Print Email

Newsletter, January 2012

A Conversation with Kevin Brockmeier

"I feel as if I reveal a lot of myself in my fiction. Very little of it is truly autobiographical, but frequently I find myself taking aspects of my mind and history, my sentiments, my personal dilemmas, the little wisdoms I imagine I’ve gathered—all the basic circumstances of my life, really—and reconstituting them as symbols and metaphors."

Pat Catterson: "Body to Body"

"To Lie in the Sky will be my 104th dance but the eighth one using a new methodology I began developing about six years ago. This new process addressed my dissatisfaction with a way of working that had evolved from the time, space, and economic restrictions of working as a New York City artist. It has changed the way I make movement, transmit it to dancers, and, ultimately, the way I evolve meaning from movement and find structure."

Catherine Chalmers: "Antworks"

"Lying on the rainforest floor, flat on my stomach, looking up through the camera at thousands of leafcutter ants marching inches from my lens, I thank the Guggenheim Foundation for enabling me to be dirty, sweaty, bitten and stung. But I could not be happier. Working with leafcutter ants, whom E.O Wilson calls the “ultimate superorganism,” is a joy, a privilege and always a challenge."

Dolphins in the Wild: An Aquatic Intelligence

Denise Herzing, Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project, has completed 27 years of her long-term study of the Atlantic spotted dolphins inhabiting Bahamian waters, and has continued this research as a Guggenheim Fellow in Science Writing.

Follow @GuggFellows

Flickr