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VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS:
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MIKE CALWAY-FAGEN hails from Nashville, Tennessee. He received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and an MFA from UC San Diego. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Mike is represented by Gazelli Art in London.
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JANE CORRIGAN, born in Quebec, holds an MFA from SUNY Purchase (2009) and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2003). She has exhibited at White Columns, New York; The Active Space, Brooklyn; Marianne Friis Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; and ESP in Toronto, Canada. She lives in Brooklyn.
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 | ESTEBAN DEL VALLE is an interdisciplinary artist currently living in Brooklyn. He completed an MFA in 2009 at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Esteban has been a part of various exhibitions including the 2009 New Insight exhibition at Art Chicago and Geography of Imagination curated by Phong Bui in New York City. In 2009, Esteban was an artist in residence at Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 2010, Esteban was both a writer in residence at ISLAND and an artist in residence at the Djerassi Program. In 2011, Esteban worked in Los Angeles designing a set for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival selection Filly Brown. Most recently, he was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
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Second-Year Fellow NICHOLAS DES COGNETS was raised in western Massachusetts and received a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After living in Brooklyn for eight years, he recently moved to Richmond, Virginia, where he received his MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has shown work extensively in both a solo and group shows, including recent shows in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
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Born in Seattle, HEATHER HART was an artist in residence at Skowhegan, RBPW, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Whitney ISP. She received grants from Harvestworks, the Jerome Foundation, and a fellowship from NYFA. Her work has been included in a variety of publications and exhibited worldwide including at Socrates Sculpture Park; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Art in General; Rush Arts Gallery; the Museum of Arts and Crafts, in Japan; Portland Art Center; and the Brooklyn Museum. She studied at Cornish College of the Arts and Princeton University and received an MFA from Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn.
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LISA IGLESIAS was born and raised in Queens, New York. A graduate of SUNY Binghamton, she received an MFA from the University of Florida. She has attended such residencies as PS 122, Santa Fe Art Institute, Blue Mountain Center, Cité Internationale des Arts, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Lisa's work has most recently been featured in group shows at El Museo del Barrio, Brooklyn College, and MoCADA. She presented solo and two-person shows at Albion College and Y Gallery in 2011. She is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts in addition to an Urban Artists Initiative grant. She works and exhibits both individually as well as collaboratively with her sister, Janelle, under the name Las Hermanas Iglesias.
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 | ALISON O'DANIEL explores the movement of narrative between the cinematic experience and sound, sculpture and performance. Her first feature length performance-film, Night Sky, has screened with live accompaniment in the form of music or Sign Language at the Anthology Film Archive in conjunction with Art in General and Performa 11, as well as the Fusebox festival, Krowswork Gallery, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, The Nightingale (Chicago), the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCAD in Detroit, and NYU. She received a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist fellowship in 2011 and a Franklin Furnace Fund fellowship for 2012-13. In 2007, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received an MFA from UC Irvine in 2010.
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Second-Year Fellow JACOLBY SATTERWHITE, a multimedia artist, was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. He's participated in residencies at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. His work has been included in group exhibitions and performances at Exit Art, Rush Arts Gallery, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Smithsonian Institution. Jacolby is a recipient of the Van Lier Grant, the Experimental TV Center NYSCA Grant, and the Toby Devan Lewis Award.
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JENNIFER SULLIVAN is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, performance, collage, painting and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Freight + Volume, and Las Cienegas Projects, as well as exhibitions and performances at MoMA PS1, Horton Gallery, Arthouse, and Klaus von Nichtsaggend. She has completed residencies at Skowhegan, Ox-Bow, Yaddo, and Voom HD Lab. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Art Papers, and her videos are included in the Geisel Library collection at the University of California, San Diego. Sullivan received an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2005. She lives in and works in Ridgewood, New York.
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NICKY TAVARES is a Boston-based multimedia artist whose work spans from documentaries to experimental films and photographs. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Lincoln Center, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Balagan Experimental Film Series, Videofest, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, WAM!Boston Film Festival, and MassArt Film Society. She holds an MFA in Film and Video from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BA in photocommunications from Saint Edward's University. Most recently she was an Iqbal Fellow at the International Islamic University, Islamabad.
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WRITING FELLOWS:
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Fiction Fellow KATIE BELLAS is a graduate of Duke University and the fiction MFA program at Brooklyn College, where she received the 2011 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing. Her work is forthcoming in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
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AJA GABEL's fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Bat City Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. Her stories have been awarded honorable mentions in the Atlantic Monthly and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Virginia; she is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Houston, where she is also a fiction editor for Gulf Coast.
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Poetry Fellow MIRIAM BIRD GREENBERG grew up on a farm in Texas and spent her childhood roaming the nearby creeks and caved-in barns. She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and residencies from Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Headlands Center for the Arts. She lives in Berkeley, California, where she teaches ESL and from 2007-2012 collaborated with the audience immersive performance group Odyssey Works. Her chapbook, All night in the new country, will be out with Sixteen Rivers press in 2013.
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Second-Year fiction Fellow MICHAEL HINKEN grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and holds an MFA in prose from the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in West Branch, Third Coast, Provincetown Arts, Fiction Writers Review and elsewhere. In 2011 he was a fellow at the Sozopol Fiction Seminar, and one of his stories earned an honorable mention in the 2011 Puschcart Prize anthology. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he teaches writing at the University of Michigan. He is working on a novel set in the Russian Far East.
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Poetry Fellow SARA MILLER holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she studied poetry with Richard Hugo. She has published poems in the Yale Review, America, and First Things, and has work forthcoming in Poetry magazine. Her book reviews and feature articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Ms., and Kirkus Reviews, among other publications. She is the recipient of an AWP poetry award.
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Second-Year poetry Fellow MARGARET REGES, a native of Michigan, is the
recipient of degrees from the University of Michigan and the Iowa
Writers' Workshop. Her recent honors include fellowships from the
MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, and her poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review,
and New Orleans Review.
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Poetry Fellow JOSHUA RIVKIN has received fellowships and awards from the Inprint-Brown Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Poetry Society of America, as well as a travel fellowship to the Krakow Writer's Seminar, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford University. His work has appeared in Slate, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New Poets and elsewhere. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Fiction Fellow ANNIE SLONIKER grew up in Bellevue, Nebraska, and was educated at Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her writing received the Prairie Lights Short Fiction Award at Iowa and has appeared in A Public Space. She is currently working on a novel.
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Poetry fellow JACOB SUNDERLIN received an MFA from Purdue University, where he edited poetry for Sycamore Review. He has worked as a line cook, bread baker, hod carrier, ad stuffer, banjo player, tutor, and teacher. Some of his poems appear in Caketrain; Forklift, OH; and La Petite Zine. He is from Indiana.
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Fiction Fellow LEOPOLDINE CORE was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Open City, The Literarian, Joyland Magazine, The Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail and No, Dear, among others. She is an Emerging Fiction Fellow at The Center for Fiction.
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