The former Fellows heard an update on the Work Center's current programs and plans from Executive Director Hunter O'Hanian following a luncheon on Saturday with FAWC Board members and current Fellows. They also had the opportunity to tour the new affordable housing units at Meadows Road that the Work Center is offering to income-eligible artists and writers in partnership with developer Ted Malone and Community Housing Resource, Inc.
"The reunion is a wonderful opportunity for these former Fellows, many of whom have not spent time at the Work Center since their residencies, to connect with each other and with FAWC staff and Board members, as well as with the incoming Fellows," said Hunter O'Hanian.
Efforts to plan and organize the Reunion were led by former Fellows Cynthia Huntington (Writing Fellow 1978-79, 1982-83) and Richard McCann (Writing Fellow 1972-73, 1993-94), who served as Reunion Committee Co-Chairs. Richard McCann is also a member of the FAWC Board of Trustees. The Reunion Committee hopes to establish a bi-annual tradition that reconnects Fellows with Provincetown and the memory of the creative experience they shared during their time at the Work Center.
FAWC welcomed its 39th group of new Fellows to Provincetown just days prior to the reunion. The twenty visual artists and writers, who hail from around the world, will spend the next seven months living and working at FAWC. The Fellowship program, which is designed to encourage the artistic growth of emerging writers and artists, has awarded more than 700 Fellowships since it was founded in 1968.
