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Artists in residence
    I consider myself a true "valley girl ". I was raised in Hastings-on Hudson ,
    educated at Bard and  now,of course , live in Germantown. Other than
    prolonged stints in Europe the farthest that I' ve lived from  the banks of
    the Hudson was when I lived for many years in the East Village. My father,
    who grew up in the Bronx, instructed us that there was no more beautiful
    landscape on earth than the Hudson River Valley and seemed to go about
    trying to prove his point by taking us, given any opportunity, to the other
    most beautiful destinations on the planet. It was true that home  always
    looked damn good.

    After graduating from Bard I set out to fulfill my fantasies by traveling the
    world and supporting myself as a photographer (I graduated from bard
    having majored in photography.) I took on any job from photographing
    marching bands all over america to paparazzi work at the clubs of NYC.
    One summer, after I'd met with some success and bought a house across
    the river in Oak Hill ( the first time in my life that I couldn't see the sun set
    west of the river) I started hanging out in barnyards and making portraits
    of the readily available and exquisite other species.This work developed in
    to both my commercial success and my personal expression. After many
    years of dividing my time between the city and the valley, I gave up the
    city five years ago. I am returning to my rambling ways. Always happy to
    call the valley home, I've hit the road with my Ridgeback , Rex. We're
    currently residing in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona riding horses-
    well one of us is..
Valerie Shaff

    Djelloul (Del) Marbrook, resident of Germantown for five years, is a retired
    newspaper executive. He is the recipient of the 2007 Wick Poetry Prize
    from Kent State University for his book, Far From Algiers, which will be
    published in September 2008. He and his wife, Marilyn, a retired U.S.
    Justice Department publisher, moved here from Oliverea in the Catskills
    because they found Germantown conducive to creative work. He maintains
    a lively blog and web site.

    Djelloul Marbrook of Germantown, NY, and Manhattan, is the 2007
    winner of Kent State University’s Stan and Tom Wick Prize for his
    book, Far From Algiers, to be published by the Kent State University
    Press in the fall of 2008.