The Metropolitan Museum in New York has acquired one of the paintings from Kay WalkingStick’s recent exhibit at June Kelly Gallery. It is called “Wallowa Mountain Memory” and can be seen on the homepage of her website:
www.kaywalkingstick.com.
In addition, two other paintings from that show went to museums. The piece called “We’re Still Dancing/ Taos Variation” was purchased by the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, TN, and the work called “Farewell to the Smokies” went to the Denver Art Museum.

A print of hers, ” Il Sogno del Cortile” is part of a portfolio called “Master Artists/Master Printmaker” which has recently been acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington. DC. It was created at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.

If you are in the northern New Jersey area you can see an installation WalkingStick designed and made for the Montclair Museum, Montclair NJ. The installation includes 28 hanging oil on paper paintings based on northern plains indigenous women’s parfleche bags. It is called “American Abstraction/Dialogue with the Cosmos.” It will be hanging for the entire year of 2008.

Ellen Eagle’s self portrait, Winter 2006, will be featured in an upcoming issue of American Artist Magazine.
She has been awarded a second residency fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. Recently Ellen’s pastel portraits have been exhibited in The Fine Art of Drawing: Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper, Forum Gallery, NY; About Face, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; The Figure In Pastel, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.

HARD LAUGHTER, an autobiographical novel by Anne Lamott, has been made into a play. It will run at San Rafael’s AlterTheater April 25 to May 18. Jayne Wenger, who is also teaching the creative writing course Vision and Revision: Playwrights’ Intensive at Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy, this summer from August 7 - 20, will be directing. Here is a direct link to the “San Francisco Chronicle” article about the upcoming play.

Noted memoirist Leslie Garis wrote HOUSE OF HAPPY ENDINGS about growing up in a family where “good is happy; a happy person is good.” Needless to say, that wasn’t how it really was for her family. Life became even more complicated when her grandfather, the noted author of UNCLE WIGGILY stories, and reclusive grandmother moved in. HOUSE OF HAPPY ENDINGS was picked by William Grimes of the New York Times as a Notable Book for 2007. Here is a direct link to his review, and a link to his Notable Books 2007 list. Art Workshop International is looking forward to her creative writing class on Memoir from August 6 to 20, 2008, in Assisi, Italy.

Art Workshop International director Edith Isaac-Rose exhibited her latest works, which I would describe as “not your Grandmother’s embroideries.” Her potent images echo some of the themes in recent paintings - leaving Eden, daily rage (from newspaper headlines), the Iraqi war, and businessmen with animal heads. The exhibit runs from January 19 to March 24, 2008, at the Sophienholm in Copenhagen. Isaac-Rose was the only American invited this year. Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Kitaj were among the other artists invited from the UK. Here is the link to the Corner Exhibit (in English) home page. To see Edith’s artwork, click here.

Culinary Course Itinerary

IN VALERIO’S KITCHEN: The Best of Umbria Cooking

During this week-long session, Valerio Mogliani, who is the house chef of Art Workshop International’s headquarters, a 3-star hotel in the heart of Assisi, will help you discover and celebrate the best of Umbrian cuisine. Valerio infuses the region’s famous ingredients - its truffles, olive oil, and wines - into simple, yet elegant dishes that both entertain the palette and please the eye. Included in the workshop are trips to Trevi, Umbria’s olive oil capital; a tour of a world-class winery, an ingredient-shopping excursion to Santa Maria degli Angeli, and 4 cooking classes that comprise a complete dinner from appetizers to dessert.
In addition, you will visit Deruta, home of exquisite Italian ceramics, a living Creche nativity scene, the world’s largest Christmas tree in lights in Gubbio, and celebrate New Year’s in festive Italian tradition as fireworks light up the Castello above Assisi and the Umbrian valley below.
Art Workshop International and Sopra Sotto Living Italian Store are pleased to be your hosts.

Culinary Arts Program Details:

Pricing includes shared doubled room with private bath, breakfast and dinners at the hotel; transportation costs associated with day trips and the cooking classes. Participants arrive Friday, December 28, depart Thursday, January 3; one week.
3-4 people: $2,990 per person, $350 single room supplement.
5-7 people: $2,775 per person, $350 single room supplement.

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Art Workshop International thoroughly enjoyed having Maxine Hong Kingston and Earll Kingston as part of the summer 2007 program. Here is news about an event in New York City that she sent us:

I’m happy to tell you that I have 3 paintings in “The Writer’s Brush” exhibit through Oct. 27 at the Anita Shapolsky gallery in New York City. A nice little review in the Oct. 15th New Yorker. Here is a link: http://www.anitashapolsky gallery.com.

Link to his webpage: www.joerizzoart.com

If you missed Maxine Hong Kingston interviewed on Bill Moyers Journal on May 25 about “Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace,” here’s the u tube clip.

Loft Literary Center instructor Scott Edelstein