The Yaddo Broadsides Artists and Writers
William Bailey
William Bailey studied art at the University of Kansas. After serving with the U.S. Army in the Korean War, he attended the Yale School of Art, where he studied with Josef Albers. He received his B. F. A. in 1955 and M. F. A. in 1957. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting in 1965. Mr. Bailey’s work has been exhibited extensively in both America and Europe. He is represented in numerous public collections, including those of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In 1986, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey serves on the boards of the Tiffany Foundation and the Archives of American Art and is a Member of The Corporation of Yaddo.
Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold is the author of Wideawake Field (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2007), a collection of poems, and the forthcoming nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel, an examination of the encounter of Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia (Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2009). A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, she is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation. She has published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.
Amy Hempel
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was named one of the “Ten
Best Books of the Year” by The New York Times, and won several prizes,
including the Ambassador Book Award. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a United States Artists Foundation Fellowship. She teaches
in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College and Sarah Lawrence,
and lives in New York City. Ms. Hempel is a Member of The Corporation of Yaddo.
Joan Snyder
Born April 16, 1940, in Highland Park, New Jersey, Joan Snyder received her A.B. from Douglass College in 1962 and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 1966. Ms. Snyder was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983. She currently lives in Brooklyn and Woodstock, New York. In 2005, she had a 35-year survey show at The Jewish Museum in New York City, which then traveled to the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Massachusetts. In conjunction with this touring exhibition, Abrams Books published a monograph, Joan Snyder, with an introduction by Norman Kleeblatt and essays by Hayden Herrera and Jenni Sorkin. In 2007, Ms. Snyder received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Mark Strand
Mark Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, and was raised and educated in the United States. He is the author of twelve books of poems. He is also the author of a book of stories, three volumes of translations, a number of anthologies (most recently 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century), and monographs on the artists William Bailey and Edward Hopper. He has received many honors and awards for his poems, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), and the Bollingen Prize. In 1990, he was chosen as the Poet Laureate of the United States. A longtime resident of Chicago, he now lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Alexi Worth
Born and raised in New York City, Alexi Worth attended Yale College and Boston University. He has exhibited with, among others, the Elizabeth Harris, Bill Maynes, and DC Moore galleries; received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts; and is currently represented by DC Moore. In addition to his painting, Mr. Worth has written about art for The New Yorker, Artforum, Slate, and other magazines. He is currently a Senior Critic at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Program in Fine Art. Mr. Worth’s next exhibition is scheduled for November of 2008. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the architect Erika Belsey, and their two boys. Mr. Worth is a Member of The Corporation of Yaddo.
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