PAAM Features Programming and Exhibitions That Engage Children and Adults Alike... PAAM welcomes children and families to our galleries year-round. Recently at PAAM: A young Veterans Memorial Elementary School student displays a work of art created in PAAM's galleries, as part of the Youth and Educator Curating Program. YECP Participants choose art from PAAM's permanent collection, and respond to each work by creating original paintings, drawings or prints and creative texts; their work is displayed along with collection work in the museum's galleries. Over 1500 students and teachers have participated in the program and 60+ exhibitions have been mounted since YECP's inception in 1992. Children 12 and under visit PAAM free of charge.  Mention this listing and receive 50% off any child or youth 12- 18 years old (1/2 price admission is $3.50--adults who are not members of PAAM pay $7.00) Regular Winter Hours:  Thursday-Sunday, Noon-5pm and by appointment. Closed December 24, 25 & January 1. At PAAM's Gallery Activity Tables children and youth will have opportunities to make their own cards, think about and visualize their own family histories and participate in other hands-on activities.  Drawing supplies and other materials are supplied. For children who like to be outside, there is a self-guided booklet and tour of PAAM's sculpture gardens as well. Announcing a Series of Free Members’ Winter Workshops at PAAM - Faux Painting with Jean Fogg Brock February 13, 2010  9-11am Introduction to faux painting techniques for interior decorating and more. Participants bring: gloves, sponges, rags, cheap brushes, watercolor paper, and $5 for special paints.  Limit 8 participants. Register in advance.   - White Line Woodblock Prints with Ed Crane February 27, 2010, 10am-1pm Introduction to creating white line prints. Participants bring: pencil, eraser, sandpaper, watercolor paper, exact-o knife and blades, watercolors, watercolor brush, spoon (ideally silver) paper towels, push pins, and two pieces of 3/4” pine 3X4” or 4X5” - no knots. Limit 10 participants. Register in advance.   - Light is the Subject - Working with Pastels and/or Paints with Rosalie Nadeau March 6, 2010  9am-noon Introduction to depicting light in artwork using pastels or paints.  Participants bring: apron, paper and/or canvas, and pastels and/or paints. Limit 12 participants. - Advance registration required by calling PAAM @ 508.487.1750.

PAAM Proudly Presents the 5th Season of Winter Jazz with Bart Weisman Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank. PAAM welcomes back Winter Jazz with Bart Weisman for a very exciting 5th season! Bart has lined up an array of world-class jazz artists, many will only be seen in Provincetown once this winter, only at PAAM. Check back to this page for future scheduled concerts. Saturday, February 13, 2pm - Featuring Greg Abate with Paul Nagle (piano), Todd Baker (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums) Greg Abate is a Jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer & arranger who spends 150 days a year touring the US, Canada, UK, Europe and Russia.  He has worked with Ray Charles, Dick Johnson & the Artie Shaw Orchestra, James Williams, Rufus Reid and Kenny Washington to name a few.  Greg has recorded numerous CDs both as a leader and a sideman.  David Franklin of Jazz Times writes "The tunes he writes or chooses are based on the kinds of changes that harmony-oriented jazzmen have favored since the beginning and he swings through them with and eager and easy virtuosity." This concert is open to the public and free with museum admission. PAAM's Jazz Series with Bart Weismann has been awarded the 2009 Winner for Best Music on Cape Cod - New England Cable News/Cape Cod A-List. Find out more about Jazz on the Cape, Including the Provincetown Jazz Festival, and about Bart Weisman's Music at bartweisman.com

Chester I. Solomon Life Drawing Tuesdays and Fridays 9:30am-11:30am, year-round. No pre-registration required. Walk-ins welcome. Fee: $10 per session, $45 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.

filmArt@PAAM screenings are held twice a month on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in the galleries at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. A SERIES OF TEN FILMS... STRANGERS IN STRANGE LANDS: ARTISTS AND ALIENATION IN FACT AND FICTION   ...Begins Thursday, December 17, 6:30 p.m. and continues biweekly Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. through April 29, 2010. Each of the films will be screened at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) with an introduction and post-screening discussion led by Howard Karren, a former editor of Premiere Magazine.  REMAINING SEASON PASS (all films) ONLY $32 PURCHASE ONLINE HERE choose: filmArt@PAAM - Season Ticket on the online form or BUY AT PAAM FRONT DESK or SEND A CHECK: PAAM , filmArt@PAAM 460 Commercial Street Provincetown, MA 02657 Tickets for individual films may be purchased at the door for $5, depending upon availability. Thursday, December 17 at 6:30 p.m. KOYAANISQATSI (1982) This visual poem - set to original choral music by Philip Glass and inspired by the titular Hopi word, which translates to "life out of balance" - was shot almost completely in sped-up stop-motion photography, and contrasts the organic rhythms of nature with the frenetic and estranged world of man. Director Godfrey Reggio, a Catholic monk turned activist, spent seven years shooting the film, which carries its environmentalist metaphor far beyond earthly politics. USA; Color; 86 minutes (No screening on December 31; series skips a week for New Year's) Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. THE CROWD (1928) With this haunting silent film, King Vidor became one of the first directors to incorporate German Expressionist design into a Hollywood production. A cautionary tale of how a callow, young New York white-collar worker's romantic and corporate ambitions collapse into alcoholism and abject poverty, The Crowd was eerily echoed by the life of its leading man, James Murray, who became a screen sensation only to be found drowned in the Hudson River eight years later. USA; B&W; 104 minutes Thursday, January 21, at 6:30 p.m. THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (2007) Fatih Akin, a German-born Turk who burst onto the international scene with Head-On in 2004, has here created a modern masterpiece of cultural clashes and meshes - old and young, German and Turkish, straight and gay, revolutionary and bourgeois. The film's multithread narrative is exuberantly performed by its ensemble cast, which includes Fassbinder star Hanna Schygulla as a woman who tragically can't keep her lesbian daughter out of harm's way. Germany/Turkey; Subtitled; Color; 122 minutes Thursday, February 4, at 6:30 p.m. SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST (1997) Bob Flanagan is a performance artist who takes it to the limit when it comes to self-inflicted pain. As he explains in Kirby Dick's unflinching documentary portrait, Flanagan was born with cystic fibrosis, but it was his sexual masochism (and his Jewish dominatrix wife) that helped him survive the excruciating burden of the disease into middle age, far longer than most. This remarkable film is painfully explicit and difficult to watch, yet strangely uplifting. USA; Color; 90 minutes Thursday, February 18, at 6:30 p.m. WHAT A WAY TO GO! (1964) Hollywood comedies of the pre-psychedelic '60s were mainly unheralded, breezily cynical, big-budget extravaganzas, and this epic of doomed romance and inherited gazillions is all that and more. Shirley MacLaine plays a small-town girl who just wants love, but each successive suitor she marries (Dick Van Dyke, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly) becomes fabulously rich and successful, then dies and leaves his fortune to her. Newman plays an abstract-expressionist painter who devises brush-wielding robots to execute his canvases. USA; Color/B&W; 111 minutes Thursday, March 4, at 6:30 p.m. PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (2008) Smith, a poet-turned-punk-rocker who exploded onto the pop scene in the mid-'70s, is still as artistically vital as she ever was. This moody, impressionistic, and beautifully visualized documentary, directed by Steven Sebring, pivots on several years of interviews with Smith in which she discusses her life, her band, her poetry, her children, and her ever-changing sense of what the mission of an American artist should be. USA; Color/B&W; 109 minutes Thursday, March 18, at 6:30 p.m. HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY (2002) You don't just learn how to draw a bunny" in this "delightful, unabashedly celebratory documentary about the life and times of the late artist Ray Johnson," writes critic Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times. "A first-rate collagist and lifelong fringe dweller who became celebrated in rarefied circles as the 'most famous unknown artist' in New York," Johnson is recalled by James Rosenquist, Christo, Chuck Close, and Roy Lichtenstein, among others, in stories that are "as loopy and pleasurable as Johnson's art." USA; Color; 90 minutes Thursday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m. LOVE IS THE DEVIL (1998) This biographical drama traces the tortured relationship between British painter Francis Bacon (Derek Jacobi) and the studly, working-class thief 30 years his junior, George Dyer (Daniel Craig, the reigning 007), who breaks into the artist's home in the 1960s, looking for something to steal, and then becomes his lover. Although none of Bacon's work is shown in the film (the artist's estate refused permission), as critic Roger Ebert attests, "a viewer who has never seen a Bacon would be able to leave this film and identify one instantly in a gallery." UK; Color; 90 minutes Thursday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2006) This award-winning documentary by Jennifer Baichwal follows Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky as he seeks out the slag heaps and factories of China and Bangladesh, exploring the beauty of manmade landscapes that might ordinarily be considered unnatural, grotesque, or environmentally hazardous. Burtynsky sees a revelatory truth in these subjects, which, like all art, can be seen as projections of our feelings and imagination. Canada; Color; 80 minutes Thursday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. GHOST WORLD (2001) From its Bollywood-styled beginning to its ineffable end, Terry Zwigoff's film is an imaginative adaptation of Daniel Clowes's underground comic book about misfit aesthetes in Los Angeles. Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are high-school almost-graduates who use a retro and contrarian sense of style as a hostile statement against their dull-headed milieu. As Enid embarks on an affair with a middle-aged antique-record collector (Steve Buscemi), the film sees the world as she does - sensitively yet detached, confidently yet utterly at sea. USA; Color; 111 minutes 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 6:30 p.m. in the museum's galleries. FilmArt@PAAM was established in the collaborative efforts 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.

THE ANNUAL SECRET GARDEN TOUR WILL RETURN Sunday, July 11th 2010 10-3pm Tickets $30 includes admission to PAAM Celebrate PAAM’s 13th Annual Secret Garden Tour next summer with a double header garden experience. The day begins with a walking tour of gorgeous Secret Gardens in Provincetown’s west end. Visitors are then invited to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum to tour the Art of the Garden, an exhibition of floral works in air-conditioned galleries. All proceeds from the event benefit PAAM exhibitions and educational programs. For thirteen 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. The owners and tenders of fragrant and visually stunning Provincetown gardens plan to welcome more than 500 visitors. Free parking will be provided at Benson, Young and Downs Insurance Agency and Gately-McHoul’s Funeral home, found at the end of Harry Kemp Way. A fleet of shuttle-cars will make 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. All proceeds from the event support PAAM exhibitions and education programs. Suzanne Sinaiko (1918 - 1998) The Provincetown Bay watercolor on paper, 24 x 18" PAAM Collection, gift of Napi Van Dereck, 2000
PAAM's Annual 12x12 Exhibition and Silent Auction is an exciting event that draws artists and collectors together in support of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.  The 12 x 12 is a perfect opportunity for collectors to view a broad range of local talent, and an exceptional venue for emerging artists seeking visibility.  join or renew your membership today! Bidding started at $125, climbing by demand throughout the one-month exhibition until the final hour of the silent auction. Participating artists agreed to a 50% commission, with an option to donate their own percentage of the final sale to PAAM. These commissions and donations provide funding for year-round art exhibitions and educational programming.  Next Year's Annual Members’ 12x12 Exhibition and Silent Auction July 23-Sept 11, 2010 Opening reception July 23, 8-10pm Closing party September 11, 4pm Final Bidding: September 11, 5pm Thanks to all of members and volunteers who's work and contributions made the 2009 12 x 12! Click here to download the 2009 12 x 12 AUCTION RESULTS

GALLERY HOURS

October - May
noon to 5 pm, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
also open by appointment

Memorial Day - September
11 am - 8 pm Monday - Thursday.
11 am - 10 pm Friday.
11 am - 5 pm Saturday and Sunday.

OFFICE HOURS

9 am to 5 pm, Tues. through Sat.
(9 am to 4 pm, Tues.-Sat., November through March)

LIFE DRAWING

Tuesdays and Fridays,
9:30 - 11:30 am

ADMISSION

$7 general admission
Free for PAAM members and children 12 and under
Free Friday evenings

PAAM is located on the corner of Commercial and Bangs Streets in Provincetown's East End.

Take Route 6 to the Provincetown Center exit. Turn left at light onto Conwell Street, then left at stop sign onto Bradford Street, 1/2 mile on right is Bangs Street, right one block to Commercial.

Parking is available in many private and municipal lots in Provincetown, and depending on the season, parking may be available on Commercial Street.

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