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opportunity to meet, albeit
briefly, with colleagues who
cared deeply about their work.
The experience at Ragdale
has had an important effect on
Mr. Abt's work as an artist and
as an educator. The two
months at Ragdale allowed him
the necessary time to focus seri-
ously on his work, to reinforce
his goals as an artist He has
served on the Ragdale Board of
Trustees, seeking out funding to
insure that the foundation will
continue to offer experiences
similar to his to other young
artists and writers and he con-
tinues to serve as an adviser to
the foundation.
For Debra Darvick, a free-
lance writer based in Birming-
ham, attending the Kenyon
Review Writers' Workshop in
1995 and 1996 provided her
with the opportunity to take
risks. She graduated from Keny-
on College, in Ohio, with a B.A.
in French and Spanish and no
formal training as a writer. She
writes non-fiction, primarily es-
says, and now writes a regular
column for the national publica-
tion, the Forward
The focus of the Kenyon
Workshop was fiction, some-
thing she had never found the
time for. She says that the 1996
workshop was "pure magic":
Eight participants, one teacher
and no huge egos that prevent-
ed the writers from learning
from each other.
The workshop was 10 days
long and each day the partici-
pants were expected to pro-
duce a new piece of fiction, so
there were hours of uninter-
rupted time to write.
For Ms. Darvick, this experi-
ence solidified her identity as a
writer, allowed her to produce

on another level of creativity, to
push her writing in a direction
that she had never explored be-
fore.
She acknowledges that it is
hard to hold on to the work-
shop experience when one re-
turns home. Family
responsibilities seem to take
precedence and focused, unin-
terrupted time seems impossi-
ble to find. But she has already
organized a workshop in March
to reunite with her colleagues
from the 1996 workshop
where they will write and cri-
tique each other's work.

Adult programs
with education
themes.

A cautionary tale is offered by
Stephanie Zack, an artist work-
ing in mixed media in Pontiac.
Although Ms. Zack is not for-
mally trained as an artist, a vari-
ety of experiences in her
professional and personal life
caused her to pursue her inter-
est in art in a directed and seri-
ous way.
In 1993, after studying
woodworking with a journey-
man carpenter for several years,
she decided to concentrate on
furnituremaking as fine art. She
investigated programs and op-
portunities for studying and de-
cided to apply to Haystack, a
highly regarded summer pro-
gram for artists.
She was accepted to study
with an artist with an interna-
tional reputation. Unfortunate-
ly, he was not the generous,
patient teacher she had hoped
for. In fact, the conditions in
the class were so intolerable