A weeklong course dedicated to cultivating the art of being present in a journey through the specific world of Provincetown’s dunes, forest and beaches, bringing together the arts of writing and drawing in response to the natural world.

Maybe you’ve been writing fiction and could use some guidance – tips on plot, advice about dialogue, thoughts on how best to begin a narrative. This workshop will get you started on promising new material. One-on-one conferences will be an opportunity to discuss individual strengths and areas in need of strengthening, etc.

Create unique monotypes, using both positive techniques and reductive techniques. We will use a variety of substrates, and will also explore monoprints, where a matrix can be reused (such as linoleum or woodcut) to make a varied edition.

A good picture story sets the scene, introduces the characters, evokes a mood, and shows the action with all of its great or terrible consequences. In this workshop each student will make a short series of photographs about someone nearby.

This weeklong session is intended for people with an active studio life as well as those who are trying to be more consistent with their own art-making practice. You will be provided with ample studio space to immerse yourself fully in your work while in the company of other artists. Instructor will provide one-on-one feedback and mentoring, and group critiques will add to the conversation.

The focus of this workshop will be on revision: how can we acquire the tools we need to revise our poems on our own? Participants will learn how to strengthen and hone their revision skills which will — systematically and in depth — address all the elements of a poem.

Artists have been drawing Provincetown’s waterfront for over a hundred years. In this class, we’ll learn about some of those artists, and discover for ourselves the influences that moved them.

Each day we will read and discuss poems that focus on a particular theme. In-class writing exercises will explore the theme of the day and focus on craft and on generating new poems. There will be short reading assignments and optional writing assignments.

The discussion of stories will be comprehensive: from the seemingly small questions of punctuation and word choice to larger concerns such as narrative voice, character and structure. We’ll also discuss the role of mystery and wonder in fiction, and how to cultivate these qualities in our own work.

This is a class in poetry writing for those who wish to improve their craft as poets while broadening their knowledge of lyric poetry. It will include daily exercises in lyric genres. Poems by students will be discussed in the usual "workshop" format with particular attention to the process of revision.

Through the reading of published poems and the writing of daily exercises, we will try to get beyond the predictable subject-verb-object sentence, and in the process explore ways in which syntax and prosody—sentence and line—work together to create complex poetic textures.

Each day of this class provides innovative exercises and assignments to help you hone your seeing skills, ignite your creativity and inspire you to think differently. You will use your camera daily, and will also complete simple, intuitive writing exercises to help refine your vision and your personal shooting style. Each student will also receive individualized time with the instructor to review previous work and/or discuss potential future projects.

The first book of a poet tells us so much about the experience of the writer, but it also reveals the influences the poet chose to make it. We will spend our week examining the various routes other poets have taken in putting their manuscripts together, as well as writing and re-writing what you bring.

Stop-motion animation blends the visual arts, narrative form, and filmmaking. We’ll explore this exciting medium in which inanimate objects, drawings, or even bodies are moved little by little to tell a story, and make our own personal animations using digital cameras and laptops.

This class will explore the many exciting possibilities we have when creating narrative inventions of a first-person voice to tell stories from real life, from a distinctly personal lens.

Robert Frost said "poems are about what you don't mean as well as what you do mean." In our week together we’ll examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in our poems -- either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious, or simply circling around what is unsaid, unknown, unrealized.

In this workshop, we will write in response to five assignments that seem to be particularly generative of new work, all the while building a poet's notebook inspired by Odysseas Elytis and others.

Participants will present poems-in-progress for supportive, frank, detailed mutual critique. We’ll consider big changes and little ones. Poets who like to put as much real world as possible, in all its texture and surprise, into their poems, may especially value this workshop.

In this workshop we’ll look at how sounds and cadences and the internal formal stresses of language make poems dynamic musical bodies rather than merely static texts. We’ll learn to notice these qualities in model poems and then examine our own poetry, looking for similar effects.

When different personalities mingle and collide, the consequences blossom into drama and only when they are fully and deeply realized by the writer can the drama become genuinely compelling. We will discuss and revise your work-in-progress with an emphasis on character development as a way to strengthen narrative. Rigorous revision is essential.

Complete a first draft of a one-act play, or the first act of a full-length play. In this workshop we will be doing intensive in-class writing exercises exploring character, structure, plot, rhythm and tone, as well as workshopping an assigned number of pages each day.

This workshop is for writers who are interested in exploring classic forms from Japan in order to open up new possibilities for exploring one's raw material as well as expanding one's notion of what form and structure are.

This process combines aspects of collograph, aquatint, and drypoint techniques. Carborundum grits are mixed with adhesive and applied to a surface often in a very painterly manner; the plates may also be incised. Students will work with both single and multiple plate images, in b/w as well as layered color. Plates will be inked, wiped, and printed in the intaglio (etching) method.

This class will immerse students in the natural world of the Outer Cape, help them hone their digital photography skills and introduce them to creating a photo blog. Guided walks with a naturalist at the 1100-acre Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary will be followed by instruction in a classroom setting.

Selina Trieff and Robert Henry will be sharing their insights into the teaching of Hans Hofmann. As in the Hofmann school itself, both drawing and painting will be utilized to further an understanding of the plastic components of pictorial art.

This etching course will show you ways to experiment with both additive techniques and subtractive work to get texture and rich tonality in your prints.

Memoir asks more from us than a journal’s faithful account of remarks and chronologies. This workshop is designed to break through the neatly factual surface of our day-to-day story. We’ll do exercises to explore what lies at the heart of our individual searches and discuss ways to draw the pieces together.

In this course students will come face-to-face with their subject matter first, and worry about mastering printmaking techniques second. We will draw from models and carve wood planks to make woodblock prints. Students will be introduced to a variety of block printing techniques that they can then choose from to develop their own images.

During this intensive one-week workshop we will examine the many forms, ideas and histories within photographic portraiture. Many of us have long-standing notions regarding what exactly a portrait is; participants should question preconceived ideas around the subjects they choose, moments represented and even the environments in which their images occur.

Writing begins in the concrete sights, smells, sounds, textures and tastes of the physical world. Our 20-hour week will focus on how we take all those glimmers, those hunks of the physical world that arrested our individual attention, and remake them in language. We’ll address structure, narrative tension, voice, point of view, dialogue, beginnings and endings.

This workshop is intended to help the student develop their intuitive visual process through exercises, assignments and discussions. Process is emphasized over the product, playfulness is encouraged, and mistakes are pathways to discovery.

A great painting draws its power from a place beyond words. Like dreams, visual art can destabilize how we see “reality” by showing us that we are constantly creating labels to fix things in place that cannot be fixed. This class will explore these ideas through the lens of (primarily) figurative painting.

Think of your favorite poem, one that is committed to memory. This generative workshop takes as its inspiration those poems that we carry within us. We’ll write and revise poems with an attempt to increase their music and emotional power, so that they strike us as sacred and memorable.

This workshop will explore strategies for working with the surprising and challenging medium of watercolor through progressive exercises and projects that focus on increasing one’s awareness of color and value relationships.

In this weeklong workshop, we will be working to create artworks that combine nature-based imagery and abstraction using rice paper, mixed media and water-based paints. Observations from nature will be combined with abstract elements to develop ideas and compositions.

The goal of this workshop is to be specific about the appearance of objects in relation to each other, using a minimum of information. Participants will reduce images to their simplest terms while looking for the surprising and unexpected.

In this workshop, students will investigate images by combining photos, artwork and collage on transparent surfaces. The transparencies are then transferred onto pre-sensitized zinc plate, exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light table and developed at room temperature in a non-toxic water-based solution. Traditional and new etching techniques will be taught in conjunction with this process.

How do we know if a story from our own lives is worth writing— or worthy of reading? Is what we find most interesting about ourselves necessarily going to be interesting to a reader? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this weeklong seminar focusing on narrative, craft, and style in first person non-fiction writing.

Bring your plays-in-progress, or ideas for plays you haven't started. We'll fuse daily writing exercises: scene and monologue work with the mechanics of character, conflict and crisis. Come ready to experiment with form and to play.

Spend a fast-paced, fun week learning the basics of book binding beginning with simple structures and building daily on your skills. Through daily demonstrations and hands-on guided studio time, we'll progress quickly from easy, magical little structures made from a single sheet of paper to more elaborate, hardcover, multi-signature books.

The primary mission of this course is to teach precise techniques for photographing in the public domain unobtrusively and at close range – combining people, place, and moment in unique images.

How does the poet find the syllables and words, the sentence-sounds and cadences, and the pauses, silences, and various tones most needed by the poem being written? Our goal will be to write daily, and share those poems with a particular attention to the many ways in which each poem strives to make its own uniquely expressive music.

We’ll talk respectfully but honestly about one another’s short stories and novel excerpts—projects the author has struggled with for years or intriguing new starts—as we try to make each piece of fiction not just convincing and well written, but ambitious: as emotionally far-reaching as it can be.

Our challenge in this workshop is to push our poems as far as they can go and let our poems pull us, too. Participants should bring with them ten copies of at least two poems of theirs which they feel aren’t doing all they can do.

In this intensive workshop, prose writers of all levels will work toward the writing of life stories (fiction or memoir) that seem the hardest and most necessary to tell.

This course teaches various three-dimensional weaving techniques to be applied towards sculptural purposes. Through the use of traditional and non-traditional materials, students learn to use these techniques as a springboard to adapt, integrate, and explore their own sculptural interests and material choices.

Designed for students who have a grasp of painting fundamentals, this course will provide excellent opportunity to explore integrating matter and materials. Our goal is to create paintings conveying personal vision with emotional resonance.

This intensive weeklong class is designed to give the experienced printmaker the chance to work with a Master Printer to develop their creative methods. Students will work in etching, woodcut, or monoprint, or may combine media to create a hybrid project. A rigorous approach to mastering the details of technique will be emphasized.

This class will explore the dynamic realm of sequential art, and the ways that comics can produce powerful moments of frisson between words and images. Participants should have an idea for a graphic novel and preferably some existing notes, scripts, and/or art.

Our workshop will combine discussions and writing of first-person fiction and nonfiction in equal measure. Therefore, the distinctions between genres will hopefully be blurred, or at least reconsidered. Each participant will be expected to complete a set of assignments.

During the week, artists invited by the Work Center will be creating works for the annual FAWC Auction Monoprint Project. Three spaces will be opened in the print shop to experienced printers to work alongside these artists on their own independent projects.

Come with several very short stories, or come empty-handed, but do come ready to write new stories. This workshop will focus on the short short story form -- stories that range from three sentences to 500 words and have a tiny narrative arc.

This week-long poetry intensive will be a generative workshop. Students will write daily, trying to push against and through their preconceptions of the poems they write. A chance to play with shaping, revising, making new poems.

Each workshop member must be interested in bringing together a body of work, a group of poems. The workshop will be collaborative -- we will spend class time working together to look at up to 15 pages of each members' poems. This course is for advanced writers.

How much can you achieve by reworking a paragraph, a sentence, a burst of dialogue? We will read and discuss our work, considering each author's intentions and how he or she might best reach them.

We will look at the elements in the poems we write that are as solid as rock, and at those elements that are not, and will pinpoint where real lyricism abides, which is somewhere between these elements.

Poets have always learned their trade by imitating other poets. They have pursued their individual talent by absorbing, assimilating and in some cases subverting the lessons of the traditions they inherit. In this class, we will read and imitate several poets, attending to each poet’s stylistic and formal idiosyncrasies.

Whether you're bringing in pages of a memoir-in-progress or a work of fiction, we will approach the page with an eye towards structure, character, voice, place, detail. This will be a week in which we read closely the work of our fellow participants, and find the tenacity and take-no-prisoners courage to do our finest work.

Artists through the centuries have painted the figure to more fully understand the human form and to use it to communicate broader ideas. In this advanced workshop, we'll paint from life, using a model to explore color, value, composition, mark-making, and paint-handling.

This course will provide a means of rediscovering and reconnecting with the initial impulse and intensity that led to the desire to engage through drawing, with being in the world. Through explorative drawing processes your personal practice will be extended and enriched.

This intensive weeklong class is designed to give the experienced artist the chance to work with a Master Printer to develop their creative methods.

The experimental and sometimes accidental nature of monoprint creates the perfect laboratory for artistic growth/change. This workshop will facilitate a series of prints on paper and fabric, combining a variety of approaches. Demonstrations will include basic techniques with brayers and brushes, and the use of other printmaking methods.

This course will focus on writing essays and short stories that emanate from personal experience, as a means of exploring and illuminating greater social issues: religion, class, race, family, work, sexuality, illness, health, cultural identity and conflict.

This "art making" workshop will revolve around the Solarplate Process and will require established printmakers to have a good background with both the processing and printing of Solarplates.

This intensive workshop for fiction and memoir writers will focus on the challenge of finding the story and telling it in the most frank, compelling way possible. We will look at different techniques used by writers, and work from prompts suggested by our own lives and experiences.

This workshop will focus on writing realistic fiction. We’ll discuss some writing techniques for picture books, middle-grade fiction and young adult novels -- then spend time writing, workshopping and revising.

This workshop is for individuals who wish to deepen their practice and dialogue with their work. We will utilize the figure in an ever-changing environment of structure and time-sequences. Exercises will push participants to expand their visual thinking.