Season Thirteen Twenty Summers, rooted in Provincetown’s Hawthorne Barn, celebrates artistic freedom, offering resources, residencies, and a platform for originality and innovation, honoring its rich legacy.

Material World | Thomas Jackson Barn Installation

Fabric embodies the contradictions inherent to our relationship with the natural world. Woven, stitched and dyed, it carries all the baggage of our consumption-based culture. Yet as human-made materials go, it conforms beautifully with nature. It is flexible, soft and deeply responsive to wind, light and other natural forces. Exposed to the elements, it performs a visual negotiation between the artificial and the natural—between belonging and opposition—that echoes our own uneasy relationship with the environment.