While guests of Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center are stuck through June, canceled residencies across the U.S. endanger an artistic ecosystem.
Governments and health officials around the world are trying to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.When the virus hit, the writer Wei Tchou was up at MacDowell completing an eight-week residency while working on a memoir. Out there in the woods, the threat of COVID-19 felt distant to her. She spent her first six weeks struggling to write, trying to figure out what it meant to identify as an artist apart from the mechanics of validation and economic survival in her New York home.
Nearly a century ago, after the Great Depression, the country did put artists and writers to work. The Works Progress Administration employed tens of thousands of writers, musicians, artists and performers. Today, those who wish to devote themselves to their vocations without entering academia or the gig economy must undertake hundreds of hours of legwork to patch together enough residencies and fellowships to get by., a residency on a 20,000-acre ranch in Clearmont, Wyo.
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