Summer Workshop Program 2023

Creative Writing and Visual Arts Workshops in Provincetown

The Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop Program is open for registration!

Our signature education program offers over 60 week-long workshops in visual arts and creative writing to hundreds of students over the course of nine weeks each summer. We invite nationally recognized artists and writers to Provincetown to teach our open enrollment workshops. Your Week at FAWC offers a variety of readings, artist talks and special events that are free and open to the public.

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Featured Workshops // Hands-on Experiences

Connecting with People Through Portraiture

Rashod Taylor

August 6 - August 12, 2023

In this workshop, gain trust with your subjects, communicate your vision for the portrait, address fears when approaching strangers, and create a space for intimacy and relationship in your portrait process.

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Monoprint: Woodcut and Collograph

Andrew Mockler

July 2 - July 8, 2023

Each artist will work toward achieving a body of work that has a cohesive sensibility of theme and form, but which may display a variety of color, texture, and effect.

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Artist Books and Book Forms

Janine Wong

July 16 - July 22, 2023

Each student will make six book models, cutting and collaging their own work to test out the possibilities of pacing, structure, sequencing, and scale of text and image.

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Summer at FAWC // Theme Weeks

Broadsided Press Series

Join the Work Center for one of three workshops, with Elizabeth Bradfield, Millian Giang Pham, and Alexandra Teague, celebrating how art and writing can merge into something bigger than the sum of their parts.

Queer Week

Special Guest Curator Andrea Lawlor has invited a mix of returning and new faculty who will provide a variety of workshops to challenge and bring together students in an environment infused with celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.

Youth Lit Week

Coinciding with Family Week in Ptown, our first-ever Youth Lit Week, specially curated by author Kyle Lukoff, will feature faculty who are renowned in the field of young people’s literature.

It's time to book your Summer plans in Provincetown.

Our program offers over 60 week-long workshops in visual arts and creative writing over the course of 9 weeks every summer. We bring nationally recognized artists and writers to Provincetown to teach our workshops and to participate in readings and artist talks that are open to the public and enjoyed by hundreds in the community.

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