October 20 · This month’s guests
Three voices.
One open conversation.
Each gathering crosses disciplines. What matters is not how we make, but how we keep making—and how we help one another continue.
Sheryl Jaffee
Sheryl Jaffee has been exhibiting her artwork throughout New York and New England for over 30 years. She works with organic materials, handmade paper from local and exotic plant fibers, and found objects to create two- and three-dimensional works. She studied traditional hand papermaking in Japan and China and has taught papermaking worldwide. She has a Masters degree in Art Education and a BA in Multicultural Art Education, both from the University of Massachusetts. She volunteers in the community with the ArtPeace Makers, the MLK Action Team and in bringing Wampanoag Culture and Education to the Outer Cape.
Gregory Hischak
Gregory Hischak is a writer, performer, and designer. He is the author of E is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey (Blackdog & Leventhal, 2025), and Parts & Labor (Pond Road Press, 2012). His play Crows Over Wheatfield was a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee, and his play The Center of Gravity was the 2010 Winner of the Clauder Prize for New England Playwrights. His theatre work has been staged by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage Company, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Boston Theatre Marathon. He has been curating and designing exhibits at the Edward Gorey House since 2014 and been the museum’s Director since 2020. Hischak has been collaborating with Gorey for almost a dozen years and Edward remains the perfect boss: open to endless interpretation, not prone to disagreement—and dead.
Ken Field
Ken Field is a composer, saxophonist, and flautist. He has received international public and critical acclaim for his solo work, his work with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (which he leads), Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Willie Loco Alexander’s Persistence of Memory Orchestra, and the Armenian/American jazz project Musaner, as well as his commissioned compositions and performances with Bridgman/Packer Dance & Joanie Block’s Selmadanse. Field has composed a number of pieces for the children’s television program Sesame Street. Field hosts The New Edge, a weekly radio program of creative instrumental music currently airing on WMBR and WOMR, and co-hosts the bi-weekly show “Trash or Treasure” on WOMR.
