![]() ![]() While poking around I bumped into Lydia Hicks, a former fellow and now Visual Arts Coordinator at FAWC, who showed me her piece called “ A Shark Song.” The piece, on display at the FAWC’s Hudson D. Walker Gallery, is a video collage of sharks being caught and mutilated and African Americans being harassed and beaten. The video is narrated by Hicks reading a poem that compares the demonization of sharks as man-eaters to the dehumanization and fear of African Americans. I watched the small video screen and held the headphones tight to my ears, listening intently to every powerful word. The poem still reverberating in my ears, Uncle Jerome shepherded me to the Town Hall. ![]() They were all painted by some of the best artists in Provincetown history and donated back to the town.” “They have some really sweet paintings in here, man. My excitement was stomped out like a cigarette butt when we walked up to the doors and found them locked. We turned away from the Town Hall and started down the road again until we ran into Stephen, a friend of Uncle Jerome that works for the Provincetown Library. “Oh, you have to see the art,” he said, “I’m sure we can sneak in there.” Uncle Jerome and I explained the nature of my visit and how bummed we were by the roadblocks we met at the Town Hall. Stephen noticed the side door slightly propped open by a wedge, waltzed right in, and gave a guided tour of beautiful paintings done of the Cape Cod town and its people. There were paintings by Charles Hawthorne (who helped to establish the PAAM) and Ross Moffett, two huge names in the local art-lore.
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