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Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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TUNING UP
Breathing In and Playing Out
An Irish band sizzles with a signature sound
For Shane Hayes, playing traditional Irish music feels as natural as breathing. “You don’t think about it,” he says. “You just play.” Hayes was born and raised in Ennis, in […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 13, 2025 through March 20, 2025
A Poet of Darkness and Light The Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet online writing program will host “Dear Yusef,” a virtual event in honor of poet Yusef Komunyakaa, from 6 […]
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. […]
BOOKS
Transgender Medicine’s History at a Moment of Crisis
A timely new book sheds light on the study of human sexuality
The official policy of the Trump administration is essentially that transgender citizens do not exist and will not be recognized by the federal government. The publication last month by the […]
RADIO
Traversing the Seas of Recollection
WOMR’s Erik the Red is a storytelling DJ
Eric Auger doesn’t always wear his horned helmet. On air, Auger is Erik the Red, the Viking skipper of his WOMR show, The Reminiscence Bump, every other Thursday from 9 […]
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 […]
BIG PICTURE
Rosalie Acinapura Paints With Her Camera
A photographer searches for abstracted and distorted images
Rosalie Acinapura, a photographer who lives in Wellfleet, has been taking photographs most of her life. She’s prolific, and her vision is wide-ranging. She takes photographs wherever she is, on […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 6, 2025 through March 13, 2025
Listening to Women at WOMR WOMR has celebrated International Women’s Day since 1988, and for the past 14 years, that celebration has included featuring the station’s women DJs for 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 […]
INTERPRETATION
A Poet and Translator Celebrates ‘Life Cropping Up’
FAWC fellow Lucas Martínez uses folk traditions and language as his subjects
Lucas Martínez arrived in Provincetown with two instruments: a charango, which is a small Andean guitar, and a classical guitar, on which he practices milonga folk songs. As a writing […]
SELF-PORTRAIT
Cherrie Yu Is a Perpetual Student
In her multidisciplinary practice, a FAWC fellow is inspired by daily routines
In 2022, when Cherrie Yu was a few years out of graduate school, she landed a year-long residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio’s visual arts program in Dumbo, Brooklyn. But upon […]
INDIE SCREEN
Predicting the Oscars as the Industry Shrinks
This year offers neither a bang nor a whimper
Feature films today are in transition: the one-time all-American mass medium of theatrical moviegoing is rapidly becoming a niche activity. Most people stream movies at home or on their devices. […]
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 […]
