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FAWC WELCOMES 32ND GROUP OF FELLOWS
Provincetown was in its full glory the first of October when the new Fellows arrived and began unpacking their cars, dogs, kids and books spilling forth into the parking lot. Opening events included a barbecue, complete with Judith Shahn's famed baked beans and bluefish caught fresh by Visual Arts Coordinator Doug Ritter. Heather McGowan, FAWC's Writing Coordinator and most recent addition to the staff, flipped burgers like a seasoned professional. No one seemed daunted by the prospect of the long winter ahead, but rather immediately began planning a series of gallery exhibitions, open studios, and other events that will be open to the community at large.
Later that week, Fellows and friends gathered at Conrad Malicoat and Anne Lord's dune shack for the annual picnic, in which some Fellows opted for a late-season baptism in the chilly waters of the Atlantic. "The Work Center is a rare combination of solitude and community, where one is left alone to find the work while in the midst of those who are also searching. I am thrilled to be part of it again," says second-year Poetry Fellow Nick Flynn, winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and whose first book of poems, Some Ether, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in June 2000. Nick joins second-year Fiction Fellow Nancy Reisman, author of House Fires (University of Iowa Press, 1999), which this year received the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award. Second-year Visual Arts Fellow Portia Munson holds an MFA from Rutgers University. Her work has been exhibited in the Yoshii Gallery and the New Museum in New York. Mala Iqbal, FAWC's other second-year Visual Arts Fellow, has had work featured recently in BOMB Magazine.
Succumbing rapidly to the pace of Provincetown in the off-season were first-year Visual Arts Fellows, painter Ellen Altfest, a Yale MFA Graduate from New York City; pinhole photographer Mary Jane Dean; sculptor Kimberley Hart, a 1994 MFA graduate of RISD; painter Sedrick Huckaby, who recently earned an MFA from Yale; painter Robert Nadeau, a 1999 MFA Graduate from RISD; multimedia artist Katherine Megumi Shozawa, a native Canadian and recent MFA graduate of UC Berkeley; sculptor Kimberly Varella, an MFA graduate of the California Institute of Arts; and installation artist Rachel White, who received her MFA from Alfred University.
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1999-2000 Winter Fellows
Front row, left to right: Katherine Shozawa,
Pam Greenberg, Amanda Kim, Mala Iqbal, Ronaldo Wilson,
Paulette Beete, Nancy Reisman, Sari Wilson;
Second row, left to right: Kimberly Varella, Sedrick Huckaby;
Third row, left to right: Portia Munson, Kimberley Hart, Ellen Altfest,
Maurice Manning, Heather McGowan (Writing Coordinator), Nick Flynn,
Doug Ritter (Visual Arts Coordinator), Mary Jane Dean;
Fourth Row, left to right: Rachel White, Justin Tussing,
Robert Nadeau, Jonathan Pugh.
Photo: Vince Guadazno |
First-year Writing Fellows are poet Paulette Beete, a native of Trinidad and a graduate of Boston University; Pam Greenberg, a poet from Somerville, MA; fiction writer Amanda Kim; poet Maurice Manning, an MFA graduate from the University of Alabama; fiction writer Jonathan Pugh, who comes to us from South Wales; fiction writer Justin Tussing, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Iowa; poet Ronaldo Wilson; and fiction writer Sari Wilson, a 1997-1999 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Heather and Doug have been busy arranging a schedule of visiting writers and artists, which includes Former Fellow and poet Greg Miller, Writing Committee member and fiction writer Jaimy Gordon, Writing Committee member poet Tom Sleigh, Former Fellow Susan Choi, painter and Former Fellow Ellen Gallagher, and many others.
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