2002-2003 FORMER FELLOWS' NEWS

Following is information on the current projects and activities of our many Former Fellows as submitted to us as of October, 2002. We've tried to be as complete and as accurate as possible. If we have omitted or misstated something, please accept our apologies. The next edition will be compiled and distributed in the Fall 2003. **We have also enclosed a list of "missing" former Fellows. If you have contact information, please let us know.

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WRITING FELLOWS

1969-1970:
KEITH ALTHAUS has work forthcoming in the American Poetry Review.

ROGER SKILLINGS has a collection of poems, Memory for Marissa Rose, scheduled for publication in 2002 by Arts End Press.

1970-1971:
WILLIAM O'ROURKE writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is co-editor of the Notre Dame Review.

1973-1974:
DIANE WALD's most recent book of poetry, The Yellow Hotel, was published in November, 2002, by Verve Press.

1974-1975:
ELLEN WITTLINGER's young adult novel, Razzle, was named a Best Books for Young Adults, 2002 by the American Library Association. It also won the Boston Author's Club Award, and was included on the New York Public Library's selected list of Books for the Teen Age. Her newest book, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, was published in February, 2002.

1978-1979:
CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON won the 2001 Levis Poetry Prize for her most recent collection, The Radiant, to be published by Four Way Books in Spring, 2003.

KAT MEADS won a 2002-2003 California Artist Fellowship in Literature/Creative Writing.

1979-1980:
TOM SLEIGH's new book of poetry, Far Side of the Earth, is forthcoming in 2003. His play, Rubber, was read as part of the Market Theater's play reading series. His translation of Euripides's Herakles was published by Oxford University Press in 2001.

1980-1981:
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM's novel, The Hours, was adapted to film. The movie opened in December, 2002, and stars Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore.

1981-1982:
DENIS JOHNSON's play, Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames, opened at the Dimson Theater in New York City on June 25, 2002, and included the actors Will Patton, Kevin Corrigan and James Urbaniak.

CLEOPATRA MATHIS's most recent collection, What To Tip the Boatman?, won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems for 2001. She also received a Poetry Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for 2001-2002.

1982-1983:
ALICE FULTON's fifth book of poems, Felt, published by Norton, was designated a Best Book of 2001 by The Los Angeles Times.

HEIDI JON SCHMIDT's novel, The Bride of Catastrophe, is scheduled to be published by Picador in September, 2003. Her story, "Blood Poison," was included in both The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002, and Best American NonRequired Reading, an anthology edited by Dave Eggers. Her most recent collection of short stories, Darling?, was issued in paperback by Picador.

1983-1984:
MICHELLE CARTER's play about Ted Kaczynski will premiere at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 2002.

1984-1985:
INDIRA GANESAN wrote the introduction to Kamala Markandaya's novel, Nectar in a Sieve, published as a Signet Classic in 2002.

1985-1986:
CHARLIE SMITH won the Levinson Prize for his poems that appeared in Poetry magazine in the February, March and June 2001 issues.

1986-1987:
ROBERT LUNDAY's most recent collection, Mad Flights, was published by Ashland Poetry Press.

1987-1988:
DOROTHY BARRESI's newest collection of poetry, Rouge Pulp, was published by the University of Pittsburgh.

1988-1989:
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK is currently teaching at Columbia University. Her most recent poems appear in The Atlantic, Paris Review, and Agni. Her essays are included in the anthologies Wanting A Child (ed: Schulman, FSG) and First Loves (ed: Ciurarn, Scribner's).

1989-1990:
DEAN ALBARELLI is currently the Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

1990-1991:
ANN PATCHETT's fourth novel, Bel Canto, won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was also a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.

1991-1992:
DEBORAH ARTMAN won a 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction.

NICK FLYNN's most recent collection of poetry, Blind Huber, was published by Graywolf Press in October, 2002.

PAUL LISICKY's memoir, Famous Builder, was published in October, 2002 by Graywolf Press. His work has recently appeared in Ploughshares, and in the anthologies Open House: Writers Redefine Home, The Man I Might Become, and M2M: New Literary Fiction.

JACQUELINE WOODSON's young adult novel, Hush (Putnam/Penguin), was nominated for a 2002 National Book Award.

1993-1994:
FRED LEEBRON's most recent novel, In the Middle of All This, was published by Harcourt in August, 2002.

FAITH SHEARIN won the May Swenson Award for her collection of poetry, The Owl Question (Utah State University Press), published in June.

JOSHUA WEINER was the recipient of a 2002 Whiting Award.

1994-1995:
PETER HO DAVIES was recently appointed director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan.

1995-1996:
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS was the recipient of a 2002 Ohio Arts Council residency at the Fine Arts Work Center for the months of June, July and August.

1996-1997:
ADAM HASLETT's short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, was nominated for the National Book Award.

HEATHER McGOWAN's novel, Schooling, was issued in paperback by Knopf. She was also a screenwriter for the film Tadpole, released in July, 2002.

SUE KWOCK KIM won a 2002 Whitman Award.

1997-1998:
ELIZABETH ARNOLD was the recipient of a 2002 Whiting Award.

JHUMPA LAHIRI's story "Nobody's Business" appears in The Best American Short Stories 2002.

NANCY REISMAN is currently the Helen Hertzog Zell Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan.

1998-1999:
TIM EARLEY is currently a Second-Year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. VICTOR LAVALLE 's new novel, The Ecstatic, was published in November, 2002, by Crown Press. VIRGINIA SMITH won the 2001 Rona Jaffee Award for fiction.

1999-2000:
JUSTIN TUSSING is currently serving as the Writing Coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center.

2000-2001:
HAL HORTON's story "The Year Draws in the Day" was included in Best New American Voices 2003, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harcourt Brace.

MAJOR JACKSON's first book of poems, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press), published in January 2002, won the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His essay, "Tales of the Heroic," was published in the Jan/Feb 2002 issue of Poets & Writers magazine. He was the recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts 2002 Artist Fellowship in Literature.

JENNIFER TSENG's work has recently appeared in Grand Street, Artful Dodge, Indiana Review, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Sonora Review, and Sycamore Review.

2001-2002:
SALVATORE SCIBONA's work has appeared most recently in The Threepenny Review, and was included in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories, published in Spring, 2002. He is currently a Second-Year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS

1969-1970:
SUSAN BAKER's paintings were exhibited in a solo show at the St. Botolph Club in Boston in Summer, 2002. An exhibition, Painting Italy, will be at the Cahoon Museum of Art in Falmouth, MA, in March, 2003.

RON SHUEBROOK's work was featured in a solo exhibition titled Ron Shuebrook: Works on Paper, 1965-Present, at Studio 21 Fine Art in Halifax, Nova Scotia, April - May, 2002. He also showed in Charles Hewlings and Ron Shuebrook at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture from April 11 - May 18, 2002, and participated in a group exhibition, Canadian Abstraction, in Fall, 2002, at the Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, China. He is President at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

1976-1977:
BERT YARBOROUGH's work was exhibited throughout the Summer and Fall, 2002, in several group shows including: the Art New England Summer Faculty Exhibition at the Plum Gallery in Williamstown, MA; the South Shore Center for the Arts Summer Faculty Exhibition at the South Shore Center for the Arts in Cohasset, MA.; and the Artist Members Prints from the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH. In August, 2002, he had a solo show, Recent Paintings & Works on Paper at the East End Gallery in Provincetown. In February, 2003, he will exhibit Recent Paintings & Works on Paper at the McGowan Fine Art Gallery in Concord, NH, and in March, 2003, he will participate in a group show at Colby-Sawyer College.

1977-1978:
PAUL BOWEN's work was featured in a solo show at the DNA Gallery in August, and in group shows: Artists for the Birds, at the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, and Ten Artists from Provincetown at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. He was commissioned to create an outdoor sculpture for the Cape Museum of Fine Art in Dennis, which he installed there in September. Some of his work was recently acquired by the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge.

STEWART MACFARLANE's work was exhibited in a solo show at BMG Art, in Adelaide, Australia, in June, 2002.

1979-1980:
KAREN SCHIFANO's works on paper were part of Exit Arts' Reaction, a traveling group exhibit in response to the September 11 tragedy. Her works on paper were also included in the Little Red Schoolhouse Auction at the 1-20 Gallery in New York in February, 2002.

JOHN BENVENUTO's sculpture was exhibited at the Three Rivers Art Festival in Pittsburgh in June, 2002. His work will also be featured in a two-person show the Roy G. Biv Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, in May, 2003.

1981-1982:
SUSAN LYMAN's sculptures were exhibited in a show at the Schoolhouse Center in September, 2002, and in Knot Quite at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.

1982-1983:
ROGER CAMP created a book titled Butterflies in Flight (published by Thames & Hudson, 2002), a hybrid of digital and traditional photography in an accordian-styled format that opens to fifty feet. His work was also featured in Graphis Flora: A Definitive Survey of Contemporary Floral Photography, published by Graphis in Spring, 2002.

MARCIE FELDMAN's paintings were exhibited in a solo show, Raised by Wild Dreams, at the 3rd Street Gallery in Philadelphia throughout January, 2002. Her watercolors were also included in a group show at the Spring Mill Café.

JIM PETERS was the recipient of a 2002 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. His work was exhibited at the CDS Gallery in New York in Spring, 2002, and at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown in August, 2002. He also curated the Former Fellows 1985-1986 Exhibition at the Fine Arts Work Center in May, 2002.

1984-1985:
JENNY LYNN MCNUTT created, choreographed, and participated in two multi-media performances, Sewing Songs, in March, 2002, at Bard College and 33 Swoonings, at the New School University in October, 2002. Her figurative sculptures, Protean Bodies & the Coding Trickster, with sound/word works, were featured as a summer site-specific installation at the Florence Lynch Gallery in New York.

RONALD SLOAN exhibited his recent work in a solo show at the Atrium Gallery in Torrington, CT, that ran from May through July, 2002.

1985-1986:
MARYALICE JOHNSTON was awarded a 2002 Provincetown Cultural Council grant. Her work was included in several recent group shows, including Restrooms and Privacy at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts; For Your Collection at the Attleboro Museum in Attleboro, MA; Inter-sex-tion: Couples in Mixed Media, and Outdoor Sculpture at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown; Un-Made and Three Sculptors at The Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown; and in the 1985-86 Former Fellows Exhibition and the FAWC Visual Committee Exhibition in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery. Her work was also featured in a solo show at the Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA. She is currently the Visual Arts Coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center.

VICKY TOMAYKO exhibited her color-filled monoprints in Summer, 2002, at a solo show at the Boathouse Gallery and in group shows at the DNA Gallery, both in Provincetown. She is currently teaching monotypes and watercolor at PIAI.

QUENTIN WALTER's work was included in a group show, Brush Stroke, at the Lee County Alliance for the Arts in Ft. Meyers, Florida.

1986-1987:
LISA YUSKAVAGE's paintings were included in the 177th Annual Exhibition at the National Academy of Design in New York, and in the 2002 Visual Arts Jury Exhibition at the Fine Arts Work Center in July, 2002.

1987-1988:
DOUG RITTER's work was included in a two-person show at the Teichman Gallery in Brewster, MA, in July, 2002, and in a group exhibition at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.

1988-1989:
AANN REICHLIN recently exhibited the second half of a two-part site-specific sculpture, Solitary View, at Sculpture Space, Inc. in Utica, New York.

1989-1990:
BOB BAILEY's work was featured in several group shows including DNA @ DNA: Genetic Imprints and Inter-sex-tion: Couples in Mixed Media, both at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown; and in Ten Artists from Provincetown at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. His work was also exhibited in Bob Bailey: Works on Paper at the Teichman Gallery in Brewster, MA,, July-August, 2002; in CATCH: Recent Paintings at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco; and in Bob Bailey at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown.

RICHARD BAKER's recent paintings were exhibited in solo shows at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery in New York City in January, 2002, and at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown in August, 2002. His work was also included in several group shows: Knot Quite at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco; Ten Artists from Provincetown at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco; Inter-sex-tion at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown; and Botanica at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis.

1990-1991:
ANDREW MOCKLER's work was featured in a solo show at the George Billis Gallery in New York City in January, 2002, and in a group show, Four New York Painters, at Elliot Smith Contemporary Art in St. Louis, MI, in January and February, 2002. DUANE SLICK's recent work was exhibited in a solo show at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown in Summer 2002, and in Ten Artists from Provincetown at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.

1992-1993:
JANICE REDMAN's work was featured in several group shows including: Artists for the Birds, at the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; Knot Quite and Ten Artists from Provincetown at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco; Women's Work: Fiber Art Exhibition at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston; Painting, Sculpture and Photographs at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY; Inter-sex-tion: Couples in Mixed Media, at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown; and Fine Staff, Fine Artists at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. Her work is also included in Soft, a group show at ArtSpace in New Haven, CT that runs from December 6, 2002 through February, 2003.

1993-1994:
POLLY BURNELL's recent work was exhibited in a September, 2002, solo show at the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown.

JENNY HUMPHREYS was awarded a 2001 Provincetown Cultural Council grant. She designed and produced the Provincetown Militia Cookbook, a handwritten book of unusual recipes with drawings. Her work was included in a group show, Uncommon Threads: New Twists on Textile Art, at the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Three Sculptors, at The Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown.

1994-1995:
BARBARA ANDRUS's work was included in Artist to Artist, an exhibition by artists who have participated in the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation, at the ACE Gallery in New York.

NICK KAHN and RICHARD SELESNICK's collaborative works were featured in several solo shows, including an exhibition at the Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ, and City of Salt at the Pepper Gallery in Boston through the month of April. Their work was also included a number of group shows, Year in Review:2001-2002, in June 2002 at the Pepper Gallery in Boston, and Stop Time at the Fine Arts Work Center in September, 2002. They were Fellows in the Toni Morrison Princeton Atelier program from February through May, 2002. Their book, Scotlandfuturebog, was published in limited edition by Phaidon in September, 2002.

1995-1996:
ELLEN GALLAGHER's work was featured in a solo show at the Sydney MCA in Australia, and in a group show, the 2002 Visual Arts Jury Exhibition, at the Fine Arts Work Center in July, 2002.

TABITHA VEVERS's paintings from her series Flying Dreams were featured in a show at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. Her work was also exhibited in the Inter-sex-tion exhibition, also at DNA.

1996-1997:
JOHN CALHOUN's recent work was exhibited in two solo shows, in March and April at the Fine Arts Gallery at Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA, and in August - September, 2002, at the Bangs Street Gallery in Provincetown.

BEN PRANGER was awarded a 2002-2003 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. His work was featured in a solo show at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, and in group shows Artist to Artist at the ACE Gallery in New York, and Brewster Project in Brewster, NY.

1998-1999:
KIRSTEN HASSENFELD's work was included in a group show, She's crafty... and so is he sometimes, at White Columns in New York,

1999-2000:
KIMBERLEY HART'S work was exhibited in a group show, She's crafty... and so is he sometimes, at White Columns in New York, May 3 - June 9, 2002.

ROB NADEAU's work was featured in a solo show at the LFL Gallery in New York, February 22 - March 23, 2002.

2000-2001:
ERIC CONRAD exhibited his stitched sculptures in a three-person show in July, 2002, at the Cherrystone Galley in Wellfleet, MA, and in a group show in August, 2002, at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His work is also included in Soft, a group show at ArtSpace in New Haven, CT that runs from December 6, 2002 through February, 2003.

ESTHER JISKOOT's work was featured in several group shows: in May- June, 2002, at the Gorinchems Museum in Gorinchem, the Netherlands; at the Gallery Arti and Amicitiae in Amsterdam; and at the National Glasmuseum Leerdam in Leerdam, the Netherlands.

AYAE TAKAHASHI's solo show CRUSH: Obsession, Desire and Idolatry was at the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston through February, 2002. Her work was also included in a two-person show, The Drawing Room, at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York in July, 2002.

HANS VAN MEEUWEN's work was included in several group shows including Faktor K at the Galerie Deschler in Berlin; Seuchen at the Kunstverein Huerth in Germany; at the ACE Gallery in New York; and at the Frankfurt Art Fair in May. His work was also featured in solo exhibitions at the Roland Galerie in Cologne, and at Lokaal 01 in Antwerp, Belgium. In August, 2002, he participated in a public art project in Bonn titled "Stadkunst Bonn." He was also the recipient of a residency at the Millay Colony in November, 2002.

2001-2002:
ERIC CONRAD, XIAOQING DING, ERIC HONGISTO, JAMES HUANG, ELLIOTT HUNDLEY, VICTORIA NEEL, LAMAR PETERSON, MIYOUNG SOHN, and BETHANY SPRINGER joined to exhibit their work in a group show at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts from July 18 through September 1, 2002.

ERIC HONGISTO exhibited his work in two group shows, the Queens International at the Queens Museum of Art, and the 2002 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island, NY, which runs through March 30, 2003.

YUN-FEI JI's work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He also participated in the 4th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection show at the Clifford Smith Gallery in Boston. He was selected for The Space Program 2002, which provides free studio space in New York City for periods of up to one year.

LAMAR PETERSON is currently a Second-Year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

MIYOUNG SOHN is currently a Second-Year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

HAND HOLLOW FELLOWS

1995:
ELENA SISTO's new paintings were featured in a solo show, Daughters, at Littlejohn Contemporary in New York.

1997:
ERIN PARISH's work was exhibited in a solo show at the Marcel Sitcoske Gallery titled Utopia Parkway.

SENIOR FELLOWS

1995:
CAROLINE KNOX's book, A Beaker: New and Selected Poems, was published by Verse Press in Spring, 2002.

PETER MEINKE was appointed Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, for Winter Term, 2002. His latest book, Zinc Fingers, won the SEBA Poetry Award for 2001.

1996:
JOHN HAINES was Guest Poet at Vladimir University in Russia for the month of June, 2002.

1997:
DAVID RAY's most recent collection of poetry, One Thousand Years: Poems About the Holocaust, was published by Holy Cow! Press in August, 2002.

1998:
STEPHEN SANDY's latest book, a poem of eight parts titled Surface Impressions, was published by Louisiana State University Press in Spring, 2002.

1999:
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ's translation from Italian of A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzberg was published by Seven Stories Press in May, 2002. In Solitary, her most recent collection of poems, was published in March, 2002, by Sheep Meadow Press. She received a 2002 NEA grant for the Ginzberg translation.

OHIO FELLOWS

1995:
STEPHEN HAVEN is currently the editor of the Ashland Poetry Review and is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at Ashland University. He received a 2001 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in Poetry, his third. KAREN SNOUFFER's installation, Drifting, was featured in the Kenyon College Faculty Exhibition at the Olin Gallery in Spring, 2002.

HISK FELLOWS

2002:
WIM WAUMAN's work was featured in a solo show, Pieces of Paradise, at the Window Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium, October 10 - November 13, 2002.

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