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.

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SPECIAL EVENTS 2010

 

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

Summer 2010

Painting
Drawing
Clay
Printmaking/
Book Arts
Sculpture
Jewelry & Glass
Photography
Writing
Mixed Media
Performance
Teens

Kids

 



 

 


Castle Hill Spring & Summer Events 2010

May 29 & 30 - Raku Extravaganza & Print Spectacular

June 12 - Castle Hill Tag Sale

July 17 - Castle Hill Summer Bash & Art Sale

July 25 - Artist Studio Tours featuring studios in Truro and Wellfleet: Nancy Craig, Mona Dukess, Jill Epstein, Robert Henry & Selina Trieff, Francie Randolf & Tom Watson, N. Cameron Watson, Julia Salinger, Tom O'Connell, Leslie Jackson & Robert Rindler - Watch for details!

August 7 - The Castle Hill Benefit Auction

August 25 – Solo performance by Tim Miller – “LAY OF THE LAND” Performance atthe Provincetown Art House 7:00 pm

August 27 - Tim Miller's Workshop Performance at the Provincetown Art House - 7:00pm

August 22 - Castle Hill Modernist House Tour in collaboration with the Cape Cod Modern House Trust

September 11: Castle Hill "Paints The Town & Schooner Regatta"

October 22 & 23: The 6th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival

 


Poetry Reading & Lectures

ALL LECTURES WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE WELLFLEET PUBLIC LIBRARY @ 8:00 pm

July 20Alison Saar: 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.

July 27Brook Newman:A writer whose fable for adults, The Little Tern sold over a million copies. Brooke's memoir, Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black and White, to be published this Spring, is set in the 1940's and 50's and recollects the unlikely relationship between her father, an aloof, white mathematical genius, and their maid, an illiterate, uneducated African American who had a knack with numbers.

 

Aug 3 Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar: Poetry Reading - Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the 2005 Oregon Book Award. Joseph Millar is the author of Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press). His first collection, Overtime (2001) was a finalist for theOregon Book Award and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Aug 10Dan Okrent: author of the forthcoming Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, to be published by Scribner in May. He began working on Last Call shortly before he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005.

 

Aug 17Harriet Reisen: a former fellow in screenwriting at the American Film Institute, has written dramatic and historical documentary scripts for PBS and HBO, and has delivered commentaries
for Morning Edition and Marketplace.

 

Sept 10Poetry Reading: Maxine Kumin: Her sixteenth poetry collection, Still to Mow, appeared in 2007 in her 82nd year, following Jack and Other New Poems, The Long Marriage, and Selected Poems 19860-1990. She is also the author of Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, and a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Arts and the Robert Frost Medals. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now titled Poet Laureate) in 1980-81. She and her husband live with their dogs and horses on a farm in New Hampshire, where for many years they bred and raised Arabians and competed in distance rides and drives.

 

 



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