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ArtistColin Chase

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 05/28/2009

Colin Chase (b. Newark, NJ) received a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from the U. of Michigan. Solo exhibitions include June Kelly Gallery in NYC and Olin Art Gallery in Gambier, Ohio, and a public commission for a Malcolm X memorial from DCA in New York. Group shows include Socrates Sculpture, Gallery 128, Exit Art/The First World, and Neuberger Museum, all in New York, and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach. Articles written on Chase can be found in The New York Times, ArtMatters, ARTnews and Newsday. He is in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.