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The Fine Arts Work Center is an artist-led organization based in Provincetown and connected to the world. We support artistic freedom, nurture creative connections, and make possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.

For over five decades, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space to emerging artists and writers at crucial, early stages of creative development through our acclaimed seven-month residency of 20 emerging writers and artists. We are additionally known for our open enrollment Summer Workshop Program, 24PearlStreet online writing program, and an extensive series of free, year-round cultural events and exhibitions. Download our fact sheet to learn more.

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News and Updates

July 24, 2024 Fine Arts Work Center Named Top Residency by Artnet News Read More

July 12, 2024 In ARTnews: Motherwell Estate Gifts $200,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center and its Famed Residency Program Read More

July 7, 2024 In Hyperallergic: How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat? Read More

July 5, 2024 Raúl Esparza, Matt Dunphy, and DJ Chris Roxx highlight of FAWC's 2024 Summer Celebration Read More

July 5, 2024 Fiction writer Grace Chao has been named the 2024 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center Read More

June 11, 2024 US Poet Laureate Ada Limón wants you to picnic with poetry — at our National Parks Read More

June 4, 2024 Fine Arts Work Center Welcomes Thierry Kehou and Sarah Dineen Read More

June 4, 2024 A Personal Essay by past Fellow Elizabeth Flood in WBUR's Cognoscenti Read More

May 28, 2024 Fine Arts Work Center presents “Edge Condition,” group exhibition featuring works from 19 past visual arts fellows Read More

Press Releases

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

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 – Provincetown Independant – Cleaning the Fishbowl and Other Disruptions - In her second FAWC fellowship, writer Molly Anders is reworking a short-story collection April 3, 2024 – Provincetown Independant – Rehab El Sadek Sculpts a Story of Political Dislocation April 3, 2024 – Provincetown Independant – Figures Emerge Slowly From Agnes Walden’s Art March 27, 2024 – Provincetown Independant – You Think of a Line and You Bang It Up - FAWC fellow David Hutcheson gets ready to write a poem March 27, 2024 – Provincetown Independant – Tinja Ruusuvuori Practices Giving Up Control - In her radio station, the FAWC fellow taps into a collective imagination 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 – Sal Del Deo Carries On October 19, 2023 – The Provincetown Independent – New Kids on the Block September 5, 2023 – School Library Journal – "What I Need is a Break." Kyle Lukoff Finds Welcome Respite from Censorship August 17, 2023 – AnOther Magazine – Tender Portraits of Provincetown's Queer Community August 17, 2023 – Art Daily – Fine Arts Work Center Names 20 Writing and Visual Arts Artists for 2023-24 Fellowship 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 – Provincetown Independant – 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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