Iris has worked on the editorial staff of Artinfo.com. She lives in New York and is a MFA candidate in the Poetry Program at Columbia University.
  • Thomas Lysaught: Tom Lysaght has written plays in both English and Spanish, which have been produced from Off–Broadway to Andean villages. In Peru he was founding director and playwright of El Teatro de Pan y Paz, whose “social drama” aliressed local health issues through use of masks, stilts and 15–foot high puppets. In recent years, he has made three trips to Tamil Nadu in southern India to assist in launching a similar theatre project. As a member of the Baha'i international community, he makes bi–annual trips to South Africa as a visiting artist and ambassador of good will. He makes his home in Los Angeles, where he teaches memoir writing and scriptwriting at Brentwood School.
  • Lawrence Smith: Writer of Fiction living in New York State.
  • Laura Woltag: Playwright living in Berkeley, California. *

* Established in 2007, The Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwright Fellowship encourages the creative development of playwrights by enabling them to set aside time to pursue their work in an unstructured atmosphere at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, NY. The Fellowship annually provides a $700 stipend that includes tuition.

Session Three, July 28 – August 23, 2009

Artists

  • Kathy A. Budd: Sculptor living in Oswego, New York.
  • Sarah Faux: Originally from Massachusetts, is a recent graduate of both Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design. She holds a B.A. in the History of Art and a B.F.A. in painting, respectively. She is currently a nomadic painter, traveling from Fez, Morocco to Woodstock, NY in search of a collective visual unconcious.
  • Elissa Gore: Paints large, atmospheric landscapes. She exhibits widely with New York solo shows at Markel Fine Arts (2000, 2002), at Allen Sheppard Gallery (1998, 2005) During this residency, she will work on paintings for a solo show at Viviana Hansen Gallery, Delhi NY that is scheduled for September 2009. Her works are included in over fifty corporate and public collections. Over the past 20 years, she has taught at Lehman College, Pace University, Parsons School of Design. She now paints full–time and occasionally teaches at the New York Botanical Garden. Her studio is in northern Manhattan.
  • Zachary Keeting: Born in Germany (1973), Zachary Keeting lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his BFA from Alfred University in 1995, and his MFA from Boston University in 1998. Keeting has participated in numerous residency programs including The Millay Colony, The Santa Fe Art Institute, The Montana Artists Refuge, and The Woodstock School of Art. He has shown his work in group and solo exhibitions nationally (Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Boston) and internationally (Ottawa, Ontario and Dusseldorf, Germany). He was the recipient of an Amici Scholarship in 2006. Keeting recently published paintings in volume 4 of Studio Visit Magazine. He currently teaches painting at The Educational Center for the Arts.
  • Erin O'Brien: Painter living in Brooklyn, New York.

Writers

  • Zinnia Gupte: Fiction writer living in San Francisco, California.
  • Lisa Interollo: Writer, living in New York, NY. Former resident.
  • Adam Kraar: Plays include New World Rhapsody (Manhattan Theatre Club commission); The Spirit House (premiered at Performance Network of Ann Arbor); The Abandoned El (Illinois Theatre Center); Freedom High (Queens Theatre in the Park), and Empire of the Trees (finalist, Stanley Drama Award). His plays have been produced and developed by Ensemble Studio, Primary Stages, N.Y. Stage and Film, N.Y. Shakespeare Festival, The Lark, Urban Stages, Theatreworks U.S.A, Geva Theatre and others. Plays published by: Applause Books, Dramatic Publishing and Smith and Kraus. Awards: Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship, Inge Center Residency, Handel Playwright Fellowship, Manhattan Theatre Club fellowship. M.F.A., Columbia University. Adam grew up in India, Thailand, Singapore and the U.S.
  • Ginny MacKenzie: Ginny MacKenzie is a poet and fiction writer. Her book of poems, Skipstone, won the 2002 Backwaters Press Award (a national book competition) judged by Hilda Raz, editor of Prairie Schooner. Excerpts from her novel, Sleeping with Gypsies have appeared in New Letters, the American Literary Review, the Crab Orchard Review (winner of the John Cuyon Literary award) Caesura (winner of the annual fiction award) and the Wisconsin Review. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, and the Mississippi Review.
  • Ian M. Riggs: Musician/Composer living in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Emma Sweeney: Studied English at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her teaching and writing career has taken her as far a field as South East Asia, Japan and India. She is Writer–in–Residence at New York University in London, and also runs undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing programs at Cambridge University, City University and the Open University. Emma has won various prizes for her first novel, including an Arts Council Writer’s Award, a Royal Literary Fund Bursary, and writer’s residencies in Cambridge, Dublin and Barcelona. She is also an award–winning short story writer, recently short–listed for both the prestigious International Fish Prize and the Asham Award (Britain’s foremost short story prize for women writers). Emma is currently working on her first collection of short stories and her second novel. She is represented by Greene and Heaton Literary Agency.

Session Four, August 25 – September 20, 2009

Artists

  • Maria Britton: Maria Britton paints on old floral bed sheets. In her work, the floral patterns are disrupted, restructured, and buried by her own improvisational visual language. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina and has a studio nearby in Durham.
  • Elissa Gore: Paints large, atmospheric landscapes. She exhibits widely with New York solo shows at Markel Fine Arts (2000, 2002), at Allen Sheppard Gallery (1998, 2005) During this residency, she will work on paintings for a solo show at Viviana Hansen Gallery, Delhi NY that is scheduled for September 2009. Her works are included in over fifty corporate and public collections. Over the past 20 years, she has taught at Lehman College, Pace University, Parsons School of Design. She now paints full–time and occasionally teaches at the New York Botanical Garden. Her studio is in northern Manhattan.
  • Barbara Laube: Barbara Laube lives and paints in Riverdale NY. Barbara is most grateful to have studied with Joop Sanders . She just returned from a fellowship at Vermont Studio School.
  • Alex O'Neal: Originally from Mississippi, Alex O'Neal has lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY, since 1998. His paintings and drawings have been shown at Exit Art, New York; ART LA; Herbert Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; Rockefeller Art Center, SUNY Fredonia; Chicago Cultural Center; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; P.S.122, New York; and Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta. The artist has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Camargo Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Tennessee Arts Commission. Alex O'Neal is represented by Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago.
  • Amy Talluto: Painter living in Brooklyn, New York. The William R. Ginsberg Fellowship recipient*
  • Caroline Wright: Painter living in Austin, Texas.

* The William R. Ginsberg Fellowship provides free tuition for an emerging painter.

Writers

  • Molly Birnbaum: Writer living in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Nicholas Boggs: Received his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in Creative Writing at American and his PhD in English from Columbia. He is currently working on a novel and a non–fiction book about James Baldwin.
  • Aimee Lutkin: Aimee is a graduate of the Cooper Union, where she studied visual arts, primarily video and photography. She currently writes plays with NYC public school students, works with experimental theater company The Wooster Group, and makes sandwiches in a vegan restaurant downtown.
  • Mingxin Yu: Composer living in Shanghai, China.