Matthew Wamser revels in the space he’s been given as a Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow. Working in a first-floor apartment with exposed wood timbers, he feels the presence […]
Arts & Minds
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DEEP ROOTS
Paying His Dues and Playing the Blues
Fred Clayton, the ‘Blues Man of Cape Cod,’ has something to say
Before Fred Clayton had a guitar, he played “a stick with a string on it” — a “giant twig” curved and strung like an archer’s bow. He strummed along to […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 3, 2025 through April 10, 2025
Alice Di Micele Keeps Going Over a career spanning 35 years, singer-songwriter Alice Di Micele has released 17 albums while raising a family and maintaining a commitment to social activism. […]
CROSSWORD #61
Wally and Friends
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Deafness as an Experience of Isolation and Connection
In Michael Cestaro’s Signs From the Mainland, Martha’s Vineyard is a deaf architect’s place of yearning
A seed was planted in Michael Cestaro’s mind when he heard Jeffrey Mansfield, a 2021 fellow at Provincetown’s Twenty Summers, deliver a lecture at the Hawthorne Barn. Mansfield, an architect […]
LYRICISM
A Strange Third Thing
The best poems, says Fine Arts Work Center fellow Parker Hobson, have ‘a tender screwballism’
Parker Hobson, a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, is interested in “what’s still present of the past,” he says. Walking in Provincetown, the poet noticed a plaque […]
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 […]
PARALLEL PLAY
Moving To and Fro
Janice Redman and Elizabeth Bradfield navigate a creative partnership in sculpture and poetry
Janice Redman, a sculptor, and Elizabeth Bradfield, a poet, are neighbors in North Truro who have worked together for the past 15 years. “She sits in this chair and works […]
INSTRUMENTATION
Mike Block Plays It All on the Cello
His ‘bluegrass-adjacent’ trio is coming to Wellfleet
Mike Block’s first instrument was the violin. But at nine, he switched to cello. “I was a short kid,” he says. Since he was small, “it was incredible to create […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 27, 2025 through April 3, 2025
Celebrating the Life and Musical Legacy of Canary Burton The musical legacy of the late Canary Burton — longtime Wellfleet resident, modern music composer, and WOMR announcer — will be […]
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 […]
GOING DEEP
Straight Lines and Sharp Teeth
For novelist Clara Mallon, expressing what you mean is lifesaving
The first time Clara Mallon wrote a story, she wrote it only in her head. She was five years old, looking out the window at school. “I was narrating from […]
FOLK
All That Matters Is Music
For Kim Moberg, writing and singing songs is strong medicine
Kim Moberg’s new album, All That Really Matters, scheduled for release this summer, surveys “the arc of human experience — loss, betrayal, melancholy,” she says. “Indigenous people have forever believed […]
POETRY
Hungry
A lot of my life has been spent learning what it means to live in a world with coyotes that need to eat, and rabbits that want to live — […]
THE MANOSPHERE
Non-Toxic Is an Antidote to Joe Rogan
Daniel Waite Penny’s podcast looks at climate change and masculinity
Three years ago, Daniel Waite Penny, who lives in Provincetown, started a podcast called Non-Toxic: a play on the term “toxic masculinity” and the state of the environment. The podcast […]
