class news 2016
Ryan Bitzegaio GD moved to Myrtle Beach, SC to begin his new job as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Coastal Carolina University. Veronica Cross VA took part in a group exhibition, IN THIS REALM: Five Artists Explore Identity and Transformation, at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. “This exhibition presents five views of becoming in today’s culture, inviting us to delve deeper into ideas of gender, identity, and cultural paradigms to consider the individual as well as the archetype, and to question for ourselves ideas of identity.”
Deb Kline GD Four of her pieces were part of Along the River’s Edge Juried Art Exhibition at the Thousand Islands Art Center, Clayton, NY.
Eric Taylor WCYA His creative nonfiction article “Ramadan” appeared in the July 2017 issue of Plough Quarterly. Richard Tuttobene MC was interviewed in The Huffington Post in an article titled: “Composer Chats: Richard Tuttobene On His Approach to Scoring and Making a French Horn Sound Eerie and Sinister.”
Kela Parker MC announces the release of her album The Dreamer &The Dream
Anu Kumar W announces the publication of Emperor Chandragupta, a work of historical fiction, written under the name of Adity Kay. She also writes regularly for a digital daily based in Bombay but accessible worldwide: https://scroll.in/ author/1157. Her first picture book, The Secret God in the Forest, was also published.
J. Wren Supak VA took part in [RE]TELLING, an exhibition at the Tychmann Shapiro Gallery, Sabes Jewish Community Center, MN. It featured select works from the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ permanent collection of survivor Fritz Hirschberger’s Sur-Rational series expressing life under Nazi rule. Hirschberger paintings and narratives were paired with contemporary works by local artists who deal closely with related matters. She held her first solo exhibition, Matyò Migration Stories Through Pattern, an exhibition celebrating Women’s Herstory, in the Ridgedale Library, MN. She also received the Hubert H. Humphrey Scholarship from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, a merit-based award “for the time that I will study domestic and international human rights policy from my vantage as artist/researcher/advocate.”
Adam DelMarcelle GD, Current
has released new work as part of his ongoing project called “What Heroin Sounds Like”— guerilla projections displayed in his hometown of Lebanon, PA, with the goal of starting conversations around the heroin and opioid crisis. Adam’s work has also reached the national level: The Library of Congress asked him to submit three of his projections. He also took part in a moderated AIGA Vermont panel discussion—Design Activision: Conversation from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis—at Burlington City Arts, VT. Adam reports, “Now that the work is becoming more established, we have families of people that died from an overdose attending the projections to share their stories.”
2017 J Diaz MC announces the release of his debut album, Sic Pilot, “a project inspired by the ambiguity of my national identity.” Several of the pieces were composed during his VCFA program.
Catie Hannigan W announces the publication of her chapbook Water Fragments, which she wrote as her critical essay for her VCFA program.
Jacqui Lipton WCYA Her article, “Adding Flash Fiction to Your Writer’s Toolbox,” appeared in the Spring 2017 SCBWI Bulletin.
Tyler Friend WP Their poem “The First Time” was published in the summer 2017 issue of Tin House. The first draft of this poem was written in Matthew Dickman’s class.
David Kutz VA, 2016
exhibited “Retro,” a series of “photographs shot in many places around the world, unified by a focus on composition, color, form, line, and texture.” He also exhibited “The Stranger’s Path,” a 21-foot-long, 210-degree panoramic work “that considers the commonality of the modern travel experience.” Both exhibitions were at SohoPhoto Gallery in NYC.
Samantha LaBue W Her “near obsession with generative writing sessions,” discovered while at VCFA, led her to start a small business running prompt-led creative writing courses. Fledgling Writing Workshops just celebrated its first year by launching new, affordable classes for residents of NYC and online for writers outside of the City. fledglingworkshops.com
Antwon Key GD is the new Graphic Design Instructor at South Central College in North Mankato, MN, in addition to working as a freelance designer and photographer.
Jennifer Mann WCYA announces the forthcoming publication of her historical fiction about Margaret Sanger, early women’s health and rights advocate and the founder of what is now Planned Parenthood. The currently untitled coming-of-age novel follows the budding activist as she struggles to find her way in a large family amidst the harsh realities of life in the late 19th century.
Current Students Ramona Bell MC Her composition for string quartet, “Coal River Mountain—An Aerial View,” was included in the Delgani String Quartet performance in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in NYC in June 2017. Louisa de Cossy F took part in the New England Graduate Media Symposium Unsettling: Reexaminations of Home, at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Louisa was selected to screen a selection from her film MAGDALEN LAUNDRIES: A BURIED TRUTH. Sarah Curtis Graziano W Her essay, “Daughter of a Gun,” is forthcoming in River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. In it, she traces the gun mythology on the Texan side of her family back to its roots over 200 years ago. Eric Machan Howd W Two of Eric’s poems, “Hotel Mirrors” and “Edison’s Electric Pen Vibrating,” received Honorable Mention in Nostalgia Press’ national Heart Poetry Award contest and were published in the fall 2017 edition of their Heart 12 publication. Two more of his poems, “Middle Age” and “Pistachios,” were published in the Fall 2017 edition of The Healing Muse, a publication of the State University of New York’s Upstate Medical College.
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class news Laura Atkins WCYA announces the publication of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the first in the Fighting for Justice series.
Kelly Beard W took second place (out of 420 submissions) in the 2017 Literary Awards Competition sponsored by the Tucson Festival of Books. The prize included a cash award and workshop with Joyce Maynard.
Amy O’Neal WP has a poem slated to appear in Not My President: An Anthology of Dissent (Thoughtcrime Press) under her pen name of L.T. Patridge.
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Stephen Baker WCYA received the Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award by the SCBWI for his manuscript Prayers to Broken Stone. This grant is awarded to authors over the age of 50 who have not been traditionally published in the children’s literature field.
Lu Heintz VA received a Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship for a one-month residency.
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Paula Allen F participated in I Love You, I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, the VA program’s Gallery Show for Open House Weekend at the VCFA Gallery.
Aaron Cecchini-Butler MC won the BMI student composer award as a private student of Jonathan Bailey Holland, VCFA MC Faculty Chair. His winning composition, “wayward pine: sanctum/sawdust/ember/pitch,” was composed while at VCFA under the guidance of Michael Early and John Mallia.