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ArtistTom Bills

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 02/09/2009

Tom Bills (b.1948, Detroit, MI) attended Macomb County Community College in Michigan and earned a BA in 1974. He earned an MFA from Yale University in 1978. His professional career began in 1976 with a one-person exhibition at 112 Greene Street Gallery in NYC and he continues to exhibit widely both nationally and internationally. His home gallery is Don Sokor Gallery in San Francisco, CA. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, two New York State Foundation Grants, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. Currently he is a Professor at the University of California, Davis.

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.