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 $650/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, it costs over $30,000 per Fellow, or over $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.
Contributions may be sent by check or donated online by credit card.
ENDOWED FELLOPSHIPS AND NAMED SPACES
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.
Named Spaces
Louise Walker Davy Studio
James Hansen Studio
Hans Hofmann Studio Level
Robert Farber Studio
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Michael Mazur Printmaking Studio
David Shainberg Studio
Jack Tworkov Studio
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Endowed Fellowships
Visual Arts
Elise Asher
Milton and Sally Avery
Louise Bourgeois
Richard Florsheim
Robert C. Graham
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
"[The] David Shainberg Endowed Fellowship provided me what is most important and necessary for my artistic career at this stage...solitude... support and freedom by this fellowship have given me a great deal of encouragement and hope to pursue my work.... Thank you again for making this incredible opportunity possible.You can participate by joining those who have endowed individual fellowships or named spaces at FAWC."
"I am writing to thank you and the ... Foundation for funding my Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center this winter. Prior to coming to Provincetown, I had been working full-time as a secretary, which left little time for me to full-out pursue my career in poetry...."
"The value of this Fellowship to me cannot be measured ..... I felt free to write things without the pressure to finish them quickly.... Thank you for your continued interest in the Work Center, for your generous contribution, and for your commitment to emerging writers and artists."
