A Celebration to Remember
2024 Summer Awards Celebration
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Celebrate Legacy
50+ Years of Artistic Freedom and Leadership
Left: Sharon Polli, Chris McCarthy, Ken Fulk, Lynne Kortenhaus.
Right: Drone view of Summer Awards Celebration night.
Photos by Michael Blanchard.
We were thrilled to gather at the stunning Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum to Celebrate Legacy. On behalf of our Summer Awards Host Committee, we want to thank everyone who supported the Fine Arts Work Center and our vision to nurture artists and enrich our community. Together, we raised upwards of $600K, a record-breaking success!
Our 2024 Honorees
This year, we celebrated our Legacy and highlighted the seminal importance of Provincetown in sustaining the arts in America. Together, we honored three remarkable individuals:
Terrance Hayes, for his achievements in the literary arts
Poet
National Book Award Winner for Poetry 2010
MacArthur Foundation Fellow 2014
Summer Program Faculty
Lynne Kortenhaus, for her 25-year commitment to FAWC, first as a visual artist, then as a Board member, and now as President of the Board of Trustees
Founder and Principal at Kortenhaus Communications
Fine Arts Work Center Board President
Printmaker and Visual Artist, Rhode Island School of Design
Photo: Xavier Scott Marshall
Jacolby Satterwhite, for his radical contributions to contemporary art
Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
Great Hall Commission at The MET, 2023-24
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow 2011-12, 2012-13
Work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Studio Museum, New York; 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 Jacolby Satterwhite
Stage and screen actor Raúl Esparza. Photo by Michael Blanchard.
Special thanks to DJ Chris Roxx, our talented host Matt Dunphy, and stage and screen actor Raúl Esparza for making the night unforgettable. Thanks as well to our partners at MAX Ultimate Food and GlenPharmer Distillery for crafting a bountiful Italian feast and delicious cocktails.
Please browse through photos from the Summer Awards Celebration. These celebratory photos by Michael Blanchard are uploaded to our Work Center Flickr account, where you can download the photos. We encourage you to share them on social media if you are featured. Please tag @fineartsworkcenter.
From Provincetown to the World
This featured video from the gala night highlighted the Fine Arts Work Center’s legacy. A special thanks to Michael Cestaro from UpAbove Creative for capturing our Fellows, including past Fellow and current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, reading Mary Oliver’s poem “Can You Imagine?” at Beech Forest Trail.
About our Honorees
Terrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.
Lynne Kortenhaus was trained as a printmaker at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Kortenhaus brings her artistic eye to everything she touches. Throughout her career, she has helped shape luxury brands in the hospitality, retail, and lifestyle markets including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, The Newbury Boston, The ‘Quin House, Louis Boston, Hermes, Bottega Veneta, Salon Mario Russo, Tiffany & Co., among many others. Kortenhaus was the former chair of the Boston Art Commission where she helped shape one of the oldest public art commissions for the City of Boston into a thriving voice in the business and arts community. A passionate supporter of the cultural community, Kortenhaus has held many roles, including trustee of the Boston Center for the Arts, a trustee emeritus of the Wang Center, a Henderson Fund designator and a Legacy Circle member of the ICA. Since 2020, she has served as President of the Board of Trustees at the Fine Arts Work Center.
Photo: Xavier Scott Marshall
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.
Raúl Esparza is an American stage and screen actor, recently starring as Galileo Galilei in Galileo in the dazzling world-premiere musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, helmed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and written by two-time Emmy winner Danny Strong (Dopesick, Empire, The Butler). A four-time Tony Award-nominee and three-time Drama Desk Award winner, his Broadway and notable theater credits include Company, tick, tick… BOOM!, Taboo, The Homecoming, Speed-the-Plow, Leap of Faith, Arcadia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Show, Oliver!, Seared, Road Show, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Cymbeline, The Cradle Will Rock, Twelfth Night, The Normal Heart, Comedians, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, The Waves, and Chess.
On TV and film, Esparza is best known for his work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hannibal, Murder at the End of the World, Candy, Dopesick, The Path, BoJack Horseman, Pushing Daisies, Ferdinand, My Soul to Take, and Sidney Lumet’s Find Me Guilty.
In the immediate wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Esparza conceived of, executive produced, and performed in the online concert event Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration. The concert received a special Drama League Award and is now preserved in the Library of Congress.
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.
2024 Event Committee
Chairs
Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena
Ken Fulk and Kurt Wootton
Karen van Bergen and Jos Stumpe
Carol Warshawsky
Vice Chairs
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson
Ted Chapin
Marty Davis and Alix Ritchie
Alison and John Ferring
Rob McBride and Danny McCormick
Bryan Rafanelli and Mark Walsh
Summer Exhibition Chair
Gavin Kennedy
Graham Brown and James Vesper
Axel Brunger and Tom Burke
Bruce Skiles Danzer, Jr. and Tom Huth
Gabrielle and John De Papp
Russ and Betty Gaudreau
Barbara Lemperly Grant and Frederic D. Grant, Jr.
Ron Hartwig and Robert Pierce Jr.
Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz
Peter Kazon and Paul Cunningham
David Keller and Mary Maxwell
Gavin Kennedy and Stephen Baker
Ron Kollen, Jim Coffman, and Mark Wisneski
Michela Larson and Ed Marino
Russell Lopez and Andrew Sherman
Sandi and Sean McKinley
Margaret Murphy and Lauren Ewing
Patrick Nolan and Clément Gaujal
Hunter O’Hanian
Mario Russo
Caroline Taggart and Robert Sachs
