Visual Arts Committee Welcomes New Co-Chairs

Congratulations to Past Fellows James Everett Stanley and Mala Iqbal, our newest co-chairs on the Visual Arts Committee. Both have served on the Visual Arts Committee for a number of years, and we are excited to welcome them into this important role. 

The Visual Arts Committee provides strategic direction to FAWC’s visual art program, including its acclaimed seven-month fellowship for emerging artists.  The Committee‘s primary responsibilities include leading the jury process for new applicants; enhancing their experience in Provincetown by supporting a robust visiting artist program; and serving as a professional support network.

James Everett Stanley is a painter who lives in the Cape Cod Area. A longstanding Visual Arts Committee member, he served as a Visual Arts Coordinator for seven years and is a crucial figure in our FAWC Community. His painting, Dreaming Child, was on view at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Work Center this summer, and migrated with us to New York’s Armory Show this fall. A 2022 Visual Arts Fellow, Stanley is largely interested in age as an experience of transformation. “Part of the reason I’m interested in portraiture,” he says, “is that you can see life’s journey just in somebody’s face, in the weathering, in the eyes.” Read Stanley’s feature in The Provincetown Independent for a deeper dive into his career. 

Also a longtime member of our Visual Arts Committee, Mala Iqbal is a Brooklyn based painter. She was a Visual Arts Fellow at the Work Center for two years, from 1998-200. Her work was recently observed and posted about by former New York Times art critic Patricia Smith. Her recent show at JJ Murphy Gallery in New York was written up in Hyperallergic, where Hakim Bishara wrote, “On the sidelines of this mayhem that we’re living through are honest witnesses like Mala Iqbal, whose outstanding suite of paintings for this exhibition will leave you with a strange, unfathomable sense of hope.” 

Past Fellow Andrew Mockler has been our co-chair of the Visual Arts Committee since 2021. The owner of Jungle Press Editions, he is a master printmaker based in New York and teaches regularly for the Work Center’s Summer Program. As we welcome our two new co-chairs, we want to express our deepest gratitude to Andrew for his commitment and service as chair of the committee.