Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer who has shown her work in the U.S. and Europe since 1993. She has been the subject of sixteen solo exhibitions and participated in over 110 group shows. Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny, a solo exhibition of new paintings, opened at Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in January
David Means was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has published four short stories collections, including Assorted Fire Events, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His third collection, The Secret Goldfish, was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International
Bay Area–based pianist and composer Myra Melford, winner of the 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music, is an esteemed veteran of the international creative music community and an Associate Professor of contemporary improvised music at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the course of two decades and more than thirty recordings, she has
David McDonald was born in Liverpool, England, and raised in England, Canada, Brazil, and Venezuela. He came to the United States to attend college and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Film and Broadcasting. After graduation his focus gradually shifted to art and he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Cleopatra Mathis, born and raised in Ruston, Louisiana, is of Greek and Cherokee descent. She is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Book of Dog (2013), White Sea (2005; rpt., 2011), and What to Tip the Boatman? (2001), all published by Sarabande Books, and Aerial View of Louisiana (1979), The Bottom Land
Jon Marans’ work includes The Temperamentals, produced by Daryl Roth and Stacy Shane, which ran for over eight months Off-Broadway at the Barrow Group Theater and at New World Stages. The Temperamentals was nominated for both the Lucille Lortel and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway play and Mr. Marans was nominated
Jeff Malmberg is a documentary director and editor based in Los Angeles. He is currently working on Teatro (working title), the tale of a small farming town that confronts its community issues by turning them into a play. Filmed in Italy, the documentary weaves vérité footage of the town’s unique process with forty-six years of
Deborah Luster is best known for her long-term documentary series, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (1998–2003, with poet C. D. Wright), a photographic archive of portraits of prisoners from three Louisiana prisons, including the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola; and Tooth for an Eye: a Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (2008–2011), a photographic
Marie Losier is a gymnast, filmmaker, and curator who moved twenty years ago from France to New York. She was a painter and worked in set design for Richard Foreman before landing her hands on a 16mm bolex camera. She learned to use it when she met Mike Kuchar ten years ago and ended up
New York–based artist Lilla LoCurto was born in San Francisco de Macaira, Venezuela. She received a B.F.A. in sculpture from Arizona State University, studied additionally at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and received an M.F.A in sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Since 1991 she has collaborated with William Outcault in producing interactive
Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner was educated at Brown University. He is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010), all published by Copper Canyon Press. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, a Fulbright
Deana Lawson is a photo-based artist born in Rochester, New York. Her work examines the body’s ability to channel personal and social histories, addressing themes of familial legacy, community, romance, and religious-spiritual aesthetics. Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family-album photographs. Lawson is
Nora Krug is a writer and artist whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and le Monde Diplomatique, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster, and Chronicle Books. She is the creator of the graphic novel Red Riding
Michael Kolster is currently photographing a selection of American rivers four decades after the 1972 Clean Water Act. The project includes sections of the Androscoggin River in Maine, the James River in Virginia, and the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. With his Guggenheim Fellowship he plans to continue photographing these rivers and two others in the
Originally from Banjaluka in Bosnia, at the age of eighteen Kobaslija fled the war-ravaged country in 1993 and arrived in refugee camps in Nuremberg, Germany. Afterwards, he traveled to Dusseldorf where he attended the Art Academy. In 1997, Kobaslija was offered asylum by the United States and immigrated to Florida. Once in Florida, Kobaslija completed
Troy Jollimore’s first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2006. His second collection, At Lake Scugog, appeared in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets in 2011. As a philosopher he has focused largely on ethical aspects of love and personal relationships, and has authored
Joel Janowitz investigates how pictorial space can carry meaning and psychological charge. Throughout his career he has painted in series to explore how color, light, and paint itself develop and change one’s experience of each work, as subject matter remains the same. His series have included ocean swimmers, greenhouse interiors, water, hands, cafes, Maine porches,
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry: Holding Company (2010, Norton); Hoops (2006, Norton); and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He has published poems and essays in AGNI, American
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