Faculty Presentation: Fred Liang, Michaela RedCherries, and Kelli Jo Ford
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for a summer faculty artist talk and reading and with artist Fred H. C. Liang and writers Michaela RedCherries and Kelli Jo Ford.
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About Our Speakers
Fred H. C. Liang received a BFA from The University of Manitoba and an MFA from Yale University. His honors include Massachusetts Cultural Council Arts Grants in painting, printmaking, and works on paper. Liang’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including Fidelity, the Gund Collection, Addison Museum of American Art, and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Liang’s most recent exhibitions include the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Addison Museum of American Art in Massachusetts, XC.HuA Gallery in Berlin, and Jerez de la Frontera Gallery at The University of Cadiz, Spain. He was the recipient of the 2020 Joan Michell Foundation Grant and Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2021 as well as a JMF Residency Fellow in 2026. Liang is a Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.
Michaela RedCherries is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. She has a J.D. from Arizona State University College of Law and an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her debut mother was a finalist for the National Book Award. She currently teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM.
Kelli Jo Ford‘s novel-in-stories debut, Crooked Hallelujah, was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Dublin Literary Award, and The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of honors and awards such as an NEA Literature Fellowship, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, a Creative Capital Award, and a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She teaches writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
