AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from Franklin Furnace

The deadline for residencies is January 15, 2020.

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The Provincetown Community Compact is pleased to offer over sixty weeks of residencies in Fowler and C-Scape Dune Shacks from April to November, including several artist and writer residencies. The historic dune shacks are among the nineteen shacks located within Peaked Hill Bars National Register Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The shacks are primitive — no electricity or indoor plumbing — and isolated, allowing for uninterrupted solitude and refuge. The deadline is January 15, 2020.

Community residencies are open to all and are selected by lottery. There are three, three-week juried artist residencies, including the David Bethuel Jamieson Residency for emerging artists of color. In 2019 The Compact designated one of the three Dune Shack Artist Residencies for an emerging artist of color, named for the late David Bethuel Jamieson, an African-American artist who died of AIDS in 1992. The top recipient of the Dune Shack Artist residency and The David Bethuel Jamieson Residency include three funded weeks in the C-Scape Dune Shack and a $500 fellowship.

The core of the Fowler Cottage, as built by Stan and Laura Fowler c. 1949, is a 1-story, 3-room, side-gable frame structure supported by wood piers. A gabled bedroom addition was constructed during the 1950s. There is a functioning wood stove and a small addition with a composting toilet that was added in the 1980s. The C-Scape shack is a 1 1/2 story, three room structure that includes a studio and wood stove and an outhouse with a composting toilet. Both shacks have a propane cooking stove and a small refrigerator.

The Compact maintains and administers three different residencies in the shacks under an agreement with the National Park. The Seashore conducts an interpretive program with guided walking tours around the Peaked Hill Bars, which includes meeting with artists at C-Scape. The Park’s interpretive programs expose visitors to the experiences of the artist and the artist’s work.

Writers may also apply for one of two one-week residencies funded by The Compact. Writers are chosen by lottery.
In keeping with The Compact’s mission, it provides fully funded weeks for clients of the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod and Helping Our Women. These time slots are funded by the annual Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla – a benefit for AIDS, women’s health & the community. In addition to the artists and writers selected by The Compact, two weeks are set aside and partially funded for writing fellows of the Fine Arts Work Center. The Compact collaborates with the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and other organizations on the Cape to provide residencies in the shacks.

The Dune Shacks are an important part of Provincetown and woven into the fabric of the community.