12:00 - 4:00 PM
100 WEST - 100 W. 3rd Ave. second & third floors
CLAUDIA HAUSFELD – photography, printing, writing - Reykjavík, Iceland
SIMON PETEPIECE – sculpture, drawing, painting - Montréal, Québec, Canada
ANTEROOM - 411 N. Beaton St.
DOUG MACWITHEY - work from Corsicana, 2007 - 2010
STOREFRONT - 203 N. Commerce St.
books by residents and their recommendations
POP-UP - 201 N. Commerce St.
DUST - exhibition of photographs from the archive
4:00 - 5:00 PM
100 WEST first floor presentation, reading, book signing
MISHA RAI – fiction - India / Sewanee, Tennessee
A. KENDRA GREENE - alumna 2019 - presenting book No Less Strange or Wonderful - Dallas, Texas
W. J. LOFTON - alumnus 2022 - presenting book Boy Maybe - Atlanta, Georgia
6:30 PM
PALACE THEATRE - 112 W. 6th Ave.
DUST - documentary film preview
DERRICK DAYS - all day throughout downtown
historic festival celebrating Corsicana as the birthplace of the Texas oil industry. event details
All sites are walkable within downtown Corsicana.
CLAUDIA HAUSFELD
Reykjavík, Iceland - Photography, Printing, Writing - 2nd floor studio
Claudia Hausfeld, born in East Berlin, GDR, studied photography at the Zürich University of the Arts from 2004-2006 and visual art at the Iceland Art University from 2010-2012. She has been living in Iceland since 2010. In her work, she is primarily concerned with photography and its relationship to reality. Claudia has been a board member of several artist run initiatives in Iceland, Denmark and Switzerland, among them the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík. She has exhibited widely in Iceland and elsewhere, and recently resigned from her 7-year position as photolab workshop manager of the Iceland Art University. During her time at LHÍ, she reconfigured and expanded the darkroom of the lab and has taught countless courses in experimental photography. She lives and works in Reykjavík. claudiahausfeld.com
SIMON PETEPIECE
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Sculpture, Drawing, Painting - 3rd floor studio
Simon Petepiece is a self-taught artist living in Montreal, QC. Working directly with construction materials and processes, his practice explores how architectural spaces reflect and manifest our cultural beliefs. Creating objects that exist between sculpture and two-dimensional media, he uses ubiquitous materials like drywall and steel studs as both symbolic elements and substrate for drawing and painting. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal (2024) and Espace Maurice, Montreal (2023). His work can be found in the City of Ottawa Art Collection and he holds a Master’s degree in architecture from Carleton University (2018). simonpetepiece.com
MISHA RAI
India / Sewanee, Tennessee - Fiction - writing studio
Misha Rai is Contributing Editor of the Kenyon Review and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her prose has been supported by the Kenyon Review Fellowship Program, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Dana Award in the Novel Category. Her short story “Twenty Years Ago” is a Distinguished story in the 2021 Best American Short Story anthology. misharai.com
ANTEROOM
EXEMPLARY: WORK by DOUG MACWITHEY from CORSICANA, 2007 - 2010
Opening the second of a two-part idiosyncratic retrospective titled Exemplary of artist Douglas MacWithey's work, in Anteroom, across the street from 100 West. This exhibition features drawings, primarily MacWithey's Seals of the Philosophers, created during his time in Corsicana from 2007 - 2010, while living and working on the second floor of what is now 100 West. The first-part of this retrospective (installed December 6, 2025 - April 16, 2025) featured drawings and sculptures by MacWithey from before his time in Corsicana, while living in Dallas and Galveston. Curated by MacWithey's wife Karan Verma and David Searcy. Photo credit above: Allison V. Smith, 2010.
ALUMNI WRITERS
W. J. LOFTON
Atlanta, Georgia - poetry
2022 spring alumnus W.J. Lofton’s poetry collection Boy Maybe was published March 25, 2025 with Beacon Press. Several of the poems were written while in residence, and W.J. (“Will”) remarks that his friendship and continuing conversations with fellow resident Scott Myles informed this work, particularly the introductory poem about a car crash, which was sparked by the painting Big Car. “Scott painted this huge, orange car. And subconsciously, it stuck with me,” Will says. “And then one of Scott’s paintings says ‘boy’ on it. I guess when you see the word ‘boy’ blown up so large, it sticks in your thinking.” About the collection, Will says, “Boy Maybe delves into black queer identity and also the wonders and the tensions of boyhood. I also think about the impact of touch, how I have participated in touch and how I have been touched, not only intimately via flesh and human touch, but also touched via the state and via what we know as imperialism.”
In 100W’s Writing Studio and residency, “I was able to insert space and gaps inside of the poems to allow for this feeling of distance and arrival,” Will says. Other questions circled around the crash: “What are the remnants of that crash, what is the work of the reader, what is the work of the speaker to confront the crashes? And the crashes are these attempts at intimacy. In retrospect, I realized I had been in conversation with [Scott’s] work ever since I left Corsicana,” Will says. During the book rollout, “I’m thinking about who are the passengers, who has been in this car, who has been in the wreckage, who has been throughout the debris with me?” Will says. “I know that Boy Maybe is devastating, but I don’t leave the reader without oxygen. I wanted to present a body back to a person. Whether that is a body politic, a physical body. Whether it’s to access peace. I want it to be a gift.” The gift is the devastation and oxygen of reading Boy Maybe.
Purchase Boy Maybe from our online Storefront.
A. KENDRA GREENE
Dallas, Texas - essay, illustration
Alumna A. Kendra Greene completed her mesmerizing nonfiction book The Museum of Whales You Will Never See, published by Penguin Random House, while in residence in 2019. Now she joins alumnus W.J. Lofton to speak about and celebrate their latest works. Greene’s second book, No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity, published by Tin House Books on March 4, 2025, has drawn critical acclaim. Charming, whimsical illustrations accompany twenty-six brilliant essays that remind us of life’s microcosms and macrocosms and how they connect in the most unexpected ways.
Purchase No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity from our online Storefront.
A. Kendra Greene and W.J. Lofton will be in conversation following current resident writer Misha Rai's presentation, during 4–5PM on the 1st Floor of 100W. Their books available for purchase and signing.
DUST
A cache of unclaimed photographs and negatives dating from 1943–1966 offers a rare, time-capsule glimpse of Corsicana, Navarro Country and Texas during. Photographer Allison V. Smith purchased the collection, and Michael Thomas, editor and publisher of 1814 MAGAZINE and residency alumnus, catalogued what would nourish DUST, an exhibition of images from the DUST Collection. Now, they have joined forces with Peabody Award-winning director Mark Birnbaum to create the documentary film DUST - An Accidental Time Capsule, which will examine the history of the photographs in the collection and the people who are featured in them. "It really is a preservation effort to tell their stories and thoughts. And then we pass that on to another generation," Michael says. "It’s oral history combined with photography and film, which really should build stronger social connections and understanding. You really get a sense of how interconnected everybody is in a small town. Stories about acts of kindness and faith in other people—and generosity—come out in every single interview."
EXHIBITION POP-UP
9:00 am - 5:00 pm | 201 N. Commerce St. (next to Storefront)
THE PALACE THEATRE
6:30 pm | 112 W. 6th Ave. (four blocks south of the 100W)
Recently completed film trailer, and select interviews from the upcoming documentary film. Followed by a Q&A with Mark Birnbaum, director.
STOREFRONT
Storefront features published literature and art by the international artists and writers attending studio residencies at 100 West, with recommended books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays influencing their work. Books on Texas, translations published by Deep Vellum, children’s books, a rotation of resident art, specialty office supplies, and residency merchandise are also available here. The Storefront hosts book clubs, author readings, book signings, and creative workshops.
All profits from purchases directly support our nonprofit mission to advance new work by an international community of artists and writers with our provision of generous support and historic space in downtown Corsicana. Online purchases at Bookshop.org are an alternative to Amazon and similar platforms for buying books online. Since 2020 Bookshop.org has raised over $33 million for local bookstores and nonprofits like ours.
203 N. Commerce St. Corsicana - two blocks from 100 West.
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