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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. 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. Visit The Tim Burton Collective FilmArt@PAAM continues on Thursday, January 15 @ 7pm with Tim Burton's Ed Wood Ed Wood is a biopic of the unsung. The “misfits and dope addicts” of impossibly low budget American filmmaking. The film’s epilogue, following up with the characters, puts the film on the same level as all other big Hollywood biopics. Except this one is about someone who really didn’t do anything (and didn’t even get famous until after his death).... •thestopbutton.com Starring Johnny Depp (Ed Wood), Martin Landau (Bela Lugosi), Sarah Jessica Parker (Dolores Fuller), Patricia Arquette (Kathy O’Hara), Jeffrey Jones (Criswell), G.D. Spradlin (Reverend Lemon), Vincent D’Onofrio (Orson Welles), Bill Murray (Bunny Breckinridge), Mike Starr (Georgie Weiss), Max Casella (Paul Marco), Brent Hinkley (Conrad Brooks), Lisa Marie (Vampira), George ‘The Animal’ Steele (Tor Johnson) and Juliet Landau (Loretta King). Admission: $5/$3 for members - or make a $10 gift to help underwrite filmArt@PAAM PAAM presents the 4th Season of Winter Jazz with Bart Weisman. All three concerts take place on Saturdays at 2:00pm and are free and open to the public. · December 20, 2008 : Holiday Concert featuring the Provincetown debut of Vocalist Krisanthi Pappas from Boston.  With Bill Duffy (piano), Steve Skop (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). Boston based jazz vocalist Krisanthi Pappas has opened for jazz greats Branford Marsalis, Chuck Mangione and many others. She is a Billboard award winning songwriter and can be heard singing her original music and lyrics on ABC’s One Life To Live and NBC’s Passions. Krisanthi recently had a full feature article in the European distributed Jazz Magazine and her CDs, including her new Christmas album, receive airplay on radio stations nationwide and are a mix of her original songs along with her own arrangements of many jazz standards.   · February 14, 2009 Provincetown debut of Pianist Sonny Daye & Vocalist Perley Rousseau from New York.  With Laird Boles (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). The Husband and wife team of Sonny Daye (piano) and Perley Rousseau (vocals) have spent the last 20 years developing a unique blend of Jazz, Brazilian and International music. They perform 250 dates per year throughout New York, New England and in Europe. Their three CD releases Love Dance, East of the Sun and Let It Happen have generated international air play and critical acclaim. Chronicle Magazine declares them "harbingers of aesthetic jazz and romanticism." While the Jazz Observer says that Perley has a "beautifully rich voice, with the emotional power, swing and improvisational feel of a true jazz singer."    · March 14, 2009  Provincetown debut of Vocalist & Pianist Janice Friedman from New York.  With Laird Boles (bass) and Bart Weisman (drums). Janice Friedman is a jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, lyricist, arranger, and teacher who resides in New York City. For over two decades, she has performing throughout the United States, Europe and Japan including at Carnegie Hall and NYC jazz clubs. Janice has worked and/or recorded with Joe Lovano, Milt Hinton, Lew Tabakin and Billy Higgins, to name a few, and appeared on Marian McPartland’s radio show, “Piano Jazz.” New York Times Jazz Critic, John Wilson, writes that her “explosive … piano playing carries the aura and variety of a big band.” Janice is the musical director for Suede and their most recent collaboration is the CD, “Dangerous Mood” - a work full of big band arrangements that she penned especially for Suede. Her own CD, “Swingin’ for the Ride,” showcases her as a vocalist and pianist. Krisanthi Pappas Sonny Daye & Perley Rousseau Bart Weisman Janice Friedman

Calling all kids! Come enjoy the new kids’ activity tables in our galleries, a place where art can be shared with the young people in our lives. You’ll find drawing materials and booklets on portraits and landscapes, and even a scavenger hunt! Have fun looking at the art together and creating some of your own. PAAM's 2008 Fall Consignment Auction Saturday, September 20, 2008 Auctioneer: James R. Bakker MA License #154 152 Ross Moffett Portuguese Women, n.d. lithograph, 9 x 14" slr, framed, Est. 2000/4000 On Saturday, September 20, at 7 PM, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum offered a Consignment Auction of Early Provincetown Art. Auctioneer James R. Bakker presented these artworks in a live auction. The proceeds from this auction directly benefit the exhibitions and educational initiatives of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The Fall Consignment Auction Preview Exhibition has closed. Published results now available . Information, Results, and online listings 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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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

$5 general admission
Free for PAAM members and children 12 and under
Free Friday evenings