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Names You Know

Academy Awards

	Zana Briski (1998 & 2004 NYFA Fellow, Photography)is the writer and director of Born into Brothels, which won the 2005 Oscar for Best Documentary. The film is about the children of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red light district. The idea for the film came about while Ms. Briski was photographing the children of Calcutta – for which she had used her NYFA Fellowship no-strings attached funds. Briski has since started a non-profit organization to continue this kind of work in other countries, Kids with Cameras.
	Maryann De Leo (1989 NYFA Fellow, Video) directed Chernobyl Heart, which won the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary Short.
	Elliot Goldenthal (1989 NYFA Fellow, Music Composition) is an American composer of contemporary music and has written works for major motion pictures, concert hall, theater, and dance. His work includes music for films such as The Good Thief, Batman Forever, Heat, and the 2002 Academy Award winning score for Julie Taymor’s Frida.
	Barbara Kopple (1985 NYFA Fellow, Film) is a film director who has won two Academy Awards, both for documentaries - first in 1976 for Harlan County, USA and the second in 1991 for American Dream the story of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota.

Grawemeyer Awards

	George Tsontakis (1988 NYFA Fellow, Music Composition) is an American composer whose music has been performed and broadcast by major orchestras, chamber ensembles, and festivals throughout North and South America, Europe and Japan. He was honored with the American Academy's prestigious award for lifetime achievement in 1995; and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for his Violin Concerto No. 2 in 2005.
	Aaron Jay Kernis (1988 NYFA Fellow, Music Composition) is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers. Widely known works include the New Era Dance, which won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Colored Field for English horn and orchestra, and Symphony in Waves. Mr. Kernis is an active composer in high demand by such groups as the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.

MacArthur Fellows

	Ida Applebroog (1986 NYFA Fellow, Graphics & 1990, Painting) is one of America’s leading painters. Some common themes of her work are gender and identity. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and in galleries and museums all over the world. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow.
	Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio (1985, 1987, 1998, NYFA Fellows, Architecture) are the principals of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, one of the world’s better known and imaginative architecture firms. Current, critically acclaimed projects include The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), Manhattan’s High Line and the Eyebeam Atelier of New Media & Technology. Noted completed projects include their Blur Building in Switzerland. They are the first architects to win a MacArthur Prize.
	David Hammons (1987 NYFA Fellow, Sculpture) was recently referred to by the New York Times as "one of the three or four most interesting and influential American artists of the last 30 years." Hammons’ work is derived from the African American, urban experience. His art works spring from artifacts of African-American life to confront cultural and racial issues and stereotypes.
	John Jesurun (1988 NYFA Fellow, Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work) is widely known as one of the innovators of avant-garde theater. His Chang In A Void Moon is the first serialized play ever produced in New York City.
	Ann Lauterbach (1988 NYFA Fellow, Poetry) is the author of five collections of poetry, including And For Example and Clamor. In 1993 she was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor at the City College and Graduate Center; she is also head of the writing faculty in the MFA program at Bard College.
	Susan Marshall (1985 & 2002 NYFA Fellow, Choreography)was a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and is the Artistic Director/Chroeographer of Susan Marshall & Company which since 1982 has performed more than thirty dance works she created with them including One and Only You, The Descent Beckons, The Most Dangerous Room in the House, Spectators at an Event, Fields of View, Contenders, Arms, Interior with Seven Figures, Kiss, Standing Duet, and Cloudless.
	Meredith Monk (1985, 1996 NYFA Fellow in Music Composition, Choreography) is American dancer, choreographer, composer, filmmaker, a 1995 MacArthur Fellow, and a major figure in the avant-garde. She has recorded several albums of her own songs, as well as music for films including The Big Lebowski. The 40-character multimedia theater piece Quarry (1976) is recognized as a masterpiece.
	Pepon Osorio (1988, 1995 NYFA Fellow, Sculpture) is one of America’s leading sculptors and a 1999 MacArthur Fellow. Best known for large-scale installations, Osorio was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1955. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and El Museo del Barrio in New York, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, among others.
	Eiko Otake and Koma (1987 & 1996 NYFA Fellows, Choreography), known as the duo Eiko and Koma, have collaborated for more than two decades, choreographing and performing their own work. Among their recent efforts is River, an "outdoor environmental exploration." Premiered in Lexington, NY, in 1995, the work brought modern dance to an open-air setting and integrated choreographed movement with motifs from nature. They were 1996 MacArthur Fellows.
	Suzan-Lori Parks (1990 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Top Dog Underdog - a play about family identity, fraternal interdependence, and the struggles of everyday African American life. Parks wrote her first screenplay for the 1996 Spike Lee movie Girl 6; and her most recent teleplay is Their Eyes Were Watching God, based upon the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. She is the author of the novel Getting Mother's Body. She was a 2001 MacArthur Fellow.
	Yvonne Rainer (1990, 1995 NYFA Fellow, Choreography) is a cutting-edge filmmaker best known for her film MURDER and murder. She is also a 1995 MacArthur Fellow.
	Elizabeth Streb (1986, 1990, 1994, & 2002 NYFA Fellow, Choreography) was a 1997 MacArthur winner. Her work has been seen on The David Letterman Show, in a special on CBS Sunday Morning, on CNN's Showbiz Today, Nickelodeon, NBC's Weekend Today, MTV, Larry King Live (debating with Dick Armey about the National Endowment for the Arts) and ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings.
	Julie Taymor (1985 NYFA Fellow, Performance Art) is a leading theater director, having brought The Lion King to Broadway, and an innovative filmmaker, with Frida (starring Selma Hayek) among her credits. Frida, about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, earned six Academy Award nominations, including winner for Best Score. In 1998, Ms. Taymor became the first woman to ever win a Tony Award for best director (The Lion King).

National Book Awards

Julia Glass (2000 NYFA Fellow, Fiction) was the recipient of the 2002 National Book Award in fiction for The Three Junes. She has also won several prizes for her short stories, including three Nelson Algren Awards and the Tobias Wolff Award. "Collies," the first part of Three Junes, won the 1999 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for Best Novella.

Norman Rush (Fiction Fellow 1985) won both the National Book Award and the Irish Times-Aer Lingues International Fiction Prize in 1991 for his first novel, Mating. He has also been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his first collection of short stories entitled Whites. His 1985 NYFA fellowship allowed him to bring Whites to its halfway point.

Pulitzer Prizes

	Oscar Hijuelos (1986 NYFA Fellow, Fiction) is the author of several novels including, A Simple Habana Melody, the Pulitzer Prize winner The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Empress of the Splendid Season, and Mr. Ives' Christmas. His five previous novels have been translated into twenty-five languages.
	Aaron Jay Kernis (1988 NYFA Fellow, Music Composition) is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers. Widely known works include the New Era Dance, which won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Colored Field for English horn and orchestra, and Symphony in Waves. Mr. Kernis is an active composer in high demand by such groups as the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony.
	Tony Kushner (1987 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) is one of America’s leading playwrights, having won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, which was later made into an HBO film, as well as an opera. Mr. Kushner also won a 1994 Tony Award for Angels in America: Perestroika. More recently, he co-wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich.
	Donald Margulies (1988 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) is an award-winning playwright who won a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner With Friends – the story of a seemingly happy couple who re-examine their own relationship when their best friends decide to divorce. Other plays include Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories.
	Lynn Nottage (1994 and 2000 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting/Screenwriting) is a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for her play Ruined . Nottage's other plays include Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Las Meninas; Mud, River, Stone; Por’knockers and Poof! She is also a MacArthur Genius Grant winner (2007), an OBIE Award winner, and has recieved the NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Best play and John Gassner Outer Critics Circle awards, American Theatre Critics/Steinberg 2004 New Play Award, 2004 Francesca Primus Award, and 2 AUDELCO awards.
	Suzan-Lori Parks (1990 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Top Dog Underdog - a play about family identity, fraternal interdependence, and the struggles of everyday African American life. Parks wrote her first screenplay for the 1996 Spike Lee movie Girl 6; and her most recent teleplay is Their Eyes Were Watching God, based upon the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. She is the author of the novel Getting Mother's Body. She was a 2001 MacArthur Fellow.

Tony® Awards

	David Henry Hwang (1985 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) is one of America’s leading playwrights, having won the 1988 Tony Award for M. Butterfly. Other plays include Golden Child (which received a Tony® nomination), Trying To Find Chinatown and Bondage.
	Tony Kushner (1987 NYFA Fellow, Playwriting) is one of America’s leading playwrights, having won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, which was later made into an HBO film (2004 Emmy winner), as well as an opera. Mr. Kushner also won a 1994 Tony Award for Angels in America: Perestroika. More recently, Mr. Kushner co-wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated 2005 Steven Spielberg film Munich.
	Julie Taymor (1985 NYFA Fellow, Performance Art) is a leading theater director, having brought The Lion King to Broadway (which she directed for some time) and an innovative filmmaker, with Frida (starring Selma Hayek) among her credits. Frida, about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, earned six Academy Award nominations, including winner for Best Score. In 1998, Ms. Taymor became the first woman to ever win a Tony Award® for best director (The Lion King).

More Names You Know

Doug Aitken (2000 Fellow, Video) is the creator of various visual arts works, including video installations and music videos. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennale, Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), among others. His video installation sleepwalkers at MoMA in winter 2007 turned the facade of the building into an outdoor movie screen.

Ross Bleckner (1985 Fellow, Painting) is a noted New York painter and the youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. His work has been featured in several Absolut Vodka ads, an honor shared by Andy Warhol.

James Casebere (1985 and 1994 Photography Fellow, 1989 Sculpture Fellow) primarily works with constructed photography, creating and photographing architectural models. His works relate to such topics as the suburban home, the myth of the American West, and the development of cultural institutions during the Enlightenment. His work has been collected by museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

	Billy Collins (1986 Fellow, Poetry) was America's poet laureate from 2001-2003. He has written six books of poetry, and has recorded a CD of his works, called The Best Cigarette. Collins has also had poems included in The Best American Poetry 2002 and The Best American Poetry 2003. In 1992, he was chosen by the NY Public Library to serve as Literary Lion.

Abigail Child (1985, 1993, 1999, 2005 Film Fellow, 1991 Fiscally Sponsored Artist for Film, 1994, 1995 Fiscally Sponsored Artist for Video) Child is the recipient of many fellowships and grants such as the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship (Russia), a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Ford Media Grant, an National Endowment for the Arts Media and Interarts Grants. Her works, which involve montage and sound/ image relations, has been shown all over the world.

Thulani Davis (1992 Fiction Fellow, The Gregory Millard Fellowship Award) works across many disciplines, including (but not limited to) poetry, journalism, fiction, composing, and film. Her works include play Everybody’s Ruby, novels 1959 and Maker of Saints, poetry collection Playing the Saints, and contemporary opera X: The Life and Times of Malcom X. Among her numerous honors, she was inducted into the Black Writers Hall of Fame in 1998, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Work on X: The Life and Times (1993), won a Grammy the same year for Best Album notes on Aretha Franklin’s “Atlantic Recordings” (the first woman to win in the category), and received a Manhattan Borough President's Award for Excellence in the Arts & Literature (1987).

Tara Donovan (2003 Sculpture Fellow) has had solo museum shows at the likes of Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2004), and participated in the 2000 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has also shown her work internationally in group shows. She was a 2008 MacArthur Fellow.

Carroll Dunham (1987 Fellow, Painting) is a highly influential American painter whose work bucks the trend of more traditional styles and incorporates an idiosyncratic combination of cartooning and biomorphism. The New Museum of Contemporary Art presented a major survey of his work in 2003. Mr. Dunham’s work is also a part of MoMA’s permanent collection.

Jennifer Egan (1990 Fiction Fellow) is a writer who has earned national recognition for her novels The Invisible Circus (which became a feature film starting Cameron Diaz in 2001), Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, and national bestseller The Keep. She has been awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewise B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her most recent novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad (June 2010), received positive reviews from The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Boston Globe, among many others.

Karen Finley (1990, 1995, and 2001 Performance Art/ Multidisciplinary Work Fellow, 1986 Conceptual/ Performance Art Fellow) is a noted performance artist. Her shows frequently touch on feminist issues, sexuality, and censorship, and she is well known for her provocative performances. Her honors include and Obie Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on ,The American Chestnut.

J.E. Franklin (1990, 1995, and 2001 Performance Art/ Multidisciplinary Work Fellow, 1986 Conceptual/ Performance Art Fellow) (1990 Playwriting/ Screenwriting Fellow) has received the Media Women Award (1971), the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship (1979); and the Rockefeller Grant (1980), to name just a few of her honors. Franklin is the founder of Blackgirl Ensemble Theatre in New York City. She is most famed for her play Black Girl (1971) and her depictions of African American life.

Erik Friedlander (1991 Music Composition Fellow) is a cellist who has worked with the likes of Laurie Anderson, Courtney Love’s Hole, and Dar Williams, and he has a versatile style that pushes cello to new levels. Like many other gleaming reviews, Billboard wrote of Friedlander “[He is] one of today's most ingenious and forward-thinking musical practitioners.”

Todd Haynes (1989 Film Fellow, 1990 Fiscally Sponsored artist) is one of the best known directors of "independent film," who first gained recognition for 1991 Sundance winner Poison. Since then, he has written and directed several critically-acclaimed films including Far From Heaven and Velvet Goldmine. He is also the writer and director of I'm Not There, a soon to be released film about Bob Dylan, in which several leading actors will portray him in various stages of his career.

Antony Hegarty (1997 NYFA Fellow, Performance Art) is the lead singer of the critically acclaimed band Antony & The Johnsons, whose hit album I Am A Bird Now has been called a classic by vaunted music publications in the U.S. and England. It won the UK's presitgious 2005 Mercury Prize for best album. Of Antony, the New York Daily News said: "Womanly in pitch and creamy in texture, Antony's vocals have the falsetto flutter of Bryan Ferry, the operatic flow of Klaus Nomi and the deep lung power of Nina Simone."

	A.M. Homes (1988 NYFA Fellow, Fiction) is a widely-read, critically acclaimed author of such short story compilations as Things You Should Know (a New York Times notable), The Safety of Objects, the novels The End of Alice and In a Country of Mothers, and the recently released This Book Will Save Your Life (2006). Her stories appear frequently in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among others.

Reginald Hudlin (1989 Fellow, Film) is a noted film director, with several popular films under his belt including: Boomerang, House Party, The Ladies Man, and Serving Sara, among others. He was also a director of the hit television program, “The Bernie Mac Show.” Mr. Hudlin, also an actor and producer, is currently the President of the Black Entertainment Television network.

Tamara Jenkins (1995 Fellow, Film) is the writer and director of the 1998 film Slums of Bevery Hills, starring Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei and Natasha Lyonne.

	Nathaniel Kahn (2000 NYFA Fiscally Sponsored Artist) is the director of the noted documentary film My Architect, which explores the life, work and legacy of the renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. My Architect earned Nathaniel Kahn a Directors Guild Award in 2004 and was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award.

Barbara Kruger (1985 Fellow, Inter-Arts) is a photographer and socially conscious artist. She was an influential art director at Mademoiselle magazine. Recurring themes in her work are feminism and consumer culture. A UCLA professor, Ms. Kruger was honored at the 2005 Biennale with the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award.

Spike Lee (1985 NYFA Fellow, Film) is one of America’s best known and critically-acclaimed filmmakers. His oeuvre includes Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, and 25th Hour. Said Lee: "While their file says that I used the no-strings attached money from NYFA to finish editing She's Gotta Have It, it makes no mention of the recognition I felt at that crucial point in my career -- recognition that I was a filmmaker, that I had something important to say. I can't begin to describe how much that meant to me as a young artist."

Sherrie Levine (1987 Fellow, Painting) is a photographer and conceptual artist. Much of her work is in the form of very direct image appropriation. She first gained critical attention for her work in the 1980s, where she was considered part of an emerging group of political, conceptual artists which also included Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger.

Phillip Lopate (1991 Nonficiton Fellow) is an essayist, fiction writer and poet. His body of work includes the essay collections Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; the novel Confessions of Summer and two poetry collections. Mr. Lopates’s writing appears in The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, and Film Comment, among other publications. A collection of his movie criticism Totally Tenderly Tragically, was published in 1998.

Audre Lorde (1985 Poetry Fellow) was a noted poet, writer and activist. Some of her better known poetry collections include The First Cities, Coal, and The Black Unicorn. Another published work, The Cancer Journals, documented her struggles with breast cancer.

Taylor Mac (2009 Interdisciplinary Fellow) is a playwright, actor, and singer-songwriter. His plays include “The Lily’s Revenge” (Obie Award), “The Young Ladies Of” (Jeff Award and GLAAD Media Award Nominations), “The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac” (Herald Angel Award) and “Red Tide Blooming” (Ethyl Eichelberger Award). TimeOut New York has called him, “One of the most exciting theater artists of our time.” Taylor has performed his worked in The Sydney Opera House, The San Francisco MOMA and Opera House, New York’s Public Theater, Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, The Spoleto Festival, The Bumbershoot Festival, The Time Based Arts Festival, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, London’s Soho Theater, and hundreds of others.

David Markson (2000 Fiction Fellow) was an experimental writer who often used the form of the novel as its subject. Among his works are Springer’s Progress (1977), Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) and This Is Not a Novel (2001). His early novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee (1965) was made into a movie entitled Dirty Dingus Magee starring Frank Sinatra.

Terry McMillan (1986 NYFA Fellow, Fiction), gained national attention in 1992 with her third novel Waiting To Exhale, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months, and was made into a movie in 1995. Another of Ms. McMillan’s popular novels How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was made into a movie in 1998. Her most recent work is The Interruption of Everything, which was published in 2005.

Marilyn Minter's (1988 & 1992 Painting Fellow) photo-realist paintings focus on the concept of “glamour” and how it is represented. A former student of Diane Arbus, Ms. Minter was a featured artist at the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

	Mira Nair (1988 NYFA Fellow, Film) is a leading film director whose works include: Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair, Salaam Bombay!, and Mississippi Masala.

Pauline Oliveros (1989 Music Composition Fellow) is a composer and performer who introduced the concept of incorporating all environmental sounds into musical performance. She served as the first Director of the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros has received a performance award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance (1994), a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition (1973), an ASCAP Standard Award (1982-1999), and several National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowships (1990, 1988, and 1984), among others.

	Kimberly Peirce (1998 NYFA Fiscally Sponsored Artist) is the co-writer and critically-acclaimed director of Boys Don’t Cry, for which Hilary Swank won the 1999 Oscar for Best Actress. Ms. Peirce utilized NYFA's Fiscal Sponsorship to create a trailer for her film.

	Jose Rivera (1988 NYFA Fellow, Screenwriting) wrote the screenplay for the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries -- the story of a young, coming of age Che Guavara. Rivera was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Dwight Rhoden (1998 Choreography Fellow) is the Founding Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer at Complexions Contemporary Ballet, America’s first fully multi-cultural ballet company. He has directed and choreo¬graphed for film, theater and live perform¬ances including E! Entertainment’s “Trib¬ute to Style” and Cirque Du Soleil. He received The Ailey School’s Apex Award (2006) in recognition of his ex¬tensive contributions to the field of dance and has also worked with such artists as Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Kelly Clarkson and Patrick Swayze.

Maggie and Suzzy Roche (2002 Music Composition Artist Fellows, 2002 Fiscally Sponsored Artist, Multi-Disciplinary) together with their sister Terre form the trio “The Roches,” and their debut album was named album of the year by The New York Times. The New York Music Awards called them the “Best Vocal Group,” and they have performed and recorded with Philip Glass, Paul Simon and The Indigo Girls. Maggie & Suzzy released “Zero Church” in 2001, an unusual collection of prayers set to music.

	Andres Serrano (1987 Photography Fellow) is a noted American photographer whose large portraits include celebrities and controversial figures such as Klansmen.

Christine Schutt's (2008 Fiction Fellow) short-story collection, Nightwork, was chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her first Novel, Florida, was a National Book Award Finalist for fiction in 2004. Schutt received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.

Mona Simpson (1986 Fiction Fellow) is author of novels Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, and A Regular Guy. Her first novel Anywhere But Here was turned into a movie (1999) starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and has won several prestigious awards, including the Whiting Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim grant, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.

Michael Sorkin (1985, 1992 Architecture/ Environmental Studies) is the President of Terreform, a non-profit engaged in urban research and advocacy, and President of The Institute for Urban Design. Currently, he works as Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York. He has served as Professor and Director of the Institute for Urbanism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1993- 2000). On his latest NYFA grant he remarked, “The grant was invaluable in my pursuit of several speculative urban and architectural projects.”

	Betty Woodman's (1985 NYFA Fellow, Crafts) art lies at the intersection of ceramics, painting and sculpture. Said The New York Times' Grace Glueck of Ms. Woodman's 2006 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, The Art of Betty Woodman: "Fixating on the vase, a time-honored vessel that goes back maybe to the dawn of history, Betty Woodman has brought it to spectacular new life in contemporary art. Her work both challenges and invokes the traditional elements of vase and vesselhood so imaginatively that it lives in a class by itself."

	John Yau (1988, 2003 Poetry Fellow, 1998 Fiction Fellow) is a poet, essayist, writer, and art critic. Among his works are Edificio Sayonara(1992), In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993), and Berlin Diptychon (1995), Forbidden Entries (1996), The United States of Jasper Johns (1996), and Borrowed Love Poems (2002). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.