The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is an internationally renowned, non-profit arts organization dedicated to providing a supportive and nurturing environment for emerging artists and writers. It offers 7-month winter residency fellowships; an open-enrollment summer workshop program in visual arts and creative writing; an MFA degree program in visual arts in collaboration with Massachusetts College of Art & Design; a year-round series of readings, art talks and gallery exhibits free and open to the public; and other community programs in the arts and art education. It is located on an historic site in Provincetown, MA, the oldest arts colony in the country, minutes away from the pristine natural beauty of the Cape Cod National Seashore.