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ALUMNI NEWS
N otes from U cross F ellows Ucross alumni recordings, performances, publications, exhibitions, awards, and accomplishments
ALUMNI news
LITERATURE
BOOKS Shannon TL Kearns (23): No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a
Anthology , And You Publishing and Nicole Frail Books, November 2024 Lisa Wartenberg Vélez (23): short story, “Field Methods,” Michigan Quarterly Review , Winter 2025
Trans Man’s Experience Reveals About Masculinity , Broadleaf Books, April 2025
Ethelene Whitmire (24): article, “Looking for the Restless
LISA WARTENBERG VELEZ
Soul of Nella Larsen in Copenhagen,” New York Times , December 2024
Gary Schanbacher (08): novel-in-stories, The Waterman , Cornerstone Press/ University of Wisconsin-
ACCOLADES
Chisaraokwu Asomugha (24): 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Stevens Point, October 2024
Austin Segrest (20): volume of poetry, Groom , Unbound Edition Press, April 2025
S. Erin Batiste (22,23): 2025-2028
Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Charles Bock (01): 2024 Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, I Will Do Better: A Father’s Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love , Abrams Press, October 2024
Annabelle Guihan Larsen (16): short story, “Sunbeam,” As the Snow Drifts: A Cozy Winter
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Tricia Romano (21): 2024 National Book Critics Circle Longlist, The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture , PublicAffairs, February 2024 Hampton Sides (16): 2024 Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact,
Lily Brown (16): 2024 New Measures Poetry Prize, Blade Work , Parlor Press, January 2025
of the Year, Creation Lake , Jonathan Cape, September 2024
Sarah LaBrie (19): New York Times Notable 100 Books of 2024; Best Memoirs of 2024 at NPR, Elle, and Esquire, No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir , HarperCollins, October 2024
Ricky Ian Gordon (02,04,05,12,16): 2024 Kirkus Best Nonfiction
Books of the Year, Seeing Through: A
Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2024
SHANNON TL KEARNS
and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook , Doubleday, April 2024 Joy Williams (09): 2024 Kirkus Best Fiction Books of the Year, Concerning the Future of
Ling Ma (19): 2024 MacArthur “Genius” Award Nell Irvin Painter (16): 2024 Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays , Doubleday, April 2024
Tessa Hulls (18): 2024 Kirkus Best Nonfiction
Books of the Year, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir , MCD, March 2024 Afabwaje Kurian (21): 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist mention, Before the Mango Ripens , Dzanc Books, September 2024 Rachel Kushner (21): Booker Prize 2024 Shortlist, 2024 National Book Award Longlist, 2024 Kirkus Best Fiction Books
Souls , Tin House Books, July 2024
Regina Porter (22): 2024 Kirkus Best Fiction Books of the Year, The Rich People Have Gone Away , Hogarth, August 2024
Karen McCarthy Woolf (19): 2024 Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Top Doll , Dialogue Books, January 2024
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ALUMNI news
V I S U A L
A R T
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS Hilary Baker (89): solo exhibition, Neighbors: Wildlife Paintings by Hilary Baker , High Desert Museum, Bend, OR, December 7, 2024, to April 6, 2025 Teresa Baker (Mandan/ Hidatsa) (21): public artwork commission, Wenot (Life Giver) , Los
Gallery, Western Art Collection, Denver Public Library, November 2024; Adaptation , Centro de Artes da UFAM, Manaus, Brazil; (Dis)Place , LA Galeria, Bogota, Colombia, February to March 2025; permanent installation, Greeley Public Art, Greeley, CO, October, 2024; performance, “Olive Branch of Peace,” Rami Di Pace Unidee 25th Anniversary, Citta Dell’Arte, Pistoletto
Foundation, Biella, Italy, September 2024 Arminée Chahbazian (87): commission,
Angeles County Hall of Records, Los Angeles, CA, December 2024
Trine Bumiller (19): group exhibitions: Echoes of Repetition: The Paradox of Creativity , Site: Brooklyn
Time, Colored , UCSF Bayfront Medical Building, San
ARMINÉE CHAHBAZIAN, Time, Colored, 2024, pastel and graphite on paper
Francisco, CA, November 2024; group exhibition , Femina Exhibition , Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA, November 1, 2024, to February 18, 2025; solo exhibition, Within Reach , Canvas at Cornerstone, Sonoma, CA, May 25 to July 13, 2024
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, August 2024;
Contemporary Works on Paper , Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, WY, December 13, 2024, to March 7, 2025; Postcards from the Edge , Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, January 24-26, 2025; Fifth Floor
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Tracey Cockrell (23): group exhibitions: 7. KloHäuschen Biennale - Die Räume , Das KloHäuschen,
Christina McPhee (19): group exhibition, Echoes of Voynich , Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, September 13 to October 18, 2024 Judy Mensch (93): group exhibitions: Imprimatur - Leaving Their Mark: Marymount Manhattan College Art Faculty 1974 -2024 , Hewitt Gallery, New York, NY, October 21 to December 3, 2024; Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) 89th Annual Members Exhibition , The Arts Center of Governors Island, New York, NY, October 22 to November 3, 2024; SAGA’s 3rd Annual Mini Gems Exhibition , SAGA Gallery, Union Square, New York, NY, December 7, 2024, to January 4, 2025 Linn Meyers (24): solo exhibitions, Infinity Loop , Make Room, Los Angeles, CA, September
Institute,” Encaustic Arts Magazine , Winter Issue, Cerrillos, NM, December 2024; group
exhibitions: Art as Poetry / Poetry as Art , Cobalt Gallery, Fort Bragg, CA, October 2024; Near & Far Encaustic Online Exhibition ,
München, Germany, July 2024; Tidal Shifts ,
University of New England Art Gallery, Biddeford, ME, April 2024
Canadian Encaustic Conference, Ontario, Canada, September 2024
TRACEY COCKRELL
Jane Waggoner Deschner (03,06,08,09,13,16): solo exhibition, Remember Me , Fort Collins Contemporary Art Museum, Fort Collins, CO, January 24 to March 16, 2025 Holly Downing (15): group exhibitions: California Society of
Margaret Lanzetta
(10): group exhibition, Hunters and Gatherers , Art Spaces Krasdale, White Plains, NY, October 4, 2024, to January 8, 2025; curator,
JANE WAGGONER DESCHNER, Remember Me series, 2018, hand-embroidered studio portrait
The Beautiful Forevers: Contemporary Painting in Dialogue with Historic Textiles , Rara Avis,
Printmakers , Santa Rosa Junior College, Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, October 28 to December 5, 2024; True North , di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA, November 16, 2024, to February 16, 2025 Marsha Goldberg (91,16,22): group exhibition, 2024 Faculty Exhibition , Court Gallery, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, September 9 to December 4, 2024
14 to October 19, 2024; Paintings
Long Island City, NY, September 2024 Shona Macdonald (23): group exhibitions: Eye of the Blackbird , Bo Bartlett Center for the Arts, Columbus, GA, January 18 to April
for Uncertain Times , Jason Haam Gallery, Seoul, Korea, August 31 to October 19, 2024; group
exhibition, Here, in this Little Bay: Celebrating 30 Years at the Kreeger , Kreeger
MARGARET LANZETTA, Book of Choice , 2022, acrylic on tie dyed, Indian paper
26, 2025; From the Eye to the
Museum, Washington, DC, June 1 to October 5, 2024
Hand , Trinity Buoy Whary, London, UK, January 15 to February 15, 2025
Linda Grebmeier (01): article, “Encaustic Art
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Jenene Nagy (22): group exhibition, Stratified Gestures , Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, November 16, 2024, to February 1, 2025 Mikayla Patton (22): group exhibition, Indigenous Identities: Here, Now
MRS. Gallery, Queens, NY, January 18 to March 8, 2025; duo exhibition, Light in Every Room:
House , Melin Atrium, Miami, FL, December 3, 2024, to March 31, 2025
Ethelene Whitmire (24): co-
Gail Spaien and Lynne Drexler , Moss
curator, Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century ,
Galleries, Portland,
& Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, New
ME, October 25, 2024, to January 4, 2025
Scandinavia House, New York, NY, November 26, 2024, to March 8, 2025
Brunswick, NJ, February 1 to December 21, 2025; fellowship exhibition, 2025 River Valley Arts Collective + Al Held Foundation Fellowship at Stoneleaf, Boiceville, NY, July 18 to October 10, 2025
YUKI MARUYAMA
Joni Sternbach (12,13): artist book, Abandoned , Dark Spring Press, September 2024; group exhibitions: California Gold , Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 20 to July 25, 2024; Whose Waters? , San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, CA, July 13 to October 20, 2024; The Swell is Coming: Ke Hō ʻ ea Nei Ka Nalu , The Hō‘ikeākea Gallery, Leeward Community
ACCOLADES
Brittney Denham- Whisonant (19): Wyoming Arts Council 2024 Visual Arts Fellowship, Cheyenne, WY; Winter 2025 Penland School of Arts & Crafts Fellowship, Bakersville, NC Yuki Maruyama (23): 2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY Jenene Nagy (22): John Ruskin Award 2025 Shortlist, London, England Kate Petley (16): 2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY Mel Watkin (91,22): 2024 XENO Artists’ Book Prize, Girls Can Do Anything , Brooklyn, NY
Kate Petley (16): guest curator, Unsayable
Lightness, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 2026; commissions: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY, 2024; Anchor, Polsinelli LLC offices, Nashville, TN; permanent collection acquisition, The Grinnell College Museum of Art; group shows: Parallels , Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, July 18 to October 5 2024; Feeling Blue , Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 16 to August 13, 2024 Gail Spaien (24): solo exhibition, Gail Spaien: Observed and Imagined ,
College, Oahu, HI, November
23, 2024, to February 2, 2025
Mel Watkin (91,22): solo exhibition, Mel Watkin: Birdland , ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, January 23 to February 28, 2025 Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright (13): installation, The Kaleidoscope (...Bigger)
KATE PETLEY , Gemstone, 2024 archival ink and acrylic on canvas
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ALUMNI news MUSIC+PERFORMANCE David Cote (20): librettist: Blind Injustice , Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, Art, Ishøj, Denmark, November 23-24, 2024
Patrick and Daniel Lazour (19,21): book, music, and lyrics, We Live in Cairo, New York Theatre Workshop, New York, NY, October 9 to November 24, 2024
February 3-4, 2025; Meltdown , National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, February 8, 2025 D. Edward Davis (15): album, 100 Untitled Works in Resonant Aluminum (for Vibraphones
MIGGY MIYAJIMA
and Electronics) , cmntx records, New York, NY, February 7, 2025
Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima (23): composer and conductor, “Miggy Augmented Orchestra: Unbreakable Hope and Resilience Suite,” Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY, March 17, 2025
Marsian De Lellis (23): essay,
“Elemental Animism: A Ritualistic Opera (De)/
Constructs the World,” The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival Archives , January 26-
Andrew Neumann (99,13): video/audio performance, “The Predictability of Unpredictability*…”, LIST Visual Arts
MARSIAN DE LELLIS
28, 2024; performance, “Raggedy Ann to Real Doll,” Live Art Denmark’s 11th edition of Live Art for Børn Festival, Arken Museum of Contemporary
Center, MIT, December 6, 2024; album, Labor/Trio , Bandcamp, January 3, 2025
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Paul Outlaw (20,21,24) and Joe Seely (24): performance, “Walking to the Edge: A Journey through Sights, Sounds, and Stories,” Clifton’s Republic, Los Angeles, CA, November 8, 2024 Neil Rolnick (10): performance and electronic score to film by Barbara
Orrin Evans (13): 2025 GRAMMY Nomination: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Walk a Mile in My Shoe Josh Kun (05,07,21,23): 2025 GRAMMY Nomination: Best Album Notes, SONtrack Original De La Pelicula “Al Son De Beno”
Place, Washington, DC, November 15-16, 2024
ACCOLADES Andy Akiho (20): 2025 GRAMMY Nominations: Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Akiho: Longing ; Best Classical Compendium, Akiho: BeLonging
Hammer, Sanctus , Composers
Carmel Dean (19): 2025 GRAMMY Nomination: Best Musical Theater Album, The Notebook
Justin Levine (13): 2025 GRAMMY Nomination: Best Musical Theater Album, The Outsiders
Concordance, Music & Film, Westbeth, New York, NY, December 21, 2024
Lauren Domino (24): 2025 GRAMMY Award: Best Music Film, American Symphony
Shaina Taub (14): 2025 GRAMMY Nomination: Best Musical Theater Album, Suffs
Matthew Williams (24):
MATTHEW WILLIAMS
performance, “Warming Up, I’m Ready,” Dance
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2024 FELLOWS
Keren Abreu Brittany Allen Jeffery Allen
Michael Pribich Katherine Profeta
Cameron Elizabeth Harvey Monet Hurst-Mendoza Steve Jansen
Misha Rai Gil Rocha Estefania Velez Rodriguez Jaymes Sanchez Mafalda Santos Carina del Valle Schorske Joe Seely Eleni Sikelianos Nicky Sohn Alyssa Songsiridej Gail Spaien
Saif Alsaegh Afua Ansong Alex Arzt Lora-Faye Åshuvud Chisaraokwu Asomugha Hartmut Austen Anahita Bagheri Judith Baumel Marwin Begaye Jason Brown Liz Brown Mahogany Browne Samantha Burns Joseph Campana Terri Lyne Carrington Vienna Carroll Wah-Ming Chang Marissa Chibás
Jeremiah Jossim Brad Kahlhamer
Ariel Katz Ali Keller Debbi Kenote Elaine Kim Nancy Young Kim Andrea Kleine Corrine Noel Knapp Mauriah Donegan Kraker Sarah Lass Andrea Lawlor Su-Yee Lin Sandy de Lissovoy Beili Liu Delvin Lugo Soo Jin Lyuh Tamara J. Madison Sharon Mashihi Paula Matthusen Magnus Maxine James May Siobhan McClure Kailee McGee Rob Melrose Linn Meyers Qi Ming Nicole Mitchell Felipe Franco Munhoz
Kurt Stallmann Justice Steward
Tyler Stoll Yuhan Su
Kate Sullivan Hongbo Tan
Teddy Tedholm Amanda Teixeira Michiko Theurer
Jinseok Choi Carrie Cogan Alice Crow Margaret Curtis Diana Delgado Jeremy Dennis Josh Dorman Sean Downey
Héctor Tobar Brian Truong
Judy Tuwaletstiwa Phillip Tuwaletstiwa Bow Ty Paul Walsh Benjamin Webster Ethelene Whitmire Matthew Williams Sherry Wong Aja Burrell Wood Natalie Woodlock Therese Workman Tuce Yasak Steven Yazzie Netta Yerushalmy
Jessie van Eerden Danielle Emerson Roxanne Everett Holly Fay Emily Feldman Liz Ferrer Mar Figueroa Zack Fine Megan Culhane Galbraith
Catharine Murray Yxta Maya Murray Susan Murrell Achim Nowak Paul Outlaw Hayden Pedigo Julie Pereira Kayvon Pourazer Dominika Prejdova
Adam Giannelli Levi Gonzalez Coco Harris
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