November FAWC Friday
Friday, November 7, 2025
5-9 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery
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
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) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans a wide range of artistic practices. His art has exhibited internationally at venues in Mexico, Japan, and across Europe, and in the U.S., at institutions such as the Nasher Sculpture Center as part of their permanent collection, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation. Gibbons spoke at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on the intersection of art, ice, and climate change. He has been awarded several awards and fellowships including the Fine Arts Work Center’s long-term fellowship from 2023 to 2024 and their Stephen Pace Fellowship in 2025 in Provincetown, MA; Cerámica Suro Residency in Guadalajara, Mexico; Achterhaus International Artist Residency in Hamburg, Germany; and a long-term fellowship at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY from 2024 to 2025. Gibbons is represented in Dallas, TX by Conduit Gallery, and currently based in upstate New York.
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.
