The Fine Arts Work Center
is an international home
for artists and writers in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Fine Arts Work Center
is an international home
for artists and writers in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Fine Arts Work Center
supports emerging artists
and writers through its
world-renowned
Fellowship Program.
The Fine Arts Work Center
supports emerging artists
and writers through its
world-renowned
Fellowship Program.
The Fine Arts Work Center
offers summer workshops
and year-round virtual
learning opportunities to
advance creative practice.
The Fine Arts Work Center
offers summer workshops
and year-round virtual
learning opportunities to
advance creative practice.
The Fine Arts Work Center
builds community in the heart
of Provincetown through public
programming in the creative arts.
The Fine Arts Work Center builds community in the heart of Provincetown through public programming in the creative arts.
Mission and Legacy
For over 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space to emerging artists and writers at crucial early stages of creative development within a community of peers. The founders hoped that the Work Center would perpetuate Provincetown’s seminal importance for the arts in America, overcoming modest means and geographic isolation to create an internationally acclaimed institution. The restoration and amplification of the year-round vitality of Provincetown as a historic artists’ community lies at the heart of the Work Center’s mission. All of our programs are dedicated to enhancing this legacy.
News and Updates
Artist News, Organizational highlights A Message to our FAWC Community May 12, 2025 Artist News, Fellowship Celebrated Poet and FAWC Trustee Marie Howe Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry May 15, 2025 Artist News Peter Scarbo Frawley, May 14, 2025
Wellfleet’s Concrete Poet, Dies at 81
Upcoming Events at FAWC
Friday, May 23, 2025 Celebrate Saturday, July 12, 2025 In the Gallery June 6 – August 22, 2025
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
FAWC Summer Awards Celebration
Pilgrim Monument
and Provincetown Museum
Summer Exhibition: To Move a Mountain
Opening: Friday, June 6, 6-8 PM
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Summer Workshop Program
Multimedia Zehra Khan Multimedia Autumn Wallace Poetry Santee Frazier
Multimedia Experiments
July 6-11, 2025
Start Making Sense: Become the Artist You Want to See in the World
July 13-18, 2025
The Poetics of Indigenous Epistemologies
July 13 – 18, 2025
Our Programs
We select 20 Fellows to live and work in Provincetown from October 1 – April 30. The Fellowship is designed for emerging artists and writers to focus solely on creative practice. Fellows share their work as part of our winter public program, which also includes lectures and readings from visiting artists and writers.
During late spring, early fall, and summer, past Fellows and friends of the Work Center return to Provincetown for short-term stays during our Returning Residency program, which offers artists and writers dedicated time to advance creative projects and ideas.
Every summer, we welcome students and faculty for a full season of open enrollment, multidisciplinary course offerings in literature, visual art, playwriting, and more. This program includes over 50 public events that are free and open to our community.
24PearlStreet Online Writing Workshops
All year, we offer online learning opportunities of varying lengths and skill levels through our online writing program 24PearlStreet, where writers can work with esteemed poets, prose writers, and graphic novelists in small group, virtual settings.
