Fine Arts Work Center Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Writing and Visual Arts Fellows

Founded in 1968 by visionary artists and writers including Robert Motherwell and Stanley Kunitz, the Work Center has supported over 1,100 emerging talents in their crucial early careers. Our alumni network boasts a remarkable list of accolades, including Nobel Prizes for Literature, Poet Laureate appointments, Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur Fellowships, and National Book Awards, solidifying FAWC’s reputation for fostering extraordinary artistic achievement.

“We are delighted to welcome this exceptional group of Fellows to the Work Center, where they will have the time, space, and artistic freedom to develop their creative practice,” said Sharon Polli, Executive Director of the Fine Arts Work Center. “Their wide-ranging perspectives and innovative approaches promise to enrich not only one another’s work but also our vibrant artist community here in Provincetown.”

The 2025-2026 Writing Fellows represent a broad spectrum of forms, encompassing novels, essays, poetry, and short stories. Their practices delve into themes ranging from identity and social justice to personal narratives and the intersection of art and technology. The Visual Arts Fellows, likewise, engage with a wide array of mediums, including painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and digital art. Their work challenges perceptions, reimagines histories, and explores profound connections between the physical and spiritual realms.

We are particularly excited to welcome Domenick Ammirati, Nick Fagan, Anne Clare Rogers, and Ty Raso back for their second fellowships, a testament to the transformative power of the FAWC experience.

Please join us in celebrating the 2025-2026 Fine Arts Work Center Fellows:

2025-2026 Writing Fellows

Jada Renée Allen is a writer, educator, and culture worker from South Side Chicago, Illinois. A 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, she is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and support from Tin House, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, The Frost Place, and VONA, among other organizations. Allen’s writing appears in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Callaloo, Chicago Reader, Gulf Coast, Logic(s) Magazine, wildness, and other publications. Allen is the founding executive director of the Frances Thompson Arts Foundation and editor-in-chief of Bodemé.

Nico Amador is a poet, organizer, and educator currently focused on supporting trans justice movements nationally and internationally. His poetry and criticism have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Huizache, Fugue Journal, West Branch, LA Review of Books, Pleiades, Blue Mesa Review, and 44 Poems on Being With Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press. He received his MFA from Bennington College, is a grant recipient from the Vermont Arts Council, and an alumni of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Writers Retreat.

Domenick Ammirati (Second-year Fellow) is a writer based in New York. He has been awarded fellowships by the Edward F. Albee Foundation and Denniston Hill. His fiction has appeared most recently in Joyland. An excerpt from his novel The Bottom of the Top appeared in Bomb magazine; another excerpt, titled “Wynette,” was selected by Maile Meloy as an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition.

Pio Arango is a poet based in San Francisco, California. His writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review. He also works as a ceramics artist.

Connor Greer is a fiction writer from Rochester, NY. He completed an MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where he was a Zell Fellow and received a Hopwood Award for Graduate Short Fiction. His writing has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in Boulevard. In 2023, he was a finalist for BOMB’s Fiction Contest. He has been in residence at Tenjinyama Artist Studio in Sapporo, Japan, Dar Meso in Tunis, Tunisia, and NES Listamiðstöð in Skagaströnd, Iceland. From 2024-2025, he served as Mitchell Center Scholar-in-Residence in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

Robbie Herbst is a violinist and writer based in Chicago. His short fiction has been published in The Rumpus and The Massachusetts Review, and his essays have appeared in The Drift and The Metropolitan Review. As a musician, he is the Assistant Principal Second Violin in the Elgin Symphony and a section player with the West Michigan Symphony. Herbst holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Xinyue (Lucie) Huang was born in Shanghai and is now based in New York City. She writes and publishes in both English and Chinese. Their poems are published or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Pigeon Pages, Electric Literature, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A semi-finalist for the 2021 Joy Harjo Poetry Contest and a finalist for the 2022 Black Warrior Review Poetry Prize, Huang was selected as the winner of the 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize and the 2025 Kenyon Review Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU.

Ariel Miller is a writer from Chicago. She holds an MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work centers around themes of desire, obsession, and transgression. In Provincetown, she will be working on a novel about wildlife trafficking.

Ashley Danielle Moore is a writer from East Harlem. She is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, where she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. She has received fellowships and support from Kimbilio, the Prague Summer Program, and Vermont Studio Center.

Ty Raso (Second-year Fellow) is a trans character, poet, and teacher. Her work has shared space with POETRY, Electric Literature, Foglifter Journal, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, The Journal, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, no seed yes seed, is forthcoming from kith books. She earned her MFA from Indiana University, where they were awarded a 2022-2023 Kraft-Kinsey Award/Residency, and the 2023 Earle J. S. Ho Award for the Teaching of Creative Writing. Their work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. They were named a 2025 Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal.

2025-2026 Visual Arts Fellows

Lacey Black is an artist from Pittsburgh, PA, who employs painting as a technology to create pictorial thoughts that the senses may perceive outside of linear language, space, and time. Inspired by world-building in speculative fiction, Black likens paint to the imaginal cells of the butterfly, and painting as an organ that imagines new futures within ostensibly fixed systems. She received an MFA from SUNY Purchase College State and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent exhibitions include PS122 Gallery (New York, NY), Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase, NY), and Monya Rowe Gallery (New York, NY). Black was awarded a 2024 residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. The artist lives and works in Mt. Vernon, NY. 

Abigail Dudley is a figurative painter interested in liminal spaces between quotidian life and the surreal. Her work explores the malleable nature of perception, memory, and the poetics of space. Dudley received her BFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her MFA from the University of Delaware. Dudley has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and internationally, most recently in London with Visentin Fine Art LTD, and has participated in art residencies in Italy and at Mount Gretna School of Art. She is a three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield Grant.

Nick Fagan (Second-year Fellow) is a fabric artist and sculptor based in Michigan whose work deals with themes of mental health, disability, and the sincerity of physical/manual labor, among others. His work was most recently exhibited at the Seattle Art Fair, the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston, MA), Massey Klein (New York, NY), and op.cit./foundation Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico). He has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the MASS MoCA Studio Program. His work has been featured or reviewed in several publications and media outlets, including BURNAWAY, NPR, Divergents Magazine, New American Paintings, and The Rib. Fagan’s awards include a Kennedy VSA Artists with Disabilities Award, and a Foundation of Contemporary Art Grant. He received his MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University in 2017 and BFA from Virginia commonwealth university.

Yacine Tilala Fall is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist whose work explores themes of heritage, ritual, and function through performance, sculpture, painting, and installation. Drawing from her Senegalese and Mauritanian roots, her practice examines the human body’s complex relationship with labor, history, and faith. Using natural materials, Fall’s art invites reflection on cultural identity and the enduring connections between the physical and spiritual realms.

Calhan Hale is a visual artist from Houston, TX based in New York. She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2025. She has exhibited work at Martha’s in Austin, Texas; Wrong in Marfa, Texas; Casa Lü in Mexico City, Mexico; and the Wallach Art Gallery in New York, NY, and is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She works primarily in painting and collage.

Dominique Muñoz is a Guatemalan-American visual artist whose practice spans photography, printmaking, performance, and installation. Rooted in personal and familial history, Muñoz explores the entanglements of assimilation, queerness, and cultural resilience, and examines how photography functions as both an archive and an agent of power, challenging its colonial and heteronormative histories, subverting portraiture into a site of resilience. He earned his MFA in Studio Art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. He was awarded the 2025 Denis Roussel Fellowship at the Center for Fine Art Photography and has attended residencies at Storm King Art Center, ACRE Projects, and Ox-Bow School of Art as a LeRoy Neiman Fellow. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including Candela Books & Gallery (Richmond, VA), the Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC), The National Building Museum (Washington, DC), Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), 1415 Gallery (Albuquerque, NM), and Lump Gallery (Raleigh, NC).

Tess Oldfield is a sonic/spatial transformer/synthesizer/composer. Their work spans various mediums, such as sound, video, performance, and installation, and examines the cultural contexts of singing and the interaction between industrial and biological systems, investigating how technology both augments and amplifies the body. They are currently exploring computational composition by designing digital extensions for acoustic instruments. Oldfield holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital + Media and has exhibited their work throughout the US, including ACRE Projects (Chicago, IL), Yale University Sculpture Gallery (New Haven, CT), the New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA), and Boston Cyberarts Gallery (Boston, MA). They have participated in residencies at ACRE Projects and Bemis Center as the Sound Art and Experimental Music Resident. Oldfield is an upcoming Creative Science Track member of New INC’s art and technology incubator program at the New Museum. They live and work in Providence, Rhode Island.

Anne Clare Rogers (Second-year Fellow) is a Baltimore-based sculptor who holds an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from the University of Texas at Austin.

Carlie Trosclair is a sculptor and installation artist from New Orleans, LA, who uses latex to record and reimagine the genealogy of home and its relationship to the natural world. Her work contemplates the living and transitional components of home–both structurally and in our memory. Trosclair earned an MFA from the Washington University in St. Louis, a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans and is an alum of the Community Arts Training Institute in St. Louis. Select artist residencies include: La Napoule Art Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Sculpture Space, Loghaven Artist Residency, McColl Center, Joan Mitchell Center, and the Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency. Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, BURNAWAY, and Artscope, among others. Trosclair has mounted solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), DeLand Museum of Art (Deland, FL), Center for Maine Contemporary Art (Rockland, ME), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), and Project Row Houses (Houston, TX). Trosclair was selected as the 2023 South Arts Louisiana State Fellow for Visual Arts and awarded the 2024 Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship for the Visual Arts.

Michael Waugh lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Waugh is most known for his labor-intensive calligraphic works in which he copies, by hand, historically significant texts. He holds a BA in history from the University of Texas, an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University, and an MA in painting from New York University. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, and ARTNews. His work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design (New York, NY), the McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco, CA), The Roswell Museum of Art (Roswell, NM), The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana, Cuba), the 21C Museum/Hotel (Oklahoma City, OK), the Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock, AR), and Diverse Works (Houston,TX) among others. His work has been supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation as well as through residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Galveston Artist Residency, The Roswell Artist in Residence Program, the Wassaic Project, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. His work is held in numerous collections, including that of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the 21C Museum Hotel Collection, The Los Angeles County Civic Art Collection, and The Amon Carter Museum of American Art. His work is on permanent display at the Dock Street School in DUMBO, Brooklyn as part of the NYC Public Art for Public Schools program. 

To learn more about the Fine Arts Work Center and its transformative Fellowship program, please visit our website at fawc.org.