Sundance Recognizes HIFF Screenwriters Lab Alumnae

Share this:     HIFF Screenwriters Lab Alumnae Win Big at Sundance! Three projects that came through the Screenwriters Lab in recent years—all from female writer/directors—took home coveted awards at Saturday night’s awards ceremony. In addition, another of our past Lab participants was recognized for her sophomore feature.  As evidenced by the Melissa Mathison Fund, established in 2016,  HIFF is committed to amplifying the voices of women in film. Learn more! Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic Christina Choe: NANCY (2014 HIFF Screenwriters Lab) Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic Ísold Uggadóttir: AND BREATHE NORMALLY (2015 HIFF Screenwriters Lab) World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting Cathy Yan: DEAD PIGS (2016 HIFF Screenwriters Lab) Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic Sara Colangelo: THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER (Sara participated in the 2013 HIFF Screenwriters Lab) #HIFF2018 | Save the Dates: October 4-8, 2018 #fineartmagazine

Want a fun place to visit ? Catch Art Palm Springs February 15t-19th

Robert Minervini, represented by Edward Cella Art & Archtecture Seventh Edition of Art Palm Springs Returns During Height of the Season Art Palm Springs is the premier art fair in the Southwest presenting post-war and contemporary art. The seventh annual edition will bring nearly 80 galleries from Asia, North and South America, and Europe, that represent more than 300 artists, and brings a world of art to the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Fair is strategically scheduled over the extended President’s Day Weekend coinciding with Palm Springs Modernism Week at the height of the Coachella Valley’s season. Due to popular demand by our ever-expanding audience and galleries, we are excited to announce the addition of President's Day - Monday, February 19 - to the show’s schedule. Both returning and new galleries will exhibit at Art Palm Springs, including but not limited to Adamar Fine Arts, Addison Rowe Fine Art, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Chiaroscuro/Gebert Contemporary, Chimento Contemporary, David Klein Gallery, Edward Cella Art & Arcitecture, , Heller Gallery, Hohmann, J. Willott Gallery, Jane Kahan Gallery, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, LewAllen Galleries, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Michael Solway LLC, Nancy Hoffmann Gallery, Peter Blake Gallery, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Vincent Vallarino Fine Art, William Turner Gallery. The participating galleries will present paintings, photography and sculpture from the post-war and contemporary era. View complete Gallery List here. Buy Tickets Dates and Hours Opening Night Preview  Thursday, February 15 from 5-9pm VIP Ticket Holders Only A benefit for the Palm Springs Art Museum General Admission Friday, February 16 | 11am-7pm | All Ticket Holders Saturday, February 17 | 11am-7pm | All Ticket Holders Sunday, February 18 | 11am-6pm | All Ticket Holders Monday, February 19 | 11am-5pm | All Ticket Holders Location Palm Springs Convention Center 277 N Avenida Caballeros Palm Springs CA 92262 For more information about Urban Expositions’ art and design fairs, visit the following websites: Art Aspen  |  Art Palm Springs | FORM MIAMI | SOFA CHICAGO #fineartmagazine

In the Tri-State area? Catch BARD FICTION PRIZE WINNER CARMEN MARIA MACHADO TO GIVE READING ON FEBRUARY 19

 

BARD FICTION PRIZE WINNER CARMEN MARIA MACHADO TO GIVE READING ON FEBRUARY 19

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Author Carmen Maria Machado, Bard Fiction Prize winner and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from her work on Monday, February 19. Free and open to the public, the reading begins at 7 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium in Bard’s Reem-Kayden Center. For more information call 845-758-7087.

Machado received the Bard Fiction Prize for her debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press, 2017) In the collection, long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Machado shapes startling, genre-bending narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.

The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “The eight stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties range playfully from a brilliant riff on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to an apocalypse glimpsed incidentally through one woman’s sexual encounters to an obsessive exegesis of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that balloons into a hallucinatory, epic tapestry.  Machado’s stories are bizarre, hilarious, sexy, and addictively entertaining while troubling, complex ideas about femininity, queerness, gender, and sexuality lurk around the corner of every sentence. This book is an oddball masterpiece.”

“I’m incredibly honored to receive the Bard Fiction Prize, the former winners of which I’ve long admired,” says Machado.

Carmen Maria Machado is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, NPR Books, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and Best Women’s Erotica. Her memoir, House in Indiana, is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press.

She holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, Elizabeth George Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, Speculative Literature Foundation, Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa, Yaddo Corporation, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is an artist in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October since 2001, continues Bard’s long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard’s literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment. Last year’s Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to Karan Mahajan for his novel The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016).


ABOUT THE BARD FICTION PRIZE
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to a $30,000 cash award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students. To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a CV, along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted. Applications for the 2019 prize must be received by June 15, 2018. For information about the Bard Fiction Prize, call 845-758-7087, send an e-mail to bfp@bard.edu, or visit bard.edu/bfp. Applicants may also request information by writing to: Bard Fiction Prize, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000.

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Kenise Barns "Because Art is Essential" , sounds good to me!!!

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K E N I S E  B A R N E S  F I N E  A R T 1947 PALMER AVENUE, LARCHMONT, NEW YORK Because Art is Essential.  Josette Urso, Cameo, 2017 oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, $6500. We have in more than 4000 works of art in our extensive 1200 lower-level warehouse.  In addition, our flat files house hundreds of unframed work on paper.     We would love to help you find just the right piece for your collection.  WEBSITE Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 5:30 and by appointment in the evening 914 834 8077 Kenise@kbfa.com   Lani@kbfa.com  Avery@kbfa.com   #fineartmagazine

Oil Painting Lessons with Doug Reina

Oil Painting Lessons with Doug Reina Recently I have been asked if I could offer an oil painting class for beginners, as well as an additional class for intermediate students at my studio on Main Street in Setauket. Since my Tuesday class is currently full, I am looking to add classes for eitherWednesday or Thursday morning, starting at 10:00 a.m. The Beginner's class will teach the student the fundamentals of oil painting and also provide instruction on how to go about painting the subject before them. The Intermediate class is for the student who has experience working with oils but wants to expand their creative approach in making their own unique work. Both classes involve working in the studio, as well as painting outdoors. There are also times when the class will hire a model to work with. If you're interested in taking either one of these classes please let me know soon as space is limited - once I have a few more students enrolled, we can get a class started. Classes are for 3 hours and cost $60 each or $225 for 4 sessions. (materials are not included) If you'd like to sign up or have questions, You can email me at art@dougreina.comor call me at 631 664 1339. #fineartmagazine

Kirk Maxson and Tiffanie Turner/ Panel Discussion at the Elenor Harwood Gallery, February 3rd, 2018 6:00-7:00 pm

Kirk Maxson and Tiffanie Turner Panel Discussion:  Using Representational Botanical Sculpture to Address Conceptual Ideas Greetings!  We are pleased to announce a panel with gallery artists Kirk Maxson and Tiffanie Turner about their art and practice. Both will address questions regarding their individual artistic process as well as the conceptual issues behind their work. Through the exploration of the seductive realistic forms of botanicals, Maxson gets at larger themes of invasive species as a metaphor for colonialism and personal histories. Turner, using similar botanical forms, explores the aging female body and the beauty in age and decay.  About the Artists Kirk Maxson Born 1967, Eugene, OR Lives and works in San Francisco Kirk Maxson moved to San Francisco in 1992 and participated in the San Francisco Mission School art scene. He exhibited artwork in the seminal exhibition spaces of Adobe Books backroom gallery, Ascena, and ESP during the height of the Mission School. Subsequently he has created multiple permanent site-specific installation for corporate collections including ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco, CA, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Bellevue, WA, UBM, San Francisco, CA, Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA, Morgan Stanley Corporate Collection, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Collection, Avant Corporate Collection, Menlo Park, CA and Fresh Connection Corporation, Lafayette, CA, and recently created numerous wearable artworks for the Victoria's Secret Fashion show in Shanghai. He is also working towards his first inclusion in a museum exhibition, "In the Garden" at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont slated for March 2018. He has also created many installations for private residences. He is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, and has previously worked with Eli Ridgeway Gallery and the Gensler Architecture firm in San Francisco.  Be sure to check out Maxson's current show with Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Black Elk Speaks open until February 24th on the website and on Artsy. Black Elk Speaks,   installation image Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, detail, 2017 Varnished Brass As Long as Grass Grows and Water Runs, 2017 Aluminum, wax Tiffanie Turner Born in 1970 in Colonie, NY and raised in the woods of New Hampshire.  Lives and works in San Francisco. Turner received her Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995 and worked as an architect for over 15 years before beginning her career as a botanical sculptor. She received a Zellerbach Family Grant award in 2016 to support her work as the May 2016 artist-in residence at the de Young Museum located in San Francisco, where she has resided for over 20 years. Turner has had solo exhibitions at the Kimball Gallery at the de Young Museum, Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, MA, and Rare Device in San Francisco. Recent group exhibitions include "Flower Power" at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, "Preternatural" at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, "Detritus" at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and "Botanica" at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. She has been featured in Vogue, American Craft, O Magazine, LAB magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and been noted online by Colossal, Squarespace presents HI-FRUCTOSE, My Modern Met, Design*Sponge, Elie Saab, and The Jealous Curator, among others. Turner is an instructor in the art of paper flower making in the United States and beyond, and her first book, The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, was published in 2017. She is looking forward to her first solo exhibition with Eleanor Harwood Gallery at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco in January 2019. Cremon Mum, 2016 Paper mâché and Italian crepe paper Cabbage Rose, detail, 2017 Paper mâché and Italian crepe paper Chrysantemum (The Wilt), 2017 Paper mâché, stain (coffee/stain made from brown paper) and Italian crepe paper #fineartmagazine