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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
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