OTHER PROGRAMS
In addition to the renowned Winter Fellowship
program, the Summer Workshop Program and the
MFA Program with Mass 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 recently inaugurated, and extends the
opportunity to live in Provincetown for up to three
years at below-market rents. Five new live/work
spaces at the Meadow 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 Chiquita Mullins Lee
and visual artist Danielle Rante for three months in
Summer 2007. Both residents shared their work with
the Work Center community; Chiquita read as part
of the FAWC Summer Reading Series, and Danielle
exhibited her drawings and installations 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
2007, the 2006 Maryland resident, Courtney Jordan,
exhibited her work. Liz Wade was the 2007 Maryland
College of Art resident.
For the past several years, Four Way Books has
sponsored one month-long residency each year for
poets published by the press. In 2007, Joel Brouwer,
author of Exactly What Happened and Centuries,
was in residence.
The Copley Society of Boston, also a long-time
collaboration partner, awarded a one-month
residency to mixed-media artist Tricia Burt in 2007.
The Gaea Foundation also works in collaboration with
FAWC, though its 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 Judith Baca, Maja Mamula, and
Paromita Vohra.
Lastly, FAWC has initiated a partnership with
schools on the Lower and Outer Cape Fellows in
the Schools. This evolving program will tap into the
knowledge, creativity and enthusiasm of the resident
Fellows by taking them to the schools to teach
sessions focusing on the visual arts and creative
writing. The start-up program was 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!
