Fellows Notes is a periodic listing of the latest news from awardees in our Artist Fellowships Program.
Allison Adair (Poetry Finalist ’20), María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado (Poetry Fellow ’04), Carrie Bennett (Poetry Fellow ’12), Ben Berman (Poetry Fellow ’06), Cheryl Clark Vermeulen (Poetry Finalist ’10), Charles Coe (Poetry Fellow ’96), Oliver de la Paz (Poetry Fellow ’20), Regie Gibson (Poetry Fellow ’10), January Gill O’Neil (Poetry Finalist ’18), Jennifer Jean (Poetry Finalist ’22), Danielle Jones (Poetry Finalist ’22), Danielle Legros Georges (Poetry Fellow ’22, ’14), Krysten Hill (Poetry Fellow ’20), Joy Ladin (Poetry Finalist ’22, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’12), Janet MacFadyen (Poetry Finalist ’22), Jennifer Martelli (Poetry Finalist ’20), Jill McDonough (Poetry Finalist ’18), Kevin McLellan (Poetry Finalist ’22), Richard Michelson (Poetry Fellow ’16), Carla Panciera (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’22), and Anna VQ Ross (Poetry Fellow ’18) are among the poets participating in the 2023 Massachusetts Poetry Festival (5/5-5/7).
Meg Alexander (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’18), Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10), Beth Galston (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13), and Pat Shannon (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’15) are exhibiting in Stick People at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown (5/13-6/24). Rebecca Doughty organized the exhibition.
Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’11), Sari Boren (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’14), Patrick Gabridge (Dramatic Writing Finalist ’17, ’15), Hortense Gerardo (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’21), John Minigan (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’19), and Cassie M. Seinuk (Dramatic Writing Finalist ’17) are among the playwrights with 10-minute plays in the Boston Theater Marathon at Boston Playwrights Theatre (5/7).
Laura Baring-Gould (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’99), John Cameron (Crafts Fellow ’21, ’11), Mark Del Guidice (Crafts Fellow ’19), and Jennifer McCurdy (Crafts Fellow ’19) are part of the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington D.C. (5/3-5/7).
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen (Poetry Finalist ’10) and Rebecca Kaiser Gibson (Poetry Fellow ’08) join Tom Daley for a “Chapter and Verse” reading at the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain (5/12, 7:30 PM ET).
Cynthia Consentino (Crafts Fellow ’07), Leigh Craven (Crafts Finalist ’15), Holly Curcio (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19), Mary Kenny (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’05), Judith Motzkin (Crafts Fellow ’19), and Claudia Olds Goldie (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’17) are among the artists exhibiting in State of Clay at the Lexington Arts & Crafts Society (5/13-6/11).
Venetia Dale (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19) and Yu-Wen Wu (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’21 and Painting Fellow ’04), along with Cicely Crew, were selected as Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston James and Audrey Foster Prize Artists.
Maya Janson (Poetry Fellow ’18), Heather Kamins (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’16), Jennifer Martelli (Poetry Fellow ’00), Jill McDonough (Poetry Finalist ’18), Thomas McNeely (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’16, ’14), Diana Renn (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’22) all have books named 2023 Must-Reads by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
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Jean Appolon (Choreography Fellow ’22): Jean Appolon Expressions performs Tyaka at the Dance Complex in Cambridge (4/1-4/2, 8 PM).
Sarah Bliss (Film & Video Finalist ’19) has work in the The Art of Handmade Photography at the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro (5/5-7/2).
Linda Bond (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13) will present images and video and lead a discussion as part of the Women in Installation series at the Weston Art and Innovation Center (5/11, 7 PM).
Matt Brackett‘s (Painting Fellow ’04) art is included in the virtual exhibition Faces and Figures opening at Supersonic Art (5/5).
Kim Carlino (Drawing & Printmaking ’16) curated and has work in Visual Languages at the Westfield State Arno Maris Gallery. She has launched a podcast, Artist and Place, featuring artist conversations about place, landscape, and environment.
Jodi Colella‘s (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’19) work Once Was, a memorial for all those lost to the opioid epidemic, was acquired by the Fuller Craft Museum.
Jay Critchley (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’96, Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’91) will give the keynote speech at the Conference on Menstruation Research Network UK in St. Andrews, Scotland (5/26). He will also perform as Miss Tampon Liberty with a gown created from 3,000 Plastic Tampon applicators washed up on beaches.
Oliver de la Paz (Poetry Fellow ’20), who is currently the Worcester Poet Laureate, was featured in a Worcester Telegram article about National Poetry Month. De la Paz will participate in the Massachusetts Poetry Festival (5/6).
Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10) organized and exhibits work in the group show Stick People at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown (5/13-6/24). This summer, she exhibits in Misfits 2 at Pulp in Holyoke (6/15-8/13).
Madge Evers (Photography Finalist ’21) has work in a pop-up, one-night exhibition Pollinator Friendly at Highside Workshop in Brooklyn (5/20, 5-10 PM).
Pat Falco (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’19) exhibits A Graveyard in the Sun at Gallery Kayafas (thru 4/29). The artist and exhibition are featured in Greg Cook’s Wonderland journal.
Georgie Friedman (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13) has work in Speculative Futurisms at MassArt X SoWA (thru 4/23).
Hortense Gerardo‘s (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’21) play Middleton Heights has its world premiere at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord (thru 4/23).
Audrey Goldstein (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’22) has a solo exhibition, Intimate Toxicities, at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (5/5-6/10).
Sean Greene (Painting Fellow ’14) has a solo exhibition, Passing Notes, at Pulp in Holyoke (5/4-6/4).
Janet Loren Hill‘s (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19) solo exhibition Origin Story exhibits at KAPOW Gallery in New York City (5/5-5/27).
Dinora Justice (Painting Fellow ’22) has a solo exhibition, Mother/Nature, at Gallery NAGA in Boston (5/5-6/3).
Marky Kauffmann (Photography Fellow ’17) has work in the exhibitions Alternative Process and the Handmade Photograph at Atlanta Photo Group, Femalia at the Praxis Gallery in St. Paul, MN, the 9th Annual International Open Call Exhibition at Rhode Island Center for Photography Arts, Color at the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC, black, white online hosted by A Smith Gallery, the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards at the Mediterranean House of Photography in Barcelona, Spain, Art Installation: A Cancer Journey at Ratio Therapeutics in Boston, and the Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize Show. She was selected as a 2022 Hot 100 Photographer by the international online gallery, YourDailyPhoto.com. Finally, Danforth Art purchased one of her works for their permanent collection.
Catherine Kernan (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’16) has work in Surface to Surface at Soprafina Gallery in Boston (5/5-5/27).
Colleen Kiely (Painting Fellow ’98) had a drawing acquired by The Fitchburg Art Museum. She was selected for an artist residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland this summer.
Marilyn Levin (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’88) exhibits in Possibilities at Desta Gallery in San Francisco (5/2-6/17).
Xiaoly Li‘s (Poetry Finalist ’22) new poetry collection Every Single Bird Rising is published by Future Cycle Press in April 2023.
Scott Listfield (Painting Finalist ’10) has a solo exhibition, AM Gold, at Harman Projects in New York City (4/8-4/29).
Melinda Lopez‘s (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’19) play Young Nerds of Color will have a reading at the MIT Museum in Cambridge (4/3, 6 PM).
Holly Lynton (Photography Fellow ’13) received the Juror’s Choice Award in the Filter Photo Context.
Michael Mack (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’05, ’13) won the 2023 Great American Fiction Contest with his short story “Shush, Shush,” published in the Jan/Feb 2023 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Keith Maddy (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’22) has a solo exhibition, Story Lines, at The Mayor’s Art Gallery at Boston City Hall (4/18-5/30).
Tara Lynn Masih‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’96) story collection How We Disappear: Novella & Stories won a Bronze Medal for General Fiction in the 2022 Florida Book Awards.
Rania Matar (Photography Fellow ’21, ’11, ’07) has a solo photography exhibition, Oceans at my Door at Fitchburg Art Museum (thru 8/3).
Richard Michelson (Poetry Fellow ’16) has published a new poetry collection, Sleeping As Fast As I Can, with Slant Books. Upcoming readings include the Massachusetts Poetry Festival (5/7).
John Minigan (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’19) has received a new play commission from Gloucester Stage Company. The play, Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern, will premiere at Gloucester Stage in September. His solo adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow will have its West Coast Premiere in October at 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA.
Stelvyn Mirabal (Traditional Arts Mentor Artist ’23) is exhibiting his work in the the Dominican carnaval tradition at the Essex Art Center (thru 6/7/23).
Wilhelm Neusser (Painting Finalist ’22, ’20) exhibits with Mishael Coggeshall-Burr in Standing Still at Abigail Oglivy Gallery in Boston (4/26-5/28). He also exhibits in Rheinstetten, Germany in May.
Laura Petrovich-Cheney (Crafts Fellow ’21) has a solo exhibition, Weather Shapes, Wooden Quilts, at Boston Children’s Museum (thru 9/4).
Jo Ann Rothschild (Painting Fellow ’98) is in the two-person exhibition Old Friends with Rigoberto Mena at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, Kendall, in Miami FL (5/15-5/21). She also has work in Zurcher Gallery‘s 11 Women of Spirit, a satellite fair of Frieze, New York (5/15-5/21)
Leslie Sills (Crafts Fellow ’95) has a painting in the national exhibition Oh, Mother at HERA Art Gallery in Rhode Island (5/13-6/17).
Brooke Stewart (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’22) has an exhibition, Bad Math, at the Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, part of the 1:1 Exhibition Series (4/29-6/3).
Shubha Sunder (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’16) has published a short story collection, Boomtown Girl. The collection won the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award.
August Ventimiglia (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’12) exhibits in New Works on Paper, with Katrine Hildebrandt, at Drive-by Projects in Watertown (thru 5/27).
Read past Fellows Notes.
Image: Venetia Dale (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19), IN A STATE OF BECOMING: IF MOTHER SAYS NO (2017), collection of unfinished embroidery stitched together, 24x24x3 in, photo by Adam Krauth. The artist was recently selected as Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston James and Audrey Foster Prize Artist.
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