Summer Salon
Michael Cunningham
in conversation with
Mary DeAngelis and Marian Roth
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Fine Arts Work Center
24 Pearl Street
Provincetown, MA 02657
Please join us at 5:00 PM for a reception on our courtyard, followed by the Summer Salon event starting at 6:00 PM in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room. The event will include a short reading, a conversation between our two guests, and a moderated Q&A with the audience followed by a book signing.
Michael Cunningham’s novels include Day, A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, Specimen Days, By Nightfall, and The Snow Queen, as well as the collection A Wild Swan and Other Tales and the nonfiction book Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories. The Hours was a New York Times bestseller and the winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is a trustee and past fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center. Raised in Los Angeles, Cunningham lives in New York City and is a professor in the practice at Yale University.
Marian Roth is a visual artist who has lived and worked in Provincetown for over 40 years, twenty of those working with pinhole imagery in various buildings, vehicles, cans and just about anything she can turn into a camera. She has studied printmaking with Vicky Tomayko, has worked in painting and clay, and is currently making paper. She has taught at FAWC, Truro Center for the Arts, and served on the Boards of PAAM and The Provincetown Commons. Marian has received both Guggenheim and Pollack Krasner Fellowships. Marian first took out a book from the library when she was 10 years old. It was “My Lord What a Morning” by Marian Anderson.
Mary DeAngelis moved to Provincetown in 1982 and has been a nanny, babysitter, cook, waitress, clothing designer, care giver, dog walker, occasionally makes cartoons for the Provincetown Independent, paints, and plays guitar in a rock and roll band. Her deepest desire in all that time was to be a librarian.
About Summer Salons
The Summer Salons events are designed to encourage a lively exchange of ideas by bringing together prominent figures from the arts and culture community to the Work Center. Scheduled over four Friday evenings from mid-June to late August, this series provides a unique opportunity for audiences in Provincetown and beyond to connect directly with some of today’s most influential creative minds. Set against the historic backdrop of the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, the Summer Salons invite these notable leaders to share their insights, experiences, and knowledge during an evening of conversation, learning, and community engagement. The result is a rare form of creative communion.
Proceeds from these paid events ensure that the Fine Arts Work Center is able to provide free arts and culture events for the Outer Cape Cod community year round.
