Cre ative Arts 2013 –2014 MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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Beauty without grace is a violet without smell.
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Welcome to another special season of creative arts programming at Monroe Table of Contents Community College. We invite you, your family, and your friends to come Mercer Gallery…………………… 4 and enjoy the rich cultural experiences that these Art Exhibitions…………………… 8 events provide. Members of the Rochester community Music…………………………… 10 are always welcome at MCC events. Metered parking Theatre………………………… 12 along Lot F is available for daytime events and reserved Prose & Poetry………………… 16 parking is available in designated parking lots for The Sixth Act…………………… 18 evening programs. Tickets for specified programs are available online at www. monroecctickets.com; at the Brighton Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3; or at the Damon City Campus Bookstore. For further information, call the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development at 585.292.2534. The primary mission of MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is to develop a student-centered learning initiative that combines a holistic approach to the arts with the educational mission of our institution.
The Creative Arts Committee Members are Susan Baker, Maria Brandt, Janet Ekis, Kathleen Farrell, Roland Fisher, Rebecca Herzog, Tony Leuzzi, Larry Mandelker, and John Nyerges. –Wieland Background images from the Library of Congress archives.
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To reach the MCC Brighton Campus from Mercer Gallery General Notes The West (Buffalo): Take Thruway 90 east to exit For more information about Mercer Gallery 46; take 390 north to exit 16, the second East events, proposal applications, up-to-date Internal Henrietta Rd. (Rt. 15A) exit; turn left and continue Combustion Events, Workshops, and Mystery Video south on 15A for about 1/2 mile to the main schedules please call, write, or stop by the gallery. campus entrance. Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director The East (Syracuse): Take Thruway 90 west to exit Mercer Gallery Hours: 46 and proceed as above. Monday–Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. South (Geneseo): Take 390 north to exit 16, the Friday: 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. second East Henrietta Rd., exit and proceed as Vacation Hours: Tuesday–Thursday 11 a.m.–2:00 p.m. above. Brockport/Spencerport: Take Route 531 Other times by appointment. east to 490 east and then to 390 south; take exit Phone: 585.292.2021/585.292.3121 16B (East Henrietta Rd.–Rt. 15A); turn right and Fax: 585.292.3120 proceed for about 1/2 mile to the main campus. E-mail: [email protected] Visit www.monroecc.edu/go/maps www.monroecc.edu/go/mercer/ The Mercer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building 12 in the North Atrium on the Brighton Campus. This non- profi t gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the Offi ce of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.
3 Chris Mostyn and Rick Nickel Alumni Show September 6–October 4, 2013 Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Homecoming Weekend Saturday, Septem- ber 21 at 2 p.m. in the Mercer Gallery Rochester native Chris Mostyn states, “I was always drawing. I was a creative kid for as long as I can remember. Drawing was a constant companion. It was during my tenure at Monroe Community College that my teachers instilled in me the love of keeping sketchbooks, not merely as a place to develop new ideas for future works of art but as a record of my life. I attended MCC from 1987–1990. I studied graphic design and then switched to illustration. I have worked as a designer and illustrator for newspapers and magazines, and was the designer and storyboard artist for the critically reviewed Apple app Plug and the Paddywhacks. I have shown in galleries around the country and in Hamburg Germany. I currently teach art at a middle school in Missouri and draw monsters for tee shirts. I am who I am and can’t thank my teachers enough for giving me the tools.” Chris Mostyn
Top and middle: Chris Mostyn
Mercer Gallery Bottom: Rick Nickel
4 Rochester native Richard Nickel attended MCC in the early 90’s, received a BS in Art Education from SUNY Buffalo in 1996 and an MFA in Ceramics in 2000 from Edinboro University. He began teaching Art Education & Ceramics in North Dakota in 2000. In 2002, he began teaching at Old Ken Martin Sculpture Dominion University as the Art Education October 11–November 8, 2013 Program Director and the Ceramics Gallery Talk: Friday, October 11, 12:00 p.m. Program Director. He started the Saturday Opening Reception: Friday, October 11, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Morning Art Classes in 2003. With Mennonite roots, Kenneth Martin grew Richard is an active artist and educator up in Toledo, Ohio. He made two excursions to and has been published in several Lark Europe in the 1970s that led to extended stays in books on ceramics, 500 Tiles: An Inspiring Arles, Antibes, Amiens, Paris, France and in Ghent, Collection of International Work, 500 Belgium. Immediately on returning to the United Animals In Clay, 500 Figures in Clay and States, he found employment as a roust-a-bout with 500 Bowls. His juried and invitational shows include: Tablets: text and Image, the “Clyde Beaty and Cole Brothers Circus”. He Ink And Clay, Forms & Shapes: Inspired by studied furniture making and design with Wendell Architecture at Akar Gallery, The George Castle in Scottsville, New York and began to exhibit Ohr National Arts Challenge: Paul Soldner sculpture in Rochester, New York City and later in The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, and he Baltimore. Skills in fabrication and sensitivity for has been also awarded several research aesthetic arrangement made it possible for him to grants in Education and Ceramics, the gain employment in museum exhibition work. He Faculty Innovator Grant, and an ODU worked in the exhibition department at the Margaret Summer Research Fellowship. Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, N.Y. and at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Martin received his B.S. from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of Maryland. He is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is currently Interim Chair of the department.
5 classes at his alma mater and found that these studies became the perfect compliment to his architecture. In 1985 he travelled to California and felt at home. He returned in 1986 to stay. This proved to be more difficult than originally thought. Working as an architect was nearly impossible since he did not have a license. After trying many different jobs in California, he moved to Arizona and later to New Mexico. He worked with various companies there Luis Alberto Decurgez November 15–December 14, 2013 on murals mixed with colored cement, a technique he came up with several years earlier. He decided Gallery Talk: Friday, November 15, 12:00 p.m. to move to Central America where he found some Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 7:00–9:00 p.m. interest in his work. In 1995, he presented his In 1937, Luis Alberto Decurgez was born in a small work for a competition in Guatemala City. A major town of Jachal, San Juan—a province located on the bank was proposing a sculpture outside of their western part of Argentina, a largely mountainous establishment. He won the contest and the option region with scarce vegetation, turbulent rivers, and of executing the piece himself. Stainless steel with a some important paleontological sites. cement base, this piece stands in front of the bank In 1944, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of on Main St. in Guatemala City. He worked there the city and killed 10,000 people. Luis and his family until 1999 making a modest number of sculptures in were out of town, on vacation. His father Alejandro cement, copper, steel, for the private sector. moved the family to the neighboring province of In the year 2000 he decided to come back to the Mendoza where the artist would spend much of his US and concentrate his efforts on painting. He lives childhood and adult life. The University of Mendoza- in Southern California where he continues to paint School of Architecture is where he submitted every day. His work has been exhibited recently at applications without his parent's consent. He the Museum of History and Art of Ontario, California. graduated at the age of 30 after winning University According to the artist, “Analyzing my work and awards and recognitions. One of these award- being honest, I must say that it has two sides. One is winning sculptures is at the University to this day. the side showing the works by copying or imitation, During his architectural career he was confronted using texture and color techniques, as they appear in with frustration and the harsh reality that clients the model. Surely the mountains and The Andes had, didn't always see what he saw. This is when painting and still do have, a profound impact on my being, and sculpting became his refuge. He began taking since that is where I was and for many years I lived surrounded by this nature and topography.”
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“It is a mere and–Bacon miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.”
7 GOOD WORK: The Illustration Art Invitational Belinda Bryce and Kurt Ketchum Jan. 24–February 21, 2014 Feb 28–March 28, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, January 24, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: Friday, February 28, 12:00 p.m. Curated by David Cowles and Kathy Calderwood Opening Reception: Friday, February 28, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Fifty-six internationally known illustrators were Belinda Bryce was born in Houston, Texas and as asked to present the favorite illustration they have a child lived in California, Germany, Connecticut, ever done. Illustrators: Daniel Adel, Terry Allen, Tom Toledo, Buffalo and Rochester, NY. As an adult, she Bachtell, Melinda Beck, Guy Billout, Juliette Borda, has lived in Ithaca, Boston, Atlanta, Columbus, and Steve Brodner, Lou Brooks, Calef Brown, Philip Burke, Memphis. She has spent the majority of her life in Kathy Calderwood, Dave Calver, Andre Carrilho, Rochester but can envision living elsewhere. She Michael Cho, David Cowles, Brian Cronin, Jose Cruz, is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology Paul Davis, Roger DeMuth, Debbie Drechsler, Henrik where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting and a diploma in printmaking. She has taught at RIT’s Drescher, Randall Enos, Vivienne Flesher, Douglas School of Art. Fraser, Drew Friedman, Milton Glaser, Eddy Guy, Danny Hellman, John Hershy, John Kascht, Stephen As a practicing artist, Bryce has shown extensively Kroninger, Anita Kunz, Peter Kuper, Chris Lyons, in Western New York state and international juried Wilson McLean, Bill Mayer, Ross MacDonald, Mark shows. A prolific maker and reflective seeker, Bryce is interested in the idea of personal journey. Her Matcho, Hanoch Piven, C.F. Payne, Chris Pyle, Robert most recent work is about passages and pathways. Risko, Edel Rodriguez, Laurie Rosenwald, Richard Each piece entails several layers of adding and Sala, Zina Saunders, David Sheldon, Owen Smith, subtracting paint. She has worked to develop a visual Bob Staake, Nancy Stahl, Ward Sutton, Gary Taxali, language depicting the complexity of life’s journey, Murray Tinkleman, Mark Ulriksen, Kirsten Ulve, and its unevenness, interruptions, distractions, obstacles, James Yang. bridges, and unexpected new pathways.
8 Trained in commercial art, Kurt Ketchum Scott Herrmann branched out and became a sought after April 4–May 2, 2014 graphic artist, designer, typographer and Opening Reception: Friday April 4, 7:00–9:00 p.m. illustrator. He also taught design at Rochester Scott Herrmann has an art history degree from Institute of Technology. According to the artist, Syracuse University and lives in Liverpool, NY, with his “The fusion of these disciplines is what mainly wife and son. He‘s the current leader of fostered my hybrid approach to recognizing Open Figure a community-based drawing group. and documenting images. My education has Drawing, been greatly expanded with access to the wide He is inspired and motivated by: the primacy of the world of web and the infi nite fl ow of informed chaos.” grid, layers, transparency, the use of color, charts, graphs, the tension between black and white, torn His work has been exhibited at the Rochester papers, diagrams, the reading of pictures as words, Contemporary Art Center, the Bug Jar, Rochester photocopies, overlapping, and the fi ne line between Public Market, Gallery @ 4 Mile Post, Geva Theatre, humor and grimness. He looks for the emergence of Good Luck, 4walls Gallery, Smash Gallery in Toronto, a new, primal, direct language that manifests when Index G in Toronto and the Apple Store in NYC. any one of the above elements obscures, intersects,
Music provided by the MCC Jazz Band. Currently on review is the work of Emily Baker, Anthony Bristol, Kylie Newcomer and Alexander
Art Exhibitions Rogan. These students are the 2013 recipients
10 of the The William H. Lagerway and Faith Prather SIBLEY WINDOW PROJECT The work of Nate Endowed Scholarship for Students in Photography. Hodge, Brockport State BFA graduate is currently Established in 2011, the Scholarship is in memory displayed in the Sibley window through January of William H. Lagerway and supports students 15, 2014. This exhibition window space measures pursuing photography careers. This scholarship is 16.5 feet long x 6.1 feet wide x 8.5 feet high and an annual competition where portfolio work and an faces Main Street, Rochester, New York. The Mercer essay is juried for this prestigious award. Students Gallery is seeking proposals for The Sibley Building transferring to SUNY Brockport are encouraged Window Project for January–June 2014 to apply. The work of Emily Baker, Anthony Bristol, MYSTERY VIDEO HOUR Wednesdays at Four (4:00 Kylie Newcomer and Alexander Rogan remains p.m.), Fine Arts Building, Mercer Gallery, 12–114 in the showcases through September 1, 2013. Brighton Campus. Art and Artist video viewing with Scholarship receipients are exhibited from May 1– introductions and discussion. Have an idea, a video, September 1 each year. animation and want to be part of this? Submit a On view beginning Monday, September 2–Friday, proposal. Submissions of original work are welcome. November 1, 2013 is the work of Peter Monacelli INTERNAL COMBUSTION What is an Internal entitled Seven Stories: Impressions of Thomas Combustion Event? It is video, fi lm, sculpture, Merton and works by Bob Sheldon entitled painting, drawing, dance, theatre, performance, Evictions. installation, on the wall, off the wall, in the gallery, Eric Moon, MCC Alumnus in Advertising: or outside the gallery. We seeit as open- ended, Commercial Illustration 2007 and BFA graduate of traditional and non-traditional forms, often RIT in Medical Illustration, will exhibit his work from running concurrently with scheduled gallery events. November 2013–March 2014. Interested? Submit a proposal for the calendar. All http://www.ericdavidmoon.com Internal Combustion events are free and open to the public. Various exhibition spaces are available.
1111 Music Recitals & Concerts, 7:30 p.m. Theatre, Bldg. 4 October 16, 2013 Instrumental & Vocal Concert 45th Annual MCC Jazz Festival “Integrity Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. December 4, 2013 Instrumental Concert This festival features the area’s top December 11, 2013 professionals—an assortment of all-star without Vocal Concert small groups and a big band made up March 5, 2014 of the region’s fi nest jazz educators/ Instrumental & Vocal Concert performers/recording artists. There will May 14, 2014 be morning and afternoon high school knowledge Vocal Concert jazz ensemble performances, with the award winners being announced at the evening concert. Previous guests have included: Dave is weak and Glasser, the John Fedchock Big Band, Dariuza Terenfenko, Clay Jenkins, Bob Sheppard and the New Energy Jazz MCC Homecoming Orchestra. University of Rochester useless, Yellow Jackets Visit www.monroecctickets.com for Thursday Sept 19, 7:30 Theatre, Bldg. 4 all ticketed events. Free and open to the public. Tickets: Students FREE, Fac/Staff/ and knowledge Alumni: $5.00, General Admission: Brought to you by the MCC Student Life Fee. $10.00, Children 10 and under: $5.00 –Johnson Tickets:
Sponsored by Campus Activities Board, Housing and Residence Life, Orientation without integrity and First Year Experience. is dangerous 12 and dreadful.” 5th Annual Madrigal Feaste 15th Annual Otis Young Motivational Friday, December 6 at 6:30p.m. Speak-off MCC Forum located in the R. Thomas Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 Flynn Campus Center, Bldg. 3 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Noon MCC Theatre, Building 4 Cost $15.00 Visit www.monroecctickets. com for all ticketed events. This annual event provides students the opportunity to further develop Hear ye, Hear ye! You are invited to their public speaking skills. To prepare attend MCC’s 5th Annual Madrigal for this event students participate in Feaste! This event is both a dinner an Honors course where they develop, and a show filled with medieval music, revise and rehearse an original 5-7 minute games, skits, and food. Come out and motivational speech. Event judges practice your best British accent with represent college faculty; staff; and the musicians while being serenaded by administrators; students; community singers. Admission is $15, dressing in your representatives; outside college/ Renaissance costumes optional. university representatives; and members Brought to you by the MCC Student Life Fee. of the communication and leadership organization, Toastmasters International. The event poster and program is designed by the Visual and Performing Arts students, as part of Art 206 Commercial Illustration II class. Free and open to the public. Musical Events 13 2013-2014 Special Project RENT AUDITIONS The Sixth Act will continue Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson to develop curriculum- RENT AUDITIONS support materials and Friday, November 22, 7:30 p.m. September 16 & 18, 3:00 p.m. post-production talk-backs Saturday, November 23, 7:30 p.m. September 17, 3:30 p.m. for VaPA’s 2013–2014 season Sunday, November 24, 2:00 p.m. to encourage faculty across MCC Theatre, Building 4 MCC to teach these plays— Tickets $ 10.00 adults, MCC A STREETCAR NAMED to enrich this process for all. Student with ID $8.00, DESIRE AUDITIONS THE NINTH CIRCLE Children under 12 free January 27, 28, & 29, 3:30 p.m. performed by MCC’s “On The Set in the East Village of New Edge Drama Troup” at the York City, RENT is about First Niagara Rochester CHILDREN’S SHOW falling in love, fi nding your Fringe Festival Performances AUDITIONS voice and living for today. at the ROCS Stage at Xerox February 24, 25, 26, 3:30 p.m. Auditorium Winner of the Tony Award for Friday, September 20, 5:00 p.m. Best Musical and the Pulitzer Saturday, September 21, 4:00 p.m. Prize for Drama, RENT has All Auditions in the Ticket $10.00 general public, become a pop cultural MCC Theatre $8.00 students phenomenon with songs A group of college students that rock and a story that and a professor wait in an resonates with audiences of empty library. A hesitant all ages. discussion ensues about a student named Ethan, who Based loosely on Puccini’s La we discover was involved in Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s some sort of tragedy. When RENT follows a year in the life Ethan fi nally arrives, the of a group of impoverished characters are forced to face young artists and musicians the terrible truth of what struggling to survive and happened, and how it has create in New York’s Lower forever changed them. East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Adult subject matter. 14 Theatre Arts
A STREETCAR NAMED ONCE ON THIS ISLAND SUBURBIA DESIRE Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens By Eric Bogosian By Tennessee Williams Music by Stephen Flaherty Tuesday, June 24, 7:30 p.m. Based on Friday, April 4, 7:30 p.m. My Love, My Love Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. by Rosa Guy MCC Theatre, Building 4 Sunday, April 6, 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 5, 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public MCC Theatre, Building 4 MCC Theatre, Building 4 The parking lot of a mini-mall Tickets $ 10.00 adults, MCC Free and open to the public convenience store is the private Student with ID $8.00, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is domain of three men in their Children under 12 free a contemporary, Caribbean- very early twenties: Jeff, Buff and Tim. The focal point of this Southern aristocrat Blanche, fl avored musical by the Tony evening is the arrival of an old down on her luck, is reduced Award-winning songwriting high-school chum, Pony, and to living with her sister Stella team of Lynn Ahrens and his female associate, Erica. and Stella’s pugnacious Stephen Flaherty based Since Pony left Burnfi eld he blue-collar husband, Stanley. upon the book My Love, My has gone on to become semi- Life with them in their tiny Love by Rosa Guy. In almost famous fronting for a band that tenement apartment is non-stop song and dance, has an album on the charts and unbearable until a kindly the show tells the story of Ti a video on MTV. In the course suitor appears and seems Moune, a peasant girl who of the evening, all of the friends to offer Blanche a ticket to rescues and falls in love with congregate in the parking a better life. But Stanley, Daniel, a wealthy boy from lot. Once Pony arrives in his bristling at Blanche’s high- the other side of her island. black limo, fascination with his handed dismissal of him, sets When Daniel is returned to success turns into jealousy and out to dismantle her genteel his people, the fantastical fl owers into bitter anger. New façade, hurtling them toward gods who rule the island liaisons evolve. As the next day an epic battle in Williams’ guide Ti Moune on a quest to dawns, some of the group have Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. test the strength of her love against the powerful forces of found their way out of Burnfi eld prejudice, hatred and death. while the rest are left to deal with a tragedy that could have been any of them.
15 The Sixth Act Guerrilla Theatre Academic Workshop: Formed in 2004, The Sixth Fall 2013 Tennessee Williams Act provides co-curricular Undisclosed Time and Place Thursday, October 17, 4-5:30 p.m., support for the study of Black Box Theatre R.G. Davis is generally drama across disciplines at Free and Open to the Public MCC. To this end, The Sixth given credit for founding Act (1) develops co-curricular Guerrilla Theatre with the San This workshop will examine events and materials for Francisco Mime Troupe’s 1965 the life and legacy of MCC faculty and students, unapproved performance Tennessee Williams— especially those who might of Il Candelia in Lafayette paying attention to his teach or study plays or Park. Since then, the impulse difficult masterpieceA playwriting, and (2) provides to perform dramatic pieces Streetcar Named Desire, enrichment opportunities to in public places, with no which VaPA will produce encourage all MCC faculty, apology or warning, has during the Spring 2014 students, and staff to see and inspired artists nationwide. semester, as well as to some talk about plays produced The Sixth Act will enter this of Williams’ other, including at MCC and in the Rochester proud tradition during the lesser-known, works. The goal area. The Sixth Act seeks as Fall 2013 semester. is to cultivate new interest in its leaders faculty, staff, and this American legend. students drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and departments. The Sixth Act is supported by MCC’s Creative Arts Committee and Liberal Arts Program. Please contact Maria Brandt at mbrandt@ monroecc.edu for more information or to get involved. More Theatre More
16 Visiting Playwright, Lisa D’Amour Seventh Annual Student Reading, Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m., Playwriting Competition Room 8-200, Free and Open to the Public Staged Reading and Awards Ceremony Workshop, Friday, March 7, 12–3 p.m. Thursday, May 8, 7 p.m., (with a short break at 12:50 p.m.), MCC Black Box Theatre Forum, in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Free and Open to the Public, Center. Free and Open to the MCC Reservations Required Community This competition encourages MCC A native of New Orleans, Lisa D’Amour is students to write plays for an audience, a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. to provide MCC students a competitive Her plays have been commissioned venue for their scripts, and to offer and produced by theatres across the winning playwrights the opportunity country, including The Women’s Project, to see their scripts performed and to Playwrights’ Horizons, Children’s Theatre receive constructive feedback for Company (Minneapolis), and others. Her future play development. Scripts will recent play Detroit, a dark comedy that be accepted for consideration beginning follows two suburban couples facing in September. economic uncertainty, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the This event is sponsored by Creative Arts. 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. For fifteen years, she has been one-half of the OBIE-Award winning performance duo PearlDamour known both for large- scale performances that mix theatre and installation such as How to Build a Forest (premiered at The Kitchen, 2011), a performance in which a simulated forest is assembled and disassembled on stage for over eight hours. PearlDamour is a four-time MAP Fund recipient and a 2009 Creative Capital grantee. This event is co-sponsored by Creative Arts and Liberal Arts. 17 Visiting Writer Visiting Writer Mary Ruefle Aimee Parkison Reading: Thursday, October Reading: Thursday, November 24, 7 p.m., MCC Forum, in 7, 7 p.m., MCC Forum, in the the R. Thomas Flynn Campus R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center. Free and Open Center. Free and Open to the to the Public Public Workshop: Friday, October Workshop: Friday, November 25, 12 p.m., Room 8-200, 8, 12 p.m., Room 8-200, Free and Open to the Free and Open to the MCC Community MCC Community Mary Ruefle has published Aimee Parkison is a fiction writer ten books of poetry, most and poet. A William Randolph recently Selected Poems Hearst Creative Artist Fellow (WAVE Books, 2012). Her at the American Antiquarian collection of poetic essays, Society, Parkison is currently Madness, Rack, and Honey researching a historical novel. was a finalist for the 2012 Associate Professor of English National Book Award. She at the University of North is a well-known erasure Carolina at Charlotte, Parkison artist, whose treatments of has received a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a nineteenth-century texts have Writers at Work Fellowship, been exhibited in museums and a Kurt Vonnegut Fiction and galleries, and published Prize. Parkison’s recent story in A Little White Shadow. collection, The Innocent Party, She is the recipient of was published in 2012. She has numerous honors, including an MFA in Creative Writing from a Guggenheim Fellowship, Cornell University. Parkison’s a National Endowment work has been nominated for a for Arts fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize and has appeared Whiting Award. She lives in in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bennington, Vermont, and Nimrod, The Literary Review, teaches in the MFA program and many more. at Vermont College. 18 Prose & Poetry
Visiting Writer, Mark Doty Reading: Thursday, March 27, 7 p.m., Warshof Conference Center in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center. Free and Open to the Public Workshop: Friday, March 28, 12 p.m., Room 8-200, Free and Open to the MCC Community Mark Doty’s Fire to fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose. Doty’s work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor/Writer in Residence at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “The pursuit This event is co-sponsored by –Voltaire Creative Arts, Liberal Arts, the Provost’s Office, and the Visiting 19 of what is true Scholars Series. and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.” Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Road Rochester, New York 14623 585.292.2000 www.monroecc.edu
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