Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center is an international home for artists and writers in Provincetown, Massachusetts — the country’s most enduring artists’ community. Founded in 1968 by a group of luminary creators including Stanley Kunitz, Robert Motherwell, Josephine and Salvatore Del Deo, and Hudson and Ione Walker, the Work Center has given artists and writers the space and time to pursue their work within a community of peers for more than half a century. The artist-led Work Center supports emerging artists and writers through its world-renowned Fellowship program, and also offers summer workshops and year-round virtual learning opportunities to advance creative practice. Fine Arts Work Center Fellows who have arrived in Provincetown as emerging writers have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, MacArthur Fellowships, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Visual Arts Fellows have presented their work at the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and at other venues around the globe. The Fine Arts Work Center supports artistic freedom, nurtures creative connections, and makes possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.
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FAWC on WGBH and Art New England
Nov. 16, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours) started his career as a Fellow at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center in 1980. For the publication of his acclaimed new book, Day, Cunningham discussed how the Work Center and Provincetown shaped his career and life in an in-depth profile in Art New England and in an interview on The Culture Show on WGBH (NPR-Boston).
Fine Arts Work Center in Architect’s Newspaper
Jul. 21, 2023
Fine Arts Work Center, the Provincetown birthplace of countless modern masterpieces, has received a stunning makeover that honors its bohemian roots while continuing to support future generations of artists and writers. The renovation of the campus, which was initially a lumber yard, was led by Flansbrugh Architects. Check out the article in The Architect’s Newspaper.
Fine Arts Work Center on MSNBC
May. 20, 2023
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the so-called Don’t Say Gay bill into law, he displayed “Call Me Max,” a story about a young trans boy by author Kyle Lukoff, onstage.
In an op-ed for MSNBC, Lukoff discusses his weariness about being constantly asked to discuss book banning rather than his writing and he highlights his partnership with Fine Art Work Center on the first-ever Youth Lit Week this July in Provincetown.
He concludes: “Youth Lit Week will overlap with Family Week, the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ+ families in the world. My hope is that more institutions and organizations follow this model, allocating resources for writers and artists to thrive, so we can continue to do what we do best: create stories that will outlive us even in the face of opposition.
Some people study Shakespeare or Gerard Manley Hopkins or Wordsworth. I study picture books. Here’s to the day all my invitations are to talk about them — and not the governor of Florida.”