Fellow Fridays: J.J. Starr-McClain, Seth Wang, and Oscar Morel
Friday, February 23, 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.
Toca Mano
Oscar Morel, Visual Arts Fellow
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Refreshments from Far Land Provisions
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 PM – Reading
Welcome from Sharon Polli
Introduction by Lindsay Miles
J.J. Starr, Poetry Fellow
Introduction by Avigayl Sharp
Seth Wang, Fiction Fellow
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Gallery reopens
Oscar Morel, Visual Arts Fellow
Featured Fellows
J.J. Starr-McClain is a poet from Chicago and is currently based in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The Common, Four Way Review, Juked, The Journal, and elsewhere. She studied at the NYU Creative Writing Program and has received support from Wesleyan University and the Community of Writers.
Seth Wang’s fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, and Passages North and won the 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. They have an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. They are working on a novel.
Oscar Morel is a figurative collage artist from the Bronx who constructs narratives of the afro surreal—iconographic scenes of the afro Caribbean experience unfolding in the landscape of urban living. He has received residencies such as the Studios at MassMOCA, MacDowell Colony, and The Arrowmont Penticulum. Morel earned his MFA from Boston University and his BA at DePauw University.
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.
