There’s a big bowl on Provincetown artist Gail Browne’s dining table, but it’s not full of fruit. The dish contains marbled ceramic balls and horseshoe crabs — paperweights. “It’s what […]
Art
LOST AND FOUND
Salvage Is His Source Material
A childhood on Coast Guard Beach shapes an artist’s compositions
After the legendary blizzard of 1978, Nicolas Nobili went with his family to Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach and scavenged for scraps of their summer house, which had been washed away. […]
STORIES
The Charged Fiction of Jason Ferris
A FAWC fellow writes stories of transformation that burn like coals
Starting a short story, Jason Ferris writes the first sentence, then rearranges the words. “I’ll stare at it and stare at it,” he says, “until finally it has enough of […]
ARTISTS
Edd Ravn’s Cabinet of Curiosities
A mud wall, privet berries, and centipede legs turn into art in a FAWC studio
About six weeks into Edd Ravn’s fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in the fall, he decided to smear his studio wall with mud. “I was thinking about the […]
CLAY WORKS
Truro’s Haven for Ceramicists
Two artists reignite their creative practice in a residency at Castle Hill
Michael Merritt and Luna Eve, the current ceramic artists in residence at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, are sharing a large, open studio space. Drawings line […]
BIG PICTURE
Winter Retreat
Susan Baker found her car an ideal place for making landscape paintings
Susan Baker has been making art on the Outer Cape since she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1969. Her work is always on view at […]
OBJECT STUDY
Vases, Tins, and Jugs That Forever Give
An exhibition of 22 artists in Orleans explores the influence of Giorgio Morandi
Kevin Rita, owner of Garvey Rita Art & Antiques in Orleans, went to Bologna, Italy last fall and visited Museo Morandi, a museum dedicated to the work of Italian painter […]
BIG PICTURE
Southern Comfort
Valerie Isaacs finds the South a gentler place to make plein-air paintings in the winter
Valerie Isaacs is a fixture in Provincetown. She’s often painting on the wharf or in the dunes with her portable easel and tote bag full of paint and brushes. For […]
BIG PICTURE
A Walk in the Woods
Kelly Knight’s abstractions flow from the landscape
Kelly Knight is a Providence-based mixed-media artist. She’s spending time in Wellfleet this winter creating abstract images that record her experience of the landscape. Walking through and observing places is […]
EXCURSIONS
On the Road With Grace Hopkins
Composing abstract expressionist ‘photo paintings’ from London to Málaga
Grace Hopkins’s photographs are easily mistaken for abstract expressionist paintings, but she doesn’t use paint and brushes to create the splashes of color and gestural swirls in what she refers […]
BIG PICTURE
Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
WORKING ORDER
Space to Create
Four artists on how they keep their studios functional and inspiring
Minimalism has grown increasingly popular in recent years, while messiness has been declared an obstacle to productivity. But artists were never ones to submit to rules or trends, and they’re […]
EXHIBITIONS
Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors
A show of works by Fine Arts Work Center fellows is a snapshot of global contemporary art
When the visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Cetner show their work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the community gets an exhilarating peek at what’s afoot […]
ARTISTS
In the Studio With a Phenomenologist
Adam Matthew Graham revisits realism and American values
Evening’s colors and rain figure in many of Adam Matthew Graham’s paintings, especially in his streetscapes, where the glow of lamplight or the shimmer of a puddle suggests that the […]
PATRIOTS
Jay Critchley Flies His Flag(s)
In a provocative and humorous exhibit, an artist takes aim at big oil
Visitors to Jay Critchley’s Provincetown studio never know what they’ll encounter. In the ground outside his door, there’s a cesspool that he renovated into a whitewashed space complete with a […]
