This week, we welcome Provincetown musician and artist Mike Flanagan, a full-time resident, who plays saxophone and piano, as well as multiple other instruments, studied music education at Berklee, earned a master’s in Music Education at NYU, and now is the entertainment director at Provincetown's Tin Pan Alley and Post Office Café. He also teaches band, keyboard lab, and co-teaches Italian at the Provincetown School. Flanagan recounts his path from Brockton to Boston and New York, his early inspirations, and how drag performer Liza Lott helped connect him to Provincetown gigs. He discusses managing rowdy piano-bar crowds, taking requests, and memorable audience moments, plus collaborating with singers and producing tribute and cabaret shows. He highlights Billboard-charting releases, a John Lennon Songwriting Competition win, and a 1M+ view YouTube video, and previews his Bear Week Town Hall concert “Bear Hug” on July 16.

This week, we welcome Provincetown artist and teacher Pete Hocking. Pete discusses seven as a formative age before peer pressure. Pete recounts childhood Cape Cod trips, early dreams of living and painting here, and influences from comics, superheroes, and Snoopy. He describes a career balancing art with teaching activism and leadership at Brown and RISD and art at Goddard, adoption’s impact on his self-portrait and queer-themed work, and how an MFA in creative writing ultimately brought him back to painting. In Provincetown, street scenes and later dune and seashore walks shaped more abstract paintings focused on fragility, climate, and remaking the world; he outlines his workshop philosophy and upcoming classes, and reflects on social media as a long-term creative archive.

This week, we welcome 20 Summers program director Alice Gong to discuss the Provincetown arts organization and its spring festival. She shares her path to the Outer Cape and explains that 20 Summers was founded about 15 years ago to honor and activate the historic Hawthorne Barn, built in 1906 by Charles Hawthorne as an art school and later used by generations of artists. Privately owned today, the barn is programmed by 20 Summers for five weeks a year with mostly free or suggested-donation conversations, concerts, workshops, installations, and a residency. The episode previews May–June 2026 highlights including Ecosystems and Imagination with Mark Adams, concerts, a Hawthorne-style painting class with John Clayton, residents’ events and installations, and new partnerships, while also describing year-round programming at the Stanley space, including the Media Diet installation through Memorial Day.

Art in L'overalls with Myra Kooy. Our guest today is a visual artist who also co-owns her own art gallery in Provincetown, the Radiance Art Gallery. In this episode, we talk about how being a woman, and African-American, has played a role in Myra's life and art. We journey through her growth as an artist, from selling handmade suspenders on the streets of New York City to owning an art gallery in Provincetown. This episode is full of happiness and laughter, as we discuss choosing joy in our lives.

This week, we welcome artist, educator, curator, and arts administrator Burt Yarborough to discuss his six-decade relationship with Provincetown and the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC). Yarborough recounts coming to Provincetown in 1976 after studies in architecture and photography, his FAWC fellowship, and how the center’s early, unrenovated lumber-yard facilities and local visual committee shaped artists through time, space, and support. He describes making site-specific work in the dunes, later shifting from photography and abstraction toward more figurative, emotionally driven painting, and a Fulbright year in Nigeria studying Yoruba carving that influenced his materials and imagery. Yarborough explains his current process using reactive dyes, acrylics, inks, and occasional bleach, previews a mural commission, notes exhibitions and a PAAM studio visit, and shares memories of living three summers in a dune shack.

This week, we interviewed a Provincetown multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator Megan Hinton about how studios and process shape art. Hinton, raised in Ohio, describes coming to art through deep looking and connecting drawing to sports via eye–hand coordination, with art helping to live more freely and queerly. We describe current abstracted-realism bird collages built from drawings, photos, and cut canvas, using a blue-black palette and birds as a symbol of freedom amid a polarized society. Hinton discusses reappropriating historical and Provincetown painters as a transformative, long-standing artistic conversation.

The Drag Philanthropist with Mackenzie

This week Gaston welcomes to the studio the very talented playwright and improvisation artist Cody Sullivan. For the last seven years Cody has been making Provincetown audiences laugh with his witty and insightful stage performances. Learn about his origins as an artist, about his connection and love for improvisation, about his popular event "Cody Plays," and about the plays he has staged and that he is currently working on.