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Dan_Chiasson

Dan Chiasson (; born May 9, 1971 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American poet, critic, and journalist. The Sewanee Review called Chiasson "the country’s most visible poet-critic." He is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English Literature at Wellesley College.
Chiasson is the author of six books: The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002), Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Where's the Moon, There's the Moon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) and The Math Campers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).
Chiasson is currently working on a nonfiction book about politics and change in American life, "Bernie for Burlington: Sanders in a Changing Vermont, 1968-1991," based in part on his own early memories of Mayor Sanders, to be published by Pantheon in 2025.

Sam_Bartlett

Sam Bartlett (born Samuel Hamilton Bartlett, November 8, 1961, Burlington, Vermont) is an American folk artist, public art instigator, cartoonist, performer, musician, and composer. As a visual artist, Bartlett’s iconic style has been featured in publications, solo exhibitions, collaborative public artworks, and moving object performances including panoramic “crankie shows” and large-scale papier-mache puppetry. Stuntology is Bartlett’s signature art and performance genre of humorous parlor tricks and messy exploration with everyday objects. Decades of collection and documentation are represented in four illustrated volumes of Stuntology cartoons, as well as his long-running one-man show.
As a musician, Bartlett is a prominent performer and composer of traditional American, Irish and New England folk music on the national contra dance circuit.

Julia_Kunin

Julia Kunin is an American sculpture and video artist. She was born in Vermont, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is inspired by organic forms, undersea creatures, and interior spaces, with a focus on the female body. She graduated from Rutgers University (M.F.A.) in 1993 and Wellesley College (B.A.) in 1984, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been featured in ARTnews, House and Garden, The Brooklyn Rail, and in Harmony Hammond's book Lesbian Art in America (Rizzoli, 2000).
Kunin is the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Fulbright in 2013. She has participated in many artist residencies and fellowship programs, including The Macdowell Colony in Peterborough, NH; the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, in New York state; and Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Kunin has been featured in numerous exhibits nationally and internationally, with shows in Mother Gallery in NYC in 2022 with Yevgeniya Baras, a group show at LACMA in Los Angeles in 2022, as well as in Miami at the Mindy Solomon Gallery in 2022. She has had solo shows at the McClain Gallery in Houston in 2021 and in NYC in 2020 at Kate Werble Gallery and at Sandra Gering Inc in 2015, Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas in 2013, Greenberg Van Doren in 2012, and the Deutsches Leder Museum in Offenbach, Germany in 2002. She had a two-person exhibition with Jackie Gendel at Jeff Bailey Gallery in 2014.
Kunin is represented by Sandra Gering Gallery in New York City.

Jonathan_Mann_(musician)

Jonathan Mann (born April 9, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for creating a song and video every day since January 2009. His songs often allude to news and popular trends of the very day he uploads them to his YouTube channel. In November 2014, Mann set a world record for the most consecutive days writing a song.

Fay_McKenzie

Eunice Fay McKenzie (February 19, 1918 – April 16, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She starred in silent films as a child, and then sound films as an adult, but perhaps she is best known for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry in the early 1940s in five horse opera features. She was also known for her collaborations with director Blake Edwards on five occasions.
She also appeared on Broadway, radio, and television, having appeared on screen at ten weeks old in 1918. She was still appearing on screen at the time of her death, with her latest project opposite her son Tom Waldman Jr. in the comedy Kill a Better Mousetrap, based on a play by Scott K. Ratner, filmed in the summer of 2018 and not yet released at the time of her death. She was briefly billed as Fay Shannon.

Magaly_Solier

Magaly Solier Romero (born 11 June 1986) is a Peruvian actress and singer.
Magaly Solier Romero was born on 11 June 1986 in to a Quechua family, the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho in Peru. She speaks the indigenous language of Quechua, as well as Spanish. Solier has publicly spoken about the importance of supporting indigenous language, traditions, and culture.In 2003, she won the Festival de la Canción Ayacuchana with her singing. A year later, she made her debut as an actress in the film Madeinusa.In June 2017, Solier was declared an Artist of Peace by UNESCO in Paris, France.