2009 Faculty

Lynn Aldrich

Sculpture: Constructions and Accumulations

Lynn Aldrich is a visual artist who loves text and ideas but makes sculpture and installation. Her work involves a response to the material world but revolves around the mystery of existence and the human longing for philosophical understanding. She has exhibited internationally in galleries such as the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York and Art Affairs in Amsterdam, as well as in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, and the Kampa Museum, Prague. She is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund Individual Artist Fellowship, the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, and the LACMA Purchase Award, and has published essays on contemporary art and transcendence, including “What’s the Matter with Matter?” in an anthology edited by Jeremy Begbie.

Debbie Blue

Pastor

Debbie Blue is one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy, a church in St. Paul, Minnesota. She 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. Along with preaching in the daily worship service, Reverend Blue will be available to meet individually with workshop participants.

Andy Crouch

Seminar

Andy Crouch is the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and a senior editor at Christianity Today International. He also sits on the editorial board of Books and Culture and has been a columnist for Christianity Today. He was editor-in-chief of Re:generation Quarterly and for ten years served as a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He is co-author of The Church in Emerging Culture and a contributor to the Worship Team Handbook.

B.H. Fairchild

Poetry Workshop

B.H. Fairchild is the author of The Arrival of the Future, The Art of the Lathe, and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, as well as a study of William Blake, Such Holy Song. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, and Best American Poetry 2000, among others. He’s won numerous awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A limited-edition fine press book, Trilogy, with illustrations by Barry Moser, and Usher, his sixth book of poems, are forthcoming.

Barry Moser

Drawing from Life

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.

Marilyn Nelson

Poetry Workshop

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of twelve books and three chapbooks, including The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems. Her books have won many awards, including the Poets’ Prize, two Boston Globe/Hornbook Awards, and the Annisfield-Wolf Award, and they have been finalists for three National Book Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Winship Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Newbery Prize. Nelson’s honors include two NEA creative writing fellowships, the 1990 Connecticut Arts Award, an A.C.L.S. Contemplative Practices Fellowship, a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, and a fellowship from the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut; founder and director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a small writers’ colony; and was Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut from 2001-2006.

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. Karin and Linford were 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.

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.

Joel Sheesley

Plein Air Painting

Joel Sheesley is a painter and professor of art at Wheaton College. Along with his studio practice he has developed a practice of painting the landscape outdoors. Sheesley has exhibited his work regularly in Chicago and most recently “Domestic Vision: 25 Years of the Art of Joel Sheesley” was exhibited at the Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University.

Mark St. Germain

Play & 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. St. Germain co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s acclaimed film Duma and served as Writer and Creative Consultant for The Cosby Show. Recent projects include directing and producing a documentary about the relationship between celebrities and their dogs and writing the award-winning children’s book Three Cups (www.3CupsBook.com). St. Germain has received the Callaway and New Voices in American Theatre awards.

Lauren F. Winner

Spiritual Writing

Lauren F. Winner’s Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers book. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Christianity Today, The Christian Century, Books and Culture, Oxford American, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at Duke Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina.