Joshua Harmon, Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang and Maryrose Larkin

January 19, 2008 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY

A $5 donation is suggested.

For directions please visit R&F’s website at http://www.rfpaints.com/

Joshua Harmon is the author of Quinnehtukqut, a novel, and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in various journals, and he teaches at Vassar College.

Recent reviews of Quinnehtukqut can be read at:

http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/november-voices-in-the-woods/

http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2007/10/quinnehtukqut.html

Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang is a graduate of Princeton University and has been an editor at The Sheep Meadow Press, a comic book editor at Marvel Enterprises, written locally for Chronogram and Upstate House, and now works at Bard College. She has lived and taught in southern China and central Mexico, and is currently working on a novella.

Check out Jennifer's work at:

http://www.papotage.com/apr03/jennifer.html

http://archive.chronogram.com/issue/2004/03/communitynotebook/

Maryrose Larkin is the author of the chapbook-length poem, Inverse, (nine muses books, 2006). Her newest collection is The Book of Ocean (i.e. Press). A graduate of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, she is a freelance researcher and founding member of Spare Room, which organizes readings and other events in Portland. She's also a co-editor of Flash+Card, a chapbook press.

Reviews of The Book of Ocean can be read at:

http://wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com/2007/10/maryrose-larkins-book-of-ocean.html

http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n30/book_of_ocean

In the Gallery at R&F:

Ahead of the Buzz, a group exhibition comprised of works that were generated during, and as a result of, an advanced workshop for encaustic painters which occured at R&F Handmade Paints during Summer 2007. The exhibition will run from December 1st, 2007 through January 19th, 2008.

The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was juried from a pool of applicants who proposed projects which they would work on independently at R&F Handmade Paints, while interacting with a series of visiting master artists and critics who led demonstrations and discussions, and helped the group focus on ways of taking their work to the next level. Six artists, who represent a diverse cross-section of the United States, participated, including Lynda Cole from Ann Arbor, MI; Julia Dzikiewicz from Alexandria, VA; Cari Hernandez from San Anselmo, CA; Lissa Rankin from San Diego, CA; Ruth Sack from Cheshire, CT; and Karen Zimmerman from Tucson, AZ. The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was led by a series of prominant artists, writers and critics, including Donna Sharrett, Timothy MacDowell, Heather Hutchison, Gail Gregg and Beth E. Wilson.