Hall Farm Welcomes Class of 2006

Hall Farm Center announces list of both emerging and established artists selected to complete residencies in the quiet refuge of their 221-acre farm in southern Vermont. Among this year's artists are bestselling author, Monique Truong ("The Book of Salt").

Townshend, VT (PRWEB) May 10, 2006 -- As institutions across the country prepare for the usual pomp and circumstance of the graduation season, Hall Farm Center welcomes their Artists-in-Residence for the year 2006, and you don’t have to sit through a string of long-winded speeches to hear about them.

Among the sixteen emerging and established artists selected to complete residencies on the 221-acre farm in southern Vermont are bestselling fiction author, Monique Truong ("The Book of Salt"), Suji Kwock Kim ("Notes from the Divided Country"), recipient of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award, and Chinese contemporary poet Xue Di, whose translated works include "An Ordinary Day," "Another Kind of Tenderness," and "Forgive."

Other artists chosen for residency are Amanda Boekelheide, New York, NY (performer/writer) Marianne Boruch, West Lafayette, IN (poet) Shebana Coelho, New York, NY (fiction) Hannah Dougherty, Berlin, Germany (mixed media artist) Lucy Honig, Jamaica Plain, MA (fiction) Robert Dean Johnson, Lawton, OK (non-fiction) Luke Lamborn, Syracuse, NY (video/digital media) Gretchen Jane Mentzer, Mill Valley, CA (sculptor) Sue O’Donnell, Hammond, LA (book arts) Eva Rader, Berlin, Germany (painter) Anne Sanow, Provincetown, MA (fiction) Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Brooklyn, NY (poet) and Sanford Wintersberger, Charlottesville, VA (multi-media artist).

Hall Farm Center is a non-profit dedicated to the creative processes of the Arts and their integration into society. Since its’ inception in 1999, the organization has provided time and space for artists working in a variety of media to explore their craft and create new works.

For more information on Hall Farm Center and the Artist Residency Program, visit the organization’s website at www.hallfarm.org.

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