About 80 writers attended the annual Wyoming Writers, Inc. conference that took place in Casper at the Ramada Inn.
Manuscript pitches were made to Katie Dublinski of Gray Wolf Press and New York agent Peter Steinberg, and many writers were asked to send something along. That's always great to hear.
Poetry editor Chris Fishbach was there from Coffee House Press.
Keynote speaker at the Saturday night banquet was Lucia St. Clair Robson, historical fiction author, who was witty and entertaining.
There were some great readings at both open mike sessions.
The booksigning room was stocked with authors busily signing their books. Casper's "Run With the Herd" marathon, check-in was based at the Ramada, was also taking place, and a few runners visited the booksigning event.
Tom Empey closed the session on Sunday with a talk about written words and how they spark and give life to the performing arts. He had gathered several moving quotes for his theme, "Someone wrote those words."
Plans are in the works for next year's conference which will again take place in Casper.
A couple of rather new and interesting Wyoming magazines to mention.
The Wyoming Woman Magazine, based in Casper, was conceptualized by four young women -- Nettie H. Francis, Beth Worthen, Alicia Blevins and Amanda Helm. Their mission: "to connect the women of Wyoming through ideas, information, and inspiration." They accept submissions and ideas for articles and pay for the different features in the magazine. One of the nice features is the "Women at Work Directory," a list of women who are advertising their businesses -- anything from catering to travel tours. It's very reasonable to advertise there. Website: http://thewyomingwoman.com/
Wyoming's 307 Magazine, published by Celtic Media, LLC and also based in Casper, features articles and photos of Wyoming's great activities and spaces. Articles in the Winter 2011 issue: The Winter Angler, Detours (about the Continental Divide snowbile trail system), The Wiinter Time Hunting Blues, Saratoga, Cool Gear, Flint What? (about arrowheads), Mush (about the Wyoming International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race), an article on Corvettes, Born in New Jersy, Raised in Wyoming, Snowshoeing.
Website: http://www.307magonline.com/
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Poets meet paleontologists this weekend in Casper
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| Dee the Mammoth fossil |
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| "Dee and the Mammoth" book |
Friday presentations include discussions on “Climate Change at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary,” The Largest Mounted Mammoth in North America, Dee the Mammoth,” “Cats of the Camelot Local Fauna,” and others. Saturday presentations will include talks on ambush predators, the Dire wolf of Rancho La Brea, Pleistocene bear communities, the giant short-faced bear, and Porcupine Cave. The day will end with Keynote speaker Steven R. Holen, curator of archeology for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Holen will speak on the exciting discovery and current excavation project the museum is engaged in at Snowmass Village, Colo., “Ice Age Discovery in Snowmass Village: A Mid-to Early Wisconsin Fossil Locality High in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.” The excavation is the largest-ever excavation the museum has ever been involved in. As of May 24, 2011, museum crews had found more than 100 bones which included two mastodon skulls; two mastodon pelvises; three mammoth tusks; mastodon vertebrae, ribs, wrist and ankle bones, and large bones including the upper arm and forearm; a sloth forearm; bison wrist bone; and deer pelvis. Registration is $40 each for the first and third field trips June 2 and 5, and $150 for the Friday through Saturday portion of the conference, June 3 and 4. To register stop by the Tate Geological Museum on the Casper College campus, or call the museum at 268-2447, 800-442-2963, ext. 2447, email dschaff@caspercollege.edu, or visit www.caspercollege.edu/tate.
Meanwhile, poets and writers are gathering June 3-5 in Casper for sessions like these:
- "The Ghost That Got Into My House" (after the James Thurber story) by Lucia St. Clair Robson
- "Appropriate Appropriating" by poet Chris Fishbach
- Pete McCarthy's sessions on online marketing and social media
- The ever-popular open mic sessions on Friday and Saturday nights
- A closing talk by Tom Empey, actor, director and recently-retired chair of the Casper College theatre department
FMI: http://www.wyowriters.org/Resources/WWINC_ConferenceBrochure2011.pdf
If you are a writer and geologist, you would have a tough time choosing events.
The big question is: Is Casper big enough to accommodate both poets and paleontolgists this weekend?
Tune into this blog Monday to find out.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference just a week away!
2011 Wyoming Writers, Inc. Conference
June 3-5 in Casper, Wyoming
Presenters:
Author Lucia St. Clair Robson
Poet Chris Fischbach
Peter McCarthy, Vice President of Marketing
Editor Katie Dublinski, Graywolf Press
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
"Weekend of Workshops" June 10-12 in Buffalo
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| Jenny Wuerker will teach plein air workshop June 11 |
June 10-12, 2011
Lobban Artists' Row, Buffalo WY
Choose from: Blacksmithing, Plein Air Painting, Ceramics, or Zumba
Plein Air "Wuerkshop": June 11, 2:30 - 8 p.m. Call 307-217-1322. $50 fee.
Get Hooked on Blacksmithing: June 11, 9-4pm. Led by Dave Osmundsen of Arrowhead Forge. Call 307-684-2338.
Perfecting Porcelain with Martha Grover: June 10-12. Call 307-684-4555.
ZUMBA: June 11- June 12. Call 307-250-3815.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
"An Evening of Poetry at the White House May 11
From a press release:
The President and Mrs. Obama will host a celebration of American poetry and prose by welcoming accomplished poets, musicians and artists as well as students from across the country to the White House next week. Participants include Elizabeth Alexander, Billy Collins, Common, Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith, Alison Knowles, Aimee Mann and Jill Scott who will read, sing, and showcase the impact of poetry on American culture. The President will make opening remarks at this event held in the East Room, which will be pooled press and streamed live on www.whitehouse.gov starting at 7:00 p.m. ET.
As part of this special event, Mrs. Obama will host a daytime workshop for hundreds of students from California to New York
First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the White House Music Series in 2009 with a Jazz Studio, and since then has hosted a celebration of Country Music, Classical Music, Motown, a Fiesta Latina, a salute to Broadway, Music of the Civil Rights Movement and a dance tribute to Judith Jamison. Many of these events included evening performances as well as daytime educational workshops designed to educate and inspire talented young people to use their gifts to develop a future for themselves in the arts community whether as a hobby or as a profession.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Early bird registration deadline May 9 for Wyoming Writers, Inc., conference in Casper
2011 Wyoming Writers, Inc. Conference
June 3-5 in Casper, Wyoming
Presenters:
Author Lucia St. Clair Robson
Poet Chris Fischbach
Peter McCarthy, Vice President of Marketing
Editor Katie Dublinski, Graywolf Press
Agent Peter Steinberg, The Steinberg Agency
Register here. Early bird registration deadline is May 9!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Schedule announced for May 21 WAC workshops for artists
The Wyoming Arts Council is sponsoring a series of professional development workshops for visual artists on Saturday, May 21, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Works of Wyoming, 710 Garfield St. , Laramie
Here is the workshop schedule:
Here is the workshop schedule:
9-10:30 a.m.: Joshua Wiener, sculptor, Louisville , Colo.
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Mark Klett, photographer,Tempe , Ariz.
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch and announcement of WAC visual arts fellowship winners.
1:45-3:15 p.m.: Nancy Bowen, mixed-media artist,Brooklyn , N.Y.
3:30-4:30 p.m.: WAC debuts its online Artist Image Registry; Annie Wood speaks about the Business Council’s Wyoming Made program; and a Q&A with workshop instructors.
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Mark Klett, photographer,
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch and announcement of WAC visual arts fellowship winners.
1:45-3:15 p.m.: Nancy Bowen, mixed-media artist,
3:30-4:30 p.m.: WAC debuts its online Artist Image Registry; Annie Wood speaks about the Business Council’s Wyoming Made program; and a Q&A with workshop instructors.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Song-writing workshop with Miss "V"
Registration is limited to 16 students. Workshop-only fee: $150. Workshop and lodging fee: one person: $315 in a room or $285 in a cabin. For two attendees who desire to share a room or cabin, call us for rates. The lodging fee includes breakfast on Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday's lunch and dinner are not included, but are available within walking distance. For more information, contact Barbara and Bob Townsend at 307-332-0248 or bandb@minersdelightinn.com, or “V” at 307-231-9252 or gypsycowbelle@gmail.com.
Editor's note: Let me say that "V" is one heck of a song-writer. She's been doing it now for over fifteen years, and can craft a song lyric with the best of them. I had a chance to listen to her newest songs,(she's in the process of recording a new CD), and they are a nostalgic reflection of her life at this point in time. --Linda
Monday, April 25, 2011
WyoPoets annual workshop in Casper on Hybrid-Genre poetry
WyoPoets gathered on Friday evening and Saturday, April 21 and 22, for their annual open mike readings and all-day poetry workshop. Workshop presenter was Lee Ann Roripaugh.
We gathered on Friday evening at Metro Coffee Company to have our poetry reading. Beginning with Lee Ann, twelve poets read selections of their own work against the buzz of the coffee shop, while two of us, one of them myself, the other Susan Mark, a terrific poet who also lives in Cheyenne and works at the state library, played our instruments, me on the ukelele and Susan on guitar, sang our original songs. Susan also plays the penny whistle really well! This was the first year that WyoPoets has had their reading outside of the venue where the next day's workshop is held. A few of the customers at Metro drifted into the back room and listened. One young man stood off to the side of the stage and began to sing back-up with one of Susan's songs. That's one reason I love the atmosphere of the coffee shop setting for things like this -- there is always an element of spontaneity, kind of like having a party. Metro has been a big supporter of the arts since they opened for business. Visual art is always on display, and there have been many poetry slams held there, thanks to Casper poet and teacher George Vlastos, who organizes many of them.
The next morning Lee Ann introduced us to hybrid-genre poetry by way of asking us to try and define what makes a poem a poem, and what makes a story a story. The lines begin to blur, as what seems to hold true for what makes a poem a poem are also the same devices that make a story a story, with a few exceptions. Here are some of the definitions from the class:
Poems make an immediate emotional connection to the reader; reader allowed more license to interpretation; contains complexity in shorter form, yet large themes emerge; imagery important; condensed, fast; poetry most true of the forms; prevailing trend is to assume that poetry is autobiographical; bigger truths in poetry; poetry a denser onion; microscopic in a sense.
What makes a story: linear; facts and details move the narrative; usually has more characters; plot; craft feature technical talents of the fiction writer; fiction allowed to wear mask of fiction; different field of vision; wide-angled; moments where the close-up lens is used.
Lee Ann handed out some examples of some terrific work by Robert Hass, Julia Alvarez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kimiko Hahn, Li-Young Lee, Erin Noteboom and a sample of a prose poem experiment of Lee Ann's, modeled in the form of e-mail spam.
Publishing houses and presses still want to categorize works of creative writing -- prose poem, flash fiction, novel, braided essay -- and want authors to name them, too, but it does sometimes become problematic in identifying a piece of creative writing that doesn't necessarily fit neatly into a category.
Here is short prose poem by Robert Hass, "A Story About the Body"
"Ain't No Small Thing"
We gathered on Friday evening at Metro Coffee Company to have our poetry reading. Beginning with Lee Ann, twelve poets read selections of their own work against the buzz of the coffee shop, while two of us, one of them myself, the other Susan Mark, a terrific poet who also lives in Cheyenne and works at the state library, played our instruments, me on the ukelele and Susan on guitar, sang our original songs. Susan also plays the penny whistle really well! This was the first year that WyoPoets has had their reading outside of the venue where the next day's workshop is held. A few of the customers at Metro drifted into the back room and listened. One young man stood off to the side of the stage and began to sing back-up with one of Susan's songs. That's one reason I love the atmosphere of the coffee shop setting for things like this -- there is always an element of spontaneity, kind of like having a party. Metro has been a big supporter of the arts since they opened for business. Visual art is always on display, and there have been many poetry slams held there, thanks to Casper poet and teacher George Vlastos, who organizes many of them.
The next morning Lee Ann introduced us to hybrid-genre poetry by way of asking us to try and define what makes a poem a poem, and what makes a story a story. The lines begin to blur, as what seems to hold true for what makes a poem a poem are also the same devices that make a story a story, with a few exceptions. Here are some of the definitions from the class:
Poems make an immediate emotional connection to the reader; reader allowed more license to interpretation; contains complexity in shorter form, yet large themes emerge; imagery important; condensed, fast; poetry most true of the forms; prevailing trend is to assume that poetry is autobiographical; bigger truths in poetry; poetry a denser onion; microscopic in a sense.
What makes a story: linear; facts and details move the narrative; usually has more characters; plot; craft feature technical talents of the fiction writer; fiction allowed to wear mask of fiction; different field of vision; wide-angled; moments where the close-up lens is used.
Lee Ann handed out some examples of some terrific work by Robert Hass, Julia Alvarez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kimiko Hahn, Li-Young Lee, Erin Noteboom and a sample of a prose poem experiment of Lee Ann's, modeled in the form of e-mail spam.
Publishing houses and presses still want to categorize works of creative writing -- prose poem, flash fiction, novel, braided essay -- and want authors to name them, too, but it does sometimes become problematic in identifying a piece of creative writing that doesn't necessarily fit neatly into a category.
Here is short prose poem by Robert Hass, "A Story About the Body"
The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and he thought he was in love with her. He loved her work, and her work was like the way she moved her body, used her hands, looked at him directly when she made amused or considered answers to his questions. One night, walking back from a concert, they came to her door and she turned to him and said, "I think you would like to have me. I would like that too, but I must tell you I have had a double mastectomy," and when he didn't understand, "I've lost both my breasts." The radiance that he had carried around in his belly and chest cavity--like music--withered, very quickly, and he made himself look at her when he said, "I'm sorry. I don't think I could." He walked back to his own cabin through the pines, and in the morning he found a small blue bowl on the porch outside his door. It looked to be full of rose petals, but he found when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the bowl--she must have swept them from the corners of her studio--was full of dead bees.In the afternoon session, we talked about Haibun, (also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haibun), a combination of prose and haiku poetry. Here's one I did.
"Ain't No Small Thing"
What else can be said, what else can I tell you about love? How it must start from a new place every day? That it is best to forget everything about yesterday? I once saw three horses roll over onto their backs in a mostly bare-dirt, mushroom-colored, field, patchy with scruffy sagebrush bushes. The horses, one black, one paint, one appaloosa, squirmed about, their heads and hindquarters arcing one way, then the other, then just lying still, twelve hooves running on the sky. But I would never see this again. One horse was sold. Another died. The last one stood at the fence and listened for all of us to return.
A cloud of red dust
Hangs in the air questioning
Why are you going backOther links to read about Lee Ann:
Lander Art Center sponsors Jenny Dowd workshop
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"Shelf 1 and 2," Jenny Dowd, Porcelain, mixed media, 23 x 20 x 4, 2008 |
Non-Traditional Surface Design on Clay
Two-Day Workshop with Jenny Dowd
Explore non-glaze related surfaces and finishing techniques for bisqueware with a goal of exploring surface options for non-utilitarian sculpture. Using a variety of non-traditional materials such as tea, graphite, gesso, and wax, a surface will be built up then layered and rubbed through to create atmospheric painterly surfaces. Painting and drawing techniques will be used as well as wax transfer and other transfer methods. These unique and varied surfaces will be able to find their way into a variety of work.Two-Day Workshop with Jenny Dowd
Instructor: Jenny Dowd (WAC roster artist)
Fee: $60 (supplies included)
Date: May 14-15, 2011
Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Schedule announced for May 21 professional development workshops for visual artists at WOW in Laramie
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| "Six quarter moons" by Mark Klett, 3/12/05, from the series Time Studies |
In 2009, the WAC teamed up with the University of Wyoming Art Museum for the "Public Art and Community Symposium" at the Hilton Garden Inn in Laramie. One WAC fellowship juror, well-known public artists Lawrence Argent, spoke about protecting intellectual property rights. All three jurors participated in the 20:20 event and the closing reception which included the announcement of visual arts fellowship winners for that year.
In 2010, the WAC traveled to Casper April 23-25 for a 20:20 event co-sponsored by the UW Art Museum. The three fellowship jurors conducted multimedia presentations of their work and an awards reception closed out the festivities. The WAC also gathered “focus groups” of visual artists and roster artists to get their input for the WAC’s next five-year plan. These sessions were held in conjunction with the High School Arts Symposium and the annual conference of WyoPoets.
This year, the WAC has teamed up with Works of Wyoming in Laramie for a series of professional development workshops on May 21. There is no fee for the workshops (lunch included) but you do have to register in advance. E-mail me at mshay@state.wys.us.
Here is the schedule for the May 21 workshops at Works of Wyoming (WOW) in the Laramie Civic Center, Laramie:
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| "Symbiosis" by Joshua Wiener |
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Mark Klett, photographer, Tempe, Ariz.: "Rethinking landscape photography (and all photographic practice) in the digital age"
12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch and announcement of visual arts fellowship winners
1:45-3:15 p.m.: Nancy Bowen, mixed-media artist, Brooklyn, N.Y.: “How to prepare and organize your work for visual arts competitions.”
3:30-4:30 p.m.: Wyoming Arts Council debuts online Artist Image Registry, Annie Wood (not confirmed) speaks about Wyoming Made, and Panelist Q&A
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| From Nancy Bowen's mixed-media exhibit "Sculptures & Drawings" |
View Mark Klett's work at www.artnet.com/artist/9580/mark-klett.html
Joshua Wiener's web site is at http://www.joshuawiener.com
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Cheyenne Artists Guild presents workshop by Pattie Andre May 21-22
This workshop is for portrait and landscape painters as well as still life artists. Using a still life set up gives the challenge of all kinds of edges – hard, soft, lost, transitional, value, temperature and much more. If you can paint a still life you can paint anything. Edges are a crucial element to a great painting. Participants may use their chosen medium in oil, pastel or acrylic.
Pattie has studied under many celebrated artists such as Richard Schmid, Kim English, Scott Christensen, Ralph Olberg, and Jim Wilcox. She is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America and The National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. She is also an associate member of Oil Painters of America, Allied Artist, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, and Tucson Plein Air Painters Society. Not only has Pattie won many awards nationally, she has been featured in American Artists, The Artist Magazine and the International Artist.
Cost is $100 for members and $125 for non-members
Call 307 632-2263 to register
Visit the Cheyenne
noon to 4:30 Tuesday – Friday
Monday, April 18, 2011
Murie Center hosts nature photography workshop June 15-18 with Henry H. Holdsworth
Teton Spring Awakening Nature Photography Workshop with Henry H. Holdsworth
Dates: June 15-18, 2011
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark inGrand Teton National Park
Description: Join theMurie Center
Price: $1,345 includes lodging for 3 nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and tuition; $995 includes all meals and tuition only.
Location: The Murie Ranch – A National Historic Landmark in
Description: Join the
Price: $1,345 includes lodging for 3 nights in a Murie Ranch cabin, all meals and tuition; $995 includes all meals and tuition only.
The Murie Center
"Artists in the Environment" Plein Air Summer Series announced by Grand Teton Assn.
The Grand Teton Association presents the 2011 “Artists in the Environment” Plein Air Summer Series schedule:
Greg McHuron
Date: June 11, 2011
Location: Chapel of Transfiguration
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 pm
Plein air painter Greg McHuron (shown in photo) co-founded “Artists in the Environment” with landscape artist Conrad Schwiering, and has been painting in the Western United States for over 35 years. Represented in galleries and museums throughout the West, he is a signature member of the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painter Association and Artists for Conservation.
Greta Gretzinger
Date: July 9, 2011
Location: Mormon Row
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Greta Gretzinger is known for her large scale murals depicting wilderness landscapes and wildlife. Based in Idaho and the Jackson Hole area, Gretzinger’s lively and illustrative portraits of Western life appear in public spaces and local parks throughout the region.
Scott Christensen
Date: August 13, 2011
Location: Cathedral Group
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
One of the country’s most distinguished plein air artists, Scott Christensen's work is part of Grand Teton National Park
Erin C. O’Connor
Date: September 10, 2011
Location: String Lake
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Artist Erin C. O'Connor finds her greatest inspiration by painting directly within the environment. Noted for her participation in many prestigious Plein Air events, she is represented in collections and exhibits throughout the country. O’Connor was awarded the 2009 Joshua Tree National Park
Learn about porcelain and its "idiosyncrasies" June 10-12 at Potters' Dept in Buffalo
Monday, April 11, 2011
Photographer Bobbi Lane conducts workshops in Powell April 15-18
Commercial photographer Bobbi Lane will be in Powell Friday through Monday, April 15-18 to talk about her work and share her techniques in a variety of venues at Northwest College.
She’s featured first in “An Evening with the Artist” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 15, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium. Lane will show many of her images as she talks about her life in photography and her beliefs about portraiture.
She’ll offer hands-on advice in several free workshops from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, April 18. These sessions will be presented during NWC photography classes, but anyone interested in photography is invited to attend. Report to Room 41 in the Fagerberg Building Monday for directions and information about the workshops.
While she’s in Powell, Lane will also work with area high school photography students in closed workshops.
Lane is a commercial photographer specializing in creative portraits, travel shoots, and stock photography. She’s based in Fairfield County, Conn., but her work takes her around the world. Lane’s trip to Powell is on the heels of an 18-day stint in Dubai.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
"One of the most admired novelists in the world" addresses Mountain West Arts Conference
As a teen, Chris Abani was imprisoned by the Nigerian government for his writings. Abani now teaches at University of California Riverside and will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Mountain West Arts Conference May 5 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City, Utah. The event includes the Governor’s Leadership in the Arts Awards ceremony. FMI: 801-236-7550, kwoslager@utah.gov, http://artsandmuseums.utah.gov/resources/professional_development/conferences/index.html
More about the keynote speaker:
Chris Abani is one of the most admired novelists in the world today. He is also an evocative speaker whose talks -- near musical in their fluidity, heartbreak and joy -- mix the personal and the political. His luminous and very funny insights are a vital statement on the redemptive power of art to battle tyranny and to remind us of our common humanity. "Happiness," he has said, "is learning to live with difficulty and grace." Abani is the recipient of the PEN Freedom-to-Write Award and many other prizes. His bestselling novel, Graceland, about an Elvis impersonator in Lagos, won the Hemingway/PEN Prize. His other works of fiction include The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and the award-winning Song For Night, about a child soldier who has lost his voice. All three were named a New York Times Editor's Choice.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Judges announced for 2011 Wyoming Arts Council visual arts fellowship competition
The Wyoming Arts Council invites you to apply for its 2011 Visual Arts Fellowships, juried by Nancy Bowen, Mark Klett and Joshua Wiener.
This year, the WAC will award up to three fellowships of $3,000 each to honor the work of visual artists that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Painters, sculptors, printmakers, potters, media artists, craftspeople, video, film and others are invited to apply by submitting digital images of their work.
Applications will be up on the web site next week, and paper apps will be mailed to everyone on the agency's visual arts list. Postmark deadline is May 13, 2011.
SAVE THE DATE: On Saturday, May 21, the WAC fellowship judges will each conduct a 90-minute professional development workshop at Works of Wyoming in the Laramie Civic Center. Two workshop sessions will be held in the morning and one in the afternoon. To wrap up the presentations, WAC staffers will preview the agency’s new Online Artist Image Registry. Fellowship winners also will be announced. These sessions are free but registration is required. Call Mike Shay at 307-777-5234.
Judges' bios:
NANCY BOWEN is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Brooklyn , New York United States and Europe including the Lesley Heller Gallery, Annina Nosei Gallery in NYC, Galerie Farideh Cadot in Paris , the Betsy Rosenfield gallery in Chicago , and the James Gallery in Houston America European Ceramic Work Center Purchase College
MARK KLETT photographs the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Buhl Foundation, and the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally for over 30 years, including a 2000 show at the University of Wyoming Art Museum entitled “Witness to an Occupied Land.” His work is held in over 80 museum collections worldwide. He is the author of thirteen books including Saguaros (Radius Press and DAP, 2007), After the Ruins (University of California Press, 2006), Yosemite in Time (Trinity University Press, 2005), and Third Views, Second Sights (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004). Mark Klett is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. FMI: www.artnet.com/artist/9580/mark-klett.html
JOSHUA WIENER is a stone sculptor who has created large-scale public art for Castle Rock, Broomfield, Wheat Ridge, Denver, and Longmont in Colorado. He is an instructor at the Art Students League in Denver and has taught workshops at the Denver Art Museum and The Colorado Academy. He also received a residency at PlatteForum in Denver as part of his 2006 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2004, Joshua was invited to Bangalore, India to be a part of a stone sculpting symposium. For two weeks, he and over forty other carvers from around the world carved stone. The sculptures were exhibited in Bangalore and are now in the permanent collection at the Valley School in India. The Marble Institute of Colorado was the springboard to his sculpting career. He also apprenticed twice with Uchida in Japan and has worked with Uchida on monumental pieces for museums and also public and private collections. Through an intense exploration of stone and landscape, Joshua current body of work is about creating places. “I typically use stone as my medium because it requires clarity of vision and accuracy of hand, and the fact that it will be here in 500 years is also exciting.” FMI: http://www.joshuawiener.com.
This year, the WAC will award up to three fellowships of $3,000 each to honor the work of visual artists that reflects serious and exceptional aesthetic investigation. Painters, sculptors, printmakers, potters, media artists, craftspeople, video, film and others are invited to apply by submitting digital images of their work.
Applications will be up on the web site next week, and paper apps will be mailed to everyone on the agency's visual arts list. Postmark deadline is May 13, 2011.
SAVE THE DATE: On Saturday, May 21, the WAC fellowship judges will each conduct a 90-minute professional development workshop at Works of Wyoming in the Laramie Civic Center. Two workshop sessions will be held in the morning and one in the afternoon. To wrap up the presentations, WAC staffers will preview the agency’s new Online Artist Image Registry. Fellowship winners also will be announced. These sessions are free but registration is required. Call Mike Shay at 307-777-5234.
Judges' bios:
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| Nature's Gateway by Joshua Wiener |
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Writing in the Cracks -- WyoPoets annual workshop in Casper April 23, 2011
Join WyoPoets 2011 workshop facilitator Lee Ann Roripaugh for "Writing in the Cracks/Hybrid-Genre Poetry" on April 23, 2011 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Casper.
Early registration is $40. After April 5, $45. A deli lunch buffet is included. The first 8 poems received are eligible for a critique by Ms. Roripaugh.
Rooms are available at the Hampton Inn, which is next door to the Hilton Garden Inn, for the special rate of $84/night, double beds. Please ask for the WyoPoets room block. Hampton provides a continental breakfast.
Lee Ann Roripaugh was was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming. Her degrees include an M.M. in music history, a B.M. in piano performance, and an M.F.A. in creative writing, all from Indiana University. Her first volume of poetry, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was selected by Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series and was also a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literature Awards. Other honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Award, and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, New England Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Phoebe, and Seneca Review. Her poetry has also been selected for inclusion in the anthologies American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (eds. Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1994), American Poetry: The Next Generation (eds. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, 2000), and Waltzing on Water: Poetry by Women (eds. Norma Fox Mazer and Marjorie Lewis, 1989). Ms. Roripaugh is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.
Blog: http://octopusgardenhome.blogspot.com/
Early registration is $40. After April 5, $45. A deli lunch buffet is included. The first 8 poems received are eligible for a critique by Ms. Roripaugh.
Rooms are available at the Hampton Inn, which is next door to the Hilton Garden Inn, for the special rate of $84/night, double beds. Please ask for the WyoPoets room block. Hampton provides a continental breakfast.
Lee Ann Roripaugh was was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming. Her degrees include an M.M. in music history, a B.M. in piano performance, and an M.F.A. in creative writing, all from Indiana University. Her first volume of poetry, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was selected by Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series and was also a finalist for the 2000 Asian American Literature Awards. Other honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Award, and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Black Warrior Review, Cream City Review, Crab Orchard Review, New England Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Phoebe, and Seneca Review. Her poetry has also been selected for inclusion in the anthologies American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (eds. Robert Pack and Jay Parini, 1994), American Poetry: The Next Generation (eds. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, 2000), and Waltzing on Water: Poetry by Women (eds. Norma Fox Mazer and Marjorie Lewis, 1989). Ms. Roripaugh is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.
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