Panel Discussion: Creating the Space We Need
Friday, August 16, 2024
4 PM
Founder and Executive Director
Fine Arts Work Center
Cole Barash
Visual Artist
Zone7a Gallery and Books
About our Moderator
James Everett Stanley received his MFA in painting from Columbia University. His work has been shown widely, including solo and group exhibitions at Freight & Volume Gallery in New York, Kinkead Contemporary in Los Angeles, Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, and Frederic Snitzer Gallery Miami. Stanley is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program fellowship and a fellowship from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work was recently included in regional exhibitions at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts; Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA; the Cape Cod Museum of Art; and the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
About our Panelists
Cole Barash is a visual artist, working in the mediums of digital, analog, and archival photography, sculpture, and film. His portraiture and still lifes became known for their organic and spontaneous sense of intimacy. Barash’s work focuses on the conversation of color and composition between two objects or moments and often results in the format of a book or an installation. Having spent a large portion of his upbringing in natural environments, nature as a form, presence, and phenomena of the physical world continues to contribute to his artworks and practice. Barash’s work has been exhibited internationally and his books are part of several public collections including the Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. His photographs have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and Vogue, among others.
Jameson Johnson is a writer, curator, and community organizer based in Boston. She is the Founder and Executive Director at Boston Art Review, an online and print publication founded in 2017 committed to facilitating discourse around contemporary art in Boston and beyond. She has held positions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and currently serves on the board of Catalyst Conversations and the Foundry Arts Consortium’s Advisory Committee as well as the MassArt Auction Committee. She has curated exhibitions at Boston Center for the Arts, Fountain Street Gallery, and Boston Cyberarts, as well as served on numerous juries across New England. Her writing has also appeared in Artsy, Artnet, and Cultured, among others.
Sharon Polli was appointed Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center following a national search in spring 2021. Prior to her appointment, Polli was the Executive Vice President of BRIC in Brooklyn, NY, a 40+-year leading arts, cultural and media institution in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District. Polli has dedicated her professional career to advancing artistic voices and creating opportunities for emerging and mid-career artists, performers and media makers. Prior to BRIC, Polli was the Deputy Executive Director of Groundswell, New York’s leading community public art organization. Polli’s 20-year career has also included being Editor of CreateNYC, New York City’s first ever city-wide Cultural Plan, which was developed through a public engagement process that reached 200,000 participants.
About the Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center is an artist-led organization based in Provincetown and connected to the world. We support artistic freedom, nurture creative connections, and make possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.
Zone7a Gallery & Books
Zone7a is a contemporary art gallery and printed matter in Provincetown, Cape Cod.
All readings and artist talks are held in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, unless otherwise noted. Our annual summer exhibition, Edge Condition, is on view June 6 through August 22, 2024 in our Hudson D. Walker Gallery. Both venues are located at 24 Pearl Street in Provincetown.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 PM-5 PM
The gallery is also open by appointment and during all public events
The Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery are accessible facilities in compliance with ADA guidelines.
If you require assistance to access these venues, please call the Fine Arts Work Center at 508-487-9960 ext.101 in advance of your visit.
Sponsored in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Cape Cod 5 Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Massachusetts Cultural Council
