Other Programs
Returning Residency Program
For the past five years, the Returning Residency Program has been one of the most popular Work Center programs. All former Fellows and those who have received residencies through other Work Center-related programs are eligible to participate. The program offers the opportunity to return to FAWC in May and September for a small residency fee, an attractive option for those who love Provincetown but have difficulty with the high rental costs. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the program this past Fall and again in Spring 2005 due to the construction
project. We have every hope that the program will be reinstated in September 2005, and will send information on the status of the program to all former Fellows and residents. The program will run concurrently with the new MFA program as the MFA students will be housed off-site, using only the FAWC studios and common areas. All Returning Residencies are offered on a first-come, first-served basis, and are subject to space and time availability.
Long-Term Residency
program
This program was implemented six years ago, and offers
former Fellows the opportunity to live in Provincetown in one of the Brewster Street units for up to three years at below-market rents. Presently the Brewster Street apartments provide affordable housing for the two fellowship coordinators and two other members of the FAWC staff. Beginning in May 2005, the Long-term Residency Program will move to the five new live/work spaces FAWC will own at the Meadows Road development on Bradford Street in Provincetown. We expect to take possession of two units in May 2005 and three more units in November 2005. These rentals will be offered to former Fellows (for up to three years) who meet the affordable rental guidelines; eligibility requirements dictate that single persons cannot earn more than $28,000 per year. Projected rents will be approximately $575 for one-bedroom units and $675 for two-bedroom units. Each unit will be approximately 1,000-square feet with separate studio space.
Collaborative Residencies
The Fine Arts Work Center, in collaboration with other arts organizations around the country and abroad, hosts one-to-three-month residencies in the summer and fall. Writers and visual artists are selected on the merit of their work by the collaborating organization. Apartments, with studio space for visual artists, are sponsored by the collaborating organization, which
usually also provides the resident with a stipend to offset personal expenses. The Work Center provides time and space in which to work, and, perhaps most importantly, a community of like-minded peers with whom to share and discuss ideas, the very essence of collaboration. Collaborative residents are also given the opportunity to participate in the Summer Program workshops; each resident is invited to select two workshops at no cost. Residency recipients have described their time at the Work Center as invaluable, citing as benefits of the program great artistic growth, unencumbered hours to focus on work, creative inspiration and encouragement from a community of kindred spirits, and a sense of validation.
The Ohio Arts Council has been working in collaboration with the Fine Arts Work Center since 1994. This past summer they sent poet Katie Daley and visual artist Julie Friedman to live and work at FAWC for three months. The OAC residents are invited to share their work with the Work Center community; this past summer Katie gave a dynamic and spirited reading and Julie had a solo show in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery of prints, drawings and book arts she completed while at the Work Center.
The Maryland Institute, College of Art has participated in the Collaborative Residency program for a number of years as well, sending one visual artist each year for a two-month period.
Maryland residents traditionally lead the Hudson D. Walker Gallery summer schedule; this past summer, the gallery season opened with 2003 Maryland Fellow Ormond White’s exhibition Jesus is the Son of God. Desmond Beach was the 2004 Maryland Fellow; his constructions and installation pieces will be shown in May 2005.
The Copley Society of Boston awards one month-long residency in the Fall. In 2003, Suzanne Ulrich was in residence at the Work Center.
The Gaea Foundation also works in collaboration with FAWC, though their residents live off-site in a cottage on Commercial Street. Artists, writers, musicians and performers, usually with a political or activist bent, are given one-to-two-month residencies and a stipend to live and work in Provincetown. Recent Gaea Fellows include: Lê Thi Diem Thuy, Tchaiko Omawale, Rita Thapa, Gaye Chan, Prema Murthy, Heather White, Dread Scott, and Lauren Camp.
Other organizations that have worked with the Fine Arts Work Center to provide residencies for artists and writers include: Four Way Books, the Providence Art Club, and the HISK Foundation from Belgium. The Phoenix Charitable Foundation of Boston, which sponsors residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center for Cuban artists, sent a group to Cuba to select a 2004 Phoenix Resident, but the artist chosen for the residency, Lázaro Saavedra, was unable to get a visa to travel to the US. A piece of his work, along with work by other Cuban artists, will be exhibited in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center in Summer 2005.
For more information about the Collaborative Residency Program, please contact Hunter O’Hanian at 508-487-9960, ext. 102.
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