Alumni
Samar Abulhassan (2004)
Erika Adams (2003, Printmaking/Drawing)
Erika Adams studied art in California and New Mexico, focusing on printmaking and drawing. Inspired by the natural world, she is currently living, working and teaching in Columbus, GA, where it is green and buggy.
Email: eatingdogpress@hotmail.com
Cristina Aquino (2003)
Madeleine Hope Arthurs (2001)
Cara Bahir (2001)
Melanie Baker (2004)
Karin Batten (2002)
Ron Binion (2004 and 2005)
Pamela Booker (2001)
Shannon Brady (2002)
Charles Browning (2004 and 2005)
Charles Browning is represented by Jack the Pelican gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Web: www.foundrysite.com/browning
Peter Burr (2004, Animation/Performance/Two-Dimensional Work)
Sifting through and piecing together his leftovers, Peter creates narrative collage worlds. His current albatross (Slow Dance Recyttal 2005) is a collaborative music recital/video performance set in a glowing inflatable fantasy world.
Email: hooliganship@gmail.com
Web: www.hooliganship.com
Finn Campman (2004 and 2005)
Xochiquetzal Candelaria (2004)
James Canon (2001)
Eddie Cardona (2005, Playwright)
Ed Cardona, Jr. Puerto Rican American Playwright. Columbia University School of the Arts, MFA candidate ‘06. Member of HPRL (Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab) INTAR Theatre.
Email: edcaronajr@aol.com
Rebecca Chace (2001)
Susan Cummings (2002)
Douglas Danoff (2005, Writer)
One of Doug’s short stories will appear in the next issue of Night Train. Recently he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction and announced as a finalist for the 2006 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Also, heÊwas named runner-up for the 2005 BOMB Fiction Prize and the 2005 H.E. Francis Short Fiction Award and a finalist for the 2005 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the 2005 William Van Wert Memorial Fiction Award. He was just awarded a grant by the Jerome Foundation and fellowships for residencies in 2006 by the Anderson Center (nonfiction) and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (fiction).
Suzanne Dottino (2003)
Alan Edelstein (2001)
Doris Feigl (2001)
Ciara Foster (2004, Textile Artist)
Email: ceyara@claus.com
Web: www.freewebs.com/ciarafoster
Joanna Fuhrman (2004)
Linda Ganjian (2005, Sculpture)
Linda Ganjian is a New York-based artist whose primary focus is sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in NYC, New Jersey, The Netherlands, Scotland, and Armenia. She has received grants from the Pollack Krasner Foundation and Artslink. She received her B.A. from Bard College in 1992 and her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York in 1998.
Email: lindaganjian@yahoo.com
Web: www.lindaganjian.net
Merrill Garbus (2004 and 2005)
Rebecca Gates (2004)
Ethan Gilsdorf (2004, Poetry/Non-Fiction)
Email: ethan@ethangilsdorf.com
Web: www.ethangilsdorf.com
Megan Greene (2002)
Karen Grenke (2002 and 2003)
David Groff (2005)
Dan Gunderman (2001, Writing/Screenwriting)
Dan is a writer and proud Queens resident.
Email: dan@baldandeffective.com
Web: www.baldandeffective.com
Tim Guthrie (2005)
Tim Guthrie is a mixed media and multi media artist who works in a broad range of media. He is also an Associate Professor at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. He was recently awarded an Independent Artist Fellowship in Film (animation) by the Nebraska Arts Council, and he has a solo show scheduled for the Bemis Underground (Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha) that will open on August 11, 2006. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums throughout the country and has shown internationally, as well.
Web: timguthrie.creighton.edu
Erica Harris (2003 and 2005)
Terrence Healy (2003)
Leslie Hirst (2004, Painting/Installation)
Leslie Hirst is a visual artist who combines found objects with painted imagery as a means for creating works that are part map and part maze. She currently keeps a studio in Baltimore, MD, where she teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Towson University.
Email: Lhirst315@yahoo.com
Susanna Horng (2002)
Andrew Hurley (2002 and 2003)
Mariko Jesse (2005)
I am half Japanese and half English. As well as working as a freelance illustrator, I do lithography, intaglio and Japanese woodblock printing and have exhibited around the world. I currently split my time between HK, Tokyo and London.
Email: mariko.jesse@usa.net
Web: www.monsters.co.uk and www.marlenaagency.com
Cassandra C. Jones (2004, Animation/Installation/Photography)
Cassandra C. Jones received her BFA from California Collage of Art and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Interdisciplinary Art. Her work has been shown in venues throughout America and Europe including Ares Electronica in Austria, Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Bayannale in San Francisco and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Currently, she is represented by the illustrious Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, CA and is deep in collaboration with the boys of HOOLIGANSHIP on SLOW DANCE RECYTTAL, an intimate live music/animation/performance.
Email: cassandrac@gmail.com
Web: cassandrac.googlepages.com
Heather Smith Jones (2003)
Heather Smith Jones earned her M.F.A. from The University of Kansas with departmental honors. Heather combines image, abstraction, text, and pattern in her work and mixes her own watercolor and egg tempera paint. In her drawings she pierces the paper with needle sized holes to create a texture, a method she calls “pinhole.” Heather Smith Jones lives in Lawrence, Kansas with her husband, Matt Jones, who is a woodworker.
Email: contact@heathersmithjones.com
Web: www.heathersmithjones.com
Aaron Kahn (2004 and 2005)
April Kao (2002)
Catherine Kapphahn (2002)
Bill Kelly (2002)
Dylan Kidd (2004)
Fawn Krieger (2005, Sculpture)
I am a do-it-yourself builder who carefully chooses her foundations. I discover ways to build outward instead of upward, and make more space by occupying it. Using references to fantasy and theatrical sets, I place my work in public settings that promote social access and are tailored to physical engagement, challenging the possibilities of personal and collective space.
Email: fromfawn@yahoo.com
Web: www.fawnkrieger.com and www.rooproject.info
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro (2001)
Michelle Lariat (2002, Painting/Drawing)
Lisa Lerner (2003)
David Leventhal (2002)
Ruth Levine (2002)
Cynthia Lin (2005)
Cynthia Lin makes hyper-detailed drawings of skin based on magnified computer scans that record every wrinkle and blemish. They explore conflicting experiences: distance/intimacy, seductive/repulsive, familiar/strange, microcosmic/macroscosmic. Cynthia Lin has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Painting and Drawing.
Email: cynlinfin@hotmail.com
Amanda Maddock (2005)
Simone Marean (2004)
Jeff Marshall (2002)
Mary Mazziotti (2001, Visual Art/Mixed Media)
Mary M. Mazziotti is a visual artist whose installation work focuses on our responses to death, remembrance and loss of identity. She exhibits internationally and is self-taught as an artist. She lives with her husband, architect Keith Cochran, in Pittsburgh, PA.
Email: mazziotti@mindspring.com
Mary Jane Montalto (2005, Painting/Digital/Video/Film/Sculpture)
MJ Montalto has shown throughout the New York City area, including the museums of Newark, Trenton and Jersey City, Parsons School of Design, PS122 Gallery, AIR Gallery, and ClampArt Gallery in NYC. She received a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for sculpture and has been a member of the studio arts organization of PS122 in NYC since 1996.
Corinne Melchior (2001)
Molly Melloan (2004 and 2005)
Teriz Michael (2002)
Stacy Mohammed (2003)
Elizabeth Molnar (2002)
Brian Mooney (2001 and 2002, Writing)
Brian Mooney was born in Housatonic, MA, and has lived in Seattle, New York, and Vermont. He has published stories, poems, and essays in many literary magazines, and he’s taught writing at the University of Massachusetts and Marlboro College. He is senior faculty member of the Putney School Summer Program, and he bats lead-off for the Putney Fossils in the Connecticut River Valley Baseball League.
Email: brianm@marlboro.edu
Tracie Morris (2002)
Leah Mutz (2004 and 2005)
James Najarian (2003)
Nina Nastasia (2004)
Liz Nofziger (2003)
Emanuela Palazzi (2003)
Tina Pamintaun (2003)
Ishle Yi Park (2005, Poetry/Performance Poetry)
Ishle Yi Park is the Poet Laureate of Queens, NY. Her work has been published in over 30 anthologies, including The Best American Poetry of 2003 and The Beacon Best of 2001. Her first book, The Temperature of this Water, is the winner of the Pen America Beyond Margins Award 2005. Ishle has performed at over 300 venues nationally and internationally.
Email: ishlepark@gmail.com
Web: www.ishle.com
Peg Peoples (2003)
Pheobe Bess Potts (2002)
Kathy Price (2001, Literature)
Kathy Price is a published poet and author of the award-winning picture book, The Bourbon Street Musicians. She is also a recipient of a 2005 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Kathy is the editor of the downtown literary arts magazine…Issue 11 of A Gathering of the Tribes magazine, featuring musician Eliot Sharp, dancer Bill T. Jones, Academy Award winning filmmaker Mary Ann Deleo, artist Faith Ringgold, jazz violinist Regina Carter, and especially noted by Toni Morrison as a “beautiful issue.”
Web: www.kathyzprice.com
Helen Quinn (2005)
Jane Ratcliffe (2001)
Lisa Resiman (2002)
Dan Restivo (2004, Musician/Actor/Director)
Dan Restivo was raised in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont where he first began to develop his passion for the performing arts. Trained in music and theatre at the University of Toronto, Marlboro College, The Eastman School, NYU, and the Del´ Arte School, Restivo has performed as a musician internationally and intermittently engages in experimental theatre projects with companies such as Canada’s “Panoply”, Ireland’s “G’wan So!” and Vermont’s “Company of Strangers”. Dan has recently returned to Vermont to work with local troupe “Luminzcircus” for the 2006 Summer season.
Email: danrestivo@gmail.com
Jodi Reyes (2002)
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (2004)
Yolanda Rivera (2002)
Ikuko Roth (2001)
Richard Roth (2001)
Leah Ryan (2005)
Leah Ryan is a playwright and fiction writer. She graduated from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Juilliard Playwrights Program. She’s fiction editor at Punk Planet magazine and edited an anthology called For Here or To Go - Life in the Service Industry, published by Garrett County Press.
Email: Leah_ryan9@earthlink.net
Web: www.gcpress.com, www.punkplanet.com, and www.katerigg.com/html/nasian.html
Lynda Gene Rymond (2004 and 2005)
Web: www.goblinfarm.net
Jeff Seabaugh (2002)
Caglayan Servincer (2004 and 2005)
Jaye Schlesinger (2005, Pastel/Watercolor/Charcoal/Graphite/Gouache)
I received an MFA in Painting as well as an MFA in Medical Illustration from the University of Michigan. I draw on my experience as a medical illustrator as well as my previous work as a woodworker in my current work, which involves tools as the subject matter. I portray an object or a group of objects in a way that allows them to become symbolic, metaphorical, or provocative in some way. I won a 2nd place award in the “Pastel National 2006″ at the Wichita Center for the Arts, in May 2006. I am now being represented by the Gallery Henoch, 555 W. 25th St, New York, NY. So, next time you’re in NY, stop by the gallery and take a peek at some of my work. AND, more importantly, please feel free to pass this info along to anyone you think might be a potential art buyer.
Email: jayes@umich.edu
Web: www.jayeschlesinger.com
Tom Shaner (2004 and 2005)
Kae Sharpe (2004)
Amy Sickels (2002 and 2003, Writer)
Amy Sickels is a writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her stories have been published in the Greensboro Review, The Madison Review, and Natural Bridge. She has been to the Hall Farm Residency, The MacDowell Residency, and Djerassi Residency.
Jennifer Simms (2004)
Craig Skelton (2002)
Jodi Smith (2002)
Forrest Snyder (2001, Ceramics/Sculpture/Photography)
Forrest Snyder is a professional artist, writer, and computer geek practicing his arts in North Bennington, VT.
Email: forrest@forrestsnyder.com
Web: www.forrestsnyder.com and www.criticalceramics.com
Patricia Sonntag (2002)
Erin Soros (2005)
Jared Stanley (2003, Poetry)
Jared Stanley lives and works in Northern California, and edits the poetry journal Mrs. Maybe. There’s a chapbook *Measuring Daylight With a Stick* and poems are forthcoming in Conduit, Gutcult, and Mustachioed.
Erin Stellmon (2001 and 2003)
Erin is originally from Portland, Oregon where she learned to make art and play catch. She took those skills to NYC in the early nineties where she won many friends and influenced few. Currently she is armwrestling and drinking whiskey in Las Vegas while finishing her MFA at UNLV.
Web: www.erinstellmon.com
Brooke Stephens (2001)
Leigh Tarentino (2004)
Susan Thames (2002)
Lisa Titus (2002)
Jay Van Buren (2003)
Genevieve Villamora (2003)
David Vining (2002 and 2003)
Anastasia Ward (2005)
Timothy Westmoreland (2004)
Richard Webster (2005, Fiction Writer)
Richard A. Webster teaches humanities at the renowned International High School in New York City. He resides in New Jersey with his wife, Elizabeth, and his two children.
Email: runcinate@aol.com
Michelle Suzanne Wildgen (2002, Writing/Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Michelle Wildgen is senior editor of Tin House magazine and an editor at Tin House books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in various publications, including Best New American Voices 2004, Best Food Writing 2004, the anthology A Memorable Feast, Tri Quarterly, Story Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, which awarded her the 2005 Virginia Faulkner prize. Her novel, You’re Not You, will be published next June by St. Martin’s Press.
Email: michelle@tinhouse.com