The Fine Arts Work Center’s Fellowship Program for emerging artists and writers remains one of the only programs of its kind in the world. Each year ten visual artists and ten creative writers are selected through a rigorous jury selection process. These twenty Fellows are provided with efficiency apartments, working studios, and modest stipends, which are currently $750/month. Nothing is asked in return except that the Fellows stay in Provincetown and pursue their work.
By design, the Fellowship program generates no revenue; its single purpose is to provide, without charge, the time and space to allow emerging artists and writers to focus on their work. To run the program each year, it costs nearly $30,000 per Fellow, or approximately $600,000 per year.
Ways to give to the Fine Arts Work Center to keep the program alive include gifts for general operating support and donations to our endowment. While we work hard to raise funds through individual gifts, benefits, and foundation and corporate support, no program such as this can survive without a secure endowment. Our endowment is professionally managed by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank.
To learn more about endowment giving, planned giving, charitable remainder trusts or other tools to fund Work Center programs, please contact Executive Director Margaret Murphy.
Contributions may be sent by check or donated online by credit card.
ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS AND NAMED SPACES
Named Spaces
Louise Walker Davy Studio
James Hansen Studio
Hans Hofmann Studio Level
Gerrit Hondius Studio
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
Judith-Shahn - Alan Dugan Library
David Shainberg Studio
Jack Tworkov Studio
Lizzie Upham Studio
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Endowed Fellowships
Visual Arts
Elise Asher
Milton and Sally Avery
Louise Bourgeois
Richard Florsheim
Robert C. Graham
Christine Fairchild Magriel
Robert Motherwell
David Shainberg
Myron Stout
Kenneth Stubbs
George Rickey
Writing
Iva Kaplan Ashner
Bill Webb
Stanley Kunitz
Christine Magriel
Grace Paley
Alternating Writing and Visual Arts
Alan Dugan and Judith Shahn
Ione and Hudson Walker
"This place is enchanted—the air, the light, the peace of mind, the expansiveness of the day. My time here has been profoundly transformative, not only for my skills, but also for my understanding and value of myself as a writer. I return to the “real world” of deadlines and bills with a kind of secret – a place like this exists, and the fantasy of solitude and concentrated work is not a fantasy at all." – Boris Fishman, Writing Fellow 2010-11
"I’m leaving here with more than a few lifelong friends and a clearer sense of life’s goodness than I’ve ever felt before." – Andrew Meredith, Writing Fellow 2010-11
