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Nat'l Watercolor Society selects Cultural Center of Cape Cod for East Coast exhibit

Traveling exhibit to open April 14, 2010

   Ireland, Passage East by Frank Francese. Courtesy of the National Watercolor Society.

The 2010 Traveling Exhibit of the National Watercolor Society will open at the Cultural Center of Cod on April 14 and run through May 23. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 17 from 6-8 pm and will also celebrate the work of Marstons Mills watercolor artist Robert Mesrop (in the Board Room from April 14-May 2) and South Yarmouth painter Dick McGarr (in the Blue Room from April 14-25). The exhibits and the reception are free and open to the public.

New York in Snow by Doug Lew. Courtesy of the National Watercolor Society.

"We can't think of a better way to welcome spring than with a collection of outstanding work from the National Watercolor Society and two of our fine local artists," says Robert Nash, Executive Director of the Cultural Center. "We've been fortunate to host shows by several national and regional organizations, such as the New England Sculpture Association and the American Society of Marine Artists, and we're now looking forward to this major exhibit and to several others coming up this year, including a national exhibit juried by the Pastel Painters of Cape Cod in June, a show by the MA Cultural Council Artist Fellows in July, the Annual Exhibit of 21 in Truro in September, and a Regional Exhibit by Native American artists in October. We've also scheduled shows by Cape Cod Waterworks, The Printmakers of Cape Cod, and a great many individuals and collaborations, and we're excited about all of them. 2010 is going to be quite a year for us."

The National Watercolor Society  was originally established in 1920 as the California Water Color Society.  The name of the Society has changed twice since then: first, in 1967, to the California National Watercolor Society and again, in 1975, when the members voted to become simply the National Watercolor Society. It is now an international society with thousands of members from all over the US and Canada. The exhibit at the Cultural Center will mark the Society's 90th anniversary.

"We think it is very important to host exhibits by local emerging and established artists," says Nash, "but we also see great merit in welcoming exceptional work from artists beyond the bridges. We all benefit from that kind of exposure. And we look forward to introducing our many artist friends here on the Cape to Massachusetts members of the National Watercolor Society and others who travel here when we host the spring show."

The Cultural Center's mission is to increase access to education in the visual and performing arts, culture, and humanities for all Cape residents, with specific concentration on youth development and professional growth. It serves as a focal point for the community and visitors to the area interested in culture and the arts by offering instruction, entertainment, and exhibition.

It is located at 307 Old Main Steet in South Yarmouth. For more information, call 508-394-7100 or visit www.cultural-center.org.

Courtesy of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.

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Creative Arts Center Faculty Exhibition through January 29th

Color on these otherwise drab days of winter

   Oil painting by Mary Carroll Allen.

The Creative Arts Center Faculty Exhibition provides an eye-full of color and huge contrast to the weather outside. The Exhibition and Sale will be available for viewing until January 29, 2010.

Works by the following instructors are available for purchase and viewing:

• Mary Carroll Allen (Pastel and Oil)
• Teresa Cetto (Silversmithing)
• Ron Dean (Pottery)
• Maryalice Eizenberg (Oils)
• Jack Garver (Watercolor)
• William Maloney (Oil)
• Doris Mee (Collage and Watercolor)
• Robert Mesrop (Watercolor)
• Rosalie Nadeau (Pastel and Oil)
• Debra Ruddeforth (Watercolor)
• Marilyn Schofield (Oil)
• Odin Smith (Acrylic and Pastel)
• Karen North Wells (Watermedia)
• Susan Williams (Pottery)

Winter Sessions/Classes

Two winter sessions are being offered. The first session started the week of January 11, 2010 and the second session starts the week of February 22, 2010.   Call the center if you have an interest in any of the classes.  Odin Smith is a new instructor at the Center who also teaches at the Cape Cod Art Association.

Upcoming Photography Show

Be sure to check out the website for the next show’s prospectus! The February exhibition is an open juried photography show cosponsored by the Cape Cod View Finders Club. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, February 7 from 3pm to 5pm. Call the Center with any questions.

The Creative Arts Center is open Monday-Friday 9am to 4pm. The Center is located at 154 Crowell Road in Chatham, 508-945-3583.

Courtesy of CAC.

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Creative Convergence: Renowned painters at Cape Cod Museum of Art

Exhibit features landscape paintings by fifteen award-winning artists

The exhibition Creative Convergence: Renowned Painters Showing on Cape Cod is a collaboration between Cape Cod Museum of Art and Addison Art Gallery. The exhibition, on view at the museum January 12 - February 28, 2010, features landscape paintings by 15 award-winning painters, from across the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Bulgaria and Russia, who in the fall of 2009, met in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Inspired by its thriving art colony, historic town, as well as its magnificent surrounds, and each other, these artists created a wonderful diversity of plein air works in their individual styles. All established artists, they bring their completed works together for exclusive shows on Cape Cod, another area widely known for its natural beauty, history and for nurturing the arts.

The exhibiting artists gathered together. Photo courtesy of the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Related events taking place at the museum are a Gallery Talk Friday, February 12, 1 pm, and a reception Friday, February 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

The associated exhibition at Addison Art Gallery in Orleans will be on view January 9 - March 31, 2010 with an artists reception Saturday, February 13, 5:30, 7:30 pm.

Participating artists include Jeff Bonasia, Scott Burdick, Daniel Corey, Frank Gardner, Jerome Greene, Logan Hagege, Marc Hanson, Ignat Ignatov, Peter Kalill, Jeremy Lipking, Kevin McNamara, Ernesto Nemesio, Colin Page, Paul Schulenburg and Alexey Steele.

Impressionist landscape painters are drawn to the beauty of light falling across the landscape. Their avowed intent is to capture that impression in the two-dimensional plane of the canvas. We live at a time when this art of seeing and recording the look of nature is widely practiced and has been brought to an extraordinarily high level of excellence. Since the 19th century, Cape Cod had been a center for plein air painting because of the special quality of its light and the sculptural aspects of its landscape. It is a rare treat to be able to see the work of an internationally trained group of impressionist painters focused on one of the other amazing regions of the world. We will see the reality of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, presented through the filter of the artist's eye - some things familiar and some things arrestingly novel - and thus be able to vicariously experience the place. CCMA is fortunate to be able to work with Addison Art Gallery in presenting this exhibition which represents a local painting tradition in a much larger context.

- Elizabeth Ives Hunter, Executive Director CCMA

Once again, Addison Art Gallery has the privilege of presenting the work of internationally renowned painters to art lovers on Cape Cod. These accomplished artists have created inspired interpretations of subjects ranging from sun-soaked portraits and town vignettes to sweeping landscapes. Together in exhibition, these diverse incarnations offer the viewer an integrated sense of a magical place, its people and their lives.

- Helen Addison, Addison Art Gallery

Addison Art Gallery is located at 43 Route 28, Orleans. 508-255-6200  www.addisonart.com.

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: Thursday, 10 am – 8 pm; Friday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm; and Sunday, noon – 5 pm. Information: 508-385-4477 or www.ccmoa.org.

Courtesy of CCMA.

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Valery Thurber, featured artist at Guyer Art Barn in Hyannis

Exhibit runs January 2-January 30, 2010

Artist Valery Thurber  is featured at Guyer Art Barn, 250 South Street Hyannis this January.  Her exhibit will be on display January 2nd through January 30th, 2010.  All are invited to enjoy art, refreshments and live jazz music at the opening reception on Friday, January 8th  from 6pm to 8pm.

Valery Thurber's Self Portrait in Cool Light, 16" x 16" oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Guyer Art Barn.

An up and coming contemporary painter, Valery’s works have been featured regionally.  The works on display  will include oils, woodcut prints, monotypes, and mixed-media.  Her subject matter includes the figure and simple still-life objects.  Valery manipulates color and texture to take the imagery beyond representation towards an expressive style.

Guyer Art Barn is a showcase for emerging and established local artists.  It is a community art space, a working artist studio and professional artist gallery supporting and promoting the arts.  Located at 250 South Street Hyannis in Hyannis, it sits on the campus of town owned properties that make up the Shirley Blair Flynn Center for Creative Arts. 

For more information call the recorded line at  508-862-4990 or Guyer Art Barn Director, Mellissa Morris at 508-566-2880 or  visit www.harboryourarts.com  and follow the Guyer Art Barn link.

Courtesy of the Guyer Art Barn.

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Leonard Baskin’s Laus Pictorum on exhibition at Cape Cod Museum of Art

Exhibit, from the Museum's permanent collection will be on display 12/12-1/21/10

Leonard Baskin's portrait of Gustav Courbet. Courtesy of the CCMA.

Leonard Baskin’s print series, Laus Pictorum, will be on exhibition at Cape Cod Museum of Art December 12, 2009 - January 21, 2010.  These prints, from CCMA’s permanent collection, are a series of 15 portraits of 19th century artists Baskin created in honor of artists he considered his spiritual ancestors.  Included are 10 original wood engravings and five original etchings, signed and numbered by the artist.

Born in 1922 in New Jersey, Baskin was a sculptor, printmaker and book designer.  During the 50's era of modern experimentation with abstraction, Baskin’s subject was the human figure, “anxiety ridden man, imprisoned…” His inspiration often came from the Bible, Greek and Sumerian imagery.  As the son of a rabbi, Jewish imagery was also an important element in his work.

The Printmaker Instructor at the Worcester Art Museum in 1953, he went on to become a Professor of Drawing, Printmaking and Sculpture at Smith College.

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: 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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