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The 2019/20 Provincetown Gallery Guide
PREVIEW
Summer 2019 at Fine Arts Work Center
Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl Street, Provincetown 508-487-9960 www.fawc.org
The Fine Arts Work Center is a revered residency program for
emerging artists and writers. Founded in 1968 by Stanley
Kunitz, Robert Motherwell and Huson D. Walker, among others,
the founders envisioned a place in Provincetown, where artists
and writers can work together in the early phases of their
careers. Each year, the Work Center welcomes twenty Fellows
selected from a pool of 1,600 applications from around the
world. From October to May, Fellows receive a living and studio
space and modest stipend; their only responsibility is to their
creative practice. Since its inception 1,000 Fellowships have
been awarded.
During the summer months, the historic facility offers 100
open enrollment week-long workshops in poetry, fiction, memoir,
painting, playwrighting, drawing, photography, songwriting,
and printmaking. Themed weeks include the 4th Annual Poetry
Festival, Social Justice Week: Artists and Writers as Activists,
Memoir Week and a new Women’s Playwright Series under the
mentorship of Paula Vogel. A Words + Music Series presents
five evenings of music, storytelling and conversations to benefit
the Work Center. Nightly readings
and artists talks are free
and open to the public.
The Work Center’s annual
Summer Awards Celebration will
be held at the Pilgrim Monument
and Museum on Saturday, July
13. This year’s event salutes
FAWC Executive Directors
Margaret Murphy, Michael
Roberts and Hunter O’Hanian
in recognition of their extraordinary
service and who worked
successively to ensure that gifted
young artists and writers continued
to come to Provincetown,
sustaining the enduring legacy
of America’s oldest continuing
art colony. FAWC writing Fellows
Salvatore Scibona and Ada
Limon will also be honored.
The Work Center’s summer
season concludes on August
17th with its 43rd Annual Art
Auction, featuring a special
salute to Fine Arts Work Center
Visual Fellows. “On the Rise:
Emerging Artists of the Work
Center” is a curated selection of
work from recent Fellows whose
work has received critical praise.
As of this writing, confirmed artists
include Arghavan Khosravi
(Fellow 2018-19) and Heidi Hahn
(Fellow 2014-15, 2015-16).
This year’s auction, displayed
onsite at the Work Center and
online via Paddle8, will also offer
75 lots of contemporary art by
Work Center faculty, Fellows,
and friends. The Work Center is
proud to celebrate the continued
achievements of its creative
community in this special
auction event.
Work by FAWC Visual Fellow Arghavan Khosravi will be featured in this year’s 43rd Annual Art Auction.
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