As the vital link between CUE's Board of Directors and the Advisory Council, Gregory Amenoff serves as the Curator Governor of the Council and is the sole permanent member. A painter who lives between New York City and New Mexico, he is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, and The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts. Mr. Amenoff has had one person exhibitions in scores of museums, public spaces and galleries throughout the United States and Europe and his work is in the permanent collections of more than twenty eminent museums around the country. Mr. Amenoff has been a Professor of Art at Columbia since 1994, and was recently appointed as the inaugural Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts in the School of the Arts. As an artist, Mr. Amenoff is represented by Salander O'Reilly Galleries in New York, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe and Vidal St. Phalle Galerie in Paris.

Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma's work has appeared in one-person and group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying books at the Museum of Modern Art NY and the International Center of Photography. His monographs include: Come Sunday (with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Found in Brooklyn (with an introduction by Dr. Robert Coles), Sunset Park, Higher Ground (with an introduction by Ian Frazier), Enduring Justice (with an introduction by Norman Mailer), Show & Tell, Sanctuary (with and introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), Sicilian Passage, In Prison Air (with an introduction by John Szarkowski), On Three Pillars (with text by Phillip Lopate), and his latest publication House Calls with William Carlos Williams, MD with an accompanying text by Dr. Robert Coles which was released this September by powerhouse Books, Inc.

He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and in 1996 became the Director of the Photography Program at Columbia University School of the Arts where he is a Professor of Art. His work is in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. Mr. Roma lives in Brooklyn with his wife Anna and their son Giancarlo.

Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939.  He is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties.

He is the author of sixteen books and pamphlets of poetry -- including, most recently, Gloria, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press, 2005), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, poems from 2001-2006 with cover image by Vija Clemins (The Owl Press, 2007), Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 with cover image by Philip Guston (Cuneiform Press, 2007), and in collaboration with Bernadette Mayer, What's Your Idea of a Good Time?, Letters & Interviews 1977-1985 (Tuumba Press, 2006).  His poems have also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. He is also a Corresponding Editor for Art in America and a regular contributor to Artforum, Modern Painters, Art on Paper, American Craft and other magazines. From 1971-78, he was editor-publisher of Big Sky magazine and books.

Berkson was awarded a creative writing fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and has also received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, Artspace, the Poets Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, and Briarcombe Foundation.  He was appointed Distinguished Paul Mellon Lecturer for 2006 at Skowhegan School of Art. He lives in San Francisco.

William Corbett is a poet, memoirist, art critic and essayist. Owing to his distinct role in developing CUE's literary programs that coincide with specific exhibitions, Mr. Corbett will continue to serve as a member of the Advisory Council for another two seasons. He has written books on New York City literary life, the sculptor John Raimondi and painter Philip Guston. His most recent books are Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999) and his collected essays and reviews, All Prose (Zoland Books, 2001). He frequently publishes poetry and prose in The Boston Phoenix, Modern Painters, Brick and other journals and magazines large and small.  Mr. Corbett is Writer-in-Residence at MIT, an editor of Pressed Wafer, and lives in Boston's South End.

Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oak Park, Illinois. She is co-director of The Suburban, a nonprofit space that she initiated in 1998 together with the artist Brad Killam, which hosts international artists and projects, including Dave Muller and Joseph Grigely. The Suburban is dedicated to giving the artist complete control over what they choose to produce and exhibit. A regular contributor to Frieze, Tema Celeste, and New Art Examiner, Chicago Tribune, Art in America and many other publications, Grabner is also an associate professor of painting at the University of Wisconsin and a graduate advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Grabner also develops independent curatorial projects, including Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art in 2002 for the Rocket Gallery in the U.K. Since 1996 Grabner has exhibited her paintings regularly with the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica; University Galleries, University of Illinois; Ten in One Gallery, New York; and the Rocket Gallery in the U.K.; as well as participating in numerous group shows across the U.S. and in Europe.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of six novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two short story collections, Men and Cartoons and The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, and the editor of The Vintage Book of Amnesia. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Harper's. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.

Lari Pittman, a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the California Institute for the Arts. His work is featured in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has earned international recognition with recent solo exhibitions including the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY; Greengrassi, London, England, the Monika Sprüth-Philomene Magers Gallery, Münich, Germany and Regen Projects in Los Angeles, CA. In 2006, Pittman received an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. He teaches Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Marjorie Welish is an artist/critic whose practice encompasses both painting and poetry. Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought), 2003) consists of papers given at a conference on her writing and art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Recently a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in art, she taught seminars in art criticism at the University of Frankfurt where she also worked to complete a limited-edition art book in collaboration with James Siena, to be published by Granary Books in 2008. Other art grants and fellowships awarded her: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor Foundation, International Studio Program, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding. Her paintings are represented by Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, in New York, and Aaron Galleries, in Chicago. Her book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Isle of the Signatories is her most recent book of poems; others are Word Group (2004), and The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems (2000), this last a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets. All are published by Coffee House Press. Welish has received poetry grants and fellowships from the Djerassi Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University in 2005.

Welish regularly teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.

Vicky A. Clark

Petah Coyne

Meg Cranston 

Roy De Carava

James Drake

Bruce W. Ferguson

Vernon Fisher

Malik Gaines

Sanford Hirsch

Dana Hoey

Deborak Kass

Kris Kuramitsu

Iriving Sandler