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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 […]
ARTISTS AT WORK
In His Art, Hiroyuki Hamada Seeks to Perfect, Not Provoke
Returning to FAWC as an artist in residence, he rediscovers himself
Hiroyuki Hamada arrived in Provincetown on March 1 to spend the month as a mid-career artist-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center. Now, though FAWC is closed to the public […]
PAINTING
Show and Tell With Jake Troyli
The FAWC fellow offers an intimate tour of his art in process
It’s unusual for an accomplished artist to want to share with the public not only completed, polished work but also works-in-progress and even notes, sketches, and inspirations, offering an intimate […]
READINGS
The Real-Life Tale of a Violent Queer Relationship
Carmen Maria Machado reveals all with literary flair
In her new book, In the Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado flips the discussion of domestic abuse on its ear. She writes of her own traumatic experience in […]
PAINTING
The Unruly Language of Autumn Wallace’s Art
Every picture tells a story at a FAWC opening
When encountering Autumn Wallace, one is reminded of a young Frida Kahlo, with her elegant poise, fiercely intelligent eyes, gender-fluid beauty, and determination not to let herself or her art […]
For Francisco Márquez, Poetry Is a Portal
The FAWC fellow explores an inner point of view
It’s not surprising that Fine Arts Work Center poetry fellow Francisco Márquez has a background in film. There’s something of the filmmaker’s eye in his work, especially in his experiments […]
