With coronavirus jitters everywhere, as well as talk of cancellations, from the Olympics to South by Southwest, it’s hard to be optimistic about the months to come. But Christopher Ostrom, […]
Arts & Minds
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READINGS
The Real-Life Tale of a Violent Queer Relationship
Carmen Maria Machado reveals all with literary flair
In her new book, In the Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado flips the discussion of domestic abuse on its ear. She writes of her own traumatic experience in […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for March 12 through March 18
Cape Cod Natural History Conference at 4Cs Organized by the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, the 25th annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference will take place on Saturday, March […]
Crossword
In Like a Lion
The March puzzle from Sophia Maymudes should be done on dry land. Need some answers? We send out the solution in our Friday newsletter. You’ll find the signup for our […]
PUBLIC ART
Compact to Turn P’town VFW Into Art Installation
Jay Critchley invites veterans and members of the community to participate
PROVINCETOWN — It’s a project Jay Critchley had been contemplating for a while: he knew that the town had bought the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 3 Jerome Smith […]
MUSIC
Tianna Esperanza Defies Defining Herself
The singer-songwriter is ‘Comin’ Up’ to Provincetown
With a new single on the market and an album on the way, Tianna Esperanza is moving forward along the path that she started on two years ago. Born and […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Hell-bent Women of Suffrage
Ellen DuBois explores a relentless fight’s strategies and divisions
There are but 29 words to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was formally adopted on Aug. 26, 1920: “The right of the citizens of the United States […]
PAINTING
The Unruly Language of Autumn Wallace’s Art
Every picture tells a story at a FAWC opening
When encountering Autumn Wallace, one is reminded of a young Frida Kahlo, with her elegant poise, fiercely intelligent eyes, gender-fluid beauty, and determination not to let herself or her art […]
For Francisco Márquez, Poetry Is a Portal
The FAWC fellow explores an inner point of view
It’s not surprising that Fine Arts Work Center poetry fellow Francisco Márquez has a background in film. There’s something of the filmmaker’s eye in his work, especially in his experiments […]
FICTION
Writing Is a Familial Endeavor for Nora Corrigan
Her time at FAWC is one of transition
The year 2020 promises to be an exciting one for Nora Corrigan. She completed her first novel, about a female oil worker on a rig in a North Dakota boomtown, […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs and Listings for March 5 through March 11
Susan Anthony Collages A show of collages by Wellfleet artist Susan Anthony will have an opening on Sunday, March 8, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Great Pond Gallery […]
PAINTING
Hannah Morris Discovers Herself in Her Art
What the FAWC fellow finds, she hopes will touch others
Large, brightly colored canvases, some spanning an entire wall, layered with images of figures, birds in flight, a fox, or flowers, greet the viewer entering Hannah E. Morris’s studio at […]
METAFICTION
In Trust Exercise, Choi Views Abuse Through a Literary Lens
The National Book Award winner will read at FAWC
“I have a preoccupation with locations and the landscape,” says Susan Choi, “almost to a fault.” She recalls her time as a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center […]
BOOK REVIEW
From Lust to Love and Cleanness, in Nine Chapters
Garth Greenwell’s new novel is 100 shades of gay
Garth Greenwell’s 2016 debut novel, What Belongs to You, which was on the long list for the National Book Award, is a story of love, lust, and loss, centered on […]
AT THE LIBRARY
Literature as a Journey of the Heart
Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
According to Jenn Shapland, the problem with biographies of authors is that they fix the author in time and place. Layering on the biographer’s understanding of the author’s body of […]
