Creative Collaborative Conference 2011
Award Winners

Arts Educator of the Year

Deborah Fowler Greenwood

Ms. Greenwood is in her fifth year as the art teacher for the 6th and 8th grades at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School.  Bringing a deep background in the arts, Ms. Greenwood holds a bachelor’s degree from Rowan University and a M.Ed. from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.  She has studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts.  Ms. Greenwood taught art for many years at the elementary and high school levels in New Jersey, and art education and studio art at the college level.  For the past 15 summers, she has served as the Art Director at the Cape Cod Sea Camps.

Since her start at CCLCS in 2006, Ms. Greenwood has established the very successful Art Spark! After School Art Enrichment Program, and has organized many student exhibitions in conjunction with The Lower Cape Outreach Council, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, IFAW, PAAM, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and the Edward Gorey House, among others.  She has obtained over 8 individual grants, many of them repeating, from such funders as the AFCC, Cape Cod Five Savings Bank, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, that have made these programs and others available to her students.  In addition, Ms. Greenwood has implemented and teaches numerous seminars and workshops for both children and adults, including the collaborative project, The Language of Art, bringing together students and senior citizens from the Orleans Council on Aging.

Community Leadership in Support of the Arts

Robert Nash & Lauren Wolk
Cultural Center of Cape Cod

Since opening its doors in 2007, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod has served over 50,000 people of all ages, interests, abilities, and incomes who wish to learn about, appreciate, and take part in the arts.  It has been widely recognized as a key contributor to the cultural community, economy, and overall quality of life of the region.  The Cultural Center’s
mission is to increase access to education in the visual and performing arts, culture and humanities for all Cape Cod residents, with specific concentration on youth development and professional growth.  The Cultural Center of Cape Cod supports the work of Cape Cod artists, artisans, residents, and visitors of all ages through the continuous assessment of community interests and the implementation of programs through partnerships with regional schools, local businesses, organizations, and other groups.

Lauren Wolk has worked as, among other things, a writer with the Battered Women’s Project of the St. Paul American Indian Center, a senior editor with Nelson Publishing in Toronto, a freelance editor and writer, a magazine feature writer, a high school English and Creative Writing teacher at Sturgis Charter School, and Assistant Director of the Cape Cod Writers’ Center.  Since 2007, she has been the Associate Director at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.  Her work at the Cultural Center involves programming, development, education, and public relations. One of her many dreams for the Cultural Center is the establishment of a small press that will publish three books by Cape authors each year: one work of fiction, one of non-fiction, and one of poetry.

Robert Nash, former owner and president of Nash Studio, Inc., has created award-winning photography for over twenty-five years.  In October, 2006, after three years of service on the Cultural Center’s Board of Trustees and as chairman of the building renovation committee, Robert was appointed to the position of Executive Director.  His work in this capacity involves extensive program development and execution; managing an extensive schedule of events; partnering with arts, educational, and social service organizations both on and off-Cape; development; and community relations.

For more information about the Cultural Center and Lauren and Robert’s work there, visit www.cultural-center.org.

Collaborative Arts Project Award

Unite4Excellence

On September 1, 2010, the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra and the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music & Arts officially merged to create the largest non-profit arts organization on the Cape - the Cape Cod Symphony and Conservatory of Music & Arts, Inc. Each of the merged organizations now functions as subsidiaries of the new entity.

To achieve the merger, the two artistic organizations launched Unite4Excellence, a capital fundraising campaign with a goal of $300,000 designated to propel the initiative. The fund-raising goal was successfully met, and the funds are being used to cover costs associated with the integration, maintaining the programs in place and seeding new ones.

Through unification, the new arts organization’s reach has surpassed what either entity could have easily attained individually. Together they are dedicated to enriching and furthering the cultural, educational and economic interests of our region through music, art, dance and drama and providing a vibrant environment that encourages lifelong involvement with music.

The community benefits through broader and deeper educational opportunities for students and adults from all demographics on the Cape.  These include Suzuki instruction, enhanced performance opportunities and the creation of a youth orchestra and summer camp.  These programs not only provide a safety net for talented children in school systems facing tough financial decisions, but also as a resource for adults to continue to explore and enrich their lives through the arts. In addition, the expansion of programs provides increased opportunities for existing and new faculty.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert Douglas Hunter

Mr. Hunter has long been recognized as the informal “Dean” of the “The Boston School” movement, adding his own particular signature to the Boston School emphasis on carefully planned compositions, accurate drawing, and a delight in the ability of light and shadow to create atmosphere in painting.  He has personally taught more than forty now accomplished professional artists, and he has inspired countless more by his training and approach to his work. 

Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1928, Hunter served in the Marines before graduating from the Vesper George School of Art in 1949.  After studying with Henry Hensche and R.H. Ives Gammell, Hunter began a teaching career that spanned
decades.   Hunter has won more than thirty regional and national prizes, including the first John Singleton Copley Award, and fourteen Gold Medals at the annual ex-hibition of New England artists held by the Jordan Marsh Company, Boston.

Mr. Hunter served as the President of The Guild of Boston Artists from 1973-1978 and thereafter received a Citation from the Governor of Massachusetts in recognition of both his teaching and his painting.  He was the first winner of the Copley Medallion in 1988; and was the 1989 winner of the Guild of Boston Artists Award.  He has been featured in a major article in American Artist magazine and is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Prize Winning Art, and Who’s Who in the East.
In early 2001, the Cape Cod Museum of Art opened a new naturally lit gallery named in Hunter’s honor, and mounted a retrospective exhibition of his paintings in the new space.  A member of the Copley Society of Boston, the Guild of Boston Artists, the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Allied Artists of America; Hunter’s paintings are in the collections of countless museums, universities, private and corporate collections.

In 2010, Mr. Hunter was selected by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod as the featured artist of the 25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea.