Fellow Fridays: Avigayl Sharp, Lindsay Miles,
and Jeff Gibbons
Friday, February 9, 2024
5-8 PM
Join us for Fellow Fridays featuring our 2023-2024 Fellows who have been in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center since October 2023. Showcases will feature artist exhibitions and public readings.
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Jeff Gibbons, Visual Arts Fellow
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Refreshments from Far Land Provisions
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 PM – Reading
Welcome from Sharon Polli
Lindsay Miles, Poetry Fellow
Avigayl Sharp, Fiction Fellow
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Gallery reopens
Jeff Gibbons, Visual Arts Fellow
8PM – Event Ends
Jeff Gibbons, Detail of Forest Door, 2023,
acrylic paint, gesso, frame, and ink on panel, 17″x21″
Featured Fellows
Avigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, New England Review, and elsewhere, and has received support or recognition from The Granum Foundation and the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. In 2023 she was named winner of the Disquiet Literary Prize. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.
Lindsay Miles is the author of the chapbooks Edeltraut (Anstruther Press, 2022) and A Period of Non-Enforcement (The Operating System, 2019). Her work has appeared in The Capilano Review, Poetry is Dead, Grain, Plenitude, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit, 1982) is an intermedia artist. His work has been shown internationally in México, Japan, and across Europe. In the US, Gibbons has exhibited at venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and The Dallas Contemporary. He has held artist residencies at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, México; Achterhaus in Hamburg, Germany; and The Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, Texas, among others. In 2018, he spoke about ice at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
The Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery are accessible facilities in compliance with ADA guidelines.
If you require assistance to access these venues, please call the Fine Arts Work Center at 508-487-9960 ext. 101 in advance of your visit.
This event was made possible in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
