DEV SITE 2025

Preserving Artistic Vitality
2025 Summer Awards Celebration
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum

Drone View of 2024 Summer Awards Celebration. Photo: Michael Blanchard.

Join Us for the Premier Summer Arts Event on Outer Cape Cod

The Fine Arts Work Center invites you to our annual Summer Awards Celebration on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at the iconic Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. This special evening honors our creative community while supporting the next generation of artists and writers.

Our 2025 Honorees
Celebrating Excellence in Arts and Letters

Join us as we honor three extraordinary contributors to the arts:

Photo: Elena Seibert

Jayne Anne Phillipsfor his achievements in the literary arts

American Novelist
2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow 1979-1980

Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena, for being champions of FAWC over the past decade

Collectors, Lovers, and Patrons of the Arts
Steven Corkin, Co-Chair of the Board of ICA Boston
Dan Maddalena, Former Publicist to Wes Craven

Jack Pierson, for his radical contributions to contemporary art

Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
Fine Arts Work Center Board of Trustee
Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow 1993-94
Work in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others

“Thank you to the Fine Arts Work Center for providing the essential time and space that allows such creative visions to bloom.”

– Lisa Melandri
Museum Director
2024 Presenter to Honoree Jacolby Satterwhite

Stage and screen actor Raúl Esparza. Photo by Michael Blanchard.

An Evening of Creative Connections

  • 5:30 PM: Harbor-view cocktail reception and music by DJ Chris Roxx
  • 7:00 PM: Seated farm-to-table dinner showcasing seasonal Cape Cod ingredients by MAX Ultimate Food
  • Dessert and espresso martini bar to complete your evening

Video by Michael Cestaro.

Your Support Makes Possible Artistic Achievements Important to the Larger Culture

For over 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center has provided time and space to emerging artists and writers at crucial stages of creative development. Your attendance helps us continue this essential work while perpetuating Provincetown’s seminal importance for the arts in America.

Each ticket directly supports:

  • Our renowned Fellowship program for emerging artists and writers
  • Studio spaces and living accommodations for creative practitioners
  • Community programming that connects Provincetown to the world

If you would like to learn more about table and ticket packages, please contact Alice Bruce at abruce@fawc.org.

About Our Honorees

Terrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.

Lynne Kortenhaus was trained as a printmaker at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Kortenhaus brings her artistic eye to everything she touches. Throughout her career, she has helped shape luxury brands in the hospitality, retail, and lifestyle markets including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, The Newbury Boston, The ‘Quin House, Louis Boston, Hermes,  Bottega Veneta, Salon Mario Russo, Tiffany & Co., among many others. Kortenhaus was the former chair of the Boston Art Commission where she helped shape one of the oldest public art commissions for the City of Boston into a thriving voice in the business and arts community. A passionate supporter of the cultural community, Kortenhaus has held many roles, including trustee of the Boston Center for the Arts, a trustee emeritus of the Wang Center, a Henderson Fund designator and a Legacy Circle member of the ICA. Since 2020, she has served as President of the Board of Trustees at the Fine Arts Work Center.

Photo: Xavier Scott Marshall

Born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina, Jacolby Satterwhite now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing themes of labor, consumption, sex, and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality, and digital media. Guided by queer theory, modernism and video game language to challenge conventions of Western art through a personal and political lens, he works in the disciplines of illustration, performance, painting, sculpture, photography and writing. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2022); Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, PA (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); and Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

About our Talent

Matt Dunphy is a lifelong performer, purveyor, and supporter of the arts. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dunphy started after writing a letter to Continental Cablevision, suggesting they give him his own TV show. Shortly after that, Dunphy hosted BeLive with Matt on Cambridge Community Television every Thursday at age 12; the rest is history. Dunphy has hosted events in partnership with the Boston Red Sox and the Red Sox Foundation, the MSPCA, Macy’s, and Bloomingdale’s, among others. As an actor, Dunphy has performed at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and many others, including an international appearance at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia. His TV and film work includes several national commercials, voiceover work for The Discovery Channel, and a brief appearance in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain. Matt has a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Dunphy lives between Boston and New York City but remains a proud New Englander in all ways that one can be: driving ability, sports teams, coffee brand, and chowder color.

Raúl Esparza is an American stage and screen actor, recently starring as Galileo Galilei in Galileo in the dazzling world-premiere musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, helmed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and written by two-time Emmy winner Danny Strong (Dopesick, Empire, The Butler). A four-time Tony Award-nominee and three-time Drama Desk Award winner, his Broadway and notable theater credits include Company, tick, tick… BOOM!, Taboo, The Homecoming, Speed-the-Plow, Leap of Faith, Arcadia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Show, Oliver!, Seared, Road Show, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Cymbeline, The Cradle Will Rock, Twelfth Night, The Normal Heart, Comedians, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Evita, The Waves, and Chess.

On TV and film, Esparza is best known for his work on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hannibal, Murder at the End of the World, Candy, Dopesick, The Path, BoJack Horseman, Pushing Daisies, Ferdinand, My Soul to Take, and Sidney Lumet’s Find Me Guilty

In the immediate wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Esparza conceived of, executive produced, and performed in the online concert event Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration. The concert received a special Drama League Award and is now preserved in the Library of Congress.

A prominent figure in Boston as a DJ/MC/Entertainer, DJ Chris Roxx has been doing what he loves for over 15 years: creating electrifying soundtracks for all types of events and nightlife venues. The sounds of Chris Roxx can be enjoyed by an intimate group of 50 to the 50,000+ fans at Gillette for a Patriots or Revolution game. From Boston to NYC, all the way to the Caribbean islands, he’s shared his musical talents. Roxx local DJs guest spots at some of Boston’s hottest venues, including Bootleg Special, STK, Metro, and Mariel to name a few. His music style encompasses the entire musical spectrum—anywhere from Motown to current Top 40 hits, mixed to perfection.

2024 Event Committee

Chairs
Steve Corkin and Dan Maddalena
Ken Fulk and Kurt Wootton
Karen van Bergen and Jos Stumpe
Carol Warshawsky

Vice Chairs
Neal Balkowitsch and Donald Nelson
Ted Chapin
Marty Davis and Alix Ritchie
Alison and John Ferring
Rob McBride and Danny McCormick
Bryan Rafanelli and Mark Walsh

Summer Exhibition Chair
Gavin Kennedy

Host Committee
Suzanne and Jeffrey Bloomberg
Graham Brown and James Vesper
Axel Brunger and Tom Burke
Bruce Skiles Danzer, Jr. and Tom Huth
Gabrielle and John De Papp
Ron and Julie Druker
Russ and Betty Gaudreau
Barbara Lemperly Grant and Frederic D. Grant, Jr.
Ron Hartwig and Robert Pierce Jr.
Cheryl and Jeffrey Katz
Peter Kazon and Paul Cunningham
David Keller and Mary Maxwell
Gavin Kennedy and Stephen Baker
Ron Kollen, Jim Coffman, and Mark Wisneski
Michela Larson and Ed Marino
Russell Lopez and Andrew Sherman
Sandi and Sean McKinley
Margaret Murphy and Lauren Ewing
Patrick Nolan and Clément Gaujal
Hunter O’Hanian
Mario Russo
Caroline Taggart and Robert Sachs
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