The Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series

The Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series welcomes artists, art historians, curators, and authors to speak at PAAM during the summer, both in conjunction with exhibitions and as independent scholars.

The series was established in honor of artist Fredi Schiff Levin, an active member of Provincetown’s arts community from the 1960s until her passing in 2002. We extend our deepest gratitude to The Levin Family, who graciously sponsors this series.

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The 2025 Season

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 6PM

Anthony Fisher: ReVisions

Curated by Donald Beal | On view through July 20

Anthony Fisher received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University. Nationally, Mr. Fisher exhibits at Galerie Mourlot in New York City. Fisher’s latest solo exhibit in NYC was in 2018, his fifth since 2003. He has received reviews of his work in Art News, Art Critical, and Painting Perceptions. Mr. Fisher’s work is included in private and public collections. He has been a university teacher for twenty-seven years.

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 6PM

Director’s Choice: Shirley Gorelick in Provincetown

Curated by Christine McCarthy | On view through September 1

Exhibition curator and PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy is joined by Jamie Gorelick to discuss her mother’s work and life. As one of Washington’s best-known litigators, Jamie Gorelick has represented institutions and individuals in a wide array of matters, particularly in the regulatory and enforcement arenas.  She recently received the American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Service Award. Jamie has been in and out of government for most of her career. She was one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. She also served as General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Jamie has also served on numerous government boards and commissions. Much of Jamie’s time has been devoted to non-profit service. She has taught at both Harvard Law School and Harvard College. Jamie has an active pro bono practice, focusing on the rights of women and immigrants. She has been a leader in the Bar, serving as President of the District of Columbia Bar and within the American Bar Association, principally in the area of legal ethics. Jamie is a member of the boards of Amazon and Verisign and previously served on the boards of United Technologies and Schlumberger. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 6PM

Hartley | Hopper: Drawings from Two New England Collections

Curated by Christine McCarthy and Dan Mills | On view through August 17

Curators Christine McCarthy and Dan Mills discuss this exhibition, organized by PAAM and Bates Museum of Art. Dan Mills is an artist and museum director/curator. Cartography, methods of visualizing information, current events, and satire are some of the subjects that captivate him. He has had solo shows in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and at academic museums and galleries throughout the US.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 6PM

Joe Diggs: Evolving Circles

Curated by Mara Williams | On view through September 7

Joe Diggs is a practicing artist, curator, and educator with generational roots on Cape Cod. His paintings range from realist depictions of African American history and personal family memories to gestural plein-air landscapes and geometric abstractions, and they span in scale from large, wall-sized murals to small, intimate works on cardboard. Diggs’ expansive artistic vision is unified by dynamic textures, perspectives, colors, and forms. Although anchored in his local Cape Cod community, Diggs’ paintings are in many national and international private collections.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 6PM

Iren Handschuh

Curated by Megan Hinton | On view through November 16

Megan Hinton is a painter known for reconfiguring genres of landscape, figurative, and object painting.  Her art utilizes appropriation from painting’s history along with found and discarded material to investigate line, color, shape, surface, and scale. This fusion of subject and formalism spans further to her work in collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and printmaking. In 2024, Provincetown Art Association and Museum honored Hinton with the prestigious annual Award for Artistic Excellence. Megan holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary arts from Mills College where she won the Hung Lui Painting Prize. She has received residency fellowships from Twenty Summers in Provincetown and The Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She is a recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. Megan is also an art educator, curator, and writer.