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Edith Isaac-Rose is director of Art Workshop International; painter, teacher, and graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, B.A.E. She’s represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York. Isaac-Rose’s been a Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2003; and Vermont Studio Center Fellow, 2005. She’s exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, taught at Ohio State, Columbia, Princeton Art Association, and in her studio. In addition, she has lectured and critiqued in various schools in the Northeast and conducted art workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Her work is in the Hirshhorn Museum and other important collections. |
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Bea Kreloff, director of Art Workshop International, is a painter, teacher, and former head of the art department, Fieldston School, New York. She’s taught painting workshops, seminars, and lectured on art at Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College, Women's Caucus for Art, The New School University, The College Art Association, and numerous art groups. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is in a number of private collections. Kreloff has conducted art workshops in the U.S. and overseas since 1979. She has been a director of Art Workshop International for 29 years. |
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Caterina Bertolotto has taught Italian at the New School University for over 25 years and received a Distinguished University Teaching Award. She teaches workshops in the latest methodologies for learning/teaching foreign languages. Bertolotto has developed her own teaching method which is extremely effective, step-by-step, filled with variety and fun, and helps you achieve superb communication skills. She’s co-authored four textbooks and produced a two-volume Italian Language CD and a dialogue CD in PowerPoint. You will find the class easy, fun, and effective. Caterina is also an accomplished artist. |
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Rosellen Brown has mastered the novel, poetry, and the short story. Her novels include the best-selling BEFORE AND AFTER (made into a movie), TENDER MERCIES, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER, CIVIL WARS, and most recently, HALF A HEART. Her latest poetry is CORA FRY’S PILLOW BOOK. She has also published other books of poems, short stories, and the ROSELLEN BROWN READER. Brown’s short stories have appeared frequently in O’HENRY PRIZE STORIES, BEST AMERICAN STORIES and the PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Pam Christiansen, professional artist in gouche, collage, and textiles, founded "Return to Creativity" to encourage creative expression through classes in drawing, painting, encaustics, phtography. Her Creativity Center has 12 regular faculty and attracts guest artists and teachers from around the world. For more than 20 years, she has inspired and encouraged students to develop their creativity using writing, meditation, and movement. Her artwork has been shown in numerous galleries in the West, including Sedona, California, Oregon, and Seattle. In 2006 she visited all major art schools and art centers in China at the invitation of its government |
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Ellen Eagle is represented by Forum Gallery . She teaches at the Art Students League and The National Academy School of Fine Arts. Her self-portrait is included in “American Artist Magazine,” August 2008. She’s been the cover article of "The Pastel Journal." Eagle’s artwork has been reproduced in the "New York Times," "The Portrait Signature Magazine," and "Gallery Guide," and THE CLASSICAL DRAWING ATELIER. She has had three solo shows and exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Frye Art Museum, National Academy of Design, Arkansas Drawing Center, Albright Knox Gallery, New Jersey State Museum, and Seraphin Gallery. |
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Leslie Garis’s 2007 memoir HOUSE OF HAPPY ENDINGS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) was a "New York Times Book Review" Editor’s Choice. William Grimes in his Times review called it “The House of Atreus transplanted to New England." People Magazine wrote, “It’s a rare achievement and House a superb work.” Garis is also known for her "New York Times Magazine" profiles of such writers as John Fowles, Harold Pinter, Marguerite Duras, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Rebecca West and Georges Simenon. She has helped prominent writers bring their work to fruition and has lectured at Fairfield and Wesleyan Universities.
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Bill Goldstein currently teaches 17th Century English Literature, including Shakespeare and Milton, at Hunter College. He is completing a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he is writing a dissertation on Milton. The former founding editor of the books Web site of "The New York Times," Goldstein has written about books, authors, and the publishing business. He also reviews books for NBC's "Weekend Today" in New York, and was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University in 2003-04 where he curated the “Theater of Ideas” cultural programming at Miller Theatre. |
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Robert J. Hughes, staff reporter for "The Wall Street Journal" for over a decade, wrote on the publishing industry, the art markets, museums, television, music, film and reviewed books. His novel, LATE AND SOON, the “Washington Post” called "highly original and decidedly unfashionable." Hughes’s short story, “A Visit to St. Nick's," appeared in the acclaimed BRONX NOIR and was a finalist for BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2008. He is at work on another novel, THE RECTORY, as well as a family memoir, TABLE FOR THIRTEEN and continues to work in arts journalism. |
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ASSOCIATE OF ART WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL: Charles Kreloff has run his own design studio for over 15 years. A publications and book art director, his clients include Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Random House, Viking Penguin, Scholastic, and Conde Nast. Recently he worked on the graphic design for DREAM GIRLS. Kreloff has taught graphic design and typography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is also the co-author of humorous books, including IS YOUR DOG GAY? and PILLS FOR CATS: FINDING HAPPINESS THROUGH MODERN PHARMACOLOGY. |
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S.J. Rozan, born and raised in the Bronx, is the author of eight books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and of ABSENT FRIENDS, which Booklist called "one of the best crime novels of 2004," and IN THIS RAIN. She also edited the short-story collection BRONX NOIR which won a NAIBA Notable Book of the Year award. Her WINTER AND NIGHT won the Edgar, Nero, and Macavity awards for best novel. Earlier books have won the Shamus and Anthony awards for best novel and have been Edgar nominees. Her short story "Double-crossing Delancey" won the Edgar for best short story, and two more stories were nominated for it. Her next series novel, THE SHANGHAI MOON, comes out in 2009.
Rozan is a former Mystery Writers of America National Board member, a current Sisters in Crime National Board member, and ex-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. She speaks and lectures widely and for years interviewed writers at New York's 92nd St. Y in a series she originated, "Mysterious Conversations." In January 2003 she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A former architect in a practice that focuses on police stations, firehouses, and zoos, Rozan lives in lower Manhattan.
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Barbara Shoup’s novels, WISH YOU WERE HERE and STRANDED IN HARMONY, were selected as ALA's Best Books for Young Adults. VERMEER’S DAUGHTER was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Her most recent novel, EVERYTHING YOU WANT, was published in 2008. Shoup is also the co-author of NOVEL IDEAS: CONTEMPORAY AUTHORS SHARE THE CREATIVE PROCESS and STORY MATTERS, a college creative writing textbook. She is the executive director of the Writers’ Center of Indiana, and associate faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University, and an associate editor with OV Books. |
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Dinitia Smith is the author of three novels, including her latest, THE ILLUSIONIST (Scribner), which Stephen King praised for its “mesmerizing, erotic suspense.” Until recently, Smith was a cultural correspondent for the New York Times based in New York, where she wrote on literary subjects. She has taught at Columbia University and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and has also written several screenplays. Smith won an Emmy Award for an NBC documentary and her work has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. Her short fiction has been published in many literary journals.
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DIRECTOR OF ART WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL: Chris Spencer manages publications, travel, and coordination with teachers, students, and organizations. She is an artist and a board member of Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. A retired vice president, investments, of Morgan Stanley and Certified Financial Planner, Spencer also taught continuing education classes and wrote investment columns for local newspapers in Minneapolis. She is a partner in Trigance Press, which won Franklin and Midwest Book awards. In 2008, the University of Minnesota recognized her as an Outstanding Alumna. |
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Aoibheann Sweeney’s first novel, AMONG OTHERS THINGS I'VE TAKEN UP SMOKING, won the LAMBDA literary award in 2007 and was an Editor’s Choice at the “New York Times.” She earned her MFA at the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has written book reviews for "The New York Times Book Review," "The Washington Post Book World," and the "Village Voice Literary Supplement." Sweeney is currently Executive Director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Sweeney has been a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo. |
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Kamilla Talbot teaches at The National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York, and recently at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School. She also teaches "en plein-air" watercolor classes on Governors Island.
One person exhibitions include Bruno Marina Gallery in Brooklyn, The Johannes Larsen Museum in Denmark, and Galleri Varming in 2007. She's been in numerous group shows in New York and the East Coast including Lori Bookstein Fine Art, George Billis Gallery, The Painting Center, The Washington Art Association, CT, Gallery North, Bowery Gallery, NY and The Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Jayne Wenger is an award-winning director, dramaturg and producer, who has been dedicated to the development of original plays and solo performances for 25 years. She recently directed the stage adaptation of Anne Lamott's novel, HARD LAUGHTER. Wenger was the Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and previously the Women’s Ensemble of New York. Her direction of Claire Chafee’s “Why We Have A Body” at the Magic Theater in San Francisco won numerous awards. Wenger leads new play development workshops at The Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska and has developed the work of acclaimed playwrights nationwide. |
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Italian-Canadian mosaic and visual artist Nina Di Giovanni invites you to share her passion for mosaic and expertise in teaching in a supportive and individualized setting.
Since studying mosaics in Ravenna Italy in 1990, Di Giovanni has been an award-winning innovator with an extensive portfolio including public art, various unique architectural installations and exhibits throughout Canada and the US, and an exquisite contemporary mosaic product line. She has taught in Canadian universities and colleges and most recently in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she directs an art center and gallery specializing in mosaic. |
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Francesco Levato, executive director of the Poetry Center of Chicago, brings a rich mix of expertise to his workshop, ranging from Italian, video, and online poetry to poetry editing and publication. He is currently a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His poetry publications include "Marginal State" (book), anthologies, journals, and exhibitions. Levato has been guest editor for "Atlanta Review," "Drunken Boat," Locuspoint Magzine," among others, and founding editor of "Ink and Ashes." Two of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has also developed several online poetry platforms, include poetrycenter.org. |
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Charles Hobson, Executive Producer of Vanguard Documentaries, premieres “Harlem in Montmarte,” this August for PBS’s “Great Performances.” MOMA interviews him about his acclaimed four-decade film career June 2, in “Conversations Among Friends.” His many films include “Porgy and Bess: An American Voice” (PBS), “Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant,” “Jump Street: The History of Black Music,” and “Producer, Like It Is.”
His awards include an Emmy, Fulbright, The Japan Prize (Special Citation), and CINE “Golden Eagle.” Hobson has taught at SUNY, NYU Tisch school of the Arts, Vassar, and lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.
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