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News and Updates

December 8, 2025 Kristy Hughes debuts her first public art sculpture and largest work to date at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Read More

December 2, 2025 Filmmaker and Performance Artist Cherrie Yu Has Wrestled in the Middle of Traffic for Their Art Read More

November 26, 2025 Provincetown Is Still White-Line Print Town Read More

November 13, 2025 Existential Anxiety to Chew On Read More

November 8, 2025 Sweater Weather Comes to Ptown Read More

November 6, 2025 Take A Cup of Kindness Read More

October 23, 2025 Welcoming a New Class of FAWC Fellows Read More

October 22, 2025 Stories of an Enduring Art Colony Read More

October 20, 2025 Apply for the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship! Read More

Press Releases

September 5, 2025 – Fine Arts Work Center Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Writing and Visual Arts Fellows August 15, 2025 – To Move a Mountain - Armory Preview June 17, 2025 – Fine Arts Work Center Summer Exhibition Set to Travel to The Armory Show as Sole New England Representative June 5, 2025 – Preserving Artistic Vitality: Fine Arts Work Center Announces 2025 Distinguished Service in the Arts Award Recipients January 13, 2025 – Celebrated Artists and Writers to Lead 2025 Summer Workshops at Fine Arts Work Center's Historic Provincetown Campus August 22, 2024 – World’s Top Artist-Led Residency Announces 2024-25 Class of 20 Writing and Visual Arts Fellows May 28, 2024 – Fine Arts Work Center presents “Edge Condition,” group exhibition featuring works from 19 past visual arts fellows May 20, 2024 – Leading Artists and Writers to Headline New Summer Salons Series at Provincetown’s Renowned Fine Arts Work Center May 20, 2024 – Artist Jacolby Satterwhite, Poet Terrance Hayes, and Arts and Community Leader Lynne Kortenhaus to Receive the 2024 Distinguished Service in the Arts Award at Fine Arts Work Center’s Annual Summer Gala April 16, 2024 – Provincetown Students Showcase Art, Creative Writing and Partnership with Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Made Possible by Federal Grant April 15, 2024 – Fine Arts Work Center Bolsters Leadership with the Appointment of Three New Members to its Board of Trustees January 24, 2024 – Nation’s leading writers and artists to teach summer workshops at Provincetown’s renowned Fine Arts Work Center January 14, 2024 – Annual Fellowship Visual Arts Exhibition at PAAM December 15, 2023 – Got a Provincetown Love Story? August 1, 2023 – Announcing FAWC’s Newest Global Cohort of Writing and Visual Arts Fellows June 5, 2023 – Author Susan Choi, artist Tala Madani, and arts advocate Michael Fernon are to be honored at Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Awards Celebration Gala on July 15th June 1, 2023 – Fine Arts Work Center’s Exhibition Showcases Stunning Range of Works From 22 Visual Artists and Participants in Renowned Fellowship Program May 28, 2023 – For Writers and Artists Honing Their Skills, Provincetown’s Renowned Fine Arts Work Center Unveils More Than 60 Weeklong Workshops for Summer 2023 April 1, 2023 – Makeover of Renowned Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown Honors Bohemian Roots, Keeping Artists, Writers and Community at its Core Load More

In the News

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 July 17, 2018 – The Paris Review – On Stanley Kunitz and the Fine Arts Work Center Load More

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