The Art of Finding a Studio in a Shrinking Market
From the ashes of old Provincetown rise ideas for more workspaces
THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT BY ABBEY DWIGHT JAN 19, 2022
Years ago — before the 1998 fire that swallowed the Provincetown Theatre’s original structure, known then and now as Whaler’s Wharf — glassworker Christie Andresen lived in a different Provincetown.
“Nobody was considered a famous artist,” she remembers. “You spent a lot of time with artists without knowing they were artists because they were family people.
“I grew up in Whaler’s Wharf,” she continues. When she was a young teenager, a friend had a store there where she spent a lot of time. Jeweler Dale Elmer had purchased the building in 1973 with his partner, Buzz Buffington. Today, Andresen rents a studio on the second floor where she has been making and selling her stained-glass art for about nine years.
Christie Andresen’s studio in Whaler’s Wharf, which she shares with painter Elizabeth Zeldin. (Photo courtesy Christie Andresen)
Maura Cunningham painting at the Provincetown Commons. (Photo courtesy Dave LaFrance)
