Rachel Brown remembers arriving on the Outer Cape as a child in 1944. Her family had moved from New York and rented a cottage on Slough Pond in Truro. “It […]
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A Walk in the Woods
Kelly Knight’s abstractions flow from the landscape
Kelly Knight is a Providence-based mixed-media artist. She’s spending time in Wellfleet this winter creating abstract images that record her experience of the landscape. Walking through and observing places is […]
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Changing Seasons
For Grace Emmet, winter is for digging into her sketchbook and using her naturally sourced ink
Grace Emmet is both an artist and curator of community education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She’s a close observer of nature and maintains an ecologically sustainable art […]
EXHIBITIONS
Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors
A show of works by Fine Arts Work Center fellows is a snapshot of global contemporary art
When the visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Cetner show their work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the community gets an exhilarating peek at what’s afoot […]
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A Moment, Captured or Created
Liam Crivellaro is looking for something under the surface
Liam Crivellaro took his first photos when he was 14 or 15 — he was riding BMX and wanted to document it. He lives in Chatham, but Wellfleet, where he […]
PATRIOTS
Jay Critchley Flies His Flag(s)
In a provocative and humorous exhibit, an artist takes aim at big oil
Visitors to Jay Critchley’s Provincetown studio never know what they’ll encounter. In the ground outside his door, there’s a cesspool that he renovated into a whitewashed space complete with a […]
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Storm Chasing in the Studio
Experiments in being sculptural
In a recent series of encaustic works, artist and Castle Hill director Cherie Mittenthal turns her attention to storms and boats. The pieces, she says, are influenced by her lifelong […]
PEACEMAKERS
Art That Bridges Divides
An exhibition honors the legacy and vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Walking into the current exhibition at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, one is greeted by Jo Hay’s oversize painting of the country’s youngest inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman. On the opposite wall is […]
RESOLUTIONS
Decluttering With Mom
A successful redistribution of stuff, with empathy for all that’s aspirational
In early December, I visited my mom at her house, a small cottage in Hyannis, where we had plans to set up her Christmas decorations. But when I arrived, she […]
IN THE STUDIO
The Ebb and Flow of a Life in Art
Helen Miranda Wilson’s journey of ‘digression and precision’
Helen Miranda Wilson’s studio sits at the center of her Wellfleet house, which was built in the 1850s. The studio seems set up for ideas to unravel and find form: […]
MUSES
Painting With Ferocity and Freedom
In the summer of 1958, Bob Thompson found inspiration among his friends in Provincetown
Bob Thompson came to Provincetown in 1958 and met a group of peers who would influence his art and his life. “I Am Myself: Early Works by Bob Thompson and […]
MUSIC AND ART
Garrett Dutton Finds a Different Rhythm
For this musician, painting is a source of freedom untethered from expectations
Garrett Dutton is best known by his stage name, G. Love. Since the early 1990s, he’s fronted the hip-hop blues band G. Love and Special Sauce, which maintains an active […]
ARTISTS
Variations on a Theme
A Greenwich Village exhibit invites us into Pat de Groot’s studio by the sea
The gallery at the New York Studio School on West 8th Street was empty of people when I visited Provincetown artist Pat de Groot’s posthumous survey exhibition, “Sea Smoke,” the […]
STARTING OVER
A Family History Reconfigured in Artifacts and Enigmas
Sasha Chavchavadze composes works from shards of stories and found objects
Sasha Chavchavadze approaches her family history with some ambivalence. At times she tries to stash it away. “All this heavy Russian history becomes too big,” she says. Still, she often […]
OBSERVER
A Focus on Place
Photographer Edward Boches is committed to his subjects
At Wellfleet Harbor, Edward Boches wades in shallow water, photographing shellfishermen at low tide. He rides his fold-up bike along Ocean View Drive with a camera around his neck. He’s […]
