From Brandeis Magazine: "At Reunion, I was delighted to reconnect with Mal Sibulkin, who now spells his name “Maal.” That is, no doubt, a result of his Fulbright fellowship in Finland after graduation from Brandeis. He remained in Finland for a few years and married there. I remember this well because we were both music majors — and there were only three of us in our class (none in the first class). Maal gave up his composing, returned to the United States and now lives in Farmington, Maine. During recent years, he has turned to writing poetry, which he has recited on a Mt. Blue TV-Channel 11 program called “Talkin’ Maine,” hosted by state Sen. Tom Saviello. Though he now sports a long beard and a rural Maine appearance, Maal has a voice that is pure Massachusetts, and the poetry is great."
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Maal Sibulkin
Studios
Wood
Maal Sibulkin worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…