Fellows Fridays: Showcase #2
Cherrie Yu, Edd Ravn,
Lucas Martínez, and Jason Ferris
Friday, March 7, 2025
5-9 PM
Join us for Fellow Fridays featuring our 2024-2025 Fellows who have been in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center since October 2024. Showcases will feature artist exhibitions and public readings.
This program is free.
Additional information about this event to be added soon.
About Our Participating Fellows:
Cherrie Yu is an artist born in Xi’an, China and lives in the United States. She works in choreography, moving images, writing and installation. Her practice explores the transmission of embodied knowledge, the critical functions of the archival form, and the artist as amateur. She received a BA in English from the College of William and Mary in 2017, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 2019. She has produced dance films, lecture performances, and documentaries in the past few years, and she continues to form collaborative relationships with artists and non-artists alike. Recently she is thinking about questions such as moving images as a storage for collective memory, and the function of avant-garde art in relation to colonial dispossession. Besides being an artist, she is also a practitioner of table tennis.
She has been an artist in residence at McColl Center, Yaddo, Anderson Center, Kala Art Institute, and Sharpe Walentas Program. Her works have been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Maine, the Mint Museum in North Carolina, the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA, Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and the Center for Performance Research and Pageant Space in New York.
Edd Ravn is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. His practice spans growing bacteria, painting with rainwater, recording soundscapes, and designing public furniture to co-create animate objects that question perception, connection, and change. He holds a BFA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at institutions including RAINRAIN Gallery, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Brazilian Embassy in London. Ravn has performed poetry at the Barbican Centre in London and the Ilkley Literary Festival. He has served as visiting artist and critic at Yale University, Princeton University and the University of Michigan. In 2017, he participated in the Porthmeor Studios Residency in St Ives, and in 2020, he received an Art and Social Justice Initiative Award from Yale University.
Lucas Martínez is a writer and translator with experience in labor organizing and teaching. He was born in San Bernardino County and raised primarily in Claremont on ancestral Tongva-Gabrielino land. He grew up speaking Spanish and English and considers both to be his native tongues. Martínez holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA from the University of Virginia with a concentration in Poetry. They have received the Battestin Fellowship from the Virginia Bibliographical Society to study Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts at UVA’s special collection’s library in 2022. They have translated the work of Nicole Cecilia Delgado for a chapbook published by the Virginia Center for the Book. In Provincetown, he plans to work on translations as well as a manuscript of writing that includes collage, translation, essay, and poetry.
Jason Ferris is a fiction writer and essayist from Maryland’s inner shores. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship, the James Patterson Writer Education Scholarship, and the Jeffrey and Kimberly Chapman Writing Fellowship. His work has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, chosen as a finalist in the 2021 Carve Magazine Prose and Poetry Contest, and published in RiverCraft, Essay, and Carve Magazine. He is at work on his first novel.
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.
