Sunday, Oct 25, 2026
(71) Artist Talks
About
Each session begins with an Artist Talk, an informal gathering where our incoming fellows share their work and meet the Fishers Island community. It's an opportunity for exchange: to hear directly from the artists and writers joining us, learn about the ideas they're bringing to the island, and start a conversation that will carry through the weeks ahead.
Artists
Bio
Sarah Tortora is a visual artist and educator based in New York City. Through sculpture, writing, and digital photography, her work examines the persistence of Classical archetypes and museological display, accepting the premise that every equestrian monument is truly a Trojan horse. She received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended residencies at Skowhegan, MacDowell, and Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Some group and solo exhibitions of her work have been on view at Essex Flowers (NYC), Wellesley College (Massachusetts), Ulterior Gallery (NYC) and 601Artspace (NYC). Sarah held a yearlong Toby Devan Lewis residency at ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in 2023, and was the Windgate Artist in Residence at Purchase College in Spring 2024. Sarah is a member of Below Grand in NYC and teaches at FIT.
Website
https://www.sarahtortora.com/Bio
Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York-based artist and educator working with found and surplus objects.
Her work was exhibited in venues such as The Shepherd, Detroit, MI; Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark; Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY; Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain; Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; L21 PALMA, Mallorca, Spain; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Montclair State University Galleries, Montclair, NJ; Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland; M 2 3, New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY and Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL.
Her work was featured in publications such as Artforum, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Flash-Art, The Art Newspaper, Artnet, PIN-UP Magazine, émergent magazine, Office Magazine, The Paris Review, Public Parking and more.
Rivlin holds an MFA from Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Sculpture Space Artist Residency (2025), Residency Unlimited program (2025), Monira Residency (2025), RAIR (2025), 1708 Gallery Residency (2024), LES Printshop Fellowship (2024), Lower Cavity Artist Residency (2024), Socrates Sculpture Park Annual Fellowship (2023-24), A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2020-21) among others.
Website
https://batamirivlin.com/Bio
Dominique Muñoz is a Guatemalan-American visual artist whose practice spans photography, printmaking, and installation. Rooted in personal and familial history, Muñoz explores the entanglements of assimilation, queerness, and cultural survival. He considers how photography functions as both an archive and an agent of power, challenging its colonial and heteronormative histories. Through a maximalist approach that embraces the excess of color, pattern, and texture, Muñoz constructs visual languages that honor both origin and transformation.
Dominique earned his MFA in Studio Art from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2025 and his BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. He is currently a fellow with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He was named the 2025 Denis Roussel Fellow at the Center for Fine Art Photography and has attended residencies at Storm King Art Center, ACRE Projects, and Ox-Bow School of Art as a LeRoy Neiman Fellow. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including Provincetown Arts Association Museum (Provincetown, MA), Candela Books & Gallery (Richmond, VA), the Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC), The National Building Museum (Washington, DC), Silver Eye Center for Photography (Pittsburgh, PA), 1415 Gallery (Albuquerque, NM), and Lump Gallery (Raleigh, NC)
Website
https://www.dominiquemunoz.com/Bio
Maxim Loskutoff is a novelist and short story writer from the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. His debut collection COME WEST AND SEE won the High Plains Book Award, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an NPR and Amazon Best Book of the Year. His debut novel RUTHIE FEAR won the Montana Innovation Award and the High Plains Book Award, and was a Reading the West Award Finalist. His second novel OLD KING was named a Best Book of Summer by the Boston Globe and Minneapolis Star Tribune, and a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Publisher's Weekly. The winner of Creative Capital's State of the Art Prize and recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and Art Omi, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, and GQ, among many other publications.
Website
https://maximtloskutoff.com/Bio
Leah Dworkin is a writer who lives in New York City and the Catskill Mountains. Her work has appeared in Fence, BOMB, Hotel, Juked, LARB, Guernica, and The Believer, among other publications. Her story “The Enormous Radio” was selected for Best American Experimental 2020, guest edited by Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney. She has received support from the New Orleans Writing Residency and TENT at the Yiddish Book Center and is a Contributing Editor at BOMB.
Currently, she is completing a collection of short stories and a novel.
