Marilene Phipps
Encyclopedia
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell (born 1950 Haiti) is an American poet, painter, and short story writer.
, and graduated from Pennsylvania University
with an M.F.A..
Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Tanbou, and Ploughshares.
She has donated paintings to the National Center of Afro-American Artists
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Life
Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell was born in Haiti and raised in Haiti and France. She studied anthropology at the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and graduated from Pennsylvania University
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
with an M.F.A..
Her work has appeared in Callaloo, Tanbou, and Ploughshares.
She has donated paintings to the National Center of Afro-American Artists
National Center of Afro-American Artists
The National Center of Afro-American Artists is an institution founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to "preserv[e] and foster[] the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines." Although the...
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Awards
- 2000 Crab Orchard Review Poetry PrizeCrab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition AwardsThe Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards are relatively large prizes given out each year to poets with unpublished manuscripts. In addition to the cash prizes, two winners get published by a university press....
- 1999-200- Senior Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions. Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. - 1993 Grolier Prize for Poetry
- 1995 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
in painting - Bunting Institute
- Harvard University W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
- Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions
Reviews
Thus, Marilene Phipps focuses on voodoo themes but she paints incongruously in heavy dabs of oily impasto. An example is the somewhat-photographic composition of a man in white clothes paying his respects to the corpse under a sheet before a shelf loaded with statuettes and vases of flowers. The drawing is sound and the colors juicy but the general effect is perilously close to calendar art.