BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sierra Nevada University - ECPv5.16.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sierra Nevada University X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.sierranevada.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Sierra Nevada University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170810 DTSTAMP:20240329T040516 CREATED:20170622T225242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180920T191507Z UID:181250-1501459200-1502323199@www.sierranevada.edu SUMMARY:MFA 2017 Summer Residency | Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Arts DESCRIPTION:All events listed are free and open to the public. \nCreative Writing Faculty   Interdisciplinary Arts Faculty \n\nMonday July 31\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nPeter Rostovsky + Gabie Strong [Faculty Lecture]\n7 pm | Holman Arts and Media Center\, 2nd fl. \nPeter Rostovsky’s work in disciplines including painting\, sculpture and installation attempts to bridge the gap between painting and conceptual art while remaining attentive to painting’s traditions and disruptions. His work has been shown widely both in the United States and abroad. He currently teaches at NYU\, The New School\, Lesley University’s College of Art and Design\, and SNC. \n\nGabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration\, drone\, and decay\, experimenting with sound performance\, radio broadcasting\, environmental installation\, photography and video. Her current work uses ritual acts and fetish collecting to expose constructions of femininity. \n\n\n\n\nTuesday August 1\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nMary Donnelly + Sameer Farooq [Faculty Lecture]\n7:30 pm | Holman Arts and Media Center\, 2nd fl. \nMary Donnelly is a poet who has published in Boog City\, The Brooklyn Rail\, DMQ Review\, Hunger Mountain\, Indiana Review\, and Iowa Review. She is former co-director of the “Reading Between A and B” poetry series in New York City and is now senior editor of failbetter. \n\nThe interdisciplinary practice of Sameer Farooq aims to re-imagine a material record of the present from community participation\, incorporating photography\, documentary filmmaking\, writing and anthropology. He is currently working as a visual artist\, educator\, and designer\, and directs documentaries as a member of the film collective Smoke Signal Projects. \n\n\n\n\nWednesday August 2\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nBlair Saxon-Hill [Guest Artist Lecture]\n5 pm | Holman Arts and Media Center\, 2nd fl. \nSaxon-Hill\, who began her career as an oil painter\, brings together painting\, sculpture\, printmaking\, photography\, and borrowed modalities in her assemblages and collages. She is also the co-owner of Monograph Bookwerks in Portland OR\, which specializes in rare art exhibition ephemera and modern and contemporary art books. \n\n\n\n\nThursday August 3\n\n\n \nCreative Writing\n\n\nEditing Panel\n4:15 – 4:45 pm | Prim Library\nwith Anitra Budd\, Benjamin Busch\, and Pablo Cartaya. MC: Brian Turner \nAnitra Budd is a freelance copywriter and editor for a variety of clients\, including independent authors\, the Loft Literary Center\, FedEx\, Thrivent Financial\, Wise Ink\, Red Line Editorial\, and 3M. In her past job as editor at Coffee House Press she worked with authors including Kristen Kaschock\, T. Geronimo Johnson\, Kate Bernheimer\, and many others. \n\nBenjamin Busch is an actor\, writer\, director\, producer\, and photographer. He served 16 years as an infantry and light armored reconnaissance officer in the United States Marine Corps\, deploying to Iraq in 2003 and 2005. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Dust to Dust\, and his essays have appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Newsweek\, The Daily Beast and NPR. \n\nPablo Cartaya is the author of the forthcoming middle-grade books\, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora and Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish\, and the co-author of the picture book\, Tina Cocolina: Queen of the Cupcakes. He has lectured in Florida International University’s Exile Studies Program\, and visited schools and hosted literary events throughout the northeast and South Florida. \n\n\nEvening Reading\n8 – 10 pm | Prim Library\nMFA Faculty Sampler \nCome join us for an evening with a little bit of everything – perhaps even music! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\necho locator – the ritual [Performance]\n7 pm | Garage Door Gallery\nEcho locator is a ritual iteration of resonator\, a collaborative and experimental piece that traveled through the United States from March to July 2017. Join multidisciplinary artist Aaron Czerny in activating his installation. \n\n\n\nFriday August 4\n\n\n \nCreative Writing\n\n\nPerformance: The Art of Reading\ntime | Prim Library\nwith Pablo Cartaya \nPablo has always been a hopeless romantic. In middle school he secretly loved reading Shakespeare’s sonnets (don’t tell anyone). He once spent his allowance on roses for a girl he liked\, and wrote her eight poems. Bad ones. He’s been writing and performing ever since. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nMFA IA Graduation Ceremony\n6 – 7 pm | Garage Door Gallery \n\n\nFIRST [Opening Reception\, MFA Thesis Exhibition]\n7 – 9 pm | Garage Door Gallery \nartists: Susan Bass\, Aaron Czerny\, Nicole Harper\, Richard Petrucci\, Mary Grace Tate\, and Kelly Wallis. \n\n\n\n\nSaturday August 5\n\n\nCreative Writing\n\nEvening Reading\n7 – 8 pm | Prim Library\nwith Isabel Quintero\, Natalie Baszile\, Sunil Yapa \nIsabel Quintero writes fiction for children\, young adults\, adults\, older adults\, and ghosts. She also writes poetry. She is the author of Gabi\, A Girl in Pieces (2014)\, and coauthor of Ugly Cat & Pablo (2017). Isabel enjoys carne asada tacos\, pepperoni pizza (thin crust)\, dark chocolate\, poetry\, folk music\, and cute animal pictures. Oh\, and long walks on the beach. \n\nNatalie Baszile is the author of Queen Sugar\, which is being adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay of “Selma” and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicles’ Best Books of 2014\, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize\, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. \n\nSunil Yapa is a Sri Lankan American fiction writer and novelist. Yapa won the 2010 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story\, “Pilgrims (What is Lost and You Cannot Regain)\,” His debut novel\, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was a 2016 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year\, Amazon Best Books of the year\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick\, and an Indies Next Pick. \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday August 6\n\n\n \nCreative Writing\n\n\nAfternoon Reading and Conversation\n2 – 2:45 pm | Prim Library\nwith Benjamin Busch \nBusch is writer/director of the award winning films Sympathetic Details and BRIGHT\, and was an actor and military consultant on the HBO min-series Generation Kill. He also portrayed Officer Colicchio in HBO’s series\, The Wire. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Dust to Dust and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Harper’s and on NPR. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nPiney Wood Atlas + Scott Oliver [Guest Artist Lectures]\n7:30 pm | Sagehen Field Research Station \nPiney Wood Atlas is a collaboration between Alicia Toldi and Carolina Porras to visit and catalog small and emerging artist residencies across the country. We are making an ongoing multimedia tour log of our travels and findings\, to help connect artists with residencies. \n\nScott Oliver explores our tangled relationship with materiality through “poetic repurposing.” He has made in-home sculptural interventions\, a symbiotic restaurant\, a collection of discarded LPs\, an elaborate parlor game\, and a multi-faceted public project with an audio walking tour\, interpretive signs and souvenirs\, often incorporating social exchange into his process. \n\n\n\nMonday August 7\n\n\n \nCreative Writing\n\n\nGenerative Workshop: Writing for Children and Young Adults\n2 – 5 pm | Prim 320\nwith Pablo Cartaya \nPablo has worked in Cuban restaurants and the entertainment industry\, and he also has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. All of these experiences have helped him write stories that reflect his family\, culture\, and love of words. Pablo lives in Miami with his wife and two kids\, surrounded by tías\, tíos\, cousins\, and people who he calls cousins but aren’t really. \n\n\nGenerative Workshop\n2 – 5 pm | Prim Library\nwith Gailmarie Pahmeier \nGailmarie Pahmeier’s work has been widely published and anthologized. She is the author of the poetry collections The House on Breakaheart Road\,\nThe Rural Lives of Nice Girls\, and three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared recently in journals and magazines including Booth\, Spillway\, descant (this poem earned the 2012 Publisher’s Award)\, Passager\, and the Pedestal Magazine; her anthologized work appears in such publications as Literary Nevada\, New Poets of the American West (this poem earned the Editor’s Choice Award)\, the Autumn House Press Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry\, and Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. \n\n\nEvening Reading: Two Pines Redux\ntime | Prim Library\nMFA alumni return to read. MC: Brian Turner \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday August 8\n\n\n \nCreative Writing\n\nMFA in Creative Writing Graduation Ceremony\n4 – 5 pm | Patterson Lawn \n\n\nTwo Pines Reading\n6 – 7 pm | Prim Library\nOur new graduates present their work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nInterdisciplinary Arts\n\n\nMidway Exhibition\n4 – 8 pm | Sagehen Creek Field Station\nSite-specific projects by Sierra Nevada College’s MFA – IA candidates throughout the Sagehen Creek Field Station\, located at 11616 Sagehen Rd\, Truckee\, California 96160.\nThere will be a reception followed by an outdoor group dinner.\nDirections and RSVP: https://attending.io/events/midway URL:https://www.sierranevada.edu/event/mfa-2017-summer-residency-creative-writing-interdisciplinary-arts/ LOCATION:Sierra Nevada University Campus CATEGORIES:Alumni,Community,Featured,Graduate,MFA,MFA Academic Calendar,MFA-IA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.sierranevada.edu/wp-content/uploads/typewriter-story-420x315.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR