Faculty Presentation: David Hilliard,
Garrard Conley, and Santee Frazier
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
5-7 PM
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading with Photographer David Hilliard, writer Garrard Conley and, poet Garrard Conley.
About Our Speakers
David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards including a Fulbright Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among many others. He is a regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University. Hilliard’s work appears in many publications and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and in Provincetown by the Schoolhouse Gallery.
Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased (Riverhead/Penguin 2016) and the novel All the World Beside (Riverhead/Penguin 2024). He is the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America (Stitcher/Limina 2018). His work has been published by The New York Times, Oxford American, TIME and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Kennesaw State University.
Santee Frazier, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. His most recent collection of poetry, Aurum, was published in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press. Frazier has received numerous honors, including the Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, School for Advanced Research Indigenous Writer-in-Residence, Native Arts and Culture Foundation Literature Fellowship, and a 2024 Amant Siena Studio & Research Residency Fellowship. He currently serves as the Viebranz Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University.
Event Accessibility Information
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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.
