CATHERINE BOWMAN
Poetry is a site for oppositions, ambiguity, ambivalence; a mirror of personhood in the way we both simultaneously desire and refute. This process and state of living with and confronting duality is not only intensely personnel but always wholly social. In this intensive extended workshop we explore the ways in which poems invite, confront and accommodate the beautiful and the abject, the profane and the sacred, the found and the lost, the homey and the horrifying, appetite and repulsion, connection and separation. Each day of this week-long workshop will be loosely organized around themes: Day One: The Body, Day Two: Food, Day Three: Family. Day Four: History. During class we will read and discuss poems and essays that I will provide. We will also work on several in-class writing exercises and explorations that may result in first drafts of poems. Every evening I will offer an optional writing assignment. This is a class in generating and revising new work. All levels welcome.
Biography
Catherine Bowman is the author of four collections of poetry The Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm and 1-800-HOTRIBS. She is editor of Word of Mouth, an anthology of poems by poets she has reviewed and featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Her poems have appeared in six editions of Best American Poetry as well as many literary magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Times, and Ploughshares.
Students in this class (click a name to read a sample of their work):
Guy Thorvaldsen
Kathleen Schenck
Sarah Martin
Alise Alousi
CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
LETHA WILSON
In this course we will investigate conceptual and innovative approaches to landscape photography, emphasizing an experimental approach to image-taking and studio work. In addition to discussion and shooting out in the field, we will consider also the life of the image post-camera – including materials and methods for digital printing, photograms, photo transfers and even three dimensional potential for the landscape photographic image. An experimental and mixed media approach, one that includes both shooting outdoors and working with materials in the studio, will be encouraged to open up new lines of thinking.The course will include discussion and presentation of related works, trips out into the natural landscape surrounding Provincetown, studio work, and group and individual critique and discussion. Both photographers and other visual artists working with photographic elements are welcome to participate.
Biography
Letha Wilson was raised in Colorado, and received her MFA from Hunter College, and her BFA from Syracuse University. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Socrates Sculpture Park, Exit Art, Arko Arts Center (Seoul), Essl Museum of Contemporary Art (Austria), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. She has been a resident artist at Yaddo, Santa Fe Art Institute, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Farpath Foundation in Dijon, France. Letha had solo exhibitions in New York City, Higher Pictures, in December 2012, and Art in General in Spring 2013. Letha currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Kevin Hinkle
Thomas Geyer
Bruce Duncan
Kelly Reene
Certain stories demand our attention; unfortunately, these are often the stories that seem to elude us. This is a workshop for people who feel a strong urgency to tell a particular story and who are interested in finding the form best-suited to the telling. Whether the story begins as memory, diary, oral history interviews, a strong commitment to the past or some other invented landscape, an act of transformation must eventually take place. The energy inherent in the story will lead the writer to make important discoveries not only of content but also of form. We encourage a wide variety of approaches to a broad range of stories—including memoir, autobiography, fiction, and performance art. There will be daily writing assignments for those who need or want them. We will read and discuss the work of members of the workshop along with the work of Driss ben Charhadi, Isabelle Eberhardt, Judith Malina, Thomas Wolfe and Jean Rhys.
Penny Arcade (aka Susana Ventura) is an internationally acclaimed and respected writer, poet, essayist, cultural critic, performance, theater, video artist, and international cultural icon. She was a teenage superstar for Andy Warhol's Factory, featured in the film Women In Revolt. Ms. Arcade is the author of ten full-length performance plays, based on both oral history and memoir. She has been published in numerous journals including: Film Culture, Found Object, Verses That Hurt, Please Kill Me (The Oral History of Punk),Out of Character, Raves, Rants and Monologues from America’s top Performance artists, Monologues For Women, Monologues For Cold Reading, Writing Your Own Monologues, Love Christopher Street as well as many magazines. She has lectured at NYU’s Tisch Theatre Program since 2004,Trinity Theatre program since 2005, Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University since 2006, University of Kentucky Fine Arts Program since 2011 and the Fine Arts Work Center. Internationally she has taught workshops and master classes for Impulstanz in Vienna, and Contact Theatre Manchester, England as well as doing private mentoring and coaching.
DISCOVERING AND PRESERVING THE IMPORTANT STORY - AS MEMOIR, FICTION OR PERFORMANCE ART
GERRY ALBARELLI
PENNY ARCADE
Certain stories demand our attention; unfortunately, these are often the stories that seem to elude us. This is a workshop for people who feel a strong urgency to tell a particular story and who are interested in finding the form best-suited to the telling. Whether the story begins as memory, diary, oral history interviews, a strong commitment to the past or some other invented landscape, an act of transformation must eventually take place. The energy inherent in the story will lead the writer to make important discoveries not only of content but also of form. We encourage a wide variety of approaches to a broad range of stories—including memoir, autobiography, fiction, and performance art. There will be daily writing assignments for those who need or want them. We will read and discuss the work of members of the workshop along with the work of Driss ben Charhadi, Isabelle Eberhardt, Judith Malina, Thomas Wolfe and Jean Rhys. Biography
Gerry Albarelli is the author of Teacha! Stories from a Yeshiva, and co-author of two guides to oral history interviewing. His stories, poems and essays have been published in Fairleigh Dickinson Review, Pen America Journal, ItalianAmericana, Hamilton Stone Review, The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, and The Breast: An Anthology. He has created as well as curated numerous oral-history based multimedia exhibits and performances. He is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.Penny Arcade (aka Susana Ventura) is an internationally acclaimed and respected writer, poet, essayist, cultural critic, performance, theater, video artist, and international cultural icon. She was a teenage superstar for Andy Warhol's Factory, featured in the film Women In Revolt. Ms. Arcade is the author of ten full-length performance plays, based on both oral history and memoir. She has been published in numerous journals including: Film Culture, Found Object, Verses That Hurt, Please Kill Me (The Oral History of Punk),Out of Character, Raves, Rants and Monologues from America’s top Performance artists, Monologues For Women, Monologues For Cold Reading, Writing Your Own Monologues, Love Christopher Street as well as many magazines. She has lectured at NYU’s Tisch Theatre Program since 2004,Trinity Theatre program since 2005, Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University since 2006, University of Kentucky Fine Arts Program since 2011 and the Fine Arts Work Center. Internationally she has taught workshops and master classes for Impulstanz in Vienna, and Contact Theatre Manchester, England as well as doing private mentoring and coaching.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Cindy Cross
James Judd
Joanna Ahlgren
David Macke
Brigid Moynahan
Claire Greene
Khary Polk
Michelle Crone
MASTER CLASS IN PRINTMAKING
ANDREW MOCKLER
This intensive weeklong class is designed to give the printmaker a chance to work with a Master Printer to develop her creative methods. Students will work in etching, woodcut, and monoprint, or a combination of these, to create an individual project. We will be exploring multiple-plate printing, color development, and collage/assemblage applications. Throughout the week, each student will receive individual instruction relating to the conceptual as well as material means of realizing their work.Biography
Andrew Mockler is a painter-printmaker working in Brooklyn, New York, where he collaborates with artists, making monoprints, lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts at Jungle Press Editions. He studied at Cornell University and Yale School of Art, where he went on to teach printmaking and graduate painting. He has also taught at Columbia University and the Rhode Island School of Design. He currently teaches at Hunter College. His paintings have been shown at George Billis Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, and most recently at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn. Andrew Mockler was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1990/91.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Carol Ridker
Alison Morgan
Philip Spinks
Patricia Geller
Susan Danko
Bill Fitts
This workshop will explore strategies for painting with the surprising and challenging medium of watercolor. Exercises and projects will focus on a variety of working methods and on increasing understanding of how transparent washes can be layered both to create a full range of light and dark, and to comfortably adjust color –– two key factors in watercolor’s ability to convey a convincing sense of light. At the same time, the workshop will stay open to the playful, quick and spontaneous potentials of the medium. We will work primarily from observation (still life, landscape and the model). Experienced students and those new to watercolor are welcome.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Betsy Damez
Jonathan Smith
Beverly Keefer
Geraldine Zetzel
Paula Lazar
Ingrid Johnson
Dagmar Friedman
Gail Briggs
Rochelle Weichman
Veronique Bale
Complete a first draft of a one-act play, or the first act of a full-length play. In this workshop we will be doing intensive in-class writing exercises (and some out of class observation exercises as well) exploring character, structure, plot, rhythm and tone, as well as workshopping an assigned number of pages each day. Participants will be expected to work very closely with one another during the process of completing their plays.
Bibliography
Elana Greenfield’s book, At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations won The New American Fiction Competition. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award in drama, and The Judith S. Pearson award for her short story “Talent.” Her work for the stage has been seen both internationally and nationally and has been presented at La Mama E.T.C., The Vineyard Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, among others. Her play, Nine Come, has recently been included in New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York. Her articles and essays have appeared in Yale’s Theater magazine and the Brooklyn Rail, her plays excerpted in Bomb Magazine and her radio plays heard on WNYC, The Radio Stage and public radio stations across the country. She currently teaches playwriting at The New School University’s Eugene Lang College, and at NYU Tisch Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Adam Meisner
Elaine Eliopoulous
Dan Bancroft
David Ehrens
Natasha Smith
Mairead Hadley
Amy Abrams
Think of your favorite poem, one that is committed to memory. You probably have not only its words memorized but also, too, its cadence and spoken sounds that culminate into some grand utterance that is felt in the mouth and body as elemental truth. This generative workshop takes as its inspiration those poems that we carry within us, that are inseparable from our being, that seem essential as fresh water.
We will write two short lyric poems and revise two previously written poems with an attempt to increase their music and emotional power, so that they strike us as sacred and memorable.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Charlie Bondhus
C. L. McFadyen
Chase Berggrun
Lauren Hilger
Lu Pierro
Laurie Duncan
Jung Hae Chae
Carol Peters
Alison Morgan
Philip Spinks
Patricia Geller
Susan Danko
Bill Fitts
PAINTING LIGHT: A WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
JOEL JANOWITZ
This workshop will explore strategies for painting with the surprising and challenging medium of watercolor. Exercises and projects will focus on a variety of working methods and on increasing understanding of how transparent washes can be layered both to create a full range of light and dark, and to comfortably adjust color –– two key factors in watercolor’s ability to convey a convincing sense of light. At the same time, the workshop will stay open to the playful, quick and spontaneous potentials of the medium. We will work primarily from observation (still life, landscape and the model). Experienced students and those new to watercolor are welcome.Biography
Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely with over 30 solo shows. In 2012, he had a one-person exhibition at the GWatson Gallery in Stonington, Maine, and a two-person show at the Art Institute of Boston. Janowitz’s work has been collected by numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2008 he received his third individual Artist Fellowship from the state of Massachusetts. Janowitz has taught painting and drawing at Wellesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Massachusetts College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center Low-Residency MFA program.Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Betsy Damez
Jonathan Smith
Beverly Keefer
Geraldine Zetzel
Paula Lazar
Ingrid Johnson
Dagmar Friedman
Gail Briggs
Rochelle Weichman
Veronique Bale
PLAYWRITING INTENSIVE
ELANA GREENFIELD
Complete a first draft of a one-act play, or the first act of a full-length play. In this workshop we will be doing intensive in-class writing exercises (and some out of class observation exercises as well) exploring character, structure, plot, rhythm and tone, as well as workshopping an assigned number of pages each day. Participants will be expected to work very closely with one another during the process of completing their plays.Bibliography
Elana Greenfield’s book, At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations won The New American Fiction Competition. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award in drama, and The Judith S. Pearson award for her short story “Talent.” Her work for the stage has been seen both internationally and nationally and has been presented at La Mama E.T.C., The Vineyard Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, among others. Her play, Nine Come, has recently been included in New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York. Her articles and essays have appeared in Yale’s Theater magazine and the Brooklyn Rail, her plays excerpted in Bomb Magazine and her radio plays heard on WNYC, The Radio Stage and public radio stations across the country. She currently teaches playwriting at The New School University’s Eugene Lang College, and at NYU Tisch Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.
Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Adam Meisner
Elaine Eliopoulous
Dan Bancroft
David Ehrens
Natasha Smith
Mairead Hadley
Amy Abrams
WRIT ON WATER: A POETRY WORKSHOP
MAJOR JACKSON
Think of your favorite poem, one that is committed to memory. You probably have not only its words memorized but also, too, its cadence and spoken sounds that culminate into some grand utterance that is felt in the mouth and body as elemental truth. This generative workshop takes as its inspiration those poems that we carry within us, that are inseparable from our being, that seem essential as fresh water.We will write two short lyric poems and revise two previously written poems with an attempt to increase their music and emotional power, so that they strike us as sacred and memorable.
Biography
Major Jackson is the author of three volumes of poetry: Holding Company, Hoops, and Leaving Saturn, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the Richard Dennis Green & Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is poetry editor at The Harvard Review and lives in South Burlington, Vermont. He was a Fine Arts Work Center Fellow in 2000/01.Students in this class (click a name to view a sample of their work):
Charlie Bondhus
C. L. McFadyen
Chase Berggrun
Lauren Hilger
Lu Pierro
Laurie Duncan
Jung Hae Chae
Carol Peters
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