Fellow Fridays: Pio Arango // Connor Greer // Tess Oldfield // Michael Waugh
Friday, April 17, 2026
5-8 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
24 Pearl St // Provincetown
About the fellows:
Pio Arango is a poet based in San Francisco, California. His writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review. He also works as a ceramics artist.
Connor Greer is a fiction writer from Rochester, NY. He completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where he was a Zell Fellow and received a Hopwood Award for Graduate Short Fiction. His writing has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in Boulevard. In 2023, he was a finalist for BOMB’s Fiction Contest. He has been in residence at Tenjinyama Artist Studio in Sapporo, Japan, Dar Meso in Tunis, Tunisia, and NES Listamiðstöð in Skagaströnd, Iceland. From 2024-2025, he served as Mitchell Center Scholar-in-Residence in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Tess Oldfield is a sonic/spatial transformer/synthesizer/composer. Their work spans various mediums, such as sound, video, performance, and installation, and examines the cultural contexts of singing and the interaction between industrial and biological systems, investigating how technology both augments and amplifies the body. They are currently exploring computational composition by designing digital extensions for acoustic instruments. Oldfield holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital + Media and has exhibited their work throughout the US. Oldfield is an upcoming Creative Science Track member of New INC’s art and technology incubator program at the New Museum. They live and work in Providence, Rhode Island.
Michael Waugh lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Waugh is most known for his labor-intensive calligraphic works in which he copies, by hand, historically significant texts. He holds a BA in history from the University of Texas, an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University, and an MA in painting from New York University. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, and ARTNews. His work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design (New York, NY), the McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco, CA), The Roswell Museum of Art (Roswell, NM), The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana, Cuba), the 21C Museum/Hotel (Oklahoma City, OK), the Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock, AR), and Diverse Works (Houston,TX) among others.
Fellows Exhibition:
Tess Oldfield + Michael Waugh
Opening: Friday, April 17, 5-8 PM
On View: April 17 to April 28, 2026
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