All readings and artist talks will be held in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room, and all exhibitions will be in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery unless otherwise noted. Both venues are located at 24 Pearl Street in Provincetown.

Summer Gallery Schedule: Mon-Fri, 1-5pm, Sat and Sun, 11am-3pm

Please Note: The gallery will be open for extended hours, (10:00am-5:00pm) during the weeks of August 9th and 16th while the Auction Preview exhibition will be on display.

The events schedule is subject to change. We will do our best to keep the website updated, but if you have any questions, call 508-487-9960 or check local listings to verify times and dates.

All events are open to the public for a $5 suggested donation.

We will be adding more events and additional information about upcoming events as it becomes available.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: ARIEL LEVY AND PEIK LARSEN
Tuesday, July 27, 7 pm

Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where she has written about the South African runner Caster Semenya, the director Nora Ephron, the fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and Cindy McCain, the wife of Arizona senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain. Prior to joining The New Yorker, she was a contributing editor at New York magazine for twelve years. Her firstperson piece "The Lesbian Bride's Handbook" was anthologized in the Best American Essays of 2008. She is also the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs. She has appeared on The Colbert Report and Oprah and lectures regularly at colleges around the country.

Peik Larsen studied art at Middlebury College and the San Francisco Art Institute, and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts College graduate program. He has worked as a professional printer at Fox Graphics in Boston and Via Santa Reparata in Italy. He shows his paintings, prints, and books at Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston and Freight & Volume in New York City, and is in many collections in this country and in Europe. For several years he taught printmaking at Harvard and has been a visiting artist and critic at New England art schools.

www.hpeiklarsen.com

ARTIST TALK: JOANNE DUGAN
Wednesday, July 28, 7 pm

Joanne Dugan is the author of ABC NYC: A Book About Seeing New York City and 123 NYC: A Counting Book of New York City, and two fine-art monographs combining text and image: To Music and Other Short Stories and Mostly True, a limited edition private printing accepted into the library collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The New York Public Library. She was the photographer for the book Taxi Driver Wisdom and its sequel Beauty Parlor Wisdom. Her limited-edition, fine-art images are widely collected and are part of many domestic and international collections. Her work has won more than a dozen national design and photography awards from Communication Arts, Graphis, the Art Director's Club, How Magazine, Photo District News and The American Institute of Graphic Artists. She is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York City and is represented by Ernden Fine Art Gallery in Provincetown.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, July 29, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING: DAISY FRIED AND PAM HOUSTON
Monday, August 2, 7 pm

Daisy Fried is the author of two books of poems, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (University of Pittsburgh, 2006), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and one of Library Journal's 10 Best Poetry Books of 2006, and She Didn't Mean to Do It, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award. For her poetry, she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Cohen Award from Ploughshares and a Pew Fellowship. She reviews books of poetry for The New York Times and Poetry, and was awarded Poetry magazine's Editor's Prize for a Feature Essay for "Sing, God-Awful Muse," on reading Paradise Lost and the Nipple Nazi of Northampton. She taught creative writing recently as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and at Villanova University.

Pam Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis. She is the author of three books of fiction, Cowboys Are My Weakness (winner of the Western States Book Award), Waltzing the Cat (winner of the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction), and Sight Hound; a play, Tracking the Pleiades; and a memoir titled A Little More About Me. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards Prize Collection, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is working on a book called Flight.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: ALAN SHAPIRO, ELANA GREENFIELD
AND MP LANDIS
Tuesday, August 3, 7 pm

Alan Shapiro has written nine books of poetry, most recently Old War, winner of the 2009 Ambassador Book Award; Tantalus in Love; The Dead Alive and Busy, 2001 winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award; and Song and Dance. The recipient of a writer's award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shapiro has also published three books of prose, and a translation of Aeschylus's Oresteia, which Oxford University Press published in 2003. His new book of poems, Night of the Republic, will appear in 2011 from Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt, and his novel, Broadway Baby, will be published by Algonquin Books in 2011.

Elana Greenfield's book, At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations won the New American Fiction Competition. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award in drama, and The Judith S. Pearson award for her short story "Talent." Her work for the stage has been seen both internationally and nationally and has been presented in NYC, at La Mama E.T.C., The Vineyard Theatre and the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, among others. Her play, Nine Come, has recently been included in New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York. Her articles & essays have appeared in Yale's Theater magazine and the Brooklyn Rail, her plays excerpted in Bomb magazine and her radio plays heard on WNYC, The Radio Stage and public radio stations across the country. She currently teaches playwriting at The New School University's Eugene Lang College, and at NYU Tisch Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.

M P Landis's current work is a palimpsest of the processes, materials and emotions of his existence. He has collaborated with many, including musician Tom Abbs, visual artists Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough, and poet Nick Flynn. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the New York Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Naples Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He is the Creative Consultant for the mentoring program Project Eye-To-Eye, and a consultant at ESP-Disk' Records. He exhibits at Gallery Ehva in Provincetown, MA, and with the international traveling artists' group VERN, among others.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: ALICIA OSTRIKER AND AMY ARBUS
Wednesday, August 4, 7 pm

Alicia Ostriker has published twelve volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven and The Book of Seventy, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her antiwar poem sequence The Mother/ Child Papers, originally published in 1980, has just been reprinted. Twice a National Book Award finalist, Ostriker has also received awards from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco Poetry Center, and the Paterson Poetry Center, among others. Her critical work includes Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America and other books on poetry and on the Bible. She currently teaches in the Low-Residency Poetry MFA Program of Drew University.

Amy Arbus has published four books, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, The New Yorker, People, and The New York Times Magazine. Her advertising clients include American Express, SpotCo, Nickelodeon and Saatchi & Saatchi. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops and The Fine Arts Work Center. She is represented by Anthropy Arts and The Amador Gallery in New York, Clic Gallery in St. Barth, and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. She has had twenty-two solo exhibitions worldwide, and her photographs are a part of the collection of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, August 5, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

EXHIBITION: 34TH ANNUAL AUCTION PREVIEW
Opening Friday, August 6, with Wine Tasting hosted by Truro Vineyards, 6-8pm
Gallery viewing: August 6-20 with extended hours (10am-5pm).
Annual Auction: Saturday, August 21 at new time: 4:30-8:30 pm
see special events for more information on the 34th Annual Auction

READING: SCHOR ON TWORKOV
Mira Schor reading from The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov (2009) and discussing Tworkov's work
Saturday, August 7, 8pm

FAWC is pleased to announce the first public reading in Provincetown from The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov, recently published by Yale University Press. The editor of this book, painter and writer Mira Schor, will include selections from noted American artist Jack Tworkov's writings about painting, teaching art, Abstract Expressionism, and about the rhythms of life in Provincetown. Tworkov was one of the founders of FAWC. Schor will also discuss her editorial role and her own writings about Tworkov's paintings from this period in her new book, A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life.

Mira Schor is a painter and writer. She is the author of A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics and Daily Life and Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture. She recently received a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for a blog on art and culture, A Year of Positive Thinking. Schor teaches in the MFA Program in Fine Arts at Parsons the New School for Design.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: MARTHA COLLINS, PAMELA PAINTER AND EMILY EVELETH
Monday, August 9, 7 pm

Martha Collins is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was one of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember from 2006." Other awards include fellowships from the NEA, the Bunting Institute, and the Witter Bynner Foundation, as well as the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Lannan Residency Grant. She has also published four collections of poems, two chapbooks, and two collections of cotranslations of Vietnamese poetry. The founder of the creative writing program at UMass-Boston, she is currently editor-at-large for FIELD magazine and the Oberlin College Press. In spring 2010 she will serve as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Cornell University.

Pamela Painter is the author of two story collections, Getting to Know the Weather, which won the GLCA Award for First Fiction and was reprinted as a Classic Contemporary by Carnegie Mellon, and The Long and Short of It. She is also the co-author of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, now in its third edition. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Kenyon Review, Mid- American Review, Ploughshares, and Quick Fiction, among others and in numerous short short story anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, MicroFiction Sudden Stories, and You Have Time for This. She has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review's The John Cheever Award for Fiction. Her stories have been presented on stage by Word Theatre, Stage Turner, and the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. A recent prize-winning story was recorded on a Norton CD titled "Love Hurts." Her collection of short short stories, Wouldn't You Like to Know, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon in 2010. She teaches in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College.

Emily Eveleth’s work has been widely shown in museums, most recently at the Fresno Metropolitan Museum; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. It can also be found in private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been written about in Bomb magazine, Art in America, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. In 2002 she was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. Her most recent gallery shows were at Danese in New York, and her next solo shows will be at the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA, and the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: JOHN YAU, PENN YOUNG AND LOUISE HAMLIN
Tuesday, August 10, 7 pm

John Yau's recent books of poetry include Borrowed Love Poems, Ing Grish, and Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin, 2006). Other books include A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (Distributed Art Publishers, 2008), and a book of essays, The Passionate Spectator. He is the Arts Editor of the Brooklyn Rail (www.brooklynrail.org). His poems have appeared in many magazines including the American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and Southern Review. Recent awards include being named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, and a Fellowship in Poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Penn Young has been working with abstraction in painting since 1996. He has had solo shows with the Clifford Smith Gallery in Boston, and his work has been in museum and gallery group shows in New York, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts. In 2002 he was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Over the past several years he's added abstract sculpture to his work. Prior to becoming a visual artist, he was a playwright and filmmaker.

Louise Hamlin has exhibited her paintings and prints in solo and group exhibitions around the country. Her honors include awards from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Vermont Council on the Arts, a residency at the Djerassi Foundation, a Sony Fellowship from Dartmouth College and faculty grants from Dartmouth and Union colleges. Her 2009 film, Ink Across Time, co-produced with Michael Sacca, won a gold medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Her work has been featured in many public and private collections, including the Walker Arts Center, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the University of Iowa, and the Wellington Management Co. She is chair of the Studio Art department and area head of Printmaking at Dartmouth College.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: JULIA GLASS AND LAUREN EWING
Wednesday, August 11, 7 pm

Julia Glass is the author of the novels Three Junes, winner of the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over, as well as I See You Everywhere, a collection of linked stories. She has also published feature articles and essays in numerous national magazines and anthologies, including An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family (edited by Nell Casey) and Muses, Mentors, and Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (edited by Elizabeth Benedict). She has received fellowships from the NEA, the NY Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Lauren Ewing is a sculptor who lives in New York City and Provincetown. Her work has been featured in many museum exhibitions and private collections, including the MoMA, Hirshorn Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has had solo exhibitions in Germany, Denmark, Australia, and Austria. The first woman to head the Sculpture and 3-Dimensional Arts Department at RISD, she has received two NEA fellowships, and has lectured and taught at Columbia, Yale, and the Architectural Association in London. She is currently on the faculty at Rutgers enjoying a research leave.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, August 12, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

READING AND ARTIST TALK: TAYARI JONES AND LINDA BOND
Monday, August 16, 7 pm

Tayari Jones's first novel, Leaving Atlanta (awarded the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award), is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979. Her second novel, The Untelling, won the Lillian C. Smith Award. She has won fellowships and awards from United States Artists Foundation, The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, Illinois Arts Council, Arizona Council on the Arts, G.E. Foundation, LEF Foundation, The Corporation of Yaddo, and The MacDowell Colony. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's, Crab Orchard Review, PMS, The Believer, New Stories From the South, The New York Times and other publications. She is a contributor to The Daily Beast. She teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University. Her third novel, The Silver Girl, will be published by Algonquin in 2010.

Linda Bond is a former Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center and the recipient of grants from the Artists Resource Trust, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities & Public Policy, and from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast, including recent shows at the Brattleboro Museum, the Art Complex Museum and the Fitchburg Art Museum, and is in numerous collections including those of Boston University, IBM, Nokia and Fidelity Investments. In Provincetown, she is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery. Linda teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and is a mentor for the MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown low-residency MFA program.

READING AND ARTIST TALK: NICK FLYNN, J.T. ROGERS AND CARLOS FERGUSON
Tuesday, August 17, 7 pm

Nick Flynn's most recent book is The Ticking is the Bomb (Norton, 2010), a memoir of deciding to become a father while, or even though, his country is engaged in two wars. His previous memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber. He has been awarded fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Amy Lowell Trust, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Some of the venues where his poems, essays, and nonfiction have appeared include The New Yorker, The Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life," and The New York Times Book Review. He teaches one semester a year at the University of Houston.

J. T. Rogers's recent plays include The Overwhelming (Royal National Theatre, followed by UK tour and BBC radio; Roundabout Theater, NYC); White People (English Theater of Berlin; Off Broadway commercial run); and Blood and Gifts (Tricycle Theatre, London; upcoming US tour). His play Madagascar is currently running at both the Melbourne and Black Swan theater companies in Australia, and he is writing new works for the National and Lincoln Center Theaters. Rogers's plays are published by Faber & Faber and Dramatists Play Service. A member of New Dramatists, he holds an honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Carlos Ferguson lives in a 1962 Airstream trailer equipped with solar panels, a woodstove, and a disco ball. He was educated in Iowa at Grinnell College and the University of Iowa. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 2001-02, he has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, The Sacatar Foundation in Brazil, and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. Currently, he directs Tiny Circus—a community-based stop-motion animation extravaganza. Tiny Circus is a collaborative project whose members engage communities to develop a show entitled The Other Histories of the World, a series of short, stop-motion animated films presenting fanciful imagined histories of a variety of subjects like rain, smiles, or constellations. Animations are projected in public spaces from a vintage Airstream trailer. To view animations go to: www.tinycircus.org.

READING:MARIE HOWE AND RICHARD MCCANN
Wednesday, August 18, 7pm

Marie Howe was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1983. Her newest book of poems is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (WW Norton). She is also the author of the collections What the Living Do and The Good Thief, winner of the 1988 National Poetry Series award. She's received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Bunting Institute. With Michael Klein, she edited an anthology, In the Company of my Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and NYU.

Richard McCann is the author of Mother of Sorrows (Vintage, 2006), winner of the 2005 Zacharis Award and named by Amazon as one of the Top 50 Books of 2005, and Ghost Letters (1994 Beatrice Hawley Award, 1994 Capricorn Poetry Award). His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories, and Best American Essays 2000. Awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the FAWC, and the Fulbright and Rockefeller foundations. He currently teaches at American University, and serves on the Board of Directors of the PEN Faulkner Foundation and is Member of the Corporation of Yaddo.

STUDENT OPEN STUDIOS AND READING
Thursday, August 19, Open Studios at 6:15, Reading at 7pm

SPECIAL EVENT: 34TH ANNUAL FAWC AUCTION
Saturday, August 21, (at new time) 4:30-8:30pm
(see special events for more information)

EXHIBITION: AMY CASEY, 2010 OHIO ARTS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENT
Opening Friday, August 27
Exhibition Dates: August 23-31, 6-8pm