Michael Cunningham on the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown MA
Former Fellow Michael Cunningham addresses the Fine Arts Work Center's New York City benefit at Galerie Lelong on Oct 4th 2011.
Former FAWC Visual Arts Fellows Janelle Iglesias and Sarah Oppenheimer Receive Prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants. ...Read More
Fine Arts Work Center fellows in Provincetown ready for creative stretch
PROVINCETOWN, NOV 5, 2011—The late poet Alan Dugan once said that the two most important words to describe the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown are “work” and “Provincetown.” This year’s group of 20 fellows that settled in at 24 Pearl St. on Oct. 1 for their seven-month residency prove his thesis. Selected out of a highly competitive field from all over the world, these emerging writers and visual artists bring talent, creative energy and intense motivation to ply their craft in this remote fishing village many had never even visited before.
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Fine Arts Work Center fellows gear up for first show in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN, OCT 27, 2011—Hitting the ground running, the 2011 visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center, who arrived here for the seven-month program only a few weeks ago, are gearing up for their first group show.
The 10 artists will present an initial look at their wide-ranging work at an exhibition that opens Friday and runs through Nov. 8. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, located at the Work Center on 24 Pearl St.
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Former FAWC Fellows Bruce Smith and Yusef Komunyakaa, and Writing Committee Member Carl Phillips are named National Book Award Finalists in Poetry
Bruce Smith Devotions
University of Chicago Press
In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG.
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Yusef Komunyakaa The Chameleon Couch
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The latest collection from one of our preeminent poets, The Chameleon Couch is also one of Yusef Komunyakaa's most personal to date. As in his breakthrough work, Copacetic, Komunyakaa writes again of music as muse—from a blues club in the East Village to the shakuhachi of Basho.
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Carl Phillips Double Shadow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Carl Phillips is the author of ten previous books of poems, three of which were Finalists for the National Book Award: Speak Low (2009), The Rest of Love (2004), and From the Devotions (1998). His other volumes include Rock Harbor (2002) and The Tether (2001), which was awarded the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize; Pastoral (2000); Cortège (1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and In the Blood (1992).
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