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 […]
Arts & Minds
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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 […]
FICTION
Annuities
Every day, I read about the death of someone I never knew existed. On the front page today there’s an obituary about an author and activist who left an indelible mark […]
BIG PICTURE
Southern Comfort
Valerie Isaacs finds the South a gentler place to make plein-air paintings in the winter
Valerie Isaacs is a fixture in Provincetown. She’s often painting on the wharf or in the dunes with her portable easel and tote bag full of paint and brushes. For […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for February 20, 2025 through February 27, 2025
Stories of Environmental Dread and Horror Writer and Eastham librarian Corey Farrenkopf says he doesn’t spend much time plotting things out when he writes a story. He prefers to let […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rachel Brown’s Literary Images
The Wellfleet photographer finds inspiration in poetry and distant places
Rachel Brown remembers arriving on the Outer Cape as a child in 1944. Her family had moved from New York and rented a cottage on Slough Pond in Truro. “It […]
UGLY TRUTHS
Young Writer Seeks Difficulty
FAWC fellow Jiaqi Kang isn’t afraid to write willfully
Jiaqi Kang doesn’t like to call their longtime habit — waking in the morning and scribbling recollections of dreams — a “practice,” because that word is “hoity-toity.” But one morning […]
