Blackbird ArchiveWesley Gibson
Wesley Gibson (1959–2016) was the author of the novels Personal Saviors (Chelsea Station Editions, 2011) and Shelter (Harmony Books, 1992). Gibson is also the author of a memoir, You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival (Back Bay Books, 2004). His work has appeared in The Village Voice Literary Supplement , MARY: A Journal of New Writing , Out Magazine , and has been anthologized in Men on Men 5 (Plume, 1994). His honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship for Nonfiction, a Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and a Virginia Commission on the Arts grant in fiction. He taught in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California.
A contributor page profiling the late writer Wesley Gibson, author of the memoir You Are Here.
GalleryEleanor RuftyA contributor page profiling painter Eleanor Rufty and her exhibition history.
Gallery“Eleanor Rufty: New and Selected Work”An introduction to a gallery exhibition of new works by Richmond painter Eleanor Rufty.
GalleryArtist’s StatementAn artist's statement by painter Eleanor Rufty on her invented figures and cinematic approach to composition.
GalleryVoice-OverAn essay reflecting on the ambiguous, non-narrative quality of painter Eleanor Rufty's work.