Current Exhibitions at PAAM Members’ Juried Exhibition. Juror Edsel Williams. Opens April 18th the Hawthorne Gallery, through May 11, 2008. exhibition checklist Works by Gabriel T. D’Agostino, Lee Brock, Sue Butler, Barbara Cantor, Mary Cassel, Larry Collins, Polly Cote, Vivian Dickson, Sarah Dineen, Orfeo Fabbri, Miriam Fried, Tristan Govignon, William P. Hamlin, Anne Ierardi, Laurie Israel, Megan Karlen, Louise LaMontagne, Michael Moss, Mike Wright, Carol Odell, Victor Powell, and Shirl Roccapriore. Carol Odell Miriam Fried Edsel Williams is an American (born 1962, Virginia) contemporary art dealer and gallerist based in New York City, East Hampton, New York, and Miami, Florida. Williams is well known for finding artists early on, and nurturing their careers in joint projects such as exhibitions, collection placements, and original artist book projects. Williams focuses primarily on the work of young artists, and established contemporary artists such as Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Jack Pierson, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, and Cindy Sherman. Williams is known to work very closely with private collectors based in New York, London, and the West Coast. He also curates several public collections throughout the United States. This exhibition has been generously sponsored in part by Irma Ruckstuhl. Margery Ryerson and Ellen Whyel Carroll. Opens April 18th in the Patrons Gallery and the Jalbert Gallery, through June 8, 2008. In the art colony at Provincetown, Charles Hawthorne introduced his plein air painting methods to numerous students, among them Margery Ryerson and Ellen Whyel Carroll whose work PAAM will exhibit this month. Margery Ryerson Ellen Carroll A native of New Jersey, Ryerson spent nearly thirty summers on Cape Cod; she attended Hawthorne’s courses from 1911 to 1920. She also studied with Robert Henri at the Art Students League during those years, through 1918. In the winters, she worked mornings at a childcare facility tending babies and preschoolers. Children naturally became source material and inspiration for her paintings. Following two consecutive exhibitions of her etchings with the Paris Salon, she exhibited prints and paintings at esteemed institutions throughout the U.S. As her intimate portraits of children from infancy to adolescence became widely known, her work was favorably compared to the impressionist Mary Cassatt. Ryerson lived to age 102 – long enough to witness nine decades of her work included in a centennial exhibition in New York. Ellen Whyel Carroll, a native of Pennsylvania, also studied in the art colony with Hawthorne. Her training began at the Carnegie Institute and the Art Students League. Besides working in oils and watercolors, Carroll created marionettes. Her prints and drawings reside in the collection of Penn State University, some of them depicting the tipples, coal works, and coke sites that were so much a part of her early life as the daughter of a captain of the coal industry. exhibition checklist Little Mysteries: An Exhibition Created by the Fifth Grade Students of Wellfleet Elementary School Opens April 18th, continuing through May 18, 2008. exhibition checklist PAAM Celebrates the First Student Curating Collaboration with Wellfleet Elementary School- In March, PAAM welcomed eighteen fifth grade students and Wellfleet Elementary School art teacher Alexander Roberts to our galleries to participate in the spring Student Curating Program. The students, who had been focusing in the classroom on the work of Wayne Thiebaud, were introduced to the paintings of Alvin Ross, an artist whose haunting still lifes and figurative works provided a contemplative counterpoint to the vibrant paintings of the west coast artist. During their curating session at PAAM, students participated in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion, in which they were asked to respond collectively to Ross’s work. Many of Ross’s paintings are on extended loan to PAAM, providing a unique opportunity to study and create from an extensive body of the artist’s work. After choosing paintings for their exhibition, students participated in interpretive art-making and creative writing sessions. Visiting Artist Tracey Anderson led the students in responding to their Ross painting with oil pastels, and provided creative context and background on the artist. Ross began drawing and painting in elementary school; as a mature painter, he worked representationally—and against the stylistic grain—during a time when abstract expressionism was at its height. His small, carefully rendered works articulate the beauty found in commonplace objects: a bin overflowing with crumpled paper, or a glossy, white cake. His figures are often turned away from the viewer or only partially in view. Of Ross’s Heather and Chrysanthemums, fifth grader Mackenzie Foley wrote, “Since the artist doesn’t show her face, you have to rely on body language. You wonder what kind of mood she is in. This picture is very mysterious.” Patrick Webb: 25 Years of Work Opens March 14th 6-8pm through May 18th 2008 As a painter living in Provincetown and New York, Patrick Webb’s work is largely figurative with an obvious reverence for the power of space, “I want a painting to be active, spatially active” Webb explains.  He juxtaposes city life and the semi-sanctuary of Provincetown, investigating the psychological effects of crowded streets, private rooms, and ethereal landscapes. The accessibility of Webb’s painting is due in large part to his protagonist Punchinello, a well-known clown from Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s frescoes at Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice. Webb first encountered this complex character during a visit to Italy in 1989 and saw in Tiepolo’s creation a kind of everyman that could effectively be adapted to modern times. The tragic-comic Punchinello appeared in Webb’s compositions in the early 1990’s, becoming not just a motif but the central character through which recollections and dramatizations of the artist’s personal experiences could be translated onto canvas. “He was particular, but also general. He could be repeated. In Punchinello, I found an Everyman who, in my paintings, is Everygay man,” he explains, “My version of Punchinello is distinctly different from that found in the Commedia dell’Arte – slimmer, without hump, driven by his sexual appetite and search for self […] The humor and pathos of the stories and figure allow me access to the joys and terrors of human experience.” Webb’s body of work appeals to viewers in its cohesive storytelling, flawless representation of mood, and refined co-mingling of sobriety and humor. exhibition checklist BLUE: Member's Open Exhibition  March 7 – May 11, 2008 Pick-Up day for works in this exhibition is Tuesday, May 13th from 12-4pm.

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APRIL 2008 at PAAM:

6 Memorial Service, 3pm
Celebrating the life of Frank Schaeffer.

10 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Days of Heaven (1978) 94 min.,
admission $5/$3 members.

15 Drop-off, noon-4pm Members’ Juried: juror Edsel Williams. No size limit. For accepted works, go to paam.org Thursday afternoon, April 17. Pick up works not included by Fri, April 18. Works accepted available for
pick-up 5/13.

18 Three Openings, 7-9pm:

Members’ Juried. Juror Edsel
Williams. In the Hawthorne Gallery
through May 11.

Margery Ryerson and Ellen Carroll.
In the Patrons Gallery and the Jalbert
Gallery through June 8.

Student Curating Program: Wellfleet
Elementary School. In the Moffett
Gallery through May 18.

24 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Bus 174 (2002) 150 min., $5/$3 members.

21- 25 Family Week
Free art classes for children.

MAY 2008 at PAAM:

3 Blue Door, 8pm, $10
Arthur Cook, cello and Deborah
Gilwood, piano. Works by Faure,
Beethoven, Franck.

13 Pick-up, noon-4pm
From the Members’ Juried and
Members’ Open: Blue.

15 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Matador (1986) 110 min., $5/$3
members.

22 Opening Reception, 7-9pm
PHS Academy of Art, Science & Technology.
In the Hawthorne Gallery through
May 25.

23 Three Openings, 7-9pm:

Spring Consignment Auction Preview.
Vintage Provincetown
Art. In the Duffy Gallery through June
7, 5pm. NB: Date change: Live auction
June 7, 7pm

Joyce Johnson. NB: This exhibition
opens for viewing on May 16. In the
Hofmann Gallery through July13.

Harvey Dodd. In the Moffett Gallery
through June 22.

27 Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture, 7pm
Joyce Johnson gallery talk.

29 filmArt@PAAM, 7pm
Morocco(1930) 122 min., $5/$3 members.

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The Provincetown Art Association and Museum supports the creation and exhibition of contemporary art, and maintains, preserves, and exhibits works held in the Museum Collection. The organization has anchored the art community in Provincetown for nearly a century, and its mission is continued to be supported through the recent renovation and expansion, and through the activities of its membership, patrons, supporters and friends.

The contemporary wing’s two galleries and four studio classrooms support PAAM’s commitment to education and provide resources for current practices. The three galleries in our historic wing, along with the collection preservation areas, facilitate our mission to assemble, maintain, and exhibit the museum's significant collection of American art.