The Fine Arts Work Center
is an international home
for artists and writers in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Fine Arts Work Center
is an international home
for artists and writers in
Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Fine Arts Work Center
supports emerging artists
and writers through its
world-renowned
Fellowship Program.
The Fine Arts Work Center
supports emerging artists
and writers through its
world-renowned
Fellowship Program.
The Fine Arts Work Center
offers summer workshops
and year-round virtual
learning opportunities to
advance creative practice.
The Fine Arts Work Center
offers summer workshops
and year-round virtual
learning opportunities to
advance creative practice.
The Fine Arts Work Center
builds community in the heart
of Provincetown through public
programming in the creative arts.
The Fine Arts Work Center builds community in the heart of Provincetown through public programming in the creative arts.
Mission and Legacy
For over 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space to emerging artists and writers at crucial early stages of creative development within a community of peers. The founders hoped that the Work Center would perpetuate Provincetown’s seminal importance for the arts in America, overcoming modest means and geographic isolation to create an internationally acclaimed institution. The restoration and amplification of the year-round vitality of Provincetown as a historic artists’ community lies at the heart of the Work Center’s mission. All of our programs are dedicated to enhancing this legacy.
Our home in Provincetown. Video: Michael Cestaro
Upcoming Events at FAWC
Celebrate Legacy Saturday, July 13, 2024 Tuesday, May 21, 2024 In Person Saturday, May 25, 2024 
FAWC Summer Awards Celebration
Pilgrim Monument
and Provincetown Museum
A Virtual Event
Unreconciled: A Performance by Jay Sefton
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
News and Updates
Artist News, Fellowship, Organization Highlights Congratulations to Past Fellows May 8, 2024 Artist News, Fellowship, Provincetown Jhumpa Lahiri, The Art of Fiction No. 262 May 1, 2024 Organizational Highlights, Press Releases Workshops at FAWC Inspire Provincetown Schools Artists and Poets April 17, 2024
Jayne Anne Phillips and Brandon Som
on their 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
24PearlStreet Online Writing Program | Events and Workshops
Live Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Prefiguration, Augury, Dream: the Novel as Spiral Victoria Redel Live The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan Eileen Myles Live On Maurice, E. M. Forster’s Posthumous Gay Novel Alexander Chee 
May 21, 2024
June 4, 2024
June 18, 2024
Summer Workshop Program
Multimedia Printmaking Painting 
Multimedia Experiments
Zehra Khan
June 16-21, 2024
Silkscreen Printmaking
Vicky Tomayko
June 16-21, 2024
The Infinity of Nature
Peter Hocking
June 16-21, 2024
Our Programs
We select 20 Fellows to live and work in Provincetown from October 1 – April 30. The Fellowship is designed for emerging artists and writers to focus solely on creative practice. Fellows share their work as part of our winter public program, which also includes lectures and readings from visiting artists and writers.
During late spring, early fall, and summer, past Fellows and friends of the Work Center return to Provincetown for short-term stays during our Returning Residency program, which offers artists and writers dedicated time to advance creative projects and ideas.
Every summer, we welcome students and faculty for a full season of open enrollment, multidisciplinary course offerings in literature, visual art, playwriting, and more. This program includes over 50 public events that are free and open to our community.
24PearlStreet Online Writing Workshops
All year, we offer online learning opportunities of varying lengths and skill levels through our online writing program 24PearlStreet, where writers can work with esteemed poets, prose writers, and graphic novelists in small group, virtual settings.
