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ArtistDavid Kapp

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 01/12/2009

David Kapp received his BFA from Windham College in Vermont, and his MFA from Queens College in NY. Solo exhibitions include Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica CA; Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe; Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC; David Beitzel Gallery in NYC; Marita Gilliam Gallery in Raleigh, NC; and Alpha Gallery in Boston. Collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; Mint Museum of Art, NC; the Museum of the City of New York, NYC; and the North Carolina Museum of Art. He is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC. Kapp has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rosenthal Foundation, and a CAPS Fellowship. Kapp lives and works in NYC.

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.