November FAWC Friday:
Writer Avigayl Sharp and Artists Blake Daniels and Pieter Paul Pothoven
Friday, November 6, 2026
5-9 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Join us 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 newly arrived Stephen Pace Artist-in-Residence will welcome visitors to the Hudson D. Walker Gallery to view the installation. The Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio will also 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 program is free and open to the public.
To register for this event, please click here.
5 PM
Catering and Drinks from Salty Market
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Music: Sonic vibes by DJ Emerson
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
6 PM
Artist Talk and Reading
with artist Blake Daniels and
author Avigayl Sharp
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
7:30 PM
Printmaking Activity
With Printmaker Antonia DaSilva
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
One-Night Exhibition
Exhibition Tours
with Pace Artist in Residence
Pieter Paul Pothoven
(Visual Arts Fellow ’13, ’23)
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Open Studios with select Fellows
9 PM
End of Event
About Our Presenters:
Avigayl Sharp’s first novel, Offseason, was published in May 2026. Called “one of the sharpest and liveliest debuts of the decade” in Vulture, it was named a 2026 NPR favorite and has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her story collection, Sickness, Health, will be published in April 2027. Sharp’s fiction has also appeared in publications including The Paris Review, Granta, and McSweeney’s, and her work has received support from Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, and more. She was a 2023-2024 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Works Center. Originally from Chicago, she lives in Brooklyn.
Blake Daniels is an American painter based in France whose work explores his relationship to authorship and the stories from which we compose ourselves. Through painting, drawing, and writing, Daniels investigates how personal and collective narratives are constructed, preserved, forgotten, mistranslated, and reimagined across generations and locales. Living between the United States, South Africa, and France, his recent work reflects upon these distinct perspectives to reclaim and recontextualize the poorly documented LGBTQ histories of the Ohio Valley, where he was born and raised. Daniels often uses familiar archives, oral histories, and speculative narratives as starting points from which to conceive a painting. These works offer a hand to viewers, inviting them to share their own stories and populate the undefined spaces within his compositions with memories of loved ones, as well as their own fears, desires, and uncertainties. Read more
Pieter Paul Pothoven (he/him, NL, 1981) works with installation, film, photography, different forms of writing and archiving. He received his BFA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and his MFA at Parsons The New School for Design, New York (US). Pothoven was a resident at, amongst others, the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (US); Instituto Sacatar, Itaparica (BR) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL). Recent exhibitions include: Every Act of Struggle, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL); True Colors, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (NL); Zaak no: 2108/85, Artissima, Torino, (IT); The Other Kabul, Kunstmuseum Thun (CH); The Weight of a Stone, blank projects, Cape Town (SA); and In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL). He lives and works in Amsterdam.
Both the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery meet ADA accessibility standards. If you need help accessing these spaces, please call us at 508-487-9960 ext. 101 before your visit.
This program is funded in part by grants from the Provincetown Tourism Fund, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Development, and Provincetown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
