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 […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on Provincetown’s weekly gallery walk
Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 346 Commercial St. Erin Long is an artist from Sharon. She gazes at a wall of paintings by Danielle Coenen. All are close-up portraits of faces. Long feels […]
THE BEAT
Provincetown Jazz Festival Pairs Professionals With Newcomers
Festival founder Bart Weisman finds freedom in the swing of things
When Bart Weisman arrived in Provincetown in 1980 to pick up the woman who would become his wife and take her home to Washington, D.C., where they both grew up, […]
THE STROLL
Wellfleet, Saturday Night
Seen and heard on the weekly gallery ramble
Front Porch Gallery, 210 Baker Ave. At the Front Porch Gallery, on the screened-in, cozy front porch of Susan Siegel’s house, Siegel points to her own piece, Bird in Flight, […]
THE KEY
Chamber Music for the Heart, Soul, and Spirit
The Verona and Ariel quartets believe in egoless collaboration
Abigail Rojansky, violist of the Verona String Quartet, remembers having an out-of-body experience while rehearsing for the quartet’s upcoming performance in Wellfleet. “I forgot that I existed,” she says. “It […]
THE STROLL
Provincetown, Friday Night
Seen and heard on Commercial Street on the weekly gallery ramble
Cortile Gallery, 230 Commercial St. At Cortile, Beth Donovan, a Provincetown local, admires Sunset Sail, painted by Ed Walsh. “I’m pretty sure it’s a rendition of the schooner Hindu,” she […]
STRING THEORY
Roseminna Watson Seeks ‘Weightlessness’ With Her Violin
In her aunt’s Truro studio, she practices the art of ease
On a dirt road in Truro, in a small, weathered house, the atmosphere spins with creative energy, says violinist Roseminna Watson. The house is her aunt Cammie Watson’s studio. Her […]
PLAYTIME
WHAT for Kids Serves Up Wisdom for These Times
A show that reminds grown-ups to look to young people for answers
Outside the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, eager children and resigned-looking adults find their seats. There are no lights to dim. Route 6 hums nearby. On a small patio stage flanked […]
PERFORMANCE
Quiet Myths Animate Hiroya Tsukamoto’s Songs
The guitarist sometimes stops mid-song to tell the story behind it
The guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto tells a story. About four years ago, in Hamden, Conn., he made a friend, a professor at Quinnipiac University. “He took me to this mountain,” says […]
