(69) Artist Talks

Silas Jones writes fiction. His short stories have appeared in print in The Paris Review, The Drift, and the Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA from Hunter College and has received grants and fellowships from Hunter College, The Wassaic Project, The Watermill Center, among others. He draws comics and helps to administer an experimental school called P.D.F. He lives in New York City.

Max Spitzer (b. 1990, Boston) is an interdisciplinary sculptor and educator. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has participated in residencies at Art Omi, Yaddo, Stove Works, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. His most recent solo exhibition occurred at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University in 2024.

Lillian Fishman is a writer living in New York City. Her first novel, ACTS OF SERVICE (Hogarth), was translated into seven languages and named one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022. Her work appears in The New Yorker, Granta, The Washington Post, Art in America, and other magazines, and she has received fellowships from Yaddo and The Ucross Foundation. Her new novel, WOMEN & CHILDREN, is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2027.

Sasha Fishman is a sculptor and researcher based in New York. Her work explores marine biomaterials, toxicology, and energy harvesting as points for critical analysis and mechanisms for sculpting. Fishman holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she collaborated with labs on salmon, fountains, and carbon capture materials. She will be an artist in residence at EKWC (Oisterwijk, Netherlands) and Reon (Corfu, Greece) in 2026, and was a 2025 artist in residence at ILY2 in Portland and a 2024/25 Artist in Residence at Smack Mellon (New York).

Fishman has exhibited her work at Murmurs (Los Angeles), Below Grand (New York), Resort (Maryland), Hesse Flatow (New York), Bozomag (Los Angeles), ILY2 (Portland), The Jewish Museum (New York), and the Indian Ceramics Triennale (New Delhi, India). She has participated in residencies at Smack Mellon (New York), Art Ichol (India), Acre (Wisconsin), NAHR (Italy), and the High Desert Observatory (California). She was a 2025 Pratt Foundations Lab Art + Sci Visiting Artist and has presented her work and led workshops at Printed Matter, Genspace, Carnegie Mellon, Pratt, UT Austin, UCLA, University of Denver, University of Colorado Boulder, Kenyon College, MICA, SUNY Purchase, Caltech, PNCA, and CSULB.