OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

Letter from President | Letter from Executive Director

CHAIRS 2010

Provincetown Dance Festival
Oct. 23 & 24, 2009.
Photo by Dee Portnoy 2005

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

The Castle Hill Chairs honor the following artists:

Castle Hill Woody English Distinguished Artists and Writers Chair honors: Mark Bittman

[July 21, at the Wellfleet Congregational Church ]

I'm not a chef, and I never have been. And though I've cooked with some of the best-known chefs in the world, I've never had formal training, and I've never worked in a restaurant. None of which has gotten in the way of my mission to get people cooking simply, comfortably, and well.

I've been an avid home cook since 1968, a journalist for nearly as long (longer if you count my high school yearbook!) and a professional food writer since 1980. In 1987 I became the senior writer (later editor) of Cook's (the predecessor of Cook's Illustrated), and in 1990 I began writing for The New York Times. Within the next few years I'd written How to Cook Everything and begun to write my weekly column, "The Minimalist."

Since then the books have come steadily, and How to Cook Everything has been completely revised for its tenth birthday. The companion volume, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (inspired by my realization that the world will inevitably move in the lessmeatarian direction, and why not?), led me to write the just-published (and happily well-received) Food Matters, a look at the links among eating too much meat, obesity, global warming, and other nasty features of modern life. (It has good recipes, too.)

2 Exciting Events!

July 21 - An Evening with Mark Bittman
xxxxxxxxxxx Reception + Lecture

Truro Vineyards and Castle Hill are delighted to present - An Evening with Mark Bittman, celebrated journalist and author of How to Cook Everything and Food Matters. Come and enjoy a delectable reception at Truro Vineyards 5pm-7pm, local wine from Truro Vineyards, culinary delights by Blackfish, local art by Castle Hill Artists and live music by the Fabulous Mint 400

Ticket includes a lecture by Mark Bittman to follow at Wellfleet Congregational Church 8pm. Limited Availability to Reception!!

*Tickets to Presention only can be purchased at by clicking here ($25.00)

$100- Includes Reception and ticket to Presentation
$125- Includes Reception and FRONT ROW SEAT to Presentation

For tickets to reception & lecture CLICK HERE

July 22 - BBQ with Bittman at the home of David & Patricia Grayson - Join Us for an intimate setting overlooking the harbor with Mark Bittman …Wellfleet Oysters, Ballston Brisket & Ryder Ribs

Tickets: $175 for members and $200 for non-members. Limited seating of 40 people.

ELLA JACKSON CHAIR HONORS:
ALISON SAAR

ALISON SAAR was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Tom Leeser and her two children Maddy and Kyle.

She will be teaching the week of July 19 - 23 and giving a lecture on Tuesday July 20.

THE MARY LOU FRIEDMAN CHAIR HONORS:
Frances Jetter

Since 1974, Frances Jetter’s prints on political and social subject matter have illustrated articles in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The Progressive. She illustrated books for the Franklin Library, ads for Audubon, and book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan and others. Shows include NYU Broadway Windows, Art of the Times (x Four) at the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University, Art of Democracy; Art and Empire at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, and solo print shows at Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Her work is in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, and The New York Public Library Print Collection. She received a fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts in 2003. She is on the Illustrator's Advisory Board of the Norman Rockwell Museum, and has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1979.

Frances is teaching the week of June 29 – July 2 a course titled: Storytelling with Linocut. She will be part of a new faculty show in the gallery during this week.

THE JOYCE JOHNSON CHAIR HONORS:
Val Cushing

Val Cushing was born in Rochester, New York on January 28th, 1931. He received his BFA in 1952 from the School of Art & Design in the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. After serving two years in the Army, during the Korean War, he returned to Alfred and received his MFA in 1956. His full-time teaching career began that year at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. The following year, 1957, he returned to Alfred where he taught pottery and technical courses concerning clays, glazes and related subjects. He retired from Alfred in 1997, after forty-one years of teaching and was designated “Professor Emeritus”. The Cushing Handbook, concerning clays and glazes relates to the material provided in those courses. His pottery has received many awards and honors, has been seen in well over 200 exhibitions, and in numerous one-person shows.

Val is teaching a Throwing Workshop the week of June 21 - 25th

The Presidents Chair: Robert Pinsky

Pinsky was born and raised on the New Jersey shore, in the historic town of Long Branch. His most recent book of poetry is Gulf Music (FSG, 2008) and his new anthology is Essential Pleasures (Norton, 2009). His translation The Inferno of Dante (1994) was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor's Choice, and received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. He teaches in the MFA program at Boston University and is poetry editor of Slate. His prose works include The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (FSG, 1998), an amusing, and jargon-free book used in many classrooms. While serving as United States Poet Laureate, he founded the Favorite Poem Project.

Pinsky will be teaching a weekend Workshop August 14 & 15: 10 - 2pm

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