National Endowment for the Arts Announces Grant to Provincetown Art Association and Museum National Endowment for the Arts Announces Grant to Provincetown Art Association and Museum $25,000 grant will support PAAM's Youth Programs: Art Reach, Art on the Edge and the Reaching Forward Student Mentor Program PAAM is one of 1,145 not-for- profit national, regional, state, and local organizations recommended for a grant as part of the federal agency's second round of fiscal year 2011 grants. In total, the Arts Endowment will distribute more than $88 million to support projects nationwide. Of the grant Lynn Stanley, PAAM's Curator of Education, states: "We are thrilled to receive both the validation and financial support of the National Endowment for the Arts for PAAM's youth programming. These funds will help us to continue to offer free multidisciplinary educational opportunities to young people, and engage the next generation of creative thinkers of our region." Read more about the grant here. Recent Art Reach Exhibition: Art Reach Program Exhibition- The Art Reach program culminates in May with an exhibition and reception in PAAM’s galleries. You Crazy Kids! Get Off My Lawn! Exhibition on view at PAAM May 6-22, 2011 Jared King, Malcom X “The thing that I created here is my future. I have figured out how to go through life and have confidence to follow my passions. I am my own person.“ This is what Jared King has said about his experience in Art Reach, the twenty-eight-week afternoon program at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM). Jared is in his third year of Art Reach; while juggling a full semester of Cape Cod Community College courses and a part time job, he attends the program three afternoons a week, and is currently developing painting, printmaking and music projects with teaching artists Tracey Anderson, Liz Carney and Curator of Education Lynn Stanley. “Without PAAM, I wouldn’t be who I am today nor would I have created any of the art I have, or gained the knowledge I now possess due to Art Reach!” Kaitlyn “Kewi” Russell Kewi, also in her third year of the program, will graduate from Provincetown High School this June. To support her application process and rigorous portfolio reviews, Kewi utilized a selection of works of art that were created in Art Reach. She has been accepted to a number of colleges, including the Maine College of Art and Montserrat College of Art and is now faced with the happy problem of deciding where she’ll attend school this fall. Kewi and Jared’s artwork, along with the work of Etel Amato, Nataya Bostwick, Trevan Brodie, Kaitlin Burns, Alisha Fabia, Chris Martinez, and Crystal Swensen will be featured in the end-of-semester Art Reach exhibition in PAAM’s galleries. A range of work, including figurative drawing and painting, music composition, comic books and graphic novels, poetry, photography, printmaking, and mixed-media sculpture by the students will be on display. The exhibition opens to the public on May 6; a celebratory reception will be held on Friday, May 13 from 7-9pm.
		Art Reach - a FREE after school immersion program at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. PAAM’s afterschool program for youth fifteen years and up enters its third year at PAAM. Participating high school students work with teaching artists in a variety of media and disciplines, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital media. DOWNLOAD FLIER AND APPLICATION PDF
Art Reach meets three afternoon a week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, over one or two semesters, beginning October 5 through May 15, 2011. Each semester culminates with an exhibition of student work in the museum’s galleries.  This program is offered in partnership with the Provincetown and Nauset School Systems.
Art Reach provides substantive out-of-school arts and humanities. The program is a collaborative community response, developed to address the needs of young people through a partnership between PAAM and the Provincetown School System and the Provincetown Police Department. Each week youth participants work with three teaching artists--Tracey Anderson, Liz Carney, and Lynn Stanley--creating their own website, painting and drawing, and creative writing. The program culminates in May with an exhibition and reception in PAAM’s galleries to celebrate the young artists. For further information about Art Reach, please call Lynn Stanley at (508) 487-1750 or email lstanley@PAAM.org. VISIT THE ARTREACH WEBSITE The Art Reach program is a FREE eight-month immersion program at PAAM which meets three afternoons each week, October-May, and provides substantive out-of-school arts and humanities opportunities, in partnership with the Provincetown School System, Nauset Regional High School, and the Provincetown Police Department. Art Reach is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Kelley Foundation, Bank of America, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Peter Petas and Ted Jones, the Aeroflex Foundation, the Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, the Kelley Foundation, the Hess and Helen Kline Foundation, Frank Vasello of Relish, Mary Deangelis, an anonymous donor, and the National Endowment for the Arts—which believes that a great nation deserves great art. PAAM is committed to high quality, accessible art programming for all. If you’d like to help sponsor this program, please contact Sheila McGuinness at (508) 487-1750 or email smcguinness@PAAM.org