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Jock Reynolds, Artist and the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art
Gallery
Mr. Reynolds earned a B.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and
an M.F.A. in 1972 from the University of California, Davis. From 1973 to 1983 he was
an associate professor and director of the graduate program at the Center for
Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at San Francisco State University, and was also a
cofounder of New Langton Arts, San Francisco s premier alternative artists space. From
1983 to 1989 Mr. Reynolds served as the executive director of the Washington Project
for the Arts, a multidisciplinary visual artists association in Washington, D.C., before
becoming the director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Massachusetts, a position he held until September 1998, when he was
appointed the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery and professor
(adjunct). Mr. Reynolds has won numerous grants and awards, including two National
Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists fellowships, a Fulbright fellowship, and multiple
National Endowment for the Arts/Art in Public Places project awards. Mr. Reynolds
frequently collaborates in his work with Suzanne Hellmuth, his wife. Their performances,
installations, and photographs have been commissioned and exhibited in many solo and
group exhibitions and installations in Japan, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and
across the United States. Mr. Reynolds s and Ms. Hellmuth s artwork is represented in
both private and public collections, including the Smithsonian s National Museum of
American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, and the University of Washington s Henry Art Gallery.

Rosanne Cash:
Singersongwriter and author. Rosanne Cash's fourteen albums have charted eleven
number-one singles. Her most recent album, The River and the Thread (2013) is a
kaleidoscopic examination of the geographic, emotional, and historic landscape of the
American South. The album s unique sound, which draws from country, blues, gospel,
and rock, reflects the soulful mix of music that traces its history to the region.
She is the author of four books, including Bodies of Water (1997), Songs Without Rhyme:
Prose by Celebrated Songwriters (2001), Composed: A Memoir (2010), and the children's
book Penelope Jane: A Fairy's Tale (2006). Her essays and fiction have appeared in The
New York Times, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine. She lives in New York City
with her husband, John Leventhal, and her children.
Wendell Berry:
Wendell Berry was born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1934. He earned a bachelor s
degree from the University of Kentucky in 1956 and continued on to complete a master s
degree in 1957. In 1958, he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford
University.
Berry has taught at Stanford University, Georgetown College, New York University, the
University of Cincinnati, and Bucknell University. He taught at his alma mater, the
University of Kentucky from 1964-77, and again from 1987-93.
The author of more than 50 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Wendell Berry has
been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship (1962), the Vachel Lindsay Prize from Poetry (1962), a Rockefeller
Foundation Fellowship (1965), a National Institute of Arts and Letters award for writing
(1971), the Emily Clark Balch Prize from The Virginia Quarterly Review (1974), the
American Academy of Arts and Letters Jean Stein Award (1987), a Lannan Foundation
Award for Non-Fiction (1989), Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers
(1991), the Ingersoll Foundation s T. S. Eliot Award (1994), the John Hay Award (1997),
the Lyndhurst Prize (1997), and the Aitken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee
Review (1998). Most recently, he has been awarded the National Humanities Medal
(2010) by Barack Obama, and gave 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C.
His books include the novel Hannah Coulter (2004), the essay collections Imagination in
Place (2010) and What Matters? (2010), and Leavings: Poems (2010), all available from
Counterpoint Press. Berry s latest works include New Collected Poems (2012) and A
Place in Time (2012), Wendell Berry s newest volume in his Port William series.
He lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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