Session IV: August 24 – September 19, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

• Tatiana Berg
• John Humphries: Having completed degrees in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design and a foray as a saucier and metalsmith, Mr. Humphries is a visual artist, gardener, and designer focusing on translating one media form to another. The creative work takes the form of photo/watercolor constructions, carved wooden slabs, automatic poems, and multi-layered sounds. The subject of these studies are a personal narrative coded in a tragic myth, and indigenous plant life. Currently directing graphic media at Miami University within the School of Fine Arts, John has worked as a designer of architecture and other environments; including entertainment design in the US and Asia Dissemination of creative works has been through several exhibitions, panel member as design reviewer, and presentations at national conferences.
  
  Significant exhibitions have been at the Dorothy Reed Gallery and Weston Galleries [Cincinnati, Ohio], Gallery See [Atlanta, Georgia], Rosewood Gallery [Kettering, Ohio], and Arlington Museum of Art [Arlington, Texas].
• Helma Kuijper lives and works in Alkmaar, Holland. She studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague painting drawing and sculpture. In 2005 she worked for three months in the European Ceramic Working Centre in Den Bosch in Holland. Her work is purchased by the ministry of economics and the ministry of agriculture and fishing in The Hague. She worked in Woodstock last year as one of the ten artist in residence from Holland for the Ulster Country Hudson 400 Celebration.
• Caroline McAuliffe
• Courtney Puckett lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an M.F.A from Hunter College and a B.F.A from Maryland Institute College. Puckett also studied in Glasgow, Scotland, New Mexico and Aix-en-Provence, France. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has been featured in the NYTimes online Art blog.

Musicians

• Bari Koral: Singer songwriter living in New York, NY. Former resident.

Writers

• Ross Berger is a playwright and screenwriter currently working in Los Angeles. His play THE SHOEBOX OF EBBETS FIELD was the 2001 winner of the Cherry Lane Playwriting Mentorship Fellowship. During this year-long program, Ross worked under the guidance of Michael Weller, an experience which culminated into the Off-Broadway production of his play in 2001. The play also received the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship of 2001-2002. Ross was the recipient of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Dasha Epstein Next Step Fellowship for his play THE WHITETAIL SEASON in 2001, and worked under Romulus Linney for its development. In 2003, his short play SEMI COLON RIGHT PARENTHESIS won 5 awards at the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival, including Best Play and Audience Favorite. In 2004, Ross wrote an episode of LAW & ORDER entitled “Gov Love” which became the series’s 2005 Emmy Submission. Additionally, Ross won first prize in the 2007 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition (One-Hour Category) for a spec script of HOUSE M.D. He has written for New Media on the interactive series LONELYGIRL15 and, currently, for video games including the most recent adaptation of CSI. Ross is a graduate of Brandeis (BA, Philosophy) and Columbia (MFA, Playwriting) universities and is a member of the WGA (East).
• A graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television MFA Screenwriting program, Michael Hazzard has being writing plays and screenplays for far much longer than his “official” date of birth could possibly allow. At UCLA he gained a reputation for screenplays noted for their horror, humor and an “unhealthy preoccupation with sex, drugs and politics.” His screenplay “The Devil’s Whipping Boy” is the winner of the 2008 NBC/NAACP Fellowship in Screenwriting and his screenplay “Paradise” has been chosen for the 2010 Outfest Screenwriting Lab. He is currently working on a comedy set in Los Angeles and a play about Alphonso I, the first Catholic King of the Congo during the early 16th century. It is not a comedy.
• Barbara Blatner: Playwright, poet and composer living in New York, NY. She is working on a play called Marilyn Monroe in the Desert. Former resident.
• Helen Newman, a native of Brooklyn, is crafting the final draft of her first book, titled Harrow My Heart at Zendik Farm: Coming of Age in a Hippie Cult. She lives, works, and grows food near the maw of the Lincoln Tunnel.
• Jente Posthuma is a writer living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Benjamin Sweet: School of Visual Arts Screenwriting Fellow.