PAST EVENTS : DECEMBER 2010

EXHIBITION: "CORRESPONDENCE"
Exhibition Dates: December 17, 2010 - January 4, 2011
Opening reception – Friday, December 17, 5 - 7pm

"Correspondence" presents drawings exchanged by second-year Visual Arts fellow KIRSTEN ULLRICH and her husband DOUGLAS LYNCH via U.S. mail between October 3, 2009 and May 7, 2010. Ullrich was completing her first FAWC fellowship year in Provincetown at that time, and Lynch was based in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Second-year Fellow KIRSTEN ULLRICH was born in Louisville, Kentucky. She holds a BFA from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art. She has shown at Local Project, in Long Island City, New York; Michael Rosenthal Gallery, in San Francisco; Vox Populi, the Main Line Art Center, and Temple Gallery, all in Philadelphia; ArtSpace at Plant Zero in Richmond, Virginia; the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, in Wilmington; the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, and artSTRAND, all in Provincetown; and has an upcoming solo show at the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, New York.

DOUG LYNCH was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied mathematics and economics as an undergraduate student and later earned his MFA in painting at the Tyler School of Art. He currently works as an educator and is a practicing artist in Brattleboro, VT. He has exhibited work in Philadelphia, Maryland, Ohio, and Vermont.

READING: REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL AND JACKIE THOMAS-KENNEDY
Saturday, December 4, 8pm

Poetry Fellow REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL is a native of Kentucky. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Connotation Press, The Great River Review, and The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Her documentary work has been collected in Plundering Appalachia (EarthWise) and This is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak (University Press of Kentucky). She has taught creative writing at the University of Kentucky and Morehead State University, and is a former director of The Women Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Drew University.

Fiction Fellow JACKIE THOMAS-KENNEDY is the winner of Narrative Magazine's Fall Fiction Contest; her story "You Cannot Lie About a Mountain" appeared in the magazine. Her story "Lake of the Meek" was named a Narrative Story of the Week. She corresponded with Ann Beattie in Narrative's "Letters to a Young Writer" series. Her stories have appeared in Narrative, Georgetown Review, The L Magazine, and StoryQuarterly. Her story "The Bridge is Moving" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Glimmer Train. Jackie has been a finalist for the Narrative Winter Fiction Contest, the Narrative 30 Below Contest, The L Magazine Literary Upstart Contest, the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, and the Iowa Review Award in Fiction. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and a BA in English from Vassar.

ARTIST TALK: DARIO ROBLETO Thursday, December 9, 8pm

Texas-based DARIO ROBLETO received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. Robleto has been exhibiting his work extensively since 1997 at museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego-Downtown; and the Aldrich Contemporary Arts Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 2008 a 10-year survey exhibition, Alloy of Love, was organized by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New Work. Notable group shows include Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Robleto has been visiting artist and lecturer at many colleges and universities including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. His awards have included the International Association of Art Critics Award in 2004 for best exhibition in a commercial gallery at the national level and recipient of both the 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the 2009 USA Rasmuson Fellowship. Upcoming exhibitions include An Instinct Towards Life, at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the group show Vernacular Spectacular, at The Walker Art Center.

READING: ADAM HASLETT AND TONY HOAGLAND
Saturday, December 11, 8pm

ADAM HASLETT is the author of the novel Union Atlantic and the New York Times best-selling short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. The collection was one of Time Magazine's Five Best Books of the Year, a selection of Today's book club, and the winner of the 2006 PEN/Malamud Award. Haslett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Stories, and National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Yale Law School, he currently lives in New York City.

TONY HOAGLAND is the author of four poetry collections, including What Narcissism Means to Me and Donkey Gospel, and a collection of essays, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft. He is the winner of numerous awards and honors, including the $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize of Poets & Writers, Inc., and the Poetry Foundation¹s Mark Twain Award, which recognizes a poet's contributions to humor in American poetry. He teaches at the University of Houston.

PAST EVENTS : NOVENBER 2010
EXHIBITION: ALL-TOWN INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION AT FINE ARTS WORK CENTER
November 12 - December 7
Opening Friday, November 12, 6-8

PAST EVENTS : OCTOBER 2010

EXHIBITION: VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE SHOW
October 8 - 12
Opening Friday, October 8, 6-8pm

An exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by members of the Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Committee will be on view in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center from October 8 - 12, 2010. The Visual Arts Committee is comprised of former Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship recipients and distinguished members of the worldwide arts community. Participating artists include LAUREN EWING, DAVID HUMPHREY,
MALA IQBAL, PAT DE GROOT, MARYALICE JOHNSTON, ANDREW MOCKLER, JIM PETERS, DUANE SLICK, BERT YARBOROUGH and others.

READING: CAROLYN FORCHÉ
Saturday, October 9, 8pm

CAROLYN FORCHÉ is the author of four books of poetry: Gathering The Tribes, which received the Yale Younger Poets Award, The Country Between Us, chosen as the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets, The Angel of History, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Blue Hour, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has translated Flowers from the Volcano and Sorrow by Claribel Alegria, The Selected Poems of Robert Desnos (with William Kulik), and Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Was Paradise (with Munir Akash). She compiled and edited Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (W.W. Norton & Co., 1993). She has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and other literary and teaching awards, including the Robert Creeley Award in 2005. A human rights activist for thirty years, she was presented the The Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture in Stockholm in 1998 for her work on behalf of human rights and the preservation of memory and culture. She has given readings and talks throughout the United States, and in twenty-two other countries. Her books have been translated into Swedish, German, Macedonian and Albanian, and poems have been translated into Polish, Bengali, Farsi, Thai, Greek, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, and Slovenian. In 2004 she became a trustee of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, Canada's premier poetry award. She teaches at Georgetown University, where she also serves as Director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.

EXHIBITION: 2010-2011 VISUAL ARTS FELLOWS GROUP SHOW
October 15 - 26
Opening Friday, October 15, 6-8pm

Featuring 2D, 3D, and time based media from the newly arriving Visual Arts Fellows. Participating artists include GOLNAR ADILI, JONATHAN EDWARDS, GAL KINAN, JONGGEON LEE, BRIDGET MULLEN, ANDY NESS, JOHN PENA, MATT BOLLINGER, JULIA BROWN, KIRSTEN ULLRICH.

PAST EVENTS : SEPTEMBER 2010

EXHIBITION: MASSART AT THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
Opening Receptions: Friday, September 17
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, at FAWC from 6-8pm
Provincetown Art Association and Museum from 8-10pm
Exhibition Dates: Sept 17- Oct 3

Featuring artwork by MARTHA BRAUN, JESSICA CHICKERING, BILL GUSKY, MEGAN MCMILLAN, TIM O’DONNELL, KATHRYN PAYNE, HOLLY POPIELARZ, MARZIA PRENDERGAST, SHARON SULLIVAN, JULIE ANGELA MCASKILL
For more information about this low-residency MFA Program,
see "Overview of MassArt MFA at FAWC".