May 2020
Drop-Off for Members’ Juried: Provincetown 400
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EXHIBITION IS AT THE PILGRIM MONUMENT AND PROVINCETOWN MUSEUM In honor of Provincetown 400, the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM) and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) have partnered to mount an exhibition that explores the themes connected to the quadricentennial commemoration: liberty, justice, and freedom of expression. Open to members of both organizations, this exhibition will be juried by a panel of PMPM and PAAM artists. There is no submission fee for this…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Drawing Re-Boot with Heather Blume
REGISTER HERE | $25 GENERAL PUBLIC, $20 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP This drawing re-boot workshop will meet initially on Zoom on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am, where you will receive a demonstration of drawing exercises from Teaching Artist Heather Blume. She will assign drawing exercises to work on over the next few days. The follow up meeting will be on Friday, April 10 at 10 am, during which time you will have the opportunity to share your drawings, and…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Drawing Re-Boot with Heather Blume
REGISTER HERE | $25 GENERAL PUBLIC, $20 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP This drawing re-boot workshop will meet initially on Zoom on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am, where you will receive a demonstration of drawing exercises from Teaching Artist Heather Blume. She will assign drawing exercises to work on over the next few days. The follow up meeting will be on Friday, April 10 at 10 am, during which time you will have the opportunity to share your drawings, and…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Critique with Laura Shabott
REGISTER HERE | $15 GENERAL PUBLIC, $10 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP Connect and share one piece of recent work in this one hour Zoom experience. We will provide affirming feedback in a safe space. Please send an image with your name, title, medium and size by Thursday at 5pm to kiah@paam.org so that work can be shared with the group. Zoom Meeting information will be provided upon registration. In 2015, the multi-disciplinary artist returned to painting…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Gallery Conversation: Artist Statements and Grant Opportunities with Pete Hocking
PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we’ll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information. Starting with the idea of 'artist statements,' this Gallery Conversation is intended to help people concisely tell the story of who they are as an artist.…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Tour of the exhibitions with Christine McCarthy
PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we'll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information. AN EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT FOR PAAM MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Join PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for a tour of the current exhibitions. Tours are open to PAAM members only, and…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Provincetown Film Art: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Film Art Series is being paused until at least March 31 and will announce a plan for re-scheduling screenings as soon as we are able. PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we’ll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information.…
Find out more »March 2020
Opening: Art Reach Exhibition
Come celebrate the opening of the Art Reach Student Exhibition, Carrot Cake: We All Make It Differently, with the artists and their families. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »March 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Written and directed by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel by Ron Hansen. With Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shepard, Paul Schneider and Mary-Louise Parker. 2 hours, 40 minutes. This elegiac meditation on the price of fame follows the final months of Wild…
Find out more »March 2020
Drop-Off Day: Members’ Open
Today is Drop-Off Day for the Members' Open: Freedom exhibition, click here to read submission guidelines.
Find out more »February 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Price of Everything (2018)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Price of Everything (2018) Documentary; directed by Nathaniel Kahn. 1 hour, 38 minutes. Nathaniel Kahn, whose first feature was the insightful and moving 2003 documentary, My Architect, about his father, Louis Kahn, takes on the unhinged world of high art pricing with this new film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The Provincetown Film Art…
Find out more »February 2020
February 2020
Tour of the exhibitions with Christine McCarthy
AN EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT FOR PAAM MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Join PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for a tour of the current exhibitions: Recent Gifts from the David Murphy Collection, Recent Gifts to the Collection: Part II, Members' Juried, Student Curating, and The 2020 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows. Tours are open to PAAM members only, and are free-of-charge, but pre-registration is requested.
Find out more »February 2020
Opening: Members’ Juried and Connectivity
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Please join us in celebrating the opening of the Members' Juried and Connectivity exhibitions!
Find out more »February 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Train (1964)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. Black and white. 2 hours, 13 minutes. What’s more important, art or life? Or is the distinction ultimately irrelevant? This tense and bitter World War II drama, about a train of looted art masterpieces on its way to the Third Reich, caps off…
Find out more »February 2020
Free Members’ Workshop: Crossing the Atlantic-Provincetown’s Artistic Roots in French Artist Colonies
$60 OR FREE FOR PAAM MEMBERS: JOIN OR RENEW | REGISTER HERE OR BY CALLING 508-487-1750 Many artists who came to Provincetown in the early 20th century had lived and worked in the artists’ colonies of coastal Atlantic France. The outbreak of war in 1914 kept them from travelling abroad and in Provincetown they found a similar sense of place and motifs where they could apply the modern styles they had learned in France. Provincetown’s fishing community and landscapes provided themes that…
Find out more »February 2020
Drop-Off Day: Members’ Juried
MEMBER EXHIBITIONS ARE OPEN TO CURRENT MEMBERS, JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Today is Drop-Off Day for the Members' Juried exhibition. Click here to read more about the exhibition and submission guidelines.
Find out more »January 2020
Opening: The FAWC Fellows and Recent Gifts: Part II
We hope you'll join us in celebrating two exhibitions: The 2020 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows and Recent Gifts: Part II.
Find out more »January 2020
Gallery Conversation: The FAWC Fellows
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Join us for the first in our 2020 Gallery Conversations series as we sit down with the Visual Arts Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center to discuss their exhibition here at PAAM, on view through March 1.
Find out more »January 2020
Provincetown Film Art: Wyeth (2018)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE Wyeth (2018) Documentary; written and directed by Glenn Holsten. 1 hour, 27 minutes. Glenn Holsten’s documentary biography of the wildly popular and critically controversial realist painter Andrew Wyeth, who died in 2009 at the age of 91, is an eye-opening private look at a poorly understood public figure. The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 14th year,…
Find out more »January 2020
January 2020
Free Member Workshop: Portrait Drawing, A Taste of Classicism in Modern Provincetown (Full)
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL, PLEASE E-MAIL KIAH TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST: KIAH@PAAM.ORG | FREE FOR PAAM MEMBERS: JOIN OR RENEW In this workshop, art lovers can learn about portraiture and experiment with drawing from life. Contour drawing, an easy and fundamental drawing skill, will be used to explore the skull and then draw from a live model. We will have the pleasure of seeing portraits from the PAAM collection by Hawthorne, Dickinson, Webster, Lechay and others, and will consider…
Find out more »January 2020
Provincetown Film Art: Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE Regarding Susan Sontag (2014) Documentary; co-written and directed by Nancy D. Kates. 1 hour, 40 minutes. Nancy D. Kates’ brilliant, probing and thoughtful documentary of Sontag’s life and work rightly reclaims her as a part of lesbian history. The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 14th year, is sponsored by the Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Provincetown…
Find out more »January 2020
Pick-Up Day: Members’ Small Works
Today is Pick-Up Day for the Members' Open: Small Works exhibition. Can't pick up today? You can pick up early on the final day of the exhibition (Sunday, January 5 between 12 and 5pm), or the following weekend when the Museum is open: Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm.
Find out more »September 2019
2019 Annual Consignment Auction
REVIEW LOTS HERE REVIEW THE FINAL SALE PRICES (HAMMER+BUYER'S PREMIUM) HERE PAAM’s annual Consignment Auction is a spectacular live event that features the work of late regional artists. Held annually in September, PAAM’s Consignment Auction features artwork by deceased artists who lived, studied, or worked on Cape Cod. Auctioneer and Provincetown art expert James R. Bakker (MA Lic.#154) officiates these events. In the weeks prior to the Auction, all lots are displayed for public viewing at the Museum in the…
Find out more »September 2018
2018 Annual Consignment Auction
PAAM Auction Checklist 2018 2018 Consignment Auction Results
Find out more »September 2017
September 2016
2016 Annual Consignment Auction
2016 Consignment Auction Checklist Sept 2016 Auction Results
Find out more »September 2015
September 2014
May 2020
Drop-Off for Members’ Juried: Provincetown 400
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EXHIBITION IS AT THE PILGRIM MONUMENT AND PROVINCETOWN MUSEUM In honor of Provincetown 400, the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM) and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) have partnered to mount an exhibition that explores the themes connected to the quadricentennial commemoration: liberty, justice, and freedom of expression. Open to members of both organizations, this exhibition will be juried by a panel of PMPM and PAAM artists. There is no submission fee for this…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Drawing Re-Boot with Heather Blume
REGISTER HERE | $25 GENERAL PUBLIC, $20 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP This drawing re-boot workshop will meet initially on Zoom on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am, where you will receive a demonstration of drawing exercises from Teaching Artist Heather Blume. She will assign drawing exercises to work on over the next few days. The follow up meeting will be on Friday, April 10 at 10 am, during which time you will have the opportunity to share your drawings, and…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Drawing Re-Boot with Heather Blume
REGISTER HERE | $25 GENERAL PUBLIC, $20 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP This drawing re-boot workshop will meet initially on Zoom on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 am, where you will receive a demonstration of drawing exercises from Teaching Artist Heather Blume. She will assign drawing exercises to work on over the next few days. The follow up meeting will be on Friday, April 10 at 10 am, during which time you will have the opportunity to share your drawings, and…
Find out more »April 2020
Virtual Critique with Laura Shabott
REGISTER HERE | $15 GENERAL PUBLIC, $10 FOR MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP Connect and share one piece of recent work in this one hour Zoom experience. We will provide affirming feedback in a safe space. Please send an image with your name, title, medium and size by Thursday at 5pm to kiah@paam.org so that work can be shared with the group. Zoom Meeting information will be provided upon registration. In 2015, the multi-disciplinary artist returned to painting…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Gallery Conversation: Artist Statements and Grant Opportunities with Pete Hocking
PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we’ll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information. Starting with the idea of 'artist statements,' this Gallery Conversation is intended to help people concisely tell the story of who they are as an artist.…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Tour of the exhibitions with Christine McCarthy
PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we'll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information. AN EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT FOR PAAM MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Join PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for a tour of the current exhibitions. Tours are open to PAAM members only, and…
Find out more »March 2020
Cancelled: Provincetown Film Art: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Film Art Series is being paused until at least March 31 and will announce a plan for re-scheduling screenings as soon as we are able. PAAM is closing until March 31. This includes the Museum, the office, the school, and all programs scheduled through April 17. The PAAM staff will still be reachable by email and by phone (info@paam.org, 508-487-1750.), and we’ll continue to update our social media channels. Please read this letter from PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for more information.…
Find out more »March 2020
Opening: Art Reach Exhibition
Come celebrate the opening of the Art Reach Student Exhibition, Carrot Cake: We All Make It Differently, with the artists and their families. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »March 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Written and directed by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel by Ron Hansen. With Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, Sam Shepard, Paul Schneider and Mary-Louise Parker. 2 hours, 40 minutes. This elegiac meditation on the price of fame follows the final months of Wild…
Find out more »March 2020
Drop-Off Day: Members’ Open
Today is Drop-Off Day for the Members' Open: Freedom exhibition, click here to read submission guidelines.
Find out more »February 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Price of Everything (2018)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Price of Everything (2018) Documentary; directed by Nathaniel Kahn. 1 hour, 38 minutes. Nathaniel Kahn, whose first feature was the insightful and moving 2003 documentary, My Architect, about his father, Louis Kahn, takes on the unhinged world of high art pricing with this new film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The Provincetown Film Art…
Find out more »February 2020
February 2020
Tour of the exhibitions with Christine McCarthy
AN EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT FOR PAAM MEMBERS | JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Join PAAM CEO Christine McCarthy for a tour of the current exhibitions: Recent Gifts from the David Murphy Collection, Recent Gifts to the Collection: Part II, Members' Juried, Student Curating, and The 2020 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows. Tours are open to PAAM members only, and are free-of-charge, but pre-registration is requested.
Find out more »February 2020
Opening: Members’ Juried and Connectivity
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Please join us in celebrating the opening of the Members' Juried and Connectivity exhibitions!
Find out more »February 2020
Provincetown Film Art: The Train (1964)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. Black and white. 2 hours, 13 minutes. What’s more important, art or life? Or is the distinction ultimately irrelevant? This tense and bitter World War II drama, about a train of looted art masterpieces on its way to the Third Reich, caps off…
Find out more »February 2020
Free Members’ Workshop: Crossing the Atlantic-Provincetown’s Artistic Roots in French Artist Colonies
$60 OR FREE FOR PAAM MEMBERS: JOIN OR RENEW | REGISTER HERE OR BY CALLING 508-487-1750 Many artists who came to Provincetown in the early 20th century had lived and worked in the artists’ colonies of coastal Atlantic France. The outbreak of war in 1914 kept them from travelling abroad and in Provincetown they found a similar sense of place and motifs where they could apply the modern styles they had learned in France. Provincetown’s fishing community and landscapes provided themes that…
Find out more »February 2020
Drop-Off Day: Members’ Juried
MEMBER EXHIBITIONS ARE OPEN TO CURRENT MEMBERS, JOIN OR RENEW TODAY Today is Drop-Off Day for the Members' Juried exhibition. Click here to read more about the exhibition and submission guidelines.
Find out more »January 2020
Opening: The FAWC Fellows and Recent Gifts: Part II
We hope you'll join us in celebrating two exhibitions: The 2020 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellows and Recent Gifts: Part II.
Find out more »January 2020
Gallery Conversation: The FAWC Fellows
FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Join us for the first in our 2020 Gallery Conversations series as we sit down with the Visual Arts Fellows from the Fine Arts Work Center to discuss their exhibition here at PAAM, on view through March 1.
Find out more »January 2020
Provincetown Film Art: Wyeth (2018)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE Wyeth (2018) Documentary; written and directed by Glenn Holsten. 1 hour, 27 minutes. Glenn Holsten’s documentary biography of the wildly popular and critically controversial realist painter Andrew Wyeth, who died in 2009 at the age of 91, is an eye-opening private look at a poorly understood public figure. The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 14th year,…
Find out more »January 2020
January 2020
Free Member Workshop: Portrait Drawing, A Taste of Classicism in Modern Provincetown (Full)
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL, PLEASE E-MAIL KIAH TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITLIST: KIAH@PAAM.ORG | FREE FOR PAAM MEMBERS: JOIN OR RENEW In this workshop, art lovers can learn about portraiture and experiment with drawing from life. Contour drawing, an easy and fundamental drawing skill, will be used to explore the skull and then draw from a live model. We will have the pleasure of seeing portraits from the PAAM collection by Hawthorne, Dickinson, Webster, Lechay and others, and will consider…
Find out more »January 2020
Provincetown Film Art: Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)
SEASON PASS: $185, OR $135 FOR PFS OR PAAM MEMBERS TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS AVAILABLE AT THE WATERS EDGE CINEMA BOX OFFICE Regarding Susan Sontag (2014) Documentary; co-written and directed by Nancy D. Kates. 1 hour, 40 minutes. Nancy D. Kates’ brilliant, probing and thoughtful documentary of Sontag’s life and work rightly reclaims her as a part of lesbian history. The Provincetown Film Art Series, now in its 14th year, is sponsored by the Provincetown Film Society (PFS) and Provincetown…
Find out more »January 2020
Pick-Up Day: Members’ Small Works
Today is Pick-Up Day for the Members' Open: Small Works exhibition. Can't pick up today? You can pick up early on the final day of the exhibition (Sunday, January 5 between 12 and 5pm), or the following weekend when the Museum is open: Thursday-Sunday from 12-5pm.
Find out more »September 2019
2019 Annual Consignment Auction
REVIEW LOTS HERE REVIEW THE FINAL SALE PRICES (HAMMER+BUYER'S PREMIUM) HERE PAAM’s annual Consignment Auction is a spectacular live event that features the work of late regional artists. Held annually in September, PAAM’s Consignment Auction features artwork by deceased artists who lived, studied, or worked on Cape Cod. Auctioneer and Provincetown art expert James R. Bakker (MA Lic.#154) officiates these events. In the weeks prior to the Auction, all lots are displayed for public viewing at the Museum in the…
Find out more »September 2018
2018 Annual Consignment Auction
PAAM Auction Checklist 2018 2018 Consignment Auction Results
Find out more »September 2017
September 2016
2016 Annual Consignment Auction
2016 Consignment Auction Checklist Sept 2016 Auction Results
Find out more »
