February FAWC Friday
with Artist Rico Gatson, Writer Emily Lee Luan,
and Artist Mark Adams
Friday, February 14, 2025
5-9 PM
Join us on Friday, February 14, 2025 for a reading and artist talk with artists Rico Gatson, and Mark Adams , and Writer Emily Lee Luan. 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; reservations are encouraged.
5 pm
Food with George’s Pizza
Music by Chan Collins, cellist
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 pm
Artist talk and reading with
Artist Rico Gatson and Writer Emily Lee Luan
followed by audience conversation
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
7:30 pm
Pop-up bookshop with East End Books
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Printmaking activity with
Printmaker Vicky Tomayko
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
Mark Adams with
Center for Coastal Studies
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Open studios with select Fellows
9 pm
End of Event
About Our Visiting Artists
Rico Gatson is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, video and public art.
Over the course of almost two decades, he has been celebrated for politically layered artworks, often based on significant moments in black history. From the Watts Riots, the formation of the Black Panthers, to the election of President Barack Obama are a few subjects touched upon in his work. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Contemporary Art Museum at The University of South Florida, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Essl Museum, Austria, Vienna and The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
In 2019 he completed a commission for the MTA Arts and Design titled “Beacons”; eight permanent large scale mosaic portraits of prominent individuals associated with the Bronx, installed at the 167th street subway station on the Grand Concourse.
His work is featured in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Denver Art Museum, The Cheekwood Museum, The Kemper Museum and The Yale University Art Museum, amongst many others.
Gatson is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and New York University and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Emily Lee Luan is the author of 回 / Return, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and I Watch the Boughs, selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University and on the teaching faculty of Adelphi’s low-residency MFA.
Mark Adams is a painter/cartographer showing at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has 30 years experience in the National Park Service. He has exhibited installations, prints, photography, scientific illustration, and video art, and he was named Artist of the Year by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. His retrospective, Expedition, was at the Provincetown Art Association Museum in 2017. He has traveled with a sketchbook in hand around the Mediterranean, South America, Asia, and US wildernesses and has illustrated and co-authored a geologic primer, Coastal Landforms of Cape Cod, with Center for Coastal Studies geologist Graham Giese.
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.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Provincetown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
