Fine Arts Work Center
The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers and to sustaining the year-round vitality of the historic art community of Provincetown. Founded in 1968 by a group of artists, writers, and patrons including poet Stanley Kunitz, Robert Motherwell, Josephine and Salvatore Del Deo, and Hudson and Ione Walker, the Work Center has for five decades provided uninterrupted time and space to individuals of exceptional creative promise amid the unique natural beauty of the Outer Cape.
The Work Center is internationally known for its 7-month artist residency program, as well as its open enrollment Summer Workshop Program, the online writing program 24PearlStreet, and an extensive series of year-round cultural events and exhibitions. Past Fellows include current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, and poets Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Tyehimba Jess, and Yusef Komunyakaa, fiction writers Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Patchett, and artists Jennifer Packer, Elliott Hundley, and Lisa Yuskavage.
The TernSOLAR grant was awarded to Fine Arts Work Center in 2019 in support of their Solar Initiative, the first phase of a major capital campaign to do campus-wide renovations and foster environmental sustainability in the process by reducing their carbon footprint. TernSOLAR funds directly supported the installation of a 57.75 kW solar system on their main building which houses Fellows’ studios and apartments, a digital media lab, the Michael Mazur printmaking studio, a woodshop, and the Stanley Kunitz Common Room.
Grant Amount: $60,000
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The solar panels are helping us to be better stewards of our environment, while saving the Work Center over $20,000 each year.
— SHARON POLLI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR