Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Truro are remote. Go to truro-ma.gov and click on the meeting you want to watch. The agenda includes instructions on how to join. Thursday, Oct. 20 Charter […]
Archives for 2022
WELLFLEET: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Oysters Are for More Than Eating
Meetings Ahead Most meetings in Wellfleet are remote only, but some are being held in person. Go to www.wellfleet-ma.gov/calendar and click on the meeting you want to watch, then follow the instructions […]
EASTHAM: THIS WEEK'S CURRENTS
Fraud Awareness
Meetings Ahead Most meetings are being held in person, but some are still remote or virtual. Go to eastham-ma.gov/calendar-by-event-type/16 and click on the meeting you are interested in to learn about meeting […]
IN THE GALLERIES
Erika Wastrom’s Imagined Realities
Finding art as a ‘spiritual corrective’ in an unsteady world
Erika Wastrom’s paintings depict uncanny worlds that seem equal parts imagined and observed. Despite recognizable elements — a shopping cart, a child’s sippy cup — there is a playful oddity […]
FELLOWSHIP
Welcoming the 2022-23 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows
Ten artists from around the globe step into Provincetown
The Fine Arts Work Center welcomed 10 visual arts fellows this month for seven-month-long residencies in Provincetown. Executive Director Sharon Polli says the fellowship program is central to the Work […]
PLANTCRAFT
Milisa Moses Stirs Up the Alchemy of Blues and Browns
Making art with pigments from indigo leaves and oak galls
Like many artists on the Outer Cape, Milisa Moses finds creative inspiration in the landscape. But Moses weaves the environment into her process as well as into her product. Moses […]
FUTURE TENSE
The Artist in the Machine
The promise and pitfalls of creating art with artificial intelligence
In his 1868 prose poem Les Chants de Maldoror, the self-styled Comte de Lautrémont described a young man as being as beautiful as the “chance encounter of a sewing machine […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 20 through October 27, 2022
Closing One Door and Opening Another As impresario of Art Market Provincetown, gallerist Debbie Nadolney has fostered a communal space centered on creativity. A celebration marking the end of AMP’s […]
VIGNETTE
Time to Move Out
STEAMERS
Pilloried
MASTER PLANNING
Build a Food Forest Garden, Not a New Pool
North Eastham’s town center should be focused on giving back to the Earth
On Wednesday night last week, I attended the final North Eastham Village Center Master Plan meeting at the Eastham Public Library. The design group has done a great job so […]
COUNTY LINE
Equity Must Be Our Goal
Poverty and homelessness are here among us on Cape Cod
On WOMR’s Alternative Radio the other night, I listened to a compilation of talks by Barbara Ehrenreich, who died on Sept. 1 and is best known for her groundbreaking undercover […]
IN VIEW THIS WEEK
October Song
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
The Buzz Is Back
A lot of people were happy last weekend because the Wellfleet OysterFest was back after two festless pandemic years — and I was one of them. It meant that I […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters, Oct. 20, 2022
From Marianna Koval, Sheila McIntyre, David Moulton, Constance Kremer, Marcia Dalbey, Kalliope Chute, Patty Donohoe, Christopher J. Snow, and Fred Kavalier
An Alternative Water Source To the editor: I’ve just read the lead article in the Independent regarding the Walsh property in Truro [“Water Quality at Center Stage on Walsh Property,” […]
