FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN

	, 2010

RECENT PAST READINGS AND EVENTS

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.
PAST EVENTS : July 2010

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, July 1, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

EXHIBITION: MICHAEL MAZUR
MONOTYPES/EDITION PRINTS/PAINTING 1989-2009
AND SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW PROVINCETOWN PRINT PROJECT
including works by James Balla, Varujan Boghosian, Paul Bowen,
Sue Coe, Yvonne Jacquette, George McNeil and Therese Oulton
Opening Reception: Friday, June 11, 6:00-8:00 pm
curated by Albert Merola and James Balla
Exhibition Dates: June 11 to July 6
see special events for more information

READING AND ARTIST TALK: KEVIN GOODAN AND BERT YARBOROUGH
Monday, July 5, 7 pm

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Kevin Goodan's first book of poems, In the Ghosthouse Acquainted, was published by Alice James Books in 2004 and chosen for the 2005 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Winter Tenor, a second book of poems, was published in 2009. He has taught Creative Writing at the University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, and is currently Assistant Professor at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.

Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa. He is currently an Associate Professor of Fine and Performing Arts at Colby Sawyer College in New London, NH, and has taught Painting and Drawing at Harvard University, Plymouth State College and several other institutions. Twice a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, he also served as Visual Arts Coordinator for four years and is currently Chair of FAWC's Visual Arts Committee. He has received two New Hampshire State Arts Council Grants in Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture. He is represented by artSTRAND in Provincetown, and McGowan Fine Arts in Concord, NH.

READING: MARISA SILVER
Tuesday, July 6, 7 pm

Marisa Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she was featured in that magazine's first "Debut Fiction" issue. Her collection of short stories, Babe in Paradise, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. She is also the author of the novels No Direction Home, and The God of War, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her latest collection of short fiction, Alone with You, was published in April, 2010, by Simon and Schuster. She is a winner of the O. Henry Prize, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories as well as other anthologies.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: DAVID UPDIKE AND VICKY TOMAYKO
Wednesday, July 7, 7 pm

David Updike is the author of two collections of short stories, Out on the Marsh, and most recently, Old Girlfriends (St. Martin's Press, 2009). He is also the author of six children's books, including A Winter Journey, An Autumn Tale, A Spring Story, and The Sounds of Summer. His stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, DoubleTake, and The Utne Reader among others. A Young Adult novel, Ivy's Turn, was published in 2005. He currently teaches English at Roxbury Community College in Boston.

Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who makes monotypes that combine a variety of printmaking techniques. Her recent work explores the mutability of memory. She was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1985, and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation Grants. Her work is exhibited locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Venice, Istanbul, and Melbourne. She was Artist-in- Residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School for ten years. She also teaches at Cape Cod Community College, the Museum School at Provincetown Art Association and Museum, at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, and for the MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown low-residency MFA program.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, July 8, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

EXHIBITION: DAYS LUMBERYARD STUDIOS 1915-1972
Curated by James Bennette and David Cowan
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10 (ticketed), 6:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: July 10-August 3
Exhibition Sponsored by Wequassett Resort and Golf Club
The exhibition reception is part of our reopening celebration; see special events for more information

READING AND ARTIST TALK: CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON AND PAUL BOWEN
Monday, July 12, 7 pm

Cynthia Huntington is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Radiant, from Four Way Books, and a prose memoir, The Salt House. She teaches writing at Dartmouth College and in the MFA in Writing Program at Dartmouth College.

Born in Wales, Paul Bowen first came to the U.S. as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore in 1972. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1977-79, he has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the Welsh Arts Council. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums both here and abroad, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2007 he was a recipient of an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant. He currently teaches sculpture and drawing at Dartmouth College, and is represented by artSTRAND in Provincetown.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: ALICE MATTISON AND ANDREW MOCKLER
Wednesday, July 13, 7 pm

Alice Mattison's most recent novel, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten In Brooklyn, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Some of her previous novels and collections of short stories are The Book Borrower; In Case We're Separated; and Men Giving Money, Women Yelling, all New York Times Notable Books. Twelve of her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and her stories, essays, and poems have also been published in The New York Times, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Women's Review of Books, and elsewhere, and reprinted in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. She teaches fiction in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.

Andrew Mockler is a painter-printmaker working in Brooklyn, New York, where he collaborates with artists making monoprints, lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts at Jungle Press Editions. He studied at Cornell University and Yale School of Art, where he went on to teach printmaking and graduate painting. He has also taught at Columbia University and the Rhode Island School of Design. He currently teaches at Hunter College and Bard College. His paintings have been shown at George Billis Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, and most recently at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, NY.

READING: CATHERINE BOWMAN AND LIZ ROSENBERG
Wednesday, July 14, 7 pm

Catherine Bowman is the author of four collections of poetry: Notarikon, The Plath Cabinet, Rock Farm and 1-800-HOT-RIBS. She is editor of Word of Mouth, an anthology of poems by poets she has reviewed and featured on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Her poems have appeared in six editions of Best American Poetry as well as many literary magazines and journals, including The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares and Crazyhorse. Her writing has been awarded the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry and former director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University.

Home Repair, Liz Rosenberg's first adult novel, was a Target Breakout Selection for 2009. She has published more than 25 award-winning books for young readers, including two Young Adult novels, and four prize-winning books of poems, most recently Demon Love (Mammoth Books, 2008) and The Lily Poems (Bright Hill Press, 2008). Her essays and other work have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and elsewhere. She's also served as advisory editor on two collections of non-fiction: Total Immersion and Bread and Fire. She won a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the State University of New York, held an NEH Chair at Colgate, and has written a monthly book review column for The Boston Globe for the past 20 years.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, July 15, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING: JOHN SKOYLES AND DEAN ALBARELLI
Monday, July 19, 7 pm

John Skoyles is the author of four books of poems, A Little Faith, Permanent Change, Definition of the Soul, and The Situation. He has also published a book of personal essays, Generous Strangers, and a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education. He has been awarded two Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center and two individual fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the New York State and North Carolina Arts Councils. He teaches at Emerson College and serves as the poetry editor of Ploughshares.

Dean Albarelli is the author of Cheaters and Other Stories (St. Martin's), a selection of the Barnes & Noble series "Discover Great New Writers." A chapter from his forthcoming novel became a prizewinning short film with Amanda Peet. Twice a Fellow at FAWC, he is the recipient of a Michener Award, a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He is an advisory editor with The Hudson Review, and has been writer in residence at Smith College, and visiting writer at Amherst and Trinity colleges. At the University of Virginia, a Student Association survey ranked his fiction-writing course among the "20 Most Popular Classes on Campus."

READING AND ARTIST TALK: MARCIE HERSHMAN AND DAVID HILLIARD
Tuesday, July 20, 7 pm

Marcie Hershman is the author of the novels Tales of the Master Race and Safe in America, and the memoir, Speak to Me: Grief, Love and What Endures. Her essays and reviews have appeared widely: The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Poets & Writers, The Women's Review of Books, Tikkun, Ms., ArchitectureBoston, Agni, Ploughshares, in anthologies, and on NPR. Awards include those from the Bunting Institute/ Harvard University, the L.L.Winship/Boston Globe Foundation, the St. Botolph Foundation, The Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches at Tufts University and in Lesley University's lowresidency MFA program.

David Hilliard creates large-scale, multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. His panoramas direct the viewer's gaze across the image surface allowing narrative, time and space to unfold. He exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His numerous awards include the Fulbright and a Guggenheim. He has taught at Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and was director of the photography department at Cranbrook Art Academy. He is currently an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica. In 2005, a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press. This past spring David was the artist in residence at Dartmouth College, where he mounted a large-scale exhibition of his work.

READING: MARTHA RHODES
Wednesday, July 21, 7 pm

Martha Rhodes is the author of three collections of poetry: At The Gate, Perfect Disappearance (winner of the Green Rose Prize), and Mother Quiet. Her poems have been widely published in such journals as Agni, American Poetry Review, Columbia, Fence, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work also appears in numerous anthologies, including Agni 30 Years, Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Last Call, and The KGB Bar Book of Poetry among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is the director of Four Way Books in New York City.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, July 22, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING AND ARTIST TALK: TERRANCE HAYES AND ROBERTO JUAREZ
Monday, July 26, 7 pm

Terrance Hayes is the author of four collections of poetry: Muscular Music, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, which won the National Poetry Series award; Wind in a Box; and most recently Lighthead (Penguin, 2010). He has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry selection, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

Roberto Juarez studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA, and teaches at the School of Visual Arts/NYC. Past highlights of his career include public murals commissioned for the Grand Central Terminal in NYC and for Whitman College's Paul G. Allen Reading Room. He won the Prix de Rome in 1997, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002. He has shown consistently in New York City since the early 1980's. His most recent solo exhibition was at the Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, in May 2008. PAST EVENTS : JUNE 2010

MICHAEL MAZUR PRINTMAKING STUDIO DEDICATION
Saturday, June 12, 3 pm
see special events for more information

READING: CLEOPATRA MATHIS AND HEIDI JON SCHMIDT
Saturday, June 12, 7pm

Cleopatra Mathis's sixth book of poems, White Sea, was published by Sarabande Books in 2005. Various prizes for her work include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry, the Peter Lavin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Robert Frost Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. Most recently she was awarded a residency at the Dora Maar House in France. Since 1982 she has taught at Dartmouth College, where she directs the creative writing program. A 1981-82 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, she serves on the Work Center's Writing Committee.

Heidi Jon Schmidt is the author of The Bride of Catastrophe, Darling?, and The Rose Thieves. Her stories have been published and anthologized in places from The Atlantic Monthly to Nerve.com, The O'Henry Awards to Best American Nonrequired Reading, and broadcast on NPR. Her new novel, The House on Oyster Creek, is forthcoming in June 2010.

READING: STEVE YARBROUGH
Monday, June 14, 7pm

Steve Yarbrough is the author of five novels, including The Oxygen Man, winner of the California Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the Mississippi Authors Award; Visible Spirits; Prisoners of War, a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award; The End of California, a finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for fiction; and most recently, Safe from the Neighbors (Knopf, 2010). He also authored the story collections Veneer (University of Missouri Press, 1998), Mississippi History, and Family Men. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He currently teaches at Emerson College.

READING & ARTIST TALK: KIMIKO HAHN AND DAN WELDEN
Tuesday, June 15, 7pm

Kimiko Hahn is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart, which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior, whose title was stolen from Basho's famous poetic journal; a chapbook titled A Field Guide to the Intractable (Small Anchor, 2009); and, most recently, Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, 2010). She is a recipient of The Shelley Memorial Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award and a Lila Wallace'Reader's Digest Writers' Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Queens College, The City University of New York.

Dan Welden has been pioneering safer alternative printmaking techniques since the early 70's when he first developed solar plates. He is co-author of Printmaking in the Sun, and Director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, NY, where he has collaborated with many artists including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl, and Dan Flavin. He has been the recipient of numerous international printmaking grants extending from Belgium to New Zealand, and was invited to juror the international Printmaking Biennal in Italy in the fall of 2008.

READING & ARTIST TALK: FRED MARCHANT AND CONSTANTINE MANOS
Wednesday, June 16, 7pm

Fred Marchant is the author of four poetry collections. His most recent book, The Looking House (Graywolf, 2009) was selected by the Barnes and Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry in 2009. He is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947 (Graywolf , 2008), and co-translator, with Nguyen Ba Chung, of From a Corner of My Yard, by Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. Director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center, he is a 2009 co-recipient of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club.

Constantine Manos is a member of Magnum Photos, the international picture agency. His books include Portrait of a Symphony, A Greek Portfolio, Bostonians, and American Color. Manos's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, and others. He has conducted Master Classes in Maine, Cuba, Mexico and Greece. In 2003 he won the Leica Medal of Excellence.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, June 17, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING: VIJAY SESHADRI
Monday, June 21, 7 pm

Vijay Seshadri's collections of poems include The Long Meadow (Graywolf, 2004), winner of the James Laughlin Award, and Wild Kingdom. His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Bomb, Boulevard, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and The New York Times Book Review, and in many anthologies, including Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, Contours of the Heart, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, and The Best American Poetry 1997, 2003, and 2006, and Best Creative Nonfiction 2008. He has received grants from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement. He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

READING: GREGORY ORR
Tuesday, June 22, 7 pm

Gregory Orr is the author of ten collections of poetry, the most recent of which are two book-length lyric sequences, How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) and Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved. He is also the author of a memoir, The Blessing, and Poetry as Survival, about the survival function of lyric poetry. His recent essay about his work as a civil rights volunteer in the Deep South in 1965, "Return to Hayneville," was reprinted in all three annual prose anthologies (The Best American Essays 2009, The Best Creative Nonfiction 2009, and The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses). His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he was the founder and first director of its MFA Program in Writing.

READING: ROBIN HEMLEY
Wednesday, June 23, 7 pm

Robin Hemley is the author of eight books of nonfiction and fiction, and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from The Chicago Tribune, the Story Magazine Humor Prize, an Independent Press Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes and many others. He has been widely anthologized and has published his work in such places as The New York Times, The Believer, The Southern Review, Orion, Ploughshares, Narrative. com, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. His book about a purported anthropological hoax in the Philippines will soon be made into a feature film by the BBC. His most recent books are Do-Over (Hachette, 2009) and Twirl/Run, in collaboration with photographer Jeff Mermelstein (Powerhouse Books, 2009). He is the founder and organizer of NonfictioNOW, a biennial conference at The University of Iowa, and directs The Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, June 24, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING: ROBIN BECKER AND JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Monday, June 28, 7 pm

The University of Pittsburgh Press published Domain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker's sixth collection. Her other books include The Horse Fair, All-American Girl and Giacometti's Dog. Her poems appear in numerous anthologies and textbooks, including Making Literature Matter and Poetry: An Introduction. In 2002, The Frick Art & Historical Center (Pittsburgh) published a limited-edition fine art chapbook of her poems, Venetian Blue. Professor of English and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, she received the 2000 George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. Other awards include a Bunting Fellowship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, and a National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship. She regularly reviews for The American Poetry Review, and writes a column on contemporary poetry called "Field Notes" for the Women's Review of Books, where she serves as Contributing and Poetry Editor.

Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the U.S. at the age of twenty. He has published a novel, April Fool's Day (in a dozen languages), three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, Yolk, and Salvation and Other Disasters) and two collections of narrative essays. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize collection, and O. Henry Prize Stories. He has received the Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, and has been a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.

READING: STEPHANIE HARRISON, OAC WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
Tuesday, June 29, 7 pm

Stephanie Harrison's work has appeared in many journals, including Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Northwest Review, and the Beloit Fiction Journal. She is the editor of the anthology, Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen (Three Rivers Press, 2005), and her articles on adapting stories for film have appeared in magazines such as Poets & Writers. She has received grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Florida Arts Council and was recently awarded the Columbus Literary Award for nonfiction.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: HOWARD NORMAN AND JOEL JANOWITZ
Wednesday, June 30, 7 pm

Howard Norman's most recent novel, What Is Left The Daughter, will be published in July, 2010. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, received a Lannan Award in literature, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New England Book Award. His new memoir, I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place, will be published in 2011 by HoughtonMifflinHarcourt. Two years ago, sponsored by National Geographic, he walked the "okunohosomiche" (Narrow Road to Far North Towns), made famous by haiku master Matsuo Basho. The travelogue of that journey will also be published in 2011. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, and is on the faculty of the Summer Writers Institute in Saratoga Springs.

Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely, with over 30 solo shows. In 2009, he exhibited at Regis College in Weston, MA and Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston. His work has been collected by numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard. In 2008 he received his third individual Artist's Fellowship from the state of Massachusetts. Other awards and honors include an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and two artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught painting and drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, at Wellesley College, and continues on the faculty of the MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown low-residency MFA program.

PAST EVENTS : MAY 2010

RIBBON-CUTTING AND OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, May 6
11am-2pm

The Days Lumberyard Building houses historically significant artists' studios and the Work Center's program and administrative offices, which have been extensively reconstructed. In the reconstruction we have taken great care to preserve the historic Days Lumberyard studio space, while modernizing the offices and stabilizing the building.

We will celebrate this achievement with the town of Provincetown, with the many donors who contributed to funding the project, and with our countless friends who have supported us over the years.

No tickets are necessary to attend this event. Please join us!

ARTIST TALK: MFAWC VISITING ARTIST SARAH MCENEANEY
Thursday, May, 13, 8 pm

Sarah McEneaney makes narrative autobiographical paintings that retell life experiences both physical and emotional. Working from drawings, memory, imagination and photographs the paintings are direct, even factual, but read less as memoir and more like creative non-fiction. The scenes, moments and details are as carefully selected and edited as the formal decisions of color, line and perspective.

McEneaney is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York and had solo exhibitions there in 2006, 2008 and 2009. Other recent solo exhibitions include Mills College Art Museum in Oakland CA, Locks Gallery in Philadelphia PA (both 2008) and The Locker Plant in Marfa Texas following the completion of a residency at The Chinati Foundation (2009).

EXHIBITION: JONG SUN-JAY LEE
2009 Maryland Institute Resident
Opening Reception: Friday, May 14, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 14-25

In May 2010, visual artist Jong Sun-Jay Lee will exhibit her recent work at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, MA. Central to this exhibition are her mixed media paintings, monotype prints, and sculptures that she created during her Summer 2009 residency fellowship at FAWC.

Ms. Lee has increased her range as an artist, adding sumi painting techniques to her repertoire. One piece to be exhibited combines sumi ink, acrylic paint, and other drawing materials on Mylar; it is twelve feet across and involves an arrangement of abstract imagery alluding to the internal functions of the human body and variations on themes from nature. The colors, composition, and intersecting forms also speak for themselves as intriguing aesthetic statements. In addition, she will be displaying one of her specialties: vessels and panels (which are sometimes part of larger installations) composed of rice. Lee has mastered the artistic use and transformation of this staple food source, and manages to create a dichotomy in which rice both expresses hunger and satiety, basic human need and great indulgence.

Jong Sun-Jay Lee was born and raised in South Korea; her Korean upbringing and American adulthood have given her an insightful perspective on Eastern and Western traditions. She took a circuitous route to becoming an artist, and this has likewise added to her fertile imagination and thoughtful response to her surroundings. Lee came to her interest in art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and then received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she graduated summa cum laude. In May 2009, she received her MFA at MICA’s Rinehart School of Sculpture; her graduate education was supported by a prestigious Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education.

Since graduation, Lee has taken part in artistic residencies at FAWC and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. In the coming year, she will participate in additional residencies at the Beijing Studio Center in Beijing, China and the Sculpture Space in Utica, New York. She has exhibited her art widely from Washington, DC to Boston and as far afield at Washington State.

Lee is an extraordinarily versatile and prolific artist, whether working in installation, sculpture, performance, painting or printmaking. When shaping and modifying rice or hair (her other favored media), her skillful hands find a way to comment on human cravings, fears, and sorrows. However, her interest is not simply in suffering and loss, but in how the bruised spirit may endure and heal. In short, Lee is not afraid to laugh and cry with us, for us, and thus giving back to art its powerful role to ennoble our basic humanity. ARTIST TALK: MFAWC FACULTY MEMBER JOEL JANOWITZ
Tuesday, May 18, 8pm

Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely with over 30 solo shows. In 2009 he exhibited at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston. Janowitz's work is currently included in the 2010 exhibition Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting at the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya, Japan.

Janowitz's work has been collected by numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard.

In 2008 Janowitz received his third individual Artist's Fellowship from the state of Massachusetts. The New York Foundation for the Arts has also awarded him an Artist Fellowship. Earlier in his career he twice received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Janowitz has taught at Wellesley College since 2003 and he has been on the faculty of MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center, Massachusetts College of Art and Design's MFA program in Provincetown, since its inception in 2006. Janowitz taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 until 2000.

Spring Benefit in Boston
May 20, 2010
ACME Fine Art
38 Newbury St., Boston MA
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Founding Artists and Writers of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

The Fine Arts Work Center’s annual Spring Benefit will take place on May 20 at ACME Fine Art in Boston. The benefit will feature a special exhibition, curated by ACME’s David Cowan and James Bennette, of the Work Center founders, a group of artists, writers, and patrons who each had longstanding connections to the famous art colony located on Cape Cod’s outer reaches. The founding artists include Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, Myron Stout, Jim Forsberg, Philip Malicoat, Fritz Bultman, Richard Florsheim, Raymond Rizk and Salvatore Del Deo. Stanley Kunitz was the founding writer. Fine examples of work by each of the founding artists and writers will make up this important commemorative exhibition.

On this occasion, patrons who were instrumental in founding the organization will also be honored. They include Hudson Walker, Ernest Vanderberg, Josiah Child, and Munro Moore. Josephine Del Deo, cultural historian, community preservation activist and also a founder, will – with her husband Sal – be Honorary Chairs of the event’s Host Committee.

Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.

Ticket levels follow:

$50 (Ticket)
$250 (Friend)
$500 (Sponsor)
$1,000 (Patron)
$2,500 (Benefactor)

Benefactors, Patrons, and Sponsors will receive four complimentary tickets. Friends will receive two complimentary tickets.
For more information, please contact:
Gina Longo, Donor Relations & Events
(508) 487-9960 x 106
glongo@fawc.org

Please make checks payable to Fine Arts Work Center, or use our online contribution form and enter "Spring Benefit" in the comments box along with desired ticket level.

Tickets may also be purchased through ACME Fine Art (www.acmefineart.com).

ARTIST TALK: MFAWC VISITING ARTIST CRAIG TAYLOR
Thursday, May 20, 8pm

Craig Taylor creates paintings that are both direct and nuanced, a tension developed as displayed through the simultaneous use of luminous color and graphic structural devices. The images that emerge are corporeal, airy, concrete, moody, lurid, aggressive, and delicate. The exchange of these qualities places Taylor's work in dialogue with gestural abstraction and the use of the grotesque in Surrealism. The contradictions that occur both internally within each painting as well as from one to the next generate layers of meaning through the formal interplay of paint and image. Representation in these paintings unfolds in a fragmentary and unfixed relationship, with subject matter appearing, dissolving, and reemerging into a broader meditation on the nature of abstraction and the painted object.

Craig Taylor was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin in 1971 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from Maine College of Art and his MFA from Yale University. He has had single artist exhibitions at March Gallery, New York and Test: Showroom, Berlin. He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions. Some recent highlights include shows at CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas; 106 Greene, Brooklyn, New York; Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and Fred [London], Lepzig Germany. He is a professor of Painting at Massachusetts College of Art.

ARTIST TALK: MFAWC VISITING ARTIST MICHELLE HANDELMAN
Thursday, May 27, 8pm

A video artist and performer, Michelle Handelman makes confrontational work that explores the sublime in various forms of excess and nothingness. "I make work that speaks to an aesthetic of seduction and repulsion - constructing an unsettling ground of fantastical characters working through unresolved questions of identity." Recent projects include the multichannel video installation "Dorian, a cinematic perfume" (Participant, Inc., NYC, 2009; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2010); " The Laughing Lounge", a live mediated performance ( PERFORMA 05); and "This Delicate Monster" (Jack the Pelican, NY 2004, 3LD Art & Technology Center, NYC 2006). Prior to moving to New York in 1999, Handelman directed the feature documentary "BloodSisters" and collaborated for several years with Monte Cazazza, pioneer of the Industrial music scene in San Francisco.

She has shown internationally at Pompidou Centre, Paris; ICA, London; American Film Institute, SF; MOMA and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. Her work has been reviewed widely in Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, and Art Forum. She has taught at The San Francisco Art Institute, The California College of the Arts, University of California, Davis. The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Media Studies Graduate Program of The New School. Handelman is currently an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston.

EXHIBITION: FAWC FORMER FELLOWS 2002-2003
Curated by William Evaul (1970-71, 1971-72)
Opening Reception: Friday, May 28, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: May 28-June 8

Featuring the works of Grace Sullivan, Lamar Peterson,
Angela Dufresne, James Everett Stanley,
Michael Jones McKean, MiYoung Sohn,
Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Carlos Ferguson

PAST EVENTS : APRIL 2010

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

ARTIST TALK: DANIEL BOZHKOV
Friday, April 2, 8:15pm

Daniel Bozhkov is an artist based in New York. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields to activate the public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel Bozhkov is a recipient of 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation, Art Matters, and Artslink. He has shown at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Arthouse at Jones Center in Austin, Texas; Ikon Gallery, Burmingham, UK; Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, Berlin, Germany; and Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey. His work has been presented in international exhibitions such as the 6th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2007, 9th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey in 2005, the 1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in 2005. Daniel Bozhkov is an artist-in-residence at the Queens Museum of Art, New York and is also working on a project for 2010 Liverpool Biennial. Daniel teaches at Columbia University and Yale University School of Art, and is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City.

READING: MICHAEL MORSE AND SOPHIE MCMANUS
Saturday, April 3, 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.

EXHIBITION: 2010-2011 VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMS FELLOWS
Opening Reception: Friday, April 30, 6-8 pm
Exhibition Dates: April 30 - May 11

On view in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery from April 30 - May 11 is a show of works by the incoming 2010 - 2011 Visual Arts Program Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center. The ten emerging visual artists were selected from a pool of 400 applicants from around the world. Selection is based solely on the quality of the work and the "emerging artist" criteria. Each year three professional visual artists are chosen by the Visual Arts Program Committee to serve as an outside jury. This jury is varied in discipline, gender and ethnicity. The final jury process is unique in that the outside jurors review original work rather than slides or digital images to award the fellowships. The outside jury which selected the 2010-2011 Visual Arts Program Fellows included Carrie Moyer, Paul Pfeiffer, and Stanley Whitney.

PAST EVENTS : MARCH 2010

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
Cancelled

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, 8:15pm

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.

PAST EVENTS : FEBRUARY 2010

ARTIST TALK: LAUREN EWING
Thursday, February 4, 8pm

Lauren Ewing is a sculptor and installation artist. Her art addresses the relationship of individuals to institutions, the collapse of nature into culture and the vast construct of material culture in relation to memory and desire. Many of her site sculptures and installations are polyvocal. They involve image, materiality, simulation, language, sound and unique electronic texts which are thematically provocative and richly poetic.

She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries and in museum installations, including Diane Brown Gallery, Castelli Graphics, John Weber Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Decordova Museum, Massachusetts, Storm King Art Center, New York, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark; Interim Art, London and the Sydney Biennale, Australia. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MoMA, the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Walt Disney Collection, the San Diego Contemporary, the Virlane Foundation in New Orleans and many others. Her site sculptures are located in many American cities including Seattle, Sacramento, Bernardsville and Bordentown, New Jersey, Atlantic City, Denver and Philadelphia.

EXHIBITION: JACOB YANES
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 5 - 10

Jacob Yanes was born in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended St. John's College in Santa Fe and Brandeis University, and has lived and worked in Boston and New York. Currently based in Los Angeles, he received his MFA from UCLA in 2008, and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
www.jacobyanes.com

READING: SARA MAJKA & SARA ELIZABETH JOHNSON
Saturday, February 6, 8pm

Sara Majka grew up along the Northeast coast and spent many of those years on Cape Cod. Her stories are published or forthcoming in A Public Space, The Massachusetts Review, PEN America, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Sara Elizabeth Johnson is a graduate of Cornell University and the MFA program at the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, Shenandoah, Cutthroat, Willow Springs, Tampa Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2009. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Project Award and was a finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

EXHIBITION: ROBIN MANDEL
Opening Reception: Friday, February 12, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 12 - 17

Robin Mandel is an artist working in sculpture, drawing, and installation. His recent exhibition venues include the Green Street Gallery in Boston; the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts; Real Art Ways in Hartford; and the Freedman Gallery at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. He has also exhibited in Portland, Maine; New York; Montreal; Venice; and Barcelona. He has been awarded grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston, and residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado and the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. From 2007 to 2008 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He has also taught at RISD and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. www.robinmandel.net

EXHIBITION: NADIA AYARI
Opening Reception: Friday, February 19, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 19 - 24

Nadia Ayari moved from Tunisia to the United States in 2000. She completed a BA in Art History at Boston University in 2004, and a Certificate of Fine Arts from Brandeis University in 2005. In 2007, she earned her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006. In 2008, she had her first solo show, at Mehr Gallery in New York. In 2009, her work was included in Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi Gallery in London; and On Paper at Monica De Cardenas Gallery in Zuoz, Switzerland. Her second solo show opens November 2009 at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy, where will also be participating in Artissima 16.

EXHIBITION: KIRSTEN ULLRICH
Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 26 - March 3

Kirsten Ullrich was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and has received degrees in painting from the University of Cincinnati and Temple University's Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. Her work acts as a record of her free associations, with subject matter that is mischievous, irreverent, and absurd. Impulsivity and humor inform her material choices as well. Her body of work includes drawing, painting on large and small scale, and, to a smaller extent, sculpture. www.kirstenullrich.com