About Provincetown Arts Magazine
Published annually in midsummer since 1985, Provincetown Arts focuses broadly on artists, performers, and writers who inhabit or visit the tip of Cape Cod, and seeks to stimulate creative activity and enhance public awareness of the cultural life of the nation’s oldest continuous artists colony. Drawing upon a century-long tradition rich in art, theater, and writing, Provincetown Arts publishes essays, fiction, interviews, journals, performance pieces, poetry, profiles, reporting, reviews, and visual features, with a view toward demonstrating that a community of artists, functioning outside the urban centers, is a utopian dream with an ongoing vitality.
Staff
Elizabeth Winston
Publisher
Elizabeth Winston worked as a production editor for Provincetown Arts before joining the staff as an editor and director of development in 2018. In 2020, she stepped into the dual role of magazine editor and executive director of the press. She holds an MFA in literature and fiction writing from the University of Houston, where she was the director of the Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers. Liz has worked in non-profit development and as an editor and writer in various capacities for twenty-five years. A year-round resident of Provincetown and the Outer Cape for many years, she now lives in her native Washington, DC area with her partner and their daughter.
Ingrid Aue
Director of Communications
Ingrid Aue joined the magazine in 2004. She has masters degrees in sociology and German from Goethe University in Frankfurt, as well as a degree in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She maintains a graphic design studio in Boston and creates many of the ads for the magazine.
Rob Phelps
Editor-in-Chief
Rob Phelps was senior editor at Provincetown Arts magazine for several years before stepping into the editor-in-chief role in 2026. Previously, he covered the Outer Cape arts community for the Provincetown Banner, where he was arts editor after having served at the Banner in numerous editorial and production roles since leaving the Provincetown Advocate in 2000. While freelancing for the Banner, he spent six years as development editor at Fairchild Books, a division of Condé Nast, working closely with leading professors and professionals in architecture, design, and fashion, including Ira Neimark, the legendary chairman and CEO of Bergdorf Goodman, for his memoir, and Vibhavari Jani, for her national IDEC award-winning Diversity in Design: Perspectives from the Non-Western World. Rob is also editor-in-chief of the LGBTQ publication Boston Spirit magazine and writes arts features for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Tufts University Art Galleries. He earned his BA in English Literature at Boston University and MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College. Before moving to Provincetown in 1998, he worked at the Harvard University Office of News & Public Affairs as a writer for the Harvard University Gazette. Born in Washington, D.C., he splits his time now between Plymouth and Truro.
Joerg Dressler
Design Director
Joerg Dressler was born in Hanau, Germany. He holds a MFA in Visual Communication from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany. Additionally, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Joerg moved to the United States in 1996. He worked for Sametz Blackstone Associates in Boston until 2014. His role as director of design included creating and developing visual brand systems for cultural, academic and corporate clients, as well as managing the design department. He has worked as a freelance designer since 2014 while focusing as well on his studio practice as a painter. Provincetown Arts’ founder Christopher Busa wrote about Joerg’s work in 2016: “He places tranquility side by side with violence, light clashing with the dark, fragility beside boldness—surprising forces seemingly summoned on a whim, with involuntary energy.”
Board of Directors
- Dr. David Altarac
- Heidi Boghosian
- Shawn Brooks
- John DaSilva
- Molly Demeulenaere
- Laurie Fitzpatrick
- E. J. (Terry) Kahn III
- Margaret Murphy
- Mark Protosevich
- Christina Schlesinger
- Richard Schneider, Jr.
- Sam Tager
- Livia Tenzer
- Elizabeth Winston
Board of Advisors
- Mary Abell
- Mark Adams
- Richard Baker
- Elizabeth Bradfield
- Bill Evaul
- Melenie Freedom-Flynn
- Susan Harrison
- Howard Karren
- Anne-Marie Levine
- Jennifer Liese
- Gail Mazur
- Susan Mitchell
- Debbie Nadolney
- Mira Schor
- Joanne McFarland