Alumni News – Winter 2004

Diana Abu-Jaber’s (F89) new novel Crescent was published recently by Norton and her food memoir, The Language of Baklava, will be published by Vintage Books this year.

Julene Bair (S04) was named a recipient of a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in prose.

Bridget Carpenter (S02) was awarded the Kesselring Prize for Playwriting, which honors promising new playwrights who have not yet received national attention. She was nominated for the award by the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, KY, for her play The Faculty Room.

Samantha Chang’s (F01) new novel, Inheritance, will be published by Norton in August.

Susan Choi’s (S01) novel American Woman was published recently by Harper Collins.

A new play by Kia Corthron (01), Snapshot Silhouettes, will be presented at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis from March 16 - April 17.

Drawings: Portraits of Artists by Sandra Dal Poggetto (F03) were recently shown at the Black Cat Gallery in Berkeley, CA.

Paintings, drawings and prints by Kip Deeds (S03) were recently shown at the Marguerite & James Hutchins Gallery of the Gruss Center of Visual Arts in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Work by Jeanette Fintz (F03) will be shown in a group exhibit, “New Hudson: Contemporary Artists of the Hudson Valley,” at the Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY from January 10 - February 29.

Year of the Snake, the debut CD by Ken Field’s (F97, F03) funk & street beat brass band, The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, has been released on Innova Recordings.

Photographs by Michael Flecky (F96) will be exhibited at the Belmont University Leu Art Gallery in Nashville, TN, from January 18 - March 5.

Daniel Goldfarb’s (S03) new play Sarah, Sarah will be presented at the Manhattan Theatre Club from March 11 - May 30.

Paintings by Linda Grebmeier (F01) were exhibited recently at Stanford University and at the Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s College of California.

A play by Kirsten Greenidge (S02), Sans Culottes in the Promised Land, was selected for the Humana Festival of New American Plays, to be produced at the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville from March 5 - April 3.

Writer Jessica Hagedorn (S03) and composer Mark Bennett (S03) have teamed up to develop a new musical theatre work titled Disposable about Gianni Versace killer Andrew Cunanan for California’s La Jolla Playhouse.

Tony Hoagland’s (S02) new collection of poetry, What Narcissism Means to Me, was recently published by Graywolf Press and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Elizabeth Kadetsky’s (F98, S03) new book, First There Is A Mountain: A Yoga Romance, was published in January by Little Brown.

The Glazier’s Country, a new collection of poems by Janet Kaplan (S99), was recently published by Fordham University Press.

Recent work by Kevin Kennedy (F01) was on view at the Cidnee Patrick Gallery in Dallas, TX, from January 9 - February 14.

Notes from the Divided Country, a collection of poems by Suji Kwock Kim (F01) which won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, was recently published by Louisiana State University Press.

Suki Kim’s novel (F98), The Interpreter, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux last year, was just reissued in paperback by Picador.

Work by Jesus Macarena-Avila (F02) was recently exhibited at Crestmore Studio in Cape Town, South Africa and will also be on view in Melbourne, Australia, at Footscray Art Centre in November.

 

 

 

Normajean MacLeod (S87) will present a paper at the 18th World Congress of Poets in Plainview, Texas in June. The paper is about  the late Korean-American composer/librettist, Donald Sur, whose symphonic oratorio “Slavery Documents” premiered at Boston’s Symphony Hall in 1990. Anyone wishing further information about the conference or its sponsor, United Poets Laureate International, may contact MacLeod at (812) 988-4792 or redshedstudio@hotmail.com.

Gina Magid (F00) was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting in 2003. Her work was shown recently in New York at Feature, Inc. and the Daniel Reich Gallery.

Stories by James Magruder (F02) are forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review and the Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly. His adaptation/translation of Molier’s The Miser was produced in Baltimore in January.

Stories by Deirdra McAfee (S95) appeared recently in The Rio Grande Review and Streetlight, and online at The Diagram and The Fifth Street Review. Another story is forthcoming in the literary magazine Paper Street.

Recent showings of work by Bill Morrison (S03) include: Bill Morrison–Recent Works at the Maya Stendhall Gallery in New York; The Mesmerist at the American Museum of Natural History in the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival; Decasia at the Tate Modern in London; and films for the concert version of The Death of Klinghoffer, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The world premiere of Light is Calling took place at the Sundance Film Festival in January; Decasia was released on DVD by Plexifilm; and Gotham will have its world premiere at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in February.

An essay by Laurie Palmer (F00) appeared recently in 3 Acres on the Lake: DuSable Park Proposal Project.

A new book by Aurelie Sheehan (S92), The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, will be published by Penguin in March.

Bloom and Bomb: paintings and prints by Tanja Softic (F98, F02) will be shown at Scarfone/Hartley Galleries at the University of Tampa from January 23 - February 26.

Work by Ellen Sollod (S87, S92) was recently shown in the group show, Thinking in Public, at the CDA Gallery in Seattle.

An exhibit of work by Al Souza (F99, F02), Inverse Warp Field, will be on view at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC from January 24 - April 3.

A short story by Constance Studer (F88) appeared in, recently published by University of Iowa Press. Other stories by Studer are forthcoming in Georgia State University Review, Westview, and Thin Air Magazine, and her poetry will appear in the American Journal of Nursing and the Minnesota Review.

Work by Susan Thulin (S03) will be exhibited in A Part Apart: Collage and Assemblage at Western Wyoming Community College from January 19 - February 20.

Paula Vogel’s (S01) new play The Long Christmas Ride Home will be produced at the Longwharf Theatre in New Haven, CT from January 14 - February 15. It had its world premiere last year at Rhode Island’s Trinity Repertory Theatre and recently played Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre in New York.

Large ink drawings by Sandy Walker (F03) will be on view at Wooster Arts Space in New York from January 15 - February 14. His paintings were recently exhibited at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University.

Work by Mel Watkin (S92) was recently shown in an exhibit entitled Compass Rose Series at the Bonsack Gallery in St. Louis, MO.

Work by Daniele Wilmouth (F03) will be screened at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on February 12th, in the exhibit Occurrences: the performative space of video. The show “examines the connections between performance art, movement, and the video medium.”