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ArtistFanny Howe

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 05/15/2008

Fanny Howe has won two NEA awards, a California Council for the Arts Award, a Guggenheim and the Lenore Marshall poetry award among others and has taught at Tufts University, Columbia, MIT and is Professor Emerita at the University of California, San Diego. A new collection of poems, The Lyrics, is due out from Graywolf Press in 2007 as well as a translation from the Polish of poems by Henia and Ilona Karmel, called A Wall of Two (UC Press). Her most recent publications were Economics (Flood Editions), The Wedding Dress and Gone (UC Press), On The Ground (Graywolf Books), The Lives of a Spirt/Glasstown (Nightboat Books), Radical Love (Nightboat Books), and Tramp from Vallum Press in Canada. She was twice nominated for the International Poetry Award from the Griffin Poetry Prize also in Canada.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist: 08/12/2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

WOLF KAHN

In Back of the Vermont Studio Center, 2001.
Oil on canvas. 52 x 66 inches.

Wolf Kahn is a Founding Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and an annual Visiting Artist for the past 20 years. As such he has had a major role in the Center?s success since its founding in 1984.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Kahn immigrated to the United States in 1940 where he studied with the well-known teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman. From 1956 ? 1995 he showed at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, and now shows at Ameringer and Yohe in New York and in galleries all over this country and abroad.
His work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum.
He has received a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. He is member of the National Academy of Design, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He lives in New York and spends summers and autumns in Vermont.