As housing has grown increasingly difficult to secure in Provincetown, so have art studios. It’s not a recent problem. In 1992, the artist Joyce Johnson, a founder of the Truro […]
ARTISTS
Pieter Paul Pothoven’s Art Had the Dutch ‘Fuming’
The FAWC fellow explores the politics and complexities of how history is told
Unlike the studios of many of his peers at the Fine Arts Work Center, Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven’s is colorless and bare — aside from some grainy black-and-white printouts […]
DIY
Lily House Adopts a Barn Raising Approach
Community workdays make it ‘a home that belongs to all of us’
Dawn Walsh and Paula Erickson are standing in an unfinished space with no interior walls aside from studs that frame the two bedrooms at the Lily House on Wellfleet’s bay […]
IN THE STUDIO
Navigating Pleasure and Politics Through Art
Personal expression and political tension are central to Ruby T’s creative process
For Ruby T, who moved to Provincetown in 2021 after living in Chicago for more than a decade, making art is a means to explore overlaps between the political and […]
MEET THE MAKER
The Craft of the Clam Rake
The R.A. Ribb Company continues a family tradition, making bull rakes to fit each fisherman
HARWICH — There are half a dozen bull rakes lined up outside the door of the R.A. Ribb Company waiting for pickup by A.R.C., the Dennis-based shellfish hatchery and grower. […]
GROUP SHOW
The New FAWC Fellows Make Their Mark
A quiet, nuanced show offers a first chance to see work by the current visual arts fellows
In her film Untitled (burned rubber on asphalt), 2018, Tinja Ruusuvuori turned her attention to a small community in Norway where she probed one town’s minidrama about a mysterious person […]
LOCAL VIEWS
An Art Collection With Wellfleet as Its Muse
Michael Parlante collects art with an eye toward a town’s history
When Michael Parlante was a child, the celebrated painter Edwin Dickinson lived across the street from him near Cove Road in Wellfleet. “I’d watch him painting in his front yard,” […]
DOVETAIL JOINT
Five Ways to Improve Your Home’s Accessibility
Ramps and other elements of universal design can be beautiful
Ed McPartland is a retired carpenter living in Wellfleet who bemoans the fact that traditional Cape homes — and new houses that replicate their style — are not well adapted […]
ART HISTORY
Reconsidering the Artistic Legacy of Charles Heinz
His paintings of local landscapes reveal a bold and visionary artist
A fickle system determines which artists are remembered and which are forgotten. The Outer Cape has its canon of artists. Some are known internationally, like Edward Hopper, while others are […]
AT THE MUSEUM
By Artists, for Artists (and Everyone Else)
The Members’ Juried Exhibition at PAAM highlights the continued excellence of working artists on the Outer Cape
I recently came across a digital copy of a bulletin for an exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 1935: a no-frills black-and-white publication filled with ads and […]
TRASH AND TREASURE
From the Swap Shop to the Museum: Transforming Junk Into Art
Robert Rindler reflects on plastic, design, and making order out of chaos
WELLFLEET — When Robert Rindler was a young boy, he collected baseball cards. But unlike his brother, he wasn’t so concerned about the players: he was in it for the […]
KITCHEN CULTURE
There Is Soup and There Is Borscht
A Ukrainian Christmas tradition takes on new significance
Yuliia Svieshnikova has always prepared borscht, one of the 12 traditional Christmas dishes of her native Ukraine, on Jan. 6. That is Christmas Eve on the Julian calendar, which Ukrainians […]
ART AND ACCESS
Castle Hill and Morgan State Join Forces for Equity
A new residency in Truro is designed to extend professional opportunities to young Black artists
TRURO — Andre Davis, 23, graduated this month from Morgan State, a historically Black university in Baltimore. His first steps out of college have brought him to Truro, where he […]
MEET THE MAKER
Dried Flowers Capture Summer Colors in Winter Wreaths
Grower Meryl Gartside brings her design skills full circle
It took a while for Meryl Gartside, the owner of Blue Lobster Flower Farm, to find a way to extend her flower-focused business into the winter months. “I don’t have […]
IN THE LOBBY
Outer Cape Banks Circulate Cultural Currency
The tradition of displaying local art continues at one bank — and is being reconsidered at another
If you don’t do much banking in person, the art on display in banks on the Outer Cape might be a good reason to venture beyond the app on your […]
