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33rd Session of Winter Fellows When a group of people assemble, it does not necessarily follow that a community will emerge. As has happened for thirty-two years previous, on October 1, twenty individuals came together at the Work Center to begin their fellowship year. It was immediately apparent that this group of people, from as far afield as Alaska and Great Britain, would quickly cohere into the sort of working community that makes FAWC unique.
Over the years, the Work Center has hosted artists working in a variety of media: in the field of writing, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction; and in the visual arts, painting, sculpture, film, photography, and performance art. Selected from a competitive field of over 1,200 applicants, this year's Fellows arrived ready to submit to the rigors of solitude, settling into work as if they'd been here forever, but with a dedication that made clear the fact that they would be here for only seven months.
2000-2001 VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS
YEE JAN BAO received his MFA from Claremont Graduate School, CA in 1971 and his BA from Grinnell College, IA in 1968. In 1998-99 he received a Jackson Pollock Grant. He is currently a Visiting Artist at Rhode Island School of Design.
ERIC CONRAD was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in Kalamazoo, MI. He received a BA in both Fine Arts and Mathematics from Kalamazoo College in 1995 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000.
Second-year Fellow (1999-00 & 2000-01) MARY JANE DEAN has received awards from the International Peace Center in Sarajevo and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York City. Her work can be seen in the collections of the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castille-La Mancha, Spain.
Born in California, Second-year Fellow KIMBERLEY HART received her BFA from the University of California at Davis. She earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture during the summer of 1995. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Second-year Fellow JENNY HUMPHREYS has recently had solo exhibitions at the Artistıs Foundation in Boston, the DNA Gallery in Provincetown, and Acme Art Company in Columbus, OH. Raised in Baltimore and educated at Yale (BA) and Indiana University (MFA), Jenny was awarded a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant in Painting and has had residencies at Yaddo and Millay.
WORDS FROM THE FELLOWS "The Fellowship has given me validation that my work is important and central, that people have faith in it. You have the support of a community. And the mere fact that I'm here means people will take me and my work more seriously. Writing is hard, but here there is nothing but opportunity. I have more time, and more room, than I did at home. And I'm surrounded by people that care about what I'm doing."
"I've been envisioning a book of sequence poems for about two years now. The Fellowship provides the opportunity to finally pursue this project with concentrated attention and rigor. I get some structure, which I need, having my family here. And I'm finding the landscape and the FAWC communal environment is having an important impact on both my son and me. Getting a sense of how others came to their art and to this community, the diversities of backgrounds and experiences, the camaraderie has thus far enriched our lives."
"The first year, I was in my studio about 12 hours a day and could concentrate exclusively on my work. Having such a diverse group of Fellows with whom I could exchange ideas about being makers of things was really beneficial too. Having so much concentrated time, my work changed in important ways. During this second year, I'd like to really delve into the discoveries I made last year, make some important changes and 'play' more in my work."
VICTORIA NEEL is originally from New York City. She received her BA in Visual Arts from the College of Wooster in 1996 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Her work has been exhibited in Providence, RI, and Auckland, New Zealand.
AYAE TAKAHASHI was born in Tokyo, Japan. She received her BFA in Painting from Miami University, Oxford, OH in 1995, and her MFA in Painting/Drawing from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1999. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, 2000; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 1999; and the St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant, 1999.
HANS VAN MEEUWEN, born in Rotterdam in 1959, has lived and worked in Cologne, Germany since 1991. He will use the fellowship year to prepare a solo exhibition, which will be shown in 2001 at the Rheinische Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany. He will also use the time to work on one or two installations.
ANTHONY VITI is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at the Tibor DeNagy Gallery and Deven Golden Fine Arts in New York City. Anthony's work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2000-2001 WRITING FELLOWS
FICTION
PAUL HARDING earned his MFA from the University of Iowa in 2000 where he received a teaching/writing fellowship. He has worked as a touring musician.
HAL HORTON is from Anchorage, Alaska. He received his MFA from Iowa, and has a BA in religious studies from Brown University. He once worked as an oil rig roustabout.
New York writer LAURIE WEEKS was a collaborator on the screenplay for Boys Don't Cry, and toured the country in 1999 with the girl-punk poetry group Sister Spit. She has taught poetry at The New School, and was a presenter at various conferences on marginalized writing and girl bodies at the University of Oregon and Columbia, Brown, Brandeis, and Kent State Universities.
JENNIFER TSENG received her MFA from the University of Houston. She received her BA at Colorado College where she studied literature. Her work has recently appeared in Ploughshares, Green Mountain Review, Crazyhorse and Hawaii Review. New work is forthcoming in Grand Street, Texas Review, and Amerasia Journal.
JONATHAN PUGH comes from South Wales. For the past six years, he has lived in Bath, England, where he works as a freelance production editor. This is his second FAWC Fellowship.
POETRY
JILL MCDONOUGH received her MA from Boston University, and her BA from Stanford in both English and Feminist Studies. She has published her work in Poetry and The Harvard Review. She worked as the project assistant in Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project.
MAJOR JACKSON is on a leave of absence from his Assistant Professorship at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is the recipient of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his collection Leaving Saturn, selected by poet Al Young, to be published in the fall of 2001 by University of Georgia Press.
DEBORAH BERNHARDT is from New York and received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She received her MFA from The University of Arizona. While in Tucson she was Co-Poetry Editor and Art Editor of Sonora Review and an Adjunct Professor. She is currently on leave from a PhD program/teaching assistantship at the University of Denver.
KATHARINE WHITCOMB is the winner of the 2000 Bluestem Poetry Award for her collection, Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems, which is forthcoming from Bluestem Press. Her poetry has won awards including The Nebraska Review Award in Poetry, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Second year Fellow (1996-97 & 2000-01) MARK WUNDERLICH is the author of the poetry collection The Anchorage (UMass Press, 1999), and a lecturer in creative writing at Stanford University. He has published poems in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, and Poetry.
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