Fall/Winter 2003/04 Readings & Events
All events are open to the public for a $5 suggested donation and held at 8pm in the Stanley Kunitz Common Room at
24 Pearl Street unless otherwise noted.
Our Winter events schedule is subject to change. We will do our best to keep the website updated, but if you have any questions, call 508-487-9960 or check local listings to verfy times & dates.
|
|
Friday, November 21, 6-8pm
All-town Invitational, Opening Reception, 6-8PM
Exhibition Dates: November 21, 2003 - January 2, 2004
The Fine Arts Work Center proudly presents the All-Town Invitaional.
Painting, drawing, and sculpture by members of the Wellfleet, Truro and
Provincetown art communities will be on view in the Hudson D. Walker
Gallery, 24 Pearl Street, Provincetown, from November 21, 2003 January 2,
2004. There will be an opening reception for the artists in the gallery on
Friday, November 21, from 6 - 8pm.
Friday, November 21, 8pm
Slide talk by visiting Artist Linda Besemer
LINDA BESEMER, a Los Angeles-based artist whose abstract relief paintings
have received international acclaim, will present a slide lecture in the
Stanley Kunitz Common Room at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown on
Friday, November 21, 2003. The lecture, which is free and open to the
public, will begin at 8p.m. The presentation is part of the Fine Arts Work
Center Visiting Artist Program.
Linda Besemer teaches courses in
painting, drawing, critical theory, and gender studies at
Occidental College. She holds a M.F.A. from the Tyler School
of Art in Philadelphia and a B.F.A. from Indiana University
in Bloomington. Besemers work has been widely exhibited,
notably at the 2000 "Biennial" exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, and the Frankfurt
International Art Fair. In 1999, she was the recipient of a
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Art in America
critic Michael Duncan has noted, "In her work, pattern,
color and painted form become a malleable, living process
that amazingly--seems ripe for further
experimentation."
|
Saturday, November 22, 8pm
Fiction writer Joanna Scott and Poet Katharine Whitcomb
JOANNA SCOTT's books include the novels Arrogance, The Manikin, Make Believe, and,
most recently, Tourmaline, and a collection of stories, Various Antidotes.
Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Award, a Guggenheim, and the
Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She's been
a finalist for the PEN-Faulkner, the LA Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Scott teaches at the University of Rochester. This is her first visit to the Work Center.
KATHARINE WHITCOMB is the author of Saints of South Dakota and Other Poems, and a chapbook, Hosannas. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Yale Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Paris Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. Honors and awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, The Nebraska Review award in Poetry, as well as two nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Whitcomb has been a Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, at Stanford's Wallace Stegner Program, and here at the Work Center. Currently she is teaching at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont.
|
|
Saturday, December 13, 8pm
Poet Frank Bidart and Fiction Writer George Saunders
FRANK BIDART is the author of 5 books of poetry, including In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90, Music Like Dirt, and Desire which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. Bidart was co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems with Frank Gewanter. Bidart has received the Academy's Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Award, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize. This year Bidart was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Wellesley College.
GEORGE SAUNDERS is the author of the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and Pastoralia. Both collections were named Notable Books by the New York Times. Saunders has won three national Magazine Awards for Fiction. The New Yorker, where many of his stories appear, named him to their list of Best 20 Fiction Writers Under 40. He is also a three-time finalist for the O. Henry Award. He has also authored a children's book The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. This will
be his first visit to the Work Center. .
|
Friday, January 9, 8pm
Visual Fellows Drawing Invitational opening 6-8PM
Exhibition Dates: November 22 through Thursday, January 2, 2003
A Group Exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and installation works curated
by the 2002 2003 Visual Arts Fellows at the Fine Arts Work Center will be
on view from Friday, November 22 through Thursday, January 2, 2003. There
will be an opening reception on Friday, November 22 from 6-8pm.
The 2002-2003 FAWC Visual Arts Fellows are pleased to take the opportunity
to introduce new work to the Provincetown arts community. They have invited
artists working in communities outside of Provincetown to exhibit artwork
in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery
|
|
Friday, January 16, 8pm
Visual Fellows opening at Provincetown Art Assoc. 6-9PM
A group show featuring works by 2003-2004 Visual Arts Fellows CARLA CASTRO, GEOFFREY CHADSEY, ANGELA DUFRESNE, CARLOS JACKSON, JOHN KNIGHT, VIET LE, PAMELA ROBERTSON-PEARCE, RACHEL SCHUDER, ANTHONY VITI, and BERNARD WILLIAMS.
|
Friday, January 23, 6-9pm
Erotica
An exhibition of erotic work by writing and visual fellows. Show will run through February 10, 2004.
|
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER LINKS:
FAWC News |
Winter Fellowship |
Summer Program |
Fall Program |
Other Programs
Events Calendar |
FAWC Annual Auction |
About FAWC |
Shankpainter |
Help Support FAWC
Contact FAWC |
FAWC Home |
FAWC Sitemap
|