Accent Fellows
Accent Fellows
Accent Sisters is excited to offer a fellowship program for individuals passionate about literature, visual arts, and community engagement. The fellowship provides hands-on experience in both a bookstore and gallery setting, offering insight into event planning, curation, and the intersection of literature and art.
This work-study fellowship (3 days per week, for 4 months) is ideal for someone looking to build a career in cultural institutions, independent bookstores, or art galleries. Fellows will work closely with both the bookstore and gallery teams, gaining skills in book curation, exhibit planning, marketing, and community outreach, while developing a personal project that merges these two disciplines.
2025 Spring-Summer Fellows
Xiang (Elle) Li
Xiang (Elle) Li is an interdisciplinary tattoo artist and curation scholar based in Brooklyn, New York. A former Student-Scholar Partnership Program Fellow at Kniznick Gallery (Boston) and Ink & Images (New York). They were a listed artist and co-founder of the multimedia pop-up project at Studio 45 (Bushwick), a freelance translator, and an artist assistant/journalist.
Xiang’s work bridges artistic practice with academic inquiry, specializing in art relations, administration, and archival research. They strive to foster meaningful interconnections between artists and their creative trajectories by academically exploring the history, phenomenology, and cultural consciousness underpinning contemporary art creation.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Winter-Spring Exhibition Program
Xiang (Elle) Li is an interdisciplinary tattoo artist and curation scholar based in Brooklyn, New York. A former Student-Scholar Partnership Program Fellow at Kniznick Gallery (Boston) and Ink & Images (New York). They were a listed artist and co-founder of the multimedia pop-up project at Studio 45 (Bushwick), a freelance translator, and an artist assistant/journalist.
Xiang’s work bridges artistic practice with academic inquiry, specializing in art relations, administration, and archival research. They strive to foster meaningful interconnections between artists and their creative trajectories by academically exploring the history, phenomenology, and cultural consciousness underpinning contemporary art creation.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Winter-Spring Exhibition Program
Tom Zhang
Tom Zhang is a junior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, double majoring in Film & Television and Journalism. Her close connection with her family, especially her grandparents, shaped her deep appreciation for storytelling rooted in personal and cultural histories.
As a documentarian and cinematographer, Tom has worked with directors of diverse backgrounds from Nanjing, Hubei, Shenyang, Beijing, New York, and Ecuador, capturing powerful stories that reflect her passion for exploring identity, culture, and social issues.
Her directorial debut, Let’s Kiss, All Three of Us, won the Best First-Time Director award at the Berlin Indie Film Festival, showcasing her ability to craft impactful narratives. Additionally, she served as Assistant Editor on Ride with Delivery Workers, a documentary supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and selected for the Sundance Asian American Fellowship.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Event Documentation & Showcase
Tom Zhang is a junior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, double majoring in Film & Television and Journalism. Her close connection with her family, especially her grandparents, shaped her deep appreciation for storytelling rooted in personal and cultural histories.
As a documentarian and cinematographer, Tom has worked with directors of diverse backgrounds from Nanjing, Hubei, Shenyang, Beijing, New York, and Ecuador, capturing powerful stories that reflect her passion for exploring identity, culture, and social issues.
Her directorial debut, Let’s Kiss, All Three of Us, won the Best First-Time Director award at the Berlin Indie Film Festival, showcasing her ability to craft impactful narratives. Additionally, she served as Assistant Editor on Ride with Delivery Workers, a documentary supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund and selected for the Sundance Asian American Fellowship.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Event Documentation & Showcase
Alison Long
Alison Long is a graduate student at Pratt Institute, specializing in Data Visualization and Digital Humanities. She explores non-traditional approaches to information representation through graphic design, interactive media, and storytelling. Her work focuses on mapping, documenting, and celebrating cultural networks.
Her recent projects include “50 Years of Center for Book Arts: A Data Timeline—Books as Art, Art as Data,” an interactive tool created in collaboration with the Center for Book Arts, and “A Map of Ships: Visualizing Fandom 'Shipping Networks with Fanfiction Data',” a data analysis and visualization project that won Best Individual Project at Pratt InfoShow24. She has also contributed as a student archivist at the Center for Migration Studies. Alison's data-driven artworks have been showcased at Field Projects gallery and A Space gallery. Her installation was featured at the Data through Design annual exhibition during the 2025 New York Open Data Week.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Archive & Digital Visualization
Alison Long is a graduate student at Pratt Institute, specializing in Data Visualization and Digital Humanities. She explores non-traditional approaches to information representation through graphic design, interactive media, and storytelling. Her work focuses on mapping, documenting, and celebrating cultural networks.
Her recent projects include “50 Years of Center for Book Arts: A Data Timeline—Books as Art, Art as Data,” an interactive tool created in collaboration with the Center for Book Arts, and “A Map of Ships: Visualizing Fandom 'Shipping Networks with Fanfiction Data',” a data analysis and visualization project that won Best Individual Project at Pratt InfoShow24. She has also contributed as a student archivist at the Center for Migration Studies. Alison's data-driven artworks have been showcased at Field Projects gallery and A Space gallery. Her installation was featured at the Data through Design annual exhibition during the 2025 New York Open Data Week.
Fellowship Project: Accent Sisters Archive & Digital Visualization
Winifred Dongyi Wang
Winifred Dongyi Wang (b.2002) is a bilingual writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Beijing, China, she earned her BA in History (Magna Cum Laude) in 2023 and her MA in Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement in 2024 from New York University. During her time at NYU, she developed a profound interest in creative writing, comparative literature, and philosophy.
With a rich background in journalism and publishing, her work has appeared on notable Chinese and English media platforms. Her writing, shaped by a strong foundation in both English and Mandarin Chinese, is deeply influenced by literary icons such as Virginia Woolf and Eileen Chang. Known for its lyrical elegance, her prose masterfully balances delicacy and strength, delving into themes of identity, culture, and womanhood. Her debut novel, Dissection of the Moon, is set to be released in Summer 2025 by Accent Editions.
Fellowship Project: Accent Writer Profile/Podcast Series & Newsletter
Winifred Dongyi Wang (b.2002) is a bilingual writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Beijing, China, she earned her BA in History (Magna Cum Laude) in 2023 and her MA in Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement in 2024 from New York University. During her time at NYU, she developed a profound interest in creative writing, comparative literature, and philosophy.
With a rich background in journalism and publishing, her work has appeared on notable Chinese and English media platforms. Her writing, shaped by a strong foundation in both English and Mandarin Chinese, is deeply influenced by literary icons such as Virginia Woolf and Eileen Chang. Known for its lyrical elegance, her prose masterfully balances delicacy and strength, delving into themes of identity, culture, and womanhood. Her debut novel, Dissection of the Moon, is set to be released in Summer 2025 by Accent Editions.
Fellowship Project: Accent Writer Profile/Podcast Series & Newsletter
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