Discipline: Literature

Carole Bovoso

Discipline: Literature
Region: Olivebridge, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
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Carole Ione Bovoso, also known simply as IONE, is an African-American author, playwright, director, and counselor. She has taught and performed throughout the world with her partner and spouse, Pauline Oliveros. Pauline and IONE have created four large music theater works together Including Njinga the Queen King, The Return of a Warrior (BAM’s Next Wave Festival), Io and Her and the Trouble with Him-A Dance Opera in Primeval Time (U of Wisconsin’s Union Theater), and The Lunar Opera (Lincoln Center Out of Doors), and the film Dreams of the Jungfrau. Oliveros and Ione's The Nubian Word for Flowers; a Phantom Opera, opened to critical acclaim at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, November, 2017. IONE's memoir, Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, was a New York Times Notable Book on its publication. A journalist for many years IONE, published in major magazines and newspapers throughout the 1980s including The Village Voice, The Gannett newspapers, and Vogue. Other works include Listening in Dreams, Piramida Negra, Nile Night, and Spell Breaking 1 and 2 Anthologies. She was artistic director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. for 15 years and currently is a Deep Listening Certification Instructor at the Center for Deep Listening in Troy, NY. As founding director of M.o.M., Inc. (The Ministry of Maåt), in Kingston, NY since 1997, IONE teaches workshops and seminars throughout the world, encouraging and supporting women’s well-being and sustaining a vibrant international community of writers, visual artists, and musicians.

Studios

Irving Fine

Carole Bovoso worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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