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Ronan Farrow and Jeremy O. Harris in conversation at the Hawthorne Barn, June 14, 2024.
“We see this opportunity in this present time to think through:
what kind of community do we want to create?”
–Jeffrey Mansfield, 2021 Twenty Summers Fellow
100 Years of Light
In 1907, Charles Webster Hawthorne, the son of a sea captain, built a barn-like studio on a sandy bluff in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. Hawthorne, an Impressionist painter, turned the barn into the Cape Cod School of Art.
Artist Residencies
Each season, a cohort of diverse creatives are invited to join us in Provincetown at the Hawthorne Barn, to explore, to incubate original work and to "imagine a more equitable and sustainable future, Twenty Summers from today."
We’re in the news
Several publications and news outlets have featured stories about Twenty Summers and the Barn, which NPR has called "part of the foundation of American art history." Learn more about our organization and what others have had to say about it.