Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
CLIMATE INITIATIVE GRANT 2024 AWARDEE
Millay Arts is both thrilled and honored to have been awarded a $50,000 Climate Initiative grant from the visionary Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; for this fourth cycle of grants, the Foundation has awarded o 69 arts organizations across the country.
Dedicated to advancing climate action in the visual arts, FCI supports a wide range of transformative energy-efficiency and environmental sustainability projects that help arts organizations assess, develop, and implement plans that reduce environmental impacts and operational costs and promote clean energy generation. Since 2000, the Frankenthaler Foundation Climate Initiative has given away $14M to 200 arts institutions to recipients that range in size, scale and mission.
“The Foundation is delighted with the advancements in environmental sustainability spearheaded by our partners through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative,” remarked Lise Motherwell, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. “With its newest round of grantees, FCI has supported over two hundred visual arts organizations to date and is leading the way in tangible climate action.”
“As we evolve and look forward to the future, now in our 51st year, we at Millay Arts, are delighted by this transformative award that will allow us significant progress on our Decarbonization goal as outlined in our latest Strategic Plan. We are committed to reducing reliance on fossil fuels and answering the global call for addressing climate change as voiced by the international community of creators, as well as our supporters” stated Board President Whitney Lawson.
With this technical grant, Millay Arts will install solar panels and heat pump equipment that will provide energy for our beloved 1926 Barn. This improvement will allow us to continue to offer our popular and open-to-the-pubic Wintertide Rustic Retreat, from mid-December—March (without using propane and reducing electricity usage) while keeping our residents comfortable and maximizing their “deep dives” into their creative process and practice.
JULY @MILLAY
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Brooke Moyse, Visual Arts; Brooklyn, NY — “I make playfully abstract and gestural paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. When painting, I use the arc of my whole arm to create forms and shapes that reflect a physical relationship to the canvas, and a sense of movement throughout. I work in this way to keep the work open and fluid so that the painting appears to be breathing or otherwise shifting in space. I have long considered my abstract paintings to be a mixture of portraiture (of a shape) and also as signs or signals communicating some urgent feeling without words.” Master of Fine Arts, New York University, NYC; Bachelor of Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Daniel Giordano, Visual Arts; Newburgh, NY — Daniel earned their MFA from the University of Delaware in 2016 and participated in the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2021. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023); Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY (2023); JDJ, New York, NY (2023); Ann Street Gallery, Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh, NY (2022); the Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (2020); Wil Aballe Art Projects, BC, Canada (2019); and Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (2019). Their work has been featured in group exhibitions at Helena Anrather, New York, NY (2023); The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (2022); The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY (2022); Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2022); CLEA RSKY Offsite Project, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (2022); Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Barns Art Center, East Fishkill, NY (2021); JDJ, New York, NY (2021); and Anonymous, New York, NY (2021), among others. Their work has been featured in Arcade Project, XIBT Magazine, Berkshire Eagle, ABC Latino Magazine, Tussle Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Times Union, Times Union, La Voz, Sculpture Magazine, Frontera Digital, Whitehot Magazine, Chronogram, Canadian Art, Cultured Magazine, and Art Spiel, among others.
Kamden Hilliard, Poetry; Wallingford, CT — Kamden was born in California and grew up on illegally seized territories of the Kingdom of Hawai’i. Before graduating high school, they earned a ten-thousand-dollar grant from the Davidson Institute, as well as support from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the YoungArts Foundation, and Poetry Out Loud. They are an alumnus of The Punahou School, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and, most recently, AmeriCorps. Kam’s BA in American Studies and MFA in Poetry inform their critical-creative practice. They specialize in American History, Politics, and Culture, Black Studies, Queer Theory, Ontology, and theories of human management. They are recipient of Maytag, Teaching-Writing, and (post-graduate) Pfluflaught Fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Kam has also received support from The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, The UCROSS Foundation, Callaloo, The Banff Centere, and The Black Warrior Review. Kam has published three chapbooks of poetry: distress tolerance, selection in the Ada Lovelace Innovative Chapbook Series (2016, Magic Helicopter Press), perceived distance from impact (2017, Black Lawrence Press), and henceforce: a travel poetic, finalist in Omnidawn Books Chapbook Prize (2019, Omnidawn Books). Kam’s debut full-length collection, MissSettl, is out from Nightboat Books; it won a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. Poems; essays, reviews, and interviews can be found in Apartment Poetry, APT, Black Warrior Review, The Destroyer, Sixth Finch, Hobart, West Branch, Boaat Journal, The Journal, The Sakura Review, Juked, Protean Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and other sunspots. Currently they are a Faculty member at Choate Rosemary Hall where they direct the summer Writing Workshops.
Mathew Weitman, Poetry; Houston, TX — Mathew’s poetry appears in Bennington Review, the Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, and the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. He is pursuing his PhD at the University of Houston, where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. He also teaches poetry at the Harris County Jail in Houston.
Vera Ivnaova, Composing, Orange, CA — Vera graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Honours Diploma), Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (MM with distinction), and the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D. in Composition). Her works have been performed in Russia, Europe and the U.S.A. After teaching as Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University (NY), she was appointed as Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University (Orange, California), where she currently works at the rank of tenured Associate Professor. Dr. Ivanova is also teaching music theory and composition at the prestigious Colburn Music Academy for Young Artists in Los Angeles and at the Chamber Music Orange County Pre-College Division. Vera’s compositions have been described as "...humanistic and deeply felt works... " Vera is actively involved in new music not only as a composer, but as an advisor (she's been invited to be on advisory board of the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles chapter), adjudicator (UnTwelve Composition Competition, Synchromy call for scores, International Computer Music Conference Call for Music) and concert-runner/organizer (new music concerts at Chapman University's Conservatory of Music and Synchromy group of Los Angeles-based composers, of which she is a founding member).
Lilan Yang, Visual Arts; Boston, MA — Lilan earned their MFA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design and her BS in Computer Engineering for the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL. Solo US exhibition: Nowhere Near (2023), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA ; selected group exhibitions include Off the Screen (2023), Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI; Out of Shadows Cast (2022), 718 Studios, Brooklyn, NY; Making Moves, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA. Selected film festivals/screenings include: 26th Antimatter [media art] Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (2023); Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA; Noise Spectrum (2023), Tokyo, Japan; Fifth PROCESS Experimental Film Festival (2023), Beijing International Short Film Festival, China; Cadence Video Poetry Festival (2023), Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA; SHORT CUTS Short Film and Video Fest (2023); Shed Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival (2023), Ann Arbor, MI.
JUNE @MILLAY
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Dina Nayeri, Non-Fiction/Collaboration; Edinburgh, Scotland – A former refugee from Iran, Dina is the author of two critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books Who Gets Believed (2023) and the ground-breaking and much praised The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), as well as two previous novels. The Ungrateful Refugee (2019), won Germany’s prestigious Geschwister Scholl Preis, and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Elle Grand Prix Des Lectrices, and called by The Observer “a work of astonishing insistent importance.” Her work is published in 20+ countries and translated into 14 languages, with essays and stories in The New York Times Magazine, NYT Book Review, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. Her acclaimed Guardian Long Reads are among the most widely read and anthologized of the column, and are taught in school curricula across Europe and the U.S. Dina was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris and a 2020 fellow at the American Library in Paris, a winner of a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, the UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize, and a finalist for the Rome Prize. Her essays and stories on displacement and home are taught in schools across Europe and the US. \Dina holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2013), and MBA (2006) and M.Ed (2007) from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Economics from Princeton University (2001). She is now a Reader (permanent faculty) in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. Dina is a trustee of Refugee Support Europe and Hostnation.
Aimee K. Michel, Playwriting/Theater, Sheffield, MA – Currently Professor of Theater and Head of the Theater Program at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Aimee has been writing, directing, and teaching theater both professionally and at colleges and universities for over 30 years. Her interest in theater is inherently political and her work as a theater director has focused on the sociological and political roles that theater plays in a community. She was Artistic Director at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival for over 12 years. Before New Orleans Aimee was Artistic Director of the Directors Project in NYC and has also directed in theaters throughout the U.S. She was a curator director at the NY Theater Workshop and participant in the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Aimee has an ongoing collaboration with Arts University Plymouth in the U.K. where she regularly teaches writing workshops. Her book, The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights 1970-2020, co-edited with a colleague, was released in 2020.
Ayanah Moor, Visual Arts; Chicago, IL – Ayanah is a visual artist based in Chicago. Her artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Capital Group (Los Angeles); DePaul Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada (Las Vegas); Soho House, (London); and David L. Lawrence Convention Center, (Pittsburgh). Moor’s recent solo exhibitions include, Bless Your Heart at RUSCHMAN (Chicago); I Wish I Could Be You More Often at Cleve Carney Museum of Art (Glen Ellyn); and 4 Queens at Test Site Projects (Las Vegas); and group shows: t/here or t/here at Intermission Museum of Art + Stand4 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Direct Message: Art, Language and Power, Museum of ontemporary Art Chicago (IL); Echoes: Reframing Collage, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); and Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY). Her artwork is featured in Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s, Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, SPORTS (2017); and Nicole Fleetwood’s, Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011). Ayanah earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. she/her
Jeremy Thurlow, Composing/Collaboration; Fen Drayton, U.K.-- Jeremy is a composer, writer, and pianist. Intensely individual, his music reflects on the complexities, beauties and paradoxes of nature; engages with the imaginative daring of Woolf, Bonnefoy, Keats, Dickinson, Dante; and explores rich and fruitful frictions between European contemporary composition and musical traditions such as Raga and Gugak. His scores have been played by the BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Norrbotten Kammerorkest, the Fitzwilliam, Kreutzer, Ligeti, and Alinea Quartets, the Schubert Ensemble, Endymion, Aronowitz Ensemble, Hermes Experiment. His video-opera A sudden cartography of song won the George Butterworth Prize for best new work of the season across the UK. Thurlow also writes on Dutilleux, Messiaen and other French composers. He is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and holds a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship for 2024.
Kirtan Nautiyal, Playwriting; Houston, TX – Born in small-town Oklahoma, Indian-American essayist Kirtan is now a practicing hematologist and oncologist near Houston, TX. Recently awarded a full scholarship in non-fiction for the 2022 Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a 2023 residential fellowship from the Ucross Foundation, he has published work in Guernica, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, Boulevard, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and has been featured in popular venues such as Longreads, Longform, and the Memoir Monday newsletter. His essays have been recognized as notable on multiple occasions by the Best American Essays series, and Gettysburg, initially published in Guernica, appears in the anthology South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South, published this year by the Texas Review Press.
Ahmad Almallah, Poetry; Philadelphia, PA – Ahmad is a poet from Palestine and an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023) and Bitter English (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He won the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for creative writing and the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have been published in Jacket2, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cordite, American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among other publications.
Krista Knight, Playwriting; Nashville, TN – Krista is a Juilliard Fellow, Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Shank Playwriting Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre, Vanderbilt Writer-in-Residence, Chance Theater Resident Playwright, and winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Broadway on Demand Film Festival. Plays include SLOPPY BONNIE (OZ Arts, Nashville Scene Critics Pick, Princess Grace Finalist), CRUSH (NYTimes Recommended, TimeOut Best Theater to Stream Online, featured in American Theatre Magazine, streaming on the Emmy App), LIPSTICK LOBOTOMY (Kilroys List, Trap Door Theatre), DON’T STOP ME – a musical with Dave Malloy (YMTC, Manhattan School of Music), KIRK AT THE SF AIRPORT HYATT (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency), PRIMAL PLAY (New Georges), SELKIE (Williamstown Workshop, Dutch Kills) and CRIMSON LIT: SCARLET LETTER SET LIST – a musical with Jill Sobule (Polyphone Festival, Chance Theatre). 2023 New Georges Audrey Resident. Commissions include the script for a ride at Tokyo Disney, The Steinmetz Lab, an EST/Sloan Commission, and DreamWorks/Music Theatre International adapting Trolls for the stage. BA: Brown University. MA: Performance Studies from NYU. MFA Playwriting: UCSD.
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Cora Lewis, Fiction; NY, NY – For the past year, Cora has worked at the Associated Press, covering financial and economic news. She’s written on student debt, inequality, cryptocurrency, and financial scams, among other topics, such as inflation and the Federal Reserve. Prior to this role, Cora worked at BuzzFeed News, where she covered labor, politics, and breaking news, as well as at The New Haven Independent, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has led to an episode of This American Life and been honored with a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award. Following her reporting on sexual harassment, the CEO of a progressive media outlet stepped down, and she has broken news on major companies including Walmart, Amazon, and Google. Cora was born in New York City and received her BA in Philosophy from Yale University and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she also worked at Dorothy, a Publishing Project. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Yale Review, Cream City Review, Juked, Reed Magazine, GASHER Journal, Epiphany, Mikrokosmos Journal, TINGE magazine, The Racket Journal, SORTES, The Saranac Review, and elsewhere. In 2021, she received the Carrie Scott Galt Writers Award from the Wednesday Club of St. Louis, and in 2022, Hypertext magazine nominated her story for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis and the Oldest College Daily Foundation. she/her
Angeles Cossio, Visual Arts; Bloomfield, NJ – Angeles is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the New York metropolitan area. Her work uses a range of materials to explore connections between her personal biography and the natural world. Angeles’ work has been exhibited and screened at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, the Sheldon Museum of Art, Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Geary Contemporary in NYC, Manifold Gallery in Chicago and Michigan State University. She is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and was awarded a Gateway to the Arts Grant, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Caleb Tankersley, Fiction; Saint Paul, MN – Caleb is the author of the story collection Sin Eaters—winner of the Permafrost Book Prize—and Jesus Works the Night Shift. His writing can be found in Carve, The Cimarron Review, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review, and other magazines. He was recently a Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His work has been supported by Tin House Summer Workshop, Greensboro Bound, Twin City Book Festival, and other organizations. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas and serves as Managing Director for Split/Lip Press. He lives with his partner near Minneapolis and is working on his first novel.
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Wally Gunn, Composing; Jackson Heights, NY — Making use of patterns and processes in his work, and sometimes utilizes speech, gesture, and movement to heighten the theatricality of musical performance, all with the aim of creating music that is expressive and affecting. The extramusical themes in his work look outward to explore the natural world, and inward to reflect queer identity and experience. Hailing from a rural town in Australia’s southeast, Wally first began making music in his early teens. After high school, he moved to Melbourne to join rock bands, and spent several years writing songs, recording albums, and performing shows around the country. In 2002, Wally enrolled in the Victorian College of the Arts composition program, where he collaborated with students from the Film & Television, Art, and Dance Schools. Wally moved to New York in 2008 to begin a masters degree in composition at the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Julia Wolfe, and he began writing concert music for US ensembles such as Dither Guitar Quartet, Ensemble Mise-En, Escher String Quartet, futureCities, Mobius Percussion, Red Shift, Roomful of Teeth, and Sō Percussion. In 2011, Wally began pursuing a PhD in composition at Princeton University. Wally has received commissions from Architek Percussion, Astra Chamber Music, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, percussionist Becca Doughty, Gemini Duo, The Letter String Quartet (AU), the New Works For Percussion Project, Roomful of Teeth, Rubiks Collective, percussionist Eric Shuster, guitarist Laura Snowden (UK), Steady State, Tala Rasa, Three (AU), and percussionist Jason Treuting. A collaboration in 2012 with vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth and Melbourne poet Maria Zajkowski yielded three songs entitled The Ascendant that the ensemble recorded and released on their album Render, for which they received a Grammy nomination in 2015. Wally’s 2019 work ‘Moonlite,’ is a 90-minute oratorio for voices, percussion, and viola, with libretto by longtime collaborator Maria Zajkowski. The work was premiered in Philadelphia, PA, New York, NY, and Princeton, NJ, in May 2019 by Variant 6, Mobius Percussion, and Veronica Jurkiewicz. In November 2019, Wally received the Albert H Maggs Composition Award for the work. Wally and Maria’s most recent collaboration, I heart Artemis, was commissioned by the Maggs Award, was partly composed during a Millay Arts residency in October / November 2020, and was completed in 2021. The piece premiered in Philadelphia, PA, in March 2022, and in Melbourne, Australia, in September 2022. Current projects include a commission for a concert-length song cycle for Melbourne chamber ensemble Rubiks Collective with acclaimed jazz vocalist Gian Slater, to be premiered in 2024, and a commission for an opera for La Monnaie / De Munt opera house in Brussels Belgium, to be premiered in 2025. Wally currently divides his time between USA and Australia.
Monet Hurst-Mendoza, Playwriting; NYC — Raised in Los Angeles, Monet’s plays have been developed with Rising Circle Theater Collective, Astoria Performing Arts Center, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, |the claque|, Lookingglass Theatre, Amios, The Oneness Project, Magic Time @ Judson, Atlantic Acting School/NYU Tisch, The Kupferberg Center for the Arts, The Flea Theater, WP Theater, The Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Westport Country Playhouse, and Long Wharf Theatre, among others. Monet is an alum of the Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater, R&D Group at The Civilians, Fresh Ground Pepper's Playground Playgroup, WP Theater Playwrights Lab, and the Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists. She has held residencies with The MITTEN Lab and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her play Torera was featured on the 2019 Kilroys List, and 50 Playwrights Project’s 2019 Best Unproduced Latinx Plays and 2019 Latinx Plays for College Theatres lists. The play received its world premiere at The Alley Theatre in Houston, TX in 2023. Monet served as a Core Member of Rising Circle Theater Collective for eight years where she helped develop INKtank/PlayRISE—a developmental writers lab and new works festival for emerging playwrights of color. She continues her advocacy work fighting for equal representation for women, trans, and non-binary writers in the American Theatre as a member of The Kilroys. Remezcla profiled her in July 2019 as one of the "8 Most Exciting Latino Playwrights Making Work Right Now." Finalist: Playwright's Week and the New York Jerome Fellowship at The Lark, Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange, the Many Voices Fellowship at The Playwright's Center, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, Artemisia Fall Festival, The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Forward Flux Three New American Plays Project, and the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize (Honorable Mention, 2017). Smith Prize for Political Theatre and Cherry Lane Mentor Project nominations. Broadway: Assistant to JT Rogers for OSLO at Lincoln Center Theater. Monet served as a writer/producer for Law and Order: SVU from seasons 21 through 24 where episodes she co-wrote garnered five Imagen Award nominations and three wins, honoring positive portrayals of Latinos in the media. She is currently a member of Florida Studio Theatre’s Playwright Collective and has been commissioned by Westport Country Playhouse and The Kennedy Center. Proud member of The Dramatist Guild and WGAE. B.A. Marymount Manhattan College.
Carrie Hall, Non-Fiction; Brooklyn, NY — A professor of writing at the CUNY New York City College of Technology, Carrie lives and works in Brooklyn. She has recently published essays and short stories in New Letters, Pleiades and Barren Magazines and has been supported by a residency at UCross Foundation in Wyoming. She has an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh. Her academic work focuses on how trauma in early childhood affects literacy learning in adulthood.
Raychael Stine, Visual Arts; Albuquerque, NM — A painter living and working along with her two dogs in Albuquerque, NM, Raychael received her BFA at UT Dallas in 2003, and her MFA at UIC in Chicago in 2010. Raychael is currently Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico, where she has taught since 2013. In addition to teaching all levels of painting and drawing, Raychael guides non-traditional plein air painting courses where students visit sites across the Southwest; such as Bandelier NM, Chaco Canyon NM, Big Bend NP, and others. She has taught workshops with East West Wilderness Project in Yosemite and Kings Canyon NP in California, and was an invited artist with the Guild of Adventure Painters. Selected solo exhibitions include Emma Gray HQ, Five Car Garage (Los Angeles, CA), Eugene Binder (Marfa, TX), My Pet Ram, (Santa Barbara, CA), Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque, NM), Art Palace (Houston, TX), among others. Group exhibitions include L.A. Louver (Venice, CA) Rhona Hoffman (Chicago, IL), Smoke the Moon (Santa Fe, NM), The Valley (Taos, NM), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Barry Whistler Gallery (Dallas, TX), and others. Her work has been included in National shows such as NADA (NY), The Texas Biennial, NEXT at Art Chicago, and Art on Paper (NY). Stine’s work has been featured in New American Paintings Issues #132, #120 and #78, along with reviews and features in publications such as Hyperallergic, New City Chicago, Bad At Sports, Arts + Culture Texas, Glasstire, NY Arts Magazine, Artlies, Southwest Contemporary, The Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, The Albuquerque Journal, among others. Stine has received awards and residencies including 100 West Corsicana, Bemis, Jentel, and the Dallas Museum of Art Clare Hart DeGoyler Grant. Stine is a three time Joan Mitchell Foundation Award Nominee.
Erin Jin Mei O’Malley, Poetry; Brooklyn, NY — Erin is a queer Asian adoptee writer who is based in New York and Arizona. They have received nominations for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Nashville Review, the Paris-American, the Shade Journal, and others.
Kari Varner, Visual Arts; Johnson City, NY — Kari graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media Arts Design from University of Denver (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master of Visual Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. As a graduate student she was the recipient of the Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study through Washington University in St. Louis and the Monticello Foundation. She is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Binghamton University, State University of New York. She has previously taught at Florence Institute of Design International, accredited through the University of Chester, England, Santa Reparata International School of Art and the University of Denver. In addition to teaching, she has conducted several workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Studio Art College International. She has previously held positions as the Studio Coordinator of Photography & New Media at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Academic Coordinator at Caravaggio & Contemporary in Florence, Italy. She has participated in residencies at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Alfred University as well as being awarded a scholarship workshop to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. While an undergraduate student she was awarded six grants to complete independent research projects, attend an international new media conference and complete an internship with Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She has also been awarded a travel grant through Washington University in St Louis, a project grant through the Puffin Foundation and a campus development grant through Binghamton University. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in the Museum Bourbon del Monte in Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, Italy along with San Marco Basilica and Female Arts in Florence in the city center of Florence. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in locations including Kunst(seug)haus Rapperswil Museum and Kammgarn West Schaffhausen in Switzerland, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Candela Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Belmont University.
