MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN LOW RESIDENCY OPEN STUDIOS Sunday, May 19, noon-3pm Open Studios is a way to see art in the space where it's made with the maker present. ARTIST TALK: MEGAN & MURRAY MCMILLAN Tuesday, May 21, 8 pm MEGAN and MURRAY MCMILLAN, are video, photography and installation artists who have been collaborating since 2002. They have exhibited at the Casa Masaccio Center for Contemporary Art in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia. They are represented by Qbox Gallery in Athens, Greece. The McMillan’s latest works were featured in the 2012 DeCordova Biennial at the DeCordova Museum and in a solo exhibition at Brown University’s Cohen Gallery. These exhibitions were funded through an Artist Resource Trust Fund from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and project grants from Brown University and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. The McMillans have been artists in residence in Barcelona, Los Angeles, Tzia and Athens, Greece and Turku and Kokar, Finland. Their work has been featured in lm festivals in New York, London, Los Angeles, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. Their work has been included in the Wild Things exhibition at the Kunsthallen Brandts in Odense, Denmark (2010), the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009), and the 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007). Their work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtLies Quarterly, among others. In 2012, the McMillans received a substantial Project Grant and a New Genres Fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts New Genres Fellowship and were nalists for a Creative Capital grant. Megan McMillan (born 1975, Dallas, TX) has an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in English Writing and Rhetoric from St Edwards University. Megan also studied in the Art History and Museum Studies graduate program at California State University in Long Beach. Murray McMillan (born 1973, Dallas, TX) has a MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. The McMillans have been married since 1997 and live and work in Providence, Rhode Island. ARTIST TALK: GREGORY AMENOFF Friday, May 24, 8 pm GREGORY AMENOFF is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Amenoff served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He is a founding board member of the CUE Art Foundation in New York City and serves as the CUE Art Foundation's Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last eighteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts and is currently the Chair of the Visual Arts Division in the School of the Arts. He is currently the Vice-President of the National Academy. In 2011 he received the John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship. READING AND ARTIST TALK: JOAN WICKERSHAM, ROBERT HENRY & SELINA TRIEFF Monday, June 17 6:30pm JOAN WICKERSHAM is the author of The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story. Her memoir, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order, was a National Book Award Finalist and has appeared on "best books of the year" lists including the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Salon, and the Washington Post. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary, and her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Joan writes a regular op-ed column for the Boston Globe and has contributed on-air essays to the NPR shows On Point and Morning Edition. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. ROBERT HENRY's numerous one-person exhibitions include the Cortland Jessup Gallery and Barbara Inger Gallery in New York, the Janus Avivson Gallery in London, and the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. His work hangs in the permanent collections of Brooklyn College, the Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Columbia University, Pace University, and many others. He is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College. SELINA TRIEFF studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. She received a BA from Brooklyn College where she studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. She is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, the George Billis Gallery in New York, and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in California. She has shown extensively in the United States and in Europe. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, and she has taught at various colleges and art schools. A CONVERSATION WITH POET CLEOPATRA MATHIS AND ARTIST VICKY TOMAYKO Tuesday, June 18 6:30pm CLEOPATRA MATHIS' seventh collection, Book of Dog, was published in January 2012 by Sarabande. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies, textbooks, magazines and journals, including The Best American Poetry, 2009, The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Three Penny Review, Tri-Quarterly, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Extraordinary Tide: Poetry by American Women, and The Practice of Poetry. Prizes for her work include two National Endowment for the Arts grants; the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001 for What to Tip the Boatman?, the Peter Lavin Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets; two Pushcart Prizes; The Robert Frost Resident Poet Award; and four Individual Artist Fellowships in Poetry from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the New Jersey State Arts Council. She was a Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1981-82. Cleopatra Mathis is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor of the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where she founded the creative writing program in 1982. VICKY TOMAYKO is an artist and printmaker. She manages the print studio at FAWC during the Fellowship program and for the Massachusetts College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center Low-Residency MFA program. She also teaches printmaking and textile arts at Cape Cod Community College. Her awards include a Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, and two Ford Foundation Grants. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Basel, Venice, Istanbul, and Melbourne. READING AND ARTIST TALK: ELLEN WITTLINGER, MARK ADAMS & ELIZABETH BRADFIELD Wednesday, June 19 6:30pm ELLEN WITTLINGER is the author of 2 middle-grade novels and 12 young adult novels, among them Hard Love which won both a Printz Honor Award from the American Library Association and the Lambda Literary Award. Her novels have been Junior Library Guild selections and are on numerous state awards lists. She's been translated internationally from Croatia to Korea. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Ellen was twice a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. She's taught writing at Emerson College in Boston and in the Simmons College MFA in Writing for Children and YA program in Amherst, MA. MARK ADAMS studied drawing, scientific illustration, ecology, and landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and California College of the Arts. He has worked as a cartographer with the National Park Service on Cape Cod since 1992. A painter and videographer, he shows his work at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and elsewhere in New England, and teaches at the Provincetown Art Association Museum School, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and for the Provincetown High School Academy Mentor Program. ELIZABETH BRADFIELD is the author of two poetry collections, Approaching Ice and Interpretive Work. Her poems have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Believer, Orion and in numerous anthologies. A believer in the power of literature and art in conversation, she is editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press (broadsidedpress.org), which publishes monthly original collaborations. She works as a naturalist in Alaska, the Arctic, the Antarctic and locally on Cape Cod, where she lives. STUDENT NIGHT Thursday, June 20 4:30pm Open Studios 5:00pm Reception with wine and cheese 6:00pm Readings of student work Thursday evening is FAWC's student night where program participants are invited to share what they have made throughout the week. FAWC hosts an early evening reception, open studios, and a student reading. READING AND ARTIST TALK: VIJAY SESHADRI AND CATHERINE KEHOE Monday, June 24 6:30pm VIJAY SESHADRI is the author of the poetry books Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The Disappearances (New and Selected Poems; HarperCollins-India), and 3 Sections (September, 2013), and of many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been recognized with a number of honors. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. CATHERINE KEHOE was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1989 and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, in 1992. Kehoe has received the following awards, among others: Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Grant; and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Award. Kehoe is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, and has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions. She teaches painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has taught drawing at Boston University School of Visual Arts. Kehoe has also taught painting workshops at Art New England at Bennington College, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Washington Art Association, and at a program of the Jerusalem Studio School in Siena, Italy. A CONVERSATION WITH POET DAISEY FRIED AND ARTIST BERT YARBOROUGH Tuesday, June 25 6:30pm DAISEY FRIED is the author of three books of poems, Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice (2013), My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (2006), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of Library Journal's 10 Best Poetry Books of 2006, and She Didn't Mean to Do It (2000) which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award. Her poems have appeared in The London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, Threepenny Review and many others. She has received Guggenheim, Hodder and Pew Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize and the Cohen Award from Ploughshares. She reviews books of poetry for The New York Times and was awarded Poetry magazine's Editor's Prize for a Feature Essay for "Sing, God-Awful Muse," on reading Paradise Lost and the Nipple Nazi of Northampton. She was for two years the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and currently teaches creative writing at Bryn Mawr College and in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. 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 in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, where he teaches drawing and painting. A former two-year resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and is now serving as Chairman of the Visual 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 Gallery in Provincetown, and McGowan Fine Arts in Concord, New Hampshire.