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ArtistLoren Madsen

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 11/13/2007

(b. 1943, Oakland, CA) received a BA and an MA from the University of California at Los Angeles. Exhibitions include Zolla-Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, David McKee Gallery in New York, Riko Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, Fort Worth Art Center, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Hayward Gallery in London. He has won two NEA Grants and is in the collections of the Vancouver Museum of Art, MOMA, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Hirshhorn Museum, among others. Madsen lives and works in New York.

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.