* Session II is when we have the Byrdcliffe Master Artist Program. This project is supported in part by a grant from the The Pollock–Krasner Foundation.

Session II: June 29 – July 25, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, July 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 3 pm there will be an Artist Lecture with Byrdcliffe Master Artist, Joan Snyder. Joan will give a talk in conjunction with our Artist in Residence Program and the 2010 Pollock–Krasner artists in the Kleinert/James Arts Center. FREE!

Artists

• Cate Holt’s work includes abstract paintings and temporary installations. Last year she participated in the SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media. A graduate of the Hartford Art School, she works in Brooklyn NY and lives in Putnam County NY
• Born in Cleveland, Ohio (1986), Joshua Kaplan lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned his BFA from Syracuse University in 2008 and will be attending Hunter College for his MFA in the Fall. His work has been exhibited in Cleveland, New York City, Syracuse, Chautauqua, Indiana, Maryland and Italy.
• Lindsay Packer is a New York-based artist whose work ranges from collage to installation and writing. She received an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design. The recipient of a 2002 Fulbright Fellowship in installation art, Packer traveled to India to study site-specific ephemeral imagery in both sacred and secular contexts. Since then, she has found, remembered and invented in Brooklyn, NY.
• Heather Ramsdale
• Laura Splan is a Brooklyn, NY based mixed media artist. She received an MFA from Mills College (Oakland, CA). Her work explores perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery as a point of departure to explore these dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. She often combines the visual vocabulary of science with that of domesticity and decorum.

Writers

• Matthew Aquilone was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Vassar College and of the Masters Creative Writing Program at NYU. His fiction and poetry have been seen in Christopher Street, RFD, and this years Census anthology from Seven Towers, Dublin, as well as other journals and online. He is also this summer the recipient of a residency from the Edward Albee Foundation.
• Nora Boxer received her MA in Creative Writing from UT Austin in 2010. A fiction writer and poet, she is the 2010 recipient of UT’s Keene Prize for Literature for her short story “It’s the song of the nomads, baby; or, Pioneer”. Nora is developing a sustainable energy, urban arts residency in Oakland, CA, with an anticipated opening date in 2011. She is currently at work on a novel.
• Joshua Butts is a poet living, teaching and writing in Columbus, OH. His poems have appeared in journals such a Quarterly West, Ellipses, Sonora Review and The Hat. A chapbook, To Learn to Fingerpick Guitar, was published in 2006 with Pudding House.
• Nicholas Garnett is a writer/teacher/student living in Miami Beach, Florida. His memoir, STRAIGHT GUY, is currently with an agent being shopped to publishers.
• Elizabeth L. Silver holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has taught ESL in Costa Rica, worked in book publishing in New York, was an adjunct professor of English composition and literature at Drexel University and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, a Research Attorney for the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, and is licensed to practice law in the state of California. She is currently working on a novel set on Death Row.