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.