Laura Cresté still has Mead notebooks full of the nature poems she started writing around age six. She wrote one after watching a seagull attack a crab while on the […]
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 10 through March 16, 2022
Spring at Bakker Auctions Bakker Auctions will hold its spring fine arts auction on Saturday, March 12 beginning at 1 p.m. Women artists are well represented in the 145 lots, […]
ARTISTS
Capturing the Queer Collective Consciousness
Georden West explores ‘unseen and liminal spaces’
In the stillness of the night, small creatures travel unseen through a rectangle of dust on the floor of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. These “gallery ghosts” leave faint […]
WRITERS
The Internet as a Place of Fracture and Connection
For Tracy Fuad, identity transcends geographic borders
Tracy Fuad was born the same month as the internet: March 1989. In her most recent poetry collection, about:blank, published in October, she describes the web as a bridge between […]
EXHIBITIONS
Portrait of an Artist on Fire
Richard Neal unleashes his experimental side in small works
Richard Neal’s show at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, running through March 29, takes its title from an English colloquialism and album by The Who. “Odds and Sods” are 20 small works […]
WRITERS
De-Generalizing the ‘Native Experience’
A FAWC fellow writes of growing up on the Blackfeet Reservation
“There’s very little legitimate literature about Native people,” says Fine Arts Work Center writing fellow Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. “It wasn’t until I […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for March 3 through March 9, 2022
It’s All About the Presentation Barry Katz is teaching a three-part online course on “Photographing Artwork” via Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Sundays beginning March 6, […]
ARTISTS
From Black Resin Disco Balls to Cryptic Sky-Blue Paintings
Kevin Brisco Jr. considers his art a ‘container for concepts’
Kevin Brisco Jr. paints too slowly, he says, for that to be his focus as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Instead, he is working mostly on conceptual […]
WRITERS
For Shastri Akella, Telling Stories Is a Labor of Love
An Indian-born author finds his queer identity in his prose
Shastri Akella’s first novel, The Sea Elephants, begins with these lines: “My father left the country the year my sisters were born. He returned six months after I watched them […]
COMMUNITY
Here Come Provincetown’s Little Artists
Finding beauty in the mess
“What do you see?” teacher Abraham Storer asks 15 eager young artists sitting on the floor, doodling in their sketchbooks. He points to some paintings by abstract expressionist Robert Beauchamp, […]
LINE BREAK
Mad Libs Poetry: A Starter Kit
Swapping noun for noun, verb for verb, to create something new
Poets build poems within the shells of earlier work, caterpillar to moth. We learn to write by reading and echoing until something clicks that feels genuine and new. I love […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb. 24 through March 2, 2022
Hope and Tenacity at the Commons It’s not too late to see Donna Pomponio’s show of portraits titled “Love, Trust, Support, Options = Change” at the Provincetown Commons. It runs […]
PAGE TURNERS
Repurposed Books Tell New Stories
Eastham students create art for ‘love your library month’
When libraries grow tight on space, worn books are usually thrown out or given away. At the Eastham Public Library, they metamorphose into art. The fifth annual Repurposed Book Art […]
ARTISTS
Complicated by Contradiction
Ellen Akimoto finds inspiration in ‘moments of flux’
Sitting in her studio in Provincetown, Ellen Akimoto says she has “a weird feeling of being at home and definitely not at home.” Originally from California, Akimoto arrived as a […]
WRITERS
In His Poems, Eduardo Martinez-Leyva Discovers Who He Is
A journey from West Texas to Provincetown and back
“I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas,” says Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown who will give an online poetry reading on […]
