Among the most important accomplishments of the Fine Arts Work Center in 2008–09 were those of our former Fellows – the hundreds of talented people who have emerged since their time at the Work Center to become accomplished artists and writers devoting their lives to creative work. Here are the highlights of their achievements during the last year. Space limits the following to selected awards, books and exhibitions. We extend our congratulations to these Fellows and all the others whose work gives us our reason for being.
VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS: Selected Exhibits 2009
Bailey Bob Bailey (1989-90, 1991-92) LExICON, Cape Cod Community College, Higgins Art Gallery, Barnstable, MA (Solo Show); artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA.
Taylor Baldwin (2008-09, 2009-10) Comet Fever, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY; The Sun Never Sets, Special Projects, Pulse NY, New York, NY; Future Perfect, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show); Art Fellows, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA; Born in Tucson/Made in Tucson/Live in Tucson, Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ.
Yee Jan Bao (2000-01) Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA.
Aileen Bassis (1971-72) Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust, Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA; Altered Pages, Altered Aesthetics, Minneapolis, MN.
Mary Behrens (1991-92) Click-New England Photography Today, George Marshall Gallery, York, ME; Paperjam: Works on Paper Invitational, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA.
Linda Bond (1978-79) Pin His Ear to the Wisdom Post, Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA; Paperjam: Works on Paper Invitiational, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA.
Kate Clark (2006-07) Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; ÜberPortrait, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA; NEXT Chicago, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY.
Stoney Conley (1978-79, 1979-80) Way After Canaletto, Winifsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA.
Eric Conrad (2000-01, 2001-02) Wild Things, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park and Art Center, Chesapeake, MD; Creatures Great and Small, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray, KY.
Didier Corallo (1994-95, 1995-96) Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show).
Adam Davies (2008-09) Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (Solo Show); August Photography Exhibition, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; VCCA Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; 3-Person Exhibition, Project Basho Photography Resource Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Linda Adair Day (1984-85) For Fame and Love, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA; Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI and LACE, Los Angeles, CA; On the Down-Low, The Attic, Los Angeles, CA; Intellectual Abstraction, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA.
Ellen Driscoll (1983-84, 1984-85) Fredereike Taylor Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); SmackMellon, Brooklyn, NY (Solo Show); browser, inter-actor, coauthor, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Angela Dufresne (2002-03, 2003-04) 2009 Next Wave Art, BAM, Brooklyn, NY; Modern Times 1, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); Modern Times 2, CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Master of Reality, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Form and Story: Narration in Recent Painting, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA.
Andrea Epstein (1980-81) Abstraction, A Woman's View, The Gaelen Galleries, West Orange, NJ; Pressing Matters, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ.
James Esber (1991-92) Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Eckhard Etzold (1997-98) Avant-Guide to NYC: Discovering Absence, apexart, New York, NY.
Ramon Fernandez-Bofill (2005-06) Multiversal for Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Space at The American Legion, Miami, FL; 8th Annual Faculty Exhibition, Miami International University of Art and Design, Miami, FL; Bunker Buster Group Show, The Bunker Art Space, Miami, FL.
Jane Fine (1992-93) Glad All Over, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
David Fludd (1992-93, 1993-94) Compositions: New Paintings, Sherry Washington Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Adam Frelin (2005-06) browser, inter-actor, coauthor, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Adam Frelin (2005-06) and Michele Kong (2008-09) An Unknown Lesson and other stories, video project sponsored by Unite for Sight (http://www.uniteforsight.org//) in Delhi, India. Video available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-BlkC3omyk.
Colette Fu (2005-06) We Are Tiger Dragon People, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Show); In Your Dreams, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.
Christy Georg (2007-08) Nautical Body, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA (Solo Show); The Amazing Acoustaphotophonogrammatron, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA; Tim Flynn's Hardware Store, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO.
Meghan Gordon (2007-08, 2008-09) Midsummer Salutations, The Art Store, Charleston, WV; Paperjam Invitational, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA.
Hiroyuki Hamada (1995-96) Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY; Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
Kimberley Hart (1999-00, 2000-01) X 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens, New York, NY; Scout, Mixed Greens, New York, NY (Solo Show).
Kirsten Hassenfeld (1998-99) David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI (Solo Show).
Todd Hebert (1998-99) City and Country, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo Show); Snowmen: 2004-2009, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX (Solo Show): Strangers in a Strange Land, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT; Selected Works from Pillio Records: Woodblocks and Monotypes, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY.
Alicia Henry (1991-92, 1992-93) Gallery Evah, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show).
Eric Hongisto (2001-02) Black Swan Event, Window Gallery, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA.
Timothy Horn (2005-06) GlassWear, travelling show including Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX; Glazen Huis Vlaams Centrum voor Hedendaagse Glaskunstk, Lommel, Belgium; Here & There, LAND/ART 09, Albuquerque, NM; New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY; Reinventions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was Summer in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL; Cabinet of Curiosities, Dunedin Arts Center, Dunedin, FL; Medusa, LAND/ART 09, Santa Fe, NM (Solo Show).
Sharon Horvath (1985-86) Personal Geometry, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY; Parts of a World, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (Solo Show).
James Huang (2001-02) Portraiture of Silicon Enlightenment, SCA Contemporary Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
Sedrick Huckaby (1999-00) A Love Supreme, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA.
Janelle Iglesias (2007-08) Overture to Whirl, Sunroom Project Space, Wavehill, Bronx, NY (Solo Show); The Kiosk Project, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (Solo Show); Artist/Mentor Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; The Individual and the Family (Las Hermanas Iglesias), P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY.
Mala Iqbal (1998-99, 1999-2000) Speaking in Tongues, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany; Imaginary Home: Tom Andersen, Mala Iqbal, and Paul Jacobsen, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO.
Esther Jiskoot (2000-01) Glas Nu, Stichting Museum Kunstpaviljoen, Nieuw Roden, the Netherlands; Colors are deads of the light that breaks, Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Middelburg, the Netherlands; Glas(s) Rietveld Academie Amsterdam 1969-2009, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, the Netherlands; Anningahof, Zwolle, the Netherlands; Quantumvis V, Service Garage, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Lingam, Stockholm, Sweden; New Loves, Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
Ezra Johnson (2006-07) A Gentlemen's Painter Among Bohemians, New Galerie de France, Paris France (Solo Show); 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany.
Maryalice Johnston (1985-86, 1986-87) my girls, artSTRAND Gallery, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show); Butter Loves, artSTRAND Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Butterfull Moon, artSTRAND Gallery, Provincetown, MA; browser, inter-actor, coauthor, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Bo Joseph (1993-94) Kunsthalle: Deutschland nach Portland, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR; Winter Group Show, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR.
Rajkamal Kahlon (2004-05) Did You Kiss the Dead Body?, Catalyst, Berlin, Germany (Solo Show); Oscilligrams, Goethe Institute, Budapest, Hungary; Whats the Other Up to?, Gallery OED, Kochi, India.
Nicholas Miles Kahn (1994-95) and Richard Selesnick (1994-95), Worlds Discovered, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (Solo Show); Apollo Prophecies & Eisbergfreistadt, Untitled (Artspace), Oklahoma City, OK (Solo Show); Eisbergfreistadt, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (Solo Show); Eisbergfreistadt, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo Show); The Moon, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; Miroirs d'Orients, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France.
Eun-Ju Kang (1989-90, 1990-91) Colors, Eyebuzz Fine Art, Tarrytown, NY.
Viet Le (2003-04) succeed or quit, site-specific installation in Umbria, Italy (Solo Show); One Lucky Day, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Pandemic Show, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Tristin Lowe (1990-91) Mocha Dick, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Show); Mocha Dick in the Invisible World, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Show).
Susan Lyman (1981-82) Second Nature, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.
Honour Mack (1994-95) Horizons – Poetics of Post-Heroic Landscape, USM Gorham Art Gallery & UMF Art Gallery, Gorham and Farmington, Maine.
Tala Madani (2006-07) Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual, Tirana, Albania; Pictograms, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY (Solo Show).
Martha McCollough (1983-84, 1984-85) Ragged Mythologies, Gallery Spencer Lofts, Chelsea, MA.
Michael Jones McKean (2002-03) rites and dust, Horton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); Oculus Imaginationi, Horton & Co., New York, NY; Objet Petit A, Spoke Gallery, Chicago, IL; Strangers in Conversation, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Past Arts Faculty Exhibition, Houston Community College, Houston, TX; browser, inter-actor, co-author, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; The Margins, The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ; Drawn, Kinkhead Contemporary, Culver City, CA; Physical Reminders, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK.
Colin McLain (1998-99) David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN (Solo Show).
Hans van Meeuwen (2000-01) Future Days, CAN Alternative Space, New York, NY.
Nathalie Miebach (2006-07, 2007-08) Amherst College, Amherst, MA (Solo Show); Cynthia Reeves Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (Solo Show); Second Nature, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Musical Variations on Weather, Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI (Solo Show).
Steve Miller (1973-74, 1974-75) Robin Rice Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); Octet, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Deviant Specimens, Howard Yeserski Gallery, Boston, MA; Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY; Up and Coming, Benson Keys Art, Southhampton, NY; Artists Secret Society Second Annual Guerrilla Exhibition, Christy's Art Center, Sag Harbor, New York.
Garry Mitchell (1983-84, 1985-86) Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ (Solo Show); Biennial, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; EA Gallery, Rye, NY.
Jason Mones (2008-09) No Money No Problems, Recession Art, New York, NY; My Last Buck, Temp Gallery in conjunction with New York City, New York, NY (Solo Show); Print Americas, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Silvermine, CT; Exquisite Corpse, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers State University of New Jersey.
Rob Nadeau (1999-2000) Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN (Solo Show); Brooklyn Painters, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, SC; Tenth Anniversary Show, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY.
Ludwika Ogorzelec (1990-91, 1994-95) Space Crystallization, Poznan 16th International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland; Space Crystallization, Foreigner Gallery in the National Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Kambui Olujimi (2007-08) StreetWise, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; On Screen: Global Intimacy, Krannert Museum of Art, Urbana-Champaign, IL; The Clouds Are After Me, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY.
Sarah Oppenheimer (1995-96) MF-142, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (Solo Show); VP-41, Art Unlimited @ Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
(Solo Show); Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Don't Perish, Leo Keonig Projekte, New York, NY; Infinite Possibilities, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY.
Micha Patiniott (2008-09) The Full Story, Art Amsterdam (with MKgalerie), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Solo Show); Focus, Focus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; RC de Ruimte, Ijmuiden, The Netherlands; Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA; Selection 2008, GIST, Brummen, The Netherlands.
Jack Pierson (1993-94) Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne, Germany; Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain; Christian Stein, Milan, Italy.
Ann Reichlin (1988-89) Translucent Home, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY.
Justin Richel (2005-06, 2006-07) Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT (Solo Show); Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
Christopher Romer (1994-95) 3AM: Under the Full Moon, The Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA (Solo Show).
Carrie Scanga (2004-05) The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (Solo Show); Intaglio a Go-Go, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Allegories and Architecture, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas.
Kristen Schiele (2004-05) Pretty TV-Love, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, CA (Solo Show); Cheap Pony, Scope Art Fair special projects at Lincoln Center, New York, NY (Solo Show); Low Blow, Stux Gallery, New York, NY; +2, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY; artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA; The Beastly Beauty, Participant, Inc., New York, NY; Group Exhibition, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO.
Karen Schifano (1979-80) Open House for Butterflies, Minus Space Project Space, New York, NY; Gallery Selections: Small Scale Works, Tobey Fine Arts, New York, NY.
Minako Shirakura (2007-08, 2008-09) browser, inter-actor, coauthor, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Mousetrap, Koussevitzky Art Gallery, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA.
Ron Shuebrook (1969-70) Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Solo Show); Black and White with Storylines, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada.
Madeline Silber (1989-90) Made in New York 2009, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY; Limestone Gallery, Fayetteville, NY.
MiYoung Sohn (2001-02, 2002-03) system: system, Super Square, Brooklyn, NY.
Xin Song (2007-08) Seeds of the Wild, Puffin Room Gallery, New York, NY; Breaking line, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY; Trans-formation, Art Next Gallery, New York, NY.
Jenna Spevack (1996-97) Trilogy, Chelsea Modern, New York, NY; Ferencvarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Sanlun Yishu, Beijing, China.
James Everett Stanely (2002-03) Let It Burn, Kinkhead Contemporary, Culver City, CA.
Grace Sullivan (2004-05) browser, inter-actor, coauthor, producer, nomad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Vicky Tomayko (1985-86) A Feeling of Certainty, Cape Cod Community College Studio Arts Faculty Exhibit, Hyannis, MA.
Tabitha Vevers (1995-96) The Visible Vagina, Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY; Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA and Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show); Moments of Being, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA (Solo Show).
Chuck Webster (2004-05) Galerie Gabriel Van de Weghe, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo Show); Galerie Jones, Cologne, Germany (Solo Show); FRED, London, England (Solo Show); Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA.
Phil Whitman (2006-07) Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY; Stichino, New York, NY; Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY.\
Bert Yarborough (1976-77, 1977-78) Selected Paintings 1999-2009, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA (Solo Show); Recent Work, artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA; Love, Dust & Desire, McGown Fine Arts, Concord, NH.
Lisa Yuskavage (1986-87) David Zwirner, New York, NY (Solo Show).
VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS: Selected Awards 2009
Mary Behrens (1991-92) was awarded a 2009 fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Linda Bond (1978-79) was a semifinalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Adam Davies (2008-09) was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX.
Ellen Driscoll (1983-84, 1984-85) was awarded a Sirius Art Centre Residency in Cork, Ireland and a LEF Foundation Grant for FastForwardFossil.
Bernadette Fox (1994-95, 1995-96) was a resident artist at the 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, CA.
Colette Fu (2005-06) was a finalist for the Sovereign Foundation Asian Art Prize and was awarded a Project Stream Fund grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Christy Georg (2007-08) was awarded an artist's residency at the Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, NY.
Meghan Gordon (2007-08, 2008-09) was a 2009 fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.
Hiroyuki Hamada (1995-96) received a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
Kirsten Hassenfeld (1998-99) received a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
Timothy Horn (2005-06) received a 2010 Lux Art Institute Residency in Encinitas, CA.
Janelle Iglesias (2007-08) is a SmackMellon Studio Artist, New York, NY, and received a full fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Santa Cruz, CA, and a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Michele Kong (2008-09) was awarded a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, named a Creative Artist Exchange Fellow by the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, was a resident at the Yaddo Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY, an artist-in-residence at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan and will participate in a visual arts residency at Can Serrat International Art Center in El Bruc, Spain.
Viet Le (2003-04) was a finalist for the Sovereign Arts Foundation's Asian Art Prize, was awarded a 2009 fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy, and received a research fellowship at the Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Michael Jones McKean (2002-03) was awarded a 2009 Deans Faculty Research Grant from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, and a 2010 Artadia Foundation New York Residency Fellowship in partnership with the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY.
Nathalie Miebach (2006-07, 2007-08) was awarded an Artist in Research residency at the Berwick Research Institute, Roxbury, MA, and was Artist in Residence at Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Carrie Scanga (2004-05) was awarded a 2008-09 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
Bethany Springer (2001-02) was awarded a 2008-09 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS: Forthcoming Exhibits 2010
Taylor Baldwin (2008-09, 2009-10) Living Fossil, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC (Solo Show).
Kate Clark (2006-07) VoltaNY Art Fair, Claire Oliver Gallery (Solo Booth).
Colette Fu (2005-06) In Depth: Printmaking and Photography, Mainline Art Center, Philadelphia, PA; We are Tiger-Dragon People, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA; Medium Resistance, The Icebox, Philadelphia, PA.
Todd Hebert (1998-99) Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show); Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA (Solo Show).
Timothy Horn (2005-06) Tour de Force: In Case of Emergency, Break Glass, Artisan, Brisbane, Australia; Dallas Art Fair with James Kelly Contemporary, Dallas, TX; Julie Heffernan/Timothy Horn, The Art Show with PPOW Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY; Precious, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM; Selected Works from the UniSA Samstag Collection, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building, UniSA; Amber Room, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA (Solo Show).
James Huang (2001-02) Portraiture of Silicon Enlightenment, Kinkhead Contemporary, Culver City, CA.
Ezra Johnson (2006-07) Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Video Art: Replay, Part 2. Everyday Imaginary, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Bo Joseph (1993-94) A Persistent Absence, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY (Solo Show).
Michael Jones McKean (2002-03)
Nathalie Miebach (2006-07, 2007-08) Sarah Doyle Gallery, Providence, RI (Solo Show); Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; 185th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY.
Sarah Oppenheimer (1995-96) Galerie Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland (Solo Show); Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX (Solo Show).
Micha Patiniott (2008-09) Unisono 22, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands (Solo Show); Full Story, MKGalerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Solo Show).
Ann Reichlin (1988-89) Sculpture Court Project, Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY(Solo Show).
Justin Richel (2005-06, 2006-07) Away From The Precipice, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Christopher Romer (1994-95) SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo Show).
Kristen Schiele (2004-05) New Model Army, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY (Solo Show); Women on Women, Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA.
Karen Schifano (1979-80) Escape from New York, The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Ron Shuebrook (1969-70) Recent Work, Virginia Christopher Fine Art, Calgary, Canada, 2010 (Solo Show)
Madeline Silber (1989-90) 62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY.
Chuck Webster (2004-05) Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA (Solo Show).
Bert Yarborough (1976-77, 1977-78) Work from artSTRAND, FP3 Gallery, Boston, MA.
Lisa Yuskavage (1986-87) Face to Face, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Denver, CO; Size Does Matter, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.
WRITING FELLOWS: Selected Awards 2009
Samuel Amadon's (2006-07) poetry collection, Like a Sea, was awarded the 2009 Iowa Poetry Prize by the University of Iowa Press. The annual prize, open to new as well as established poets, is given for a book-length poetry collection. Like a Sea will be published by the University of Iowa Press in March 2010.
Elizabeth Arnold (1997-98) has won the 2010 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, which requires the winner to be out of the country for a year.
Peter Behrens' (1984-85) novel The Law of Dreams was adapted by Behrens and composer Paul Sullivan into a multi-media performance entitled A Terrible Beauty, premiering May 2010 at the Irish Arts Center, New York, NY.
Michael Collier (1979-80) was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters 2009 Literature Award of $7,500.
Charles Conley (2008-2009) has won an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant and will spend the second half of 2010 in South America.
Matthew Dickman's (2005-06) book of poems All-American Poem was awarded the 2009 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry from Literary Arts–Oregon Book Awards and the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont University.
Michael Dickman (2006-07) was awarded a 2009-2010 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. The Fellowship includes a $60,000 grant and the opportunity to spend the academic year in residence at Princeton.
Erica Ehrenberg (2008-09) received a 2009 Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. The Stegner Fellowship includes a stipend of $26,000 per year, tuition and healthcare for the two-year program.
Alice Fulton's (1982-83) story collection The Nightingales of Troy was a New & Recommended selection by the Boston Globe, a Discoveries feature by the Los Angeles Times, and a Featured Books interview in the Irish Times.
Pilar Gomez-Ibanez's (2007-08) poem "Losing Bedrock Farm" was selected for the University of Virginia Press' Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers. "Losing Bedrock Farm" was also awarded the 2008 Poetry Prize by the Indiana Review.
Frances Hwang (2002-03) was awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose of $25,000.
Denis Johnson (1981-82) was awarded the 2009 Award of Merit Medal for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award is given in recognition of an individual writer's body of work.
Daniel Khalastchi's (2006-07) poetry collection, The Maturation of Man, was awarded the tenth annual Tupelo Press First Book Award. The book will be published in 2011.
Suji Kwock Kim (1997-98) was awarded a 2009 Artist's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Barry Kitterman's (1989-90) novel The Baker's Boy was awarded the 2009 Maria Thomas Peace Corps Writers Award for Fiction.
Marshall N. Klimasewiski (1994-95) was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2009. The awards average $36,672.
Yusef Komunyakaa (1980-81) was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Members are selected annually by internal nomination.
Zachary Lazar's (1994-95) novel Sway won the third-place prize of $2,500 from the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction for 2009. Lazar was awarded a 2009-2010 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. The Fellowship includes a $60,000 grant and the opportunity to spend the academic year in residence at Princeton. Lazar was also awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2009. The awards average $36,672.
Nam Le's (2006-07) short story collection The Boat won the Cleveland Foundation's 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction. The $5,000 prize is granted for works that "contribute to society's understanding of racism and foster an appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures."
Maurice Manning (1999-00) was awarded the 2009 Hanes Award for Poetry from The Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Elizabeth McCracken (1990-91, 92-93) was appointed to the James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Daniyal Mueenuddin's (2006-07) In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was selected as a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, as well as a finalist for the 2010 Story Prize, a $20,000 award honoring a collection of short stories written in English and published in the United States.
John Murillo (2007-08) was awarded a 2009-10 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin. The nine-month fellowships provide time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first book.
Nancy Pearson's (2006-07, 2007-08) poetry collection Two Minutes of Light won the 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England award for poetry.
Lydia Peelle's (2006-07) Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing was selected for The National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" fiction selections for 2009. The "5 under 35" selection recognizes emerging talent and opens the National Book Awards week.
Emmy Pérez (1995-96) was awarded the 2009 Alfred Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award for her work in poetry. The award is given to writers in or related to Texas "who exhibit both exceptional talent and profound commitment to their chosen form."
Jayne Anne Phillips' (1979-80) novel Lark & Termite was selected as a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award.
David A. Rivard's (1984-85, 1986-87) poem "Otherwise Elsewhere" and other poems published in the American Poetry Review were awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize.
Anne Sanow (2003-04, 2005-06) was awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose of $25,000. Her story "The Grand Tour" won the Chicago Tribune's 2009 Nelson Algren Award.
Salvatore Scibona (2001-02, 2002-03) was selected for the Whiting Writers' Award of $50,000, which recognizes ten young writers for their extraordinary talent and promise, given annually since 1985. His novel, The End, was also the winner of the 2009 New York Public Library's Young Lion's Fiction Award, which recognizes the work of young authors. The End was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.
Emily Shelton (2003-04) was awarded the St. Botolph Club Foundation's 2009 Emerging Artist Grant for Literature of $2,500.
Richard Spilman's (1985-86) book of poetry In the Night Speaking won the 2009 Sacramento Poetry Center prize, and his collection of short stories The Estate Sale was awarded the 2009 George Garrett Fiction Prize by the Texas Review Press.
Melanie Sumner (1993-94, 1994-95) was awarded a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose of $25,000.
Alpay Ulku's (1994-95, 1995-96) collection of poetry The Stiller of Atoms was a finalist in the Cleveland State University Open Book Award competition.
WRITING FELLOWS Recent and Forthcoming First Books by Former Fellows
Samuel Amadon (2006-07) Like a Sea, poems, University of Iowa Press, Spring 2010.
Carin Clevidence (1997-98) The House on Salt Hay Road, novel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Spring 2010.
Michael Dickman (2006-07) The End of the West, poems, Copper Canyon Press, Spring 2009.
Paul Harding (2000-01) Tinkers, novel, Bellevue Literary Press, Winter 2009
Terrence E. Holt (1987-88, 1988-89) In the Valley of the Kings, stories, W.W. Norton & Company, Fall 2009.
Nadia Kalman (2007-2008) The Cosmopolitans, novel, Livingston Press, Fall 2010.
Daniel Khalastchi (2006-07) The Maturation of Man, poems, Tupelo Press, 2011.
Janet MacFadyen (1992-93) A Newfoundland Journal, poems, Killick Press, Spring 2009.
Daniyal Mueenuddin (2006-07) In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, stories, W.W. Norton & Company, Summer 2009.
John Murillo (2007-08) Up Jump the Boogie, poems, Cypher Books, Winter 2010.
Lydia Peelle (2006-07) Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, stories, Harper Perennial, Summer 2009.
Melissa Range (2007-08) Horse and Rider, poems, Texas Tech University Press, Winter 2010.
Anne Sanow (2003-04, 2005-06) Triple Time, stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
Laurie Weeks (2000-01) Zipper Mouth, novel, Alyson Publications, Winter 2010.
WRITING FELLOWS Other Recent and Forthcoming Books by Former Fellows
Elizabeth Arnold (1997-98) Effacement, poems, Flood Editions, Spring 2010.
Wayne Biddle (1975-76) Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher Von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race, non-fiction, W.W. Norton & Company, Fall 2009.
Joshua Clover (1992-93) 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have to Sing About This, nonfiction, University of California Press, Fall 2009.
Alison Hawthorne Deming (1984-85) Rope, poems, Penguin, Fall 2009.
Tim Earley (1998-99, 2002-03) The Spooking of Mavens, poems, Cracked Slab Press, 2010.
Nick Flynn (1991-92, 1999-00) The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir, nonfiction, W.W. Norton & Company, Winter 2010. Nick Flynn also contributed to The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House, non-fiction, Tin House Books, Spring 2009.
Louise Glück (1969-70) A Village Life, poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Fall 2009.
Pam Greenberg (1999-00) The Complete Psalms: The Book of Prayer Songs in a New Translation, Bloomsbury USA, Spring 2010.
Paul Harding (2000-01) Enon, novel, Random House, 2012.
Adam Haslett (1996-97) Union Atlantic, novel, Nan A. Talese, Winter 2010.
Robyn Hemley (1985-86) Do-Over!: In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments, nonfiction, Little Brown, Spring 2009.
Tony Hoagland (1985-86) Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, poems, Graywolf Press, Winter 2010.
Chris Holbrook (1986-87) Upheaval, stories, The University Press of Kentucky, Summer 2009.
Marie Howe (1983-84) The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, poems, W.W. Norton & Company, Summer 2009.
Andrew Hudgins (1986-87) American Rendering, poems, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Spring 2010; Shut Up You're Fine: Instructive Poetry for Very, Very Bad Children, Overlook Press, Spring 2009.
Christine Hume (1998-99) Shot, prose and verse, Counterpath Press, Fall 2009.
Major Jackson (2000-01) Holding Company, poems, W.W. Norton & Company, Summer 2010.
Tama Janowitz (1981-82) They Is Us, novel, HarperCollins UK, Summer 2009.
Denis Johnson (1981-82) Nobody Move, novel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Spring 2009.
Yusef Komunyakaa (1980-81) is the subject of a new book that brings together over two decades of interviews and profiles of the poet edited by Shirley A. James Hanshaw entitled Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa, University Press of Mississippi, Winter 2010.
Brian Kiteley (1984-85, 1991-92) The River Gods, novel, Fiction Collective, Fall 2009.
Anna M. Keesey (1994-95) Little Century, novel, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, early 2011.
Victor LaValle (1998-99) Big Machine, novel, Spiegel & Grau, Summer 2009.
Zachary Lazar (1994-95) Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder, nonfiction, Little, Brown & Company, Fall 2009.
Ada Limón (2001-02) Sharks in the Rivers, poems, Milkweed Editions, 2010.
Paul Lisicky (1991-92, 1992-93) Lumina Harbor (forthcoming).
Jon Loomis (1994-95, 2001-02) Mating Season, novel, St. Martin's/Minotaur, Spring 2009.
Molly Malone Cook (1971-72, 1972-73) Our World: Photographs by Molly Malone Cook, Text by Mary Oliver, poems and photographs, Beacon Press, Fall 2009.
Maurice Manning (1999-00) The Common Man, poems, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Spring 2010.
Laura Marello (1981-82) Claiming Kin, novel, Guernica Editions, Fall 2009.
Sabrina Orah Mark (2002-03) Tsim Tsum, poems, Saturnalia, Fall 2009.
Kat Meads (1978-79) Little Pockets of Alarm, stories, Main Street Rag, Summer 2009.
Robert Garner McBrearty (1989-90) Episode, stories, Pocol Press, Winter 2009.
Greg Miller (1994-95) Watch, poems, University of Chicago Press, Fall 2009.
Jayne Anne Phillips (1979-80) Lark and Termite, novel, Knopf, Winter 2009.
Evelyn Reilly (1987-88) Styrofoam, poems, Roof Books, Winter 2009.
David Rigsbee (1976-77) Two Estates, poems, WordTech Communications, Spring 2009.
Heidi Jon Schmidt (1982-83, 1985-86) The House on Oyster Creek, novel, New American Library, Spring 2010.
Angela Shaw (1998-99) The Beginning of the Fields, poems, Tupelo Press, 2009.
Jason Shinder (1978-79) Stupid Hope: Last Poems, Graywolf, Summer 2009.
Daniel Simko (1986-87) The Arrival, poems, Four Way, Fall 2009.
Charlie Smith (1985-86) Word Comix, poems, W.W. Norton & Company, Winter 2009.
Richard Spilman (1985-86) In the Night Speaking, poems, SPC Press, Fall 2009; The Estate Sale, stories, The Texas Review Press, 2010.
Adrienne Su (1993-94) Having None of It, poems, Manic D Press, 2009.
Melanie Sumner (1993-94, 1994-95) The Ghost of Milagro Creek, novel, Algonquin Books, Summer 2010.
Belle Waring (1988-89) Reason & Persuasion: Three Dialogues by Plato, nonfiction with John Holbo, translations by Waring, Pearson Education, Summer 2009.
Joshua Weiner (1993-94) At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn, edited collection of essays, University of Chicago, Spring 2009.
Jillian Weise (2004-05, 2005-06) The Colony, novel, Soft Skull Press, Winter 2010.
Ronaldo Wilson (1999-00) Poems of the Black Object, poems, Futurepoem, Fall 2009.
Sandi L. Wisenberg (1990-91) The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, nonfiction, University of Iowa Press, Winter 2009.
David Wojahn (1980-81, 1983-84) Icehouse Lights, poems, Yale University Press, Summer 2009.
Franz Wright (1983-84) Wheeling Motel, poems, Knopf, Summer 2009.
