Kristen Henderson, poet: October 2008

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Kristen Henderson’s initial fine art studies were under the direction of Taro Yamamoto, a descendant of the Hans Hofmann School of painting, in Eastham, Massachusetts. She went on to pursue art more formally at Sarah Lawrence College where she studied painting and sculpture. Kristen’s photography is derived from a desire to find and capture the meditative, dream-like qualities in color, light and form. Her subject matter can be simple, sudden, inanimate, natural, industrial, or abstract, but the intent is not so much commentary as it is to create a space for the viewer to draw as fully a subjective experience from the image as possible. In addition, Kristen received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona, and has had poems published in numerous literary journals, including Passages North, Birmingham Review, California Quarterly, Bloom and others. In 2001, she received "First Honorable Mention" in the Passages North Elinor Benedict Poetry competition, and was again a finalist in 2006. In 2007, two of Kristen's poems were selected by Eamon Grennan for inclusion in Avant Garde Voices of the Hudson Valley, II. Kristen received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize in 2006 and again in 2008 for poems best depicting the "spirit of life." She also completed her master's degree in social work at SUNY, Albany in May, 2008. In 2010, after working as a case manager at a residential treatment center in Rhinebeck, NY, Henderson accepted a position as Director of the Cherry Branch Gallery in Cherry Valley, NY.

From 2010-2015 she hosted and/or curated over 45 exhibitions by such prominent artists as: illustrator, Scott Donohue; multimedia artist, Richard Frasca; watercolorist, Carol Ann Henderson; painter, Alice B. Hurwitz; impressionist, multimedia artist, David Leo; Ed McDaniel; watercolorist, Kathy Minnig; potter/clay artist, MaryAnn Nellis; plein air painter, Mary Nolan; landscape painter, Richard Redmond; photographer, Phil Scalia; sculptor, Jennifer L. Smith; photographer, Robin Supak; iphoneographer, Vicki Whicker; among many highly skilled and accomplished others, too numerous to mention.

Henderson also welcomed a monthly writers’ group, hosted readings-- most notably by poets, Dennis Bernstein, author of Special Ed; F. Bjórnson Stock, author of Drawing Water; memoirist, Nancy Waller, author of My Nanking Home: 1918-1937; and a memorably enchanting evening of journal excerpts by Pamela Livingston about her travels to the Peruvian Amazon.

Kristen Henderson, poet

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Madison Square Park, NYC

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