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DESTINATION CAPE COD, MA

CAPE COD, MA

DESTINATION CAPE COD, MA

Agnes Weinrich, Clams, 1930s, mixed media on paper, 17 x 18". Courtesy of Cape Cod Museum of Art.

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ape Cod is home to the oldest continuous arts colony in the nation. And it only takes witnessing a single sunset in Provincetown to understand why. The entire Cape is known for its beauty and, as a result, is home to some of the most prominent art movements and artists of the last century. From one end to the other, you’ll find art that awes.

Among the extravagant gardens of Provincetown’s East End is the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM). In 1914, local artists and residents wished for a permanent display of the arts. The result was PAAM—whose 3,000-plus works now serve as a historical record for the town. And while PAAM has an extensive historic American art collection, it’s also dedicated to contemporary work—its professional association encompasses more than 750 contemporary artists. The work of Helen Frankenthaler is on view (July 6–September 2) as well as Gems from the Permanent

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Collection (through August 5) and The Members’ 12 x 12 Exhibition and Silent Auction (through August 26)—a fundraiser for PAAM and its 300 member-artists, with all pieces beginning at $125. The museum also offers events such as the Secret Garden Tour (July 15), which reveals Provincetown’s vibrant private gardens.

Along with PAAM’s mission to keep Provincetown’s art in the place where it originated is a commitment to educate. The founders believed in arts education and creating connections between artists and the public. Staying true to these beliefs, PAAM offers artist talks, life drawing sessions and a new lecture series on art and art history. Summer workshops feature local artists teaching still life, watercolor, whiteline woodcutting and other skills, and range from one to fifteen sessions. Some workshops, such as Joe Nava’s “Carnival Street Photography” course (August 14–15), line up with special events in town. Whether you’re stopping

by for a day or a few weeks, whether you want to browse or create your own work, PAAM has something to offer.

Directly across the street from PAAM is Julie Heller East, one of two Julie Heller galleries (the other closer to the center of town). In the East location, visitors will find a focus on contemporary art and works by the early artists of Provincetown.

This season they will show the contemporary artists Mary Giammarino and Bill Barrell, as well as Provincetown artists Oliver Chaffee and Ada Gilmore Chaffee.

Julie Heller Gallery, located on the beach at 2 Gosnold Street, is a different set up.

This former box office and museum of the Provincetown Playhouse is now a salonstyle gallery that Heller has run since 1980.

Here, the contemporary and traditional are not separated. Instead, all the works are hung together, taking up almost the entire wall and even hanging from the ceiling. It makes for a fun mix of the old and new and reflects the eccentricity that Provincetown is known for.

Only a couple doors down from Julie Heller East is Gallery 444, where artist Matthias Lupri will have two solo shows this summer. Lupri was a musician for many years yet came to a point where he found he wasn’t able to express what he wanted. That’s when the painting started. Lupri works in large format, creating contemporary pieces by using palette knives of all different types and sizes. While Lupri steers away from themes, he works in series. You’ll find figures, archetypal abstracts, inner landscapes and seascapes. Each of Lupri’s shows will feature his newest work.

As he prepares these solo shows, he’s eager to share his deeply personal pieces. While he enjoys group shows, there’s something special about solo shows for him, something vulnerable yet rewarding about standing in a room surrounded by his own work. “It’s like looking inside your soul,” he says. The first show runs August 15–22 and the second September 19–26.

Just a minute’s walk down the road is ART: Art Market Provincetown. When painter and musician Debbie Nadolney visited Provincetown in 2011, she found that one of her favorite buildings was for sale. She spent a weekend in

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the two bedrooms and hallway that made up the old Captain’s house, debating whether it was the right time to open her own gallery. “It was just… one of those magical things that happens,” Nadolney says, and the gallery “pulls together all of the things I love.” After making a list of the artists she knew from working and curating in Boston and New York, she decided to pull the trigger. Now she represents around 40 artists. In her seventh season, Nadolney has a lot to be excited about. While many galleries in Provincetown are dedicated to preserving the history and tradition of the town, AMP is committed to showcasing cutting edge, local and international artists. This season will feature installation pieces by Israeli artist Zammy Migdal, acrylic paintings by Barbara Cohen

following a series on refugees and immigrants, and sculptures by Rick Wrigley that evolved out of his work as a British-trained furniture maker.

And AMP is not limited to the visual arts. Since the gallery can seat 35 people, it hosts many live events. On July 22, AMP will present Tough Girls and Lucid Dreamers no. 9, a mini-festival of live readings, performances and music spearheaded

by Eileen Myles and Katrina del Mar. Further down the road, in what used to be Days Lumberyard, is the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC). Founded in 1968, this artist and writer haven is home to studios, print and woodworking shops, apartments, a gallery and auditorium, classrooms, digital media and computer labs and offices. This nonprofit is dedicated to continuing Provincetown’s year-round arts

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CAPE COD, MA colony, which it does by offering competitive seven-month fellowships to emerging artists and writers, as well as online creative writing courses, summer workshops, exhibitions, artist talks and readings. 2018 marks its 50th anniversary of fostering a creative community.

This year’s visitors will be sure to feel the celebration. Along with the 11-week-long summer workshops (that include faculty such as photographer Amy Arbus and poet Ada Limón), FAWC will be holding themed weeks such as Creative Nonfiction week, Social Justice week and the 3rd Annual Poetry Festival. A Lyric Series (a number of performances from talented musicians and poets who bring sound to words) is also in the works. The Summer Awards Celebration is the largest event of the year, though.

On July 21, FAWC will honor artist Ai Weiwei as well as FAWC founder Salvatore Del Deo and former fellows Sam Messer and Denis Johnson (in memoriam). On August 18, the 42nd Annual Action will give guests the opportunity to purchase works by fellows and featured artists, while supporting emerging artists.

Back on your way out of town is Berta Walker Gallery at 208 Bradford Street. Open since 1990, this gallery showcases prominent Provincetown artists from today and dating back to the early 1900s. This summer they, too, will be honoring and celebrating Salvatore Del Deo’s 90th birthday with an exhibit running through July 14. Following will be landscape paintings and watercolors by Don Beal, Rob DuToit and Brenda Horowitz (July 20–August

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4). Meanwhile, the Berta Walker Gallery in Wellfleet (40 Main Street) also has a full lineup.

Representing artists from Truro and Wellfleet as well, the gallery remembers Gloria Nardin, a Wellfleet photographer and painter who passed away this winter. She will be celebrated by fellow artists Robert Henry, Selina Trieff, Peter Watts and Robert Rindler (through July 14). Later in the summer, the gallery will exhibit its Masters of Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown show.

Fine art is not all Walker has in store for this summer, though. Every Sunday, from June to October, the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown has hosted live music, organized by musician and photographer John Thomas. To celebrate 20 years of Thomas’

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program, as well as his work commemorating the lost lives of AIDS victims in Provincetown, Walker is exhibiting Great Music/Great Art. The show (through July 14) explores art and music intertwining and interacting with one another.

A 15-minute drive down Route 6, away from the hubbub of Provincetown and tucked into the serenity of Truro, is the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. Converted from a barn in 1971, it promises an “inclusive and supportive arts community” for artists of all levels of experience. Begun by the efforts of local artists and volunteers, it now attracts working artists and students from across the United States and Canada. Castle Hill visitors can study ceramics, jewelry making, encaustic, printmaking, writing and more in a variety of workshops. The recent addition of the Edgewood Farms property has expanded their programs. Now Castle Hill can house some of its students and offers shortterm, shoulder-season residencies where artists have studios and can walk the trails put in by the Truro Conservation Trust. They have also restored the farm, are opening a community garden and adding culinary workshops. Edgewood will be used to host some of Castle Hill’s events as well. Not only can you expect their annual live and silent auction (August 11), but this year you can also attend Full Moon Bash (July 28) at the farm to celebrate midsummer with food, music, dance and drinks. A PoemJazz night at the Wellfeet Preservation Hall (July 11) features spoken word poet Robert Pinsky, accompanied by live piano, saxophone and cello.

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CAPE COD, MA Five miles south and a clamshell driveway down Wellfleet’s Main Street is JS Gallery.

Owner Jeff Soderbergh is a furniture maker who specializes in sustainability. He crafts everything from tables to swings, bars to cabinets from recycled materials including trees uprooted by Nor’easters and details from antique ships’ ballasts. Thanks to repurposing, every piece has a unique story behind it. The gallery itself has been salvaged; it was a barn on Billingsgate Island before sea levels rose and the building was floated over to the mainland.

The gallery is “dedicated to showing a high level of sustainably created fine art, sculpture and furnishings,” says Soderbergh. This season he will be featuring new collections by artists David Gonville, Lisa Barsumian, Joshua Enck, Tom Deininger and Mary Jameson, all of whom use raw materials to create their works. He is also extremely excited to welcome internationally acclaimed lighting designer, Bernhard Dessecker, to the gallery. For any visitors with environmental sensibilities, JS Gallery is worth a stop.

It’s just a two-minute stroll down Main Street to the Off Main Gallery. In its second year, the gallery inhabits an 1875 barn—supposedly the oldest barn still-standing in Wellfleet.

“It’s not your standard white cube,” says artist Terry Gips. Instead, the three-roomed gallery has retained its barn aesthetic, including a garden out back. Director Robert Shreefter represents 10 artists, including himself, each with a connection to the Outer Cape and ranging in age from 30 to 80 years old. This season the

gallery is offering a series of joint solo shows— two artists will each have their own room for a three-week period, while the other room will show the other members’ and visiting artists’ works. The gallery also has space for readings, music and art demonstrations. Shreefter believes strongly in connecting to community through the arts. After a successful group exhibit to open the season, Off Main Gallery is thrilled for its second year.

A five-minute walk further down the road and abutting Uncle Tim’s Bridge (which leads to a gorgeous walk that changes dramatically with the tides) is Cherry Stone Gallery. The gallery, open for 48 years, started as an artistled project that took over an abandoned general store and horse stable. There were bite marks

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CAPE COD, MA Salvatore Del Deo, Orfeo I, oil on paper, 30 x 24". Courtesy of Berta Walker Gallery.

on the door from the horses and the first show featured one of the founder’s former high school students, Helen Miranda Wilson. But soon Lizzie Upham and Sally Nerber were showing works by Robert Motherwell and Roy Lichtenstein. Over the years, Cherry Stone exhibited local and internationally renowned artists. In 1980, they moved to their current location (70 East Commercial Street), where they hold artist salons and people mingle in the garden outside.

Brenda Correia, friend and working partner of Sally (who passed away in 2014), now directs

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the gallery. Correia looks at her work “as a way of carrying on the legacy.” This summer, she hosts her own large-format drawings in Open Studio (through July 24). In her second show GRúPA (meaning “collective dialogue”) (July 28–September 9), artists will address their relationships to their environment. The artists include Paul Bowen, Jennifer Ellwood, C.R. Grigg, Barbara Kruger, Laura Petrovich-Cheney, David Loeffler Smith and Rebecca Welz. In the same spirit as the early shows, Correia is inviting everyone for “art, music, food, libations” at

the gallery’s Summer Party (July 28, 6–9 p.m.).

Cruising further south, past tempting ice cream shops, lush marshes, and classic Cape houses, make sure to stop at Cross Rip Gallery in Harwich. In its second season, the gallery’s name is inspired by Nantucket Sound—just as the currents in the ocean come together, Cross Rip is where “currents of creativity meet.”

While the gallery leans toward abstract work, it does so in a multitude of media, including sculpture, photography, paintings and prints.

The goal is to spark guests’ imagination. Despite being a newer gallery, it has exhibited big names such as Heather Blume and guest artist Vicky Tomayko. The converted 1830s Cape house takes advantage of its residential set up, curating a few of its rooms to give guests an idea of how pieces look at home. Opening July 11 is Visual Jazz. Complementing the show, and part of the town’s music stroll, the gallery will host live music every Wednesday evening throughout the summer. Bodacious (opening August 15) is an exhibit of works that are bold and innovative in both the process and the product.

These exhibits will include artists Liz Perry, Kate Nelson, Richard Perry, Hollis Fortune, Georgene Riedl, Sally S. Fine, Jim Cahoon, Diane Longchamps and guest Matthew Bielen. If you find yourself in Harwich, stop at Cross Rip for what Riedl describes as “art with an edge.”

Back towards the bay in Dennis is the Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMoA). The sevengallery museum, surrounded by a sculpture garden, was founded in 1981 and is committed to showing works with ties to the Cape, Islands and the region. While many artists live and create on the Cape, their pieces don’t necessarily stay and CCMoA’s permanent collection is ensuring that they will. This summer, the focus is on the Circle of Cape Cod Artists—past, present and future. The first show, Modernist out of the Mainstream (through August 5), takes a look at the past and focuses on the 20th century (including Fauvism- and Cubism-inspired pieces, as well as Abstract Expressionism) from artists such as Karl Knaths, Xavier Gonzalez and Nanno de Groot. The next show, Connections:

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CAPE COD, MA Visual Fellows of the Cape (through September 9) will exhibit works by artists that came to the Cape as FAWC Fellows, yet stayed because they loved it. Artists include Bailey Bob Bailey, Janelle Iglesias, James Everett Stanley and 18 others. Finally, the last exhibit, Beyond the Tattoo - Mark Corliss highlights this Hyannis tattoo artist who has studied and inked Japanese-style tattoos and uses his craft to recreate realistic nipples for women who’ve had mastectomies.

Corliss’ service, at the intersection of art and health, is free of charge. This is a “new area of artistic expression; it contributes to a healthier lifestyle,” says Rory Marcus, communications director at CCMoA. In addition, the Museum will be holding its Soiree by the Bay on August 18th. This gala consists of dinner, silent and live auctions, and the MUSE Awards—given to a philanthropist and an artist who’ve made outstanding contributions.

Heading down 6A, make sure to stop at the Cape Cod Art Center (CCAC). The open year-round, all-age-groups nonprofit is celebrating its 70th anniversary, kicking off with a Birthday Bash on July 7 (from 2–6 p.m. and open to the public). The party includes demos, children’s activities and a member-designed cake. The celebration doesn’t stop there, though. Its One Building, Many Artists exhibit (through July 15) features work by Cape artists, from their founders up to the present. Next up, The National (opening July 19) is an openjuried exhibit showcasing artists from across the country. CCAC’s main focus, though, is education and advancing the careers of artists though programming, activities and events. It runs workshops throughout the entire summer, including youth workshops that serves children three years old (with a caretaker) up to high school students. In July, they offer a weekly teen photography camp. In addition to workshops in painting, printmaking and digital art, CCAC offers photo-tours. These workshops range from learning to better photograph at night to figuring out how to capture images of whales while out on the water. CCAC takes advantage of all the beauty and wildlife the Cape has to offer.

Less than eight miles south in Osterville is the Cape Cod Writers Center (CCWC).

Founded in 1963, the Center provides yearround programming for writers, such as small groups, night out craft sessions and youth workshops. CCWC’s major event of the year,

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though, is its Summer Conference. For the 56th year, they will welcome around 200 people from across the country to the Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis. Nancy Rubin Stuart, executive director, credits their continuous success and growth to the artistic and literary legacy of the Cape. Many writers end up extending their visit specifically to explore the creative traditions and beauty of the area. The conference (August 2–5) is open to all: emerging and seasoned writers, curious and serious. This year writers can expect courses ranging from fiction to screenwriting to memoir. In addition to craft classes, they offer sessions on the business side of writing. Acclaimed agents, editors and social media experts share their skills in query critiques and manuscript mentoring, as well as promotion and publicity courses. This year’s keynote speaker will be news anchor, journalist and bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan (Saturday, August 4, 12:30-2:15 p.m. with a signing afterward).

A little further west, you’ll find Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit. The building dates back to the 1700s and became home and studio to folk artists Ralph and Martha Cahoon in 1945. Now it has been expanded with a modern addition in the back to hold the five-gallery museum. Paying tribute to the building’s history, the collection consists of folk art and 18th-century American art, as well as the Cahoon’s studio. This summer, until August 12, visitors can see The Pollinators–a show that examines the relationship between plants and their pollinators and other elements of the

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CAPE COD, MA Kate Nelson, To the Blazing Fields, 2012, pigment stick and wax on board, 22 x 30". Courtesy of Cross Rip Gallery.

the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. Today visitor’s can tour the gardens, explore 400 acres of nature trails, enjoy the Music at the Mansion series or Farm to Table classes and view seasonal exhibitions. Three summer highlights include: June 24 through September 3, CrossCurrents: Movements in Contemporary Ceramics, curated by internationally renowned ceramic artist Chris Gustin showcasing the work of 32 ceramicists that have traveled from across the U.S to fire their pieces in Gustin’s anagama kiln (a Japanese term meaning “cave kiln”); also June 24-September 3, Out of the Box! Art and Science Walk, an exhibition of 12 outdoor sculptures and environmental installations, invites you to explore the connection between art and science; and through September 3, Earthly Delights: Selections from the 61st College Women of Japan Print Show will delight and inspire during Highfield’s year of the garden as it celebrates all things natural and beautiful.

As always, the Cape is a hub of creativity this summer. Whether you’re looking for a workshop, eagerly awaiting the Friday night art walks, feeling ready to attend the Writers Conference or in the market to purchase some sustainable artwork, your summer todo list is covered.

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F O O R P ecosystem. The show is “so pertinent to the times,” says communications and membership manager, Christy Laidlaw. The museum is also gearing up for its annual Brush Off. Their biggest fundraiser of the year, it showcases local artists and involves the community. It takes place on Cotuit Village Green (July 7, with rain date July 8) and this year it will include live music, food trucks and both silent and live auctions. Attendees will actually be able to watch artists creating live in the morning on the green and then bid on the works later that day. The

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Brush Off is a wonderful way to support local artists and the museum.

As you head back to the reality of the city, or wherever your “pre-vacation” life is based, make time for one more important stop: Highfield Hall in Falmouth. Beautifully-restored and converted into a cultural center, Highfield Hall was originally a summer mansion built by a wealthy Boston family in 1878, and is one of New England’s remaining examples of “Stick style” architecture, a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between

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P R O VI N C E TOWN A RT O LD A ND N E W This summer Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown’s oldest gallery, and its East End counterpart, Julie Heller East, are exhibiting exciting new works by local contemporary artists including Bill Barell and Mary Giammarino. Representing the estates of numerous early Provincetown Modernist masters including Jim Forsberg, Betty Lane, and Sol Wilson; we are also pleased to offer a wide selection of fine prints by Milton Avery and Robert Motherwell.

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