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Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Receives Arts Collaboration Award
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod awarded the Collaborative Arts Project of the Year Award to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, in recognition of their Youth Education Program for Student Curating, at the first annual Creative Collaborative conference last night.
Receives Arts Collaboration Award
The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod awarded the Collaborative Arts Project of the Year Award to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, in recognition of their Youth Education Program for Student Curating, 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.
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum engages local students in the Outer Cape’s rich artistic heritage by drawing them into meaningful work within that community. They created a new program, the Youth Education Curating Program, a school and museum-based arts curriculum that uses the varied resources of PAAM and the participation of local artists.
During the past 15 years PAAM has worked with over 1500 elementary, middle, and high school students and educators to create 70 exhibitions in PAAM’s galleries.
Deborah Greenwood, an art teacher at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, writes that the Youth Education Program for Student Curating is “invaluable, essential, and a major contributing element” to her students’ developmental growth.
Beth Francis, a kindergarten teacher in Truro, calls the program “vitally important.” Andrew Clark, a teacher at Nauset Regional High School, called it “one of the most satisfying professional development experiences of my career.”
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