Resident News
Philip Aaberg (05,08) was the recipient of a 2011 Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council.
Golnar Adili (07) had a solo exhibition, Forged Patterning, at Aun Gallery in Tehran, Iran.
Ophir Agassi (11) is featured in 12 Artists to Watch in 2012, Ophir Agassi: Paintings Worth 1000 Words, in the December/January 2012 issue of American Artist.
Adam Baumgold Gallery in NYC featured the work of Olive Ayhens (03,10) in the solo exhibition New York Drawings.
Barbara Baer’s (04) public art projects Knowledge Shared and Omega were recognized by the City of Fort Collins, CO with Urban Design Awards.
Marianne Barcellona (06) participated in Open Studios, 76 Artists at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in NYC.
Douglas Carter Beane (05) wrote the book for Lysistrata Jones, which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York.
Essays by Elizabeth Bernays (07) appeared in Superstition Review, Mambo Poa: Mikel Essery Anthology of Travel Writing, Shifting Balance Sheets, Snowy Egret, and Mary Magazine. Her books, House of Pictures: Reflections on Art, Memory, and the Meaning of Home (Dog Ear Press) and Three Miles: A Walk for all Seasons (Lulu Press)
A solo-exhibition of work by Lorna Bieber (97,01) is at Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA through January 8.
Lisa Bielawa’s (04) Elegy-Portrait, recorded by pianist Bruce Livingston for the album Heart Shadow, was released in July. She contributed the song, Breakfast in New York, to the Five Boroughs Songbook, a project commissioned by the Five Burroughs Music Festival. She performed at MOMA in NYC as part of the installation-exhibition Sum of Days.
Static Noise: The Photographs of Rhona Bitner (93,02) will be exhibited at the University Art Museum at California State University in Long Beach, January 27 to April 15.
New work by Jean Blackburn (08) was featured in a solo exhibition at the Englewood Art Center in Englewood, FL.
Jeff Blumenkrantz (08) received the 7th Annual Fred Ebb Award for aspiring musical theatre songwriters, presented by the Fred Ebb Foundation and the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Dust Devil, a sculpture by Christine Bourdette (11), was completed for the Washington State Arts Commission in Othello, WA.
Work by Andrea Bowers (11) was on view at the Kreps Gallery in New York through December 17.
Pip Brant (93,94,96) participated in the Blago Bung performance event with Larry Litt’s DADA Mantra presented by the Emily Harvey Foundation in NYC.
Jennilie Brewster’s (08) collaborative work, 64, debuted at the One Arm Red Theater in NYC during the ReMixed/Media Festival.
Work by Val Britton (09) appeared in the Kala Art Institute exhibition at the Mills Building in San Francisco. Current San Francisco exhibitions include: The Collage Show at Jack Fischer Gallery, and Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination at Intersection for the Arts.
Ne Dirvatur Fuga Temporum, Li Po and the Moon, and Halo, poems by B.J. Buckley (83), won 1st prize, 2nd Prize, and Special Merit in the 2011 Comstock Review Poetry Contest. They will be published in the 25th Anniversary Issue of the Comstock Review in 2012.
Work by Linda Byrne (04) appeared in the group exhibitions: Oceans, Rivers, & The Fish That Swim at Piermont Straus gallery in Piermont, NY, and The Balance at Hive at 55 in NYC. Her installations Ghost Net and Recycling Nature/The Vanishing Birds Project were exhibited at the Sneak Peak event at Freshkills Park in Staten Island.
Work by Anthony Campuzano (11) was included in two group exhibitions in NYC: Drawing Gifts 2011 Benefit Auction for The Drawing Center, and So Different, So Appealing at Churner and Churner gallery.
Eugenie Chan’s (11) new play, Madame Ho, was read at the Cutting Ball Theater and the Playwright’s Foundation in San Francisco this summer. She has an upcoming production of Tontlawald at the Cutting Ball in February 2012.
Drawing the Line #8, at June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland, ME, featured work by Avy Claire (00). She was also included in Collage, at Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, NH.
Andrea Clearfield’s (05,08) new cantata, Tse Go La (At the Threshold of this Life), will premiere with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia at Holy Trinity Church, Rittenhouse, in Philadelphia. Her cantata The Golem Psalms will be released on Innova Label in 2012.
Hui Cox (10) gave a performance at Society of Illustrators in NYC.
While in residence at Artisphere in Arlington, VA, Maya Ciarrocchi (11) created and exhibited I’m Nobody! Who Are You? This video-portrait series will also appear in the inaugural season of New York Live Arts in January 2012.
Work by Janet Culberson (89,99) was included in the exhibition Aqua Art Miami at the Aqua Hotel.
Sandra Dal Poggetto: Works on Paper & Objects, a solo-exhibition featuring the work of Sandra Dal Poggetto (03), was at Northcutt-Steele Gallery at Montana State University in Billings, MT.
Tina Davidson’s (10) Blue Curve of the Earth was performed by Hilary Hahn during her US tour.
The Undertaker’s Daughter, by Toi Derricotte (95), was published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
Jane Waggoner Deschner’s (03,06,09), solo-exhibition deduction, speculation and fantasy, appeared at Northwest College’s Sinclair Gallery in Powell, WY. She has a new exhibition opening at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO on January 6.
Haunted Ridgefield, a solo-exhibition by Andrea Dezsö (05), is on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT through December 31. Nature Rail, her second permanent public art for the NY subway, was installed in the 62nd Street Bensonhurst Station this year.
New paintings by Rebecca Doughty (06) were featured in Nearly Nots at The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Work by Jessica Dunne (94,03,07) appears in Momentum at the Art Gallery at Commonweal in Bolinas, CA through February 10.
Between Realism & Abstraction, a solo-exhibition by Stephen Duren (88), was at the Robert Kidd Gallery in Birmingham, MI.
Drawings by Amy Ellingson (10) are featured in One Thing Leads to Another: Seriality in Works on Paper, at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose, CA through February 25.
Paul Farinacci (11) was included in the group exhibition, Populus, at Cazenovia College Art Gallery in NY. His work was also shown at the Governors Island Art Fair last September.
Work by Michael Flecky (96,11) was featured in Resonant Tide, an invitational exhibition of faculty and alumni of Creighton University at Lied Art Gallery in Omaha, NB.
Botanica, a new performance piece by Jim Findlay (07), will premier at 3LD Art & Technology Center in NYC this February.
Photographs by Michael Forsberg (08) appear in Have You Seen Mary?, a children’s book written by Jeff Kurrus and published by Michael Forsberg Photography.
A selection from Elizabeth Frost’s (09) poetry collection, All of Us, was featured on Poetry Daily this October.
Wild, an exhibition by Andrea Gardner (85), appeared at the following galleries in New Zealand: Snowwhite Gallery, UNITEC in Auckland, and The Green Bench in Whanganui.
Micah Garen’s (07,09) Egypt at a Crossroads was featured in an HDNet World Report broadcast in November.
As part of the ASCAP Songwriters Showcase Series, songs by Andrew Gerle (08) were performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. His new musical, GLORYANA, received a Richard Rodgers Award reading at the Public Theater in NYC.
Georgia June Goldberg (04) won the 2011 Soil Scientist Society of America Award for her submission to the What Soil Means in My World video competition.
Marsha Goldberg (91) was included in the group exhibition Painting/Presence at Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ.
New paintings by Charles Goolsby (11) were featured in Re-Shaped: The American Landscape, a solo-exhibition at The 1912 Gallery of Emory & Henry College in Emory, VA.
Ricky Ian Gordon’s (02,07) Night Flight to San Francisco will premier in seven cities in March. His new choral piece, I Dream a World, premiered at the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center in NYC on December 15.
Structure and Light: Impressions of the Yuba Factory, featuring work by Linda Grebmeier (01), was exhibited at the Arts Benicia Gallery and the Benicia Historical Museum in Benicia, CA.
A new piece by Adam Greene (09), Ripples, was performed by Reiko Manabe as part of the Hibari Aid Project to support those affected by natural disasters in north-eastern Japan.
Katherine Haake’s (84) new novel, The Time of Quarantine, is forthcoming from What Books Press in February 2012.
Jordan Harrison’s (07) new play Maple and Vine opened at Playwrights Horizons in new York on December 7.
Shea Hembrey (04) was profiled in The New York Sunday Times Magazine on December 18.
Christine Hiebert (98) was included in the exhibition, ART = TEXT = ART, at the University of Richmond Museums in Richmond, VA. She was also featured in the solo-exhibition Christine Hiebert: UP at Margarete Roeder Gallery in NYC.
Philip Himberg’s (03,08,10) play PAPER DOLLS, will be read at the Public Theater in NYC in February.
Sonja Hinrichsen (05) had two video installations this past fall: Where the Waters Meet was at the Redline Gallery in Denver, CO and Yes, you can eat them was at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada through October.
A photograph by Alexandra Huddleston (08) was published in the NY Times to accompany, Notes from a Dragon Mom, an opinion-piece by Emily Rapp. Her work also appeared in a benefit show at the Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects gallery in NYC. Signs in Nature, a short essay and set of photographs, was published in the journal Fourth Genre.
Nan Hunt (84) recently published the essays: The Boy Who Screamed Into the Camera in Psychological Perspectives, and Fighting with the Dark in Phati’tude Literary Magazine.
Writing by Ginnah Howard (03) recently appeared in Stone Canoe and SHORT STORY. She was guest writer at the University of South Carolina’s public course, Caught in the Creative Act.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman (08) released James Brown Is Dead, his second collection of poetry. He presented a new performance, We Don't Believe You, You Need More People, at San Francisco’s Southern Exposure.
Photographs by Simen Johan (12) are on view at Milo in New York through December 23.
Ron Johnson (04) had a solo-exhibition at Gary Snyder Project Space in NYC.
Ha Jin’s (97) Nanjiing Requiem: A Novel was published by Pantheon in October.
Porochista Khakpour (09) appeared in an NY Times video series discussing her 9/11 Op-Ed piece, My Nine Years as a Middle-Eastern American. An excerpt of her essay, Today is a Sunny Day, was published online by Granta.
Katie Kingston’s (05) poetry manuscript, Translating Clouds, will be published by Lost Horse Press in fall 2012. It placed as a finalist in the 2011 Idaho Prize for Poetry under the title What Does Lorca Own? Her poem Woman Resting placed as a finalist in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry given by Nimrod International Journal.
Adam Klein’s (08) band, The Size Queens, released two albums. Their video Afghan Star premiered on Electric Literature in November. Writing by Klein was published in MIT’s Performance Art Journal and Fourteen Hills.
Wendy Klemperer (86) had a solo-exhibition at the College of Atlantic, in Bar Harbor, ME. Her work is included in the group show, Sites for Sculpture, at Dowling College in Oakdale, NY through 2013. Several of her sculptures were installed at the Portland International Jetport in Portland, ME.
The Unfunny Show, a group exhibition at Small Black Door gallery in Ridgewood, NY, included work by Margaret Lanzetta (10).
A piece by BK Loren (00) will be included in the 2012 edition of The Best American Spiritual Writing. Her short story, Cerberus Sleeps, was winner of the New Millennium Award. Her novel, Theft, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in 2012.
Spotlighting Deer by RoseMarie London (00,04) received an honorable mention in the 2012 creative writing fellowships in fiction by the Wyoming Arts Council.
Peter Liashkov (11) was part of the group exhibition Recuerdos Vividos: Personal Altars and Images Celebrating El Dia de los Muertos at El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance, CA.
Albany Records released In Motion featuring two pieces, Haiku and Inura, by Tania Leon (09).
Charlie Maguire’s (10) Bobby & Darla premiered at the Domestic Abuse Project’s 10th Annual Fundraising Luncheon at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Center, MN.
Ruth Maleczech (06) appeared in Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day at Mabou Mines in NYC last September.
Laura McCallum (10) was included in The Value of Water, a group exhibition at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC.
STAY, a new piece by Heather McDonald (10), opened at The Shakespeare Theater at The Lansburgh in Washington DC.
Sean McGowan (10) completed work on his new CD, Sphere: The Music of Thelonious Monk.
Janet McKenzie’s (93) solo exhibition, Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet McKenzie,was at Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, IL. Her book of the same title, published by Orbis Books, was awarded first place for spirituality from the Catholic Press Association in 2010.
Memento Mori at Hoxton Art Gallery in London featured work by Shane Mecklenburger (04).
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, featuring new work by Andrew Millner (99), is at William Shearburn Gallery in Saint Louis, MO through December 31.
Field Notation, a solo-exhibition by Helen Mirra (98,04), was at Peter Freeman, Inc. in NYC.
Eric Moe’s (09) Jozaphine Freedom premiered at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC. Talujon premiered Moe’s Danger: Giant Frogs at their Roulette space in Brooklyn, NYC.
Susan Morgan (03) co-curated the exhibit Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design, at the MAK Center in West Hollywood, CA.
Two films by Bill Morrison (03) were screened this fall: The Great Flood at Carnegie Hall, and Spark of Being at the AFI Film Festival. January screenings include: The Miners’ Hymns at the World Financial Center in NYC, and Tributes-Pulse at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Al Simpson: Nothing Else Matters, a documentary written and produced by Geoffrey O’Gara (89), aired on PBS last spring. He wrote the script for the Heartland Emmy award-winning documentary Will Rogers and American Politics.
Plastic Bags, a series of photographs by Stephanie Ognar (09), was exhibited at The Art Theater in Champaign, IL.
Elizabeth O’Reilly (94) had a solo-exhibition at George Billis Gallery in NYC. Her work was also included Collage Perspectives, a group show at Swarthmore College’s List Gallery in Swarthmore, PA.
Love and Shame and Love, by Peter Orner (04), was published by Little Brown. The novel was featured in Everyday Hero: Getting Creative About a So-Called Ordinary Life in the December issue of O Magazine.
Fiction writer Daniel Orozco (11) was honored with a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award.
Gunnar Plake’s (97) Grand Canyon III series debuted at Chiaroscuro Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.
Work by Nolan Preece (89) was part of a group exhibition at the Preston Contemporary Art Center in Mesilla, NM.
Leticia Quesenberry (08) was included in Vanishing Point: The Bellarmine Photography Invitational at Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery in Louisville, KY. Her solo-exhibition Peeled was at the University of Kentucky’s Rasdall Gallery in Lexington, KY.
Work from composer Neil Rolnick (10) was presented in Scenes from Mono at The Gershwin Hotel in NYC.
Pam Rogers’ (11) Autumnal Equinox was shown at Studio H gallery in Washington DC. She has an upcoming solo-exhibition at the Tyler Teaching Gallery at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, VA opening January 9th.
Work by Robert Royhl (02) was included in a show at David Dominguez Gallery in Tucson, AZ. He was also a part of the group exhibitions Double Vision: Partners in Art and Landscape, in the Eye of the Beholder at Holter Museum in Helena, MT. He is also featured in the current edition of Bozeman Magazine.
Portentum, a composition by Andrew Rudin (11), was presented by Network for New Music at Philadelphia’s World Café and Haverford College in Haverford, PA. The newly released Innova CD Odyssey: American Flute Music includes his Two Elegies. To the Point, a recent CD by Orchestra 2001 which includes his violin concerto, received a Grammy award nomination.
Divisions of the Year, a new video work featuring a score by Donald Rubenstein (01), was on view at Christie’s Gallery in NYC. He completed work on his new album Too Late to Die. His one-man-show, Transfer of Innocence, was at La Tienda Exhibit Space in Santa Fe, NM.
Thanksgiving is a Beast, an essay by Karen Russell (06), appeared in the November issue of Real Simple magazine. Her novel, Swamplandia, was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times.
Jazz Thursdays at The Silver Spoon in Cold Spring, NY features weekly performances by musician and composer Rob Scheps (03).
Beyond the Rocks, at Freight and Volume Gallery in NYC, featured work by Kristen Schiele (09). She was also included in a group show at Allegra La Viola Gallery in NYC.
Kathryn Schmidt (03) was the recipient of a 2011 Artist’s Innovation Award from the Montana Arts Council.
Work by Andrea Schwartz-Feit (10) was part of Not Just Wax, a group exhibition at Butters Gallery in Portland, OR.
Selections from the Waterthread Suite by David Sharpe (87), was at Spark Gallery in Denver, CO.
In 2011, composer Nathan Shields (11) received the Aaron Copland Award and the Presser Music Award.
Recent exhibitions by Fran Siegel (91,96) include: Works on Paper at ACME in Los Angeles, Extravagant Drawing at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in NYC, and Fractured Earth at Lesley Heller Workspace in NYC.
Photographs from the series love in the ruins; sex over 50 by Susan Silas (09) were part of the exhibition Sex Drive at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, GA.
Maggie Smith (08) is working with filmmaker Lois Shelton on a permanent installation honoring nurses at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center. The project is funded by 4Culture.
Migrant Universe, at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, features work by Tanja Softic (98,02).
Two permanent installations, It’s All About the Water and Collection and Transformation, were completed by Ellen Sollod (87,92) at the Brightwater Environmental Education Center in Woodinville, WA.
Stacey Steers’ (10) film, Night Hunter, was screened at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Work by Randall Stoltzfus (04) appeared in Migration, an exhibition at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn, NYC, and in a solo show at the Germantown Mennonite Museum of Art and Peace in Philadelphia, PA.
New works by Signe Stuart (90) appeared in Artifacts at the William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. She currently has work showing in XHIBIT at the Preston Contemporary Arts Center in Las Cruces, NM through February 2012.
Ilene Sunshine (01) was part of the exhibition Finders Keepers at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Her solo show Offshoot was at Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Currently. Her work was recently at Dieu Donne through February 4.
Unique Features has purchased the film rights to Ellen Sussman’s (08) novel French Lessons (Ballantine, 2011). The novel will be published in Germany, the UK, China, Portugal and Russia.
Juniper, a collection of poetry by Nancy Takacs (05) was published by Limberlost Press.
Joel Tauber’s (09) Pumping: The Movie premiered at Louisville’s International Festival of Film in Louisville, KY.
A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, a collaboration between Jeanine Tesori (00) and Tony Kushner, premiered at Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY.
Dennis Tobenski’s (09) Growl was performed as part of a concert series by the KeyedUp MusicProject at Tenri Cultural Institute in NYC.
We the Animals, a novel by Justin Torres (08), was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Stephen Vitiello’s (11) installation All Those Vanished Engines opened at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. He also has a piece currently on view at PS1/MoMA in NYC.
Work by Josette Urso (95) appeared in several recent exhibitions: Josette Urso and Christopher Schade at Greenwich Academy’s Luchsinger Gallery in in Greenwich, CT, Jersey Bounce at the Visual Arts Center in Summit, NJ, and Fresh Paint from Bushwick at Standpipe Gallery in NYC.
Sarah Walker (05) was part of a group exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art Inc. in NYC.
Valen Watson’s (96) novel House of Northern Lights was named the 2011 Readers Favorite Bronze Winner for Cultural Fiction.
Barbara Weissberger (09) was included in Full Fathom Five, a group exhibition at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in NYC through December 23. Her work also appeared in The Liver’s Ten Kinds of Desire at Artspace New Haven in New Haven, CT.
Quintan Ana Wikswo: Prophecy of Place, a solo exhibition by Quintan Ana Wikswo (09) at Yeshiva University Museum in NYC, will be extended through February 2012. A performance of Schwarzer Tod and the Useless Eaters featuring work by Wikswo premiered at Meetinghouse Theater in Philadelphia, PA.
Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave, a new book about the work of Anne Wilson (08), was published by the Knoxville Museum of Art and WhiteWalls Inc., and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Zone One: A Novel by Colson Whitehead (01) was published by Doubleday in October.
An essay by Kim Wright (10), Why Are So Many Literary Writers Shifting into Genre, was published online at The Millions.
Brenda Zlamany (87,99) has an exhibition opening in January at MOCA in Taipei, Taiwan.
Selected pages from Barbara Zucker’s (94) limited edition book, Animal Sightings, were recently featured in New Prints 2011/Winter at The International Print Center in NYC.