OTHER PROGRAMS
In addition to the renowned Winter Fellowship program, the Summer Workshop Program and the MFA Program with Massachusetts College of Art, FAWC also runs a number of other programs and residencies. The popular Returning Residency Program encourages former Fellows to return to Provincetown by offering apartments and studios at discount rates during a number of weeks in the Spring and Fall. This is a great opportunity for former Fellows to escape energy-sapping routines, re-charge their creative batteries, and once again live and work surrounded by other artists and writers. All Returning Residencies are offered on a first-come, first-served basis, and are subject to space and time availability.
The Long-Term Residency Program for former Fellows was implemented six years ago, and extends the opportunity to live in Provincetown for up to three years at below-market rents. Five new live/work spaces at the Meadows Road development on Bradford Street will be offered to former Fellows (for up to three years) who meet the affordable rental guidelines; each unit is approximately 1,000-square feet with separate studio space. Contact FAWC for more information and application materials.
In collaboration with other arts organizations around the country and abroad, The Fine Arts Work Center hosts one- to three-month Collaborative Residencies in the summer and fall. Writers and/or visual artists are selected on the merit of their work by the collaborating organization. Apartments, studio space, and stipends are sponsored by the collaborating organization; the Work Center provides the 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.
The Ohio Arts Council, a collaborative residency partner since 1994, sent writer Rachel Moulton and painter Laura Sanders for three months in Summer 2006. Both residents shared their work with the Work Center community; Rachel read as part of the FAWC Summer Reading Series, and Laura exhibited her paintings, inspired by her stay in Provincetown, in a solo show in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery.
The Maryland Institute, College of Art sends one visual artist each year for a two-month period. Maryland residents traditionally open the Hudson D. Walker Gallery season with a spring show. In May 2006, the 2005 Maryland resident, Rene Trevino, exhibited his work. Courtney Jordan was the 2006 resident.
For the past several years, Four Way Books has sponsored one month-long residency for poets published by the press. In 2006, Gary Lilley, author of The Subsequent Blues, was in-residence from May 15June 11.
The Copley Society of Boston, also a long-time collaboration partner, awarded a one-month residency to painter Jason Brockert in 2006.
Olga Florensky, a visual artist from St. Petersburg, Russia, was in-residence at the FAWC for five weeks in the fall of 2006 as a CEC/Artslink Fellow, in partnership with the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund.
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: Shalini Kantayya, Favianna Rodriguez and Lenelle Moise.
Lastly, FAWC has initiated a partnership with schools in the Lower and Outer Cape: Fellows in the Schools Program. This evolving program will tap into the knowledge, creativity and enthusiasm of the resident Fellows as they teach sessions focusing on the visual arts and creative writing in the local schools. The start-up program is supported by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and BJ's Charitable Foundation. You can help sustain this program with your gift to the Annual Fund! ??
