Lori Anderson Moseman, Deborah Poe and Alana Siegel

Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 2pm

The Gallery at R&F Handmade Paint
84 Ten Broeck Avenue
Kingston, NY 12401

A $5 donation is suggested.

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

Lori Anderson Moseman is the author of Persona (Swank Books), Cultivating Excess (The Eighth Mountain Press) and Walking the Dead (Heaven Bone Press). Temporary Bunk (Swank Books) is forthcoming in 2009. Anderson Moseman has an Masters of Fine Art from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Doctor of Arts from the University at Albany. She also has an MFA in Electronic Arts. Her undergraduate degrees are in Forestry and Technical Journalism. Anderson Moseman's poems about Sheila Goloborotko's monotypes are featured (in English and Portuguese) in um daqueles lugares sublimes, an exhibition catalogue for galeria Gravura Brasileira. Anderson Moseman's poems appeared in the following anthologies: Oh One Arrow (Flim Forum Press, 2007); Illness & Grace, Terror and Transformation (Wising Up Press, 2007) The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets (Chatoyant, 2004); Poetry in Performance 32 (CUNY, 2004); Writing on Air (Terra Nova, MIT Press, 2003).

Deborah Poe is the author of a poetry collection entitled Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press. Deborah has received several literary awards including the Thayer Fellowship of the Arts (2008) and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Many Mountains Moving, Drunken Boat, MiPOesias, Caesura, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007) and A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008). Deborah’s current projects include Elements—her poetry collection based on the periodic table—a short fiction collection entitled Event Landmarks, and a collaboration with artist Robin Ward. She currently is Assistant Professor of English at Pace University.

Alana Siegel was born in Santa Monica, California. She moved to the Hudson Valley to attend Bard College, graduating in 2007. She devoted her final year of study to writing and completing a book of poems, Password. After graduating she spent six months in Italy and England, then returned to Barrytown, where she now lives and writes.

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 over the summer. The exhibition will run from December 6th, 2008 through January 17th, 2009.

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. Five artists, who represent a diverse cross-section of the United States, participated, including Ginger Smith from White Lake, NY; Karen Levine from Kingston, NY; Michal Sagar from Minneapolis, MN, Martha Burgess from New York, NY, and Gabrielle Zane from Wilimantic, CT. The Ahead of the Buzz workshop was led by a series of prominant artists, including Richard Purdy, Carl Van Brunt, Barbara Ellmann, Grimanesa Amoros, and Cindy Stockton Moore.