Plein air painting in the Cape Cod National Seashore in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service. For more information or to register as a plein air or studio artist for the exhibition, please email helen@addisonnart.com.
Special Program for Participating Artists Sue Moynihan, Chief of Interpretation and Cultural Resources Management at Cape Cod National Seashore, will present Through the Artists' Eyes: Popularizing and Preserving National Parks at the Salt Pond Visitor Center, 50 Nauset Road, Eastham. During her 34-year career with the National Park Service, Moynihan has worked in some of our nation's most compelling natural and historic sites, including Big Bend, Muir Woods, Yosemite, Great Smoky Mountains, Canyon de Chelly, and Alcatraz Island. This illustrated … Read More
Josephine Breen Del Deo will speak on the legacy of the dune shacks at the Province Lands Visitors Center, 171 Race Point Road, Provincetown. Del Deo has lived in Provincetown since 1953 (with her husband, the painter Salvatore Del Deo) where she has been engaged in significant community activity, including her participation in preserving over 3,000 acres of the state-owned Province Lands for inclusion in the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. Working tirelessly to preserve environmental and historic legacies, Del … Read More
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service, an exhibition of new plein air and studio works inspired by the Cape Cod National Seashore
See painters capture the drama, beauty and history of Truro's shores and uplands, then join them for a show and reception at the Truro Public Library at 5 pm.
In partnership with the Cape Cod National Seashore, works by contemporary artists celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service. On exhibit for the month of August. A selection of plein air works from the morning painting session will be included in the exhibit. After the reception at the Library, at 7 pm, Bill Burke, Cape Cod National Seashore Historian, will present "How to Move Something Really Big: The 1996 Relocation of Highland Lighthouse" at the Highland House Museum.
Watch award-winning painters as they create work inspired by the shores of Orleans. Plein air, French for "open air," describes paintings created outdoors. French Impressionists, including Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, advocated en plein air painting. Charles Webster Hawthorne, who is attributed with starting the art colony in Provincetown, came to Cape Cod to teach painting en plein air. The public is invited to come and watch as adults and children alike are enthralled by seeing a painting move from … Read More
Join artists and friends for a casual reception and exhibition of new paintings inspired by the shores and waters of Cape Cod. Book signing with Susan Anarino, author of 365 Cape Cod Ponds, Day by Day. "Once I discovered that Cape Cod had 365 ponds I vowed to see if this was true. I found the magic under snow draped pines, beneath squawking seagulls, beside bandstands and in rainy woods. There I encountered swans, herons, boat parades and a little … Read More
