ALUMNI NEWS FALL 2020
SAM ADAM’s (18) new piece, Movements (for us and them), was recorded by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and directed by Richard Tognetti. DAVID ADJMI’s (06,20) new book, Lot Six: A Memoir, came out on June 23 from Harper. OPHIR AGASSI’s (11) exhibition, One to the Next, was at The Painting Center in NYC through September 26. AYAD AKHTAR’s (00,15) new novel Homeland Elegies was released on September 15 from Little Brown. He participated in a virtual event as part of PEN America’s PEN Out Loud series and was also recently appointed as president of PEN America.
MARIANNE BARCELLONA’s (06) exhibition, What Is Left: Tenuous Survivals, is at First Street Gallery in NYC through October 3. JEAN BUESCHER BARTLETT (93,04) has work in two exhibitions through December. The Collective Impulse is at the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, MI, and the 15th Anniversary Exhibition is at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. JAN BEATTY’s (93,97,00) poem, My Father Disappears Into Flowers, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the New York Times Magazine on August 16. Her sixth book, The Body Wars, was released by the University of Pittsburgh Press in September, and her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Prize and will be published in 2021.
FRANCES ASHFORTH (18) had five large monotypes included in the show, Mirage: Water, Energy & Creativity in the Great Basin, at the Boise Art Museum through February 24.
HEATHER BENTZ’s (17) first children’s book, The Runaway Sock, was released in May.
HOWARD AXELROD’s (01,11,15) new book, The Stars in Our Pockets, was published by Beacon Press in January.
BARBARA BOSWORTH (19) made a new artist book with Dust Collective, titled From Where the Sun Now Stands.
CINDY BERNARD (17) was the recipient of a Pollock Krasner grant.
Seventeen of PRILLA S. BRACKETT’s MATTHEW BAKER’s (16) new (98) 2019 monoprint/mixed media collection, Why Visit America: works were in Natural Attraction, a fiveStories, was published by Henry Holt person show at Brickbottom Gallery in & Company on August 4. Somerville, MA.
SUSAN BRIANTE’s (19) book, Defacing the Monument, essays on immigration, aesthetics, and the state, was published by Noemi Press in August. TRINE BUMILLER (19) has work in the group exhibition, The Walls Between Us, at the Center for Visual Art in Denver, CO, through October 17, and two paintings from her Denali Series are currently installed at Lafayette City Hall, CO. In September, her solo exhibition, Waterline, was at a.topos, a curatorial collective in Venice, Italy. LESLIE KIRK CAMPBELL’s (18) short fiction collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs & Other Stories, won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction and will be published on February 1. In addition, the title story will be published in Ploughshares Solos Fall 2021. CHARLES CANTRELL’s (99) full-length book of poetry, Wild Wreckage, was published by Cervena Barva Press (Boston). Work from ANDRÉE CARTER’s (19) Menorca Series was accepted into the 35th Annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA, and was on display through June 28. Her painting, Secret Orange, is part of