Scribes' corner

Kudos to Sarah Bracey White, Greenburgh cultural goddess, South Salem writer and curator Pamela Hart and Hastings-on-Hudson fiction writer Christine Lehner, the first fellows of the new Purchase College Writers Center, opening this fall.

The three will be given small stipends, offices in the college's library and access to its data base. All of you writers (and artists of any stripe) out there know how important it is to have "a room of one's own," as Virginia Woolf put it, in which to create. So we can enjoy their opportunity vicariously.

I've known Sarah for years in her other guise, as tireless exhibit and poetry-series organizer for the town of Greenburgh. Christine I interviewed when she published her wry story collection "What to Wear to Meet the Pope."

Pamela Hart is a new name to me. But she has a foot in the world of the visual arts as well as the literary world, and I often find that writers make the best curators, as in the case of the Jewish Museum's marvelous "Kafka" show of a few seasons back and the Neuberger Museum of Art's "British Subjects" exhibit by Purchase College humanities head Louise Yelin, who'll direct the new Writers Center.

Sarah thinks it's a writer's storytelling ability that makes for curatorial expertise. I think, too, writers paint and sculpt -- just with words -- so they bring a different perspective to the visual.

You can read my story on Sarah in Monday's edition of the Westchester County Business Journal.

Georgette Gouveia is a reporter for Westfair Communications, which publishes the Westchester County and Fairfield County business journals and HV Biz.