Art Week Plein Air Painting and Opening Celebration

Addison Art Gallery 43 South Orleans Road, Orleans, MA, United States

Artists are encouraged to paint en plein air around Orleans on Saturday, April 20. With a charming town and stunning shorelines, there are many opportunities for painting opportunities. Master artist and teacher Jonathan McPhillips will demonstrate oil painting at the Addison Art Gallery from 4:00 to 5:00. Orleans Art Week Opening Reception 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Join friends, old and new, at a reception replete with painters, writers, live music and libations. The featured exhibition includes works by some of … Read More

Cape Cod Viewfinders

While open to photographers of all skill levels, the Cape Cod Viewfinders gallery shows are juried and usually present an array of award-worthy works by photographers recognized throughout the region and beyond. Music for the opening reception will be provided by internationally recognized composer and arranger Jim Skinger, a professional classical and jazz guitarist. He will be joined by Vicki Goldsmith, an accomplished flutist. Their magical programs embrace music from the 18th century Baroque of J.S. Bach to the exciting … Read More

Memorial Day Weekend Reception and Figure Painting

Paul Schulenburg and members of the Schulenburg Studio Figure Painting Group will begin painting a specially chosen model at 3:30 and continue through the start of the reception (a great time to meet with artists and to learn more about their work) at 5:00. Long before the onset of photography, portraits served to capture a person’s likeness. As well, portraits conveyed power, familial ties, virtue, or other aspects of the subject. Today, portraits continue to portray far more of a … Read More

Beyond Bohemia Wellfleet Exhibition

Wellfleet Public Library 55 W. Main Street, Wellfleet, MA

Cape Cod’s naturally spectacular environment and cultural community continuously draw people from across the globe. As John Taylor Williams wrote, this was true over 100 years ago as well. “Beginning around 1910, those dedicated to radical political reform, a new exploration of personal relationships free from Victorian strictures, and a search for the new ‘American’ voice in writing, painting, architecture, and theater congregated . . .” —The Shores of Bohemia, A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 Honoring this history and celebrating … Read More

Reading of Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles”

Wellfleet Public Library 55 W. Main Street, Wellfleet, MA

"Trifles" was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in 1916. Written during the first wave feminist movement, it contrasts how women act in public and in private, with men versus women. It is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.

Figure Painters and Model at Work

Paul Schulenburg has organized a group of artists to paint a live model from 1:00 to 3:30. The public is invited to watch the Figure Painters at Work, welcome to ask them questions as they progress, and to stay until 4:00 for extra time to explore the works and chat with the creators. Schulenburg’s group reflects the long tradition of artists painting the figure together; perhaps Charles Hawthorne’s Cape Cod School of Art classes are the most recognized. The list … Read More

Beyond Bohemia Talk and Slide Presentation

Wellfleet Public Library 55 W. Main Street, Wellfleet, MA

Mary Jane Treacy, professor emerita of modern languages and literatures at Simmons University, will tie the Cape’s Bohemians back to their days in Greenwich Village and to contemporary painters and their works. Since 2005 she has been involved with Reacting to the Past, a national group of scholars writing interactive role-playing simulations for university history and political science courses. Her work with Reacting took her to New York, literally as well as intellectually, leading her to write Greenwich Village 1913: … Read More

Beyond Bohemia at the Wellfleet Public Library

Wellfleet Public Library 55 W. Main Street, Wellfleet, MA

Plein air painting starting at 8:00 am; reception 5:00 to 6:30. Please email helen@addisonart.com to participate and/or to to attend. Thank you. Cape Cod’s naturally spectacular environment and cultural community continuously draw people from across the globe. As John Taylor Williams wrote, this was true over 100 years ago as well. “Beginning around 1910, those dedicated to radical political reform, a new exploration of personal relationships free from Victorian strictures, and a search for the new ‘American’ voice in writing, … Read More

Portraits of Nature: Doberstein and Reid

Oil painting demonstration by Sara Jane Doberstein from 3:30 to 4:30; opening reception for Sara Jane and Cynthia Reid from 5:00 to 7:00. Nature in its many guises comforts the soul and brings new light each day. Nature gives gifts asking nothing in return except kindness and respect. Reid and Doberstein create art that reflects and glorifies these truths. With their art, they honor nature with joy, playfulness, and a bit of whimsy.

Paul Batch One Man Show

Oil painting demonstration at 4:00; reception 5:00 to 7:00 Paul Batch is a contemporary painter praised for his evocative, atmospheric landscapes. His paintings are a poetic response to the fleeting and ephemeral light cast by the passing sun or rising moon. He focuses on transitions, painting various times of day, changing weather, and the rich seasons New England offers. “My work reflects the tone and qualities offered by nature. I strive to convey a felt experience through my art. Though … Read More

Paul Schulenburg Reception

Paul Schulenburg is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown in the Hopper House Museum, twice in solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and in many group exhibitions at CCMA, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Cahoon Museum of American Art. He has appeared over a dozen times in respected national art publications including the cover of American Art Collector. Schulenburg won the Patrons’ Choice Award at the Copley Society of Art and was awarded a … Read More

Jonathan McPhillips One Man Show

Oil painting demonstration at 4:00; reception 5:00 to 7:00 "Each painting I create is a delightful challenge to conquer, a puzzle seeking completion, and an ode to the beauty of our surroundings. My ultimate reward is knowing that my work has captivated the hearts and minds of both friends and strangers. In a world of digital clarity, original artwork continues to offer a sense of mystery and enchantment. Through painting, I strive to forge connections between hearts and minds, unifying … Read More