To Move A Mountain: A Landmark Exhibition by Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows

Provincetown, MA – The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) is pleased to announce To Move A Mountain, the 2025 summer exhibition curated by acclaimed painter and two-time FAWC Visual Arts Fellow Coady Brown. Presented first at the Work Center’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown and later at The Armory Show in New York City, the exhibition brings together ten Fellows whose practices reflect urgent and imaginative engagements with the natural world.

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Exploring nature as symbol, subject, and site, To Move A Mountain offers a timely meditation on our precarious relationship to the environment. As Brown notes, “As artists, we metabolize the natural world through personal and cultural experiences. Each work in To Move A Mountain investigates our precarious symbiosis with nature… whether as a symbol of beauty, a battleground for power, or a container of grief and fantasy.”

Participating Artists

• Firelei Báez (Fellow 2013–2014)
• Coady Brown (Fellow 2018–2019, 2019–2020)
• Widline Cadet (Fellow 2021–2022)
• Raul De Lara (Fellow 2019–2020)
• Cheyenne Julien (Fellow 2018–2019)
• Dani Levine (Fellow 2024–2025)
• Anina Major (Fellow 2019–2020)
• Alina Perez (Fellow 2018–2019, 2023–2024)
• Lamar Peterson (Fellow 2001–2002, 2002–2003)
• Pat Philips (Fellow 2019–2020)

Among the participating artists, Firelei Báez has exhibited internationally, including at the 59th Venice Biennale. Widline Cadet’s photographic practice examines Black diasporic life through the lens of family and migration. Sculptor Raul De Lara brings a storytelling approach to woodworking, while Bahamian artist Anina Major reclaims cultural experiences through the language of craft. Alina Perez’s large-scale works on paper fuse memory, imagination, and emotional intensity.

Exhibition Details

Part One: Provincetown, MA
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
June 6 – August 22, 2025
Opening Reception: June 6, 2025, 6–8 PM

Part Two: New York, NY
The Armory Show, Javits Center
429 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
September 4–7, 2025
VIP Preview: September 4, 2025

This marks the second consecutive year that a FAWC-organized exhibition will be presented at The Armory Show, underscoring the Work Center’s growing curatorial reach and national visibility. For nearly sixty years, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided crucial time and space for emerging artists and writers, sustaining Provincetown’s pivotal role in American art and literature.

We invite you to experience To Move A Mountain and engage with the perspectives of these exceptional Fellows. Please scroll below to view the works in To Move a Mountain, or explore our full preview here.

For press inquiries, please contact Daisy St Sauveur at press@fawc.org.