December FAWC Friday
Friday, December 5, 2025
5-9 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Join us on a selected Friday each month from November and February for a fantastic lineup of visiting writers and visual artists of national recognition who will share their work. Our Fellows in residence will also be invited to open their studios for you to explore, and the Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio will be available for art-making activities. To add to the festive atmosphere, we have local musicians lined up, and Cape Cod restaurants and caterers will provide food and drinks for all. FAWC Fridays are a unique opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate in a fun and participatory way.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
5 PM
Complimentary Cuisine by Chef Liam and The Salty Market
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Sonic vibes by DJ Emerson
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 PM
Artist Talk and Reading
With artist Sheida Soleimani and writer Nicholas Boggs, followed by audience conversation.
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
7:30 PM
Printmaking Activity
With Printmaker Vicky Tomayko
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
Gallery Activation
With Cape Cod filmmaker Lise Balk King
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Open Studios with select Fellows
9 PM
End of Event
About Our Visiting Artists
Sheida Soleimani is an artist, educator, and licensed wildlife rehabilitator whose work examines power, environmental crisis, queerness, migration, and care. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s, Soleimani draws on archival materials, props, and sculptural elements to create visually lush, politically incisive tableaux. She works across various mediums, investigating themes such as oil politics and human rights abuses, confronting the systems of violence linking the SWANA region and the United States, unraveling their implications in American culture. Soleimani’s work is held in permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, US), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – PAFA (Philadelphia, US), amongst others.
Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades. He also co-edited a new edition of Baldwin’s collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018). He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library at Yale, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Most recently he was the 2024-2025 John Hope Franklin Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Lise Balk King is an Emmy Award-nominated and Cinema Eye Honors-nominated documentary filmmaker and social impact producer, consultant in media and communications strategy, and public health specialist. King has a BA in History from Mt. Holyoke College and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she also served three years as a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She studied documentary filmmaking at Harvard VES. Her work has spanned the roles of producer, publisher, advocate, consultant, event organizer, writer, editor, filmmaker, and photographer. Ms. King’s work first focused on using major media and corporate engagement for mainstream advocacy and education, focusing on environmental issues and social justice.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who lives in Truro, MA. A past Fine Arts Work Center Fellow and the current manager of FAWC’s printshop, she leads workshops for Fellows, facilitates projects, and works to maintain and improve the printmaking experience at FAWC. Tomayko also teaches silkscreen at Cape Cod Community College. Her work can be seen locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.
The Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery are accessible facilities in compliance with ADA guidelines.
If you require assistance accessing these venues, please call the Fine Arts Work Center at 508-487-9960 ext.101 before your visit.
Sponsored partly by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, Mass Development, and Provincetown Tourism Fund.
