{"id":44,"date":"2015-10-22T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2019-10-04T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:42:20","slug":"the-artists-and-writers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/the-artists-and-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artists and Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(alphabetical by last name)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out these short additional clips to hear advice on creating and composing for an audience; becoming an artist, writer, or musician, and much more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use this page to provide students with biographical information about the artists and writers in each of the video segments. The video clips can be used to complement any of the lessons; have students view the clip of the person depicted in a particular lesson\u2019s video segment. This page could also be used as a starting point for additional research on one of the individuals. Consider having students compose a letter to the artist or writer; create a movie that incorporates the video clip and highlights the work of the person; or perhaps complete a biographical sketch of the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span class=\"names\">Fateh Azzam, playwright<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Joel Babb, painter<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Jud Caswell, singer and songwriter<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Amy Stacey Curtis, sculptor and installation artist<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Robert Farnsworth, poet<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Alison Hildreth, painter, printmaker and installation artist<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">William Pope.L, performance and visual artist, filmmaker<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Lincoln Peirce, cartoonist\/writer<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"names\">Elizabeth Strout, writer<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Fateh Azzam, playwright<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With his home base in Georgetown, Maine, Fateh was born a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States in 1966. He has lived in Syria and Lebanon, the U.S., occupied Palestine, U.K., Nigeria and Egypt. He was a member of the famed Celebration Mime Theater in So. Paris, Maine and the Director of El-Hakawati Theater Center in East Jerusalem. Fateh has worked and volunteered for human rights groups, was Associate Professor of Political Science and directed the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo and is currently the Regional Representative in the Middle East of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, based in Beirut, Lebanon.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/lb.linkedin.com\/pub\/fateh-azzam\/12\/672\/590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lb.linkedin.com\/pub\/fateh-azzam\/12\/672\/590<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fatah Azzam\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17297660?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Joel Babb, painter<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Babb graduated in Art History from Princeton in 1969, studied with George Segal and George Ortman and spent a year in Munich and Rome before going to Boston to get an MFA from the Museum School and Tufts.&nbsp; There his style changed from abstraction to a contemporary realism.&nbsp; He is well-known for his Boston cityscapes, although his more recent work has concentrated on Maine landscapes.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelmbabb.com\/\">http:\/\/www.joelmbabb.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joel Babb\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17296506?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Jud Caswell, singer and songwriter<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of the leading singer-songwriters on the current scene.&#8221; Jud has won eight nationally recognized songwriting contests, including the legendary Kerrville New Folk contest. His song &#8220;Blackberry Time&#8221; is being taught in the songwriting curriculum at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judcaswell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.judcaswell.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Judd Caswell\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17296390?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Amy Stacey Curtis, sculptor and installation artist<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1998, Amy Stacey Curtis began an 18-year commitment to art-making, a project which would culminate through 9 solo-biennial exhibits from the year 2000 to the year 2016. In the end, Curtis will have installed 81 large-in-scope interactive installation and new-media works in the vast mills of 8 or 9 Maine towns. The Maine Arts Commission&#8217;s 2005 Individual Artist Fellow for Visual Art, Curtis has committed to this work to convey that we are a part of a whole, that everyone and everything is connected and affects.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amystaceycurtis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amystaceycurtis.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amy Stacey Curtis\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17294954?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Robert Farnsworth, poet<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Farnsworth holds an A.B. degree in English from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Two collections of his verse have been published by Wesleyan University Press: \u201cHonest Winter\u201d and \u201cThree or Four Hills and a Cloud.\u201d He has received numerous awards including the PEN New England Discovery Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He currently teaches at Bates College.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x65494.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x65494.xml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Farnsworth\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17296109?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Alison Hildreth, painter, printmaker and installation artist<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alison Hildreth was born in Boston in 1934. After graduating from Vassar College majoring in English\/Art History, Hildreth worked in New York and went to night school at the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Art. She received a BFA from the Maine College of Art in 1976. Since then, Hildreth has maintained a studio in Portland. Literature informs much of her work. Most recently, she has been investigating the intersection of science and art.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisonhildreth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.alisonhildreth.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alison Hildreth\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17295269?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">William Pope.L, performance and visual artist, filmmaker<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope.L was born in 1955 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Pratt Institute, the Whitney Museum of American Art\u2019s Independent Study Program and received a BA from Montclair State University and a MFA from Rutgers University. He was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is a Guggenheim Fellow. As the self-proclaimed \u201cfriendliest black artist in America,\u201d Pope.L invites dialogue through provocative performances. He is best known for a series of more than 40 \u201ccrawls\u201d staged since 1978 as part of his larger eRacism project, in which he inched his way through busy city streets on his belly, back, hands, and knees in an attempt to draw attention to the plight of the least empowered members of society.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikip.edia.org\/wiki\/William_Pope.L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/en.wikip.edia.org\/wiki\/William_Pope.L<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Web-William Pope L\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17704103?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Lincoln Peirce, cartoonist\/writer<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincoln Peirce attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the creator of the comic strip \u201cBig Nate\u201d which appears in more than two hundred U.S. newspapers and online daily at comics.com. Lincoln Peirce lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Maine. &#8220;The Big Nate website&#8221; includes a blog, additional video interviews and a \u201chow-to-draw Big Nate\u201d video.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bignatebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.bignatebooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lincoln Peirce\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17777106?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"names\">Elizabeth Strout, writer<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Portland, Maine, Elizabeth Strout attended Bates College before earning law and gerontology degrees from Syracuse University. Strout\u2019s most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times Bestseller. She is the author of two previous best-selling novels, <em>Abide With Me<\/em> and <em>Amy and Isabelle<\/em>, She currently lives in New York city.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethstrout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.elizabethstrout.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elizabeth Strout\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17297437?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(alphabetical by last name) Check out these short additional clips to hear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/thousand-words-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}