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HiRes 2015 Presenter Bios Beth Bradfish, Music Composition 2015 Beth (composer and sound artist) explores contemporary acoustic and electronic sounds. Her focus is on creating environments where the audience is free to move through the sound and experience it with more than their ears. At VCFA she studied with composer John Mallia and in August, 2015 earns an MFA in Music Composition. She has been awarded an artist’s residency fellowship at Ragdale and fulfilled requests to develop pieces for CUBE Contemporary Ensemble, pianist Lawrence Axelrod and violist Michael Hall. Her work has been commissioned by Access Contemporary Music as part of the Open House Chicago celebration of the Chicago Architectural Foundation. Her work has also been performed at Spectrum NYC and featured at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. She participates on the board of Access Contemporary Music and is a member of Chicago Composers’ Consortium. Websites: www.bethbradfishcomposer.com c3composers.org Xtine Burrough, Visual Art 2001 Xtine is a new media artist and educator. She has authored or edited several books including Foundations of Digital Art and Design (2013), Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (2011), and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015). She was recently named the new EditorInChief of the Visual Communication Quarterly (beginning in January 2016). Informed by the history of conceptual art, she uses social networking, databases, search engines, blogs, and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, to create web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy. xtine is passionate about creating works using digital tools to translate common experiences into personal arenas for discovery. She is the recipient of a Cal Humanities Grant, a Webby Honoree, has received a Terminal commission and an award from the UK Big Lottery fund. An associate professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas, she bridges the gap between histories, theories, and production in new media education. Karen Oser Edmunds, Visual Art 2005, A New Orleans native, Karen earned a BA in psychology from H. Sophie Newcomb College in 1967. She spent a year (19651966) at the University of Paris studying art and psychology where she was introduced to Art Therapy and the relationship between art and healing. As a consequence, while in graduate school she studied the work of Louise Bourgeois who successfully mined her psychological trauma through her art practice. Edmunds twice participated in Bourgeois' famed Sunday Salons. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2012 Edmunds saw the diagnosis as an opportunity to put into practice the theory of using art to take control of physical and psychological trauma.

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Beth  Bradfish,  Music  Composition  2015  Beth  (composer  and  sound  artist)  explores  contemporary  acoustic  and  electronic  sounds.  Her  focus  is  on  creating  environments  where  the  audience  is  free  to  move  through  the  sound  and  experience  it  with  more  than  their  ears.  At  VCFA  she  studied  with  composer  John  Mallia  and  in  August,  2015  earns  an  MFA  in  Music  Composition.  She  has  been  awarded  

an  artist’s  residency  fellowship  at  Ragdale  and  fulfilled  requests  to  develop  pieces  for  CUBE  Contemporary  Ensemble,  pianist  Lawrence  Axelrod  and  violist  Michael  Hall.  Her  work  has  been  commissioned  by  Access  Contemporary  Music  as  part  of  the  Open  House  Chicago  celebration  of  the  Chicago  Architectural  Foundation.  Her  work  has  also  been  performed  at  Spectrum  NYC  and  featured  at  the  Experimental  Sound  Studio  in  Chicago.  She  participates  on  the  board  of  Access  Contemporary  Music  and  is  a  member  of  Chicago  Composers’  Consortium.    Websites:  www.bethbradfishcomposer.com   c3composers.org      Xtine  Burrough,  Visual  Art  2001  Xtine  is  a  new  media  artist  and  educator.  She  has  authored  or  edited  several  books  including  Foundations  of  Digital  Art  and  Design  (2013),  Net  Works:  Case  Studies  in  Web  Art  and  Design  (2011),  and  The  Routledge  Companion  to  Remix  Studies  (2015).  She  was  recently  named  the  new  Editor-­‐In-­‐Chief  of  the  Visual  Communication  Quarterly  (beginning  in  January  2016).  Informed  by  the  history  of  conceptual  art,  she  uses  social  networking,  databases,  search  engines,  blogs,  and  applications  in  combination  with  popular  sites  like  Facebook,  YouTube,  or  Mechanical  Turk,  to  create  web  communities  promoting  interpretation  and  autonomy.  xtine  is  passionate  about  creating  works  using  digital  tools  to  translate  common  experiences  into  personal  arenas  for  discovery.  She  is  the  recipient  of  a  Cal  Humanities  Grant,  a  Webby  Honoree,  has  received  a  Terminal  commission  and  an  award  from  the  UK  Big  Lottery  fund.  An  associate  professor  in  the  School  of  Arts,  Technology,  and  Emerging  Communication  at  the  University  of  Texas  at  Dallas,  she  bridges  the  gap  between  histories,  theories,  and  production  in  new  media  education.    

Karen  Oser  Edmunds,  Visual  Art  2005,  A  New  Orleans  native,  Karen  earned  a  BA  in  psychology  from  H.  Sophie  Newcomb  College  in  1967.    She  spent  a  year  (1965-­‐1966)  at  the  University  of  Paris  studying  art  and  psychology  where  she  was  introduced  to  Art  Therapy  and  the  relationship  between  art  and  healing.  As  a  consequence,  while  in  graduate  school  she  studied  the  work  of  Louise  Bourgeois  who  successfully  mined  her  psychological  trauma  through  her  art  practice.  Edmunds  twice  participated  in  Bourgeois'  famed  Sunday  Salons.  When  she  was  diagnosed  with  breast  cancer  in  February  2012  Edmunds  saw  the  diagnosis  as  an  opportunity  to  put  into  practice  the  theory  of  using  art  to  take  control  of  physical  and  psychological  trauma.    

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Natalie  Finkelstein,  Visual  Art  2012:  Under  the  pseudonym  Ambivalently  Yours  the  artist  explores  ambivalence  -­‐  simultaneously  loving  and  hating  -­‐  through  the  online  sharing  of  pink  illustrations  (posted  at  www.ambivalentlyyours.tumblr.com),  short  animations,  questionable  advice,  sound  sketches,  blog  posts  and  anonymous  notes  left  in  public  spaces.  Fuelled  by  a  decade  of  employment  in  the  fashion  industry,  juxtaposed  with  an  investment  in  feminist  art,  her  work  as  Ambivalently  Yours  aims  to  highlight  the  potential  for  political  resistance  that  exists  within  conflicting  emotions.  Her  work  has  been  exhibited  in  Canada,  the  US  and  the  UK  and  featured  prominently  in  online  media  publications,  teenage  blogs  and  zines  worldwide.    For  more  information,  please  visit:  ambivalentlyyours.com      

Gail  Hanlon,  Writing  2014  Gail’s  poetry  has  appeared  or  is  forthcoming  in  Ploughshares,  Iowa  Review,  Kenyon  Review,  New  Letters,  Thrush,  Bloom,  Cutbank  online,  Cincinnati  Review,  Verse  Daily,  and  Best  American  Poetry,  among  other  journals  and  anthologies.  She  published  a  review  in  Tarpaulin  Sky,  published  a  chapbook,  Sift  (Finishing  Line),  was  a  finalist  for  the  Iowa  Review  Award  (2013)  and  a  semi-­‐finalist  for  the  Tomaz  Salamun  Prize  from  VERSE  magazine  (2015).  A  2014  VCFA  graduate  (Poetry),  she  lives  in  Portsmouth,  NH.  

 Robert  Hyers,  Writing  2011  Since  Robert  earned  his  work  has  appeared  in  Saints  and  Sinners:  Fiction  From  the  Festival,  3:AM  Magazine,  Q  Reviewand  The  Summerset  Review,  and  is  forthcoming  in  Jonathon.  He  is  a  regular  Visiting  Fiction  Writer  at  River  Pretty  Writers  Retreat.              

 Carolyn  Megan,  Writing  1992  Carolyn  teaches  writing  and  literature  courses  at  Babson  College  where  she  also  serves  as  Director  of  the  Writing  Center.    Her  stories,  essays  and  interviews  have  appeared  in  journals  and  anthologies.                  

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Hi-­‐Res  2015  Presenter  Bios    Gary  Lee  Miller,  Writing  1995 His  work  has  appeared  in  a  number  of  literary  magazines,  including  Florida  Review,  Green  Mountains  Review,  Hunger  Mountain,  and  Chicago  Quarterly  Review.  Gary’s  music  writing  can  be  found  in  Seven  Days,  Vermont’s  weekly  source  for  the  arts,  culture,  and  politics.  His  short  story  collection  Museum  of  the  Americas  is  the  fiction  finalist  for  the  2015  Vermont  Book  Award.  Gary  sings  and  plays  guitar  in  the  TrailerBlazers,  a  strictly  hillbilly  outfit,  and  serves  as  creative  director  of  Writers  for  Recovery,  a  program  using  writing  to  help  people  overcome  addiction.  You  can  find  out  more  about  him  at  garyleemiller.com.        Mary  Pinard,  Writing  1992  Mary  teaches  literature  and  poetry  courses  in  the  Arts  and  Humanities  Division  at  Babson  College.    She  has  served  in  a  range  of  administrative  positions  there  as  well,  including  as  Director  of  the  Undergraduate  Rhetoric  Program,  Coordinator  of  the  Creativity  Stream  in  the  MBA  Program,  Writing  Center  Director,  and  Division  Chair.  Her  essays  and  poems  have  appeared  in  critical  anthologies  and  journals,  and  her  collection  of  poems,  Portal,  was  published  in  2014  by  Salmon  Press.      

Jean-­‐Marie  Saporito,  Writing  2011  Her  work  has  appeared  in  Bellevue  Literary  Review,  Ilanot  Review,  Helix  Literary  Magazine,  and  elsewhere.  She  is  the  recipient  of  the  AWP  WC&C  Scholarship  and  the  UNM  Taos  Resident  Award.  She  lives  in  Taos,  New  Mexico  with  two  dogs,  a  teenager,  and  a  cowboy.              

 Kristin  Serafini,  Visual  Art  2014  Based  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  Kristin  is  a  conceptual  artist  who  builds  and  breaks  networks  of  visual  and/or  literary  text.  She  draws  on  her  experience  with  children’s  book  illustration,  creative  writing,  graphic  design,  and  experimental  textile  techniques  to  create  installations  and  artist  books  that  probe  the  physical  and  metaphysical  implications  of  the  limits  of  communication.  Her  work  explores  how  we  social  beings  adapt  to,  buckle  under,  resist,  or  re-­‐purpose  these  limits.  Kristin  earned  her  MFA  in  Visual  Arts  from  Vermont  College  of  Fine  Arts  in  August  

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Tereza  Swanda,  Visual  Art  2010  Tereza  was  born  Mazurova  (implying  paternal  possession)  in  what  was  communist  Czechoslovakia  and  resides  both  in  CZ  as  well  as  the  US.  In  her  nomadic  life,  she  questions  familial  and  societal  roles  that  classify  bodies  according  to  gender,  race,  etc.  Her  work  centers  on  a  meeting  with  the  so  called  ‘other.  Swanda  has  an  MFA  from  Vermont  College  of  Fine  Arts  and  BFA  in  Painting  and  Sculpture  from  Massachusetts  College  of  Art  and  Design.  Swanda  has  recently  received  the  A.R.T.  Fund  award  to  pursue  her  project,  Capital  Cleanse,  which  she  installed  in  a  rogue  installation  at  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  as  well  as  

throughout  public  restrooms  in  galleries,  art  centers,  universities,  and  McDonald’s  along  interstate  90.  She  has  exhibited  her  work  at  the  Whitney  Center  for  the  Arts  (Pittsfield,  MA),  University  of  Oregon  (Eugene,  OR),  Berliner  Kunstprojekt  (Berlin),  450  Broadway  Gallery  (NY),  Bakalar  and  Paine  Galleries  (Boston,  MA),  Chemeketa  Community  College  Art  Gallery  (Salem,  OR),  and  online  in  Storyscape  Journal.  Her  series,  To/From  Mothering,  shown  at  the  Center  on  Contemporary  Art  (Seattle,  WA),  won  first  prize.  She  has  been  awarded  residencies  at  VSC  (Johnson,  VT),  at  the  Millay  Colony  (Austerlitz,  NY),  and  has  been  attending  workshops  with  Rose  Shakinovsky  and  Claire  Gavronsky  in  Italy  and  South  Africa  since  2000.  Swanda’s  distinctions  include  the  Wilhelmina  Denning  Jackson  Art  Award  as  well  as  scholarship  for  graduate  work.  

Capital  Cleanse  is  anticipated  in  a  2016  publication,  Art  for  Everyone,  through  Chemeketa  Press.  As  an  Open  Educational  Resource  textbook,  Art  for  Everyone  gives  students  of  Art  Appreciation  the  choice  to  forego  a  printed  copy  and  get  their  textbooks  online  for  free.      Tricia  Thibodeaux  Baar,  Writing  2006  Tricia  is  a  poet  and  artist  from  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas.    She  teaches  composition  and  literature  at  College  of  the  Ouachitas,  where  she  also  directs  the  Honors  College.    Her  current  work  in  both  writing  and  visual  art  is  focused  on  the  female  body  and  the  effects  of  changes  in  the  body  on  personal  identity  and  interpersonal  relationships.    Tricia  is  an  alumna  of  the  Tupelo  Press  30/30  Project,  March  2014,  and  PoMoSco,  April  2015.        

Susan  Levi  Wallach,  Writing  2011  Susan  is  a  freelance  copyeditor  and  generally  nice  person.  Recently,  her  short  stories  and  poetry  have  appeared  in  Bayou,  Southern  California  Review,  RiverLit,  Literary  Matters,  the  Frank  Marshall  Review,  and  the  Columbia  Broadside  Project.  She  was  co-­‐winner  of  the  2014  Thomas  Wolfe  Fiction  Prize.      

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Hi-­‐Res  2015  Presenter  Bios        Dana  Walrath,  WCYA  2010  A  writer,  artist  and  anthropologist,  Dana  Walrath,  likes  to  cross  borders  and  disciplines  with  her  work.  After  years  of  using  stories  to  teach  medical  students  at  University  of  Vermont’s  College  of  Medicine,  she  spent  2012-­‐2013  as  a  Fulbright  Scholar  in  Armenia  where  she  completed  Like  Water  on  Stone  a  verse  novel  about  the  Armenian  genocide  of  1915.  Blending  historical  fiction  with  magical  realism,  Like  Water  on  Stone’s  is  a  Notable  Book  for  a  Global  Society  Award  Winner,  a  Bank  Street  Best  Book  of  2015,  a  Vermont  Book  Award  Finalist  and  more.  Her  graphic  memoir,  Aliceheimer’s  (Harvest  2013)  blends  the  story  of  life  with  her  mother,  Alice,  before  and  during  dementia,  with  stories  from  Armenia.    She  has  spoken  extensively  about  the  role  of  comics  in  healing  throughout  North  America  and  Eurasia  including  talks  at  TEDx  Battenkill  and  TEDx  Yerevan.  Co-­‐author  of  one  of  the  leading  college  textbook  series  in  anthropology  she  has  also  shown  her  artwork  in  a  variety  of  venues  throughout  North  America  and  Eurasia.  Her  recent  essays  have  appeared  in  Slate  and  Foreign  Policy.  She  earned  a  PhD  in  Anthropology  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  but  her  favorite  degree  is  her  MFA  from  Vermont  College  of  Fine  Arts.      

Melissa  Cronin,  Writing  2013    Melissa’s  work  has  appeared  or  is  forthcoming  in  Chicken  Soup  for  The  Soul,  Saranac  Review,  Under  the  Gum  Tree,  Brevity,  and  various  online  publications.  Her  essay,  “Right  Foot,  Left  Foot”  received  special  mention  in  the  2013  creative  nonfiction  contest  held  by  Hunger  Mountain  Journal.  Melissa  lives  with  her  husband,  John,  and  their  stuffed  lamb,  Hawk,  in  South  Burlington,  Vermont,  where  she  is  a  correspondent  for  her  local  newspaper.  Melissa  is  currently  revising  her  memoir,  

The  Peach,  a  story  of  healing,  forgiveness,  and  the  search  for  a  new  identity  after  an  older  driver  confused  the  gas  pedal  for  the  brake  and  plowed  through  the  Santa  Monica  Farmers’  Market  in  2003.  The  driver  struck  seventy-­‐three  pedestrians,  including  Melissa.  A  former  nurse,  she  holds  an  MFA  in  creative  nonfiction  from  Vermont  College  of  Fine  Arts.  Please  visit  Melissa  at  melissacronin.com.