This September Castle Hill Celebrates Artists and the Arts in Provincetown with Local Galleries & 50th Anniversary Show at PAAM

Castle Hill is extremely excited to expand its celebration of the 50th year Anniversary 9 miles down the road in Provincetown at PAAM & a number of select galleries! Castle Hill will be celebrated this September in Provincetown by The Schoolhouse Gallery, Gaa Gallery, Berta Walker Gallery & AMP Gallery. Castle Hill is an incredible art institution, but it is nothing without the amazing talented group of teaching artists.

Join us beginning on Friday, September 2 from 6-8pm at Schoolhouse Gallery & Gaa Gallery where we will celebrate 16 incredible artists. 

The Schoolhouse Gallery exhibition will run from September 2-October 2, 2022 and feature Mark Adams, Breon Dunigan, Diana Horowitz, Sarah Lutz, Francis Olschafskie, Anna Poor, Rebecca Doughty and Vicky Tomayko.

Gaa Gallery will showcase Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Deborah Dancy, Mark Dion, Anina Major, Judy Pfaff, Dana Sherwood, Joan Snyder , Erika Wastrom and Erin Woodbrey. We are very excited about this show which features many of Castle Hill’s stars. 

 Across the way (or, just around the corner) on Bradford Street at Berta Walker Gallery is an exhibition with an amazing roster of artists called Castle Hill Connections. The opening reception will be on September 23rd (same night as the PAAM opening) from 5 -7. The exhibit includes past and current faculty, Trustees, students, our piano tuner Sky Power, with a special invitation from Berta Walker to Cherie Mittenthal “honoring her amazing leadership as Castle Hill’s Director”.

Additional artists of the Berta Walker Gallery (past & present) include: Donald Beal, Varujan Boghosian, Mike Carroll, Nancy Ellyn Craig, Jay Critchley, Romolo Del Deo, Salvatore Del Deo, Joe Diggs, Caitlin Dimino, Martha Dunigan, Rob Dutoit, Gilbert Franklin, Gertrude Graham Smith, Elspeth Halvorsen, Robert Henry, Budd Hopkins, Grace Hopkins, Brenda Horowitz, Sidney Hurwitz, Joyce Johnson, Judyth Katz, John Koch, Thom McKenna, Cynthia Packard, Richard Pepitone, David Perry, Jim Peters, Sky Power, Janice Redman, Robert Rindler, Laura Shabott, Selina Trieff, & Peter Watt.

These are some of the best artists working on the Cape. We are so thrilled that Berta Walker Gallery is participating in our 50th Anniversary celebration!

At AMP they are featuring the work of Susan Bernstein, Midge Battelle, Marian Roth, Phyllis Ewen & MP Landis. This show opens on September 9th from 6 – 9pm.

(Bernstein's work will be on view starting September 2nd) and they will also be part of the opening reception and Gallery Stroll on September 23rd. from 6 - 9pm.

The 50th Anniversary Provincetown Celebration culminates on Friday, September 23 from 6-8pm with the opening of the PAAM (Provincetown Art Association & Museum) Exhibition featuring over 140 artists who have been involved in teaching & being part of the Castle Hill community of artists for 5 decades. The list is extremely expansive & incredibly impressive and includes Philip Malicoat, Sal Del Deo, Joyce Johnson, Sidney Simon, Martha Dunigan, Budd Hopkins, Ella Jackson, Brenda Goodman, Tabitha Vevers, Richard Baker & many more!  

The 4 participating galleries will each have receptions this evening as well.

For more information on the PAAM exhibition and Friday, September 23 Gallery Stroll, please see the beautiful map made by Eve van Rens that showcases the galleries, PAAM and the Mary Heaton Vorse House! Eve is an artist that has been involved in Castle Hill since she was 4 years old.

Contact Cherie Mittenthal at #508-349-7511 or go to cherie@castlehill.org