Join poet Brenda Hillman, the author of 10 collections of poetry, including White Dress, Fortress, and Death Tractates, for “Some Notes on Poetic Courage,” a virtual talk and conversation with […]
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FAWC Live-Streams Terrance Hayes
Among the many honors poet Terrance Hayes has received is a 2014 MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. His most recent collection of poems, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, […]
Writers’ Talk
Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center is hosting a virtual “Craft Conversation” with authors Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken on Thursday, October 29th, at 6 p.m. Register with a $25 minimum […]
Teach Talk
Join poet Susan Choi and novelist Michael Cunningham for a virtual “craft conversation” on “What Teaching Teaches Writers,” hosted by (and benefiting) the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. It […]
Ghost Writer
Join poet Carl Phillips for a virtual “Craft Conversation in Writing” titled “The Ghost in You” on Thursday, October 15th, 6 p.m., hosted by the Fine Arts Work Center in […]
FAWC Talks
Videos of all of the Fine Arts Work Center’s past virtual events are available for free viewing on their website. Go to fawc.org.
GOING GENTLE
Fine Arts Work Center Director Will Resign
After a season of statements, a silent departure
PROVINCETOWN — The Fine Arts Work Center’s executive director has announced his resignation by June 2021 following charges of classism and racism by this year’s fellows and one staff member. […]
Motherland Virtual Book Launch
Elissa Altman, a food writer and memoirist who has taught at the Fine Arts Work Center, will launch her new book, Motherland, about her “loving, turbulent, and toxic relationship with […]
Naya Bricher Lights Up Four Eleven Gallery
Naya Bricher’s show of candy-colored paintings, “Cue the Montages,” has its final day on Thursday, August 20th, but be sure to catch what remains at Four Eleven Gallery, 411 Commercial […]
Esteban del Valle Slide Talk on Recent Work
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting a Zoom talk by former visual arts fellow Esteban del Valle on Thursday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. Del Valle will […]
Virtual Book Party: A Celebration of New Collections by Jill Bialosky & Gail Mazur
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting a poetry reading and conversation with Gail Mazur and Jill Bialosky, moderated by Major Jackson. The event will take place on […]
Nick Flynn Poetry Workshop
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is hosting a virtual one-hour poetry workshop led by Nick Flynn that is designed to inspire unexpected and surprising new poems on Thursday, […]
ARS INTERRUPTUS
FAWC Cancels Entire Summer Program
PAAM and Castle Hill wait to see how crisis evolves
PROVINCETOWN — The Fine Arts Work Center notified participants in its summer workshops by email on April 29 that the entire program had been postponed until 2021 due to the […]
MEMOIRS
A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Man
In Later, Paul Lisicky recalls his early days in Provincetown
Paul Lisicky could not have known that his newest book would be released in the midst of a global pandemic. And yet it’s apropos that the publication of Later: My […]
SCULPTURE
Akiko Jackson Creates Art for a Time of Grief
The FAWC fellow finds a home in Provincetown
Akiko Jackson is a second-year visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her first fellowship year was 2013-14; the day she returned, this past October, Jackson […]
