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Following is information on the current projects and activities of our many Former Fellows as submitted to us as of October 2004. We’ve tried to be as complete and as accurate as possible. If we have omitted or misstated something, please accept our apologies. We now have a new section on our website that lists the accomplishments of our many Former Fellows: visit FAWC.org and hit Former Fellows News. To submit information, please use our online Form.

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WINTER RESIDENCY WRITING FELLOWS

1969–1970
LOUISE GLÜCK (also 1970–1971) was appointed the Library of Congress’ 12th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in August 2003. Her work was included in The Best American Poetry 2003, and she published a new six-part poem, October, in chapbook form in Fall 2003.
ROGER SKILLINGS (also 1970–1971) published a new collection of poems titled Memory for Marisa Rose (Arts End Books Press) in 2003.
1970–1971
An excerpt from WILLIAM GILSON’s book, Junkyard, appeared in a recent issue of Shearsman.
MIRIAM GOODMAN (also 1971–1972) spoke at a Wheaton College benefit for Alice James Books. With David Hilliard, she presented word and image work and poems at Boston University and the New England School of Photography in the "Word and Image" lecture series. Her work "After a Certain Age" appeared on the photographyatelier.org website.
1972–1973
RICHARD MCCANN (also 1993–1994) received Fellowships from both Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His essay "Like A Fatherless Child" appeared in the June 15, 2003 issue of the Washington Post Magazine; another essay was published in Post Road. Recent poems were published in Blackbird and Bellevue Literary Review. He read at Smith College, Columbia-Presbyterian College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bowery Poetry Club, and the Associated Writing Programs’ National Convention. He was elected to the FAWC Board of Trustees in Fall 2003. His most recent book, Mother of Sorrows, will be published by Pantheon Books in January 2005.
1974–1975
GREG PAPE (also 1975–1976) won second-prize in the 2004 Crab Orchard Series Poetry Open Competition for his collection American Flamingo.
JOHN SKOYLES’s (also 1975–1976) recent poems were included in The Atlantic Monthly and in The Poetry Anthology 1912–2002. In September 2003 his memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education, was published by University of Nebraska Press.
ELLEN WITTLINGER’s (also 1975–1976) young adult novel, ZigZag (Simon and Schuster, 2003) was nominated for the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults award. Heart On My Sleeve was published in Summer 2004.
1975–1976
JUDITH BETH COHEN’s short story "Baby Boomer Turns Fifty" appeared in 580 Split: A Journal of Arts and Literature, "A Museum with a Story" was published in Points of Entry: Cross Currents in Storytelling, and "Duck’s Bay Chronicles" was reprinted in Volume 1 of The Best of Rosebud.
1978–1979
MICHAEL BURKARD’s (also 1979–1980) work was included in the debut edition of the anthology SHADE 2004 from Four Way Books.
CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON (also 1982–1983) was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire in January 2004.
KAT MEADS won a California Artist Fellowship and a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts grant in poetry. Quizzing the Dead, a collection of prose poems, was published by Pudding House. Her novel, Sleep, was published in 2004 by Livingston Press/University of West Alabama.
1979–1980
MICHAEL COLLIER’s translation of Euripides’s Medea was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. He edited, along with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, A William Maxwell Portrait: Memoirs and Appreciations, published by W.W. Norton in August 2004.
JOHN MORGAN participated in the Copper River Stories Expedition down Alaska’s Copper River last summer, and gave readings while there in Chitina and Cordova. His poems were recently published in Rattle, The Southern Review, Compass Rose, Salt River Review and the anthology Mercy of Tides.
TOM SLEIGH (also 1980–1981) received an award in poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and awards from the LEF New England Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His play, The Knowledge & Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel, or An Old-Fashioned Love Story was performed by the Hudson Exploited Theater Company as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, August 13–29, 2004.
1980–1981
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM adapted his novel A Home at the End of the World into a film which was released in August 2004; directed by Michael Mayer, it stars Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Penn Wright, and Sissy Spacek.
MARIA FLOOK’s book Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod was published by Random House. Her new novel, Lux, was published in October 2004 from Little, Brown and Company.
EDWARD HOWER’s most recent novel, A Garden of Demons, was published by Ontario Review Press.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA was Guest Editor of The Best American Poetry 2003. He won the 2004 Shelley Memorial Award.
DAVID WOJAHN’s (also 1983-1984) poem "Scrabble with Matthews" was included in The Best American Poetry 2003.
1981–1982
TAMA JANOWITZ’s novel, Peyton Amberg, was published in 2003 by St. Martins Press.
DENIS JOHNSON collaborated with Sam Messer on Cloud of Chalk at Volume (NY, NY) May 26 through June 19, 2004.
CLEOPATRA MATHIS’s poems "Cane" (November 24, 2003 issue) and "Stanley's First Death" (August 16, 2004 issue) were published in The New Yorker. Other poems are forthcoming in Three Penny Review, The Southern Review, and River Styx. Her most recent collection, White Sea, will be published by Sarabande Books in July 2005.
BRUCE SMITH’s poem "Song with a Child's Pacifier in It" originally appeared in the Boston Review, and was published in The Best American Poetry 2003.
1982–1983
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO’s collection of poems, Trouble in Mind, was published in January 2004. Her poem "The Halo That Would Not Light" was featured in The New Yorker.
CYRUS CASSELLS was a finalist for the B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Drama for his role as Fielding in August Wilson’s play Jitney. He appeared in December 2003 as Eugene in Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman at the Hyde Park Theater in Austin. His fourth book of poetry, More Than Peace and Cypresses, was published in Fall 2004 by Copper Canyon Press.
ALICE FULTON’s world premiere of Enid Sutherland’s operatic Daphne and Apollo Remade, a scoring of the complete text of Fulton’s "Give" from her collection Sensual Math, took place at the Mendelssohn Theater in Ann Arbor in October 2003. Her most recent collection, Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems, was published in 2004 by W.W. Norton. Her short story "The Real Eleanor Rigby" will be reprinted in the Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIX. She is the Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley this Fall.
HEIDI JON SCHMIDT’s (also 1985–1986) first novel and third book, The Bride of Catastrophe, was published in October 2003 by Picador.
1983–1984
FRANZ WRIGHT won a 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book, Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, published in 2003 by Knopf.
1984–1985
MICHELLE CARTER’s most recent play, Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs, won the 2003 PEN Award for drama.
DAVID RIVARD’s (also 1986–1987) recent poetry is featured in the anthology SHADE 2004.
1985–1986
TONY HOAGLAND’s newest collection of poems, What Narcissism Means to Me, was published by Graywolf Press. His poem "Summer Night" was included in The Best American Poetry 2003. It originally appeared in 88.
CHARLIE SMITH’s poem "There’s Trouble Everywhere" appeared in Poetry before being published in The Best American Poetry 2003. His most recent collection of poems, Women of America, was published by W.W. Norton in March, 2004.
1986–1987
CAROLE MASO (also 1990–1991) published a new collection of poems in 2003 titled Aureole (City Lights Books).
VICTORIA REDEL’s collection of poems, Swoon, published by the University of Chicago Press, was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her novel Loverboy was made into a film in 2004.
1987–1988
DOROTHY BARRESI’s most recent collection of poems, Rouge Pulp, was published by The University of Pittsburgh Press.
1988–1989
SOPHIE CABOT BLACK’s second collection of poems, The Descent, was published by Graywolf Press in September 2004.
1989–1990
RITA GABIS was the recipient of a grant for poetry from the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and was a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts winner in Nonfiction.
ROBERT MCBREARTY’s recent work appears in The North American Review. He had one of his stories performed at "Stories on Stage" in Denver in May 2004.
1990–1991
GARY SHORT traveled to Albania in Fall 2003, where his work is being translated by Luljeta Lleshanaku, an Albanian poet. His third collection of poems, 10 Moons and 13 Horses, was published by the University of Nevada Press in February 2004.
MICHAEL KLEIN’s memoir, The End of Being Known, was published by University of Wisconsin Press in October, 2003. His poems appeared in the first issue of BLOOM, a new gay and lesbian quarterly. He is currently teaching at City College (NY, NY).
ANN PATCHETT is currently working as a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Her newest book, Truth & Beauty : A Friendship, about her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently deceased, author and former FAWC Fellow Lucy Grealy, is slated to be published in October 2004 by Perennial.
1991–1992
DEBORAH ARTMAN’s oratorio was produced at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in their Next Wave Festival this Fall. She is currently editor of the Lincoln Center Theater Review.
NICK FLYNN’s (also 1999–2000) new memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, was published by W.W. Norton in Fall 2004, and excerpted in The New Yorker. His piece "The Invisible Homeless" was printed in the Boston Globe, October 24, 2004.
1992–1993
JOSHUA CLOVER’s poem "Aeon Flux: June" was published in The Best American Poetry 2003. It originally appeared in Ploughshares.
1993–1994
JOHN DALTON’s (also 1996–1997) first novel, Heaven Lake, was published by Scribner in April 2004.
ADRIENNE SU was Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place in Summer 2003. Her poems were published in the anthologies Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation and A Treasury of City Poems from Around the World. She read at the Alice James Books 30th Anniversary Celebration, and had a poem featured on Verse Daily in October 2003.
MELANIE SUMNER’s (also 1994–1995) short story "Marriage" appeared in Harpers in October 2003. Another story, "The Guide," was published in the anthology After O’Connor.
JOSHUA WEINER received the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1994–1995
PETER HO DAVIES’s story "The Bad Shepherd" was published in the Fall 2003 issue of Ploughshares. He won a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
EMMY PEREZ published a collection of poetry, Solstice (Swan Scythe Press), in 2003.
1995–1996
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS’s poem "A Pack of Cigarettes" was featured in The Circular. He is currently in collaboration with P-Funk Lp cover artist Ronald "Stozo" Edwards, and with former FAWC Fellow Michelle Weinberg. His new collection of poetry, The Maverick Room, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2005.
ATAR HADARI was awarded the first Keith Wright Prize for Poetry from the University of Strathclyde, and an honorarium for a sequence of poems about the biblical King David titled "Songs of David". He is currently working on an adaptation of the Yiddish play God of Vengeance for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
MARY JANE NEALON (also 1996–1997) was awarded the 2004 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship. Her second collection of poetry, Immaculate Fuel, was published by Four Way Books in May 2004.
1996–1997
ADAM HASLETT’s story "Devotion," first published in the Yale Review, was included in The Best American Short Stories 2003. His piece, "Love Supreme: Gay nuptials and the making of modern marriage" was printed in the May 31, 2004 issue of The New Yorker.
KATHRYN MARIS (also 2003–2004) interviewed Billy Collins for Poetry London. Her poems "The Factory" and "Dutch Funeral" were published in the Spring 2003 edition of Ploughshares.
HEATHER MCGOWAN has written scripts for Disney and Revolution studios. Tadpole, a movie she wrote which starred Sigourney Weaver, won an award for "Best Director" at Sundance, and was subsequently acquired by Miramax. She collaborated with British artist Liam Gillick on a limited-edition book that debuted at Art Basel in Switzerland in Summer 2004.
MARK WUNDERLICH received the 2003 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. His second book of poems, Voluntary Servitude, was published by Graywolf Press in 2004. He won an NEA in 2004.
1997–1998
SUSAN CHOI’s second novel, American Woman, was published by HarperCollins in Fall 2003. She is a 2004 winner of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Her OP-ED piece, "The Bubble Girl," was printed in The New York Times, July 12, 2004.
CARIN CLEVIDENCE was awarded a 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.
SUE KWOK KIM’s first collection of poetry, Notes From the Divided Country, published in May 2003, won the Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
JHUMPA LAHIRI’s first novel, The Namesake, was published by Houghton Mifflin in September 2003. An excerpt appeared in June 16 & 23 issue of The New Yorker, and in Poets & Writers as part of a profile.
NANCY REISMAN’s (also 1999–2000) first novel, The First Desire, was released from Pantheon in September 2004.
1998–1999
VICTOR LAVALLE was the recipient of a 2004 Whiting Writers’ Award.
VIRGINIA SMITH won the ninth annual Newman University Milton Center Postgraduate Fellowship in fiction.
1999–2000
PAULETTE BEETE received an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award for her short story "Mighty Tight Woman." Her nonfiction essay, "My Borrowed Eye," appeared in Provincetown Arts and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In addition, she published a travel piece on Provincetown in the November 2003 issue of American Spirit, and Beyond Baroque featured her poem, "Figures."
JONATHAN PUGH’s (also 2000–2001) recent work appeared in SHADE 2004, an anthology of new poetry and fiction published by Four Way Books.
JUSTIN TUSSING’s essay on fishing titled "A Fine Madness" was featured in a special Cape Cod issue of The Boston Globe Magazine, followed by another piece on lobstering.
2000–2001
DEBORAH BERNHARDT won the Writers at Work Fellowship Competition in poetry for six poems from her collection Echolalia.
MAJOR JACKSON was selected by Billy Collins as a Witter Bynner Fellow for the Library of Congress. He also won a Whiting Writers’ Award. His first book, Leaving Saturn, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and his poem "Urban Renewal XVII" was selected for Best American Poetry 2004. His second collection, Hoops, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2005.
JENNIFER TSENG (also 2001–2002) was selected as the first recipient of the $50,000 Gift of Freedom award for women writers from A Room of Her Own Foundation.
2001–2002
ADA LIMON recently received a grant for poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also won the Chicago Literary Award for poetry and was an Editor’s Prize Finalist for the Spoon River Poetry Review. Her recent work appears in the Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Another Chicago Magazine and the Spoon River Poetry Review.
THOMAS O’MALLEY ’s (also 2003–2004) novel, In the Garden of Gethsemane, is scheduled to be published by Little, Brown & Co. in Spring 2005.
2002–2003
ESI EDUGYAN was among 15 winners of the Best New American Voices short story competition for "The Woman Who Tasted Rose Oil." The story was published in the anthology Best New American Voices 2003 by Harcourt Brace. Her novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, was published by Harper Collins in 2004.
FRANCES HWANG’s short story "Transparency" was published in the Best New American Voices 2003 anthology. Her story "Garden City" will appear in Best New American Voices 2005. She was the recipient of a Fellowship in fiction from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
KIRUN KAPUR won a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.
SABRINA ORAH MARK won the first annual Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize for her collection The Babies.
2003–2004
TIM ROSS is currently a Second-year Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.
SHIMON TANAKA is currently a Second-year Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

WINTER RESIDENCY VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS
1969–1970
SUSAN BAKER’s paintings of various churches and other buildings throughout Italy were featured in a solo show entitled Italian Journey at the Cahoon Museum of American Art (Cotuit, MA). Keith Paintings, an exhibition of paintings starring her husband Keith Althaus, was on view at the Truro Library in Spring 2003.
RON SHUEBROOK’s work was included in a group show at the Olga Korper Gallery in Toronto.
1971–1972
DON WYNN had solo exhibitions in 2003 at Gallery 100 in Saratoga Springs, NY; Tannery Pond Center Gallery in North Creek, NY; Iron Bridge Gallery in Long Lake, NY; and in Ann Arbor, MI, at the Tabor Mill Gallery. His oil painting, "Cederic Gates," was acquired by the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, a gift of Jack Beal and Sondra Erekleton.
1972–1973
FRANK EGLOFF’s paintings were featured in Painting in Boston: 1950–2000, at the DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA), a self-titled show at Brent Sikkema (New York), and in a group show, Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA).
1973–1974
BECKY HOWLAND’s exhibit, The Curiously Strong Altoids Collection, is traveling to Consolidated Works (Seattle, WA), Soo Visual Arts (Minneapolis, MN), Art Center/ South Florida (Miami Beach, FL), Atlanta College of Art (Atlanta, GA) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY,NY). Paradise Now, Picturing the Genetic Revolution is traveling to the Purnell Center for the Arts at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), the Newcomb Art Galley at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) and the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA).
1975–1976
DAVID WHEELER’s work was included in a group exhibition at the Denver Museum of Science in Fall 2003, and a group show at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY in Spring 2004. In February 2004 he had a solo show at the Grosvenor Gallery at SUNY Cobbleskill.
1976–1977
BERT YARBOROUGH (also 1977–1978) was included in a three-person show (along with Paul Bowen and M.P. Landis) at the Battelle Harding Gallery in Greenfield, MA. The show included individual work and collaborative pieces. He exhibited his work in a solo show, Gone To Seed, at McGowan Fine Art (Concord, NH) in Spring 2003, and was also part of a group show titled Peaceable Kingdom at the DNA Gallery (Provincetown, MA) in Summer 2003.
1977–1978
PAUL BOWEN (also 1978–1979) was included in a three-person show (along with Bert Yarborough and M.P. Landis) at the Battelle Harding Gallery in Greenfield, MA. His work was included in several group shows at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown, and also featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Art in Dennis in Fall 2004.
STEWART MACFARLANE’s work was featured in two solo exhibitions: Newstart at the Bett Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania in June 2003, and Neue Gemälde und Grafik in October 2003 at the Galerie Carlos Hulsch in Berlin.
1978–1979
STONEY CONLEY (also 1979–1980) curated the exhibition Éire/Land last Spring at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. In February 2003 his work was included in the exhibition Points of View: New England Artists in Ireland at the New Arts Center in Newton, MA.
1979–1980
MARY ARMSTRONG
exhibited work in two group shows: Éire/Land at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, and Points of View: New England Artists in Ireland at the New Arts Center in Newton, MA. Her paintings were also featured in a solo show titled Heart Beats at the Oresman Gallery at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
JOHN BENVENUTO was awarded a 2003–2004 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Montgomery County (Ohio) Arts and Cultural District. He was also chosen to build an outdoor site-specific sculpture at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY.
KAREN SCHIFANO
received a merit award (one of three awarded) at the 2003 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts International Juried Show. The show was juried by Anne Umland, Associate Curator of Paintings at MOMA. Her new work was exhibited at Tobey Fine Art (NY, NY) in Winter 2004.
1980–1981
JIM ELNISKI’s recent exhibitions include Practical Applications of Harvesting Language, a performance piece with the artist Donald McGhei at Oxbow in Saugatauk, MI; Tornado Flower, a collaborative sculptural event at the Little City Foundation, IL; and Acts on the Green Line at The Root Project in Chicago. Currently, Jim serves as the Director of the First-Year Program at the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
1981–1982
SAM MESSER and Denis Johnson collaborated on Cloud of Chalk at Volume (NY,NY) May 26–June 19, 2004.
1983–1984
ELLEN DRISCOLL (also 1984–1985) completed a women’s restroom installation for the new Smith College Museum of Art in 2003. She received a commission to create artwork for the renovation of the Main Branch Cambridge Public Library in collaboration with the Women’s Commission of Cambridge, and another three-year-long commission for a kinetic and interactive sculpture for a new community park being built by Massport on Northern Avenue in Boston.
JENNY LYNN MCNUTT’s multimedia piece, Sewing Songs/Cucendo Canzone, was presented in Rome, Southern France, and New York during the past three years. She created the oracle, video, set, costumes, and lyrics for the performance. She is currently working on a piece, Woman’s Song: The Story of Roro Mendut, co-presented by The Kitchen and The World Music Institute.
1985–1986
SHARON HORVATH received an Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize from the National Academy Museum (NYC).
MARYALICE JOHNSTON (also 1986–1987) currently serves as the Visual Arts Program Coordinator at the Fine Arts Work Center. Her recent exhibitions include: Loaded in Miami at Scope, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Passion: Love for Art—Ice Project 01: Art in Truro, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Truro, MA; letoM swodaeM at the Meadows Motel, Room #8 (bathroom); Got Gourd at The Schoolhouse Center; and Quaking Bog all in Provincetown.
QUENTIN WALTER is currently working as the persona Mercedes Devereau on a project entitled BUZZ X, featuring 22 of her small-scale watercolor paintings which were exhibited at the Schumann Florida Gallery of the Vero Beach Museum of Art from September 4 through October 31, 2004.
1986–1987
LISA YUSKAVAGE’s paintings were included in a group show at the Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York City) in Summer 2003. She also exhibited work in the de Kooning to Today Exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Fall 2003.
1988–1989
ANN REICHLIN’s new work "Schism" was included in New Installations, Artists-in-Residence at The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA) May 15–June 27, 2004.
1989–1990
RICHARD BAKER’s (also 1990–1991) work was included in the group show Grisaille at JG Contemporary in New York, Spring 2003.
MADELINE SILBER exhibited her work in four different shows in 2003: a solo show, Brink, at the Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and the group exhibitions Modern Medium: Contemporary Art in New York State at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY; Shaping Space at the Mural Gallery in Stamford, New York; and TALENT 2003 at the Allan Stone Gallery, NYC. She was also part of GROUP at the Allan Stone Gallery (NY,NY), September 11–October 9, 2004.
1990–1991
BEVERLY RESS’s work was included in the show Brave New World at the OIA Gallery in New York, part of a series celebrating the discovery of the structure of DNA. She also participated in group shows at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University, and the Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. She was a finalist for the first Trawick Prize.
DUANE SLICK (also 1991–1992) was profiled in the December/January 2003 issue of Art New England preceding his show Instructions on the Care and Use of White Space at the Nielsen Gallery (Boston, MA).
1991–1992
JAMES ESBER’s solo show, New Work, was at the PPOW gallery in New York City in 2003.
1992–1993
LEE BOROSON’s work was included in the exhibition View from Here at Artspace in New Haven, CT, in Summer and Fall 2003. He also exhibited work in several solo shows: at the Genovese/Sullivan Gallery in Boston, MA, in January 2004; at the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA, in May 2004; and at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, in September 2004.
MATT HARLE is currently a Second-year Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.
LINDA MATALON’s show, Linda Matalon at Cohan Leslie and Brown, was reviewed in Art in America by Nancy Princenthal. Her work was also exhibited at the Herter Gallery (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) in February 2003.
JANICE REDMAN (also 1993–1994) exhibited her sculptures in a solo show at the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College in Spring 2004.
1993–1994
MICHELLE WEINBERG’s work was featured in several solo shows in 2003: Stories and Geometries at the Linda Schwartz Gallery in Cincinnati, OH; Funny Car at The Hood Gallery in Los Angeles, CA; Pith and Polish at the RC Gallery in San Antonio, TX; and Kut Paper at the OniGallery in Boston, MA. She also participated in a number of group shows, including SET at PS 742 (Miami, Florida), Tasty Buds at the Work Space (NYC), and in the $99 Show at the Cynthia Byron Gallery. In 2004, a solo exhibition titled Rocket Projects exhibited in Miami, FL, and her work was also part of a group show, White Box, at the Soo Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. She was the recipient of an 2003 Artist Access Grant from Tigertail Productions, and also the recipient of a 2004 Fundacion Valparaiso Residency in Mojacar Playa, Spain.
1994–1995
NICK KAHN and RICHARD SELESNICK collaborated on The Apollo Prophecies at Pepper Gallery (Boston, MA) May 20–June 19, 2004.
1995–1996
ELLEN GALLAGHER’s (also 1996–1997) painting "They Could Still Serve" was on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Fall 2003.
HIROYUKI HAMADA’s work was exhibited in both a solo show and a group show at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown, as well as in a solo exhibition at Plane Space and a group show at the OK Harris Work of Art, both in NYC.
1996–1997
LARRY MULLINS exhibited his work as part of a show at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, NY entitled Oral Moral.
1997–1998
ECKHARD ETZOLD’s one-person exhibition was jointly organized by the Museum Goch, Sylt-quelle, and Galerie Seipel in Germany.
1998–1999
KIRSTEN HASSENFELD won an Emerging Artist Fellowship and is a Visual Arts Resident at the Smack-Mellon Studios in Brooklyn, NY. She had a solo show at the Bellwether Gallery in May 2004, and a solo project at Artspace in New Haven, CT, from July–September, 2004.
MALA IQBAL’s (also 2000–2001) work was featured in a solo show at the Bellwether Gallery in Winter 2003, as well as numerous group shows including Superheroes at the Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center (Nashville, TN); Escape from New York at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts; Sustain: Project at Renewable Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Tennis House in Brooklyn, NY; Better Homes and Gardens at the Zoller Gallery at Pennsylvania State University; Through Customs: South Asian Women’s Creative Collective 6th Annual Visual Arts Show at the Bose Pacia Gallery (New York, NY); and Out of Place: Mala Iqbal, Nicole Henning, Markus Weiss at the Galerie fur zeitgenossische Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland. She was also included in the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection.
HAE-WON WON had a show at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) in Spring 2003.
1999–2000
ELLEN ALTFEST won a 2004 Fellowship from the Dorland Mountain Art Center in Temecula, CA. She will curate the show Funny Not Funny at Champion Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her work was exhibited in a 2003 group show, You, at the Royal Modern Gallery in New York City.
KIMBERLEY HART’s (also 2000–2001) solo show Charmer exhibited at Bellwether Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) January 9–February 9, 2004.
KATHERINE SHOZAWA’s work was featured in the group show Get In Line at the George Adams Gallery (New York, NY).
2000–2001
ESTHER JISKOOT was commissioned by the City of Amsterdam to create three sculptures for the Zuiderkerkprijs in 2003. Her work was featured in both a solo show at Van Wijngaarden/Hakkens Gallery and in a group show at the Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Architectuur (both in Amsterdam) in 2004.
HANS VAN MEEUWEN’s work was included in the following group shows in 2003: Ace Invitational at the ACE Gallery in Los Angeles; Arche Noah at the Gabrielle Rivet Gallery and Art Fair at the Deschler Gallery (both in Cologne, Germany); Art Frankfurt and Curious, both at the Deschler Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany; and 5x5 Skulptur at the Im Pfefferberg in Berlin, Germany. In Spring 2003, he created an outdoor sculpture in a park in the city of Zeist (Netherlands), and designed a hotel room for the Hotel Kuensterheim Cuise in Berlin. In 2004, he exhibited his work in two solo shows, one at the Ace Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and the other at the Seippel Gallery (Cologne, Germany).
2001–2002
JENNY DING participated in two group shows at the DNA Gallery in Provincetown in 2003, including Peaceable Kingdom.
ELLIOT HUNDLEY was awarded a three-month fellowship at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska in Summer 2003.
YUN-FEI JI had a solo show The Empty City at Provisions Library (Washington, DC) in Summer 2004.
LAMAR PETERSON’s (also 2002–2003) show Milk & Cookies ran April 24-June 5, 2004 at Deitch Projects in New York. He was featured in The New York Times Magazine as "Painter of Suburbia" on October 17, 2004.
2002–2003
ANGELA DUFRESNE’s (also 2003–2004) work was included in a group show at the Miller Block Gallery in Winter 2003, and reviewed by Cate McQuaid for the Boston Globe.
CARLOS FERGUSON was a Visiting Artist at Coe College in Iowa, where he exhibited his work in a solo show titled Viewer. He was in-residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in County Monoghan, Ireland, in May 2004, and at the Ucross Residency in Wyoming in Fall 2004.
MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN was the Stephen L. Barstow Visiting Artist at Central Michigan University in Fall 2003, where he had a solo exhibition, The Ghost Whale Circuit. He also had a solo exhibition in May 2003 titled breeze, whale, gala at the Gallery HQ in Kansas City, MO; another solo show, Daredevils of the Speedway, at the Mezzanine Gallery in Wilmington, DE in Winter 2004; and was part of a group show Biomimicry at The Herron School of Art (University of Indiana) from February–March, 2004. He was awarded residencies at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and at the Sculpture Space in Utica, NY.
GRACE SULLIVAN is currently a Second-year Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCIES
COPLEY SOCIETY FELLOWS
2001 SUZANNE ULRICH (also 2003) exhibited her recent work in a solo show at OK Harris Gallery in New York City in Spring 2003 and at Kathryn Markell Fine Arts (NY, NY), April 15–May 15, 2004.
2002
KAY RUANE’s work was included in the Fifth Annual Realism Invitational at the Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco, CA) in Summer 2003. She also exhibited work in a group show, Women By Women, at the Jenkins Gallery and in a group show at the Miller Block Gallery (Boston, MA) titled Unlikely Portraits.
GAEA FELLOWS
2003–2004
LE THI DIEM THUY was interviewed in The Writer. Her first novel, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, earned her a place on both Vogue and Book Magazine’s 2003 list of the "10 Writers to Watch." She is a recipient of a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.
HAND HOLLOW FELLOWS
1995
ELENA SISTO’s work was exhibited in a solo show From Life: New Paintings and Works on Paper at LittleJohn Contemporary Gallery in New York, November 11-December 11, 2004.
1998
HAROLD CROOKS worked as a producer/writer on Peter Raymont’s The World Stopped Watching; the film was selected for the 2003 Montreal World Film Festival and the 2003 Cork Festival. He also worked on Mark Achbar’s The Corporation, selected for the Amsterdam Film Forum, the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won a People’s Choice Award. He is currently working on a film biography of Bartolomé De Las Casas and a made-for-television movie, Betting On Love, with artist Medrie MacPhee.
HISK FELLOWS
2001
WIM WAUMAN’s work was included in several group exhibitions including The Echo of a Duck’s Quack at FRIGO (Antwerp); Happiness: A Survival Guide For Art and Life at the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan); Tracer at the Provincial Archeological Museum Ename (Oudenaerde, Belgium); Contour, which showed video-art in various churches across the city of Mechelen, Belgium; and DE ALPEN at Netwerk Gallerij (Aalst, Belgium).
LANNAN SENIOR FELLOWS
1995
CAROLINE KNOX published her fifth collection of poetry, He Paves the Road with Iron Bars (Verse Press)
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