Enjoy our Season 13 trailer! Stay tuned for full event videos and podcasts coming soon.
Thanks to the generosity of our community, we were able to program a calendar of events for Season 13 that spanned the full range of human experience—leaving us feeling inspired and connected. We can't do what we do without your support and as we look ahead to Season 14, we wanted to share a few exciting updates with you about our Memberships.
Season 14 Memberships On Sale NOW
With a donation of $500 or more, you become a Season 14 Member, which gets you early access to event registration, invitations to exclusive member offerings, and more.
New for 2027, we’re changing our ticketing model for non-performance events during our May-June festival. These events have a limited number of FREE tickets on a first-come, first-served basis, and once those are claimed, the remaining tickets will be $20. Performances, and Art in the Barn, will continue to be ticketed as usual.
As a member, you’ll be able to register early for all events before the general public, with up to 2 tickets per event. For the past two seasons, all of our Barn performances have sold out—becoming a member gives you the best chance to secure free seats and guarantees you a spot at our performances.
A limited number of Season 14 Memberships are on sale now through the end of the year. Your support today helps us build our Barn Season and a full year of Stanley projects. We’d love to have you with us!
A limited number of Season 14 Memberships are on sale now through the end of the year. Your support today helps us build our Barn Season and a full year of Stanley projects. We’d love to have you with us!
Emergent Art Advisory and Twenty Summers present
a survey exhibition of Jess T. Dugan at Stanley
—I’m right here with you—
Friday, September 11 — Sunday, November 29, 2026
Thank you for a Magical Season Thirteen at the Barn!
“In every moment of darkness, there is so much possibility”
-Chase Strangio, 2025 Featured Guest
At Twenty Summers, we believe that creativity can help solve society’s most difficult problems, and that creative collaboration can lead to meaningful change. At a time when the arts are being defunded and disparate ideologies are pushing people farther and farther apart, we know that art of all kinds can bring us together.
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.