ABOUT THE SUMMER INSTITUTE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

HARRELL FLETCHER has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. He has exhibited at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area; The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, and Smack Mellon in New York; DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture show in Houston; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon; the Seattle Art Museum; Signal in Malmo, Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France, and The Royal College of Art in London. A Professor of Art at Portland State University in Oregon, Fletcher was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, and will travel to Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia; White Columns in New York; and The Center For Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Boston. Fletcher exhibits in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Jack Hanley Gallery, in New York with Christine Burgin Gallery, and in London with Laura Bartlett Gallery.

ABOUT THE 2006 FACULTY AND VISITING ARTISTS

SAM GOULD/RED76 is a co-founder of the Portland, Oregon-based arts collective, Red76, an ever-shifting group that produces collaborative projects, exhibitions, and events focusing on the incorporation of contemporary art into daily life and public dialogue.

EMILY JACIR uses modes of exchange in her performative actions, videos, and installations and has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, ICA Boston, Istanbul Biennial, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, the Queens Museum of Art, Apex Art and P.S.1/MoMA.

JOHN MALPEDE is a performer, director, and artist whose work includes the founding and directing of the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), comprised primarily of homeless and formerly homeless people. LAPD’s mission is to create performances that connect personal lived experience to the larger social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty.

ELISABETH SUBRIN is an award-winning filmmaker and video artist best-known for her experimental, biographical films of unusual, little-known women that examine the poetics and consequences of mental illness, the legacies of 1970s feminist ideals, and the hazy boundaries between fiction and nonfiction.

MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES has created art works over the past four decades revealing our unlimited powers of transformation - from changing degraded identities of service workers, to the restoration of ravaged landscapes, to the continuing re-birth of the individual via water immersion rituals. For 28 years she has been Artist in Residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation and, at present, she is focused on her work as the "Percent for Art" Artist of the Fresh Kills Park in New York City.

The Kitchen’s 8th Annual Sidney Kahn Summer Institute is presented in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College and is made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the generosity of its founding sponsor, Elizabeth Kahn Ingleby. Additional support has been provided by the Sidney Kahn Family Foundation. Special thanks to technology sponsor, TEKSERVE, NYC's Premiere Apple Specialist located at 119 West 23rd Street in Manhattan.