Summer Salons
A Conversation with
Doron Langberg and Josephine Halvorson
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Please join us at 5:00 PM for a reception on our courtyard, followed by the Summer Salon event starting at 6:00 PM in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The event will include a conversation between our two guests and a moderated Q&A with the audience.
JD Samson is best known as a member of the groundbreaking electronic-feminist-punk band Le Tigre (alongside Johanna Fateman and Kathleen Hanna) and as the lead singer of the radical queer band, MEN. With a career spanning way over two decades, JD has made her mark as an artist, musician, songwriter, curator, producer, and DJ, blending music, contemporary art, activism, and fashion. She has toured globally, composed for Grammy-winning artists and Emmy-winning TV shows, and written for outlets like the Huffington Post and Creative Time Review. In addition to her musical contributions, JD has created multimedia artwork, hosted documentary programs, acted, modeled, and founded a record label, all while supporting a wide range of progressive social and political causes. She serves as an Associate Arts Professor and Area Head of Performance at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at Tisch School of the Arts. JD is also working on various collaborative music and performance projects after coming off the international Le Tigre Reunion Tour in 2023. Recently, she has been touring her score for the Oscar Shortlisted live performance documentary 32 Sounds, directed by Oscar nominee Sam Green, for which she won Best Original Score at the Cinema Eye Honors in January 2024.
Photo: Justine Kurland
Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, as well as printmaking, sculpture, and photography.
She earned her BFA from Cooper Union and MFA from Columbia University. Her career includes major international residencies and honors, such as a U.S. Fulbright to Vienna and a fellowship at the French Academy in Rome. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and a 2026 Artists Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Halvorson’s work has been exhibited widely, including at Storm King Art Center, ICA Boston, and the Havana Biennale. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and James Fuentes in Los Angeles. Her work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins (New York) and Peter Freeman (Paris), and has been written about widely and has been featured in Art21’s documentary series, New York Close Up.
She is currently Professor of Art at Boston University and will join the Yale School of Art as Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking. Halvorson lives and works in Massachusetts.
About Summer Salons
The Summer Salons events are designed to encourage a lively exchange of ideas by bringing together prominent figures from the arts and culture community to the Work Center. Scheduled over three Friday evenings from mid-June to late August, this series provides a unique opportunity for audiences in Provincetown and beyond to connect directly with some of today’s most influential creative minds. Set against the historic backdrop of the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, the Summer Salons invite these notable leaders to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge during an evening of conversation, learning, and community engagement. The result is a rare form of creative communion.
Proceeds from these paid events ensure that the Fine Arts Work Center is able to provide free arts and culture events for the Outer Cape Cod community year round.
