Nature isn’t always natural, suggests the Fine Arts Work Center’s summer exhibition, “To Move a Mountain.” Coady Brown, an artist who curated the work by nine former FAWC fellows, writes […]
DOG DAYS
Alexis Trice Paints Risk and Reward
In her art, coyotes cry and bivalves glimmer
Alexis Trice lives in New York City, where she was born and raised, but it’s the natural world that has captured her imagination. Her jewel-like, unsettling paintings of dogs (often […]
ARTISTS
André van der Wende at the Crossroads
His recent work shows the artist arriving at new solutions
“Crossroads,” the name of André van der Wende’s current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, alludes to a creative journey that offers resolution but also a continuous sense of possibility. The […]
PAINTING FROM LIFE
Maritime Portraits That Capture the Cape’s Spirit
Paul Schulenburg paints an optimistic picture for this year’s Portuguese Festival
When Paul Schulenburg was growing up in Schenectady, N.Y. his family came to Dennis Port in the summers, and that included an annual day trip to Provincetown. “I was always […]
ENLIGHTENED
An Artist Trades Illustration for Emotion
Rob DuToit’s recent work soars with energetic abandon
Last fall, Rob DuToit was walking in the Audubon sanctuary in Wellfleet when he approached a platform with a sweeping view of the marsh and Cape Cod Bay. The scene […]
FRONT LINES
War Reporting as Breakthrough
A conversation with Phil Klay on the challenges and dilemmas of depicting violence
Phil Klay’s short story collection, Redeployment, about the experiences of American soldiers fighting in Iraq and returning home, won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. His second book, Missionaries, […]
SURFACES
On the Line Between Accident and Intention
Anthony Fisher embodies the unexpected in his intensely physical paintings
Anthony Fisher remembers seeing an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum of Alvin Ross’s realist paintings. Fisher was 14 years old. “It was really an inspiration,” he says, […]
OBITUARY
Peter Scarbo Frawley, Wellfleet’s Concrete Poet, Dies at 81
Peter Scarbo Frawley, who wrote concrete poetry and supported his family by painting houses, died at the Lily House in Wellfleet on March 17, 2025. He was 81 and had […]
STUDIO VISIT
Hope and Despair, One Dot at a Time
Donna Flax’s new paintings evoke humanity’s place in the cosmos
A group of ex-voto paintings line the wall of a hallway leading into Donna Flax’s studio at her home in Wellfleet. She collected the paintings in Mexico, which she began […]
ART AND ACCESS
Are You a Semiquincentennialist or a Creative Individual?
Artists sniff the political winds in federal and state grants
Katie Castagno of Eastham has finished the last bits of recording for her album, Our Queer Elders, to be released this summer. The songs are about people in history who […]
BIG PICTURE
The Suggestiveness of Red
Bob Henry does a lot with one color
Wellfleet’s Bob Henry has been painting and drawing for 70 years, but he’s not the kind of artist who makes the same painting over and over again. There are some […]
SACRED ART
Epiphanies in the Sanctuary
At St. Mary of the Harbor, a side of Provincetown’s art colony rarely seen
On the rear wall of the nave at the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor in Provincetown is a triangular mural, Epiphany, painted by Robert Douglas Hunter. Religious iconography […]
HUMAN, NATURE
Susan Lyman Sculpts a Defiant Life Force
Beauty, sensuality, and destruction converge in works of wood and paint
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 […]
