Select Fellows from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts present their work at an evening salon

Toronto writer and journalist Christine Fischer Guy’s first novel, The Umbrella Mender, was met with critical acclaim. Her short fiction has been published across North America and was nominated for the Pushcart and Journey Prizes. She contributes to the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Globe and Mail and taught creative writing at the School for Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto. She won a National Magazine Award Silver in 2012 for her profile of Métis activist Chelsea Vowel. She is at work on a coming-of-age novel about a young a classical pianist.

Master printer Susan J. Goldman is Founding Director of Lily Press and the Printmaking Legacy Project, a non-profit dedicated to documentation and preservation of printmaking practice and history. She has taught at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Georgetown University, and George Mason University. For work on her film Midwest Matrix, a groundbreaking documentary on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest, she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Through her collaboration with choreographer Keira Hart-Mendoza and the dance company UpRooted Dance, Goldman transforms two-dimensional prints into fully animated, three-dimensional, large-scale sculptural forms moving through time and space.

For more information, email Carrie Brown at cbrown@sbc.edu. 

Public attendance is limited and all guests are required to wear a facial covering.