2010 Faculty

Daily classes are taught by nationally known authors and artists, and are small enough to allow the faculty to give close attention to each participant—to beginners as well as those advanced in their craft.

Rodney Clapp

Seminar

Rodney Clapp is executive editor for Baker Academic and Brazos Press. As a theologian and cultural critic, he is the author of six books, including the award-winning Tortured Wonders and A Peculiar People. He writes “American Soundings,” a monthly column on the intersection of faith and culture, for The Christian Century. He has contributed more than 100 essays in a variety of venues, including Commonweal, Books & Culture, Cultural Encounters, and The Church of England Newspaper. He is a (modestly) published poet and is at work on his first novel. He has also served as an editor at Christianity Today, InterVarsity Press, and Evangelicals for Social Action.

B.H. Fairchild

Poetry

B.H. Fairchild is the author of The Arrival of the Future, The Art of the Lathe, Usher, and Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Best American Poetry 2000, and he has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Mary McCleary

Collage

Mary McCleary is Regent’s Professor of Art Emeritus at Stephen F. Austin State University where she taught from 1975 to 2005. She has participated in over 250 exhibits in venues such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Grey Gallery at NYU, MOBIA, the Boston Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Image, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ArtNews, and Christianity Today. For more information, go to www.marymccleary.com. For a list of materials to bring, click here.

Barry Moser

Life Drawing

Barry Moser is an artist, engraver, illustrator, essayist, typographer, and educator. His work can be found in numerous collections and libraries around the world, including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Vatican Library, and the Israel Museum. His books of engraved illustrations include the King James Bible, Moby-Dick, and The Divine Comedy. Students will use classic principles to better understand the art of drawing. No previous experience is necessary. To view the list of materials, click here.

Marilyn Nelson

Poetry

Marilyn Nelson is the author or translator of numerous books and chapbooks, most recently The Sweethearts of Rhythm (Dial Books for Young Readers). Her books have won many awards, including the Poets' Prize, the Annisfield-Wolf Award, the Boston Globe/Hornbook Award, and Newberry Honors. Three have been finalists for the National Book Award. She was Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2001-2006. In 2004 she opened her home as a small writers' colony, Soul Mountain Retreat.

Jeffrey Overstreet

Film Seminar

Jeffrey Overstreet began publishing articles on art and faith at LookingCloser.org in 1996. From 2001-2009 he wrote weekly film columns and reviews for Christianity Today. During that time, he helped establish ArtsandFaith.com, which is now an Image community online, and contributed articles to Paste, Books and Culture, The Curator, Relevant, and IMAGE. He is the author of a "travelogue of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, as well as three fantasy novels – Auralia’s Colors, Cyndere’s Midnight, and Raven's Ladder. Jeffrey lives in Seattle, where he is the contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine.

Over the Rhine

Songwriting Workshop

As Over the Rhine, Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have released a fist-full of lush, literate, and critically acclaimed CDs and were voted by critics and peers to Paste magazine’s list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. Musicians and music lovers of varying proficiency are welcome to participate in this workshop. Visit www.overtherhine.com for more.

Melissa Pritchard

Fiction

Novelist, short story writer and journalist Melissa Pritchard has published six books of fiction. Among her awards are the Flannery O’Connor and Carl Sandburg Awards and fellowships from the NEA and the Howard Foundation, Brown University. A recent Hawthornden Fellow in Midlothian, Scotland, she has just completed a fourth collection of stories, The Odditorium. Her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Image, Agni, The Southern Review and elsewhere. A two-time recipient of both the O.Henry Award and The Pushcart Prize, her work is frequently short-listed in The Pushcart Prize, The O.Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. Her books have appeared on New York Times’ Notable Picks and Editor’s Choice lists, Best Books of the Year, Chicago Tribune and on National Public Radio’s Annual Summer Reading List.

Joel Sheesley

Play & Portrait Painting

Joel Sheesley is a painter and professor of art at Wheaton College. Along with his regular studio practice he has developed an interest in portrait painting. Sheesley has exhibited his work regularly in Chicago and, most recently, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Portrait painting is open to students of all levels of experience. Click here for a list of materials to bring to the Glen.

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.

Bradford Winters

Play & Screenwriting Workshop

Bradford Winters is a writer and producer in television whose work has ranged from HBO's award-winning series, Oz, to the more recent Kings on NBC. Based in New York City where he’s been with The Levinson/Fontana Company for the past twelve years, he is currently developing an original series for HBO called Americatown, about a far-flung enclave of American immigrants in the near future. His poems and essays have appeared in such journals as IMAGE and Spoon River Poetry Review, and he is a regular contributor to the “Good Letters” blog at the Image website.

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

For more information, please write to:
Image, 3307 Third Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119.
Phone: (206) 281-2988. Or send us an e-mail.