Due to the renovation of the Days Lumberyard building at the Work Center, the 2009-2010 Visual Arts Fellows will be exhibiting their work at artSTRAND gallery at 494 Commercial Street (entrance on Howland Street).

All readings and artist talks will be held in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room at 24 Pearl Street unless otherwise noted.

The events schedule is subject to change. We will do our best to keep the website updated, but if you have any questions, call 508-487-9960 or check local listings to verfy times and dates.

All events are open to the public for a $5 suggested donation.

MARTHA'S VINEYARD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER PRESENTS A WINTER READING SERIES DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH

The following readings by fiction and poetry Fellows are scheduled on Thursdays at 5:30. Poets MARGARET REGES and MELISSA TUCKEY, March 4th at West Tisbury Library. Fiction writers SAMUEL LEADER and GREG SCHUTZ: March 11th at Oak Bluffs Library. Poet REBECCA LINDENBERG and Fiction Writer ANNE SANOW: March 18th at Edgartown Library. Poets KIRSTEN ANDERSEN and SARA ELIZABETH JOHNSON: March 25th at Vineyard Haven Library. All readings at the libraries are free. Refreshments will be served.

EXHIBITION: MARTIN SMICK
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: March 5 - 10

Martin Smick was born in 1977 in Beverly, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelor's degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. He has spent extended periods living in Paris studying both at the Sorbonne in 1997 and as a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2000. Since 2001, he has earned his living as a muralist and decorative painter, in Los Angeles and New York, working for the architectural restoration firm Evergreene Painting Studios. Notable projects he has participated in include a Richard Haas mural in Brooklyn completed in 2006 and murals for the Atlantis Hotel and Resort in Dubai. Last June, Martin completed his MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

READING: DAN CHAON
Saturday, March 6, 8pm
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Dan Chaon is the author, most recently, of the national bestseller Await Your Reply, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Janet Maslin of the New York Times, and Laura Miller of salon.com , as well as being named among the year's best fiction by such newspapers as The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. Dan is also the author of the short story collection Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and the novel You Remind Me of Me. Dan's fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dan lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing and Literature. www.danchaon.com

EXHIBITION: SARAH PETERS
Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: March 12 - 17

Sarah Peters graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and a Certificate in sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1995. In 2008, she completed a year-long Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship. She has exhibited nationally, and her 2007 solo exhibition, Being American, at Winkleman Gallery in New York, was reviewed in the New York Times by Roberta Smith, among others. Sarah Peters is the recipient of three John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist Residencies, the Emerging Artist Residency from Pilchuck Glass School, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant. www.sarahpetersart.com

ARTIST TALK: JUSTIN LIEBERMAN
Friday, March 12, 8:15pm

Justin Lieberman (b. 1977, Gainesville, Florida) received his MFA in 2004 from Yale University. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, OH. His work is represented in the collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2010, Lieberman will have solo exhibitions at Bernier-Eliades Gallery in Athens and BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services in Geneva. He is represented by Zach Feuer Gallery in New York and lives and works in upstate New York.

READING: BRIAN BOOKER AND REBECCA LINDENBERG
Saturday, March 13, 8pm

Brian Booker is a fiction writer living in Brooklyn. His short stories have been published in Conjunctions, Epoch, One Story, Shenandoah, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and other magazines, and his story collection was a finalist in the Iowa Short Fiction Awards. He holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University, where he taught literature and writing. Brian's texts and artwork can be found at www.brianbooker.com.

Rebecca Lindenberg's poetry appears in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, POOL, Barrow Street, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a generous Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference, among other honors and awards. She is currently completing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah.

ARTIST TALK: GREGORY VOLK
Wednesday, March 17, 8pm

Gregory Volk is a New York-based art critic and freelance curator. He writes regularly for Art in America, where he is a contributing editor, and his articles and reviews have also appeared in many other publications, including Parkett and Sculpture. Among his recent contributions to exhibition catalogues are essays on Ayse Erkmen (Hamburger Bahnhof, 2008), Joan Jonas (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2007), and Bruce Nauman (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006). His essay on Vito Acconci is featured in Vito Acconci: Diary of a Body, 1969-1973, published by Charta in 2007, and his essay on Andy Warhol's late work appears in Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, published in 2009 by the Milwaukee Art Museum and Prestel. Together with Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk has curated numerous exhibitions, including "Carnival Within" at UferHallen in Berlin (2009), "Agitation and Repose" at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York (2007), "Public Notice: Paintings in Laumeier Sculpture Park" in St. Louis (2005-2006), and "Surface Charge" at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, Virginia (2005). He has also served as a visiting critic for many institutions and organizations, including MOCA Cleveland and Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City. Gregory Volk received his B.A. from Colgate University and his M.A. from Columbia University. In addition to his activities as a writer and curator, he is Associate Professor in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.

EXHIBITION: MATT BOLLINGER
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: March 26 - 31

Matt Bollinger, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, received his BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the summer of 2008, he was an artist-in-residence at the Seven Below Arts Initiative in Northern Vermont. His solo exhibition, "The Hypnotism," was shown at Plane Space in New York, also in 2008. His recent drawings examine growing up in the Midwest through the lenses of adolescent angst and romanticism. www.mattbollinger.com

ARTIST TALK: SARAH OPPENHEIMER
Friday, March 26, 8pm

The focus of Sarah Oppenheimer's work is the feedback loop between constructed spaces and pedestrian motion. She studies how the built environment and human behavior reciprocally impact each other; most recently, the way that sight lines through built space shape the visual progression of a body in motion.

Oppenheimer opens apertures in existing architectures, modifying the modular units that make up our standardized urban world. These apertures create new lines of sight within the space of display, and can function as both "holes" and "screens." This effect forces the viewer's gaze to toggle between object and void. The space of display is transformed from a container for specific objects into a vectored but non-linear series of filmic views.

Her most recent projects include MF-142 at Annely Juda, London, VP-41 at Art Unlimited, Art Basel, and Automatic Cities at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship. Reviews of her work have appeared many publications, among them: Art Forum, Art in America, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, The New York Times and The Village Voice. She currently teaches at Yale University where she received her MFA in 1999.

READING: MAURICE MANNING AND ELIZABETH ARNOLD
Saturday, March 27, 8pm

Maurice Manning's fourth book of poetry, The Common Man, will be published this spring. †He teaches at Indiana University and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He was a fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in 1999-2000 and has also held a fellowship at The Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. In 2009 he was awarded the Hanes Prize for Poetry sponsored by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He lives in Bloomington and his home state of Kentucky.

Elizabeth Arnold has received a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. She is the author of three books of poetry — The Reef (University of Chicago Press,1999), Civilization (Flood Editions, 2006), and, forthcoming in March 2010, Effacement, also from Flood Editions. Arnold is on the MFA faculty at the University of Maryland. She is the winner of the 2010 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. She lives outside Washington, D.C.

EXHIBITION: ELIZABETH MOONEY
Opening Reception: Friday, April 2, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: April 2 - 7

Elizabeth Mooney is an artist originally from Boston Massachusetts and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She received her Masters Degree in Painting from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2007. She studied as an undergraduate at the Lorenzo De Medici School in Florence Italy and received her BFA in painting and printmaking from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.  Elizabeth has attended  residencies at La Cipressaia in Montagnana, Italy in 2001 and 2003. She is currently represented by Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, CA. www.elizabethmooney.com

READING: MICHAEL MORSE AND SOPHIE MCMANUS
Saturday, April 4, 8pm

Second-year Fellow Michael Morse lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is on leave from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where he teaches English. A recipient of degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Iowa, he has published poems in various journals--including A Public Space, Agni, Field, Ploughshares, The Canary, The Hat, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Tin House, and Spinning Jenny--and in the anthologies Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2007) and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010).

Second-year Fellow Sophie McManus is a graduate of Vassar College and the fiction MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an editor and teaches creative writing. She is a recent recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall and Jentel Foundations, and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

EXHIBITION: LESLIE MURRAY AND TAYLOR BALDWIN
Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: April 9 - 14

Second-year Fellow Leslie Murray received a BFA from the Maine College of Art in 2008 and has returned there as a visiting critic. She has interned at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, worked as a studio assistant for Michael Mazur, and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at FAWC, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. www.leslieclairemurray

Second-year Fellow Taylor Baldwin is an artist from Tucson. He received a bachelor's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005 and a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. He has recently been awarded a fellowship at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha. He has exhibited work in New York; Washington, D.C.; Providence; Richmond; and Istanbul. He works through sculpture and drawing-almost exclusively with materials that are found, salvaged, borrowed, bartered, recovered, donated, or stolen. If there is anything that you may have that you want removed from your possession, contact him, as he will likely take it from you. taylorbaldwinstudio.com

ARTIST TALK: ANGELA DUFRESNE
Friday, April 9, 8:15pm

Angela Dufresne was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Polish, Irish, French, and Italian Catholics in 1969. She was raised in Olathe, Kansas (the town where Dick Hickock and Perry Smith stopped before they went on to kill the Clutters). She was the first of her family lineage to get a college degree, a BFA in 1991 at the Kansas City Art Institute. She then lived in Minneapolis, where she received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship; in San Francisco, where she had a studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts; and in Portland, Maine, where she co-ran a nonprofit gallery called the Dead Space Gallery. In 1998, she received an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She has had shows at the Hammer Museum and many galleries, and her work has been included in group shows at PS1 Greater New York 2005, the Aldridge Museum, and the Rose Museum, among others. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Princeton University.