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2023-2026 Strategic Plan

Over six months in 2022, the Fine Arts Work Center engaged more than 100 stakeholders in a community-driven strategic planning process that included surveys, group conversations, and one-on-one interviews. We are pleased to share the outcome of this dedicated effort to create the organization’s first written, multi-year strategic plan. This plan refines our mission, articulates a vision and set of organizational values, and outlines our core priorities and goals for the next four years. 

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Vision / What we aspire to
Nurture artists. Shape our culture.

Mission / Who we serve and why
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.

Participants

Strategic Plan Committee

Neal Balkowitsch and Lynne Kortenhaus, Co-Chairs

Kirsten Andersen
Naya Bricher
Bruce Skiles Danzer, Jr.
Major Jackson
Gavin Kennedy
Sandi McKinley
Sharon Polli
Bryan Rafanelli
Duane Slick
James Everett Stanley
Carol Warshawsky

Sara Siegel, Staff Project Management

Community Advisory Committee

Caroline Black
Program Director, Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Cathy Claman
President, Stephen and Palmina Pace Foundation

Matthew H. Cole
President and CEO, Cape Associates

Michael Fernon
Investment Advisor, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

Tatiana Gómez Gaggero
Principal, Counterform Community Design Studio

Michael Gillane
Visual Art, The Provincetown International Baccalaureate Schools

Aziz Isham
Executive Director, Twenty Summers

Paul Kelly
Artist | Provincetown Cultural Council

Christine McCarthy
Chief Executive Officer, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)

José R. Menéndez
Principal, Counterform Community Design Studio

Cherie Mittenthal
Executive Artistic Director, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

Trevor Pittinger
Associate Director, Provincetown Business Guild

Katy Rogers
Programs Director and Director of the Robert Motherwell Catalogue Raisonné Project, Dedalus Foundation

Jill Stauffer
Executive Director, The Provincetown Commons

Sam Tager
Executive Director, Provincetown Public Art Foundation

Julie Wake
Executive Director, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod

Dawn Walsh
Executive Director, The Lily House

Sarah Workneh
Co-Director, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Interview Participants

James Bennette
Lucinda Bliss
Dr. Mary K. Grant
Lydia Hicks
Beth McCabe
Terrence Meck
Dr. Lise Motherwell
Margaret Murphy
Hunter O’Hanion
Patrick Phillips
Salvatore Scibona
Porter Shreve

Workgroup Participants

Mark Adams
Dr. Shastri Akella
Ellen Akimoto
Dean Albarelli
Wilder Alison
Elissa Altman
Kirsten Andersen
Neal Balkowitsch
Susan Blood
Naya Bricher
Widline Cadet
Kate Clark
Laura Cresté
Esteban del Valle
Joanne Dugan
Breon Dunigan
S. Emsaki
Nick Fagan
Elizabeth Flood
Tracy Fuad
Daniel Heyman
Pete Hocking
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
Elliott Hundley
Janelle Iglesias
Mala Iqbal
Lavaughan Jenkins
Tyehimba Jess
Patricia Jones
Gavin Kennedy
Celeste Lecesne
Fred Leebron
Fred Liang
Gabriel Louis
Eduardo Martinez-Leyva
Cleopatra Mathis
Sandi McKinley
Andrew Meredith
Sarah Messer
Andrew Mockler
Susanna Neuhaus-Schuck
Matthew Neill Null
Tom Pappas
Jim Peters
Lamar Peterson
Janice Redman
Douglas Ritter
David Rivard
Federico Roa
Mira Schor
Asako Serizawa
Samyak Shertok
Sara Siegel
John Skoyles
James Everett Stanley
Vicky Tomakyo
Carol Warshawsky
Geordon West
Bert Yarborough

Special thanks to our planning partners
Arts Consulting Group

Dr. Bruce D. Thibodeau, President
Nagham Wehbe, Vice President
Shawn D. Ingram, Vice President
Calida N. Jones, Vice President

24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
508.487.9960
info@fawc.org


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