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Events Calendar
Elizabeth Streb, Fellow in Choreography, 1989Choreographer, dancer and founder of S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action Mechanics) Elizabeth Streb will be a keynote speaker at the 20th Annual Alliance of Artists Communities conference in Providence. The conference is designed to address the needs of today’s artists and explore the direction of contemporary art, both performing and visual. |
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Erika Blumenfeld, Fellow in Video & Audio, 2008The Nevada Museum of Art will present Moving Light, a short film by Erika Blumenfeld, which documents the ninety-three days between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice. Moving Light will be featured from May 29 through September 5 in the museum's media gallery. |
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Fredrik Marsh, Fellow in Photography, 2008 "Just as every house contains a story of promise, of political and economic goals, and of private lives, the artwork represented in houseWARNING addresses concepts of home and place, confronting each artist’s own experiences and perspectives of living in cities such as Cleveland, New York, Dresden, Columbus, and Philadelphia." Fredrik Marsh and Ardine Nelson, fellows in photography, 2008, are among the 21 artists participating in this exhibition. |
Patrick Hamilton, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2007Proyecto Ideal, a group exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile, features the work of Patrick Hamilton and eight other artists from South America, Cuba, and Spain. The show will run from August 5 to September 26. Follow the link for more information about this exhibition |
David Budd, Fellow in Fine Art, 1984Selby Galleries I & ll at the Ringling College of Art and Design presents a retrospective of the work of David Budd. Beginning in the 1950s Budd worked in New York alongside artists Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. The paintings in this retrospective are drawn from the 300 works left to his estate in 1991. |
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John Zurier, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2010A painting by John Zurier will be included in the upcoming exhibition Le Tableau: French Abstraction and Its Affinities, curated by Joe Fyfe, a 2008 Fellow in Fine Arts. The exhibition will run from June 24 to September 3, at the Cheim and Read Gallery in New York City. |
Joan La Barbara, Fellow in Music Composition, 2004, David Moss, Fellow in Video & Audio, 1991, and Marilyn Crispell, Fellow in Music Composition, 2005Three Guggenheim Fellows will participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Christian Marclay: Festival, an exhibition dedicated to the artist and composer. The exhibition includes continuously changing daily performances and investigates “Marclay’s approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his “graphic scores” for performance by musicians and vocalists.” |
Kay Ryan, Fellow in Poetry, 2004The sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States will present the opening keynote to The Vegas Valley Book Festival. The festival will feature readings, panel discussions, book signings, workshops, poetry and spoken word performances, and more. The festival begins November 3 and will run through November 7. All programs and events are free and open to the public. |
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Marilyn Christine Bridges, Fellow in Photography, 1982Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to present a collection of black and white silver gelatin prints by photographer, Marilyn Bridges. Bridges captured these images as she traveled along the banks of the Ganges and Gandak rivers in 1993 and 1996. |
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Stanley Greenberg, Fellow in Photography, 2005
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This Long Century Features Work by Nine FellowsIn its latest online issue, Update No. 16, This Long Century includes new contributions by nine Guggenheim Fellows: Les Blank (1976) and Pat O’Neill (1992), who were Fellows in Film; Luc Sante (1992 Fellow in General Nonfiction); Mary Ellen Mark (1994 Fellow in Photography); and Mel Bochner (1972), Llyn Foulkes (1977), Susan Hiller (1998), Marilyn Minter (1998), and Jessica Stockholder (1996), who each received a Fellowship in Painting, Sculpture, and Installation Art. |
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Federico Solmi, Fellow in Video & Audio, 2009SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce its Eigth International Biennial,The Dissolve, which runs from June 20 through January 2. |
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Andrea Juan, Fellow in Video & Audio, 2005Sur Polar II / Art in Antarctica |
Lorenzo Martinez, Fellow in Physics, 1992Professor at the Institute of Physical Sciences of the National University of Mexico, Dr. Lorenzo Martinez, will speak at the Kuwait Pipeline Technology Conference & Exhibition. His topics of discussion are “the experience in the curriculum development and education and operator qualification program design involving the critical tasks of the oil and gas pipeline operation in Mexico.” |
Christian Tomaszewski, 2008 Fellow in Fine Arts, and Joanna Malinowska, 2009 Fellow in Fine ArtsAs part of the Performa 09 Commissions Program, artists Christian Tomaszewiski Joanna Malinowska are teaming up to present “Mother Earth Sister Moon, a multimedia performance-installation. |
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SoHyun Bae, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2007SoHyun Bae's Egg Woman II will be on display at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco March 16 through November 14. Ms. Bae's painting is a recent museum acquisition.
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Toi Derricotte, Fellow in Poetry, 2004Red Hen Press presents Toi Derricotte as one of three esteemed authors to read at the 16th Anniversary Champagne Luncheon at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles. The fundraiser is held annually to support the organization’s Writing in the Schools program. |
Carolyn D. Wright, Fellow in Poetry, 1987Carolyn D. Wright, poet and Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University, will participate in Virginia Tech’s Visiting Writers Series to read and discuss her work. All events in the series are free and open to the public. |
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James Drake, Fellow in Fine Arts, 2001The El Paso Museum of Art has mounted an exhibition of five of James Drake's works, entitled James Drake. The exhibition, which is free to the public, opened on August 23 and will run for two years. Follow the link to read the press release or view the website for the El Paso Museum of Art. |
Leon Levinstein, Fellow in Photography, 1975The Metropolitan Museum presents forty-five of Leon Levinstein’s New York street photographs drawn exclusively from its collection. |
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Federico Solmi, Fellow in Video & Audio, 2009The Czech Centre, Prague and the Vernon Gallery are pleased to present Lines and Frames. One of the solo exhibitions in Lines and Frames, Federico Solmi's Douche Bag City, will include a selection of video animations, which range in date from 2005 to 2010. Solmi's video installation is a collaborative effort, involving 3D artists Russell Lowe and Lee Gibson. Mr. Solmi strives to "present viewers with an ironic, but perverse vision of our times and our near future". |
Lawrence Venuti, Fellow in Italian Literature, 2007Translator and Princeton University Creative Writing Lecturer Lawrence Venuti will present “Genealogies of Theory and Practice : Jerome and the Institutions of Translation” as a keynote speaker at Shifting Paradigms: How Translation Transforms the Humanities. The conference, presented by the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will take place October 14 through October 16. |
Emily Martin, Fellow in Anthropology & Cultural Studies, 1999Emily Martin, professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of The Woman in the Body: a Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, among others will present “Steps Toward an Anthropology of Experimental Psychology” as part of The Center for the Study of Women and Society’s NeuroCulture Lecture Series. |
Guggenheim Relatives |
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Over the years, a number of Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to people from the same family, sometimes in the same year, sometimes decades apart. Follow the link for a sampling. |