An Interactive Art Exhibit of Cape CodArtists’
Favorite Wild Things

January 9 – February 10
Monday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm

Arts Foundation of Cape Cod:  508-362-0066

Generously Sponsored by Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation and
supported by Cape Cod Melody Tent and the Donald C. McGraw Foundation.

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, together with Cotuit Center for the Arts, announces the sixth year of their collaborative winter exhibit from January 9 – February 10, 2012. This year’s exhibit is titled Wild Things, featuring artists’ favorite wild things.

Keeping younger patrons in mind, art work will be displayed at a lower height throughout the exhibit – right at children’s eye level. A series of child-friendly events are scheduled over the course of the month. School groups will be welcomed to the exhibit for free for the duration of the show, and will be given docent-led tours and art instruction customized to the age level of the children.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.  Gallery hours have been extended to accommodate the high demand anticipated for the show, based on advance bookings for school visits and the popularity of previously presented exhibits, So Big!, First Things First, ROYGBIV, Self Portrait Cape Cod and When We Were Younger.

February 15 – March 17

Opening Reception Feb. 18 5-7pm

Paris, known as the “City of Light” has been reflected through the lens of all who have visited. In this exhibit, Paris becomes itself, again, in another moment of excitement, mystery and anticipation that either warms your memory of a time past or stimulates a yearning forward . 

Don West began a career as a freelance and news photographer making a conscious choice to capture affirmative images of people of color in all facets of community life. His editorial and documentary assignments have taken him throughout the United States, Latin America, Africa, China, Europe and the Middle East.

February 15 – March 17

Opening Reception Saturday, February 18 5-7 pm

A celebration of artists with disabilities, this exhibit is designed to foster a better appreciation of people with physical challenges.  As art enriches their lives, we hope their creativity, talent & exuberant spirit will enrich Cotuit Center for the Arts’ visitors’  lives, along with their family, friends & caregivers.

Deb Colligan will be in the gallery for exhibition tours, talks and art workshops Wednesdays 3-5pm (Feb. 22 & 29, March 7 & 14)

March 21 – April 22

Opening Reception Saturday, March 24 5-7 pm

A long time Falmouth resident, Zens Twombly has exhibited in Europe as well as the U.S., including the Rivington Gallery in London, Pieces of Eight Gallery in Port Salerno, Florida and at Cape Cod galleries.  She is also an accomplished portrait artist and has designed sets for the Santa Fe (New Mexico) Theater Company and the Charles Playhouse Children’s Theater of Boston. 

“I paint in order to name with color and line what I see and hear and so love in this world.  My intention is simply to be as truthful as I can be about these things, and I have found that abstraction often lets me be as limitless in this as I can possibly be.  In the end, I hope that the beauty I hear, the truth I see, will nourish us every single day and help us to know that we are this beauty too.”

 Kathy Zens Twombly

March 21 – April 22

Opening Reception Saturday, March 24 5-7 pm

The first exhibit featuring  works of our curatorial committee: Michelle Law, Lois Hirshberg, Mary Moquin and Michael Ernst

May 5 – June 10

Opening Reception Saturday, May 5 5-7pm

Traditional and non-traditional aspects of the tea ceremony will be explored.  The preparation of tea, utensils used in the ceremony, calligraphy, ikebana (flower arranging), textile (kimonos), architecture (gardens and structures) and more.

The tea ceremony is an ancient ritual preparation of Matcha (powdered green tea). The foundation of the Japanese tea ceremony is the harmony of nature and self cultivation, and enjoying tea in formal and informal settings.The richness of the ritual itself, plus the artistic setting and utensils of the tea ceremony, have inspired tea enthusiasts for centuries.

The central principles of the tea ceremony are: harmony, respect, purity and tranquility. This exhibit will feature contemporary works by artists who have been inspired by this philosophy and aesthetic.

May 5 – June 10

Opening Reception Saturday, May 5 5-7pm

Mr. Charney’s prints are in many private collections and have been selected for juried exhibitions in Rochester, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Worcester and Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and Sanibel and Ft. Meyers, Florida.  His prints have received numerous awards at these shows.

“For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with printmaking.  It’s a perverse art form: as much craft as art.  It requires time and patience to acquire the technical skill, like a musician who must painstakingly master the instrument before being able to make beautiful music.  Unlike painting, the outcome in printmaking is indirect, hidden, the result uncertain until the very end.  But then there is nothing as satisfying as “pulling” the final print, the “Aha!” moment when you lift the paper from the press and see what God hath wrought.” – E. Charney

June 16 – July22

Opening Reception Saturday, June 16 5-7 pm

The gallery features a solo exhibition of portrait studies and portraits by Jon Friedman.  In May his portrait of Bill and Melinda Gates, a commission by the National Portrait Gallery, was unveiled in Washington, D.C. where it will be on permanent display.   Mr. Friedman lives in NY and Truro.

Portraits – An Open Call Juried Exhibition

The first of four juried exhibits.  The subject is portraits and the work submitted will be juried by Jon Friedman

July 28 – September 2

Opening Reception Saturday, July 28 5-7 pm

The Big Picture will be an  open juried photography exhibit, specifically showing works that are 24″ x 30″ or larger. Photographs from all over the country will be evaluated and the jury will choose the best collection for this exciting new exhibit.

September 8 – October 13

Opening Reception Saturday, September 8 5-7pm

This exhibit will serve as the backdrop for thematic programming at the Center during the show.  Theatrical productions of all male and all female casts will run concurrently and there will be male vs. female poetry slams.  All in good fun, of course!

“People and things are in a never-ending condition of pulling together and breaking apart and I have tried in my work to reflect some element of that continual state of flux.” – Richard Neal.

“Memories and imaginings are the driving forces behind my work. I’m interested in  the connection between what we see and what we invent in our minds.  If I’m the creator of my imagined world then why not be the inventor of my waking days. “ – Jackie Reeves