Although Truro-based artist, curator, and teacher Megan Hinton never met Florence Brillinger or Janice Biala, their work has strongly informed her own art practice. We met recently at the Provincetown […]
WOMEN’S HISTORY
Discovering an Early Generation of Provincetown Artists
Important women from Provincetown’s art and civic histories
In 2014, Breon Dunigan and Mike Wright curated the Women Pioneers exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to highlight the important roles that women played in the history […]
WOMEN’S HISTORY
An Artistic Sisterhood With No Apology
Artist Anna Poor reflects on community and the women who inspired her
While Anna Poor’s connections to the Outer Cape are deep and varied, a group of women artists, writers, and activists she has known and worked with over the years have […]
GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK
A Time to Sow
Dave DeWitt on greenhouses, grow bags, and Korean natural farming
Text and Drawings by Abraham Storer Dave DeWitt has been working the same plot of land in the Truro woods since 1987, starting when it was a heather farm, Rock […]
IN THE STUDIO
Yahna Harris and the Art of Family History
A FAWC fellow explores love, violence, and intergenerational dynamics in her recent film
In a scene from Yahna Harris’s current film-in-progress, the artist’s aunt sits regally in an armchair. Shot from a low angle, she commands a domestic space. There is no movement: […]
IN THE STUDIO
Creating Worlds With Fiber and Glue
Carol Fitzsimons weaves together influences from painting and craft in her richly textured pictures
Carol Fitzsimons’s richly colored and textured works are painstakingly created by adhering small strips of string to canvas board with a toothpick and Elmer’s glue. “It’s like painting with fiber,” […]
MEET THE MAKERS
The Art and Craft of a Small-Town Chocolate Maker
A business with its heart in Truro puts its arms around the globe
TRURO — A rich confectionary scent wafts through the air in Chequessett Chocolate’s production room. It’s a perfume that can make ordinary visitors swoon. But co-founder Josiah Mayo is on […]
BOOKS
Barbara Bosworth Keeps an Eye on The Sea
Finding beauty reflected in texts and objects
One of Barbara Bosworth’s most prized possessions is a collection of bird eggs she inherited from her great-grandfather, who collected them in the wild, blew out their interiors, and saved […]
ART AND ACCESS
Where Time and Space Are at a Premium
Artists and institutions grapple with the challenge of creating studios
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,” […]
