February / Thank you, Provincetown!

Thank you to our local community for taking part in our FAWC Friday series and energizing our newly renovated spaces each month. This new series featured free nights of programming every first Friday of the winter season in Provincetown.

This monthly series began as an experiment to amplify our legacy of inviting visiting artists and writers to share their work while encouraging creative connections with local collaborators from Provincetown and the Outer Cape Cod community. We were grateful to discover that our community members eagerly welcomed these nights of inspiration, rooted in the artistic vitality and history of Provincetown.

We hope you will join us this upcoming Friday for our first Fellow Friday! These events will continue the energy of FAWC Fridays and offer an opportunity to connect with the work of our current cohort of 2022-2023 Visual Art and Writing Fellows. If Provincetown is a bit far for you, join us via livestream on our YouTube channel.

Wishing you a warm and safe February.

Looking Forward / Our Programs and Events

Fellow Fridays

Friday, February 10, 2023, 5 - 9 PM

This upcoming event features (pictured from left to right) Pieter Paul Pothoven and Blake Daniels, Visual Art Fellows, and Hannah Perrin King and Willie Fitzgerald, Writing Fellows. Fellow Fridays are free public events that connect you to the artists and writers currently in residence at the Work Center. 

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Find Your Writing Community with 24PearlStreet

Take an Epistolary Poetry workshop with Melissa Studdard, Grow Your Poem with Martha Collins, Write and Rewrite with Elisa Albert, or immerse yourself in Ekphrastic Writing with Ananda Lima. There are more courses to choose from our 24PearlStreet online writing program. Work on your craft wherever you are, year-round.

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Creative Writing and Visual Arts Workshops this Summer at FAWC

The Summer Program catalog is now available! Browse over 60 week-long workshops in visual arts and creative writing over the course of nine weeks. Work with nationally recognized artists and participate in readings and artist talks that are open to the public and enjoyed by hundreds in the community.

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2022-2023 Fellows

Exhibition at PAAM

January 13 - March 5, 2023

Visit the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) for our annual collaborative exhibition featuring sculpture, assemblage, paintings, prints, film, and multimedia by participating artists: Blake Daniels, Georgia Dickie, Mark Joshua Epstein, Elizabeth Flood, Kristy Hughes, Siennie Lee, Tinja Ruusuvuori, and Sichong Xie.

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Mercy, Mercy, Me

by John Murillo

Writing Fellow 2007-2008, 2022-2023

Crips, Bloods, and butterflies.

  A sunflower somehow planted

in the alley. Its broken neck.

  Maybe memory is all the home

you get. And rage, where you

  first learn how fragile the axis

upon which everything tilts.

  But to say you’ve come to terms

with a city that’s never loved you

  might be overstating things a bit.

All you know is there was once

  a walk-up where now sits a lot,

vacant, and rats in deep grass

  hide themselves from the day.

That one apartment fire

  set back in ’76—one the streets

called arson to collect a claim—

  could not do, ultimately, what

the city itself did, left to its own dank

  devices, some sixteen years later.

Rebellions, said some. Riots,

  said the rest. In any case, flames;

and the home you knew, ash.

  It’s not an actual memory, but

you remember it still: a rust-

  bottomed Datsun handed down,

then stolen. Stripped, recovered,

  and built back from bolts.

Driving away in May. 1992.

  What’s left of that life quivers

in the rearview—the world on fire,

  and half your head with it.