Three Classes / Six Venues
Thursday, April 17
Fridays, April 11, 25
(Limited to 30 people. Carpooling TBD.)
Friday, April 11 • Barnstable Village – 6A
10:00 – 11:30: Cape Cod Art Center – The facility houses gallery, gift shop, and classrooms.
Their main exhibit “Warming Water” will have a speaker from WHOI who will discuss climate change that is represented in the gallery art.
12:00 – 1:30: Barnstable Pottery – Kevin Nolan, owner, will demonstrate his unique creations. Kevin worked with Harry Holl (Scargo Pottery) and still uses a wheel designed by Harry.
Thursday, April 17 – Orleans
10:30 – 12:00: Snow Library – A native New Yorker, Ed Christie’s career at the Jim Henson Company spanned 25 years. He and his teams have been awarded multiple Daytime Emmy Awards for work on Sesame Street. After leaving Sesame Street he continued to serve on several Henson boards. He continued to design puppets for 13 years around the world. Since making the Cape his home, Ed has focused his art on mixed media sculpture. Crediting his experience with a variety of Muppet materials, technology and his sense of humor, he has created a wide range of art work that he will display and discuss. He is represented by the Alden Gallery in Provincetown.
12:30 – 2:00: Tree’s Place Gallery – Rosalie Nadeau, painter, will paint (in a demonstration of her art in Tree’s Place where she is represented). While we are there, the owner of the Gallery, Kevin Bennett will discuss the many artists represented, such as Sam Vokey, Robert Vickery, and Robert Douglas Hunter.
Friday, April 25 • Provincetown
10:00 – 11:30: PAAM – Our annual visit with Christine McCarthy, Executive Director, who will walk us through the museum’s spring exhibits and talk about the process of curating.
12:00 – 1:30: Julie Heller East Gallery – Across Commercial Street from PAAM, we will meet with Julie Heller, the gallery owner of the oldest gallery in town, who will discuss the evolution of the town and the art galleries. We will meet painter Sophia Reznick, who will do a painting of “mudheads,” a particular type of painting that shows faces and figures in a quasi-abstract, often colorful manner made famous by Charles Hawthorne.
