On Pearl Street in Provincetown, the Fine Arts Work Center’s new fellows are settling into their apartments and studios. For now, the spaces are all but empty. The white, unadorned […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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LOOKING BACK
Reflecting on Creativity and Community
An alumni show at FAWC this summer brought 22 former fellows back to Provincetown
Since its founding in 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center has hosted more than a thousand fellows. Twenty-two former fellows returned to Provincetown this summer for an alumni group show, […]
BOOKS
Charles Busch’s Life as a Leading Lady
Just don’t call him a drag queen
Charles Busch — the renowned “male actress” of stage and film, playwright of dozens of shows including Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, which ran for five years off-Broadway, and the Broadway […]
PORTRAITS
The Many Faces of Eastham
Smiling, smirking, in the open air, and in outer space
“The Faces of Eastham,” at the town’s public library (190 Samoset Road) through Oct. 31, consists of approximately 50 portraits, all of them by Eastham residents of other Eastham residents. […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 19, 2023 through October 26, 2023
Jefferey Clayton Teaches Through Music Jefferey Clayton served in the military for 21 years — three years active duty and the rest in the National Guard. He completed “all the […]
WRITING LIFE
Margaret Shepherd’s Approach to an Ancient Sensual Text
Her calligraphic treatment of the Song of Songs reveals a lifetime of devotion to the artform
Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy, now on view at the Wellfleet Public Library through Nov. 3, looks like it was created with ease. The lines of text, which are taken from the […]
BOOKS
In ‘How to Live,’ Kelle Groom Investigates the Meaning of Home
A Provincetown poet’s new memoir is an odyssey toward compassion
The moment Kelle Groom opens the gray door to her second-floor Brewster Street apartment, a hold-onto-your-hats breeze marking the change in seasons sneaks through. Poetry collections by Nick Flynn, Marie […]
MUSIC
Indie Playlist: Songs for Fall
Staff picks to listen to while you’re watching the leaves change color
For this latest installment of our Indie Playlist, we asked Independent staffers to tell about a song that puts them in an autumnal state of mind: a tune to soundtrack […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Katherine Ann Power’s Story of Surrender and Redemption
Still looking to change the world, aware that ‘deep change takes time’
Katherine Ann Power is 74 years old and happily married to her wife of 15 years. She’s a proud grandmother. She has just gotten her hair cut, and on this […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 12, 2023 through October 19, 2023
Photos and Stories of All Kinds of Families “Love Makes a Family,” an exhibition of photographs of LGBTQ families on view at the Provincetown United Methodist Church (20 Shank Painter […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Zoë Lewis Believes in Magic
The singer-songwriter mounts four shows for her ‘different loves’
Singer, songwriter, and storyteller Zoë Lewis first came to Provincetown when she was 26. It was the early 1990s, and she’d been all around the world, and, in a spirit […]
WOMEN’S WEEK
Suzanne Westenhoefer, Better Now
The trailblazing comedian brings her funny stories back to Provincetown
Eight years had gone by since she graduated from college, and Suzanne Westenhoefer realized that, despite all the intention-setting, she had done almost nothing to get work as an actor. […]
THE STROLL
As Season Winds Down, Gallerists Take Stock
A great year for some was a bad year for others
Although most art galleries in Provincetown will stay open through December, this Friday, Oct. 6, marks the last official gallery stroll of the season. The Independent asked a few gallery […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for October 5, 2023 through October 12, 2023
To Hell and Back at the Eastham Library Gregory Williams wants you to go to hell — through art. Described as a “cheery and brisk” survey of visual depictions of […]
THE PORTRAITIST
Putting the Creative Community on Canvas in Big, Bold Strokes
Amy Kandall wants to paint ‘what everybody has to say’
During the summer of 2021, Truro artist Amy Kandall painted more than 50 life-size portraits of artists, gallerists, restaurant owners, and other creative people who live on the Outer Cape. […]
