Faculty Presentation: Andrew Mockler,
Nick Flynn, and Brenda Shaughnessy
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
5-7 PM
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading with artist Andrew Mockler, writer Nick Flynn and poet Brenda Shaughnessy.
About Our Speakers
Andrew Mockler (b. 1964) is a painter and master printer living in Brooklyn, NY. At his printmaking workshop, Jungle Press Editions, Mockler collaborates with artists in lithography, etching, woodcut, and monoprint. He has taught at Hunter College, NY, Yale School of Art, RISD, and Columbia University. He has lectured at Cornell University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie’s New York, and The Baltimore Museum of Art. His works in painting and printmaking have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, George Billis Gallery (New York and Los Angeles) and Metaphor Gallery (Brooklyn).
Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, and poet) is the author of thirteen books, including Low (Graywolf, 2023) and Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012) and has been translated into fifteen languages. Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers.
Brenda Shaughnessy is an Okinawan-Irish American poet whose books include Tanya (2023), The Octopus Museum (2019), and the forthcoming Sensorium Ex (Knopf 2026), a poetry adaptation of the opera libretto she wrote/created in collaboration with the composer Paola Prestini. The opera Sensorium Ex premieres in 2025. Her other books include Our Andromeda, Human Dark with Sugar, and Interior with Sudden Joy. A recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the James Laughlin Award, she lives in West Orange, New Jersey.
Event Accessibility Information
The Fine Arts Work Center is committed to making its events and services inclusive and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations to fully participate, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator, Susan Blood, at 508-487-9960, extension 106.
Both the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery meet ADA accessibility standards. If you need help accessing these spaces, please call us at 508-487-9960 ext. 101 before your visit.
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Thank You to our Sponsors
This program is supported in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, Mass Development, and the Provincetown Tourism Fund.
