November FAWC Friday: Kristy Hughes, Samyak Shertok, and Jeff Gibbons
Friday, November 7, 2025
5-9 PM
Photo by Michael Cestaro.
Join us on a selected Friday each month from November and February for a fantastic lineup of visiting writers and visual artists of national recognition who will share their work. Our Fellows in residence will also be invited to open their studios for you to explore, and the Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio will be available for art-making activities. To add to the festive atmosphere, we have local musicians lined up, and Cape Cod restaurants and caterers will provide food and drinks for all. FAWC Fridays are a unique opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate in a fun and participatory way.
This event is free and open to the public.
5 PM
Traditional Mexican Food by Rosie’s Cantina
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Sonic vibes by DJ J-BOOM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 PM
Artist Talk and Reading with
Artist Kristy Hughes and
Writer Samyak Shertok
followed by Audience Conversation
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
7:30 PM
Printmaking Activity
With Printmaker Vicky Tomayko
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
Exhibition Tours
with Pace Artist in Residence
Jeff Gibbons (Visual Arts Fellow 2023-2024)
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Open Studios with select Fellows
9 PM
End of Event
About Our Visiting Artists
Kristy Hughes (b. Waxahachie, TX) creates vibrant abstract sculptures and paintings that reclaim agency, visibility, and joy through color, form, texture, and found materials. She transforms discarded and embedded objects into caring acts of resistance and preserved memory. Influenced by her Hispanic and Indigenous lineage, alongside formative experiences within fundamentalist religious institutions, her works are insistent on hope and repair––monuments for joy, care, and belonging. Hughes has been supported by fellowships at NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), The Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), and Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). She has been artist-in-residence at The Golden Foundation (New Berlin, NY), The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (Rabun Gap, GA), and Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY), among others. In 2024 she was honored to be nominated for a Joan Mitchell Fellowship, and in 2025 for a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant.
Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he teaches creative writing at Mississippi State University.
Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit, 1982) is an intermedia artist currently based in upstate New York. Gibbons’s work has been shown internationally in México, Japan, and across Europe. In the US, Gibbons has exhibited at venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation. He has held artist residencies and fellowships at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, México, Achterhaus in Hamburg, Germany, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. In 2018 he spoke about ice at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. In 2019, Gibbons was nominated for the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany award. Gibbons is a 2023-2024 resident fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who lives in Truro, MA. A past Fine Arts Work Center Fellow and the current manager of FAWC’s printshop, she leads workshops for Fellows, facilitates projects, and works to maintain and improve the printmaking experience at FAWC. Tomayko also teaches silkscreen at Cape Cod Community College. Her work can be seen locally at Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.
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.
