Staff

Full time staff includes founders Louise von Weise and Jon Gregg, as well as long-time VSC staff Executive Director George Pearlman, Program Director Kathy Black, and Plant Director Jim MacDowell - all of whom are painters. Gary Clark, our Writing Program Director, and Jill Leininger, our Development Director, are poets.

Much of the work at the Vermont Studio Center is done by staff Residents. In exchange for a one-year commitment for work in the office, studios, kitchen and grounds, these artists and writers receive room, board, studio space, interaction with the Visiting Artists and Writers, and a stipend. VSC is pleased to have such talented and hard-working artists and writers helping to make the VSC community possible.

To apply for a Staff Residency, or for more information, please contact us at info@vermontstudiocenter.org.

GREGORY AMENOFF

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist: 5/30/2008

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, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He serves on the Board of Directors of the CUE Art Foundation and as the Foundation Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last fifteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts.

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.