Oh, do we have some exhibitions for you! As of this writing there are two exhibitions announced for Castle Hill; two for the Provincetown Inn, site of The Conference; and nine at galleries in town, including the Conference juried show. That's Lucky 13 and counting, with 53 exhibiting artists, a number that will increase dramatically as the list grows for the Conference Instructors show at The Schoolhouse Gallery and results from the two juried shows, The Wax Book and Confluence: Water and Light, are announced later this spring.
The purple dots indicate the location of each exhibition venue.
At the far left: The Provincetown Inn. If you're walking into town, you might consider starting at Gallery Ehva on Shank Painter, followed by Art Current at the corner of Shank Painter and Bradford. Then walk over to Comercial Street where the rest of the galleries are. Working your way East--which is, counterintuitively, away from the tip--you'll come to A Gallery, then Ernden, then the cluster of three that's Rice Polak, Kobalt and Charles-Baltivik, and finally The Schoolhouse.
Click pic to make the map larger for printing out.
(If additional galleries are announced I'll revise the map)
At the far left: The Provincetown Inn. If you're walking into town, you might consider starting at Gallery Ehva on Shank Painter, followed by Art Current at the corner of Shank Painter and Bradford. Then walk over to Comercial Street where the rest of the galleries are. Working your way East--which is, counterintuitively, away from the tip--you'll come to A Gallery, then Ernden, then the cluster of three that's Rice Polak, Kobalt and Charles-Baltivik, and finally The Schoolhouse.
Click pic to make the map larger for printing out.
(If additional galleries are announced I'll revise the map)
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Call for entries
Kobalt Gallery432 Commercial Street (new location)
Confluence: Water and Light
June 1--mid June
Opening: Friday, June 1, 6:00-10:00 p.m.
For our annual juried show we invite registered conferees to consider the watery vastness into which Provincetown is set: the calm Massachusetts Bay in the crook of the arm of the Cape and the roiling Atlantic that spirals out beyond it. For a hundred years artists have come to Provincetown to paint the ocean that enfolds it, at high tide and low, and to capture the exquisite light that hovers at the horizon, illuminates the shore and bathes the dunes.
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We challenge you to draw inspiration from this embrace of water and light—realistically, abstractly or somewhere in between. The luminosity and fluidity of encaustic would seem especially suited to the challenge. If you would prefer, you may draw your inspiration from a different ocean with its own special light, or from the sense of “ocean” or from a sense memory of water itself: traveling through it or over it, perhaps even flying above it.
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Kobalt Gallery will again host the Conference juried show. Francine D'Olimpio, Kobalt's owner, will once again be the juror. We are so fortunate to have our exhibition in this quintessential Provincetown gallery, with the gallery owner Francine D'Olimpio.
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As always, there is no fee to enter. However, this show is open only to conferees who are registered by the entry deadline of April 2. Click here for the prospectus
As always, three equal prizes will be awarded: Juror's, Director's, and Castle Hill's.
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(Francine D'Olimpio will offer a Critical Feedback session in Post-Con on Tuesday, June 6.)
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Call for entries--but open to all conferees
Provincetown Inn
One Commercial Street
Going Postal: The Postcard Show at Conference 6
June 1-3
Cherie and Joanne are pleased to announce Going Postal: The Postcard Show at Conference 6, an everyone’s-invited opportunity to show your work while helping other artists. Yes, this is a request for donations (due May 15), but we think you’ll like the idea:
. It’s open to every conferee
. There is no fee to enter
. All postcards, to be sent in advance, will be installed on the cork wall in the Trawler Room
. The Trawler Room will be set up specifically for this exhibition
. The show will run the duration of The Conference, with sales taking place at designated times (to be announced) on Sunday, June 3
. The price will be $30 per postcard, with proceeds going toward scholarships for Conference 7. This is a great opportunity to support the organization that co-produces the Conference and to add to your own collection
. You may donate as many postcards as you wish
. You may buy as many postcards as you wish
. Additional info and entry particulars at the very bottom of this post in blue **
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Curated exhibition
Castle Hill Gallery
10 Meetinghouse Road, Truro
Merge: Contemporary Encaustic Print Invitational
May 31--June 7
Opening: Thursday, May 31, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Informal closing: Thursday, June 7, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Cherie Mittenthal, Executive Director of Castle Hill and co-producer of The Encaustic Conference, is curating this exhibition of prints from artists from around the country. Monotype, transfer, photography and other print methods are represented in a range of expression by five nationally exhibited artists:
Invited::
David A. Clark (California)
Lisa Pressman (New Jersey)
Paula Roland (New Mexico)
Marybeth Rothman (New Jersey)
Toby Sisson (Massachusetts)
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Juried exhibition
Castle Hill Library: The Wax Book
10 Meetinghouse Road, Truro
May 31--June 7
Opening: Thursday, May 31, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Informal closing: Thursday, June 7, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
The Castle Hill library--that little outbuilding near the beehives--will be the site of a small book show juried and curated by Supria Karmakar, an Ontario-based artist working within the idiom of altered books. Supria is the first artist we invited to curate an exhibition during The Conference, because we feel that curatorial opportunities can be as important for professional development as exhibition opportunities. The call for entries is now closed. Selected artists will be announced on March 31. .
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Curated exhibition
A Gallery: Wax
192 Commercial Street
June 1-8
Opening: Friday, June 1, 5:00-10:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: 12:00-5:00 daily
This show is focused on the gray scale, monochromatic as a theme. The fog, sea spray, clouds and white summer skies--all Provincetown hallmarks--will inspire work created especially for this event.
Invited:
Christine Aaron (New York)
Debra Claffey (New Hampshire)
Linda Cordner (Massachusetts)
Mary Farmer (North Carolina)
Leslie Ford (New Jersey)
Kathleen Lemoine (Louisiana)
Tracy Spadafora (Massachusetts)
Patricia Spainhour (North Carolina)
Charyl Weissbach (Massachusetts)
Gallery artists Adam Peck and John DeMestico will contribute works as well
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Curated exhibition
Art Current Gallery: Pollination: Beyond the Garden
53 Bradford Street (intersection with Shank Painter)
June 1-24
Opening: Friday, June 1, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Pollination: Beyond The Garden, curated by Gregory Wright, is the expression of 12 artists working in the beeswax-based medium of encaustic who have interpreted the process of pollination from their personal view--scientifically, socio-politically, metaphorically or emotionally.
Invited:
Kim Bernard (Maine)
Binnie Birstein (Connecticut)
Milisa Galazzi (Rhode Island)
Lynette Haggard (Massachusetts)
Sue Katz (Massachusetts)
Cherie Mittenthal (Massachusetts)
Nancy Natale (Massachusetts)
Toby Sisson (Massachusetts)
Donna Hamil Talman (Massachusetts)
Laura Tyler (Colorado)
Kellie Weeks (Massachusetts)
Gregory Wright (Massachusetts)
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Curated exhibition
Gallery Ehva: Good Vibrations
74 Shank Painter Road
June 1-13
Opening: Friday, June , 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Book signing: Sunday evening, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Laura Moriarty, director of the Gallery at R & F, Kingston, New York, is curating this show. The 12 artists featured in Good Vibrations represent a small fraction of artists who submitted their work to be considered for Encaustic Works ’11, the inaugural edition of a biennial exhibition-in-print published by R & F Handmade Paints, and juried for 2011 by Conference Director, Joanne Mattera. Over 400 artists submitted their work for her consideration, and ultimately only 50 could be included in the book. The opening will be on Friday, June 1, exact time to be posted--but part of the Friday evening festivities in town.
To celebrate the release of EW’11, we invited Laura to curate a show. She decided to make her selections from those artists who were passed by for the book but whose work is eminently worthy of attention. "Bound by deference to the submission process, these artists submitted in good faith, and are now being honored for their fine work and professional good graces," says Laura. Gallery Ehva, located on Shankpainter Road, is the enthusiastic host gallery.
Invited:
Christine Aaron (New York)
Lynn Basa (Illinois)
Jorge Luis Bernal (Maryland)
Michael Billie (New Mexico)
Lynda Cole (Michigan)
Kim Flora (Ohio)
Jeffrey Hirst (Minnesota)
Bonny Leibowitz (Texas)
Michelle Marcuse (Pennsylvania)
Winston Lee Mascarenhas (Texas)
Maritza Ruiz-Kim (California)
Pamela Wallace (Virginia) .
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Gallery artist exhibition
Julie Heller Gallery: Carol Ann Danner and Heather Bruce
2 Gosnold Street
June 1-7
More info to come..
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Curated exhibition
Ernden Gallery: Milissa Galazzi and Deanna Wood
397 Commercial Street
The gallery's "feature wall" will show the work of two of its represented artists:
Milissa Galazzi (Rhode Island)
Deanna Wood (Texas)
More info to come.
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Invitational exhibition
Charles-Baltivik Gallery and Sculpture Garden: Binnie Birstein and Ilene Charles
432 Commercial Street
May 29-June 9
Opening June 1, 7:00-9:00 p.m., noshes by Bayside Betsy's
Exhibition of recent work by Conference presenter Binnie Birstein (Connecticut)
and conferee Ilene Charles (Massachusetts)
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Curated exhibition
Rice Polak Gallery: Improbable Topographies
430 Commercial Street
May 31-June 8
Opening: Friday, June 1, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Group show co-curated by Joanne Mattera and gallery director Marla Rice. Following last year’s Surface Attraction, in which we considered elements affecting a planar topography, this year we’re considering the result of more dimensional actions: upheaval, eruption, incursion, erosion, channeling, flow. The exhibition will include painting, bricolage and sculpture.
Invited:
Ruth Hiller (Colorado)
Christine Kyle (Massachusetts)
Laura Moriarty (New York)
Nancy Natale (Massachusetts)
Joanne Mattera (New York)
And gallery artist Willie Little
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Invitational exhibition
The Schoolhouse Gallery: Conference Presenters
494 Commercial Street
May 30-June 5
Opening: Friday, June 1, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Group show featuring the work of the Conference instuctors, organized by gallery director, Mike Carroll
Participants, list in formation:
Susanne Arnold (Virginia)
Binnie Birstein (Connecticut)
David A. Clark (California)
Elena De La Ville (Florida)
Joanne Freeman (New York)
Jane Guthridge (Colorado)
Howard Hersh (California)
Jeff Hirst (Minnesota)
Deborah Kapoor (Washington)
Bonny Leibowitz (Texas)
Joanne Mattera (New York)
Nancy Natale (Massachusetts)
Lisa Pressman (New Jersey)
Marybeth Rothman (New Jersey)
Tracy Spadafora (Massachusetts)
Elise Wagner (Oregon)
Pamela Wallace (Virginia)
Charyl Weissbach (Massachusetts)
Gregory Wright (Massachusetts)
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Open to all conferees
The Provincetown Inn: The Hotel Fair
One Commercial StreetSunday, June 3; 9:30a.m.to 12:30p.m.
This is your opportunity to show and sell. Totally democratic (there is no entry application, no fee), all that's required of you is a room at The Inn. Specifics are on the Hotel Fair's own page. Now that the Inn has filled, we'll make exhibition arrangements (closer to the Conference date) for those staying elsewhere who need a place to set up..
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Stay tuned
We may still have more shows to be announced. Cherie and Joanne are working with galleries in town on thematic ideas based on a gallery's program, or to bring artist-curated exhibitions to the attention of specific galleries who have expressed interest in being involved with The Conference. Each gallery will make its own final selections. This is an evolving process, the result of interest expressed by Provincetown's galleries after seeing the huge interest in encaustic last June, and the subsequent editorial attention paid to the exhibitions. We are focused on showing the work of registered conferees.
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*CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
GOING POSTAL: THE POSTCARD SHOW AT CONFERENCE 6 will take place at the Provincetown Inn during the run of the Conference, June 1-3.
Going Postal is open to every conferee who wishes to donate a handmade 4" x 6" postcard. Every penny of the $30 selling price for each postcard will go toward scholarships for Conference 7. Scholarships, based on financial need, will be awarded. The niumber of scholarships will be in direct relation to the amount of money received from the sale of the postcards. Guidelines for scholarship application will be posted in August, in advance of registration for Conference 7. If your postcard does not sell, you may retrieve it at the end of the last hour of selling. Or you may donate it to Castle Hill so that they can put it into their postcard show in July. Castle Hill is a non-profit educational institution, and every penny that comes in will go to make it a better place for artists—including those who attend the Conference and Pre- or Post- Workshops, and the free exhibitions and talks that take place there around the Conference..
Going Postal is open to every conferee who wishes to donate a handmade 4" x 6" postcard. Every penny of the $30 selling price for each postcard will go toward scholarships for Conference 7. Scholarships, based on financial need, will be awarded. The niumber of scholarships will be in direct relation to the amount of money received from the sale of the postcards. Guidelines for scholarship application will be posted in August, in advance of registration for Conference 7. If your postcard does not sell, you may retrieve it at the end of the last hour of selling. Or you may donate it to Castle Hill so that they can put it into their postcard show in July. Castle Hill is a non-profit educational institution, and every penny that comes in will go to make it a better place for artists—including those who attend the Conference and Pre- or Post- Workshops, and the free exhibitions and talks that take place there around the Conference..
DEADLINE: May 15
FEE: There is no fee to enter
FEE: There is no fee to enter
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If you'd like to participate
● You must be registered for The Conference by the entry deadline
● Make a 4” x 6” postcard. (Do you have to use encaustic? No, but you probably will)
● You must be registered for The Conference by the entry deadline
● Make a 4” x 6” postcard. (Do you have to use encaustic? No, but you probably will)
● Write your name on the back (all the better for the surprise of seeing whose work you have acquired)
● Send it by May 15 to Cherie at PO Box 756 , Truro , MA
●You may donate as many postcards as you wish
● You may buy as many postcards as you wish
● If your postcard doesn’t sell and you wish to retrieve it, you may do so on Sunday afternoon at the end of the Conference
● Or you may donate it to Castle Hill so that they can put it into their postcard show in July. Castle Hill is a non-profit educational institution. Every penny that comes in from the sale of your postcard(s) will go to make it a better place for artists—including those who attend the Conference and Pre- or Post- Workshops, as well as the free exhibitions and talks that take place there around the Conference
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Wondering How Selections are Being Made for the Exhibitions in Town?
I've received several emails from artists requesting to be considered for exhibitions. The Conference is an evolving and ongoing project. Each year we do new things as more people sign up and more galleries become interested. This is what's true right now:
Opportunities Open to All
. There are two juried shows, one currently still accepting submissions: Confluence: Water and Light. The show is open, with no entry fee, to any conferee who is registered by the datesnoted. We hope all conferees will enter appropriate work for consideration
. The Hotel Fair is free and open to all conferees. It's a closed fair--for us, not open to the public--but we have invited and will continue to invite the dealers from P-town, as well as dealers and curators from throughout New England
. The Postcard Show will take place at the Inn. Work will be up for the duration of the Conference and then sold on Sunday to benefit a scholarship fund for next year's Conference.
Curated or Invitational Shows
Cherie and I have been working with the galleries in town in different ways:
. In several instances dealers have expressed interest in a certain type of work, or certain themes, and we have given them a list of artists' names, lots of names, with URLS to peruse. The dealers will announce their selections, and we'll post the information
. In other instances we matched up galleries with curators. The galleries are providing the space and the openings; the curators have selected work for the shows. One example: Laura Moriarty curated Good Vibrations from specific parameters noted earlier in this post. Another: a dealer has invited Gregory Wright to travel his curated exhibition, Pollination, to Provincetown for the month of June
. In still other instances, Provincetown gallerists attended The Hotel Fair or the Conference juried show at Kobalt last year and found artists whose work they wished to show this year
. And in the you-never-know category, one gallerist found an artist through an Internet search
If not this year, next year
We expect to see a Cape Cod museum host a show for Conference 7, and we expect that the number of interested galleries will grow. We also expect that The Hotel Fair will prove to be a rich source of artists for the many galleries in town, so show your best stuff!
I've received several emails from artists requesting to be considered for exhibitions. The Conference is an evolving and ongoing project. Each year we do new things as more people sign up and more galleries become interested. This is what's true right now:
Opportunities Open to All
. There are two juried shows, one currently still accepting submissions: Confluence: Water and Light. The show is open, with no entry fee, to any conferee who is registered by the datesnoted. We hope all conferees will enter appropriate work for consideration
. The Hotel Fair is free and open to all conferees. It's a closed fair--for us, not open to the public--but we have invited and will continue to invite the dealers from P-town, as well as dealers and curators from throughout New England
. The Postcard Show will take place at the Inn. Work will be up for the duration of the Conference and then sold on Sunday to benefit a scholarship fund for next year's Conference.
Curated or Invitational Shows
Cherie and I have been working with the galleries in town in different ways:
. In several instances dealers have expressed interest in a certain type of work, or certain themes, and we have given them a list of artists' names, lots of names, with URLS to peruse. The dealers will announce their selections, and we'll post the information
. In other instances we matched up galleries with curators. The galleries are providing the space and the openings; the curators have selected work for the shows. One example: Laura Moriarty curated Good Vibrations from specific parameters noted earlier in this post. Another: a dealer has invited Gregory Wright to travel his curated exhibition, Pollination, to Provincetown for the month of June
. In still other instances, Provincetown gallerists attended The Hotel Fair or the Conference juried show at Kobalt last year and found artists whose work they wished to show this year
. And in the you-never-know category, one gallerist found an artist through an Internet search
If not this year, next year
We expect to see a Cape Cod museum host a show for Conference 7, and we expect that the number of interested galleries will grow. We also expect that The Hotel Fair will prove to be a rich source of artists for the many galleries in town, so show your best stuff!
2 comments:
Yes, this is going to be a great June of Wax here in Provincetown! (and Truro!!)
I've also been letting people know about it.
Cherie
Very exciting plans!!!
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