The Birthday Club Since meeting at the Yale MFA program in the late 1980s, Marion Belanger, Mary Berridge, Ann Burke Daly, Laura Letinsky, Tanya Marcuse, and Jennette Williams (1952-2017) have met to discuss artwork, ideas, the art world and everyday life. Their meetings started thirty years ago, and over time were formalized into this collective, focused on dialogue and critique, co-mentoring, studio visits, and sustaining their creative lives within a community.