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 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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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 […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 27, 2025 through March 6, 2025
Women Artists at the Cape Cod Museum of Art According to a 2022 study published in Artnet News, only 11 percent of acquisitions and less than 15 percent of exhibitions […]
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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 […]
SMALL TALK
Acie Clark Finds Poetry in Everything and Anything
Striving to make honest poems, even if they’re not true
Acie Clark is interested in small talk. Most of the time, he says, people refer to it dismissively. But he finds meaning in life’s mundane moments. “So much of our […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Golden Ambitions of Cartoons
Surveying the five animated features nominated for this year’s Oscars
Animation is not just for children. That’s certainly true of the five feature films nominated for an Academy Award in the animated category this year, although the two most likely […]
