Fine Arts Work Center Welcomes Thierry Kehou and Sarah Dineen
The Fine Arts Work Center is thrilled to welcome two new, year-round staff members to support our acclaimed Fellowship department.
Writer and literary translator Thierry Kehou joins us as the new Fellowship Director. Thierry and his family come to us from New York City, where he co-founded the Lampblack Literary Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting Black writers. His translation of Jean D’Amérique’s A Sun to be Sewn was a 2023 NPR Book of the Day, and additional writing and translations appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Departures, Lampblack, States, The Huron River Review, and elsewhere.
Working alongside Thierry, Sarah Dineen joins us as Artist Services Manager. Sarah, a painter and sculptor working in abstraction, has exhibited her work widely in the U.S. and Germany, including Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, Johanssen Gallery, Berlin, and Satchel Projects, New York, and has been awarded artist residencies at Columbia University, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, the School of Visual Arts, New York, and DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown. Learn more about Sarah in this feature in last week’s Provincetown Independent.
The Fine Arts Work Center’s signature Fellowship program was established in 1968 with the belief that seven months was the minimum amount of time needed for artists and writers in the crucial early stages of their careers to learn to structure their lives around their creative practice. Our hope is that each cohort of Fellows moves on from the Work Center with a firm belief in their ability to pursue a life as a practicing artist or writer. We have hosted over 1,000 Fellows in the early stages of their careers and count among our alumni writers and artists who have gone on to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. We are so excited to have Thierry and Sarah on our team and look forward to watching them grow into their new roles, nurturing emerging writers and artists and supporting the continued longevity of the Fellowship program.
Thierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator with a special interest in writers from the francophone Black diaspora. His translation of Jean D’Amérique’s A Sun to be Sewn was published by Other Press, and was a 2023 NPR Book of the Day. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and a Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment fellowship from the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. His writing and translations appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Departures, Lampblack, States, The Huron River Review, and elsewhere, and his translation of Francis Bebey’s Three Little Shoeshiners was longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. A native of New Rochelle, NY, he holds an MFA in fiction writing from Rutgers University-Newark and is a cofounder of the Lampblack Literary Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting Black writers.
Sarah Dineen is a painter and sculptor working in abstraction. She received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts. She has been published in New American Paintings and Hyperallergic, and awarded artist residencies at Columbia University, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, the School of Visual Arts, New York, and DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown. Dineen has been part of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in Midtown Manhattan and a visiting artist at MIT, Cambridge, MA, St. Joseph’s Academy, New York, and Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and Germany including Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York, Johanssen Gallery, Berlin, and Satchel Projects, New York. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Montserrat College of Art.
