introducing our 2026 residents
For over a decade, Twenty Summers has invited artists to Provincetown to participate in our signature residency program. Residents are provided eight days of lodging, and use of the Barn and Stanley as their dedicated studio spaces to explore new creative approaches or complete existing projects.
Media diet at stanley
Media Diet invites visitors to step inside the recreated media worlds of real individuals whose media consumption habits have been synthesized by custom technology. The installation carefully replicates the physical environments — living rooms, bedrooms, home offices — in which people consume media so visitors can fully inhabit the filter bubbles of three Americans whom they will know only through their feeds.
“We are reconstructing strikingly different socio-political realities so visitors can better understand and, ideally reflect on, our singular collective reality of media division and growing polarization,” said Bakshi.
“Our hope is to build media literacy through an embodied experience,” noted Boisvert. “With Media Diet we are creating space for curiosity and empathy at a moment of deep media fragmentation.”
As visitors move through the Media Diet installation, they will encounter radically different versions of the same national stories, revealing how distinct media ecosystems can shape belief, emotion, and perception.
Each Media Diet tableau is based on an anonymous individual’s physical and virtual media world. Drawing from interviews, documentation, and reference materials provided by anonymous participants, the artists rebuild their “media rooms” and deploy a suite of technologies to curate their media feeds in real-time. The experience is designed to unfold like a documentary you move through, making visible the often-invisible forces that shape perception and belief, according to the artists.
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“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.