Presenting our Winter Scholar in Residence: Oksana Maksymchuk
Monday, February 24, 2025 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Art & Design Building, Gillespie Gallery
Our Spring Scholar in Residence Oksana Maksymchuk will share selections from her powerful poetry collection, Still City.
The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event.
ABOUT OKSANA MAKSYMCHUK
Oksana Maksymchuk is a celebrated poet, translator, and essayist whose works resonate deeply within and beyond literary circles. Her poetry collections, translations, and essays have received international acclaim, positioning her as a vital voice in the contemporary literary landscape. Oksana’s impactful work has resonated widely, with her latest book, Still City, captivating readers with its profound explorations of resilience and identity. She is the author of poetry collections Xenia and Lovy in the Ukrainian. She coedited Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine, an anthology of contemporary poetry, and has published a few single-author volumes of translations. Born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine, she has also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Warsaw, and Fayetteville, Arkansas. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago.
COMMUNITY BUILDING AND CURATORIAL PROCESS:
Mason Exhibitions collaborates with the Cheuse Center hosting Cheuse events in exhibition spaces with curators in both organizations working with the artists and photographers/videographers, Steven Luu and Klara Kalu to highlight the importance of community organizing and gathering. By working to curate multi-generational public and civic spaces we aim to impact civil public discourse through literature and art. During Moriel and Oksana's visits, the artist on display at Gillespie Gallery is Morgan Ashcom:
ABOUT MORGAN ASHCOM, THE ARTIST
Morgan Ashcom's multidisciplinary artworks and books explore the tension between fiction, myth and lived experience in the context of imperialism. Ashcom's work has been exhibited and published across the globe. He has received numerous awards including German Photobook and the Center for Photography at Woodstock Purchase Prize. His work has been featured in Le Monde, The Brooklyn Rail, Jewish Currents, and The British Journal of Photography. Ashcom is former faculty of Western Connecticut State University, Ithaca College, University of Hartford, Cornell University and the University of Virginia. He is also the Founding Director of Visible Records. He currently lives and works in Charlottesville, VA.
