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Eirik Steinhoff: Wednesday April 24, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Eirik Steinhoff has taught contemporary and renaissance poetry at Mills College and at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in December 2012. He also teaches in the Workshop on Language and Thinking at Bard College and at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York State. Between 2000 and 2005 he edited CHICAGO REVIEW; in 2009 his translations from Petrarch’s RIME SPARSE appeared as a limited-edition letterpressed chapbook from Albion Books; and in fall 2013 a series of pamphlets called A FIERY FLYING ROULE that he produced in the vicinity of the Oakland Commune (a.k.a. Occupy Oakland) will be published by Station Hill Press. He lives in Olympia, Washington, where he is composing a book on the sense of chance in early modern England.

Miranda Mellis: Wednesday January 30, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Miranda Mellis is the author of The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian by Leonardo Luccone (Nutrimenti, 2008) as well as Croatian by Zoran Rosko (Quorum, 2009). It was a finalist for The Believer 2007 Book Award. Mellis has received The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, The Michael Harper Praxis Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant. Her writing has appeared in various journals & magazines including Conjunctions, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, American Book Review, Context, Modern Painters, Post Road, Harp & Altar, No Colony, BeeHive, and Paul Revere’s Horse. Her writing also appears in several anthologies including Conversations at The War Time Cafe and California Video: Artists and Histories. She teaches at Evergreen State College.

Jen Graves: Wednesday January, 16, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, especially at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 11 years.

Fionn Meade: Wednesday, October 5, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Fionn Meade is Curator at SculptureCenter, NY, where recent group
exhibitions include Knight’s Move, a survey of new sculpture in New
York, and Leopards in the Temple, with Lothar Baumgarten, Das
Institut, Patrick Hill, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Lucy Skaer,
and Kathrin Sonntag, among others. Recent curatorial projects also
include Nachleben, co-organized with Lucy Raven at Goethe Institut,
NY, which engaged Aby Warburg’s thinking and included works by Matthew
Buckingham, Patricia Esquivias, William E. Jones, Harun Farocki,
Rachel Harrison, John Miller, Stan VanDerBeek, James Welling,
Christopher Wool, and Akram Zaatari, among others, and Entr’acte at
Catherine Bastide with Tom Burr, James Coleman, David Noonan, William
Pope.L, Catherine Sullivan, and Rosemarie Trockel. His writing appears
in Artforum, Bomb, Bidoun, The Fillip Review, Mousse, and Parkett,
among other publications, and he received a 2009 Arts Writer Grant
from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Recently
released catalog writing includes essays on Elad Lassry for the
Kunsthalle Zurich (JRP/Ringier), and Mark Morrisroe for the Fotomuseum
Winterthur (JRP/Ringier). He holds an MA from the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and MFA in Creative Writing from
Columbia University

Susan Noyes Platt: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1

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A native of New York City. Susan Noyes Platt is a freelance art historian and art critic, as well as a political activist, based in Seattle, Washington. She has published articles, essays and reviews on the intersections of art and politics.  Her primary concern is to alter the critical discourse to embrace the many different ways in which artists explore this intersection. Over the course of her career she has shifted from a focus on American Art to an exploration of art in the Middle East, particularly in Turkey. She has also published reviews of contemporary art from China, Latin America, and Europe.

 

Lisa Radon: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Lisa Radon writes about art and makes art about writing. She makes text-based art, poem, word-sound performance, and collaborative, durational writing projects.

She writes regularly for art ltd. and ArtsWatch, and has contributed to Oregon. Humanities, American Craft, Portland Monthly, Textile, and others. She edits ultra: arts portland (ultrapdx.com). Recent catalogue essays include those for exhibitions at YU, the Lumber Room, and Half/Dozen.

Patt Blue: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Patt Blue has been a photographer for some thirty odd years concentrating on social issues. She began writing in 1998 for her sociological and visual document about spousal abuse and mental illness: Living On A Dream: A Marriage Tale that was published by The University Press of Mississippi. Major works include: HOW FAR IS HEAVEN, a twenty year chronicling of an impoverished family with twelve children living in the New York Catskills; OTHER PEOPLE, a black and white document, including color family snapshots of the disabled residents of a New York City Hospital.

Blue’s photography has been awarded The National Endowment for the Arts, three New York Foundation for the Arts; Howard Chapnick Foundation Grant for Humanistic Photography; LEICA Medal of Excellence for Humanistic Photography; Two Honorable Mention Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Outstanding Coverage of the Disadvantaged. In 2005, The Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded an Activism Grant to work with young mothers in Western Kentucky. A KY Council for the Arts full Fellowship was granted in 2007.  She has a BA from State University of New York, Stony Brook and an MFA from School of the Art Institute Chicago.  Currently Patt is a visiting faculty at Evergreen.

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