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Art-related program for people living with Alzheimer's at CCMA June 15th

Alzheimer’s program at Cape Cod Museum of Art

The Cape Cod Museum of Art, in partnership with Alzheimer’s Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, presents an art-related program for people living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, Monday, June 15 at 1 pm.

Museum Educators will lead discussions of artwork from the CCMA collection in the museum’s galleries at 60 Hope Lane (off Route 6A), Dennis.

The newly established program provides an opportunity for people living with Alzheimer’s to get together with their peers once a month at the CCMA. The use of art in Alzheimer’s care is said to promote communication and reduce stress for both those with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

For more information on the program or to make a reservation for June 15, call 508-385-4477, ext. 16.

The program is free of charge.

Cape Cod Museum of Art, the regional art museum of Cape Cod, the Islands and Southeastern Massachusetts, is located off Route 6A, 60 Hope Lane, on the grounds of Cape Cod Center for the Arts, Dennis. Admission: $8, free for ages 18 and younger and museum members. Gallery hours: Monday - Wednesday, 10 am - 5 pm; Thursday, 10 am – 8 pm; Friday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm; and Sunday, noon – 5 pm. Information: 508-385-4477 or www.ccmoa.org.

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Woods Hole Handworks opens for its 27th season

Cooperative gallery to open June 19th

The Woods Hole Handworks, a cooperative Gallery of art and fine crafts on the ground floor of Woods Hole Community Hall, 68 Water Street is celebrating its 27th consecutive season, opening Friday, June 19 at 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., then afterwards, daily through September 6, then on weekends until October 11.

Its sustaining thirteen artist members will be on site during selective days and evenings (to 8p.m. Thursday-Saturday beginning July 2).  They include:

• Jane Fay Baker (Falmouth) printmaker, specializing in hand-printed woodcuts of marine life
• Mark Chester (Woods Hole) black-and-white photography
• Tamara Clark (North Falmouth) prints and cards
• Karen Colburn (Woods Hole) textiles
• Jeri Dantzig (Martha’s Vineyard) glass
• Vivian Vine Dreisbach (Woods Hole) textiles
• Judi Goudreau (Lincoln, RI) painting
• Ann Hanson (Harwich) jewelry
• Sarah Morse (South. Dartmouth) jewelry
• Julia Peterson (Cohasset) custom personal care
• Nicole St. Pierre (New Bedford) textiles
• Pat Warwick (Warren, RI) ceramic tiles

A member of the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce, Handworks is located by the magical and scenic newly renovated Eel Pond drawbridge, gateway to Vineyard Sound.

For more information, contact Woods Hole Handworks Gallery, 508-540-5291, 68 Water Street, Woods Hole 02543, co-managers Mark Chester, 508-299-8311 and Pat Warwick, 401-481-0721.

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"Pilgrims, Patriots & Products: Selling the Colonial Image" opening on June 10th

Special exhibit to run in Provincetown June through November, 2009

On Wednesday, June 10th from 4pm to 7pm, there will be an opening reception for Pilgrims, Patriots and Products: Selling the Colonial Image at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM). The exhibit was organized by Historic New England, Boston, MA and supported by The Lobster Pot Restaurant. It will be open through November 30th.

Pilgrims, Patriots and Products explores how the marketplace has exploited a mythical image of America’s colonial past. This entertaining and thought provoking panel exhibition examines how advertisers have used romanticized imagery about America’s past to sell commercial products, a practice that continues today. In response to economic uncertainties, labor unrest, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and a rise in immigration, Americans in the decades after the country’s 1876 Centennial looked to their colonial past for reassurance. The exhibition panels are divided into eight sections: architecture, furniture, household furnishings and products, appliances, silver, food, clothing, and Priscilla Alden, who became an icon of the Puritan era.

In Provincetown, residents seized upon this interest in things “Colonial” to promote their pilgrim history and attract visitors to town. Streets were given Pilgrim names, markers were placed at historic sites, and the Pilgrim Monument was conceived and completed to attract visitors to town. The exhibition is enriched with objects from the Provincetown Museum’s collection illustrating the exploitation of the colonial image: a “Pilgrim” hat worn by the Town Crier, cranberry box labels with Pilgrim brand names, a World War 1 Victory Garden poster, and a set of Pilgrim cookie cutters are some of the many objects on display.

Release courtesy of PMPM.

The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum is open 7 days a week from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. from April 1 through November with extended hours from June 1 to September 15 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Hyannis Art Shanties to open for 2009 season Saturday, May 16th

Popular attraction to open mid-May during Maritime Days

   The Art Shanties along the harbor, a great place to pass the time waiting for the ferry. Photo courtesy of the Town of Barnstable.

The Harbor Your Arts Artist Shanties at Hyannis Harbor/Bismore Park will open for the 2009 season on Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 11am.

This popular attraction provides a picturesque setting to view art made by both man and nature.  Visitors to the seven harbor side shanties can enjoy photography, painting, handmade jewelry, ceramics, mosaics, scrimshaw, mariner knot work, pressed seaweed and much more created by local artists and artisans.

The shanties will open Saturdays and Sunday from 11am to 5pm through Sunday June 14th.  Beginning Monday, June 15th, the shanties will stay open seven days a week from 11am to 8pm through Labor Day.  September 8th-October 2nd, seven days a week, 11am to 5pm.  October 3rd and 4th, and October 10th, 11th and 12th, open 11am-5pm. 

Over 24 artists will occupy 6 of the artist shanties.  This year, the seventh shanty is featuring Cape Cod Art Association and they will have over a dozen artists rotating in the shanty this season.  The Harbor Your Arts Artist Shanty Program is sponsored by the Town of Barnstable and possible with the generous grant support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Barnstable County Cape Cod Economic Development Council and the Town’s project partners, Main Street Business Improvement District (BID), Cape Cod Art Association (CCAA), the Hyannis Area Chamber of Commerce and in coordination with Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. 

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"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" at the Cape Cod Museum of Art

Abstract exhibit to run at the museum through June 7th

   Red Field by Robert Cipriani.

Robert Cipriani’s exhibition “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” will be on display at the Cape Cod Museum of Art May 1 - June 7.  Abstract works in this exhibition include multimedia paintings incorporating collage, acrylics, and modeling mediums.

"Expressionism is the most natural form of painting for me as there are no boundaries to my imagination and curiosity, just a process of discovering and expressing new ways to look at life and at creativity. I usually do find what I’m looking for, then start searching all over again. I typically know where I’m going with a painting, but often find that it starts to lead me, to draw me in other directions. I look for, and am always open to this, because new ideas often arise from just the process of starting to paint, and by being open, aware, and really curious.  My multimedia paintings often incorporate collage, photography, type, acrylics, and modeling mediums - a great selection of tools." - Robert Cipriani

Robert Cipriani, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, is both a professional artist and noted graphic designer. His paintings, represented by many galleries, have received a number of awards including the “Artist of the Year, Painting” designation from the Cambridge Art Association in a show juried by Edgar Driscoll, former Boston Globe art critic for 30 years.

Cape Cod Museum of Art, the regional art museum of Cape Cod, the Islands and Southeastern Massachusetts, is located off Route 6A, 60 Hope Lane, on the grounds of Cape Cod Center for the Arts, Dennis. Admission: $8, free for ages 18 and under and museum members. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Wednesday, 10 am - 5 pm; Thursday, 10 am – 8 pm; Friday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm; and Sunday, noon – 5 pm. Information: 508-385-4477 or www.ccmoa.org.

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