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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.
chetty1999@aol.com
www.caterinabertolotto.com
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Frederick Brosen
Born in New York City, he received his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1979. His watercolors have been the subject of numerous solo museum and gallery exhibitions, at the Frye Museum in Seattle in 2002 and more recently at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006, and at Hirschl and Adler Modern in 2006, 2008 and 2010. In 2006 a book on his New York paintings, Still New York, with introduction by Ric Burns, was published. His work is in the permanent collection of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society.
In 2011 he received The City College of New York Lifetime Career Achievement Award, and in the Spring of 2012 is scheduled for a second exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. In the Fall of 2013 he will have a solo show at Hirschl & Adler Modern in NYC.
Mr. Brosen taught for 10 years at the National Academy School in New York and has taught at Pratt Institute and Lehman College. He currently teaches at the Art Students League in New York.
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Carlos Dews
Born in Nacogdoches, Texas, Carlos Dews received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Minnesota. He taught American literature and creative writing at the University of West Florida from 1994-2003 and served as the Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages there from 2000-2002. Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1999, Dews served as the Founding Director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University in McCullers’s hometown of Columbus, Georgia, from 2001-2003. After completing an MFA in Fiction Writing at the New School University in New York in 2008, Dews relocated to Rome, Italy, where he is an Associate Professor and chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University and Director of the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Dews's books include his edition of The Complete Novels of Carson McCullers (Library of America). "Illumination and Night Glare": The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (University of Wisconsin). With Carolyn Leste Law, Dews edited Out in the South (Temple) and This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class (Temple). The first chapter of his autobiographical novel was recently accepted by Nuovi Argomenti, the Italian literary journal published by Mondadori. In addition to his book-length projects, Dews has published short fiction, autobiographical literary criticism, and political essays and commentaries.
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Stefanie Dworkin
is a New York City based Photographer, Filmmaker, Video Editor, Educator and Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Instructor.
Her TV/Film credits include: As The World Turns; The Naked Brothers Band; Laurie Schapira’s The Prophecy of the Seeress; Domenica Cameron-Scorsese’s Roots in Water; Charles Hobson’s The Flatiron Building (Trailer); and Laura Poitras’ My Country, My Country.
Her photos have been in numerous exhibitions. PDN Photo Book NYC (2010) chose four photos from her Coney Morning Series, two of which were featured on the front and back covers. Another photo in the series placed 2nd in the International Woman in Photography Photo Competition (2010). Her work has appeared in the following curated exhibitions: Rogue Space Photo Show (2010), DUMBO Arts Festival (2010), NYFA Arts Festival (2010); SOHO Photo Gallery’s National Competition (2009); Downstairs Art (2010) and Art in a Box (2008, 2010, 2011).
Stefanie Dworkin is an Adjunct Asst. Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and teaches Final Cut Pro at the Manhattan Edit Workshop, Art Workshop International in Assisi, Italy, and privately to filmmaking and photography professionals.
She earned a master’s in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BA from UC Santa Barbara. Her professional memberships include: Motion Pictures Editor’s Guild, New York Women in Film and Television, and American Society of Media Photographers New York.
sdworkin@mac.com
www.stefaniedworkin.com
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Moira Egan
’s poetry collections are Cleave; La Seta della Cravatta/The Silk of the Tie; Bar Napkin Sonnets; and, most recently, Spin (Entasis Press, 2010). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2008. With Damiano Abeni, she has published books in translation by John Barth, Mark Strand, Josephine Tey, and John Ashbery, whose collection, Un mondo che non può essere migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007, won a Special Prize of the Premio Napoli (2009). She has been a Mid Atlantic Arts Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Writer in Residence at St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta; a Writing Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center; and a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. She has been teaching workshops and literature classes for many years, and now teaches English and Creative Writing at John Cabot University in Rome.
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Ellen Eagle
is represented by Forum Gallery (www.forumgallery.com). She teaches at the Art Students League and taught for five years at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, both in NY. In 2010, she had a solo show, Ellen Eagle Portraits in Pastel at the Tomasulo Gallery, Cranford, New Jersey. Her paintings have been featured in The Artists Magazine, April 2011; American Artist Magazine (2010, 2008 and 2004); Pratique des Arts, 2010; The Pastel Journal, 2010; and are the subject of the cover article of The Pastel Journal, June 2006. Ellen’s paintings and writings are included in Classical Drawing: A Living Tradition (Sterling Publishers) by James McElhinney, and have been cited in American Arts Quarterly. Her artwork has been reproduced in The New York Times, Classical Drawing Atelier (Watson-Guptill) by Juliette Aristedes, The Portrait Signature Magazine, Gallery Guide, and The Newark Star Ledger, which said her pastels have an "exquisite transparency not seen for centuries.”
Ellen’s essays about painting have been published in Linea. She’s had two residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and was artist-in-residence at Walt Whitman School (Long Island, NY). Ellen has had four solo shows and has exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Frye Art Museuxm, National Academy Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Albright Knox Gallery, New Jersey State Museum and Seraphin Gallery, among others. She recently completed a portrait of writer Maxine Hong Kingston. Many private and corporate collectors own her pastel paintings, and she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, and Honor Award, Inspiring Figures Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, 2010.
Ellen is currently writing a book about pastel for Watson Guptill Publishers, and has been invited to exhibit her portraits at the Lingnan Museum of Fine Arts and the Lanting Association of Painting in China. She is exhibiting twenty paintings in the two-person exhibit, along with Chinese artist Kang Chung, December-January 2012.
ellen@elleneagleportraits.com
www.elleneagleportraits.com
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Scott Edelstein
has published 15 nonfiction books and over 200 short pieces on a wide variety of subjects. His most recent books are Sex and the Spiritual Teacher (Wisdom Publications, 2011) and The Complete Writer's Kit (Running Press, 2005). Scott is a longtime writer, ghostwriter, literary agent, writing coach, and publishing consultant. He has taught in Hamline University’s MFA program in writing, The Loft Literary Center (the nation’s largest writers' center), and at many conferences, community centers, and libraries. For more about Scott, visit www.helpingwriters.com and www.scottedelstein.com.
www.scottedelstein.com
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Ashley Gilbertson
is a photographer with the VII Network photo agency, and a principal at Shell Shock Pictures. Gilbertson's photographs from Iraq where he worked from 2002 until 2008, gained him recognition from the Overseas Press Club who awarded Gilbertson the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal. His first book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, was released in 2007. Since then, Gilbertson has been examining veterans’ issues including Post Traumatic Stress and suicide for Time Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New York Times. His collection of photographs depicting the intact bedrooms of service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bedrooms of the Fallen, was a solo exhibit and also published by The New York Times Magazine. It went on to win the documentary photography National Magazine Award. It will be published in book form in 2012.
Clients —Magazines: The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, The Guardian Magazine (UK), Le Monde (Fr.). Collections: The National Gallery of Victoria, The National Library of Australia, The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Awards in 2011—Photo District News, Photo Annual, Art Directors Club of America Finalist. Other solo shows: The Great Recession of New York, Title TK, and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
ashley@quietforce.com
www.ashleygilbertson.com
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Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick writes essays, memoirs, and literary criticism. She is the author of eight books, among them Fierce Attachments (a memoir), Approaching Eye Level (personal essays), The End of the Novel of Love (critical essays), and The Men In My Life (more critical essays). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has been nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has taught non-fiction writing in MFA programs all over the country, and is currently teaching at The New School in New York City.
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Gregg Kreutz
An award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide, Problem Solving for Oil Painters (now in its 20th year of publication), Gregg Kreutz has been drawing and painting all his life. After graduating from NYU, he studied at the Art Student’s League of New York with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale, and David A. Leffel. Gregg has won numerous awards, most recently the Merit Award at the 2005 National Portrait Society of America. Other awards include the Frank C. Wright, the Hudson Valley Art Association, 1986; the Medal of Merit (first prize in oils), Knickerbocker Artists; the Council of American Artists, Salmagundi Club, and the Grumbacher Award.
He has had one man shows at Grand Central Galleries, The Fanny Garver Gallery, the Newport Art Association, and the Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago. Gregg is currently represented by Trailside Galleries, Quidley & Company, Hilligoss Gallery, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York City. He teaches painting and drawing at the Art Student’s League and The Fechin Institute, New Mexico; The Scottsdale Artist’s School, The California Art Institute, and other workshops throughout the country. His videos are popular learning tools used by artists all over the world.
greggkreutz@juno.com
greggkreutz.com
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Marie Howe
is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); The Good Thief (1998); and What the Living Do (1997), and co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994).
Howe's acclaimed second book, What the Living Do, addressed the grief of losing a loved one. It is in large part an elegy to her brother, John, who died of AIDS. "Each of them seems a love poem to me," says Howe. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others.
Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships.
Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University.
“Marie Howe's poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.”
—Stanley Kunitz
www.mariehowe.com
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Patricia Marx
is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a former writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats. She is the author of several books including Starting From Happy, Him Her Him Again The End of Him, Now Everybody Really Hates Me, and How To Regain Your Virginity. She was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon and currently teaches at Princeton and the 92nd Street Y. She can take a baked potato out of the oven with her bare hand.
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Nahid Rachlin
attended Columbia University MFA program on a Doubleday-Columbia Fellowship and then went on to Stanford University MFA program on a Stegner Fellowship. Her publications include a memoir, Persian Girls (Penguin), four novels, Jumping Over Fire (City Lights), Foreigner (W.W. Norton), Married to a Stranger (E.P.Dutton), The Heart’s Desire (City Lights), and a collection of short stories, Veils (City Lights). Her individual stories have appeared in about fifty magazines. One of her stories was produced by Symphony Space, “Selected Shorts” and was aired on NPR radio stations around the country.
Her work has received favorable reviews in major magazines and newspapers and translated into Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, and Farsi. She has written reviews and essays for The New York Times, Newsday, Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. She received many awards, including the Bennet Cerf Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
She has been interviewed in magazines such as Poets & Writers and AWP Writers Chronicle, and TV such as Channel 13, and on NPR’s, including Fresh Air, Terry Gross, and All Things Considered. For more please click on:
www.nahidrachlin.com
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S.J. Rozan
was born and raised in the Bronx and is a life-long New Yorker. She's the author of eleven books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series, and two standalone novels, ABSENT FRIENDS and IN THIS RAIN. She's published over three dozen short stories. She edited the anthology BRONX NOIR, which won a NAIBA Notable Book of the Year award, and co-edited the anthology DARK END OF THE STREET. She has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for best novel and the Edgar for best short story. She has also been honored with the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award. SJ speaks and lectures widely. A former architect in a practice that focused on police stations, firehouses, and zoos, SJ Rozan lives in Manhattan.
SJRozan@aol.com
www.sjrozan.com
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Richard Rudich
is a studio artist working in New York, his native city. His work in painting and ceramic sculpture has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, and London, and is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. He has long been interested in the decorative arts as well and has done commissions for many architects and designers including Martha Stewart. For more than twenty-five years he has been teaching painting and drawing and printmaking at the Fieldston School where he also developed a program in architectural drawing and studio practice. Rudich was a consultant in designing a summer program in visual arts at the Jewish Museum in New York and taught painting there.
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Justo J. Sánchez
an award-winning cultural journalist, has consulted for Sotheby's and important galleries in the US and abroad. Mr. Sanchez graduated from Harvard and studied art history at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. He taught at the University of Florida's New World School of the Arts. His students have shown at the Whitney Biennial and are represented by serious
international galleries. While teaching, he published
humanities textbooks. He has been interviewed by THE
NEW YORK TIMES, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,
NPR, BBC, CBC, among others, on cultural and sociopolitical
matters. Mr. Sanchez is currently a lecturer in
museums, art institutions, and, recently, at Art Palm
Beach and Miami International Art Fair. He studied trecento art under Colin Eisler at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
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Oralee Wachter & Thomas Boyd
Artist, educator, media producer, best-selling author
Oralee Wachter has been teaching “The Hero's
Journey: A Visual Memoir” across the country for the
past few years. In workshops from San Francisco to
Moab to New York, people have expressed
themselves by making beautiful, original maps that help them see their own lives in a
new and more compassionate way. Oralee's films, videos, books and media projects
have won international acclaim for elegant design. Thomas Boyd has taught writing in
college, community and corporate settings. He has ghosted four books, written over a
hundred articles, essays, scripts and prose pieces, and is the creator of
www.tbo2010.wordpress.com, a widely-read blog on matters sacred and profane. He's
finishing a young adult novel and writing a family memoir about his sister's 12-year
hero's journey through cancer.
oraleewachterherosjourney.com
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