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78-card deck exploring Ptown history and culture thru the timeless lens of the Tarot 🌀✨🌊
Also me: @benwazical (personal)
@brotherbenwa (more art)

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Please welcome Benwa Kramer @ptowntarot + @brotherbenwa to the collection!

Bio:

My artistic career began in the theater, having earned a BFA from the University of the Arts and graduating from the Second City Conservatory ( Chicago). After years upon the stage, I pivoted to visual arts in 2017 when I moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, under the artistic moniker “Brother Benwa,” I found a richly fertile and supportive community of artists, invigorating my studio practice and providing numerous opportunities for inspiration and exposure. My work has become known for its colorful, whimsical approach to various media, including acrylic collage, murals, printmaking, costume construction, and nightclub installations, My inspirations include queer culture, esoterica, and psychedelia.

During the COVID lockdown of 2020, I took up learning the tarot in earnest, which led to the conception of the Provincetown Tarot, a 78-card deck exploring the rich history and culture of Cape Cod’s historic art colony. In 2024, the Treadwell Gallery (Ptown) hosted an exhibition of full-color, hand-painted and hand-pressed white-line woodblock prints from the deck’s Major Arcana, This style, developed in Provincetown in 1914-15, is considered the first American printmaking method. After years of anticipation, the Provincetown Tarot was completed and published in 2026 to great acclaim.

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a shuckin’ good summah (would like a nap & a repeat plz)🌙🦪⚪️

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT — Benwa is the artist behind our Deep Sea Disco Carnival poster this year, and also the creator of @ptowntarot

Benwa is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Provincetown and San Francisco. He holds a BFA in Musical Theater from the University of the Arts (2006) and is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Chicago (2010). Upon his relocation to Provincetown and a renewed focus on visual arts, he became known for his colorful, whimsical approach to various media. His diverse body of work derives inspiration from queer culture, esoterica, identity, and storytelling.

Most recently, Benwa completed the Provincetown Tarot, a years-long endeavor to depict the history and culture of Provincetown through the archetypal lens of the tarot. In 2025 he completed “Maushop Totems,” a mural installation at Ptown’s Awol Hotel. He also designs posters for many Ptown events, including Carnival 2026.

Benwa has exhibited work at Treadwell Gallery (Ptown), E. Lesh Gallery (Ptown), The Provincetown Commons, as well as Art Gaysel in both Miami and Ptown. Additionally, he constructs elaborate costumes for Ptown’s annual Carnival Week. Benwa also designed weekly installations for the long-running Provincetown summer party FAGBASH from 2016-2018.

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This right here is the particular flavor of wild, unabashed magic that sparks queer joy and makes it all worth it. @benwazical the world is better because of your person and your way of alchemizing truths to form

Forever a ❤️

If 🫵🏽 need a @ptowntarot deck (and 🫵🏽 and all of your friends do!), we will be selling them in our hotel store. Great gift idea!

Come by your @gifford.house anytime and check out these works! 🌈💥

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The Provincetown Tarot launch party at @gifford.house was a smashing success. So many people came out to get a deck (or 3, or 5!), to hear myself and @tangle_made talk tarot and the project, and to get a free reading from the fabulous @abbearonson at @cazimi_modern_tarot . We also raised $2000 for queer kids at @summerofsass ! This project has been over 5 years in the making and it feels surreal, proud, and thrilling to finally share it with the world.

I’ll be popping up around ptown throughout this week to sell, and you can purchase decks through www.ptowntarot.com.

@ptowntarot

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Just one more reason that Provincetown is so freakin’ amazing! 🔮 Congratulations to our friend Benwa @benwazical on the launch of his Provincetown Tarot @ptowntarot! And, if you happen to be in town on a Monday, stop by our tarot club at the library from 2-4…all are welcome! ✨

Provincetown: Always in Season
#tarot #thegaslampptown #provincetownluxury #modernvictorian #boutiquestay

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Hey y’all! I’m so excited to read Tarot tomorrow night at @benwazical @ptowntarot launch party! If you sit and read with me (readings themselves are gratis, per our host!) and you kindly tip me, not only will I be donating my tips to @summerofsass but a pal has offered to DOUBLE it! Sooooo, double down and get witchy with me tomorrow night at @gifford.house as we celebrate Benwa’s beautiful deck!

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If you haven’t had the opportunity to go clamming this year, you should. Just look at the joy in this brilliantly captured moment by the extremely talented artist @benwazical … It truly is an amazing experience to be out in the bay with so many others and the reward is oh so delicious!!!! Thank you Benwa for letting us share this. And check out his amazing other accounts @ptowntarot and @brotherbenwa

#clamming #clams #artist #artistoninstagram #ptown

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It was pretty amazing working with @benwazical (@ptowntarot) on this project! They are making a series of prints of their incredible Tarot series, and we worked together to make some gorgeous engravings that serve as the print block for his final pieces! Check them out!

If you're an artist that would like to collaborate , reach out here or at our website (link in bio), I'd love to make something amazing with you!

#radwerx #laserengraving #lasercutting #localartist #localart #smallbusiness #smallbiz #asheville

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We kept the Yuletide gay at the first annual @ptownbrewingco Holi-Gay market graciously hosted by @babesandbois ! Thank you so much to Sam & Carmen for creating lovely community events all year round and supporting artists 💕 if you missed out, you can catch us Sunday 12-5 at the shop. Regular hours next week PLUS Tuesday night Disco Party 5-8, Friday Night @orleanscapecod Holiday Stroll 4-8, and Saturday & Sunday @rugosagallery Holiday Market! And as always, everything in the shop is available online for local pick up or nationwide shopping - get those orders in soon for Xmas delivery 😉

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