In one of Susan Lyman’s sculptures, Washashore (Survivor), a white cedar tree is truncated just above the roots, like a figure cut at the torso. It stands upright, supported by […]
SEMI-UTOPIA
An Artist Play-Acts His Way to Something Real
Ian Page explores the edges of things
Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow Ian Page arrived in Provincetown last fall from Los Angeles, where he had become interested in Wienerschnitzel, a fast-food chain that sells hot […]
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Deafness as an Experience of Isolation and Connection
In Michael Cestaro’s Signs From the Mainland, Martha’s Vineyard is a deaf architect’s place of yearning
A seed was planted in Michael Cestaro’s mind when he heard Jeffrey Mansfield, a 2021 fellow at Provincetown’s Twenty Summers, deliver a lecture at the Hawthorne Barn. Mansfield, an architect […]
PARALLEL PLAY
Moving To and Fro
Janice Redman and Elizabeth Bradfield navigate a creative partnership in sculpture and poetry
Janice Redman, a sculptor, and Elizabeth Bradfield, a poet, are neighbors in North Truro who have worked together for the past 15 years. “She sits in this chair and works […]
PIGMENT
A Magician in the Studio
For Dani Levine, deconstruction is necessary for invention
Dani Levine’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, where she’s a visual arts fellow, feels like an old-time painting workshop transposed to the present. “I like the notion of […]
LOST AND FOUND
Salvage Is His Source Material
A childhood on Coast Guard Beach shapes an artist’s compositions
After the legendary blizzard of 1978, Nicolas Nobili went with his family to Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach and scavenged for scraps of their summer house, which had been washed away. […]
BIG PICTURE
Rosalie Acinapura Paints With Her Camera
A photographer searches for abstracted and distorted images
Rosalie Acinapura, a photographer who lives in Wellfleet, has been taking photographs most of her life. She’s prolific, and her vision is wide-ranging. She takes photographs wherever she is, on […]
SELF-PORTRAIT
Cherrie Yu Is a Perpetual Student
In her multidisciplinary practice, a FAWC fellow is inspired by daily routines
In 2022, when Cherrie Yu was a few years out of graduate school, she landed a year-long residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio’s visual arts program in Dumbo, Brooklyn. But upon […]
BIG PICTURE
Winter Retreat
Susan Baker found her car an ideal place for making landscape paintings
Susan Baker has been making art on the Outer Cape since she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1969. Her work is always on view at […]
OBJECT STUDY
Vases, Tins, and Jugs That Forever Give
An exhibition of 22 artists in Orleans explores the influence of Giorgio Morandi
Kevin Rita, owner of Garvey Rita Art & Antiques in Orleans, went to Bologna, Italy last fall and visited Museo Morandi, a museum dedicated to the work of Italian painter […]
BIG PICTURE
Southern Comfort
Valerie Isaacs finds the South a gentler place to make plein-air paintings in the winter
Valerie Isaacs is a fixture in Provincetown. She’s often painting on the wharf or in the dunes with her portable easel and tote bag full of paint and brushes. For […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rachel Brown’s Literary Images
The Wellfleet photographer finds inspiration in poetry and distant places
Rachel Brown remembers arriving on the Outer Cape as a child in 1944. Her family had moved from New York and rented a cottage on Slough Pond in Truro. “It […]
BIG PICTURE
A Walk in the Woods
Kelly Knight’s abstractions flow from the landscape
Kelly Knight is a Providence-based mixed-media artist. She’s spending time in Wellfleet this winter creating abstract images that record her experience of the landscape. Walking through and observing places is […]
BIG PICTURE
Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
EXHIBITIONS
Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors
A show of works by Fine Arts Work Center fellows is a snapshot of global contemporary art
When the visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Cetner show their work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the community gets an exhilarating peek at what’s afoot […]
