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May 2008

ArtistFanny Howe - ( view )

Lecture 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... more

ArtistPeter Acheson - ( view )

Lecture Date: 05/15/2008

Peter Acheson was born Washington, D.C., and in lives Ghent, NY. He shows at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC, and A.D.D. in Hudson, NY. His group exhibitions include a three-person show with Andrew Masullo and Chris Martin, and... more

ArtistGrace Knowlton - ( view )

Lecture Date: 05/20/2008

Grace Knowlton (b. 1932, Buffalo, NY) received a BA and an MA from Smith College, and from Columbia. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern, the Neuberger Museum, John Davis Gallery (where she is currently represented), M-13... more

ArtistJohn Monti - ( view )

Lecture Date: 05/29/2008

John Monti (b. 1957, Portland, OR) received a BS from Portland State and an MFA from Pratt. His exhibitions include Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Sculpture Center, Curt Marcus Gallery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery and White Columns in NYC, Inform Gallery... more

ArtistGregory Amenoff - ( view )

Lecture Date: 05/30/2008

Gregory Amenoff (b. 1948) is a painter who lives in New York and New Mexico. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts,... more

ArtistMark Irwin - ( view )

Lecture Date: 06/02/2008

Mark Irwin was born in Faribault, Minnesota, in 1953, and has lived throughout the United States and abroad in France and Italy. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in many literary magazines including Antaeus, The American Poetry... 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.