“I like dramatic, show-stopping images,” says Greg Salvatori. “When I ask you to look at an artwork I created, I want to offer you something that is worthy of your […]
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig Help Families Learn Together
The mother-daughter team published two new books during the pandemic
Many children’s book writers find inspiration in their own offspring. Wellfleet resident Corinne Demas, the award-winning author of five novels, two short-story collections, a poetry collection, a memoir, and numerous […]
HOMESTEADING
Those Chicks You Got in April Will Be Laying Soon
If your adolescent chicken starts to crow, you’ve won the pullet surprise
When we became backyard chicken farmers five years ago, I had oodles of enthusiasm, but very little actual knowledge of chickens. I didn’t know, for example, that our six brand-new […]
PORTRAITS
Justin Vivian Bond: The Eyes Have It
A series of new watercolors is a window to queer culture
In an essay accompanying the exhibit “69 Witch Eyes,” Justin Vivian Bond, who uses the pronouns they/them, asks a pertinent question for life during the pandemic: “How do we care […]
ART EDUCATION
At PAAM, Tessa Bry Taylor Makes Sure the Kids Are All Right
Youth programs continue online and outdoors
“We are seeing unprecedented challenges in youth and art education,” says Tessa Bry Taylor, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s new curator of youth education. She took over the position […]
AUTHORS
Cooper Lee Bombardier Turns His Transgender Story Into Art
He’ll give a virtual reading of his new memoir in Provincetown
“Before I knew I was a human being and not a dog, my earliest sense of myself was male. I am just a funny sort of guy. I don’t hate […]
painters
Patrick Webb and the Art of Punchinello
A timeless and topical character inhabits Webb’s worldview
“Since 1990, Punchinello has always been included as the primary actor in the narrative of my paintings,” Patrick Webb says. Though Punchinello is a classic commedia dell’arte character, Webb depicts […]
DRAG
Cacophony Daniels Celebrates Her Own Family Values
The show-tune belter returns to Provincetown
“Cacophony is all about enjoying the moments we have,” Courter Simmons says of his drag persona, Cacophony Daniels. “I’ve always wanted her to be the kind of person you get […]
GALLERIES
Dave Laro Celebrates the Mystery of Found Objects
He returns to Provincetown with new pop constructions
“We’re here to communicate,” says Dave Laro. “We are all trying to make sense of this world we were born into.” As an artist, Laro tells stories by collecting old […]
PAINTING
In Her Painting, Midge Battelle Thinks Outside the Box
A life in art finds fulfillment in a palette knife
Painting is the sole focus of artist Midge Battelle’s work these days. Known as a photographer and respected curator in the Provincetown art scene, she considers her current artwork the […]
ARCHITECTURE
Nauset Students Recognized by Cape Cod Modern House Trust
Winning design projects show college-level sophistication
“It is unusual for a high school to have an architecture program,” says Peter McMahon, the founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) and co-author of Cape […]
GALLERIES
Vicky Tomayko Gives the Forms of Nature an Edge
The printmaker extraordinaire has a joyful new show of work
Down a long, winding dirt road, deep in the woods of South Truro, lies the studio and home of printmaker Vicky Tomayko. She has lived and worked there surrounded by […]
ARTISTS
The Souls on Ice in Joseph Diggs’s Paintings
He connects past, present, and future in his art
“This isn’t new to me, and I’m tired of it,” says painter Joseph Diggs, a Cape Cod native. He’s referring to the recent killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Diggs […]
YOUTH PRIDE
Covid-19 Takes a Toll on LGBTQ Youth
Facing cancellation, Camp Lightbulb goes virtual
For many in the LGBTQ community, annual pride events commemorating the Stonewall uprising of June 28, 1969, have constituted their first euphoric moments of connection, of celebration, of feeling recognized […]
ARTISTS
Ray Wiggs Brings a Touch of Classical Italy to Provincetown
His paintings and gallery are labors of love
“I am constantly drawn back to the figure,” says Ray Wiggs. “There are many subjects that I enjoy painting. However, the figure has always been alluring to me, because no […]
