NEWS

APRIL 14, 2020

THREE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER FELLOWS WIN 2020 GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has just awarded three of its 2020 Fellowships to Work Center Fellows. The 175 Fellowships awarded this year to scholars, artists, and writers include: Michael Dickman (Poetry Fellow 2006-2007), Ada Limón (Poetry Fellow 2001-2002) and Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (Visual Arts Fellow 2016-2017).

APRIL 14, 2020

EXPLORE FIRELEI BÁEZ’S SOLO EXHIBITION OF NEW PAINTINGS ONLINE

Take a tour of Firelei Báez’s (Visual Arts Fellow 2017-2018) sold out show at the James Cohan Gallery in NYC and listen to her speak about her work and her ongoing process of using large-scale reproductions of found book pages, documents and maps as provocative backdrops for her new paintings.

APRIL 13, 2020

SUMMER PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT WINS 2020 WHITING AWARD FOR POETRY

Diannely Antigua, a 2019 Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program scholarship recipient and author of Ugly Music – her debut book of poetry, was recently awarded a 2020 Whiting Award. Since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

FIRELEI BÁEZ SELECTED AS THE ICA BOSTON’S 2020 WATERSHED ARTIST

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) recently selected Firelei Báez (Visual Arts Fellow 2103-2014) to open the 2020 season of its Watershed with a newly commissioned, monumental sculpture. This will be her largest sculptural installation to date. In her new work, the artist “reimagines ancient ruins as though the sea had receded from the Watershed floor to reveal the archeology of human history in the Caribbean.”

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SUSAN CHOI WINS NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRUST EXERCISE

Susan Choi (Writing Fellow 1997-1998) recently won the 2019 National Book Award for fiction for Trust Exercise, her novel set in the 1980s at a competitive performing arts school, where two students fall in love. The judges praised the novel for blending “the intellectual rigor of post-modern technique with a story that is timely, mesmerizing, and in the end, unsettling.” She was also a Pulitzer finalist in 2004 for her novel, American Woman.