The Castle Hills Chairs of 2011
Castle Hill Woody English Distinguished Artists and Writers Chair honors:
Ruth Reichl
[AUGUST 16, at the Wellfleet Congregational Church ]
Ruth Reichl is currently Editor at Large at Random House. She was Editor in Chief of Gourmet Magazine from 1999 to 2009. Before that she was the restaurant critic of both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, where she was also named food editor. As chef and co-owner of The Swallow Restaurant from 1974 to 1977, she played a part in the culinary revolution that took place in Berkeley, California. In the years that followed, she served as restaurant critic for New West and California magazines.
Ms. Reichl has been honored with 6 James Beard Awards (one for magazine feature writing and one for multimedia food journalism in 2009; two for restaurant criticism, in 1996 and 1998; one for journalism, in 1994; and Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America, 1984. In 2007, she was named Adweek's Editor of the Year. She received the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, presented by the Missouri School of Journalism, in October 2007. Ms. Reichl received the 2008 Matrix Award for Magazines from New York Women in Communications, Inc., in April 2008. She is also the recipient of the YWCA's Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Award. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Michigan and lives in New York City with her husband, Michael Singer, a television news producer, and their son.
AUGUST 15 - SLOW FOOD MEAL with Ruth Reichl at the Truro Vineyards - $200.pp
AUGUST 16 - Ruth Reichl lecture at the Wellfeet Congregational Church - $25.pp
The Presidents Chair: Sal Del Deo
Salvatore Del Deo was born in Providence, RI, and received his first artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design. He later graduated from the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and went on to study with Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art and with Edwin Dickinson at the Art Students' League in New York. He has been an active member of the art community in Provincetown for more than 50 years and was one of the founders of the Fine Arts Work Center. He has exhibited widely in the United States and is in several public and many private collections. He is represented in Provincetown by the Berta Walker Gallery.
[ He is teaching a workshop August 1 - 4 ]
ELLA JACKSON CHAIR HONORS: Kay WalkingStick
Kay WalkingStick currently exhibits her work at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC where she will be showing her work in March 2011. During her 40 year career she has had 33 one person shows in venues across the US; in addition there have been countless group exhibits of her work in the US, Canada and Europe. Many of her diptych paintings are based on sketches that she has made in her travels while on teaching and lecturing assignments in the American southwest and in Italy. Her works can be seen in 36 different museum around this country including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. In addition, the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa, Canada and the National Museum of Israel in Jerusalem, Israel both own a painting by the artist.
In 2003 WalkingStick was honored as the Distinguished Native American Fine Artist by the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, IN. The artist is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. The Women's Caucus for Art made her an Honoree at their National Honors Award for Achievement in the Arts, and in 1995 she was awarded a Joan Mitchell Award in Painting. The Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund Award was given to her in 1991 and the NEA awarded her a grant in painting in 1983. She graduated from Beaver College of Arcadia University in 1959 with a BFA in painting. In 1973 she was awarded a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship for Women to attend Pratt Institute where she was awarded an MFA in 1975.
The National Museum of the American Indian has mounted a group exhibit, "Vantage Points" including WalkingStick's large work the "Chief Joseph Series" which opened on Sept. 24th, 2010 and will close in Aug. 2011. And in October the Eiteljorg Museum of Western and American Indian Art exhibited a group of her prints which opened Oct. 9th, 2010.
[ She is teaching a workshop on August 29 - September 2 ]
THE MARY LOU FRIEDMAN CHAIR HONORS: Roy Staab
It took ten years for Roy Staab's art to evolve from painting, to line structure on paper, to installation. In 1983 he started to make works in/over water -- large works, using only natural materials gathered from near by. He became really a peripatetic artist making my art installations in many places in the world. He has received various awards including a Japan/American Artist Exchange Creative Artist Fellowship, Pollack/Krasner Grant, Gottlieb Foundation Award and the Joan Mitchell Award. His paintings, drawings and photographs can be found in the collections of the Musée d'art moderne and Le fonds national d'art contemporain in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. Recent installations are: SCULPTURE Omi Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York; EarthArt, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Marbaek Beach near Esbjerg, Denmark, ENERGY CENTER, Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival, Taipei, Taiwan; Roy Staab: Four Seasons/Four Corners, Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; INVASIVE SPECIES, Cheng-Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, Taiwan; EcoArts Festival, Manyunk, Philadelphia; Eau Claire Currents, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Sculpures Around, Leogang, Austria.
[ He is teaching a workshop on July 25 - 29 ]
THE JOYCE JOHNSON CHAIR HONORS: Randy Johnston
Randy Johnston established and maintains a studio in River Falls Wisconsin since 1972 after four years of study with Warren MacKenzie. He has an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Randy studied with living national treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka of Mashiko, Japan in1975 and has been a guest artist and lecturer at numerous colleges and art schools. His work has been included in scores of exhibitions and both of their works have been featured in Studio Potter, Ceramic Art and Perception, and Ceramics Monthly. Randy was awarded two visual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and in 1991. He has played a large role in reintroducing wood firing to the United States and continues to explore the spiritual and ritualistic qualities of wood firing in his large Japanese style kilns.
[ He is teaching a workshop August 8 - 12 ]
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