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The Fine Arts Work Center

June 20, 2008

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A portion of the Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown was founded in 1968 by a group of artists, writers and patrons, including Fritz Bultman, Salvatore and Josephine Del Deo, Alan Dugan, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Motherwell, Myron Stout, Jack Tworkov, and Hudson D. Walker. The founders wanted to preserve the place of the arts in P-town by nurturing a new generation of young artists and writers. FAWC offers fellowships to ten visual artists and ten writers each year, who spend seven winter months at the Center doing the work they choose. 

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FAWC Summer Program office
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The Motherwell press
FAWC's summer program of weeklong workshops in writing and visual arts are taught by some of the most accomplished and generous artists in their fields. Students are serious and a pleasure to work with and learn from. I love FAWC - I've worked independently in the printshop on a press once owned by Robert Motherwell, and taken various workshops for almost 10 years.
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Ellyn's nerve cells
This week I did a workshop in drypoint, a printmaking technique involving drawing into a metal of plexiglass plate with very sharp tools - no acid involved. It was taught by the lovely and very talented Betsy Garand, a professor at Amherst College.  We did small work, which has the great advantage of being easily portable and, since we were digging into metal, a little easier on the hands and arms. I did a small series based on images of nerve cells, which I plan to continue through the summer.

 
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