International Art Exhibition Highlights Works of Fulbright Alumni

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 19, 2006)—The Fulbright Association’s Arts Task Force and the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association announced the artists to be exhibited in Bridging Cultures through Art: A Fulbright Alumni Art Exhibition at Les Atlassides Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco, from Nov. 5 through 7.

Jules Maidoff (Italy 1956), a founder and past director of Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, served as juror. He said that the experience of being abroad on a Fulbright grant, while expressed variously in the artists’ work, was an organizing principle for the exhibition. Artists and works selected follow.

Kimberly Kersey Asbury (Botswana 1998), “Landscape Book, No. 1”

Noufissa Benjelloun (U.S. 1991, 2001), “Ma Mère, Mon Enfant”

Michael Brodsky (India 1980), “Pixel Dehumanization”

Joanna Catalfo (Italy 1999), “Camera and Calla Lilies”

Carrie Clyne (China 2004), “Hanging onto the Past”

Carol Cooper (U.S. 2001), “Route 66 Diner”

Abdelhaï Diouri (U.S. 1987), “Inscape (2004)”

Eric Dyer (Denmark 2004), “Copenhagen Cycles”

Lynn Friedman (Portugal 1990), “Sulking Boy”

Nancy Goldring (Sri Lanka/India 1994), “La Guarida: Pink Drip”

Leigh Hyams (Europe 1984), “Dos Daturas”

David L. Jacobs (Taiwan 2003), “Brides”

Elizabeth Kenneday (Iceland 2004), “Sapling, Fossvogsdalur”

Ariane Alzhara Kirtley (Niger 2005), “Drinking Camel Milk”

Leonard Lehrer (Greece 2001, 2003), “Sojourns”

Harry Leippe (Italy 1960), “Burger Chain”

Alan C. MacTaggart (England 1977, Bulgaria 1983), “Kreuzberg”

Edward Monroe (Bulgaria 2004), “Plovdiv Sunshine”

Shayna Plaut (Macedonia 2003), “Forgotten Playground”

Mary Polley (China 2000), “Temple Festival Opera Faces, Wutaishan, PRC”

Susanna Lippóczy Rich (Hungary 2004), “Of Course You Can”

Jeffrey A. Sarmiento (Denmark 2003), “Escape (Blue)”

Terese M. Sarno (Egypt 1977, Belgium/Netherlands 1980, Malaysia 1984),
“Changing of the Guard”

Barbara Simcoe (Lithuania 2004), “Birth”

Bradly Dever Treadaway (Italy 2005), “Vettraio (glassworker)”

Laura Gluckman Wayth (Russia 2002), “Tretakov”

Lois Weinthal (Germany 2002), “Berlin - Palace Dome with Palace Garden”

Al Zaruba (Korea 2003), “Moondog”

Jen Zen (United Kingdom 1994), “Centaur”

“I perceive the effect of their time as Fulbright grantees in these works. I find it expressed in so many various and unique ways,” said Mr. Maidoff. “Implicit in much of the work is the resonance of encounters the artists have had with people, with ways of living differently than their own which enabled them to broaden and question the solutions they had already in their arsenal of art concepts. It [affected] them as total person and forced them to question their already acquired set of criteria and values.

The Fulbright Program, created in 1946 by legislation introduced by then Senator J. William Fulbright, promotes mutual understanding among the people of the United States and the people of other nations through the exchanges of students, teachers, scholars, and professionals. Approximately 267,500 Fulbright grants have been awarded for exchanges between the people of the United States and people from over 160 countries.

Bridging Cultures Through Art will run in conjunction with the Fulbright Association’s 29^th Annual Conference, “Fulbright Alumni: Expressions in Civil Society,” November 3 through 5, and the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association conference, “Morocco in Western Art,” November 6 and 7.