PAUL BOWEN
Provincetown's busy harbor, the complex geometries of the houses and narrow streets, the wildness of the sand dunes and the amazing light have inspired artists here for well over a hundred years. In this class we will explore some of these sources for ourselves, working mostly on site with a variety of media both familiar and unusual. In addition to our own work we will take time to visit galleries and museums to see the many different ways that artists have seen and interpreted this environment. This class is open to both the experienced and the complete beginner. Please bring any materials with which you are interested in working.Biography
Born in Wales, Paul Bowen first came to the U.S. as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore in 1972. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1977-79, he has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the Welsh Arts Council. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums both here and abroad, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2007 he was the recipient of an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant; he received his second Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant this past year. He currently teaches sculpture and drawing at Dartmouth College, and is represented by Albert Merola in Provincetown.
Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
Stephanie Sassoon
Sandra Anton
Dermot Meagher
Jane Manley
Flannery McDonnell
Michele Millon
MICRO, NANO, SUDDEN, FLASH: WRITING THE VERY SHORT STORY
PAMELA PAINTER
Come with several very short stories, or come empty-handed, but do come ready to write new stories. This workshop will focus on the short short story form —stories that range from three sentences to 500 words and have a tiny narrative arc. We will be writing a “list story” and a “one-sentence story” among others, and will often use a story from Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction or Flash Fiction Forward as a model. We will also learn how to create our own “exercises” for writing the next twenty very short stories after this class is over. Everyone will leave this workshop with new and publishable very short stories. Biography
Pamela Painter’s most recent book is Wouldn’t You Like to Know (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) a collection of “very short stories.” She is also the author of the prize-winning story collection, Getting to Know the Weather, The Long and Short of It, and co-author of the textbook What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, Five Points, Blip, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Matter, among others and in numerous anthologies, such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, and MicroFiction. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter teaches in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College.
Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
Erika Gully-Santiago
Madeleine Veninger
Ben Sherry
Eileen Hennessy
OFF THE WALL: EXPLORING SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION
LINDA BOND
The light, landscape, and unique culture of Provincetown have inspired artists for over a century. Working in this tradition we will draw upon our surroundings to develop unique site-specific works. Beginning with early experimentations in the 1960’s, installation art has evolved into a more common form of visual expression. From very simple to very complex, the installation project has limitless possibilities. Any type of material can be incorporated including things bought or found, natural or man-made. Traditional forms of paintings and drawing, cut paper and sculpture, photography and video can be utilized.We will begin the week by experiencing our local surroundings in group field trips where we paint, draw, note-take and collect. On your own you can continue this discovery by further exploring specific interests. As ideas develop with the help of our class discussions, participants will begin to translate personal impressions into multimedia expressions. Using our studio or other available inside or outdoor space, individuals will incorporate a variety of materials and processes to create work that expands beyond the limit of an isolated object. Open to all levels; just come with an open mind, creative energy and enthusiasm for an exciting and fun week.
Biography
Linda Bond is a former Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center and is the recipient of grants from the Artists Resource Trust, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities & Public Policy, and from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her recent shows include those at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Simmons College, and Available Potential Enterprises. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Brattleboro Museum, the Art Complex Museum, the Fitchburg Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery and is in numerous collections including those of Boston University, Simmons College, IBM, Nokia and Fidelity Investments. In Provincetown she is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery. Linda taught at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston for fifteen years and is a mentor for the low residency MFAWC MFA program. Currently she is working on a large-scale installation project as a Visiting Scholar at The Women’s research Study Center at Brandeis University.
Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
REVISING AND GENERATING NEW WORK: A POETRY WORKSHOPMARTHA RHODES
In this workshop, we'll examine the choices you’ve made for your poems in terms of imagery, vocabulary, line breaks, and overall structure. We’ll note how these choices, these CRAFT decisions, impact your work and how you can move forward with your poems and also generate new work from the poems you've brought in to discuss. To help us with the discussion of your own poems, we'll look at other poets' work at the beginning of each session to see how their choices brought about layered, multi-dimensional poems of psychological complication. Handouts will be provided, along with several optional overnight "assignments," and, if time permits, opportunity for in-class writing. This is a good workshop for those who really want to work on revision, and generate new work during the week.
Please bring 5 poems to be workshop'd. We may not get to all 5 poems -- it will depend on the size of the workshop-- but this way, you can have enough material. You can make copies at the Work Center (for a small fee per copy) or call in advance to see how many you will need. Include me in your count. You should also come prepared to do some writing in class -- again, how much will depend on the size of the workshop. So, come with writing utensils -- laptop, or pad and pen.
Biography
Martha Rhodes is the author of four poetry collections: The Beds (2012), Mother Quiet (2004), Perfect Disappearance (Green Rose Prize, 2000), At the Gate (1995). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and is also a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books in NYC.
Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
Kathryn Nelson
Jane Benson Ackerman
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Rebecca Foust
Jeff Perkins
THINKING LIKE A POET, WRITING NEW POEMS
GAIL MAZUR
In this workshop, we will read and write poems, and explore the ways thinking like a poet encourages surprise and excitement in a poem. Discussion of workshop poems read aloud, discussion of favorite poems that participants and I bring to the table, will raise issues of formal, emotional and intellectual possibilities for thinking like a poet. Let us have an inspiring and generous week of work!
Biography
Gail Mazur has published six collections of poems, most recently Figures in a Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Emerson College graduate writing program and was the 2009 Radcliffe Institute Fellow in Poetry. Founding director of the Blacksmith House Poetry reading series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an advisory editor at Agni and Ploughshares, her books have been honored with the Massachusetts Book Prize in Poetry and as finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize. She is a member of FAWC’s Writing Committee.
Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
Carla Schwartz
Susan Rand Brown
Peggy Prescott
Natalie Vacirca
Devi Lockwood
Rebeka Remington
Sharon O'Brien
WOODBLOCK WORKSHOP: CREATING A PORTFOLIO OF PRINTS
DANIEL HEYMAN
Ever create one print and wish that you had created 2 or 3 or 4? A suite of images can mean so much more than a single image, and making a series of images allows an artist to explore visual ideas in a deeply satisfying way. Students in this course will produce not one print, but a portfolio of prints using common woodblock techniques. Instruction will be tailored to the needs of the class, but all relief techniques will be open for exploration. Students can make a suite of single color prints, multiple colors and/or multiple block prints, or a suite that has some of each. This will be an intense workshop for students with some printmaking experience, and students will be pushed to edition at least 5 prints on the same visual theme, all the same size. If you have ever thought that you really want to explore a subject in more ways than one, this is the course for you.Demonstrations will include carving techniques, working with wood grain, hand printing, printing on etching and lithography presses, single layer and multiple layered images. Discussion of kinds of relief surfaces, paper choices, and all other aspects of relief will be up for discussion.
Biography
Daniel Heyman is a painter and printmaker. His work has been widely exhibited including at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the New York Public Library. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Heyman’s work has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Art in America, The Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune. His work is represented in the collections of numerous museums including the Getty Research Institute, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery and many other institutions. A graduate of Dartmouth College (AB 1985) and the University of Pennsylvania (MFA 1991), Heyman currently teaches at Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, University of the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Daniel Heyman is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, Rhode Island, and Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.
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WRITING INTO THE SILENCE
CYNTHIA HUNTINGTON
Silence precedes, surrounds, and follows speech. In the space between objects, thoughts, and breaths is the silence from which everything arises. No matter how much we are filled with noise, silence is always present. Empty of sound, it is at the same time filled with presence and possibility. When we go toward this silence our thoughts widen and relax and our efforts can open into exploration.This is a generative workshop; exercises, readings and optional take-home assignments suited to both poetry and prose forms will help us learn to move deeper into the work we are already doing and stretch beyond self-imposed limits. We will write daily and prolifically, and share what we’ve written with generous curiosity. Open to all, from beginners to advanced writers looking for new directions; you will need to bring a notebook and an open mind. Please come ready to write!
Biography
Cynthia Huntington's latest poetry collection, Heavenly Bodies, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award in Poetry. She is the author of four books of poetry, including The Radiant, winner of the Levis Prize, The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach, as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. Professor of English at Dartmouth College, she lives in Vermont.Students in this class (click on a name to see an example of their work):
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