“My work is always telling a story,” says Traci Harmon-Hay. Pieces from her new series, “Hovering Boats,” will be exhibited from May 24 to June 17 at Farm Projects in […]
WRITERS
Kim Coleman Foote’s Art of Biomythography
The FAWC writing fellow explores the ‘muddiness’ of history and memory
“When you forget parts of a history, patterns repeat themselves,” says Kim Coleman Foote. “This goes for the great human tragedies as much as for intergenerational trauma within families.” Foote, […]
WRITERS
Stories of Tradition and Modernity
Gothataone Moeng explores the tensions between the past and the present
It’s an exciting time for Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Gothataone Moeng. Her first book, a collection of short stories set in her home country, was published earlier this […]
WRITERS
Writing That Shows Us Who We Really Are
A ‘stubborn fan’ of the short story explores complicated and difficult inner lives
Writer and current Fine Arts Work Center fellow Willie Fitzgerald calls himself a “stubborn fan” of the short story. “Dedicated short story writers and readers tend to be fewer in […]
CONSTRUCTIONS
Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere
An architect with an artist’s eye explores the layers of place-making
“Much of my work reckons with home and elsewhere as two foundational stories we tell to explain who and where we are,” says the visual artist and architect known as […]
BACKYARD FARM
Saying Goodbye to Buttercup
Our beloved doe and her sister find happiness in Brewster
Buttercup was not born in our back yard, but she was the kid that made me a goat mama. She and her sister came to us from another small farm […]
MEET THE MAKER
How to Become a Curd Nerd
A backyard farmer follows a goatherd from pasture to kitchen
Sadie Hill added two Nigerian dwarf dairy goats to her small farm in Brewster in 2015. Her plan was to show them in competitions and breed them to develop a […]
WRITERS
Vedran Husić Is Searching for Meaning
The returning FAWC fellow writes of love and grief
“This place will always be a part of my life, more so than I ever imagined,” says the writer Vedran Husić. “The work that I’m doing here is so meaningful […]
BACKYARD FARM
Finding Room for a Few Spring Chickens
Plain or fancy, new birds are to bond with
All of a sudden, I’m seeing tiny buds on every branch. This sign of spring sends my vegetable-growing friends into expanding their garden beds. For chicken farmers like me, the […]
WRITERS
That Feeling of Silent Communion With a Place
Far from Nepal, Samyak Shertok finds his home in poetry
“They came unarmed. They came/ half-masked. They came/ before the crow. They came/ with the moon. They came/ moonless. They came/ out of rain. They came/ as their enemy. They […]
MEET THE MAKERS
Girl Scouts Learn a Jeweler’s Craft
Making rings to celebrate friendships and earn a badge
It was a quiet day in early March, but the Jewelry Studio of Wellfleet was buzzing with activity. Seven members of Girl Scout Troop 82548 were inside, soldering, hammering, and […]
WRITERS
Wandering the Topkapı Palace With Zeynep Özakat
A ‘novel in protest’ about a haunted harem
“Narrative weaves through many aspects of our lives in ways we are often not even aware of,” says the Turkish-born writer Zeynep Özakat. Her first novel, which she is working […]
ARTISTS
Capturing the Queer Collective Consciousness
Georden West explores ‘unseen and liminal spaces’
In the stillness of the night, small creatures travel unseen through a rectangle of dust on the floor of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. These “gallery ghosts” leave faint […]
WRITERS
De-Generalizing the ‘Native Experience’
A FAWC fellow writes of growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation
“There’s very little legitimate literature about Native people,” says Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. “It wasn’t until I […]
BACKYARD FARM
The Free Range Conundrum
Featherfoot Freckles makes a narrow escape from a Cooper’s hawk
When we started keeping chickens, we kept them in a fortress-like coop with a luxuriously large, protected run. I didn’t want our hens to be deprived of space. But I […]
