Photo of Yatika Fields by Joseph Rushmore
Matt Marble at Black Hole (2023), photo by Micah Silver
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026, 11AM - 1PM | YORK, MAINE
Join us at Surf Point on Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 11am-1pm to meet residents Yatika Fields, Jory Drew, and Matt Marble.
We invite the community to Surf Point to visit the participating studios and connect with the residents.
11:00am Welcome and arrivals
11:15am-1pm Studio visits and conversations
The artist studio is a creative space, a place of experimentation, research, and development. We invite visitors to observe and engage with respectful curiosity for each individual’s creative process.
Here are our Studio Visit Guidelines to keep in mind when visiting an artists’ studio:
Greet the artist! Say hi, introduce yourself, and listen to whatever the artist has to say. They will often give a brief overview of the projects or works in progress, and mention any relevant studio notes.
Ask before taking photos, and clarify whether or not the images may be shared on social media. If yes, tag accordingly.
Engage with the work. Look at it, think about it, ask questions if the artist seems receptive. Offer observations, as it can be really helpful to tell the artist how fresh eyes encounter the work. Ask before touching.
Sometimes artists will have material in their studios that is political, explicit, violent, or offensive. Try to engage with this material from a place of curiosity rather than judgement, and always maintain respectful communication.
Be kind, curious, and gracious. On your way out, sign the guest book if you see one, and thank them for sharing their practice.
In addition to the Studio Visit Guidelines, we've found it is very helpful for people to understand our Community Values and Expectations in advance. Please take the time to read through those here.
The event is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required.
Donations are optional and deeply appreciated. Surf Point is a 501c3 public charity. In order to maintain our public charity status, we must raise funds from the broad public to show support beyond large donations. Your support in any amount, from $1, is beneficial to Surf Point being able to demonstrate public support and supports our programs.
We hope you’ll join us to experience Surf Point in action. Learn more about Surf Point here.
For questions, please contact info@surfpoint.me.
About the residents
Yatika Fields (Tulsa, OK)
Yatika Starr Fields is a multi-disciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A member of the Osage, Cherokee, and Muscogee Nations, Fields grounds his work in Indigenous identity while pushing the boundaries of contemporary Native art. His dynamic, color-saturated compositions often blend figurative elements with cultural and historical motifs, inviting viewers to explore layered narratives and find personal connections. Through this interplay, Fields creates a space for dialogue, one that bridges individual experience with shared memory and collective history.
Fields practice has taken him around the world, collaborating with institutions and museums to expand perspectives on Indigenous art in contemporary contexts. After graduating from high school in Stillwater, Oklahoma, he attended the Art Institute of Boston and spent a decade living and working in New York City. From 2017 to 2023, Fields was a Tulsa Artist Fellow, a residency that allowed him to deepen his studio practice and explore new materials and methodologies.
His work responds to the political and cultural terrains of today, while remaining rooted in the vitality, beauty, and resilience of Indigenous worldviews. With a distinctive visual language that honors movement, complexity, and cultural continuity, Fields challenges assumptions about Native art and amplifies the narratives of contemporary Indigenous life through a vibrant and evolving lens.
View Yatika’s work here.
Jory Drew (Los Angeles, CA)
Jory Drew is an artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice explores how identity, memory, and social histories shape the possibilities of intimacy, kinship, and care within Black and queer life. Working across sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Drew examines the residues of systemic inequality while imagining alternative networks of support and survival. His work often reuses everyday materials — housing debris, domestic artifacts, and archival fragments — to reconstruct personal and collective narratives that challenge cultural erasure. Through these gestures, Drew turns vulnerability into a space of resistance, envisioning worlds in which Black life is centered, legible, and loved. Drew (b. 1992, Austin, TX) is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 2015) and the University of California Los Angeles (MFA, 2025) and has recently exhibited at Art/Space 114 (Los Angeles, 2026), KITA Gallery (Los Angeles, 2025), and Murmurs (Los Angeles, 2023).
Visit Jory’s instagram here.
Matt Marble (Greensboro, NC)
Matt Marble (b. Meridian, Mississippi, 1979) is an artist, author, and media producer whose work explores the intersections of art and spiritual imagination through archival research, curatorial storytelling, and creative practice. He is the director of the American Museum of Paramusicology and the author of Buddhist Bubblegum, as well as the creator of the podcasts Secret Sound and The Hidden Present.
His projects examine metaphysical influences in American music history and the creative lives of overlooked or unconventional artists, ultimately underscoring the vital freedom of the imagination—creative, personal, and collective—and a resistance to dogma and oppressive forces. His own art often incorporates idiosyncratic influences from metaphysical philosophy as well as his archival work.
Marble’s work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, publications, recordings, and public programs. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University, a B.A. in Speech & Hearing Sciences from Portland State University, and a black rattlesnake from his dreams.
Visit Matt’s website here.