The Center offers a one-month residency for recognized poets and fiction writers aged 50 and older. Through the encouragement provided by the award, by fellow fellows, and by visiting critics, I made a lifelong commitment to making and teaching art. My experience at the Center shaped a vision of providing quality mentorship that has guided me for decades. The Work Center is one of those rare places on the globe that allows you to stop the world and then restart it, knowing the way you want to go. The Fine Arts Work Center is a nonprofit organization actively soliciting contributions from concerned individuals and organizations to support its programs.
All donations are tax-deductible.
For more than a hundred years, artists and writers have found the atmosphere of Provincetown particularly inviting. In 1968, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown was founded by a group of artists, writers, and patrons including Fritz Bultman, Alan Dugan, Stanley Kunitz, Phil Malicoat, Robert Motherwell, Myron Stout, Jack Tworkov and Hudson D. Walker. They believed that the freedom to pursue creative work within a community of peers was the best catalyst for artistic growth, and the Work Center has dedicated itself to this goal for almost thirty years. In 1972, the Work Center acquired the Days Lumberyard property on Pearl Street as its permanent home. The grounds of the lumberyard had long been a haven for artists, offering studio space since 1914.