About the Organization: The Fine Arts Work Center is an artist-led organization based in Provincetown and connected to the world. We support artistic freedom, nurture creative connections, and make possible artistic achievements important to the larger culture.
The Work Center is internationally known for an acclaimed seven-month residency program granting fellowships to 20 emerging writers and artists, as well as an open enrollment Summer Workshop Program, an online writing program 24PearlStreet, and an extensive series of year-round cultural events and exhibitions.
Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world. Each year, the Work Center offers 20 seven-month residencies to a jury-selected group of emerging visual artists, fiction writers, and poets. Residencies run from October 1 through April 30.
The Fine Arts Work Center has hosted over 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The Work Center’s Fellows, who arrive in Provincetown as emerging and mostly unknown writers and artists, have gone on to win multiple Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Prix de Rome scholarships, Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Visual artists have presented their work at the Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, The New Museum, MASS MoCA, Friends of the High Line, and many other venues around the world.
The Fine Arts Work Center also presents an open enrollment Summer Workshop Program, an online writing program entitled 24PearlStreet, and an extensive series of year-round cultural events and exhibitions, which take place in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with people from systematically marginalized communities.
- Knowledge of and experience with diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and anti-racism practices.
- Well-versed in cultural humility in order to interact with a wide range of individuals, including staff, faculty, and students.
- Experience in peer support, crisis management, and conflict resolution.
- Strong administrative abilities and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong written communication skills and proficiency with public presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on concurrent projects.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse individuals in a team-oriented environment.
Please use the online application form to submit a cover letter and resume with a summary of demonstrable accomplishments. If you have any questions, please email David Simpson, Programs Director, at dsimpson@fawc.org. Please use the subject line, “2024 Culture and Belonging Specialist.”