March 12 - April 20, 2007
CORE
Site Specific Installation by Liz Nofziger (artist in residence, 2003)

This new site-specific installation presents an abstracted “core sample” of architect William Le Baron Jenney’s Ludington Building which now houses the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago. Blurring the lines between artifice and integrity, Nofziger overpopulates the gallery with its own support structure, working from the physical space and its architecturally significant beginnings. Viewer exploration completes the work, revealing reflections of the building’s pasts, from the vibration of printing presses to toothpaste and auto-parts.

March12, 2007
Hall Farm Center welcomes Jonathan Lethem to its Advisory Council. He is the author of many novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, and the editor of The Vintage Book of Amnesia. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Harper’s.

February 22, 2007
Hall Farm Center welcomes Melvin Jules Bukiet to its Advisory Council. He is the author of a number of novels and collections of short stories, including Sandman’s Dust, Stories of an Imaginary Childhood, While the Messiah Tarries, After, Signs and Wonders, Strange Fire, and A Faker’s Dozen. He is the editor of Neurotica, Nothing Makes You Free, and Scribblers on the Roof. Melvin’s works have been translated into half a dozen languages and are frequently anthologized. He was the winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, among other prizes. His fiction and essays have been published in Antaeus, The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, The American Scholar, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other magazines and newspapers.

January 30, 2007
Hall Farm Center welcomes Deborah Eisenberg and Joshua Wolf Shenk to its Advisory Council.

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of five short story collections including her most recent Twilight of the Superheroes. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, A Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rea award, and three O. Henry Awards.

Joshua Wolf Shenk is the author of Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged A President and Fueled His Greatness, named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His work has also appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other publications. He is a former editor of The Washington Monthly and has been a correspondent for The New Republic, The Economist, and U.S. News & World Report. He is currently director of the O’Neill Literary House at Washington College.

January 18 through April 1, 2007
Melanie Baker (artist-in-residence, 2005) is part of MR. PRESIDENT, a Group Exhibition of Non-Traditional Portraits of United States Presidents. On View at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY.

January 13, 2007
Douglas Danoff (artist-in-residence, 2005) has been awarded the Danahy Fiction Prize. His winning story, “The Trader Thief” (an early draft of which Doug worked on during his 2005 Hall Farm residency), will appear in the next issue of Tampa Review, the literary magazine known for not only its fine content but also its smartly illustrated hardcover format.

January 2, 2007
Hall Farm Center congratulates James Cañón (artist-in-residence, 2001) on the publication of his book Tales from the Town of Widows (Harper Collins). www.jamescanon.com

December 19, 2006
Hall Farm Center is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of recent grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro in support of its Artists Residencies program. Agnus Gund is president emerita of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the founder of Studio In A School.

Cynthia Lin (artist-in-residence, 2005) has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Art for her work in drawing and painting. Winners are selected on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

Hall Farm Center mourns the passing of Cara Parravani (Bahir), 2001 writer-in-residence.

Suji Kwock Kim (artist-in-residence, 2006) has received a 2006 Whiting Writers Award. The awards of $40,000 each are given annually to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (artist-in-residence, 2004) is one of six recipients of the 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards, which are given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers. The awards of $15,000 were presented to the six recipients in New York City on September 14th.

Michelle Wildgen’s (artist-in-residence 2002) novel, You’re Not You, was published in June, 2006 by St. Martin’s Press.