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Student and Educator Curating Program
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Student artist and curator
The CURATING PROGRAM at PAAM
The Student and Educator Curating Program welcomes local students, teachers, and school administrators to PAAM to engage with works of art chosen from the Museum’s permanent collection, and to create exhibitions in response to collection artwork. Participants may work with visiting artists and the Curator of Education and focus on a particular movement or type of work—such as white-line woodblock prints, portraiture, or Abstract Expressionism. Participants are guided to interpret and respond in a variety of ways to this work, including creative writing and art-making in the Museum’s galleries and school studios. Each participant’s artwork and writing is displayed alongside collection works in the Museum’s galleries. Lectures focusing on the history and context of works of art may be presented as part of the curatorial experience. In June-July 2012 PAAM will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program with a multi-school exhibition in the museum’s galleries.
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Engaging children and youth in the cultural life and creative history of the region is a cornerstone of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s mission. Veterans Memorial Elementary, Truro Central School, Wellfleet Elementary, Nauset Regional Middle and High Schools, Provincetown High School, and the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School have participated in the program.
Over the past 20 years PAAM has presented over 80 student and educator curated exhibitions in the Museum’s galleries. The program has been awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Gold Star Award and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Collaborative Arts Project of the Year.
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For more information on the program or to find out how your students or faculty can participate in the Curating Program, please see the Curating PDFs below and contact Lynn Stanley, lstanley@paam.org , 508 487 1750 x13. For information on supporting PAAM’s Curating Program please contact Sheila McGuinness, smcguinness@paam.org , 508 487 1750 x12.
program brochure.pdf
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curating program presentation.pdf
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Current and Recent Curating Sessions
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3-D Mention
an exhibition created by the Provincetown Schools Middle Years Program
as part of the Student Curating Program at PAAM
On View: October 21-November 27, 2011
Celebratory Reception: Friday, October 28, 7-9pm
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This fall nineteen fifth, six and seventh grade students from the Middle Years Program of the Provincetown School System continue the student curating tradition with the creation of their exhibition 3-D Mention, which features assemblages and sculpture from the PAAM collection, in the Museum’s Moffett Gallery and 3-dimensional student-made work inspired by collection work.
Zach Green, assemblage
The student-curators are: Mary Burns, Grace Caron, Sandra Coats, Hannah Colley, Dawnell Dennison, Mackinzie Edwards, Zach Green, Becca Hudson, Jordon Hudson, Sage McCormick, Heather Osowski, Eli Patrick, Dudley Salmon, Kasia Sapinska, Sebastian Serrano, and Zumm Seranno. The students also determined the title of their exhibition, a play on words alluding to the three-dimensional nature of the work they created.
Heather Osowski chose and interpreted work created by Didier Corallo; of the work she wrote:
There is a star-like shape in the background with a tinted piece of glass and a dark box and background. It’s very mysterious. I think it is a star-like object, a nighttime scene.
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