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This past fall, we were joined by 50 guests at the Italian Consulate in New York for a cocktail party and lecture by Bogliasco Fellow and MoMA Chief Curator of Architecture and Design Barry Bergdoll. Consul General Francesco Maria Talò welcomed guests and spoke about the importance of the Bogliasco Foundation to the arts and humanities in the international arena. Please visit our website to view photos from these and other events. You can now visit the Bogliasco Foundation on Facebook, where we recently established a group. We would encourage you to join this group and post information here about your upcoming performances, exhibitions or events, photos of your time at the Liguria Study Center or links to your websites or blogs. By now you may have received a letter in the mail with information about the Bogliasco Foundation's Alegro Society. This donor group recognizes those generous individuals who have included the Foundation in their estate plans. Making a planned gift is a wonderful way to support the Foundation while at the same time allowing you and your heirs to enjoy special tax advantages. Those of you who have been to the Study Center in the last several years have met Alegro, one of our two beloved Golden Retrievers-in-residence for whom the Alegro Society is named. We recently learned that Alegro and his canine companion Zerlina are about to become parents. The puppies are due to make their debut late in May. We will be certain to let you know when the happy day arrives. Warm regards,
James
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The American Academy of Arts and Letters recently announced its 2009 award recipients. Among them are several Bogliasco Fellows: Laura Elise Schwendinger ('02) was awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, Mark Strand ('01) received the Gold Medal for Poetry, Andrew Waggoner ('08) was presented with an Academy Award in Music, and Susan Walp ('07) was awarded an Academy Award in Art.
Ivy Baldwin's ('09) Bear Crown premiered at New York's Dance Theater Workshop in March. This year marks Ivy's 10th anniversary as a choreographer. Away author Amy Bloom ('05) was recently featured in a Writing Life podcast on washingtonpost.com
University of California Press published On Earth, a posthumous book of Robert Creeley's ('02) last poems together with an essay, “Reflections on Whitman in Age.” In a recent review, the Los Angeles Times called it “a fine epilogue to a life's noble work.”
Italy's Einaudi just published Tutti i Racconti, a collection of short stories by Anita Desai ('00). Anita was recently profiled in the Corriere della Sera, Italy's best-selling newspaper, as “possibly the greatest Indian writer alive.” FASTFORWARDINGFOSSIL: PART 1 – New Sculpture and Drawings by Ellen Driscoll ('07) is on view at Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York through May 16.
Donal Fox's ('98) Quartet performed on May 2 at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. Catherine Gfeller's ('00) video installations Directional Piece and Les Frayeuses will be on view in the 2009 edition of Cheminements at the Centre de Photographie de Lectoure near Toulouse through June 1. Anita Glesta's ('08) video instillation, Expulsion, was recently on view at FiveMyles exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY. Congratulations to Rick Hilles ('03), who was one of ten writers to receive a 2008 Whiting Writers' Award. His work was recently featured on Nashville's Public Radio station, W-PLN. Click here to listen to Hilles' readings.
Robert Kirkbride's ('99) Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro was published by Columbia University Press in December. Kirkbride wrote parts of the book – about the studioli of the ducal palaces at Urbino and Gubbio, Italy – during his residence in Bogliasco.
On May 3, Nam Le ('09) participated in the PEN World Voices Festival in a conversation with writer Richard Ford at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.
Mercury Dressing, J.D. McClatchy's ('97) new collection of poetry, was recently published by Knopf. James McGarrell's ('03) Hours and Seasons, a new Ragamala will be on view at the Heriard-Cimino Gallery in New Orleans through June 2. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Maureen McLane's ('09) first book of poems, Same Life, in the fall. A new production of Leonard Bernstein's Bernstein's Mass, choreographed by Joyce Morgenroth ('06) and Christine Olivier, recently played at Cornell University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The 90-minute production was part of a series of nationwide events held to honor composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein in what would have been his 90th year. While in residence in Bogliasco, Peggy O'Brien ('01) worked on Sudden Thaw, a collection of poems published in 2004 and Writing Lough Derg: from William Carleton to Seamus Heaney, published in 2006. Alvin Singleton's ('08) Brooklyn Bones: Requiem for the Prison Ship Martyrs for tenor, chorus and orchestra, received its world premiere at the Brooklyn Technical High School Auditorium in November. Utilizing an original text by Patricia Hampl ('09), the work was written in commemoration of the Fort Greene Park Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, considered one of the most sacred Revolutionary War memorial sites in the country. German philosopher Ludwig Siep ('07) just published Ethik und die Möglichkeit einer guten Welt (“Ethics and the Possibility of a Good World”). He worked on the book, published in Germany during his residency at Bogliasco. Ludwig recently became a member of a select research group on religion and politics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster. Esmé Thompson ('99) had a one-person exhibition at the Bowery Gallery in New York City. New Paintings and Collages showed Thompson's continued involvement with pattern, and her unique blending of ornamental iconography with references to the human profile. Thompson's inspiration includes medieval illuminated manuscripts, Italian ceramics, and patterns found in nature – for example, the honeycomb of a beehive. Patty Jo Watson ('98) received an honorary degree from Washington University, where she is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology. Patty Jo is considered one of the world's leading experts on cave archeology and was named one of the fifty most important women in science by Discover magazine in 2002. Scott Wheeler ('06) will be conducting the New York premiere of his chamber symphony City of Shadows on May 9 at Columbia University's Miller Theater. Empire State College, a division of the State University of New York, has selected Eric Zencey ('05) as a College Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year. In the spring, Eric will serve as an adjunct Associate Professor of Sustainability at Washington University's College of Art and Architecture in St. Louis.
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few weeks ago, the New York-based staff of the Bogliasco Foundation visited Boston, Massachusetts where I gave a presentation at the International Opportunities in the Arts conference. Over 350 participants gathered from all over the world to learn about the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities and other residential programs. On the Thursday prior to the conference, the Foundation held a reception for Fellows and friends at the Brookline home of Larry Berman, a member of our Advisory Committee. It is always a great thrill for me to spend time with our Fellows, and to hear, first-hand, how meaningful time at the Liguria Study Center was in their creative process and in their lives.
Anne Atik ('04) had four poems and a text on Samuel Beckett's Thesaurus published in the most recent issue of Fulcrum, an annual anthology. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems, some of which were written at the Liguria Study Center.
Oxford University Press has just published Terry Riley's In C, by 
On May 18, young pianist Xiayin Wang will perform the world premiere of Enchanted Garden, a work written especially for her by Richard Danielpour ('00, '03). The concert will be held at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
In December, the Bogliasco Foundation collaborated with the Genoa Port Authority to organize Il milione di Marco Polo, an exhibition of work by Mario Fallini ('04, '07), at the Palazzo San Giorgio in Genoa.
Richard Kalina's ('08) latest work was on view at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. in New York City. New Paintings and Watercolors featured ink and watercolor drawings made during his stay in Bogliasco.
Joyce Kozloff's ('01) work was on display at the DC Moore Gallery in New York last fall as part of the group exhibition Evening Light. She also recently exhibited at The Trout Gallery/Dickinson College.
In February, Tomorrow's Legs, a dance piece by choreographer Tiffany Mills ('07), was performed at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City.
Phantom Canyon, a film and collage installation by 
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Carlos Alberto Vazquez's ('07) Requiem Domesticus, dedicated to all victims of domestic violence, premiered this spring at Puerto Rico's Teatro de la Universidad. Carlos composed part of the work during his stay in Bogliasco.