2008 Faculty

Margaret Gibson

Poetry Workshop

Margaret Gibson is the author of nine books of poetry, including One Body (2007), Long Walks in the Afternoon (Lamont Selection, 1982), Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti (Melville Cane Award), The Vigil (National Book Award Finalist), and Icon and Evidence (finalist for the Connecticut Center Book Award in Poetry). Her memoir, The Prodigal Daughter, Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood, is forthcoming in 2008. Gibson is the recipient of an NEA grant, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and the James Boatright Poetry Prize. She is a professor emerita of the University of Connecticut and lives in Preston, Connecticut.

Kathy Hettinga

Digital Photography: Visual Witness

Kathy T. Hettinga works in artist's books and digital images and prints. Her work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Biblical Arts in New York City, and internationally. Her design and digital art have been published in SIGGRAPH's Visual Proceedings and Graphic Design USA. Hettinga is a recipient of a Research Fellowship at The Institute of Sacred Arts at Yale University, and is currently a distinguished professor of art at Messiah College and art director for the Christians in the Visual Arts journal, SEEN.

Barry Krammes

Mixed Media Workshop

Barry Krammes is an assemblage artist whose work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions, regionally and nationally. His pieces are in private collections throughout the United States and Canada. He is a professor of art and the gallery administrator at Biola University in Southern California where he also served as art department chair for fourteen years. He is currently the editor of the Christians in the Visual Arts journal SEEN and the newsletter for CIVA.

Ann McCutchan

Spiritual Writing Workshop

Ann McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute (Amadeus Press, 1994), The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process (Oxford University Press, 1999), and a wide range of published work in magazines, literary journals and other media, including several music libretti. Ann has been awarded grants, fellowships and residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and held the Ward Lectureship in Religious Imagination at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Ann teaches creative nonfiction writing at the University of North Texas, where she is prose editor of the American Literary Review. One of her essays, originally published in Image, appeared in The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007.

Barry Moser

Drawing from Life and the Old Masters

Barry Moser is an artist, engraver, illustrator, essayist, author, graphic designer, typographer, and educator. His work can be found in numerous collections and libraries around the world, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Vatican Library, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His engraved illustrations of the King James Bible, Moby-Dick, The Divine Comedy, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have received international acclaim. A native Tennessean, he lives in Western Massachusetts and is professor in residence and printer to the college at Smith College.

Over the Rhine

Songwriting Workshop

As Over the Rhine, Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have enjoyed a storied career as songwriters, recording artists, and performers for well over a decade, releasing a fist-full of lush, literate, and critically-acclaimed CDs, including Good Dog, Bad Dog; Ohio; and The Trumpet Child. M2 Magazine in New Zealand writes, "Over the Rhine's songs are often stunningly simple, but always fearless." Karin and Linford were recently voted by critics and peers to Paste magazine's list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. As young musicians, Linford and Karin resisted the urge to relocate to Los Angeles or Nashville or New York, and remained rooted in Ohio where they had spent much of their childhoods. Their unique approach to their music and career has won them a devoted and ever-growing audience.

Tim Rollins

Seminar: “Everyone is Welcome!”

Art, the City, and the Beloved Community

Tim Rollins is the founder of K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), a South Bronx collective of young artists that creates collaborative visual responses to music and literature. A professor of fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Rollins began working with underprivileged junior high school students in 1982, reading aloud to them as they drew freely. In over 25 years of work, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. have had over 100 solo exhibitions worldwide, and their artwork is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Modern in London, and others. Rollins is an active member in the music, arts, and HIV/AIDS ministries at Memorial Baptist Church in Harlem.

Valerie Sayers

Fiction Workshop

Valerie Sayers is the author of five novels, including Brain Fever and Who Do You Love, both New York Times “Notable Books of the Year.” Her novels Due East and How I Got Him Back were adapted as a feature film on Showtime. Her many stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in, among others, the New York Times, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, and Image. Her work has won an NEA and a Pushcart Prize and has been cited by Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She was Image Artist of the Month in May 2005. She is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she founded the Notre Dame Review.

Mark St. Germain

Playwriting and Screenwriting Workshop

Mark St. Germain has written the plays Camping With Henry and Tom (Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards), Out of Gas On Lover's Leap, Forgiving Typhoid Mary (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”), Ears on a Beatle, and The God Committee. With Randy Courts, he has written the musicals The Gifts of the Magi, Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller, Jack's Holiday, and The Book of the Dun Cow, adapted from Walter Wangerin Jr.’s novel. His musical, Stand by Your Man, The Tammy Wynette Story, was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theater and then toured nationally. St. Germain also co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s recently acclaimed film, Duma. A writer and creative consultant for The Cosby Show and Dick Wolfe's Crime and Punishment and The Wright Verdicts, St. Germain has received the Callaway and New Voices In American Theatre awards.

Daniel Tobin

Poetry Workshop

Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems, Where the World is Made, co-winner of the 1998 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize (University Press of New England, 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005—finalist for the Foreword Book Award in Poetry), and Second Things (forthcoming from Four Way Books, 2009), as well as a book of criticism, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and numerous essays on poetry. Among his awards are the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Greensboro Review Prize, a creative writing fellowship from the NEA, and the Robert Frost Fellowship. He was Image Artist of the Month for June 2005. Daniel Tobin is presently Chair of the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston.

Debbie Blue

Pastor

Debbie Blue is one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy, a church in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. The congregation includes writers, musicians, and visual artists whose work organically finds its way into the study and worshipping life of the community. Guest artists have included Ralph Stanley, Charlie Louvin, Michelle Shocked, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, Tim Rollins, and theologian James Alison. Reverend Blue is the author of Sensual Orthodoxy (Cathedral Hill Press, 2003) and From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again (Brazos Press, 2008). Her essays, sermons, and reflections on the scripture have appeared in Life in Body, Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross, The OE Journal, Geez, and The Christian Century.

The Glen Workshop is held in collaboration with
Christians in the Visual Arts and Christians in the Theatre Arts

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