The Capitol Center Presents Two MacDowell Colony Fellows, Anna Schuleit Haber and Jeff Sharlet, 10/18

The Capitol Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome two MacDowell Colony Fellows to the historic Kimball House as part of the inaugural year of the Salon Series for a weekend of thought provoking discussion: Visual artist Anna Schuleit Haber will converse about her work on Friday, October 17, and bestselling author Jeff Sharlet will engage with audiences in the intimate Victorian-era Kimball House on Saturday, October 18.

Anna Schuleit Haber's work lies at the intersection of painting, drawing, installation art, architecture, and community, ranging from room installations made with paint, to large-scale projects using extensive sound systems, live sod, thousands of flowers, mirrors, antique telephones, bodies of water, and neuroscience technologies. Anna studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard. Among many other honors, she was named a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow for work that has "conceptual clarity, compassion, and beauty."

Jeff Sharlet, a Fellow of The MacDowell Colony, is the nationally bestselling author of The Family, described by Barbara Ehrenreich as "one of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposes you'll ever read." His most recent book , Sweet Heaven When I Die, "belongs in the tradition of long-form, narrative nonfiction best exemplified by Joan Didion, John McPhee [and] Norman Mailer," (The Washington Post), and excerpts from his 2010 book, C Street, received the Molly Ivins Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, and the Outspoken Award. In April 2014 Yale University Press will publish Sharlet's anthology Radiant Truths. Sharlet is Mellon Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, the college's first tenure-track professor of creative nonfiction, and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

The MacDowell Colony, founded in 1907 in Peterborough, NH, is the oldest artists' colony in the United States and was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1997. The Colony awards residencies to composers, filmmakers, visual artists, interdisciplinary writers, and architects.

These performances are part of the Capitol Center's Salon Series, bringing artists and audiences together for thought-provoking lectures and performances in the intimate, Victorian-era Kimball House.

Tickets for each performance are $25 and are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Saturday hours after Labor Day)