A CENTURY OF CREATIVITY Exhibition of works from PAAM's permanent collection will be on view at the Massachusetts College of Art’s Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery from July 3 – July 29, 2008. Through Mass Art’s partnership with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, PAAM has been hosting the Low Residency MFA Thesis exhibition for the past two years since its inception in 2006.  To further the partnership, PAAM will showcase important works that inspire artists in the oldest living arts colony in Boston. Featuring over 40 works created by American artists from 1900 to the present, this exhibition will provide an overview of the century of creativity preserved by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.  This important legacy features works from the major 20th Century American art historical movements including American Impressionism and Abstract Impressionism highlighting works by Karl Knaths, Adolph Gottlieb, and Robert Motherwell, as well as the white-line method of wood block printmaking which was perfected in Provincetown in the early 1900s. Richard Baker, PAAM Permanent Collection A FINE pARTnership - The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival at PAAM August 11th, 2008 Musicians Philip Setzer, violin/ Rebecca Young, viola/ Andres Diaz, cello/ Jon Manasse, clarinet. Time 8:00 PM Location Provincetown Art Association and Museum 460 Commercial Street Provincetown 508-487-1750 Ticket Info $28 General, $15 Student, 10 and under Free/ $26 Series, one ticket to three or more concerts / Early buyers discount if tickets purchased on or before June 30. To Purchase Tickets, Please CALL THE BOX OFFICE @ 1-800-818-0608 for tickets and information. Program Details J.S. Bach, Suite No. 5 in C Minor for Unaccompanied Cello,BWV 1011/ B. Crusell, Quartet No. 1 in E-Flat Major for Clarinet, VioWednesdays @ 6PM - $15.00 admission Chester I. Solomon Life Drawing Tuesdays and Fridays 9:30am-11:30am, year-round. No pre-registration required. Walk-ins welcome. Fee: $8 per session, $35 for 5 sessions. Life Drawing at PAAM gives students and artists the opportunity to practice figure drawing from a professional live model.  Male and female models provide a variety of poses. Easels are provided, but participants must bring all other supplies. Drawing in the Galleries: Visitors are welcome to sketch from works displayed in the PAAM galleries.  Students and artists must provide their own drawing supplies.  Pencil and colored pencil are permitted. Music in the Cape Air with Dick Miller Wednesdays @ 6PM - $15.00 admission July 9, 6pm, Joe Muranyi, clarinet & vocals; John Bucher, trumpet; Marshall Wood, bass July 23, 6pm, Marty Grosz, guitar & vocals; Dan Block, clarinet & sax August 6, 6pm Samoa Wilson, vocals; Peter Ecklund, trumpet September 10, 6pm Jimmy Mazzy, banjo & vocals; Jeff Hughes, trumpet; John Clark, clarinet FilmArt@PAAM presents movies that are recognized works of art - as well as inspiring films about art and artists - followed by a discussion and guest speakers. Screenings are held about twice a month on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in the museum's renovated galleries. FilmArt@PAAM is the collaborative effort of John G. Ives, an entertainment attorney and movie industry veteran whose film career began in Provincetown in the ’70s, when he owned The Movies, the repertory theater upstairs at Whaler’s Wharf; Joe Fiorello, an artist and PAAM trustee; and Mr. Karren, a former editor of Premiere magazine. Thursday, July 31 at 7 p.m FilmArt@PAAM continues it's Summer of Love season with François Truffaut's JULES AND JIM Jules and Jim is François Truffaut's deceptively lyrical, yet understatedly complex nouvelle vague film on love and friendship. At the heart of the conflict is the enigmatic Catherine (exquisitely played by the incomparable Jeanne Moreau), whose chameleon personality adapts to suit the relationship she is in. (Note the effect of the equally inscrutable character, Anna, in Louis Malle's Damage.) In fact, she is the avatar of an intriguing, seemingly unfinished statue with a haunting smile that the two best friends, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), were captivated by during a friend's slide presentation of the Adriatic Island (so much so that the two travel to the same outdoor museum just to see it). For Jules, the shy, conservative Austrian, Catherine assumes the image of a devoted country wife and mother. For Jim, the adventurous, extroverted Frenchman, she transforms herself into a carefree, sexually liberated lover. The tragedy of the film lies in Catherine's emotional ambiguity towards Jules and Jim. Inasmuch as she desires both men, she eludes their attempts to love her. Unable to choose between them, she destroys everyone by holding on. Set during the advent of World War I, Jules and Jim is an allegorical film about the turmoil between French nationalism and the German occupation of World War II. As with the characters' doomed love triangle, the film is a scathing indictment of a country led to ruin by lack of conviction and feigned neutrality. Truffaut uses the recurrent theme of cycles throughout the film (as in Anatole Litvak's Goodbye Again). Jules habitually turns an hourglass at his apartment in order to set his bedtime. There is a scene where the camera pans around the bistro, beginning and ending with the two friends talking. Catherine is constantly changing hats, and assumes a different personality with each one. Bicycle trips feature prominently in several scenes, and involve Catherine's lovers. Lastly, note the structure and lyrics of Catherine's song, which allude to her pattern of indiscretions, separations, and reconciliations with Jules. Similar to Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver, the cyclical theme represents a love triangle. However, it also symbolizes a vicious circle - Catherine's self-destructive "whirlpool" - of extramarital affairs, emotional vacillation, and cruelty to the people who love her. It is a desperate, hopelessly impossible situation that entraps, rather than liberates. Jules and Jim is a deeply profound film about the devastating consequences of indecision on three people... and a nation. Starring: Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner Henri Serre Vanna Urbino Boris Bassiak Anny Nelsen Sabine Haudepin Marie Dubois Christiane Wagner Michel Subor Directed by François Truffaut, 1962 Running Time: 101:31 Rated PG "François Truffaut was one of five young French film critics, writing for André Bazin's Cahiers du Cinema in the early 1950s, who became the leading French filmmakers of their generation...Unlike his friend and contemporary, Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut remained consistently committed to his highly formal themes of art and life, film and fiction, youth and education, art and education, rather than venturing into radical political critiques of film forms and film imagery." - Gerald Mast (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991) "A passionately romantic humanist like Renoir, Truffaut was also a devout admirer of the skills of Hitchcock, which he attempted to emulate in several of his own thrillers. He published a book of a series of interviews he conducted with Hitchcock, whom he repeatedly identified as his idol, but temperamentally and emotionally his affinity with Renoir seemed to be the stronger side of his split artistic personality" - (The MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994) "In his lesser films, he tended to rely too flagrantly on sentimental charm, melodramatic contrivance and romantic whimsy, and an insistent fascination with the mystery of women...His finest work, however, is precariously but deftly balanced between sympathetic involvement with his characters' doubts, frustration and confusion, and gently ironic detachment; accordingly, he favoured the medium close-up and medium-shot, linear but subtly elliptical narratives and, occasionally, voiceover narration, literary in tone." - Geoff Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999) "A seminal director in the French New Wave, Truffaut is a master at illustrating the small joys and sorrows of human existence, with a particular talent for understanding children." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) "The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure." - François Truffaut FilmArt@PAAM continues on July 31 with "Jules and Jim," François Truffaut's tragic and lyrical 1962 love triangle, a pillar of the French New Wave, starring an incandescent Jeanne Moreau; on August 28 with "if.." (1968), Lindsay Anderson's haunting film-poem to revolution and anarchy, set in a British boarding school and starring a young Malcolm McDowell; and on September 11 with "Repulsion" (1965), an early erotic nightmare from Roman Polanski, starring an icily beautiful Catherine Deneuve as a Parisian manicurist who is desperately afraid of sex. FilmArt@PAAM screenings are held twice a month on Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in the museum's galleries. Suggested donation is $5 to the public and $3 for PAAM members. The popcorn is free, and beverages will be available. The 2008 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series Continues Begun in 2003, this series is named in honor of the artist Fredi Schiff Levin, who was a student of Leo Manso and Victor Candell, and who lived in Provincetown from the ‘60s until her passing in 2002. Mildred & Herbert Lee and Toni & John Levin make this program possible with their generous contributions. Lectures are free and open to the public; reservations are not required. Joy of Change A Gallery Talk with Robert Henry Tuesday, July 22- 7pm Robert Henry discusses his artwork and his creative process in conjunction with his solo exhibition at PAAM. Henry has earned critical recognition for his paintings and works on paper, which have been exhibited widely throughout the US and abroad. Henry arrived in Provincetown in 1952 to study with the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann. Over the past 50 years Henry has charted a course into unknown creative territory, and practiced an improvisational embrace of the “shifting world.” A comprehensive exhibition of Henry’s work will be on view at PAAM (July 18 – August 31). Herman Maril A Gallery Talk with Chris McCarthy Tuesday, August 12 - 7pm Chris McCarthy presents the work of Provincetown painter Herman Maril in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition at PAAM ( August 8 – October 12). McCarthy discusses the theme of simplicity in both the form and content that runs through Maril’s artwork. McCarthy has been the executive director of PAAM since 2001. She has held positions at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Erie Canal Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She holds a B.A. from Providence College, a M.A. in Museum Studies from Syracuse University, and has studied nonprofit administration at Harvard University. Summer Jazz Concerts with Bart Weisman All concerts start at 6:00 pm, tickets: $15.00 • June 25, Wednesday - Shawnn Monteiro (vocals) with John Harrison III (piano) Chris Rathbun (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums) • July 16, Wednesday - Next Generation of Jazz (some great young jazz talent) with Tyler Clibbon (sax), Sam Woodbury (guitar), Will Slater (bass), Kareem Sanjaghi (drums), Suzanne Davis (piano) and Bart Weisman (drums) • July 30, Wednesday - Ann Austin (vocals) & John Harrison III (piano) with Chris Rathbun (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums).  • August 4, Monday - Carmen Cicero (sax) with Kent Hewitt (piano), Marshall Wood (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). • Sept 3, Wednesday - Jon Wheatley (guitar) & Bruce Abbott (sax) with Laird Boles (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums).  The Shawnn Monteiro Master Classes Master Class & Concert Schedule: • June 23, Monday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm • June 24, Tuesday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm • June 25, Wednesday, 11:00am – 2:00pm (with Band) The Shawnn Monteiro Master Classes are open to the public for observation: To enroll as a student, please contact Bart Weisman at bartweisman@bartweisman.com, or call 508-274-2513. Shawnn will cover a history of jazz, breathing exercises, and will sing different examples of all types of jazz. The students will perform during the three days and be critiqued.  The band will back the students on Wednesday with John Harrison III (piano), Chris Rathbun (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). Shawnn Monteiro has delighted audiences from USA to Europe with her highly popular jazz repertoire laced with blues-oriented improvisations. Percussion and latin/jazz great impresario Mongo Santamaria discovered Shawnn working in a club in San Jose, California and signed her on the spot to tour with his band. Since then, Shawnn has shared the stage with Clark Terry, Ray Brown, Lionel Hampton, the Basie Band, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Jimmy Cobb, and Sonny Fortune, to name a few. Shawnn teaches a Vocal Master Class in Rome and Genova, Italy every summer and is the Artist in Residence at Rhode Island College. She is also an adjunct Professor (in Jazz Vocals) at both Rhode Island College, Providence, RI and Harrt School of Music, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. Shawnn's father was the late renowned bassist Jimmy Woode, veteran of the Duke Ellington band. ShawnnMontiero.com Blue Door Chamber Music at PAAM - Wednesdays, 7PM - $15.00 admission Now in its 10th season, the duo of cellist Arthur Cook and pianist Deborah Gilwood returns to PAAM for the 2008 season. Wednesday, August 13, 7 PM Wednesday, August 20, 7 PM Wednesday, August 27, 7 PM Pianist Deborah Gilwood and cellist Arthur Cook founded the Blue Door Chamber Music series in the summer of 1999. Enthusiastic audiences come to Blue Door's concerts at the Art Association for evocative and adventurous programs featuring some of New York's leading chamber musicians. This season they include clarinetist Anthony Brackett, violinists Cenovia Cummins, Lorra Baylis and Amy Kimball, violist Karl Kawahara, and oboist Marilyn Coyne. Deborah Gilwood and Arthur Cook began to collaborate in 1985 and their performances and recordings have captivated audiences ever since. The Newark Star-Ledger noted, "one marveled at their delicate yet taut reading, flawlessly paced....They gave ample demonstration of technical strength, musical intelligence, expressive power and open ears." Of their recent CD, Censored by Hitler: The Rediscovered Masterpieces, issued by Centaur records, Fonofone Magazine says, "Their performance is full of intensity...a performance deserving wide attention from the public." American Record Guide says, "as romantic as I have ever heard." The duo continues to perform on many chamber music series, which have included those at Princeton University, the Beethoven Festival at Oyster Bay, Haverford College, Rutgers University, the New Horizons Series at the Greenwich House Music School in New York, the Mannes College of Music, the New School, the Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, the Harvard Club, and Lincoln Center.

PAAM's 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour . . . was held on Sunday, July 13, 2008 Celebrate PAAM’s 11th Annual Secret Garden Tour on Sunday, July 13th with a double header garden experience. The day began with a walking tour of ten gorgeous Secret Gardens. Visitors were then invited to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to tour the Art of the Garden, an exhibition of historic and contemporary botanical works. Thanks to all who made the 2008 secret garden tour a day to remember! at left: Nanno DeGroot, Sunflowers, PAAM Permanent Collectiony For eleven years, the Secret Garden Tour has led guests through hidden stone paths and crooked wooden walkways into borders and beds of specimen plants, common and exotic flowers, and lush greenery. This year, the owners and tenders of ten fragrant and visually stunning Provincetown gardens plan to welcome more than 500 visitors. The selected gardens are located in Provincetown’s center, making the tour quite walkable from PAAM and nearby parking lots. Free parking had been provided at Benson, Young and Downs Insurance Agency and Gately-McHoul’s Funeral home, found at the end of Harry Kemp Way. A shuttle made continuous stops between the parking lots and gardens throughout the day. Tickets to the Secret Garden Tour include admission to PAAM’s galleries for the Art of the Garden exhibition. This event continues to be a success year after year due in part to the kindness of more than fifty dedicated volunteers, and all proceeds from the event benefit PAAM’s exhibitions and education programs. PAAM is a proud sponsor of the Provincetown Jazz Festival 2008 Clarinet Summit at the Provincetown Art Association Vocalist Mercedes Hall Louis Armstrong & Joe Muranyi The 4th Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival will be held on August 15 – 17, 2008 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This is the first three-day Jazz Festival on Cape Cod featuring: • Zoe Lewis (coming off an international tour) • Afro Bop Alliance (Latin jazz band from Maryland) • Dane Vannatter (Boston-based jazz vocalist) • Greg Abate (saxophone & flute, coming off a European tour) • Joe Muranyi (clarinet player for 5 years with Louis Armstrong) • Marcelle Gauvin (jazz vocalist & instructor at the University of Massachusetts) • Mercedes Hall (New York-based jazz vocalist) • Steve Ahern (trumpet & flute from Florida) • Charlie Harris (jazz & blues singer based in Boston) • John Harrison III & Steve Hershman (on piano), Chris Rathbun (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums) • And many more musicians! There will be three concerts at the Provincetown High School Auditorium: • Friday, August 15, 8:00 pm • Saturday, August 16, 8:00 pm • Sunday, August 17, 1:00 pm Tickets will be $25.00 per concert and a portion of the proceeds are donated to worthy causes in Provincetown. Schedules, Sponsors and Ticket information can be found at www.provincetownjazzfestival.org PAAM's 2008 Benefit Gala will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2008 Third Annual Benefit Gala Saturday, October 11, 2008 Mark your calendar for PAAM’s Annual Benefit Gala, an elegant event that is not to be missed. Last year more than two hundred guests filled our five galleries and two sculpture gardens, enjoying the company of patrons and friends. They walked away with beautiful gifts, raffle prizes, and the knowledge that the cost of their tickets directly benefits the educational and cultural initiatives of PAAM. Musical entertainment provided by acclaimed vocalist Suede set the mood for an art-filled evening that began with cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres followed by a fully catered dinner and dessert. This is the perfect opportunity to connect with members of the community who value the arts. Visit the Arts Foundation's awards page here. The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod has awarded the Collaborative Arts Project of the Year Award to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, in recognition of the Youth Education Program for Student Curating. Lynn Stanley, PAAM's Curator of Education, directs this remarkable program, utilizing VTS -Visual Thinking Strategies, a methodology that uses art to teach young children critical thinking. “We want to ensure that art making and art appreciation remain vital to the children and youth of our community. VTS promotes the development of a variety of thinking and viewing skills which will serve our children throughout their lives.”- Lynn Stanley Read more about this program and VTS in the Provincetown Banner's online article here, and Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School’s 2006 exhibition “A Closer Look: The Art of Interpretation. here, also in the Banner.

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