MUSEUM HOURS :
OctoberMay:
Noon to 5 pm, Thursday through Sunday,
and by appointment
Memorial DaySeptember:
11 am to 8 pm, Monday through Thursday
11 am to 10 pm, Friday
11 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday
OFFICE HOURS :
9 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday
9 am to 4 pm, Tues.Sat., November through March
PAAM is located on the corners of Commercial and Bangs Streets in Provincetown's East End.
Take Route 6 to the Provincetown Center exit. Turn left at light onto Conwell Street, then left at stop sign onto Bradford Street, 1/2 mile on right is Bang Street, right one block to Commercial.
Parking is available in many private and municipal lots in Provincetown, and depending on the season, parking may be available on Commercial Street.
JULY 2009 @ PAAM
Continuing Exhibitions:
Art of the Garden
Polly Burnell curated exhibition to complement the Secret Garden Tour.
Patrons & Jalbert galleries thru 7/12.
Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies
Mid-career exhibition. Moffett &
Hawthorne galleries thru 7/19.
Members’ Juried
Fabio Fernandez curates this show of
exceptional contemporary artworks.
Hofmann Gallery thru 7/19. Underwritten
in part by Ralph Oliva and Jeffrey Carlson. (Pick-up art 7/21)
Window to the Sea:
Birds, Light and Water
Survey exhibition of Pat de Groot’s
art offering unique perspectives on
familiar coastal imagery. Duffy Gallery
thru 8/2.
1 Jazz in the Cape Air, 6pm, $15
Dick Miller and friends. Go to www.
paam.org, click on Special Events.
5 Magnificent Garden Flower
Arrangements, 3pm, FREE
In conjunction with the Secret Garden
Tour, Mary Garrett of Flowers by
Mary demonstrates how to fashion
magnificence from your garden.
Arrangements for sale immediately
following. Proceeds benefit exhibitions
and education programs.
7 ALH Lecture, 7pm, FREE
Based on her recently published
monograph, E. Ambrose Webster:
Chasing the Sun, Gail Scott lectures
on one of Provincetown’s first and
foremost painters. Book signing follows.
10 Provincetown Arts Magazine
Release Party, 5pm
12 Secret Garden Tour, 10-3, $30
Ten stunning west end gardens. Tickets
include admission to PAAM, free parking
and access to shuttles. Call 508.487.1750 to reserve your tickets!
15 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman, Steve
Ahern (trumpet, flute), Bruce Abbott
(sax, flute), Fred Boyle (piano) and Ron
Ormsby (bass).
17 Opening, 8-10pm, FREE
Director’s Choice Exhibition
Anne Peretz: Cape Cod Paintings
Paintings by Anne Peretz, In
the Patrons Gallery and Jalbert Gallery
through September 13.
18 Board Meeting, 10am
Members are invited to attend.
18 FSL Lecture, 3pm, FREE
Painter and teacher Thomas Bosket
discusses innovative and traditional
approaches to painting. A primer for Bosket’s workshop,
July 21-23.
21 Drop-off, noon-4pm
Members’ 12x12 show and silent auction.
Works must be 12x12”, dry, no frames,
no hangers. Shipped works must arrive
by July 20. Pick up Members’ Juried.
22 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman, Zoe
Lewis and suprise guests.
24 PAAM Circle Preview Party, 6-8pm
Museum is closed for this intimate
preview party featuring a gallery
talk by Varujan Boghosian, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. By invitation only. To get yours, go to the paam circle page and join the paam circle!
24 Three Openings, 8-10pm, FREE
Varujan Boghosian: A Career Survey
Inspired by the past, the legacy of
myth, and a love of iconography.
Through August 30.
PAAM Collection Works
Works from the permanent collection. In the Moffett Gallery through September 6.
Members’ 12x12
Exhibition and silent auction of 250+ members’works. Artists contribute 100% or
50% of the sale price to support
PAAM initiatives. Register to bid at the
Front Desk. In the Hawthorne Gallery.
Closing reception & refreshments,
September 12, 4pm. Final bids accepted alphabetically beginning 5pm.
27 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Music in the Cape Air with Dick Miller
and friends.
28 FSL Lecture, 7pm, FREE
Curator and Executive Director
Chris McCarthy discusses Anne
Peretz’s exhibition featuring paintings
created on Cape Cod that capture
the changeable dunes, shore and sky
filtered through her unique sensibility.
29 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Cello and piano selections by Blue
Door Arthur Cook, cello; Deborah
Gilwood, piano.
AUGUST 2009 @ PAAM
3 Cape Cod Chamber Music
Festival, 7pm, $32
The Borromeo String Quartet
performs J.S. BACH Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ in C Minor; L. AUERBACH cetera desunt; and L.v. BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Opus 131. For tickets and
information 508.945.8060 or www.capecodchambermusic.org
4 Members’ Annual Meeting, 6pm
Your opportunity to participate in
the election of officers and trustees,
to hear reports of organizational
activities from the Director, Board
and Committees, and to ask questions.
Followed immediately by the Volunteer
Recognition BBQ.
4 BBQ & Volunteer Recognition
immediately following Annual
Meeting, free for volunteers listed
on page 4, $10 for others, RSVP
by email bbq@paam.org
5 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Summer Jazz with Bart Weisman,
drums; Dane Vannatter, vocals; Fred
Boyle, piano; Chris Rathbun bass.
7 PAAM Circle Preview Party, 6-8pm
Museum is closed for this exclusive
preview party featuring a gallery talk
on Search for the Real: Hans Hofmann and
His Students by curators Don Beal and
Christine McCarthy, cocktails and hors
d’oeuvres. By invitation only. To get yours, go to the paam circle page and join the paam circle!
7 Opening, 8-10pm, free
Search for the Real: Hans Hofmann and
His Students. Highlights include drawings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and PAAM’s and private collections. In the Duffy
Gallery through October 11.
8 ALH Lecture, 3pm, free
Marika Herskovic discusses her
book American Abstract and Figurative
Expressionism: Style is Timely, Art is
Timeless, a survey of post-World War
II American painters and sculptors,
illuminating ways in which the most
mainstream creative work engaged
the creative power of the individual
expressionist artist.
11 ALH Lecture, 7pm, free
Mary E. Abell examines Charles W.
Hawthorne’s early background and
artistic influences from his arrival in
Provincetown in 1899 to his death in
1930, including his Cape Cod School of
Art, teaching philosophy and methods,
artistic legacy, and involvement with the
Art Association and Beachcombers.
12 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Pianist Deborah Gilwood and cellist
Arthur Cook with Anthony Brackett on
clarinet.
16 Walton Ford Event, 11-3pm,$20
From the Tip of the Berkshires to the Tip of
Cape Cod
11-12:15, public lecture by Walton Ford;
12:30-1:45, lunch break; 2-3, conversing
with Walton Ford in the PAAM studios,
viewing original artwork and Q&A.
18 FSL Lecture, 7pm, free
Former Hans Hofmann students
Myrna Harrison, Robert Henry and
Selina Trieff discuss their experiences
with the artist in conjunction with
the exhibition Search for the Real: Hans
Hofmann and His Students
19 Jazz, 6pm, $15
Music in the Cape Air with Dick
Miller and friends.
25 Eyelash Cabaret, 7pm, $15
The legendary chanteuse Ilona
Royce-Smithkin and effervescent Zoe
Lewis return to PAAM for one night
only!
26 Blue Door Chamber Music,
7pm, $15
Cellist Arthur Cook and pianist
Deborah Gilwood with Amy Kimball
on violin.