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WriterEric Pankey

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 04/20/2009

Eric Pankey 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, and an Ingram Merrill Grant. His work has appeared in many journals, including Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Triquarterly, DoubleTake and The New England Review. He teaches at George Mason University and lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

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.