Join Bronx-based artists Firelei Báez and Derek Fordjour for a conversation about painting on Thursday, May 20th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The event is part of the Fine Arts Work Center’s virtual “Opening to Wonder” series. Registration is $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
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Radical Art
Join David Humphrey and Tala Madani for a conversation about “making art with charged psycho-social content” on Thursday, May 13th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The event is part of the Fine Arts Work Center’s virtual “Opening to Wonder” series. Registration is $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Body Positive
Join the Fine Arts Work Center for “Phantom Bodies: The Haptic Unhinged,” a virtual talk with artists Angela Dufresne, Melissa Ragona, Andrew Woolbright, Mala Iqbal, and Joiri Minaya, on Thursday, April 22nd, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. It will address a movement in figurative painting that “rejects the Western canonical fixation of depicting flesh through paint as a vehicle of desire and the gaze.” Register with a $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Art Hurts
Jacolby Satterwhite, who works with video, performance, 3D animation, and fibers, discusses his art in “We Are in Hell When We Hurt Each Other,” part of “Opening to Wonder” via the Fine Arts Work Center, on Thursday, April 15th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Registration is $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Slick and Smick
Join artists Duane Slick and Martin Smick for “My Teacher Is a Lizard,” a virtual talk via the Fine Arts Work Center on Thursday, April 8th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Slick and Smick are recent recipients of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant. Their collaborative project concerns decolonializing museum collections of Native American culture. Registration is $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Sharon Polli Named FAWC Executive Director
The board of trustees of the Fine Arts Work Center announced last week that Sharon Polli has been appointed the organization’s new executive director, effective May 10th. Polli, who currently serves as executive vice president of BRIC, in Brooklyn, N.Y., was chosen through a nationwide search led by Arts Consulting Group. She replaces Richard MacMillan, who announced he was stepping down last August, and Margaret Murphy, who became interim executive director on March 1.
“Nearly two decades ago, I first explored the thriving Provincetown artistic community and was awestruck by its vibrancy,” said Polli in a press release. “I believe in the vital role that the Fine Arts Work Center plays in supporting emerging talent in the arts and literature, and I am extremely honored to join the outstanding team at FAWC.”
At BRIC, Polli had extensive fundraising experience, and she previously worked at Groundswell, CreateNYC, and Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance. She is currently co-chair of the board of directors of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC.
Virtual Spring Workshops at FAWC
Registration is open for 24PearlStreet, the online workshop channel of the Fine Arts Work Center. Classes will be asynchronous (recorded), asynchronous with live elements, or live, and will begin as early as April 12th. Tuition runs from $500 to $650.
Among the offerings is “Ostranenie: Poetry as a Practice of Awareness,” with Nickole Brown, April 19th to April 23rd. The course title is a Russian term, used in literature, meaning “defamiliarization.” There is also “Water, Fire, Earth, and Air,” with Fred Marchant, April 26th to May 21st. Participants will read, discuss, and write poetry related to the four elements.
Joanne Dugan is teaching “Writing Pictures: an Exploration of Text and Image,” also April 26th to May 21st, described as an experimental workshop in which students “combine text and photographs to tell their stories in a new way.” Elissa Altman is teaching “Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story,” May 10 to June 4, which will explore what differentiates a great memoir from an “information dump.”
Walton Ford, ‘In the Studio’
Join the Fine Arts Work Center for “In the Studio with Walton Ford” next Thursday, March 25th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at fawc.org. The event is part of the continuing virtual “Opening to Wonder: Creative Conversations on the Visual Arts” series.
The 19th-century artists John James Audubon and J.J. Grandville are the inspiration for Ford’s natural history watercolors and limited-edition prints. A $25 minimum donation is requested for registration.
Waxing Poetic
Join Vievee Francis for “The Ars Poetica and the Developing of a Personal Vision,” a virtual “craft conversation” via the Fine Arts Work Center, on Thursday, December 17th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Francis is the author of three books of poetry: Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, and Forest Primeval. Register with a $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Scream Along with Lili
Actor and musician Billy Hough will interview actor Lili Taylor as part of a virtual “craft conversation” via the Fine Arts Work Center on Thursday, December 10th, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Registration is $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Be All, End All
Victoria Redel will interview Bill Clegg on his new novel The End of the Day on Thursday, December 3rd, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., as part of the Fine Arts Work Center’s “Craft Conversations on Writing.” Registration for this virtual event with $25 minimum donation at web.fawc.org.
Howe and Why
Join poet Brenda Hillman, the author of 10 collections of poetry, including White Dress, Fortress, and Death Tractates, for “Some Notes on Poetic Courage,” a virtual talk and conversation with Marie Howe, hosted by the Fine Arts Work Center. It will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, December 1st, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Register with a $25 suggested donation at fawc.org.
FAWC Live-Streams Terrance Hayes
Among the many honors poet Terrance Hayes has received is a 2014 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. His most recent collection of poems, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He currently is a professor of English at New York University, and on Thursday, November 5th, at 6 p.m., he’ll be the featured guest of the Fine Arts Work Center’s virtual series, “Open to Wonder: Craft Conversations on Writing.”
To register, go to fawc.org. A minimum donation of $25 is requested.
Writers’ Talk
Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center is hosting a virtual “Craft Conversation” with authors Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken on Thursday, October 29th, at 6 p.m. Register with a $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
Teach Talk
Join poet Susan Choi and novelist Michael Cunningham for a virtual “craft conversation” on “What Teaching Teaches Writers,” hosted by (and benefiting) the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. It will take place Thursday, October 22nd, at 6 p.m. Register with a $25 minimum donation at fawc.org.
