This year’s 124 NYFA Fellows – who were chosen among over 3,000 applicants – include book makers, craft artists, computer artists, filmmakers, nonfiction writers, cross-disciplinary artists, poets, printmakers and sculptors. Fellows were selected by peer panels in each artistic discipline.

NYFA’s 2007 Artists’ Fellowships have been made possible by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Major funding has also been provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Alex G. Nason Foundation, Norton Family Foundation, an anonymous donor, and individual donors.

COMPUTER ARTS
Claire Corey (Kings)
Alison Cornyn (Kings)
Melanie Crean (Kings)
Tal Halpern (New York)
Shih Chieh Huang (New York)
Ernesto Klar (Kings)
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (Queens)
Mark Napier (Gregory Millard Fellow) (New York)
Zach Poff (Kings)
Brooke Singer (Queens)
Seth Weiner (Kings)

Panelists
Tana Hargest
Victor Liu
Annette Weintraub
Kaho Albert Yu
Edward Zajec

CRAFTS
Scott Andresen (Kings) (Lily Auchincloss Fellow)
Talya Baharal (Rifton)
Mary Carlson (Delaware)
Julie Crosby (Schyuler)
Cui Fei (Queens)
Don Green (Delaware)
Kent Henricksen (New York)
Julie Johnson (Seneca)
Christopher Kurtz (Ulster) (Lily Auchincloss Fellow)
Dennis Nahabetian (Erie)
Marian Schoettle (Ulster)
Christina West (Cattaraugus)

Panelists
Ayumi Horie
Jane Bruce
Lane Twitchell
Ruth Miller
Michael Puryear

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY/PERFORMATIVE WORK
Danielle Abrams (Kings)
Nao Bustamante (Rensselaer)
Klara Hobza (Kings)
Wayne Hodge (New York)
Yoko Inoue (Kings)
David Levine (New York)
Julie Perini (Erie)
Zach Rockhill (Kings)
Peter Simensky (Kings)
Allison Smith (New York)
Michael Smith/Joshua White (Kings)
Hanne Tierney (New York)
Traci Tullius (Kings)
Saya Woolfalk (New York)

Panelists
Charles Citron
Bertie Ferdman
Jillian McDonald
Clifford Owens

FILM
Ralph Arlyck (Dutchess)
Martha Colburn (Queens)
Bradley Eros (Kings)
Alejandro Fernandez (Kings)
Thomas Allen Harris (Orange)
Peter Hutton (Tivoli)
Margaret Jamieson (Tompkins
Maryam Keshavarz (Kings)
Moon Molson (New York)
Lanre Olabisi (New York)

Panelists
Omonike Akinyemi
Abigail Child
Joshua Marston
Bienvenida Matias
Matthew Seig

NONFICTION LITERATURE
Melvin Bauman (Livingston)
Michael Blaine (Delaware)
Clifford Chase (Kings)
Christen Clifford (Queens) (Gregory Millard Fellow)
Vivian Conan (New York)
Patti Horvath (New York)
Debby Mayer (Columbia
J.B. Miller (New York)
Richard Panek (New York)
Darby Penney (Albany)
Ruthann Robson (Suffolk)
Mark Svenvold (New York)
Josh Swiller (Kings)
Erin Torneo (Kings)

Panelists
Susan Allport
Jo Ann Beard
Jill Dearman
Laura MacDonald
Ira Sukrungruang

POETRY
Betsy Andrews (Kings)
Anselm Berrigan (New York)
Jen Bervin (Kings)
DeWayne Dickerson(Queens)
Brandon Downing (New York)
Sarah Gambito (New York)
Linda Jackson (Kings)
Cate Marvin (Richmond) (Gregory Millard Fellow)
Ted Mathys (Kings)
Rachel McKibbens (Kings)
Sharon Mesmer (Kings)
Kathleen Ossip (Westchester)
Julie Patton (New York)
Kristin Prevallet (Kings)
Aaron Smith (New York)
Leah Souffrant (Kings)
Marjorie Welish (New York)
Karen Weyant (Chautauqua)

Panelists
Monica De La Torre
Gerald McCarthy
Christopher Stackhouse
Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Rebecca Wolf

PRINTMAKING/DRAWING/ARTISTS' BOOKS
Samira Abbassy (New York)
Neil Berger (Tompkins)
A.C. Berkheiser (Kings)
Susan Berkowitz (Kings)
Gulsen Calik (New York)
Patricia Cronin (Kings) (Deutsche Bank Fellow)
Andrea Dezsö (Queens)
Lisbeth Firmin (Franklin) (Lily Auchincloss Fellow)
Rieko Fujinami (Dutchess) (Alex G. Nason Fellow)
Scott Hunt (New York)
John Jacobsmeyer (Kings)
Mark Mann (Kings)
James Mazorra (Kings)
Frederick Mershimer (Kings)
Javier Pinon (Kings)
Raphael Sassi (Kings)
Jennifer Schmidt (Kings)
Carleen Sheehan (Kings)
Jill Shoffiett (Kings)
Mary Ting (New York)
Kako Ueda (New York)
Tommy White (New York)
Eleanor White (Dutchess)

Panelists
Paolo Arao
Melissa Potter
Mick Mather
Alexandra Rutsch
Jason Watson

SCULPTURE
Tricia Cline (Ulster)
Margaret Cogswell (Queens)
E.V. Day (New York)
Peter Dudek (Kings)
Alessandra Exposito (Queens)
Heide Fasnacht (New York)
Ming Fay (New York)
Jose Gabriel Fernandez (Kings)
Joseph Giannasio (New York)
Elana Herzog (New York)
Jerome Johnson (Kings)
Wade Kavanaugh/Stephen Nguyen (Kings)
Jihyun Park (New York)
Elise Siegel (New York)
Shinique Smith (Kings) (Gregory Millard Fellow)
Jane South (Kings) (Norton Family Fellow)
Steed Taylor (New York) (Lily Auchincloss Fellow)
Roberto Visani (Kings)
Nari Ward (New York)
Claire Watson (Suffolk)

Panelists
Manuel Acevedo
Adrienne Klein
Carla Rae Johnson
Devorah Sperber