Fellow Fridays:
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, José De Sancristóbal,
Parker Hobson, and Matthew Wamser
Friday, April 4, 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:
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1983. Shahidi lives and works in Tehran and New York. She holds an MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art and a bachelor of visual communication from the University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts. She works in various visual art disciplines including video installation, painting, and collage. Shahidi was an artist-in-residence and a young artist mentor at The Watermill Center in 2019 as an alumnus. She was the recipient of the Inga Maren Otto Fellowship from The Watermill Center in 2016. In 2015, she received Art Jameel and Edge of Arabia’s second annual artist residency program fellowship at The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, among other residencies. Her work has been exhibited internationally at many venues, including at the Azad Art Gallery in Tehran; the Museum of Moscow; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen; ALLGOLD at the MoMA PS1 Print Shop in New York; Devi Art Foundation in India; and Emrooz Art Gallery in Isfahan. Shahidi Marnani is a returning Fellow from 2023-2024.
José De Sancristóbal is an artist and wannabe translator. For the past three years, he’s used photography, video, film, and writing to consider different functions lens-based images perform within the configuration of the nation-state. His recent films and videos draw equally upon formal rigor and fantasy, producing self-differing subjects and objects. Informed by the camera’s history as a tool to regulate citizens and their movement, his work disorganizes established identification techniques by viewing them through the lens of unmeasurable practices: fiction, role-play, memory, translation, and magical realism are used to poke holes in those devices purporting to administer the self—such as passport photographs, biographical information, legal status, or national borders.
Parker Hobson is a poet from Louisville, Ky. His work has appeared in Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere, and he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky in 2018. He is also a songwriter and a musician, and his latest full-length album, Loss Program, is coming out in September of 2024. He also works as a radio and multimedia producer for Appalshop, a non-profit media arts collective based in the coalfields of East Kentucky.
- Matthew Wamser is a fiction writer and essayist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in The Missouri Review and Salamander. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program and has received additional support from MacDowell.
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.
