VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS

TAYLOR BALDWIN is an artist from Richmond, Virginia. He has received degrees in sculpture from both the Rhode Island School of Design and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work is concerned with the specter of imminent catastrophic extinction, primarily through sculptural installation, drawing, and video.

JULIA BROWN has an MFA from CalArts and a BA from Williams College in studio art. She is the 2006 recipient of the Dedalus Foundation MFA Painting Award. She is in a show this fall at Real Art Ways (Hartford). Her work has been exhibited at LMAK Projects (NY), Greenleaf Gallery at Whittier College (CA), 507Rose Gallery (Venice, CA) Supersonic 1 at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery (LA), and Artists Space (NY). She recently finished a year-long teaching fellowship at Whittier College.

ADAM DAVIES is a photographer whose work explores the edges of urban and rural landscapes. Using a large-format camera and then digitally scanning the color negatives, his working process bridges traditional and contemporary methods. Davies has been awarded residences at Jentel (WY), Yaddo (NY), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Chinati Foundation (TX). He has recently exhibited at Project Basho Photography Center, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Main Line Art Center and Silver Eye Center for Photography. Davies has held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris University, Harvard University, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Born in Cambridge, England, Adam resides in Philadelphia, PA, when not traveling to make work.

MEGHAN GORDON, originally from New York, studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and has been nomadic since. She is interested in the collection, arrangement and display of furniture and objects in the form of period rooms and historic homes. Meghan is a recent graduate of the Victorian Society Summer School in Newport, RI and is currently a second-year Fellow

MICHELE KONG was born and raised in suburban Los Angeles. Her work has been included in several group exhibitions at a variety of venues including: PS1 Contemporary Art Center (NY), Arlington Arts Center (VA), Maryland Art Place (MD), and Numark Gallery (DC), to name a few. In 2006, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE) presented her first solo exhibition "Critical Density." She had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DE) in 2007 and Bucknell University's Samek Art Gallery (PA) in 2008. Kong's work has been covered and reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and other publications. Several international residency programs have provided support for her work including: The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Ucross Foundation, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, among others. She received a 2005-06 Pollock- Krasner Foundation grant. In 2009, Kong will be one of five participants in the Creative Artist Exchange Program, an initiative sponsored by the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

LILLY MCELROY was raised in a small town in southern Arizona where she rode horses and spent time at rodeos. She won very few ribbons, but once sold a sheep for a decent price. She was formally educated at the University of Arizona, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The time spent at those institutions lead to her unabashed interest in the cliche and the literal, as well as her often misguided attempts at making authentic connections. It should be noted that Lilly has little to no interest in irony.

JASON MONES explores various constructions of hyper-masculinity through painting. He received a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA at Yale School of Art. This year he was a recipient of the Alice Kimball Foundation Travel Grant, and he recently completed a summer teaching fellowship in Pont-Aven, France. He lived and worked as an artist in New York City (1999- 2006).

LESLIE MURRAY, a painter, received her BFA from Maine College of Art in Spring 2008. She has served internships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. She has studied with Honour Mack, Philip Brou and Gail Spaien. Her work is a combination of individual paintings and installations that create an imaginative space informed by ideas of shelter and play. Her work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

KAMBUI OLUJIMI was born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His work has been featured in museum exhibitions on a national and international level at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Finish National Gallery/Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, the Polish National Gallery/Zacheta Museum, and The National Museum of Spain/Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Olujimi has been awarded fellowships from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Apex Art Outbound Fellowship to Kellerberin, Australia. This autumn, the de Saisset museum in Santa Clara featured a solo exhibiton of photographs and the stop animation film "Winter in America", which Olujimi created in collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas. Kambui is currently exhibiting his most recent project entitled "The Clouds Are After Me", a conceptual work comprised of 350 wanted posters depicting clouds as their perpetrators. "The Clouds Are After Me" is featured in three concurrent solo exhibitions across the country at Main Gallery in Las Vegas, Branch Gallery in Durham, and The DAAP Gallery at the University of Cincinnati. Kambui is a second-year Fellow.

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, MICHA PATINIOTT received his BA at the Utrecht School of the Arts. In 2006 and 2007 he was invited as a resident artist to the international residency and research platform of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Micha has shown in group shows in the Netherlands, Berlin and Xiamen City, China. He will have a solo show of his paintings in Rotterdam in 2009.

WRITING FELLOWS

CHARLES CONLEY, born and raised on Long Island, is working on a collection of short stories. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota and his work has appeared in the Southern Review and the Harvard Review. He has been a resident at the Blue Mountain Center, the Anderson Center, Can Serrat International Artist Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

Fiction Fellow AMANDA COPLIN grew up in the Pacific Northwest. In 2006 she received an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and has since worked and lived in Minneapolis, and Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published in Third Coast, the Blue Mesa Review, and the Minnesota Monthly. She is currently working on a novel.

E.A. DURDEN grew up in North Carolina. She attended Princeton University, and later moved to New York City. She holds an MA in Humanities as well as an MFA in Creative Writing, both from New York University, where, as Language Lecturer, she teaches in the Expository Writing Program. An excerpt from her first novel, Cold Light, won her passage to the Prague Summer Program as the 2007 Ivan Klima Fellow. Her story "Mr. Dabydeen," about a man from Guyana struggling to raise his teenage daughter in Brooklyn, won Glimmer Train's 2007 Short-Story Award for New Writers, and will be published this fall. While in Provincetown, she looks forward to working on a second novel, also inspired by where she lives in Brooklyn, and on more short stories.

ERICA EHRENBERG is a graduate of Amherst College and the Poetry MFA program at New York University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Republic, jubilat, Octopus, the St. Ann's Review, Goodfoot; and in the anthologies Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems (Crown, 2007) and Everyman's Library Pocket Poetry Series:Horse Poems (Knopf, 2009). She is currently at work on completing her first manuscript of poetry, and on a graphic novel loosely based on the gangs of 19th-century New York.

Second-year Fellow NADIA KALMAN of Brooklyn, New York, has published short stories in journals such as the Gettysburg Review and The Walrus, was awarded an SLS Fellowship to St. Petersburg. She is currently working on a novel about immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

SOPHIE MCMANUS is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program and a recent recipient of fellowships from the Saltonstall and Jentel Foundations. She is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an editor and teaches creative writing.

MICHAEL MORSE lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is on leave from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where he teaches English. A recipient of degrees from Oberlin College and The University of Iowa, he has published poems in journals including A Public Space, Agni, Field, Ploughshares, The Canary, The Hat, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Tin House, and Spinning Jenny.

SARAH ROSE NORDGREN of Durham, North Carolina, received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, where she held the Fred Chappell Fellowship and served as Poetry Editor for The Greensboro Review. Her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Lumina, Terminus, as well as other journals, and at versedaily.org. She is currently working on her first manuscript of poems.