Wellfleet Adult Community Center

FREE CONCERT "The Trouble with Time"

Original songs from singer-songwriter Stephen L Russell, accompanied by guitarist & singer Frank Puranski.

Sunday, May 5th, 2024, 2:00 PM

Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Hwy

The presentation of the 2024 Freinds of the Wellfleet COA Distinguished Service Award to Wayne Clough

Presented by the Friends of the Wellfleet COA

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Paul Kelly - Paintings: Looking Back

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of May, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 3:00-5:00 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

A move to Provincetown in 2009 provided me with an opportunity to become a part of an historic arts community and to experience first-hand the work of artists (past and present) and the landscapes and the townscapes that have inspired their work.

My paintings have evolved from earlier traditional townscapes using a basic understanding of architectural forms from my professional background to imaginary forms and locations using unidentified vantage points and perspectives.

My approach and preparation for oil painting includes my love for notebook pencil sketching, quick watercolor studies and weekly access to figure drawing at PAAM to keep my eye in check.

I am interested in moving my painting forward and not being satisfied if this year’s work is the same as a previous year’s work.  

PAUL KELLY - BIO

Paul lives and works in Provincetown, where he is represented by the Alden Gallery.   His work has been widely shown in juried and member exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and has been included in the museum’s permanent collection.  Paul is also represented by the Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Paul received a BFA from Syracuse University and a BArch from the Rhode Island School of Design. His subsequent career has included work in New Town Development in England, Project Management for the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Charlestown Navy Yard Project and in 1976 he became a Founding Partner of the Boston Architectural and Development firm Manitou Company.

PLEASE CONTACT ALDEN GALLERY, PTOWN: 508-487-4230 FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PAUL KELLY’S WORK

Movimento at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Interest in dance? Any and all are welcomed to participate in the weekly series, COOL MOVES. COOL MOVES will offer the chance for people interested in dance as art to explore their own body movements, expressing body movement as art. Run by Leda Muhana and David Iannitelli, this is a great program for motivating and celebrating the movement of all types of bodies in new spaces.

Every Wednesday: May 1 - June 5

A Wellfleet Cultural Council Sponsored Event

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Paul Kelly - Paintings: Looking Back

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of May, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 3:00-5:00 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

A move to Provincetown in 2009 provided me with an opportunity to become a part of an historic arts community and to experience first-hand the work of artists (past and present) and the landscapes and the townscapes that have inspired their work.

My paintings have evolved from earlier traditional townscapes using a basic understanding of architectural forms from my professional background to imaginary forms and locations using unidentified vantage points and perspectives.

My approach and preparation for oil painting includes my love for notebook pencil sketching, quick watercolor studies and weekly access to figure drawing at PAAM to keep my eye in check.

I am interested in moving my painting forward and not being satisfied if this year’s work is the same as a previous year’s work.  

PAUL KELLY - BIO

Paul lives and works in Provincetown, where he is represented by the Alden Gallery.   His work has been widely shown in juried and member exhibitions at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and has been included in the museum’s permanent collection.  Paul is also represented by the Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.

Paul received a BFA from Syracuse University and a BArch from the Rhode Island School of Design. His subsequent career has included work in New Town Development in England, Project Management for the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Charlestown Navy Yard Project and in 1976 he became a Founding Partner of the Boston Architectural and Development firm Manitou Company.

PLEASE CONTACT ALDEN GALLERY, PTOWN: 508-487-4230 FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PAUL KELLY’S WORK

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Every 3rd Friday of the month!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes

Come Dance! Make Friends! Always Live Music!

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30
Beginners are encouraged to attend.

Dance begins at 7:00

Music by:
Start Moore, fiddler
Amy Corrigan, guitar
Pat Nash, caller

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

No experience necessary! We are a friendly bunch, happy to welcome new dancers at any level. Never danced before? No worries, we have, we'll show you how! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

https://www.wellfleet-ma.gov/cultural-council

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Nancy Jenner - Outer Cape Seascapes

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of April, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception: Sunday 7 April 3-5 PM

NANCY JENNER is a painter and mixed media artist who received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University.

Much of her work is conceptual…individual and series of work that responds to an idea or theme. She creates collages and paints seascapes inspired by her time on Cape Cod.

Jenner lives in Boston and Wellfleet and has exhibited work in solo and group exhibits in both local and national venues.

She says of the seascapes “Focusing on the incredible beauty of the natural world is a way to gain perspective in times of incredible uncertainty. Nature is powerful and resilient, both a reminder of what is possible and what is at stake.

”Please send all inquiries about the work to the artist directly at: 

EMAIL: <nancyjenner.mail@gmail.com>

WEBSITE: <www.nancyjennerartwork.com>

INSTAGRAM: @jennerartwork

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

How Are Ya’ Fixed For Love?

An evening of jazz and standard featuring vocalists Carolyn Rogers and Jeff Tagen with Andy Lantz on piano

Free Concert Presented by Friends of the Wellfleet COA

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-sponsored event

Friday, March 22 at 7:00 PM

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

HOW ARE YA’ FIXED FOR LOVE?

A free concert presented by the Friends of the Wellfleet COA and sponsored, in part, by the Wellfleet Cultural District

Featuring vocalists Carolyn Rogers and Jeff Tagen, with Andy Lantz on the piano

Friday, March 22 - 7:00 PM

715 Old Kings Highway

Light refreshments

FREE

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Every 3rd Friday of the month!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes

Come Dance! Make Friends! Always Live Music!

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30
Beginners are encouraged to attend.

Dance begins at 7:00

Music by:
Start Moore, fiddler
Amy Corrigan, guitar
Pat Nash, caller

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

No experience necessary! We are a friendly bunch, happy to welcome new dancers at any level. Never danced before? No worries, we have, we'll show you how! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

Wellfleet Adult Community Center

A Celtic Celebration:  Songs and Stories for the Season with Parents’ Choice Award-winning Storyteller Davis Bates

The  Wellfleet Council on Aging will celebrate St Patrick’s Day, Celtic culture and the impending arrival of spring by presenting a performance by Parents’ Choice Award winning performing Davis Bates.   Entitled A Celtic Celebration, the program will involve the audience in a variety of cultural traditions.  It will include traditional songs and tales from Ireland, Scotland & Wales, sea songs & chanteys, ghost stories and family tales.  There will also be plenty of sing-alongs, a short lesson in how to play music with spoons from a kitchen drawer, and an appearance by an Irish dancing wooden dog named Bingo.

Pete and Toshi Seeger called Davis "thoughtful, creative, human, and a fantastic storyteller."  Davis' traditional and participatory performance style empowers and encourages audiences of all ages to join in the fun, and to take the songs and stories home with them to share with others.  He also encourages listeners to remember and share stories and songs from their own family and cultural traditions.

Davis Bates has been telling stories for over forty-four years, in schools, libraries, colleges and community settings around New England and across the country.  His recording of Family Stories won a Parent’s Choice Gold Award and was named one of the year’s best Audio Recordings by Booklist Magazine.  Davis has also served as director and consultant for several local and regional oral history and folk arts projects.  Davis lives in the village of Shelburne Falls, MA, and when he isn't collecting or learning stories, he spends his time working with the Hampshire College Alumni Advisory Group and gardening and working on pollinator plantings on the Hampshire campus and at home.

The performance will take place at the  Wellfleet Adult Community Center on Thursday, March 14th, following a lunch that begins at 12:30 p.m.   Be sure not to miss this wonderful of program of traditional interactive entertainment.  For more information and lunch reservations, please call (508) 349-0313.  This performance is funded, in part, by a grant from the  Wellfleet Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

FREE

https://www.wellfleet-ma.gov/cultural-council

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Constantine Manos

Constantine Manos has created unique and complex images that freeze surprisingly disparate elements together in a single fascinating frame. 

Photographing in crowded public places and many unique locales in the United States, Manos presents a kaleidoscope of the visual vocabulary and candid moments within our American culture. Each image has it's own message and elicits it's own set of responses from the viewer and provides a rich and dynamic situation for capturing the unexpected.

Manos has transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal in this truly beautiful and colorful collection of photographs exhibited here at The Wellfleet Adult Community Center.

Costa Manos has worked as a professional photographer for many years. His career began at age 19, when he was hired as the official photographer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but started at The Symphony’s summer home at Tanglewood. His photographs of the orchestra culminated in 1961 with his first published work, “Portrait of a Symphony”

Manos graduated from the University of South Carolina. His career lead him to important photographer positions for various magazines in New York City, Boston and his Greek homeland, where he once again realized a collection of photos for “A Greek Portfolio”.He then also created the photographs for his book “Bostonians” in honor of the city’s 200th anniversary.

In 1995 “American Color" was published, containing Manos' photographs of American people and places. He was awarded the Leica Medal of excellence for this comprehensive collection of extraordinary images. He is a distinguished member of the international photojournalist collective, Magnum.

His celebrated work is in the collections of The Library of Congress in D.C., New York’s Museum of Modern Art,the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Boston Athenaeum,Biblioteque National in Paris, The Benaki Museum, Athens, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and many other international venues.

Constantine Manos currently lives full-time on Outer Cape Cod where he continues to take photographs with his favorite Leica cameras.

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of March, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Reception and book signing: March 3, 3- 5 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Constantine Manos

Constantine Manos has created unique and complex images that freeze surprisingly disparate elements together in a single fascinating frame. 

Photographing in crowded public places and many unique locales in the United States, Manos presents a kaleidoscope of the visual vocabulary and candid moments within our American culture. Each image has it's own message and elicits it's own set of responses from the viewer and provides a rich and dynamic situation for capturing the unexpected.

Manos has transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal in this truly beautiful and colorful collection of photographs exhibited here at The Wellfleet Adult Community Center.

Costa Manos has worked as a professional photographer for many years. His career began at age 19, when he was hired as the official photographer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but started at The Symphony’s summer home at Tanglewood. His photographs of the orchestra culminated in 1961 with his first published work, “Portrait of a Symphony”

Manos graduated from the University of South Carolina. His career lead him to important photographer positions for various magazines in New York City, Boston and his Greek homeland, where he once again realized a collection of photos for “A Greek Portfolio”.He then also created the photographs for his book “Bostonians” in honor of the city’s 200th anniversary.

In 1995 “American Color" was published, containing Manos' photographs of American people and places. He was awarded the Leica Medal of excellence for this comprehensive collection of extraordinary images. He is a distinguished member of the international photojournalist collective, Magnum.

His celebrated work is in the collections of The Library of Congress in D.C., New York’s Museum of Modern Art,the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Boston Athenaeum,Biblioteque National in Paris, The Benaki Museum, Athens, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and many other international venues.

Constantine Manos currently lives full-time on Outer Cape Cod where he continues to take photographs with his favorite Leica cameras.

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of March, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Reception and book signing: March 3, 3- 5 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Every 3rd Friday of the month!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes

Come Dance! Make Friends! Always Live Music!

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30
Beginners are encouraged to attend.

Dance begins at 7:00

Music by:
Start Moore, fiddler
Amy Corrigan, guitar
Pat Nash, caller

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

No experience necessary! We are a friendly bunch, happy to welcome new dancers at any level. Never danced before? No worries, we have, we'll show you how! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

https://www.wellfleet-ma.gov/cultural-council

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Abraham Storer - Painting of Poland

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of February, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception - February 11th - 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Abraham Storer is a landscape painter, whose paintings reflect the diverse places around the world where he has lived. He  has an MFA from Boston University and a BA from Brandeis University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, and a recent grant from the Wellfleet Cultural Council. 

He currently lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts with his family where he maintains a studio practice and writes about art and culture.    This work was created during the pandemic era, between 2019 - 2021. This was a time of personal change and transition, which echoed larger changes and disruptions within the world.  It was a period where I moved with my family to Poland, my wife’s native country, after living and working in Israel for five years.

Artist Statement: 

In these works, I responded to the landscape around where we lived in Southern Poland. My painting practice challenged me to ground myself in my environment and find something personal in a foreign landscape.

Agricultural motifs become spiritual metaphors. To me, these paintings serve as reminders of the beauty found in transitory states - the places briefly framed, captured and in focus, as the eternal beckons and peaks through the cracks of our shifting experiences.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Abraham Storer - Painting of Poland

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of February, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception - February 11th - 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Abraham Storer is a landscape painter, whose paintings reflect the diverse places around the world where he has lived. He  has an MFA from Boston University and a BA from Brandeis University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel, and a recent grant from the Wellfleet Cultural Council. 

He currently lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts with his family where he maintains a studio practice and writes about art and culture.    This work was created during the pandemic era, between 2019 - 2021. This was a time of personal change and transition, which echoed larger changes and disruptions within the world.  It was a period where I moved with my family to Poland, my wife’s native country, after living and working in Israel for five years.

Artist Statement: 

In these works, I responded to the landscape around where we lived in Southern Poland. My painting practice challenged me to ground myself in my environment and find something personal in a foreign landscape.

Agricultural motifs become spiritual metaphors. To me, these paintings serve as reminders of the beauty found in transitory states - the places briefly framed, captured and in focus, as the eternal beckons and peaks through the cracks of our shifting experiences.

Outermost Contra at Wellfleet Preservation Hall

A Wellfleet Cultural Council-supported event

Every 3rd Friday of the month!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes

Come Dance! Make Friends! Always Live Music!

Contra Basics Workshop: 6:30
Beginners are encouraged to attend.

Dance begins at 7:00

Music by:
Start Moore, fiddler
Amy Corrigan, guitar
Pat Nash, caller

$15 admission
Special admission: $10 under 30, $5 with student ID
Donations always gratefully accepted.

Cash Bar

No experience necessary! We are a friendly bunch, happy to welcome new dancers at any level. Never danced before? No worries, we have, we'll show you how! 

Visit http://outermostcontra.org to join mailing list and confirm event.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center

Walter Dorrell - Landscapes Re-Imagined: Recent Oil Paintings

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of January, M-F: 8 am - 4 pm

Artist Reception: January 14, 2-4 PM *PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE*

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 

Although artist Walter Dorrell began oil painting more than 50 years ago, he is best known perhaps for his plein-air watercolor work.  Since first coming to the Outer Cape in 1977, he found that medium more perfectly captured his outdoor experience of the famous “Cape Light.”  His summer work was supplemented for many years by still-life work done in Winter in his studio in Wellfleet. This Great Pond gallery exhibit brings his work almost full circle, showing his recent oil paintings—still based on landscape, but in a more abstract mode. 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am very pleased to have a show at this fine venue, just down the street from where we have lived since 1982, invited and curated by Robert Rindler, assisted by James Connors

At age 91, I still love going out in the morning to my favorite spots as often as I can. The sheer joy of painting while floating on our local ponds has been a total delight for so many decades.

These paintings are explorations, really, landscape reduced to its color elements, seeing if I can still convey the excitement I feel when painting them. It’s a way of looking into the future, I suppose, hoping things will turn out ok. And I do! 

A Wellfleet Cultural Council sponsored event.

https://www.wellfleet-ma.gov/cultural-council

Come dance!

New England Contra, Squares, Waltzes - Dance & make some friends.

Every 3rd Friday of the Month.

All welcome, very beginner to fabulous expert.

Dances begin with an all levels contra skills warm-up: 7:00- 7:30

$15 regular admission
Special admission: $10 age 30 or younger, $5 with Student ID

Cash bar!

Vax cards required, local mask protocols observed

For more information, you can call or text: Andrea: 508-944-3049

https://www.wellfleet-ma.gov/cultural-council

William Evaul - White Line Prints “Whence They Come, Wither They Go”

Bill Evaul - “Whence They Come, Wither They Go”, White-Line Color Woodcuts

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of December, M-F: 8am - 4pm

Reception for Artist: Sunday, December 10th, 5-7 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Bill Evaul is an internationally recognized painter and printmaker who maintains his studio in Provincetown.  He studied painting and printmaking at Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Syracuse University School of Art, NY, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC and the Whitney Museum of American Art. NYC.  He came to Provincetown in 1970 as a painting Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and has maintained his studio there ever since. Evaul’s artworks are in national and world-wide collections from Tel Aviv to Hong Kong.  His work is held by The Library of Congress, The Zimmerli Art Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Cape Cod Museum of Art and several others.

In 1979, while on assignment for Pratt Graphics Center’s Print Review magazine, Bill Evaul discovered a rare technique of woodcut color printmaking that was originated in 1915 in Provincetown.  First known as the “Provincetown Print” because it didn’t fit into any of the known classifications, it had fallen into obscurity, with only a few living artists who had actually practiced the technique. Evaul researched the history of its invention and produced a feature article for the magazine. Following that, he embarked on a self-directed course of study to learn how to make what is widely known today as the “White-Line Color Woodcut.”

This exhibition gives a brief overview of Evaul’s journey, beginning with some of his earliest prints and progressing forward for over 40 years with his development and extension of the practice.  Building upon the techniques of BJO Nordfeldt, Blanche Lazzell, Ethel Mars and the other original members of the Provincetown Printmakers group, Evaul has since made contributions of his own, including more intense layering of colors, more painterly handling of the images, use of oil paint and oil inks in addition to the traditional watercolor, printing on canvas as well as paper, exploring portraiture, and working in large scale. 

Evaul had conducted numerous workshops and classes nationwide. While the images for the prints are typically created based on a drawing or painting, he has found that, coming full circle, his prints can inspire new paintings.

OUTER CAPE CHORAL AT PROVINCETOWN TOWN HALL

Glorious!

ALLISON BEAVAN Artistic Diréctor

Brass Ensemble • 120 Singers

Gloria by John Rutter

Commissioned World Premiere of Reindeer Cantata by Robert Grady

Dec 8th: 7:00 pm & 9th: 5:00 pm - Provincetown Town Hall

Dec 10: 3:00 pm - Nauset Middle School

FREE

OUTER CAPE CHORAL AT PROVINCETOWN TOWN HALL

Glorious!

ALLISON BEAVAN Artistic Diréctor

Brass Ensemble • 120 Singers

Gloria by John Rutter

Commissioned World Premiere of Reindeer Cantata by Robert Grady

Dec 8th: 7:00 pm & 9th: 5:00 pm - Provincetown Town Hall

Dec 10: 3:00 pm - Nauset Middle School

FREE

OUTER CAPE CHORAL AT PROVINCETOWN TOWN HALL

Glorious!

ALLISON BEAVAN Artistic Diréctor

Brass Ensemble • 120 Singers

Gloria by John Rutter

Commissioned World Premiere of Reindeer Cantata by Robert Grady

Dec 8th: 7:00 pm & 9th: 5:00 pm - Provincetown Town Hall

Dec 10: 3:00 pm - Nauset Middle School

FREE

William Evaul - White Line Prints “Whence They Come, Wither They Go”

Bill Evaul - “Whence They Come, Wither They Go”, White-Line Color Woodcuts

Part of a monthly changing exhibit showcasing local artists.

Great Pond Gallery at the Wellfleet Adult Community Center, 715 Old Kings Highway

Month of December, M-F: 8am - 4pm

Reception for Artist: Sunday, December 10th, 5-7 pm

Robert Rindler: Curator, James Connors: Co-Curator & Installation 

Bill Evaul is an internationally recognized painter and printmaker who maintains his studio in Provincetown.  He studied painting and printmaking at Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Syracuse University School of Art, NY, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NYC and the Whitney Museum of American Art. NYC.  He came to Provincetown in 1970 as a painting Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and has maintained his studio there ever since. Evaul’s artworks are in national and world-wide collections from Tel Aviv to Hong Kong.  His work is held by The Library of Congress, The Zimmerli Art Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, The Cape Cod Museum of Art and several others.

In 1979, while on assignment for Pratt Graphics Center’s Print Review magazine, Bill Evaul discovered a rare technique of woodcut color printmaking that was originated in 1915 in Provincetown.  First known as the “Provincetown Print” because it didn’t fit into any of the known classifications, it had fallen into obscurity, with only a few living artists who had actually practiced the technique. Evaul researched the history of its invention and produced a feature article for the magazine. Following that, he embarked on a self-directed course of study to learn how to make what is widely known today as the “White-Line Color Woodcut.”

This exhibition gives a brief overview of Evaul’s journey, beginning with some of his earliest prints and progressing forward for over 40 years with his development and extension of the practice.  Building upon the techniques of BJO Nordfeldt, Blanche Lazzell, Ethel Mars and the other original members of the Provincetown Printmakers group, Evaul has since made contributions of his own, including more intense layering of colors, more painterly handling of the images, use of oil paint and oil inks in addition to the traditional watercolor, printing on canvas as well as paper, exploring portraiture, and working in large scale. 

Evaul had conducted numerous workshops and classes nationwide. While the images for the prints are typically created based on a drawing or painting, he has found that, coming full circle, his prints can inspire new paintings.