Rhythm and a mercurial voice are trademarks of Teresa Whitaker’s lively and joyous performances. Using guitar, Celtic harp, percussion and improvisation she engages audiences with their own inherent creativity. Blending beauty and humor she performs both original and traditional stories and songs from many different cultures. Recordings: In Gaia’s Lap and Earth and Sky Lullaby. Residencies Find out more »
Deborah Grant, visual artist, April 7-21, 2004
Grant earned a B.F.A. at Columbia College in Chicago, studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and earned an M.F.A. at Tyler School of Art. Most recently she has been one of three artists-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and also participated in the A.I.M Program at the Bronx Museum of the Find out more »
April Vollmer, visual artist, March 11 – April 5, 2004
Vollmer lives and works on Manhattan’s lower east side. She received her M.F.A. in printmaking from Hunter College in 1982. Focusing primarily on Japanese woodcut, she also works in the computer, often combining traditional and contemporary techniques. She has taught workshops at the Japan Society, the Lower East Side Printshop, Pyramid Atlantic and Dieu Donné Find out more »
Judith Hall, poet, February 24 – March 6, 2004
Judith Hall is the author of “To Put The Mouth To” which was selected for the National Poetry Series, and Anatomy, Errata, winner of the Ohio State University Press publication award. Most recently she has published The Promised Folly (TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, 2003). Hall teaches at California Institute of Technology and has Find out more »
Christopher Moore, visual artist, January 15-30, 2004
Moore currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.A. from Hampshire College (1992) and an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design (1996). His work has been included in exhibitions at the Rotunda Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Printed Matter, Milton Hershey School Museum, and the Millennium Film Workshop. Find out more »
James Huckenpahler, visual artist, January 15 – February 13, 2004
Huckenpahler, trained as a painter, now works primarily on a laptop. He is currently growing digital images that could be dermatological case studies…or LandSat photos. He is a former faculty member of the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and a former member of the Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran Advisory Board. He is represented Find out more »
Kimberly Thorpe, visual artist, December 1–12, 2003
Thorpe earned an M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design (1996) and a B.A. in art from St. Mary’s College of Maryland (1994). Her paintings grow from an interest in landscape, abstraction and imaginary views of nature. She likes to paint in places where colors, shapes and lines coalesce to form images of nature. Her Find out more »
Charles Burmeister, filmmaker and scriptwriter, October 27 – November 6, 2003
Charles Burmeister’s short films have appeared at the Austin Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, San Antonio Film Festival and the VIDEOEX Experimental Film Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. His first feature-length film, a documentary film called “The Kind of Sixth Street,” premiered at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2003 where it won the Special Jury Award Find out more »
Marlys West, poet, October 27 – November 6, 2003
Marlys West, a native of Louisiana, has two degrees in English–a BA from St. Mary’s College in Maryland and an MA from the University of Virginia. She has also received an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Texas’s Michener Center for Writers, where she received graduate and postgraduate fellowships. She received a Hodder Find out more »
Reni Gower, visual artist, October 13-24, 2003
Gower currently resides in Richmond, Virginia where she is an Professor in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a B.F.A. from Syracuse University, a M.F.A. from University of Minnesota-Duluth, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since 1974, Reni Gower has exhibited her artwork extensively throughout the country; including Find out more »