Fire Island Artist Residency:
Cynthia Carr & Agosto Machado
Arts Project of Cherry Grove
Community House, Fire Island
Monday, July 22nd, 6:30pm
A massive thank you to FIAR (Fire Island Artist Residency) for the invitation to curate an event for their 2024 season!
Cynthia Carr will read from Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, followed by a discussion with Cynthia Carr & Agosto Machado.
Cynthia Carr is the author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her previous books are Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America and On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century.
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Cynthia Carr Portrait: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Candy Darling on Beach: Laura Rubin
Agosto Machado Portrait: Peter Hujar
Event Photos: Lori Scacco + Guests