NEWS

AUGUST 28, 2021

A NEW DIRECTOR WILL WELCOME FELLOWS TO FAWC THIS FALL

Sharon Polli, fresh from Brooklyn, emphasizes community building.

JULY 20, 2021

REMEMBERING TOM DONEGAN

The Fine Arts Work Center remembers longstanding Trustee, supporter, and friend Tom Donegan.

JULY 15, 2021

ANTONIUS BUI - SOLO EXHIBITION AT MONIQUEMELOCHE

moniquemeloche is pleased to announce the gallery’s debut solo exhibition with Antonius Bui – The Detour is To Be Where We Are. Bui will present a new series of intensively hand-cut paper portraits, a visualization of hybrid identities and histories, told through an intersectional queer AAPI lens.

JULY 09, 2021

THE FINE ARTS WORK CENTER REMEMBERS POET, ESSAYIST, AND WRITING FELLOW APRIL FREELY

It is with tremendous grief and sadness that the Fine Arts Work Center remembers our friend, colleague, and Fellow April Freely. April was selected as a Writing Fellow in 2014-2015 and then returned to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown as a second-year Fellow in 2017-2018.

JULY 01, 2021

“GIVE MY LOVE TO THE SAVAGES” – CHRIS STUCK’S DEBUT COLLECTION AVAILABLE JULY 6

Give My Love to the Savages, a provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction by Chris Stuck (Writing Fellow 2006-2007 and 2001-2002), will be published by Amistad/HarperCollins on July 6. “The nine tales in Give My Love to the Savages illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. From the absurd to the starkly realistic, these stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience. Chris Stuck traverses the dividing lines, and attempts to create meaning from them in unique and unusual ways. Each story considers a marker of our current culture, from uprisings and sly and not-so-sly racism, to Black fetishization and conservatism, to the obstacles placed in front of Black masculinity and Black and interracial relationships by society and circumstance.”

JUNE 25, 2021

JENNIFER PACKER – SOLO EXHIBITION AT MOCA LOS ANGELES

“Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep,” is the title of the West coast debut exhibition of New York-based artist Jennifer Packer (Visual Arts Fellow 2015-2016 and 2014-2015) at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. The show features 26 paintings and works on paper, many of which were produced in the last year. “In recent years, Packer has received increasing acclaim for her intensely lyrical and emotionally nuanced portraits of friends and family members, as well as numerous floral paintings memorializing those killed by police violence. Rendered in virtuosic lyrical style and layered intensity, Packer’s drawings and canvases surface representations of intimacy, embodiment, and loss. They mark an important new direction in figurative painting and were featured prominently in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson, this exhibition presents new and recent works by Packer.” The exhibition runs from July 1, 2021 through February 21, 2022. Image above left: Idle Hands, 2021, oil on canvas, 90” x 84” Photo: A.H. Jerriod Avant

JUNE 17, 2021

ARCHITECTURAL TOURS OF THE WORK CENTER’S CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION

Please join us for a free public tour of the Work Center’s campus transformation now underway. Led by architect Bruce Skiles Danzer, Jr., AIA (LAB [3.2] Architecture and a Work Center Trustee), visitors will have the opportunity to discover more about the rich history of the Work Center and learn about all the exciting changes now taking place across the campus. Public tour dates include – Friday, July 2 at 10AM, Friday, July 16 at 10AM and Friday, July 30 at 10AM. Please click below to learn more and to register for a tour. Photo: courtesy Bruce Skiles Danzer, Jr.

JUNE 16, 2021

FIRELEI BÁEZ’S MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE OPENING AT THE ICA/BOSTON WATERSHED

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s ICA Watershed will feature a newly commissioned, monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Firelei Báez (Visual Arts Fellow 2013-2014). “In her largest sculptural installation to date, the artist reimagines the archeological ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace in Haiti as though they were revealed in East Boston after the sea receded from the Watershed floor. The Watershed’s location – in a working shipyard and as a trade site and point of entry and home for immigrants over decades – provides a pivotal point of reference. Báez embeds Sans-Souci within the geological layers of Boston, where histories of revolution and independence are integral to the city’s identity. This site-specific installation will invite visitors to traverse passageways and travel through time, engaging with streams of influence and interconnectedness.” The installation opens July 3 and runs through September 6, 2021. Rendering: Nate Garner

JUNE 09, 2021

ESTEBAN DEL VALLE BEGINS HIS NEW MURAL FOR THE PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ARTS FOUNDATION

Esteban Del Valle (Visual Arts Fellow 2017-2018 and 2012-2013) has just begun painting his new mural for The Provincetown Public Arts Foundation’s first public art project in Provincetown. Esteban’s mural is located on the west-side alley wall of Marine Specialties on 235 Commercial Street – a space donated by the Patrick family. “Founded by Romolo Del Deo, Lise King, Dani Niedzieldski, Karen Ojala, Stan Sikorski and Samuel Tager, Provincetown Public Art Foundation seeks to fund, place, and preserve public art in Provincetown.” left photo: courtesy Sara Siegel, right photo: courtesy Albert Merola Gallery

JUNE 09, 2021

MEET OUR 2021-2022 INCOMING FELLOWS

The Fine Arts Work Center is pleased to announce its incoming 2021-2022 Fellows, an exceptional group of emerging artists and writers selected from a pool of more than 1300 applicants from across the globe. The incoming Writing Fellows are Shastri Akella, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Vedran Husić (returning, second-year Fellow), Gothataone Moen, Zeynep Özakat, Laura Cresté, Tracy Fuad, Eduardo Martinez-Leyva, Samyak Shertok, and H.R. Webster. The incoming Visual Arts Fellows are Austin Ballard (returning, second-year Fellow), Kevin Brisco Jr., Widline Cadet, Sara Emsaki, Nick Fagan, Elizabeth Flood, Lavaughan Jenkins, Peter Pothoven (returning, second-year Fellow) Tinja Ruusuvuori and Sichong Xie. The Work Center is also pleased to welcome painter and master printer Andrew Mockler (Visual Arts Fellow 1990-1991) as incoming Chair of the Visual Arts Committee and poet Mark Wunderlich (Writing Fellow 1996-1997 and 2000-2001) as Chair of the Writing Committee. The Visual Arts and Writing Committees are vital to the successful administration of the Work Center’s signature Fellowship.