2019 Faculty & Fellows

 

 

	Rosa Alcalá (Fellow) is a poet and translator living in El Paso, TX. She is the author of three books of poetry: Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010), The Lust of Unsentimental Waters (Shearsman Books, 2011), and MyOTHER TONGUE (Futurepoem, 2017). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, edited by Claudia Rankine and Michael Dowdy (Wesleyan UP, 2018), The Nation, and Chicago Review. Her work as a translator has focused on contemporary Latin American women poets living in the U.S. Recent publications include two edited volumes, Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012) and Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems (Kelsey Street Press, 2018). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, and Spit Temple was runner-up for a PEN Translation Award. She teaches in the Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
	Stephanie Barber (Faculty) is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential qualities of language and her language is concerned with the emotional impact of moments and ideas. Each ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected oars of empathy, play, story and humor. Barber’s films and videos have screened nationally and internationally in solo and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums and festivals. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank and her films can be found at Canyon Cinema and Fandor.com. Her books Night Moves and these here separated… were published by Publishing Genius Press in 2013 and 2010 respectively. Her collection of very short stories All The People was published by Ink Press Productions in 2015. Barber is currently a resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD
	Lucas Blalock (Faculty) is a photographer and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited his pictures at the Dallas Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Hauser and Wirth, and Marian Goodman Gallery amongst others; and has recently had solo exhibitions at White Cube (London), Ramiken Crucible (New York), and White Flag Projects (St. Louis). Blalock’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, Frieze, Mousse, and Foam. Blalock has also published a number of artist books; most recently, Inside the White Cub (Peradam / Ramiken, 2014) and SPBH Subscription Series VII (SPBH, 2014).
	Danielle Dutton (Faculty) is the author of the books Margaret the First, SPRAWL, and Attempts at a Life,and she wrote the texts for Richard Kraft's Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, BOMB, Fence,The Paris Review, The White Review, etc. She is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project. The press is named for Dutton’s great aunt, a librarian who drove a bookmobile through the backroads of Southern California, delivering books to rural desert communities. Born and raised in California, Dutton now lives in Missouri with her husband and son. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
	Tonya M. Foster (Faculty) was raised in New Orleans, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court, which critic Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review, poet Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities, discords, emotions, and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art, Foster’s work has been published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016), boundary2, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015, Callaloo, MiPoesias, Western Humanities Review, the Hat, and elsewhere. Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Graduate Center, CUNY, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Macdowell Colony, the Pan African literary Festival, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature, and of Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.
	Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Fellow) is a visual artist who writes. She has published the books: Mudanza (Almadía, 2017) and Empty Set (Coffee House Press, 2018, translated by Christina MacSweeney), which won in Spanish the 3rd International Aura Estrada Literature prize and the Otra Mirada Cálamo prize. Her last projects in other media are: The Dystopian Machine in Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, 2018; Migrant Words in Art Association, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 2017; Another Day…Synoptic Poems in the collective exhibition Talon Rouge at Proxyco Gallery, New York, 2017. She was editor at the Mexican publishing cooperative Tumbona Ediciones for ten years, and tutor of the Photography Production Seminar (2016-2018) at Centro de la Imagen.
	Whitney Hubbs (Faculty): Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA > feminism and punk rock life mostly taking place in Portland, OR > BFA from CCA > work in San Francisco > MFA from UCLA > work in L.A. > solo shows at M+B in LA > group shows in NYC > book with Hesse Press > group show at the Getty Museum > Assistant Professor at Alfred University in western NY > turned 40 > upcoming book with Self Publish Be Happy and a show at Situations Gallery in NYC > learning to play the guitar.
	Justine Kurland (Faculty), known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and their fringe communities, has spent the better part of the last twenty years on the road. Since 2004, Kurland traveled with her son, Casper—her life as an artist finely balanced with the demands of a parent. Casper appears at different ages in the photographs, against open vistas and among the subcultures of train-hoppers and drifters. Recent work returns home after so long on the road to her apartment in New York City, her hometown of Fulton, New York, and her mother’s home in rural Virginia. Justine Kurland (born in Warsaw, New York, 1969) received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from Yale University. Her work has been exhibited extensively at museums in the United States and internationally. Recent museum exhibitions include The Open Road at the Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan; More American Photographs, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and Off the Grid, Fotodok, in the Netherlands. She was the focus of a solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes and Nash this past spring and a two-person exhibition at Higher Pictures this summer. Her work is in the public collections of institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and International Center of Photography, among others.
	Manolo Márquez (Fellow) is an artist and educator based in Mexico City. His artistic practice explores photography’s dialectic nature as image and object. He holds an MFA in Imaging Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. His recent projects have taken the form of bookworks, analog color print portfolios, image-text work, and bilingual writings. His book Eres un Fantasma (2016) is an exploration on how objects become symbolically charged traces of human gestures when in the public space. His work has been exhibited in galleries and fairs such as Almanaque Fotográfica, Galería Progreso, Material Art Fair, and Zona Maco Foto. After two years spent as a Fulbright scholar in Rochester, NY, he moved to Mexico City in 2012. He has since organized independent exhibitions and workshops that have brought artists from both countries together. His downtown Mexico City studio is one of the few running analog color darkrooms in Mexico, in which he has produced analog C-prints for Museo Nacional de Arte, Centro de la Imagen, and has collaborated with visual artists and collectives. As an educator, he has taught photography and image theory in the Digital Media Design BFA program at CENTRO (2013 -2017) and he currently teaches bilingual arts and photography at the American School Foundation in Mexico City.
	Drew Sawyer (Faculty) is the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, and has previously held curatorial positions at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Chazen Museum of Art. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, and is a specialist in the history of experimental and radical documentary practices. His recent exhibitions include Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (2018), Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories(2017); Lucy Raven: Low Relief (2016), and Family Pictures (2018), which explored the legacy of Roy DeCarava's landmark 1955 book The Sweet Flypaper of Life. For 2019, Sawyer is currently organizing Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989, a touring exhibition that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots; Garry Winogrand: Color, the first exhibition dedicated to the photographer's color work; and the first museum solo show on the Russian-Ghanaian photographer Liz Johnson Artur.
	Paul Soulellis (Faculty) is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists' books, zines and other printout matter, now housed at MoMA Library. In 2018 he began QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK, a collaborative zine project that aims to circulate non-normative work by artists and writers from historically marginalized positions. He is faculty at RISD and a contributing editor at Rhizome.