Fellow Fridays:
Mengwei Ma, Elena Kovylyaeva, Carlos Arturo Zerpa,
Kevin Fitchett, and Sara Martin
Friday, April 18, 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:

Mengwei Ma is a writer, director, and actress from Zibo, China. After earning her MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in 2017, she has been based in Beijing, working on independent projects. For Ma, the artistic process is about discovering the true connection between the self and the world. And she enjoys it.
She is currently in the midst of fundraising for her new short film, “A Piece of Shit,” while also developing a feature film script and a novel.

Elena Kovylyaeva is a visual artist based in Leipzig, Germany, whose work examines the intersection of materiality and memory. Using found materials, she creates detailed tactile surfaces that engage the body, incorporating elements of painting, textile art, and sculpture. Born in Russia and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany from the age of five, Kovylyaeva studied film and literature in Berlin before pursuing painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, where she graduated with a diploma in 2020. She then earned her MFA in painting from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, supported by Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, from 2021 to 2023. In 2022, she participated in the Fulbright Artist Residency at the Silvermine Arts Center in Connecticut. Kovylyaeva’s work has been exhibited in both Germany and the USA, including at the Grimaldis Gallery and the Peale Museum in Baltimore.

Carlos Arturo Zerpa is an interdisciplinary artist, creative producer, educator, and social entrepreneur based in Caracas, Venezuela. Rooted in cooperation and solidarity, his work branches into scriptwriting, design, animation, and street art, and it’s moved by the power of storytelling and innovation as engaging forces for change, especially in addressing social issues of South America and the Caribbean.
Since 2010, Carlos has led ECL-MECHA, an award-winning creative cooperative focused on empowering underrepresented characters by crafting transgressive, insightful, and irreverent animated stories. In 2022, he co-founded RIMA, a digital platform that connects Global South artists with international mobility and financing opportunities. From 2012-2016, Carlos co-founded and taught in ENGRAPO, a public experimental visual communication school that hosted two cohorts of disenfranchised youth.
He’s received fellowships from Locarno Open Doors, Berlinale Talents, the Global Cultural Relationships Platform, and has been an artist in residence at Santa Fe Art Institute, the Bemis Center, the Saari Residency, Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli, La Maison des Auteurs, and Instituto Sacatar, amongst others.

- Kevin Fitchett lives in Negaunee, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. His novel in progress follows a mediocre, almost-divorced narrative poet on his Winnebago pilgrimage to Augusta National. Fitchett is a returning Fellow from 2019-2020.

- Sara Martin lives in Philadelphia and has worked in many fields including reptile care, donuts, 19th century prison tours, marine debris removal, ice cream, pet insurance investigation, libraries, urban farming and Halloween parties. She is currently working on a manuscript and documentary concerning death rituals in the United States and is specifically interested in cultural attitudes surrounding cremation. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received support from Yaddo Corporation, Jentel Foundation and Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her published work can be found at saramartin.org. Martin is a returning Fellow from 2018-2019.
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.