This year’s 134 NYFA Fellows – who were chosen from among over 3,600 applicants in eight categories – including Crafts, Digital/Electronic Arts, Film, Interdisciplinary Work, Nonfiction Literature, Poetry, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, and Sculpture. The Fellows were selected by peer panels, which were assembled with representatives from each artistic discipline.

NYFA’s 2009 Artists’ Fellowships are administered by NYFA with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, BUITONI, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and The Alex G. Nason Foundation.


CRAFTS
Emily Barletta (Kings)
Kathy Butterly (New York)
Ginger Ertz (Schenectady)
Heather Hart (Kings)
Marietta Hoferer (New York)
Bryan Hopkins (Erie)
Sergey Jivetin (Kings)
Jonathan Kline (Schuyler)
Larry Krone (New York)
Charles McGill (Westchester)
Jeffrey Mongrain (New York) – Gregory Millard Fellow
Steven Montgomery (New York)
Michael Rogers (Monroe)
Susanna Starr (New York)

Panelists
Mary Carlson (Kings)
Cui Fei (Queens)
Christopher Kurtz (Ulster)
Dennis Nahabetian (Erie)
Bobby Silverman (Kings)

DIGITAL/ELECTRONIC ARTS
Perry Bard (New York)
Eric Corriel (New York)
John Farrington (Kings)
Moo Kwon Han (New York)
Carter Hodgkin (New York)
Chico MacMurtrie (Kings)
Yucef Merhi (New York)
Jon Meyer (Kings)
Christine Nadir & Cary Peppermint (Madison)
Fernando Orellana (Rensselaer)
Andrea Polli (Queens)
Hans Tammen (Kings)

Panelists
Josephine Anstey (Erie)
Heidi J. Boisvert (Queens)
Millree Hughes (New York)
Rob O’Neill (Kings)
Seth Weiner (Kings)

FILM
Omonike Akinyemi (Albany)
Zbigniew Bzymek (Kings) – Gregory Millard Fellow
Cathy Lee Crane (Tompkins)
Morgan Dews (New York)
Brian Doyle (Kings)
Ariana Gerstein (Tioga)
Edward Kihn (Kings)
Alexander Ku (New York)
Danica Mills (New York)
Joan Nidzyn (Suffolk)
Carla Ruff (Kings)

Panelists
Jane Aaron (New York)
Ralph Arlyk (Dutchess)
Lou Charles (Kings)
Ken Kobland (New York)
Djuna Wahlrab (Kings)

INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK
Ei Arakawa (Kings)
Ina Archer (Kings)
Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua (Kings)
Robert Boyd (Kings)
Jackie Brookner (New York)
Peter Garfield (Kings)
Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus - LoVid (New York)*
Ralph Lemon (New York)
Taylor Mac (New York)
Lenore Malen (New York)
Mei-Yin Ng (Kings)
Pat Oleszko (New York)
Zoe Sheehan Saldana (Kings)
Mark Tribe (New York)
Monika Weiss (New York)
*LoVid was also nominated in Digital/Electronic Arts but chose to accept in Interdisciplinary Work.

Panelists
Bibi Calderaro (Kings)
Ron Ehmke (Erie)
Wayne Hodge (New York)
Shana Moulton (Kings)
Bart Woodstrup (Albany)

NONFICTION LITERATURE
Jo Ann Beard (Dutchess)
Allison Cobb (Kings)
Sarah Dohrmann (Kings)
Ellen Graf (Rensselaer)
Sabine Heinlein (Queens)
Hettie Jones (New York)
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro (New York)
Andrew Postman (Kings)
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (New York)
Phillip Robertson (Kings)
Gabrielle Selz (Suffolk)
Ginger Strand (New York)
Rene Vasicek (Queens)
Eben Wood (Kings)

Panelists
Da Chen (Ulster)
Sarah Manguso (Kings)
Micki McGee (Bronx)
Peter Trachtenberg (Dutchess)
Eisa Ulen (Kings)

POETRY
E.J. Antonio (Westchester)
Edmund Berrigan (Kings)
Tina Chang (New York)
Monica de la Torre (Kings)
LaTasha Diggs (New York)
Marcella Durand (New York)
Alan Gilbert (Kings) – Gregory Millard Fellow
Jennifer Hayashida (Kings)
Lisa Jarnot (Queens)
Mara Jebsen (Kings)
Suji Kim (Ulster)
Anna Moschovakis (Delaware)
Willie Perdomo (Kings)
Julie Sheehan (Suffolk)
Patricia Smith (Westchester)
Sue Song (Queens)
Paige Taggart (Kings)
Anne Tardos (New York)

Panelists
Brenda Coultas (New York)
Geoffrey Jacques (Kings)
Pierre Joris (Capital)
Akilah Oliver (Kings)
Ravi Shankar (CT)

PRINTMAKING/DRAWING/BOOK ARTS
Golnar Adili (Kings)
Jill Baroff (Kings) - Lily Auchincloss Fellow
Marina Berio (New York)
Ken Buhler (Delaware)
Tom Burckhardt (New York)
Josh Dorman (Kings)
Rosemarie Fiore (Bronx) – BUITONI Fellow
Chitra Ganesh (Kings)
Theresa Hackett (Kings)
Lisa Iglesias (Queens)
Heidi Johnson (New York)
Fay Ku (Kings) – Deutsche Bank Fellow
Catarina Leitao (New York)
Frank Magnotta (Kings)
Erika Mahr (Queens)
Kymia Nawabi (Queens) – Gregory Millard Fellow
Lothar Osterburg (Kings)
Dane Patterson (Kings)
Alyssa Pheobus (Kings)
Michael Rouillard (New York)
David Sandlin (New York)
Charlotte Schulz (Putnam)
Drew Shiflett (New York)
Jonathan Wahl (Kings)
Michael Waugh (Kings) – Robert Sterling Clark Visual Arts Space Award
Jennifer Wroblewski (Westchester)

Panelists
Samira Abbassay (Manhattan)
Andrea Dezso (Queens)
John Jacobsmeyer (Kings)
Leah Raintree (Manhattan)
Mina Takahashi (Chenango)

SCULPTURE
Diana Al-Hadid (Kings)
Thomas Beale (New York)
Jappie King Black (Monroe)
Suzanne Broughel (New York)
Michael Ferris (Bronx)
Judy Fox (New York)
Adam Frelin (Rensselaer)
Virginia Griswold (Kings)
Hiroyuki Hamada (Suffolk)
Kimberley Hart (Kings)
Kirsten Hassenfeld (Kings)
Claire Hedden (Allegany)
Valerie Hegarty (Kings)
Tamara Kostianovsky (Kings)*
Simone Leigh (Kings)
Dennis McNett (Queens)
Jaye Moon (Kings)
Rune Olsen (Kings)
Aurora Robson (Kings)
Mark Schubert (Kings)
Phoebe Washburn (New York) - Alex Nason Fellow
*Tamara Kostianovsky was also nominated in Crafts but chose to accept in Sculpture.

Panelists
Bill Hastings (Tompkins)
Shinique Smith (Kings)
Lisa Solomon (Columbia)
Jane South (New York)
Juana Valdes (New York)