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 Presidents | Letter from Executive Director

TUESDAY EVENING SERIES 2008

THIS YEAR'S WOODY ENGLISH CHAIR HONORS: Artist: Judy Chicago, She will give a lcture on Wednesday, August 20 at the Wellfleet Congregational Church, $40 in advance, $45 at the door

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

Tuesday Evening Series
at the Wellfleet Public Library
$10 admission – Free for Castle Hill Members
8pm on Tuesdays at the Wellfleet Public Library in Wellfleet.

July 8 – Caroline Rand Herron, Former Staff Editor of the New York Times Book Review.

She was a staff editor at the New York Times. Her last posting/position was at the NY Times Book Review. She was also was an editor/writer at the Week In Review, an Assistant Editor in the Washington bureau, and for a bit in Bizday. She left the Times in the summer of 2005. She went to The Times in 1973 from Partican Review, where she had been Executive Editor.

July 15 – Anthony Walton, author of “Mississippi: An American Journey”and historian and scholar of African American history. Anthony Walton currently lives in Brunswick, Maine. He has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times and 7 Days, and received lots of attention for his "Willie Horton and Me" for the The New York Times Magazine. He studied at Notre Dame and Brown University.

July 22 – Daniel Heyman, will discuss his work making portraits of Iraqi torture victims as personal political statements and as part of a long tradition of printmakers who recorded wars in their art.

"War, Prints, Protest" From Jacques Callot's famous series of prints in the 17th century, "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War" to our day, the printed image has played an important role in shaping our understanding of both the violence of the battlefield and the protests and propaganda of the political battle fields that surround every war's prosecution. Daniel Heyman will discuss his own work making portraits of Iraqi torture victims as both personal political statements and as part of a long tradition of print makers who chose to record the war’s of their times in their art.

August 5 – Harry Cooper, curator of the National Gallery.

National Gallery of Art director Earl A. Powell III has announced the appointment of Harry Cooper as head of the department of modern and contemporary art. Cooper, currently the curator and head of the department of modern art at the Harvard University Art Museums, has held various curatorial and academic positions at Harvard since 1997. He organized more than one dozen traveling and in-house exhibitions as associate curator and later as curator of modern art, including Frank Stella 1958 (2006), Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions (2003), Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings (2001), and Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings (1999). Cooper has also lectured and taught in the department of the history of art and architecture on a wide variety of subjects, including abstract expressionism, Paul Cézanne, and Philip Guston.

August 12 - Franco Sacchi, Independant Director/Producer/Editor whose feature length film This is Nollywood, portrays the unknown world of the Nigerian home video industry.

Franco Sacchi is an independent Director/Editor/Producer. He directed, produced, and edited American Eunuchs, a feature length documentary that aired in 2004 on the Sundance Channel and was an official selection at several national and international film festivals, including the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA). In collaboration with the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University he co-produced and directed the award winning documentary, This is Nollywood, that portrays the unknown world of Nigerian film industry. Franco has collaborated to two news magazines of RAI International (the international branch of Italian Public Television) as a broadcast journalist/producer/editor.

In January 2007 he was the recipient of a grant from the Sundance Documentary Institute to co - direct Waiting for Armageddon, a feature length documentary that looks at the growing section of evangelical Christians in the U.S. who believe the Apocalypse is imminent. At the moment he has several documentary films in development. Franco graduated in political science at the University of Bologna and obtained a MA in Visual Arts at Emerson College.

August 19 – Steven Pinker, Harvard linguist and psychologist. Steven Pinker, a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize from the Royal Institute of Great Britan, and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. He has also received several honorary doctorates and numerous awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching, general achievement, and his critically acclaimed books The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate. Pinker has also appeared in many television documentaries and writes frequently in the popular press, including in The New York Times, Time, and The New Republic.

NOT TO BE MISSED LECTURES.....

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If you purchase a Passport to the Arts Booklet of the ARTS FOUNDATION of CAPE COD you can go to the Tuesday Nightl Lectures for 50% off, or 2 for the price of one entrance.

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