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January 2008

WriterMartin Espada - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/10/2008

Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has published thirteen books in all as a poet, essayist, editor and translator. His eighth collection of poems, The Republic of Poetry, was published by Norton... more

ArtistDavid Humphrey - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/14/2008

(b. 1955) received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, and an MA from NYU. He also studied at the NY Studio School. He is represented by Brent Sikkema Gallery, NY, and has shown throughout the country. His... more

ArtistPeter Schumann - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/15/2008

(b. 1934, Poland) trained as a sculptor, puppeteer, and baker in Germany. He moved to the U.S. in 1961, taught puppetry at the Putney School and founded the Bread & Puppet Theater in NYC. Bread & Puppet... more

ArtistJudith Shea - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/24/2008

received her BFA from Parsons and The New School in 1975. Most recent one person exhibitions of Shea�s have been held at The U. of the Arts, Philadelphia; Max Protetch Gallery, NYC; The Whitney Museum, NYC; John... more

ArtistCarol Diehl - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/25/2008

has had solo exhibitions at Gary Snyder Fine Art and Hirschl & Adler Modern in NYC, and her work has been shown extensively in group shows, including those at the Queens Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum,... more

WriterEric Pankey - ( view )

Lecture Date: 01/28/2008

is the author of six books of poetry: Reliquaries, Cenotaph, The Late Romances, Apocrypha, Heartwood and For the New Year. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NEA Fellowship, the Academy of American Poets� Walt Whitman Award,... more

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.