In one of Susan Lyman’s sculptures, Washashore (Survivor), a white cedar tree is truncated just above the roots, like a figure cut at the torso. It stands upright, supported by […]
Art
Elena Kovylyaeva’s Creative Wandering
Looking at things that have been thrown away and waiting for something to happen
When Elena Kovylyaeva arrived in Provincetown in October as a Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow, many of the shops in town were getting ready to close for the […]
EVERLASTING RIPPLES
There’s Plenty of Hope in the Sea
In paintings and mixed media, Nancy Jenner finds beauty, inspiration, and a sense of herself
In recent years, the world has seemed especially cacophonous to artist Nancy Jenner. In a loud room, says Jenner, “I get quiet.” Her impulse is to travel inward, she says, […]
SEMI-UTOPIA
An Artist Play-Acts His Way to Something Real
Ian Page explores the edges of things
Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow Ian Page arrived in Provincetown last fall from Los Angeles, where he had become interested in Wienerschnitzel, a fast-food chain that sells hot […]
STILL FRAME
An Artist Takes a Moment
Solitude provides Zeinab Shahidi Marnani with new perspectives
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, a visual arts fellow at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, spends a lot of time in relative isolation. “Seven months is a long time,” she says. She’s […]
PIGMENT
A Magician in the Studio
For Dani Levine, deconstruction is necessary for invention
Dani Levine’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, where she’s a visual arts fellow, feels like an old-time painting workshop transposed to the present. “I like the notion of […]
HANDMADE
Gail Browne Gets Lost in Her Art
A home filled with ceramics, watercolors, and white-line prints
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 […]
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 […]
