BACK ROW (STANDING): Lamar Peterson, Victoria Neel, Chris Stuck,
Eric Hongisto, Eric Conrad, Elliott Hundley, Tom O'Malley, Salvatore Scibona
MIDDLE ROW (SEATED): Jenny Ding, Bethany Springer, MiYoung Sohn,
James Huang, Jennifer Tseng, Yun-Fei Ji, Jason Zuzga
FRONT ROW (SEATED): Jon Loomis, Regan Good, Victoria Hägblom,
Ada Limon, Caroline Crumpacker

VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS

Eric Conrad received a BA in Mathematics and Fine Art from Kalamazoo College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has received past fellowships from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has exhibited his work in Providence, Chicago, New Zealand, and Hungary. He will return to live and work in Lawrence, Kansas.

Xiaoqing (Jenny) Ding is from Beijing, China. She received her MFA from Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jenny was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2001.

Words from the Fellows Eric Conrad Second Year Visual Arts Fellow A typical day: I get up. I'm not sure what time or day it is. You quickly lose track of time here and I forgot to set my clock after the power went off briefly last week. The sun is out but it's windy and cold. The other night I was out with some fellows and I got an idea for the next piece I'm going to make. I'm excited --I feel like I'm more deeply involved in my work than I have ever been. Quick trip to the hardware store for supplies -- stop by the convenience store for a slice of apple pie (my breakfast). I have the rest of the day and night to work by myself.

Ada Limón Poetry Fellow The gifts of the Fine Arts Work Center keep opening like so many Chinese boxes. The solitude we are given to write and walk, to read and cook, to compose and edit is remarkable in and of itself, yet that solitude is only made sweeter when coupled with the constant interaction with such talented and intellegent writers and artists. Here, writing is treated with the utmost respect and so, what a joy to bend down your head, sit down at your desk and begin a poem!

Xiaoquing (Jenny) Ding Visual Arts Fellow I feel I'm very lucky having this opportunity to work at the FAWC, because I know a lot of good artists applied here. It's wonderful having such a nice place and sharing our experiences and views together, especially for those artists who come from another cultural background like me. The diversities make the art center more colorful.

Salvatore Scibona Fiction Fellow I'm pretty far into a project, and so this is an ideal time for me to be here. At the beginning of a project, I need to be pulling a lot of things from life. But when I'm further into a project, I need privacy and concentration. I need to pull only from the work itself. To have it be pulling on its own wheels and going on its own momentum. This place is ideal for people trying to finish something -- to complete a course already begun. I have as much space as I need and no more, as much privacy as I need and no more. It's an honor to be able to work in a place that's set up so explicitly for writers and visual artists. You show up and there's a writing desk in your apartment -- the implication is that you're here to do your work. That's pretty amazing.

Eric Hongisto born in Keene, New Hampshire. Recently completed a residency at the Dieu Donne Papermill. Has recently had group exhibitions at Allston Skirt, PS122, Bellwether, and Arena@Feed galleries. Had first solo exhibition at White Columns fall 2001. Finished MFA at Yale University in 1999, BFA at the Maine College of Art in 1997, and attended Skowhegan in 1998. Currently lives in Astoria, Queens.

James Huang born in Oswego, NY. Degree of Bachelor of Science in Art and Design from MIT in 1989. Worked in London, UK as an architectural designer 1989-1990. MFA in sculpture from the Parsons School of Design in 1993. Attended Skowhegan in 1997. Awarded an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park in 1998. Resident of Yaddo, the Millay Colony, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studios.

Elliott Hundley received a BFA in Printmaking from RISD in 1997. He was recently awarded a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. His work has been exhibited in Providence, Philadelphia, and Rome and has also been featured in numerous projects for Virgin Records Italy. He currently lives in Greensboro, NC.

Ji Yun-Fei is a painter from Beijing, China living in Brooklyn, New York. He recently showed at the Drawing Center, Jack Tilton and Pierogi Gallery. Currently his work is on view at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in the "Best of Season" show and in "Brooklyn!" at Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. He has received NYFA grant, Joan Mitchel Foundation grant and a Pollock-Krasner.

Second year Fellow 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 was included in a drawing show at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Born in Florida, first-year Fellow Lamar Peterson received his BS from Florida ASM University. He earned his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.

MiYoung Sohn received her MFA in sculpture from Yale in 1998 and her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1996. Her work has been exhibited at PS 1 Contemporary Art Center; CRG Gallery, New York and the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Born in Washington, DC, Bethany Springer received her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Georgia, Athens and has been awarded a 2002 residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Active in filmmaking which originates from her sculpture, she has presented short films at Piccolo Spoleto, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the 2000 Colossal Film Craw.

FICTION FELLOWS

Victoria Häggblom was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden and moved to the United States in 1994. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and has received awards from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the National Arts Club, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Witter-Bynner Foundation for poetry, and Columbia University. Her work has been published in Shenandoah, The Oakland Review, Cutbank, and elsewhere.

Thomas O'Malley was raised in Ireland and England. He is a graduate of UMass Boston, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Salvatore Scibona was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College (Santa Fe) and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a James Michener/ Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.

Chris Stuck is originally from Falls Church, Virginia. He is a recent MFA graduate of the George Mason University writing program in Fairfax, Virginia, and is a Mary Roberts Rinehart award winner.

Second year fellow Jennifer Tseng is a lecturer in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review and Hawaii Review and is forthcoming in Grand Street, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review and Texas Review. She is currently at work on a novel.

POETRY FELLOWS

Caroline Crumpacker is a poet and lives in Manhattan. She is poetry editor for Fence magazine and a contributing editor to Double Change (doublechange.com), an online magazine of French and American poetry in translation. She has translated work by Josee Lapeyrere and Vannina Maestri. Her work has appeared in the Germ, the Boston Review, the Chicago Review, Volt, Provincetown Arts, and elsewhere.

Regan Good received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She works as a freelance journalist and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California where she was raised in a community of artists and writers, including her mother Stacia Brady and her stepfather Brady T. Brady. She received her MFA at New York University and has been teaching poetry to elementary school students in the Bronx for the past two years. Her work appears most recently in the Crab Orchard Review, the Painted Bride Quarterly and the Brooklyn Review.

Jon Loomis' first book, Vanitas Motel (Oberlin College Press, 1998), won the 1997 FIELD poetry prize. Twice a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Loomis has also served as the Halls Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin, and has been the recipient of grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Loomis has taught writing at the University of Virginia, the Rhode Island School of Design, Emory University in Atlanta, and elsewhere. His second book of poems, The Pleasure Principle, is due out from Oberlin College Press in November, 2001.

Jason Zuzga graduated from Brown University and is New Media Coordinator for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. He has poetry published or forthcoming in The Yale Review, Nerve, and Lit.