Patron Evening
YOU'RE INVITED
Private Patron Evening and Supper
with our Summer Awards Honorees
As a Patron-level ticket holder and above, you are invited to join us at the Fine Arts Work Center for a Cape Cod-style al fresco supper by MAX Ultimate Food in the Daniel A. Mullin Courtyard.
The evening will include a conversation with our honorees Susan Choi and Tala Madani, moderated by Cassie Packard, and a special sunset toast to Michael F. Fernon. Attendees will also enjoy a private viewing of the on-site exhibition Everyone We Know is Here, curated by artist and past Fellow Heidi Hahn.
24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA
Parking is available at Outer Cape Health Services (OCHS), located at 49 Harry Kemp Way, Provincetown, MA.
Conversation Moderator: Cassie Packard
Cassie Packard (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based art writer particularly interested in the intersection of visual culture and queerness, networks, and worlding. She has bylines at publications including Art in America, Artforum, ArtReview, Blau International, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Financial Times, frieze, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Inquiry, among others. Her writing appears in catalogs published by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (forthcoming), Dais Books, Karma, and Viaindustriae, and her book Art Rules is forthcoming from Frances Lincoln in September 2023. She is a 2023 Momus/Eyebeam Shortlisted Critical Writing Fellow and was a 2022 Recess Critical Writing Fellow.
Honoring
Susan Choi, for her achievements in the literary arts
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow 1997-1998
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Committee Member
National Book Award Winner for Fiction 2019
Michael F. Fernon, for his leadership and guidance establishing a new level of financial sustainability for FAWC
Fine Arts Work Center Board of Advisors Past Member
Senior Vice President/Senior Consultant, Fernon/Arabadzhiev Group at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
Tala Madani, for her groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow 2006-2007
MOCA LA Survey Exhibition 2023, Whitney Biennial 2017
Work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate Modern, London; among others
