In meeting and greeting the new Fine Arts Work Center fellows, both visual artists and writers who have arrived in October for their winter term from all over the U.S. and the world, something very down-to-earth becomes immediately apparent: How difficult it has become to live and work full-time as an artist. The opportunity afforded to the 20 fellows that’s most precious to them is a chance to devote themselves entirely to the work they love. No matter how welcoming the town is, and how beautiful a place it is, for most of them that economic reality transcends all other concerns.