Summer '26 Early Access Catalog - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown

Queering Lineage: a poetics of dis/inheritance George Abraham This generative poetry workshop will be a collaboration with our living and dead: an experiment in writing relationally, remembering capaciously, and speculating lovingly in the ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More The Queer Story You've Never Seen Before Alexander Chee A generative workshop using techniques and writing prompts I’ve made to help queer students push to write the stories they’ve never seen before. Students will ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Wave Your Queer Flag Miriam Klein Stahl What do you want to say and show to the world? What do you hope for the future? This generative interdisciplinary workshop explores flags, pennants ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9 - 12 PM Open to All Learn More Utopian Writing Andrea Lawlor How do we bring creativity to our political imagination, and political imagination to the creative process? How have writers and artists continued to make work ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Monstrous Body Ilana Savdie This workshop will focus on how to understand the way our bodies relate to the world through touch, through image, and through material instincts. It ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Stop Behaving, Start Creating Autumn Wallace This workshop is for anyone tired of making “good” art instead of their art. Each day starts with quick prompts that push you past your ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Political Love Poems Franny Choi and Cameron Awkward-Rich “I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED / GENOCIDE TO STOP.” – June Jordan There are at least two problems with love poems, a ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Story & Structure Celeste Lecesne Every story we tell is the myth of our lives struggling to be heard. This workshop is designed to explore your individual myth, give voice ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Sublime Aspiration Dante Micheaux So much of contemporary poetry is made up of the daily confrontation with the paraphernalia of our (human) convenience: shelter; technology; and politics, etc. In ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Block Printing for Illustrators Cecilia Ruiz In this workshop for artists of all levels, we will explore how to create images with the block-printing technique, using a softer version of linoleum ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Trouble with Historical Fiction: an intensive revision workshop Asako Serizawa Whether personal, family, or collective, weaving history into fiction means not only incorporating archival material but, often, engaging with difficult, unresolved, and/or otherwise troubled stories. ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Open to All Learn More What Shouldn't Be Chiffon Thomas What Shouldn’t Be is an all-levels sculpture workshop focused on combining materials that traditionally don’t belong together. Students will learn armature construction with cardboard, wire, ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Natural Palette - an exploration of botanical and earth-based color Lena Wolff This generative workshop explores natural ink and paint making through a hands-on approach and an interdisciplinary lens. Uniquely different from working with stable store-bought art ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Inquiry and Image: A Workshop on Ekphrastic Poetry Oliver de la Paz Ekphrastic poetry is a written response to a visual painting, photograph, dance, sculpture, advertisement, child’s drawing, or performance. An ekphrastic poem begins with inspiration from ... (+) June 28-July 3, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Writing Emotional Stakes: Fiction Workshop Lydi Conklin No writing craft can matter if, at the end of the day, the reader doesn’t care. In this generative fiction workshop, we’ll write new material ... (+) June 21-26, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Environmental Portrait Ron Amato Since photography’s inception, its primary subject has been people, capturing aspects other visual arts often cannot. Perceived as objective, photographs are accepted as reality, though ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Five Ways Forward: Place, Weather, Pathways, Relationships, and Space Pete Hocking Looking closely at the work of contemporary painters, we’ll explore the creation of pictures that utilize place, weather, pathways, relationships, and space as organizing principles ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants and Residencies Abeer Hoque Are you confused, embarrassed, or scared about writing an artist’s statement? Are you unsure about how to apply for artist residencies, grants, or fellowships? Then ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Let the World Find You Hieu Minh Nguyen In this generative writing workshop, we’ll use our environment—public spaces, quiet corners, overheard conversations, and daily rituals—as creative fuel. Guided prompts inspired by poems that ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Imagination and Its Rooms: A Week of Poetic Discovery Rowan Ricardo Phillips What happens when the imagination stops behaving, or when it behaves too well? This workshop approaches the imagination not as a single, mystical reservoir but ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More The Haibun: Writing Place, Time, and Wandering Samyak Shertok In this generative workshop, each day we will go on little walks (mostly on the beach) and write “plein air poems” about the journey as ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Jump Start Etching James Stroud In this Master Printer Series workshop, participants will get far into the etching process by transferring drawings from clear films to copper plates coated with ... (+) July 5-10, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More

The Poetics of Relationality Santee Frazier This workshop focuses on developing poetry-writing practices informed by Indigenous texts and on sharing knowledge through relational rigor. We will challenge the division of knowledge ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More "Who Do You Think You Are?" Saeed Jones People don’t just happen. In this workshop, students will explore the capacity of memoir to illuminate their understanding of memory, connection, and self-making. This class is ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Strangeness, Curiosities, and Defamiliarization Matthew Olzmann This workshop will explore the concept that poetry should “make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange.” How does a poem take something ordinary and ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Start in the Middle: Writing Memoir Now Seema Reza Memoir is first person history that doesn’t have to start at the beginning. In fact, it’s often best not to. In this generative workshop, participants ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Waterless Lithography Workshop Vicky Tomayko Lithography became a viable fine art medium early in the 20th century. Because lithography is so beautiful, a sensitive printing of both drawing and wash images, ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Painting the Figure Forrest Williams We will paint each day from the live model. Students will create a basic palette from direct observation of the model, using oil paint and ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Book Forms: The Shape of Thought Janine Wong Explore the book as a versatile form for collecting, developing, and experimenting with ideas. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn core materials and techniques ... (+) July 12-17, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

The Intimate Portrait Jess T. Dugan Making a photographic portrait is an intimate endeavor, requiring both photographer and subject to work together to create a compelling image. In this workshop, participants ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Cousins: skating the line between poetry and songwriting Cornelius Eady I’m a singer/songwriter/poet and I very often get asked the question, “what’s the difference (if any) between the song lyric and the poem?” This workshop ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Personal 'I' or Why Our Lives Matter Vievee Francis I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ~Walt ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Love in the Time of War: A Fiction Workshop Indira Ganesan Writing love stories is a revolutionary act. Writing fiction while the world is at war, or in a state of dizzying torment requires a bit ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Expansive Painting Megan Hinton The contemporary notion of painting in the expanded field broadens our expectations of how and why a painting is made. In the Expansive Painting workshop, ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Exchange Jennifer Mack-Watkins Participants in this session will build community through the process of printmaking and be introduced to publishing a print edition in a collaborative studio environment ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Art of the Short Story Cleyvis Natera Whether you’re new to fiction or have been working at it for some time, there are concepts you must master to have your intention fully ... (+) July 19-24, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

The Art of Visual Storytelling Lipe Borges & Julia Cumes This intensive photography workshop explores how to craft compelling visual stories through observation, sequencing, and intentional image-making. Using the world around us as our subject, ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Cross-Pollination Print Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas This workshop explores the iterative nature of print in monotype, risograph, and simple book forms. Beginning with your own materials—sketchbook pages, journal entries, or photographs—you’ll ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Leading with Voice: How to Craft Persona in Prose Garrard Conley This generative workshop explores how persona shapes narrative, intimacy, and authority in both fiction and nonfiction. Each day begins with a guided discussion of voice ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Singing Your Own Song: Knowing and Honing Your Unique Voice Keetje Kuipers Teachers of creative writing talk a lot about “finding” your voice, as if it’s lost and waiting to be rescued. But what if your voice ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Making a Manuscript: Craft, Sequence, and Revision for Poets Porsha Olayiwola Are you nearing the completion of your poetry manuscript? This workshop is designed for writers who are nearing the completion of a poetry manuscript and ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Ritual Embrace: A Painting & Drawing Laboratory Ruby T Bringing ritual into your art practice is a sure-fire strategy for turning up the desire dial and getting into a flow state. Through ritual exercises ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Witchcraft for Writers Michelle Tea This workshop will invite writers of all levels and genres to move closer to the mystery of our craft, engaging in practices and writing prompts ... (+) July 26-31, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Whose Story? Crafting POV from the First Sentence Kelli Jo Ford From our first sentence, we make conscious and unconscious choices about point of view: What characters will we focus on? Whose voice will tell the ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Motives, Modes & Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs David Hilliard Are you a photographer hoping to better articulate your imagery and the process through which it’s realized? Or a writer longing to explore how making ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Narrative Drawing Carlos Francisco Jackson What stories have you been telling? And how have you been telling them? And how do you want to tell them in the future? In ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Nonnegotiable Me: Writing the Story Only You Can Tell Deborah Jackson Taffa In this workshop, the “non-negotiable me” refers to whatever defining set of core values, boundaries, and non-negotiable principles you refuse to compromise in your relationships, ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Watercolor Monoprinting Fred Liang In this workshop participants will use the directness and fluidity of water-based paint and ink as a process to create monotypes in printmaking. You will ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Narrative Form and Literary Craft of Indigenous Poetics Michaela RedCherries Through art-making and expression, Indigenous artists and writers participate in a practice that has ensured the existence of our societies, our people and our belief ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Patience As Practice Nicole Sealey In “Poetry and Ambition,” Donald Hall writes, “Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don’t ... (+) August 2-7, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Pattern in Motion Liz Collins In this one-week intensive, artist Liz Collins guides participants through an immersive exploration of pattern as a living, evolving force. Drawing from Collins’ cross-disciplinary practice ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Speaking with Paradise: Poetry Engaging with Visual Art Didi Jackson The Romantic poet William Blake said that poetry and art are ways to converse with paradise. So, it is no wonder that these two art ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More A Matter of Material: Recipes for Grounds, Paints, and Pastels Dani Levine A Matter of Material is a “hands-on” painting workshop aimed at the individualized recipe development of painting materials such as grounds, paints, and pastels. This ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Cut, Scratch, and Blend: Revision as Remix John Murillo “Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the words ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Writing as Ceremonial Practice: At the right time. In the right place. For the right reason. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle From flash to fairytales to long-form fiction, our goal as storytellers is create a ceremonial spell that binds us to our readers. This workshop will ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Prose Writing for All Levels Sarah Schulman Whether you have published many books, or are just starting out – this is a craft-based workshop designed for fiction and nonfiction writers at all ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Intuitive Eye: The Art of Selecting and Sequencing Photographs Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris-Webb Do you know how to listen to your photographs—including how they talk to one another—in order to select and sequence your work? Learn the art ... (+) August 9-14, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Kitchen Sink Casting Megan Biddle In this hands-on studio course, students will explore innovative casting techniques for sculpture-making using accessible, non-toxic materials commonly found in household pantries such as sugar ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More The Trouble with Relationships. . . Kimberly Blaeser All writing involves relationships—between people, with place, between warring stories. This generative workshop, which focuses on uncovering and rendering dynamic relationships, is open to writers ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Playing with Paint Joseph Diggs Play is about experimenting, creating, and learning in new ways. This workshop will explore a variety of ways to express and expand your artistry with ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Memoir as Bewilderment Nick Flynn In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Intermediate/Advanced Learn More Print, Page, Plate: Intaglio Processes and Book Forms Megan Foster This workshop introduces a range of intaglio techniques, including drypoint, line etching, and aquatint, alongside accordion and Japanese stab bookbinding. Participants will learn the technical ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More Fragmentation Plus Wholeness: Writing the Sequence Poem Major Jackson The sequence poem dates to antiquity if we consider epic poems our first great examples. However, the structural gains of the sequence poem as a ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More How to Write a Poem Eileen Myles I always begin at the beginning, so we’ll start with the tiniest scraps of language and even before and think about what a poem is ... (+) August 16-21, 2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Open to All Learn More

Summer ’26 Early Access Catalog

Week

Discipline

Experience Level

Week 1: June 21 - 26: Queer Week

Week 2: June 28 - July 3

Week 3: July 5 - 10

Week 4: July 12 - 17

Week 5: July 19 - 24

Week 6: July 26 - 31

Week 7: August 2 - 7

Week 8: August 9 - 14

Week 9: August 16 - 21