Harry Holl Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Harry Holl, in recognition of five decades of work on behalf of the cultural community of Cape Cod, at the first annual Creative Collaborative conference last night. 

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod conferred four new awards on leaders in the cultural community of Cape Cod in front of a standing room only crowd at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.  The awards ceremony followed the day-long regional Creative Collaborative conference, which drew artists and cultural organizations from across Cape Cod to celebrate the year’s best collaborative projects in the arts.

The 2007 honorees were: Carl Lopes of Barnstable, Arts Educator of the Year; Harry Holl of Dennis, Lifetime Achievement Award; Martin Tulloch of Falmouth, Community Leadership in Support of the Arts; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum Student Curating Project, Collaborative Arts Project of the Year.  These four new awards will be presented each year by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod at the annual Creative Collaborative Conference in the fall.

In 1952 Harry settled on Cape Cod and founded Scargo Stoneware Pottery in Dennis.  He taught drawing and art history classes, and shared his love of ceramics and pottery with those who visited his studio overlooking Scargo Pond.  He was integral to the founding of Cape Cod’s most lasting cultural institutions, including the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and The Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Art.

Harry’s studio became an institution in its own right on Cape Cod, and he has trained potters from across the state and the country.  He has traveled to Korea to explore the roots of the ceramics tradition, and once spent a winter in Mexico carving stone.  He continued to teach pottery, drawing, and painting until very recently. 

His pottery studio continues to thrive, under the leadership of his four daughters and son-in-law, and celebrated its 55th anniversary in 2007.

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