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 […]
ARTISTS
DNA Residents Gain a Space to Show Their Work
Nick Lawrence’s Readymade Gallery brings artists from the Cape, New York, and beyond
PROVINCETOWN — The DNA residency, situated in a cavernous, barnlike space above the Provincetown Tennis Club, has hosted artists on the Outer Cape since 2012. In previous years it was […]
LARGE SCALE
Murals That Expand Beyond the Walls
An exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art features paintings both indoors and out
DENNIS — When Samuel Tager was asked to curate a show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, he had been thinking a lot about mural projects in Boston, Lynn, […]
PUBLIC ART
Andrew Mowbray Pursues the Unpredictable
The Provincetown Public Art Foundation’s most recent project is a collaboration with the wind
Every Wednesday, Andrew Mowbray travels from Boston to Provincetown, where he finds a drawing produced in collaboration with the wind and his sculpture Tempest Prognosticator. “I get to open this […]
ARTISTS
Monica Rozak Is Always Looking Up
The Eastham artist ponders her place in the world by painting the sky
Monica Rozak often walks along the bluff by Marconi Beach when the sun is coming up or going down. “I’m really drawn to the sky,” she says. Her landscape paintings, […]
