Members’ Annual Meeting

August 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)

At the Annual Meeting, the general public is invited to review the past year with us and PAAM Members vote on the 2024-2025 Board of Trustees Slate of Candidates.

A Zoom link will be published in early August.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Proposed 2024/2025 Slate

After careful consideration, the Nominating Committee believes that the proposed slate maintains a proper balance of artistic and business leadership for a diversified Board that will adequately reflect and represent the PAAM membership. The following is the Slate of Candidates as submitted by the Nominating Committee for the 2024-2025 PAAM Board of Trustees:

Officers

President, Lise Motherwell, Clinical Psychologist; Provincetown, MA and Cambridge, MA
Vice President, Kevin O’Shea, Creative Director, Salt Hotels; Provincetown, MA
Treasurer, Sharon Fay, Former EVP, Alliance Bernstein Holding; Wellfleet, MA and NY, NY
Secretary, Doug Dolezal, Principal, Dolezal Architecture + Interior Design; Provincetown, MA

All Officer terms expire August, 2025.

Trustees

Lennie Alickman, Artist; Former Senior Managing Director, First Republic Bank; Provincetown, MA
James Bakker, President, James R. Bakker Antiques, Inc.; Provincetown, MA
Lori Bookstein, Owner, Bookstein Projects, New York
Arthur Cohen, Principal, LaPlaca Cohen – arts marketing firm; Truro, MA and Palm Springs, CA
Joe Fiorello, Artist, Realtor; Truro, MA
William Rawn, Architect; Provincetown, MA and Boston, MA
Carol Warshawsky, Former Business Owner; Truro, MA

New Trustees:

Douglas Brooks – Provincetown/Washington, DC

Douglas M. Brooks, MSW, is a nationally recognized leader in social work and public health practice, policy and advocacy, with much of his career having been focused on HIV prevention, care and treatment. In each of his positions, Mr. Brooks has used his platform to advocate for marginalized communities and to improve the social determinants that foster equitable health outcomes.

Mr. Brooks’ career has taken him from local community health practice to the pinnacles of the nonprofit and the corporate worlds and to the White House where he served as the Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) under President Obama and spearheaded an update to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

Building on his experience at the White House, Mr. Brooks served as the Executive Director of Community Engagement at Gilead Sciences, where he partnered with internal and external teams to create and execute programs designed to mitigate inequities in health outcomes domestically and globally. Later, as Vice President of Advancing Black Equity and Community Engagement, Mr. Brooks led an enterprise-wide strategic framework to tackle systemic issues of structural, anti-Black racism and health-based inequities.

Mr. Brooks holds a BS from Lesley University and a MSW from Boston University. He has served on multiple nonprofit, government and foundation boards and advisory committees, including the Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Chair of the Board of Trustees of AIDS United, a national advocacy/grantmaking organization and Co-Chair of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Mr. Brooks has received numerous awards and honors. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Fordham University. He has received the Bayard Rustin Award from the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, the Cleve Jones Leadership Award from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Harlem United Community Impact Award and in the late Spring of this year will receive the Paul Revere Award, the highest award of the Massachusetts Public Health Association.

Stewart Clifford – Provincetown

Stewart Clifford is the owner of Stewart Clifford Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Previously, he served as president and founder of Enterprise Media, a video production and distribution company founded in 1986.

Stewart Clifford has been responsible for the production of a number of national PBS specials Tom Peters: Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, The Excellence Files, Excellence in the Public Sector with Tom Peters, In Search of Excellence, In Search of Quality with Bob Waterman and The Modern Presidency with David Frost. His production awards include the Golden Apple from the National Educational Film Festival, and the Silver and Bronze Cindy Award from the Association of Visual Communicators and numerous Telly and Davey Awards. He has worked with a number of leading individuals and organizations including John Kotter, Lance Armstrong, Tom Peters, David Frost, Loretta Laroche, Morris Massey, and The Jim Henson Company.

Stewart Clifford has served as Chair of Fenway Community Health Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of Fenway’s successful “10 Stories” Capital Campaign. He has also served on several other boards including Boston Ballet, The New England Aquarium, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, and The Opera Company of Boston. He currently serves on the Emeritus Board of Boston Ballet.

Grace Hopkins – Wellfleet

Grace Hopkins is a Wellfleet artist, parent, and educator. She is also the steward of the estates of artist Budd Hopkins and art historian April Kingsley: her parents. She earned a BFA in photography from the School of the Fine Arts at Tufts University and has guided the art world for two decades with positions in museums, academics, and galleries. Her innovative photography has been exhibited widely on the Cape and elsewhere. She is the director of the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, and is on the steering committee of the Provincetown Art Gallery Association.

Trevor Mikula – Provincetown

Trevor Mikula has anchored his lifelong career as an artist with a singular mission to make people happy. His unmistakable style of painting inspires conversations with its sophisticated, colorful, and unexpected compositions of everything from stunning florals to the kitchen sink. He is self-taught and paints with a vivid imagination, vibrant paint, and a palette knife. He arrived in Provincetown in 2013 and operated his own gallery on Commercial Street for several years. He and his husband are year-round residents of Provincetown and owners of the Land’s End Inn. Trevor has an avid following of collectors and shows his work in galleries across the country.

Outgoing Trustees:

The Nominating Committee and The Board of Trustees extend their most sincere appreciation to Maria Lopez for her service to PAAM.

Respectfully submitted,
PAAM Nominating Committee