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 […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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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 […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb 17 through Feb 23
Art Demonstrations at Addison “Live Music and Art Demonstrations,” a benefit for Helping Our Women and the Cape Wellness Collaborative, will be held at Addison Art Gallery, 43 South Orleans […]
ARTISTS
Why Lavaughan Jenkins Is Not a Sculptor
His work honors the women who shaped him
Fine Arts Work Center fellow Lavaughan Jenkins insists that his work is not sculpture. Even though it inhabits space in three dimensions, even though you can walk around it, he […]
IN THE STACKS
Every Child Is an Artist (and Vice Versa)
Juliet Kepes’s Bauhaus mural adorns the Wellfleet Public Library
There’s some serious art hanging in the kids’ section of the Wellfleet Public Library. A mural by Juliet Kepes features stylized animals cavorting on washy fields of color. It’s light […]
SIDE HUSTLES
Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Outer Cape artists juggle oyster harvests and dog walks to make a living
Naya Bricher grew up around creative people. Her father is an artist and graphic designer who freelanced — he worked when he could, and he had a kind of freedom. […]
INDIE PLAYLIST
A Selection of Musical Madeleines
Songs that evoke memories for Indie staff and contributors
For this first Indie Playlist of 2022, contributors were asked to pick songs that brought them back to a particular moment in their lives. Listen at tinyurl.com/wva345xe. ‘When It Rains,’ […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Feb 10 through Feb 16
Del Deo at the Vorse House The Provincetown Arts Society offers “A Closer Look at Salvatore Del Deo” at the Mary Heaton Vorse House, 466 Commercial St., Provincetown, through Sunday, […]
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ARTISTS
Horror Movie Imagery Meets Indigenous Identity
Jeremy Dennis’s Rise series says, ‘We’re still here’
“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
EXHIBITIONS
Joel Meyerowitz Comes Home
A show of faces and places from a past Provincetown
When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]
OPERA
Boston Lyric Opera Throws a Beach Wedding
Svadba draws inspiration from far-flung Truro and Serbia
Boston Lyric Opera’s production of composer Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba begins not with music but with the sound of the wind at Truro’s Ballston Beach where it was filmed in October. […]
