Open Studio

The Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program offers writers and visual artists one month residencies from June through October. The program provides residents with unstructured time in which to concentrate on independent creative work in the company of fellow artists.

Each session culminates in a lively and well–attended Open Studio, when residents are invited to share their work not just with each other, but with Woodstock’s artistic community. Open Studio starts at 5 pm, with guests self touring the art studios, then there’s a potluck dinner, followed by readings given by the writing residents.

A contribution to the pot–luck is the only charge.

Session III

Session III: July 27 – August 22, 2010

Open Studio: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Artists

• Born on a farm in Quebec, Canada, Jane Corrigan received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 2003, and MFA from Purchase College in 2009. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
• Anabel Giladi
• Katharine Hopkins
• Essye Klempner (b. 1984 – Louisville, KY) graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2006, and is attending Hunter College for her MFA in Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
• William Knight
• Ian Riggs is a bassist, composer, singer and guitarist who performs and records in and out of New York City with a wide range of artists. Among them are Howard Fishman, Ethan Lipton, One Ring Zero, Blarvuster, Hilary Hawke, Likeness to Lily, The Lonesome Trio, and Giancarlo Vulcano. He has composed music for a variety of theatrical works and for Adrian Muys’ films, “Iris” and “Hands of Harvest”.
• Michelle Spark

Writers

• Laura M. Dixon is a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, working toward her M.F.A. in poetry, with a secondary concentration in fiction. She holds a B.A. from The University of Chicago and an M.A.T. from Dominican University, and for ten years, she taught high school creative writing, literature, Spanish, and Spanish literature. She will attend a residency at the Hambidge Center in Georgia this May. Her poems recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgetown Review, Apparatus Magazine, Exact Change Only and Front Porch.
• Lisa Interollo
• Nick Jones is a playwright, screenwriter, and performer. Produced plays include: Jollyship the Whiz–Bang (A Pyrate Puppet Rock Odyssey), Straight Up Vampire: A History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul, Little Building, The Coward, The Sporting Life (with Rachel Shukert) and The Nosemaker’s Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon (with Rachel Shukert). He is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard, where he was a recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize. He was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska.
• Christa Parravani is a writer/ photographer. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. She’s a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. Her photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. She’s represented by Randall Scott Gallery in NY and by Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles.
• Phoebe Reeves teaches at Clermont College in southern Ohio. You can find her recent or forthcoming work in The Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Memorious, and Quarterly West. Her chapbook The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate, published by Pecan Grove Press, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Clifton, Ohio with her husband Don.
• Rochelle Spencer received her MFA from New York University, and she has been a fellow with the Vermont Studio Center and a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Film Writers Project, sponsored by Paramount Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. Currently, Rochelle teaches at LaGuardia Community College. You can reach her at www.twitter.com/rochellespencer.