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and to exhibit art that would allow for unification
within the community.” The current collection
includes more than 4,000 works by more than
900 artists—a significant historical record of
the arts of this area. The Fine Arts Work Center
is also going strong. Founded in 1968 by a group
including painter and printmaker Robert
Motherwell and Stanley Kunitz, who became the
10th US Poet Laureate, it has provided fellowships
for some 1,000 artists and writers.
The roll call of creatives who have lived or
passed through Provincetown is impressively
long. It includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de
Kooning, Mark Rothko, Max Ernst, Lee Krasner,
and Helen Frankenthaler. And let’s not forget
the writers, including EE Cummings, Norman
Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, and Jack
Kerouac, who penned a portion of On The Road
here. Stroll down Commercial Street today and
you may spot Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael
Cunningham, author of The Hours and Land’s
End: A Walk in Provincetown , and Angels in
Previous page: A stretch of coastline America playwright Tony Kushner, or writer-director Ryan Murphy of
in Provincetown, Massachusetts. American Horror Story fame. Summer 2024 will be irreverent filmmaker,
Left: Since portraitist Charles Hawthorne artist, and writer John Water’s 60th in P-Town—in 2023, he hosted Soiree at
visited in the summer of 1916, Provincetown the Sewer, a private benefit dinner for the Provincetown Film Society. MSNBC
has become a creative haven. It is considered
the US’ oldest continuous artist colony. anchor Rachel Maddow and her partner, the photographer Susan Mikula, have
a home here, as do many more in the fields of design and architecture.
Above: Commercial Street, the town’s
main road, is a treasure trove of world-class Ken Fulk is one of them. The interior and event designer, who has
boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, cafes, been featured on Architectural Digest ’s AD100 and the ELLE Decor A-List,
and B&Bs
has visited Provincetown for more than three decades. While based in
San Francisco, Fulk says he spends more time here than anywhere else,
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