Join us Wednesday, October 9th at the Castle for presentations by current Fellows, Jennifer Coates and Nikola Madzirov.
Jennifer Coates, Fellow, (Visual Arts, USA)
Jennifer Coates is an artist who works with painting, drawing and video and is based in NYC. Most recently, she was awarded a Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Fellowship in 2018-2019. Her solo shows include Correspondences, 2018, Freight and Volume Gallery, NYC; All U Can Eat, 2017, Freight and Volume Gallery, and Carb Load, 2016, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. She was a recipient of the Stewart/MacMillan Endowed Chair in painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 2015-2016.
Nikola Madzirov, Fellow, (Writing, Macedonia)
Nikola Madzirov is a poet, essayist and translator and was born in Strumica, Republic of Macedonia, from a family of war refugees during the Balkan Wars. He was awarded for his work with the East European Hubert Burda Poetry Award; the most prestigious Macedonian poetry prize Miladinov Brothers and Xu Zhimo’s Silver Leaf award for European poetry at King’s College in Cambridge. He was granted several international fellowships: International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa; DAAD in Berlin and Marguerite Yourcenar in France.
Wednesday, 09 October 2019
Welcome Cocktail at 6:00 PM
Presentations at 6:15 PM