Preserving Artistic Vitality
2025 Summer Awards Celebration
Saturday, July 12 at 5:30 PM
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Drone View of 2024 Summer Awards Celebration. Photo: Michael Blanchard.
Join Us for the Premier Summer Arts Event on Outer Cape Cod
The Fine Arts Work Center invites you to our annual Summer Awards Celebration on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at the iconic Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. This special evening honors our creative community while supporting artistic freedom for the next generation of culture-shaping artists and writers.
Our 2025 Honorees
Celebrating Excellence in Arts and Letters
Join us as we honor four extraordinary contributors to the arts:
Photo: Elena Seibert
Jayne Anne Phillips, for her achievements in the literary arts
American Novelist
2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow 1979-1980
Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena, for their commitment to contemporary art and its intersection with civic life
Collectors, Lovers, and Patrons of the Arts
Visionary Arts and Non-profit Leaders
Champions of Young, Emerging and Mid-Career Artists
Jack Pierson, for his groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art
Multidisciplinary Artist
Fine Arts Work Center Board of Trustee
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow 1993-1994
Work in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others
“Thank you to the Fine Arts Work Center for providing the essential time and space that allows such creative visions to bloom.”
– Lisa Melandri
Museum Director
2024 Presenter to Honoree Jacolby Satterwhite
An Evening of Creative Connections
- 5:30 PM: Harbor-view cocktail reception and music by DJ Chris Roxx
- 7:00 PM: Seated seasonal dinner showcasing local Cape Cod ingredients by MAX Ultimate Food
- Dancing, dessert, and espresso martini bar to complete your evening
Stage and screen actor Raúl Esparza performs in 2024. Photo by Michael Blanchard.
About Our Honorees
Photo: Elena Seibert
Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of six novels, including Night Watch, Quiet Dell, Lark And Termite, MotherKind, Shelter, and Machine Dreams, and two widely anthologized story collections, Fast Lanes, and Black Tickets. Night Watch was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Longlisted for the National Book Award; Quiet Dell was a Wall Street Journal and Kirkus Review Best Fiction selection. Lark And Termite, winner of the Heartland Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Prix de Medici Etranger. Machine Dreams, chosen as one of (12) New York Times’ Best Books of the year, was a finalist for National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Black Tickets, awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy, is often cited as a book of stories that influenced a generation of writers. The recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Howard, Bunting, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Phillips is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena are collectors, lovers, and patrons of the arts. Coming from diverse backgrounds, Corkin in real estate and Maddalena in ballet and film, the two share a passion for contemporary art and its intersection with civic life. As collectors, they focus on young, emerging and mid-career artists, particularly those that have historically been overlooked by the art world. They support artists and arts organizations with their time, expertise, financial resources, and gifts of art.
Born in Boston, Corkin briefly practiced as a real estate attorney before engaging in a long and rewarding career in the real estate investment advisory arena. From the outset of his professional life, Corkin focused on giving back to the broader community, serving on the boards of numerous not-for-profit organizations, and championing the arts. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Board of ICA Boston, where he helped lead the building of the new ICA and the Watershed, both on Boston Harbor. He sits on the Trust Board of Boston Children’s Hospital, and is a Trustee of the Robert Lloyd Corkin Charitable Foundation, among other charitable endeavors. Corkin is the father of three grown sons who share his passion for art, design, and travel.
Maddalena hails from Lansing, Michigan, from which he departed after college to pursue a career in ballet, first at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, and then at North Carolina School of the Arts. After taking a break from ballet and living off of the grid for almost a decade, Dan followed his love of film and all things Hollywood to Los Angeles, working as publicist for the great horror director, Wes Craven.
Corkin and Maddalena split their time between the two coasts where they are actively involved in the arts in each of their communities.
Jack Pierson works in several mediums, including sculpture, photography, and video, and is known for word signage installations, drawings, and artist’s books. He explores the emotional undercurrents of everyday life, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the distant idolization of others. In his well-known appropriation of vintage texts, Pierson references traditional American motifs (roadside ephemera, small town stores) and thus a lost era of cultural symbolism; his resulting word sculptures are imbued with both nostalgia and disillusionment. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour. Using friends as models, he has consistently engaged star culture, whether the stars are from the screen, stage, or art world. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; his fixation with fame affirms the tendency to yearn for an ideal, allowing for the viewer’s identification with his imagery. Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession, and absence, Pierson’s subject is ultimately, as he states, “hope.”
Pierson was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1984. He lives and works in New York. Pierson has had solo exhibitions at Museo Ettore Fico Torino, Italy; the CAC Málaga, Spain; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and the Aspen Art Museum. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other museums worldwide.
Video by Michael Cestaro.
Your Support Nurtures Artistic Freedom for the Next Generation of Artists and Writers
For nearly 60 years, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space to emerging artists and writers at crucial stages of creative development. Your attendance helps us continue this essential work while perpetuating Provincetown’s seminal importance for the arts in America.
Each contribution directly supports:
- Our renowned Fellowship program for emerging artists and writers
- Studio spaces and living accommodations for creative practitioners
- Community programming that connects Provincetown to the world
If you would like to learn more about table and ticket packages, please contact Alice Bruce at abruce@fawc.org.
Individual ticket sales will be announced at a later date
About our Talent
Matt Dunphy is a lifelong performer, purveyor, and supporter of the arts. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dunphy started after writing a letter to Continental Cablevision, suggesting they give him his own TV show. Shortly after that, Dunphy hosted BeLive with Matt on Cambridge Community Television every Thursday at age 12; the rest is history. Dunphy has hosted events in partnership with the Boston Red Sox and the Red Sox Foundation, the MSPCA, Macy’s, and Bloomingdale’s, among others. As an actor, Dunphy has performed at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and many others, including an international appearance at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia. His TV and film work includes several national commercials, voiceover work for The Discovery Channel, and a brief appearance in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. Matt has a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Dunphy lives between Boston and New York City but remains a proud New Englander in all ways that one can be: driving ability, sports teams, coffee brand, and chowder color.
A prominent figure in Boston as a DJ/MC/Entertainer, DJ Chris Roxx has been doing what he loves for over 15 years: creating electrifying soundtracks for all types of events and nightlife venues. The sounds of Chris Roxx can be enjoyed by an intimate group of 50 to the 50,000+ fans at Gillette for a Patriots or Revolution game. From Boston to NYC, all the way to the Caribbean islands, he’s shared his musical talents. Roxx local DJs guest spots at some of Boston’s hottest venues, including Bootleg Special, STK, Metro, and Mariel to name a few. His music style encompasses the entire musical spectrum—anywhere from Motown to current Top 40 hits, mixed to perfection.
