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July 15, 2026 – Cultured Magazine – Lobster Rolls at the Landmarks: The Fine Arts Work Center Takes Over Provincetown July 13, 2026 – Lenscratch – Widline Cadet: Ritual [Dis]Appearance June 30, 2026 – Provincetown Banner – Andy Towle to debut new paintings in Provincetown June 24, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A Painter Anchored by Empathy June 17, 2026 – Provincetown Magazine – An Artist’s Town: The Annual Guide to the Gallery Season in Provincetown June 3, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – From the Bottum to the Top June 3, 2026 – Armenian Weekly – Literary Lights to feature Naira Kuzmich’s “Fearcatcher” June 3, 2026 – The Arkadelphian – Hendrix College student from Arkadelphia included in Hendrix-Murphy Foundation funding awards June 3, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A Site for Social Experimentation June 3, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – The Stories We Tell: Ann Patchett explores time and memory in her new novel May 28, 2026 – The New York Times – In the Art of Firelei Báez, Our Histories Are Ready for a Review May 27, 2026 – When In Your State – At the tip of Cape Cod, the road runs out and the whales show up May 27, 2026 – Oxford American – The Origin Story We Need A conversation with Rebecca Gayle Howell May 19, 2026 – diaCRITICS – Parallel Universe Theory May 14, 2026 – Microscope Gallery – (No) Recess May 5, 2026 – Poets & Writers – A Win Right on Time: Contests for Older Writers April 24, 2026 – Hampshire Gazette – Award-winning Ari Banias steps into new role as Northampton’s Poet Laureate April 22, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – An Artist of Few (Carefully Chosen) Words April 21, 2026 – Literary Hub – Jayne Anne Phillips on Chronicling Her West Virginia Upbringing and Writer’s Journey April 20, 2026 – Southern Review of Books – Homesickness, Grief, and Appalachia in “Small Town Girls” April 15, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Connor Greer Follows the Flicker April 15, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Michael Waugh’s Warnings April 9, 2026 – Claremont Courier – CGU announces Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award winners April 9, 2026 – CGU News – Jennifer Chang and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva Win the 2026 Tufts Poetry Awards April 8, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Making Music for an Unexpected Choir April 8, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Pio Arango Finds His Voice April 8, 2026 – The Common – Two Poems by Erica Ehrenberg April 8, 2026 – The Brooklyn Rail – Aesthetic Confessions: David Totah Featuring Totah and Andrew Woolbright April 7, 2026 – The Paris Review – Sarah Schulman, The Art of Nonfiction April 1, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Ariel Miller’s Fish Tales April 1, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Making Unlikely Images From Bits of the Ordinary March 25, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Ty Raso Writes Through Refraction March 25, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A World Both Strange and Familiar March 23, 2026 – IMPULSE Magazine – Shifting Substrates: In Conversation with Tschabalala Self March 23, 2026 – IMPULSE – Shifting Substrates: In Conversation with Tschabalala Self March 19, 2026 – Arts and Letters – 2026 Literature Award Winners Announced March 18, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A Painter’s Search for What Endures March 18, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – East Harlem Comes to Provincetown March 13, 2026 – e-flux Criticism – Leslie Bohnenkamp’s “Works from the 1970s and 1980s” March 11, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Jada Renée Allen Listens to History March 11, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Just Passing Through March 11, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – How We Found Laughter and Comfort in the Storm March 9, 2026 – Globe Newswire – Claremont Graduate University Announces Finalists for the 2026 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards March 9, 2026 – MassLive – Northampton names new poet laureate March 8, 2026 – Artscope – Making Something that Feels Real and Truthful March 8, 2026 – Artscope – Yacine Tilala Fall: Making Something that Feels Real and Truthful March 4, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A World of Innocence and Adventure March 4, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Nico Amador on the symbiotic relationship between poetry and social justice work March 4, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A Poet's Geography February 25, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Robbie Herbst Seeks ‘Productive Tension’ February 25, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Dominique Muñoz’s Layered Perspectives February 18, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Constant Contradiction February 17, 2026 – Glasstire – Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork February 17, 2026 – Oxford American – The Collected Stories of Madison Charles: Couldn’t he just figure out a way to make that shit up? February 13, 2026 – New England Home – Keith Leblanc Shares His Latest Landscape Inspiration February 11, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Sculpting Under the Skin February 11, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Art History in Real Time February 4, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – A Turn Towards the Domestic January 14, 2026 – The Provincetown Independent – Harnessing the Creative Potential of an Obsolete Technology January 5, 2026 – Vogue – In a Russian Expat’s First English-Language Novel, Making Art Under Putin Is a Horror Show December 8, 2025 – ArtDaily – Kristy Hughes debuts her first public art sculpture and largest work to date at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum December 2, 2025 – CULTURED Mag – Introducing CULTURED’s 2025 Young Artists List December 1, 2025 – The Guardian – Gbenga Adesina’s Poetry Makes International Waves December 1, 2025 – The Prospector Daily – Artists at UTEP: The raw journey of artist Leslie Ulloa-Pollock November 26, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Provincetown Is Still White-Line Print Town November 19, 2025 – Our Culture Mag – Austra on the 9 Things That Inspired Her New Album November 11, 2025 – The Hollywood Reporter – How a Mid-Career Shift Into Screenwriting Helped Inspire Aja Gabel’s New Novel November 10, 2025 – Bookstr – On Memory and Migration: Justin Haynes Discusses His Powerful Debut November 9, 2025 – Provincetown Magazine – Return of the Coffeehouse at The Mews November 7, 2025 – ROCK 92.9FM – Provincetown Area Offers Abundant Events, Nov. 7-13 November 7, 2025 – NewsBreak – Palomar's Queer Film Series: "Playland" November 6, 2025 – Columbia University School of Arts – Fellow Eduardo Martinez-Leyva Receives 2025 Lammy Award For 'Cowboy Park' October 29, 2025 – Boston Art Review – Liz Collins on the Work of Many Hands October 28, 2025 – Boston Real Estate Times – Mass Cultural Council and MassDevelopment Award $623,000 to Four Cultural Facilities Across Massachusetts October 27, 2025 – Philanthropy News Digest – Fine Arts Work Center Invites Applications for Writing Fellowships October 23, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Welcoming a New Class of FAWC Fellows October 22, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Stories of an Enduring Art Colony September 23, 2025 – MoCA/NY – Ceramic Highlights: The Armory Show 2025 September 19, 2025 – City of Boston Arts & Culture – Mayor Wu Announces Call for Boston’s Next Youth Poet Laureate September 16, 2025 – The Heinz Awards – Heinz Family Foundation Announces $1.5 Million in Awards September 15, 2025 – The Art Colony – Fine Arts Work Center: From Lumber Yard to Art Vanguard with Sharon Polli September 11, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Holding Space Together September 10, 2025 – Cape Cod Life – Artist Profiles: Pete Hocking September 8, 2025 – Columbia University – Fellow Sara Stern Opens Latest Solo Exhibition at Turley Gallery September 7, 2025 – Provincetown Magazine – Digging In: Artist Joe Diggs Reflects September 6, 2025 – https://provincetownmagazine.com/2025/09/03/a-lasting-legacy/ – A Lasting Legacy- An Evening of Stories About Josephine Del Deo September 3, 2025 – Cape Cod Times – A Cultivated Friendship: A Staged Reading August 22, 2025 – BOMB Magazine – Interview with Writing Fellow Esther Lin by Aditi Bhattacharjee August 13, 2025 – https://lithub.com/dogs/ – C. Mallon's Dogs August 13, 2025 – The Poetry Foundation – Poetry Foundation Announces the 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows August 12, 2025 – Cate McQuaid – The Life's Blood of Provincetown August 11, 2025 – PRINT Magazine – Poor Man’s Feast: A Blue Comma at the End of the World August 6, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – The New Muralists of Macmillan August 5, 2025 – Vanderbilt University – Poetry Fellow Melissa Range awarded 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize July 30, 2025 – City of Boston Arts & Culture – Introducing the 2025 Fine Arts Work Center Scholarship Recipients July 28, 2025 – The New York Times – Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet of ‘Percussive Prosody,’ Dies at 61 July 23, 2025 – Hub City Writers Project – Writing Fellow Acie Clark is the winner of the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize July 21, 2025 – ArtDaily – Provincetown Community Compact announces the Dune Shack Artists and Writers in Residence for 2025 July 16, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Paul Lisicky Loves Joni Mitchell July 14, 2025 – Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Awards $100,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center July 12, 2025 – Curate LA – Coady Brown: The Suitor July 10, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – The Art of Arrangement: Interview with Jack Pierson July 10, 2025 – The Schoolhouse Gallery – Lynne Kortenhaus Presents a Suite of New Monotypes at The Schoolhouse Gallery July 9, 2025 – Artforum – Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2025 Grantees July 9, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Pushing Against the Tide of Cutbacks July 4, 2025 – World Atlas – 9 New England Small Towns With Unmatched Friendliness June 30, 2025 – The Enterprise – Arts Foundation Of Cape Cod Awards Over $107,000 In Grants June 25, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Hovering Between Nature and Culture June 19, 2025 – ArtNews – Armory Show Names Over 230 Galleries for 2025 Edition June 18, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Marie Howe Maps a Spiritual Journey May 14, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Peter Scarbo Frawley, Wellfleet’s Concrete Poet, Dies at 81 April 23, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Local Arts Leaders Brace for Federal Demands and Cuts April 16, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Sara Martin, Demons on the Hour April 9, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Kevin Fitchett is at The Masters April 9, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Mengwei Ma Blurs the Bounds of Reality April 9, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Elena Kovylyaeva, Creative Wanderings April 2, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – New Settings and New Beginnings April 2, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – An Artist Play-Acts His Way to Something Real April 1, 2025 – The Brooklyn Rail – Janice Redman: Rough Alchemy March 26, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Moving To and Fro March 26, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – An Artist Takes a Moment March 19, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Straight Lines and Sharp Teeth March 19, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – A Magician in the Studio March 12, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – José De Sancristóbal Questions the Object of the Subject March 12, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Kai Conradi Is Nothing You Could Write Down March 7, 2025 – Artscope – Rituals Of Earth and Change Ravn Creates Living Art From The Elements March 5, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – The Charged Fiction of Jason Ferris February 26, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – A Poet and Translator Celebrates ‘Life Cropping Up’ February 19, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Young Writer Seeks Difficulty February 19, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Acie Clark Finds Poetry in Everything and Anything February 13, 2025 – Hyperallergic – Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Provincetown, Massachusetts, (A View From the Easel) January 31, 2025 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Between Pleasure and Pain: Eduardo Martínez-Leyva and his debut poetry collection, “Cowboy Park” January 29, 2025 – The Provincetown Independent – Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors January 7, 2025 – magnumphotos.com – Remembering Constantine Manos (1934–2025) January 2, 2025 – E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation – In Memorium: John Taylor “Ike” Williams November 7, 2024 – World Atlas – 8 Close-Knit Towns to Visit in the Northern United States October 29, 2024 – Boston Magazine – Provincetown, Raúl Esparza, and a Parade of Scary Exes October 23, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Ten Poets, Writers, and Translators Welcomed at FAWC October 16, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Here to Make Films, Explore Chance, and Paint With Rainwater October 15, 2024 – The New York Times – Ann Patchett: The Decision I Made 30 Years Ago That I Still Regret October 9, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – An Artist Under the Radar in Plain View September 13, 2024 – Impulse Magazine – The Party’s in the Back September 7, 2024 – Family Style Magazine – With Love, From Provincetown to New York September 5, 2024 – The Art Newspaper – The Armory Show’s first edition fully under Frieze rings the changes August 27, 2024 – Local Town Guide – Celebrating Artistic Innovation: The Fine Arts Work Center's 2024-2025 Fellowships August 27, 2024 – The Observer – Observer’s Guide to This Year’s Must-Visit September Art Fairs August 26, 2024 – Publisher's Weekly – Fine Arts Work Center Announces Provincetown Fellowship Winners August 26, 2024 – Broadway World – Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center Announces 2024-2025 Fellows August 21, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – The Slipperiness of Realism August 6, 2024 – Juxtapoz Magazine – Matt Bollinger Curates "Edge Condition" To Benefit the Legendary The Fine Arts Work Center Residency July 25, 2024 – Global Traveler – Expand Your Horizons in Provincetown at Fine Arts Work Center July 24, 2024 – Artnet – We Asked 10 Art Industry Savants to Share the Top Artists Residencies Around the World. Here’s What They Told Us July 22, 2024 – WCAI – A gift from artists to artists keeps giving in Provincetown July 12, 2024 – ARTnews – Motherwell Estate Gifts $200,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center and its Famed Residency Program July 7, 2024 – Cultural NYC – A Legacy of Artistic Excellence: The Motherwell Estate's Generous Gift to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center July 7, 2024 – Hyperallergic – How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat? June 19, 2024 – Provincetown Magazine – A Summer Stroll: The 2024 Gallery Season Preview June 19, 2024 – Boston Globe – Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond June 15, 2024 – Travel + Leisure Magazine – The Ultimate LGBTQ Vacation Spots That Aren't Provincetown, Massachusetts June 14, 2024 – Cape Cod Times – Why is there a poem on a picnic table in Beech Forest? Cape Cod display first of 7 in U.S. June 11, 2024 – Boston Globe – US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks June 11, 2024 – WCAI – This writer discovered Provincetown after 9/11. This week, she returns as poet laureate June 4, 2024 – WBUR – Painting Cape Cod's dunes in the dark, I trusted it would all add up in the morning May 31, 2024 – Boston Globe – Two comics events, and a summer of literary conversations in Provincetown May 30, 2024 – Publisher's Weekly – Terrance Hayes Among Fine Arts Work Center's 2024 Honorees May 29, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Arts Briefs: Great Conversation May 24, 2024 – See Great Art – Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown gearing up for another summer of workshops May 22, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Sarah Dineen Meditates on One Shape May 21, 2024 – Boston Magazine – A Weekend Traveler’s Guide to Provincetown May 21, 2024 – Boston Magazine – A Weekend Traveler’s Guide to Provincetown May 1, 2024 – The Paris Review – Jhumpa Lahiri, The Art of Fiction No. 262 April 29, 2024 – The New Yorker – From the Archives: Poet's Eden (Published October 8, 1995) April 17, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Workshops at FAWC Inspire Provincetown Schools Artists and Poets April 3, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Figures Emerge Slowly From Agnes Walden’s Art April 3, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Rehab El Sadek Sculpts a Story of Political Dislocation April 3, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Cleaning the Fishbowl and Other Disruptions - In her second FAWC fellowship, writer Molly Anders is reworking a short-story collection March 27, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Tinja Ruusuvuori Practices Giving Up Control - In her radio station, the FAWC fellow taps into a collective imagination March 27, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – You Think of a Line and You Bang It Up - FAWC fellow David Hutcheson gets ready to write a poem March 25, 2024 – Ed Markey Senator Website – Markey, Warren Announce Additional $4.4 Million In Federal Funding For Community Projects Across Cape Cod And Islands, Bringing Total To $8.1 Million March 20, 2024 – WGBH – WGBH Interview Brief: Miguel Braceli March 13, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – A Fairy Tale at Land’s End February 28, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s Tricks of the Light February 21, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – A Story of Your Leaving February 20, 2024 – LitHub – Finding a Writing Life of One’s Own February 14, 2024 – Provincetown Independent – An Anchor in Provincetown February 14, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – The Intimacy of the Everyday February 12, 2024 – Boston Art Review – A Grab Bag of Goodies from the Edge of the World: The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows at PAAM February 12, 2024 – WCAI – Grants are Helping These Artists Map Out a Sustainable Living February 7, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – The Internal Contradictions of Avigayl Sharp February 7, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – A Poet's Prose January 31, 2024 – The Provincetown Independent – Jeff Gibbons’s Root Balls, Tiny Chairs, and Talking Rocks January 31, 2024 – Publisher's Weekly – Fine Arts Work Center Opens Summer Workshop Registration January 12, 2024 – Cape Cod Times – Fine Arts Work Center resident seeks Provincetown love stories for art project January 7, 2024 – Cape Cod Current – Cape Cod Current Segment - Interview with Sharon Polli January 4, 2024 – Artscope Magazine – Radio Of Uncertainty: Tinja Ruusuvuori Sound Echoes At Provincetown’s FAWC November 18, 2023 – TransCultural Exchange – TransCultural Exchange TV Episode 3: Rural Residencies, Part 2 November 15, 2023 – The New York Times – Justin Torres, Author of ‘Blackouts,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction November 8, 2023 – WGBH – Michael Cunningham grapples with pandemic in new novel ‘Day’ November 1, 2023 – Boston Art Review – The Magic of Artist Residencies October 19, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – Reflecting on Creativity and Community October 19, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – New Kids on the Block October 19, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – Sal Del Deo Carries On September 5, 2023 – School Library Journal – "What I Need is a Break." Kyle Lukoff Finds Welcome Respite from Censorship August 17, 2023 – Art Daily – Fine Arts Work Center Names 20 Writing and Visual Arts Artists for 2023-24 Fellowship August 17, 2023 – AnOther Magazine – Tender Portraits of Provincetown's Queer Community August 2, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – The Provincetown Independent Describes Summer Exhibition "Like a Love Letter" July 21, 2023 – The Architect’s Newspaper – Maintaining the spirit of the Fine Arts Work Center through the Renovation of its Public Spaces July 12, 2023 – WCAI – Summer gets creative at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center July 6, 2023 – The Week – In These Workshops, Veterans and Service Members Find Healing Through Writing May 31, 2023 – Publisher’s Weekly – Kyle Lukoff Spearheads ‘Youth Lit Week’ for Emerging Writers May 24, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – Provincetown Students Take Home 11 Poetry Awards May 23, 2023 – The American Art Collective Podcast – Ep.186 – Education & the Next Generation of Artists in Provincetown with Naya Bricher May 19, 2023 – MSNBC – Having my book banned by Ron DeSantis was bad. So was what happened next November 25, 2022 – The Slowdown – [encore] 689: Alive at the End of the World by Ada Limón November 2, 2022 – The Provincetown Independent – Making Art and Making Do September 1, 2022 – The Pulitzer Prizes – What Yusef Komunyakaa learned from Alan Dugan April 27, 2022 – The Provincetown Independent – Voices of Disbelief November 9, 2021 – The Slowdown – 541: Little Grey Dreams by Ada Limón November 3, 2021 – The Provincetown Independent – A First Peek Into FAWC's New Heart May 10, 2021 – The Provincetown Independent – Welcoming Sharon Polli as Fine Arts Work Center's Executive Director September 5, 2018 – The New York Times – A Provincetown Breeze Drifts Indoors With Local Art July 17, 2018 – The Paris Review – On Stanley Kunitz and the Fine Arts Work Center Load More