Chad Jacobs can’t stand bare lightbulbs. Although they might be trendy in restaurants and coffee shops as a play on an industrial look, he just doesn’t get them. “You’re constantly […]
OBJECT LESSONS
Mind the Raincatcher
Beneath a door at the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum, an ingenious sill kept wind-driven water at bay
Curious objects that tell stories of the past fill the displays at the Wellfleet Historical Society and Museum. More are stacked in boxes in the basement awaiting the completion of […]
FREQUENCIES
Tinja Ruusuvuori Practices Giving Up Control
In her radio station, the FAWC fellow taps into a collective imagination
In Tinja Ruusuvuori’s studio at the Fine Arts Work Center, some of her recent artwork is in piles on the floor. One piece that she recently showed at the Provincetown […]
SUPPER CLUB
In February, a Surprising Feast Springs From Foraging and Farms
Nicole Cormier conjures a cream of mushroom dip with flavors of the forest, not the can
Nicole Cormier often dances, all by herself and spontaneously, in the kitchen of her North Truro cottage. And when she cooks, she likes to harness that same kind of improvisational […]
MEET THE MAKER
Timelessness, Sculpted Slowly
In Sophia Dress’s woodshop, form and function occupy the same territory
On a tabletop in Sophia Dress’s Truro studio are about a half dozen wooden objects carved from walnut wood. It’s not obvious how to categorize them. About the size of […]
COOKING CLASS
An After-School Culinary Club Explores Healthy Foods and New Flavors
On pizza day, it’s jalapeños, red peppers, and spinach — but hold the artichokes
Students in the Wellfleet Elementary School’s culinary club have, over the past month, stayed after school to make things many of them had never heard of, like pho, the Vietnamese […]
ARTISTS
Joan Hopkins Coughlin Works From Memory
Her landscapes and still lifes reflect on her times in Wellfleet and Jamaica
Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s Wellfleet home is perched on a hill overlooking Duck Creek, a subject she’s continually returned to in her paintings. By the door in her kitchen hangs a […]
IN THE STUDIO
Sheryl Jaffe Explores Life’s Interconnectedness
The artist’s vision encompasses her birth story and the DNA of banana leaves
Sheryl Jaffe’s studio in her Wellfleet home feels equal parts science laboratory, industrial workshop, and cabinet of curiosities. Objects that she has collected on walks line the shelves and ledges: […]
OBJECT LESSONS
A Faking Box Full of Seafaring History
The tool that toed the line for rescues
Some objects at the Eastham Historical Society’s Schoolhouse Museum are oddly familiar — antique versions of things we use now. Others, like the faking box, are illegible to contemporary eyes, […]
ART HISTORY
Clare Leighton’s Wellfleet Legacy
An engraver who brought light to our shores’ humble scenes
In her 1954 book about Cape Cod’s land and culture, Where Land Meets Sea, Clare Leighton describes herself as “a Britisher by birth” and a Cape Codder for a decade. […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A House and Its Reflection
Robert S Johnson turns his focus on one house and the history of Blackfish Creek
Pleasant Point is a spit of land in Wellfleet that juts out into Blackfish Creek. It’s like Cape Cod or Provincetown in miniature: not a place you drive through, but […]
SCREAMING COLOR
The Delicious Surrealism of Naya Bricher
The artist creates nostalgic, feel-good fictions from found imagery
On a rainy November morning, Naya Bricher arrived at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center wearing dangling cherry earrings, a pea-green shirt, and pants the same hue as Barney the purple […]
HISTORY
Tiny Worthington and Truro’s Fashion-Forward Days
How a 1930s cottage industry grew from one woman’s belief in the beauty of fishing nets
TRURO — Ada Worthington, whom everyone called Tiny, created a national fashion trend during the Great Depression from the beauty she saw in a piece of fishing net she picked […]
AN ART LEGACY
Sal Del Deo Carries On
A solo exhibition at PAAM charts the development of an adventurous career
In one of Salvatore Del Deo’s paintings now at his solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the town is framed through a pair of binoculars — a […]
WRITING LIFE
Margaret Shepherd’s Approach to an Ancient Sensual Text
Her calligraphic treatment of the Song of Songs reveals a lifetime of devotion to the artform
Margaret Shepherd’s calligraphy, now on view at the Wellfleet Public Library through Nov. 3, looks like it was created with ease. The lines of text, which are taken from the […]
