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| In 2013 Missy was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant for Painting in Turkey where she studied Anatolian textiles and learned how to weave traditional kilims and knotted pile carpets. In 2014 she was awarded a John Anson Kittredge Educational Grant to extend her research abroad. She made a book with ink drawings about her traveling experiences "Standing in Asia, Looking at Europe, Thinking of New York" |
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| A postcard from ERIN SICKLER, sent from Albany, NY / USA. Erin is a writer and art curator. After working with artists and arts organizations on both East and West coasts, Erin set out on her curatorial career in New York City at PS1/MoMA before serving as Assistant Curator at the Queens Museum and, from 2009 to 2013, as Gallery Director for 601Artspace. In addition, she has mounted independent exhibitions and projects throughout New York City and abroad. She was a founding member of Arts and Labor a group advocating for fair and transparent labor practices in the arts, and has spoken internationally on art and alternative economies. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogs and blogs as well as Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Artlink. Together with Alexis Bhagat Erin recently founded Art and Context, which is an “artist-oriented” consulting firm offering affordable advising, professional development and project management to artists. An interview with Erin as well as some of her writings can be found here. |
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| Erin is currently working on a book of first-person essays on art and trauma for which she received the 2014 Millay Colony Residency for Non-Fiction. This is were the both of us met in July 2014 as fellow residents. We spent one month over there, surrounded by forests, beavers, hummingbirds, fireflies, black bears and many other creatures. I very much enjoyed her company, the talks we had about pretty much everything, having dinner with the other residents, drinking wine and smoking cigarettes, watching the sunset over the trees. |
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A postcard in an envelope from NADJA FRANK, sent from Brooklyn, New York / USA. A rock for Nebraska City! As
far as I can see Nadja has an intimate relationship to rocks, she
definitely likes rocks. She made a series of beautiful silkscreen prints
of rocks: http://dennygallery.com/artists/nadja-frank/
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| We met in Berlin in the summer of 2013 in the context of This Red Door. Nadja was born in Lohr am Main in Germany and lives in New York City. She received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule fur bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Nadja's work has been exhibited internationally in various solo exhibitions. |
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| A postcard from DAVID SAMUEL STERN sent from Brooklyn, New York - USA. David is a visual artist and a photographer, born in Highland Park, Illinois, based in Brooklyn, NY. |
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| David an I met at the Vermont Studio Center in fall 2011. When I put together my application for the residency here at KHN Center for the Arts I saw David's name on the list of former KHN-residents, in September/October 2014. It happened that we got the very same studio space: "different times, but the same space." |
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| A postcard from DAWN F. SCHABNER, sent from Sayville, NY / USA |
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| "For me the good life ist to be able to paint and to read." I met Dawn at the Vermont Studio Center, October 2011. Dawn lived in Germany as a very young woman, from 1954 - 57. She had so many interesting stories to tell, and she recalled impressing things about her time in Germany. Thank you Dawn for this postcard, your art, and all the good conversations we had when we met. http://www.dawnschabnerart.com/ |
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| 3 postcards by MICHAEL LEE, a visual artist from Woodside, NY! |
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| Michael, Thank you so much for this lovely & warming good life song! |
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| ... and another song..... |
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| http://www.michaelaaronlee.com/ |
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| !! http://www.michaelaaronlee.com/ |
