Faculty Presentation:
Eileen Myles, Sara Stern, and Vicky Tomayko
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
5-7 PM
Join us for a summer faculty reading and artist talk with writer Eileen Myles and artists Sara Stern and Vicky Tomayko.
About Our Speakers
Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Their newest books are Pathetic Literature and a “Working Life”, poems. Myles’s fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.
Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her recent projects prod varied histories of landscape and urban development with speculative fiction. She works between and across multimedia performance, moving image installation, sculpture, architectural intervention, printmaking, and animation. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (LIC, NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY, NY), The Jewish Museum (NY, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore), and the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), where Stern was a 2018-2019 Visual Arts Fellow and 2022 Pace Fellow.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who lives in Truro, MA. A former fellow of The Fine Arts Work Center and the current manager of the FAWC printshop, she leads workshops for fellows, facilitates projects, and works to maintain and improve the printmaking experience at FAWC. Tomayko also teaches silkscreen and painting at Cape Cod Community College. Her work can be seen locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.
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.
With the exception of service animals, pets are not allowed in the Fine Arts Work Center’s indoor public spaces. While we recognize the important role pets play in our lives, our priority is maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for all participants and approved animals. These policies are based on feedback from staff and the community. For more details, please visit our Service and Emotional Support Animal Policy.
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.
