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  • Deadline was March 01, 2010
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  • Each four week session is limited to 10 individuals. The cost per session is $300 USD. Candidates may apply for additional weeks in the event a space becomes available. (Learn more...)

AIR Artist and an Open Studio guest discuss a painting

AIR Artist and an Open Studio guest discuss a painting

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Each four week session is limited to 10 individuals. The cost per session is $300 USD. Candidates may apply for additional weeks if space becomes available. Each session concludes with an Open Studio Tour on the last Friday of each session starting at 5:00 pm

Session I

Session I: June 1 – June 27, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, June 25, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

  • Originally from Southern California, Daniel Atyim received a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and an MFA from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY. Along with participating in several group shows across the country, his solo exhibitions include The Heyde Art Center, Chippewa Falls, WI; Coker College, Hartsville, SC; the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY and the Parks Gallery, Taos, NM. Currently living and making stuff in Eau Claire, WI, he teaches Drawing and Foundation Design classes at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie, WI.
  • Yvonne Buchanan's media works have been screened at Slamdance International Film Festival, Syracuse International Film Festival, Everson Museum of Art, Squeaky Wheel, Hammer Museum/UCLA, Munson Williams Proctor Museum, San Francisco Black Film Festival, and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. She teaches Illustration and drawing at Syracuse University.
  • Brian Chu has BFA and MFA degrees from Queens College, City University of New York, and is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Hampshire. He has shown widely in New York City, California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and throughout New England.
  • Hyeon Jung Kim is a Korean American Artist who studied at University of London at Goldsmiths College, and graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her transition from Korea to America has been conflated with her transition from a girl into a woman. The clash of these identities caused a great deal of confusion during her teenage years. As this unfamiliarity was expanding her perceptions, the confusion became located in objects. Her studio practice, which emphasizes repetitive action, is a way to process these transitions, both in terms of the thinking behind each piece and the meditative process of its production. This dual focus on material and process is a way for her to embed something intangible, the value of hard work or a personal memory, into an art object.
  • Dan Schein is a 24 year old painter living in Philadelphia. Just finished first year of graduate school at the Tyler School of Art

Writers

  • Poet Iris Marble Cushing grew up in Northern California and now lives in Brooklyn. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University, and is an editor for Argos Books. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Alligator Juniper, No, Dear and You Must Be This Tall to Ride.
  • In 1966, when she was 14 years old, Suzanne Johnstone was sent to what was advertised as a progressive school modeled after Summerhill in England. In reality it was a snake pit sunk in the Florida swamps, housed in an abandoned monastery, and run by a mad man known to locals as Little Jesus. That’s where her story starts. Ms. Johnstone currently lives in New Jersey, and is working on a memoir and performance monologues.
  • An excerpt from Octavia Randolph's newly completed novel about the eminent Victorian John Ruskin was published in the Spring 2010 Narrative Magazine. She returns to Byrdcliffe in revision on "Ruskin" and to work on a new and interlinked novel about the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal.
  • Bethany Saltman lives and writes in Phoenicia, NY with her husband and 4 year old daughter. Her poems can be seen in journals like New York Quarterly, Witness, Nimrod and Spoon River, and her non-fiction can be seen in magazines like Parents, Body + Soul, The Sun.
  • Ken Urban’s plays have been produced and developed at SPF @ The Public, The Flea, Wlliamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Huntington, Theatre of NOTE, Open Circle Theater, and Soho Rep. Winner of the 2008 Weissberger Playwriting Award for his play SENSE OF AN ENDING, a 2007 Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, a 2009 Writers’ Room of Boston Emerging Writers Fellowship and two summer MacDowell Colony Fellowships. His plays are featured in the anthologies Plays and Playwrights 2002, Boston Playwrights Marathon XI, New York Theatre Review as well as numerous monologue collections. Ken currently lives in Cambridge, MA and teaches at Harvard University.

Session II*

* Session II is when we have the Byrdcliffe Master Artist Program. This project is supported in part by a grant from the The Pollock–Krasner Foundation.

Session II: June 29 – July 25, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, July 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 3 pm there will be an Artist Lecture with Byrdcliffe Master Artist, Joan Snyder. Joan will give a talk in conjunction with our Artist in Residence Program and the 2010 Pollock–Krasner artists in the Kleinert/James Arts Center. FREE!

September 19 - October, 16, 2010 • Pollock-Krasner Recipients from Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program, organized by exhibition committee member, Katharine Umsted. Opening Reception: Sunday, September 19, from 12:00 - 2:00 pm

Artists

  • Cate Holt's work includes abstract paintings and temporary installations. Last year she participated in the SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media. A graduate of the Hartford Art School, she works in Brooklyn NY and lives in Putnam County NY
  • Born in Cleveland, Ohio (1986), Joshua Kaplan lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned his BFA from Syracuse University in 2008 and will be attending Hunter College for his MFA in the Fall. His work has been exhibited in Cleveland, New York City, Syracuse, Chautauqua, Indiana, Maryland and Italy.
  • Lindsay Packer is a New York-based artist whose work ranges from collage to installation and writing. She received an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design. The recipient of a 2002 Fulbright Fellowship in installation art, Packer traveled to India to study site-specific ephemeral imagery in both sacred and secular contexts. Since then, she has found, remembered and invented in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Heather Ramsdale
  • Laura Splan is a Brooklyn, NY based mixed media artist. She received an MFA from Mills College (Oakland, CA). Her work explores perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery as a point of departure to explore these dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. She often combines the visual vocabulary of science with that of domesticity and decorum.

Writers

  • Matthew Aquilone was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Vassar College and of the Masters Creative Writing Program at NYU. His fiction and poetry have been seen in Christopher Street, RFD, and this years Census anthology from Seven Towers, Dublin, as well as other journals and online. He is also this summer the recipient of a residency from the Edward Albee Foundation.
  • Nora Boxer received her MA in Creative Writing from UT Austin in 2010. A fiction writer and poet, she is the 2010 recipient of UT's Keene Prize for Literature for her short story "It's the song of the nomads, baby; or, Pioneer". Nora is developing a sustainable energy, urban arts residency in Oakland, CA, with an anticipated opening date in 2011. She is currently at work on a novel.
  • Joshua Butts is a poet living, teaching and writing in Columbus, OH. His poems have appeared in journals such a Quarterly West, Ellipses, Sonora Review and The Hat. A chapbook, To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar, was published in 2006 with Pudding House.
  • Nicholas Garnett is a writer/teacher/student living in Miami Beach, Florida. His memoir, STRAIGHT GUY, is currently with an agent being shopped to publishers.
  • Elizabeth L. Silver holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has taught ESL in Costa Rica, worked in book publishing in New York, was an adjunct professor of English composition and literature at Drexel University and St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, a Research Attorney for the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, and is licensed to practice law in the state of California. She is currently working on a novel set on Death Row.

Session III

Session III: July 27 – August 22, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

  • Born on a farm in Quebec, Canada, Jane Corrigan received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2003, and MFA from Purchase College in 2009. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
  • Anabel Giladi
  • Katharine Hopkins
  • Essye Klempner (b. 1984 – Louisville, KY) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2006, and is attending Hunter College for her MFA in Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
  • William Knight
  • Ian Riggs is a bassist, composer, singer and guitarist who performs and records in and out of New York City with a wide range of artists. Among them are Howard Fishman, Ethan Lipton, One Ring Zero, Blarvuster, Hilary Hawke, Likeness to Lily, The Lonesome Trio, and Giancarlo Vulcano. He has composed music for a variety of theatrical works and for Adrian Muys’ films, “Iris” and “Hands of Harvest”.
  • Michelle Spark

Writers

  • Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, working toward her M.F.A. in poetry, with a secondary concentration in fiction. She holds a B.A. from The University of Chicago and an M.A.T. from Dominican University, and for ten years, she taught high school creative writing, literature, Spanish, and Spanish literature. She will attend a residency at the Hambidge Center in Georgia this May. Her poems recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Review, Apparatus Magazine, Exact Change Only and Front Porch.
  • Lisa Interollo
  • Nick Jones is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer. Produced plays include: Jollyship the Whiz–Bang (A Pyrate Puppet Rock Odyssey), Straight Up Vampire: A History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul, Little Building, The Coward, The Sporting Life (with Rachel Shukert) and The Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon (with Rachel Shukert). He is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, where he was a recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.
  • Christa Parravani is a writer/ photographer. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. She's a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. Her photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. She's represented by Randall Scott Gallery in NY and by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
  • Phoebe Reeves teaches at Clermont College in southern Ohio. You can find her recent or forthcoming work in The Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Memorious, and Quarterly West. Her chapbook The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, published by Pecan Grove Press, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Clifton, Ohio with her husband Don.
  • Rochelle Spencer received her MFA from New York University, and she has been a fellow with the Vermont Studio Center and a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Film Writers Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. Currently, Rochelle teaches at LaGuardia Community College. You can reach her at www.twitter.com/rochellespencer.

Session IV

Session IV: August 24 – September 19, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

  • Tatiana Berg
  • John Humphries: Having completed degrees in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design and a foray as a saucier and metalsmith, Mr. Humphries is a visual artist, gardener, and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of photo/watercolor constructions, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are a personal narrative coded in a tragic myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences.

    Significant exhibitions have been at the Dorothy Reed Gallery and Weston Galleries [Cincinnati, Ohio], Gallery See [Atlanta, Georgia], Rosewood Gallery [Kettering, Ohio], and Arlington Museum of Art [Arlington, Texas].
  • Helma Kuijper lives and works in Alkmaar, Holland. She studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague painting drawing and sculpture. In 2005 she worked for three months in the European Ceramic Working Centre in Den Bosch in Holland. Her work is purchased by the ministry of economics and the ministry of agriculture and fishing in The Hague. She worked in Woodstock last year as one of the ten artist in residence from Holland for the Ulster Country Hudson 400 Celebration.
  • Caroline McAuliffe
  • Courtney Puckett lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an M.F.A from Hunter College and a B.F.A from Maryland Institute College. Puckett also studied in Glasgow, Scotland, New Mexico and Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has been featured in the NYTimes online Art blog.

Musicians

  • Bari Koral: Singer songwriter living in New York, NY. Former resident.

Writers

  • Ross Berger is a playwright and screenwriter currently working in Los Angeles. His play THE SHOEBOX OF EBBETS FIELD was the 2001 winner of the Cherry Lane Playwriting Mentorship Fellowship. During this year-long program, Ross worked under the guidance of Michael Weller, an experience which culminated into the Off-Broadway production of his play in 2001. The play also received the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship of 2001-2002. Ross was the recipient of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Dasha Epstein Next Step Fellowship for his play THE WHITETAIL SEASON in 2001, and worked under Romulus Linney for its development. In 2003, his short play SEMI COLON RIGHT PARENTHESIS won 5 awards at the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival, including Best Play and Audience Favorite. In 2004, Ross wrote an episode of LAW & ORDER entitled "Gov Love" which became the series's 2005 Emmy Submission. Additionally, Ross won first prize in the 2007 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition (One-Hour Category) for a spec script of HOUSE M.D. He has written for New Media on the interactive series LONELYGIRL15 and, currently, for video games including the most recent adaptation of CSI. Ross is a graduate of Brandeis (BA, Philosophy) and Columbia (MFA, Playwriting) universities and is a member of the WGA (East).
  • A graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television MFA Screenwriting program, Michael Hazzard has being writing plays and screenplays for far much longer than his “official” date of birth could possibly allow. At UCLA he gained a reputation for screenplays noted for their horror, humor and an “unhealthy preoccupation with sex, drugs and politics.” His screenplay “The Devil’s Whipping Boy” is the winner of the 2008 NBC/NAACP Fellowship in Screenwriting and his screenplay “Paradise” has been chosen for the 2010 Outfest Screenwriting Lab. He is currently working on a comedy set in Los Angeles and a play about Alphonso I, the first Catholic King of the Congo during the early 16th century. It is not a comedy.
  • Barbara Blatner: Playwright, poet and composer living in New York, NY. She is working on a play called Marilyn Monroe in the Desert. Former resident.
  • Helen Newman, a native of Brooklyn, is crafting the final draft of her first book, titled Harrow My Heart at Zendik Farm: Coming of Age in a Hippie Cult. She lives, works, and grows food near the maw of the Lincoln Tunnel.
  • Jente Posthuma is a writer living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Benjamin Sweet: School of Visual Arts Screenwriting Fellow.

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Open Studio

The Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program offers writers and visual artists one month residencies from June through October. The program provides residents with unstructured time in which to concentrate on independent creative work in the company of fellow artists.

Each session culminates in a lively and well–attended Open Studio, when residents are invited to share their work not just with each other, but with Woodstock's artistic community. Open Studio starts at 5 pm, with guests self touring the art studios, then there's a potluck dinner, followed by readings given by the writing residents.

A contribution to the pot–luck is the only charge.

Early guests setting food up for the potluck

Early guests setting food up for the potluck