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.

Letter from Presidents | Letter from Executive Director

CHAIRS 2008

Provincetown Dance Festival
Oct. 24 & 25, 2008.
Photo by Dee Portnoy 2005

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

The Castle Hill Chairs honor the following artists:

Castle Hill Woody English Distinguished Artists and Writers Chair

Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. Renowned for the convention-shattering nature of her work, Chicago has served as pioneer for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and a woman’s right to freedom of expression. Her seminal work, The Dinner Party (1974-79), is a monumental, collaboratively created, mixed-media tribute to women which in March 2007 will be installed in its new permanent home at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Chicago's art is exhibited frequently in the United States and internationally. Her ten books, published in several languages, have brought her art and philosophy to readers around the world.

Judy Chicago will give a lecture on August 20th at the Wellfleet Congregational Church.

Ella Jackson Chair Honors:
Mary Frank

Mary Frank is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor. She has also produced many paintings and works in various other media (especially printmaking). Her works are in New York's Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery, in New York; her most recent show was in January 2008

Mary Frank will teach a class in drawing and painting August 18 - 22

The Joyce Johnson Chair Honors:
Malcolm Davis

Malcolm Davis has been a full-time studio potter since 1984 when he left his previous life as campus minister. He took his first ceramics class in 1974 and since 1985 has maintained his mountaintop studio in Upshur County, WV. He is internationally recognized for his work with shino-type glazes, specifically for the creation of a unique shino-type formula with a high concentration of soluble soda ash, which encourages the trapping of carbon in the early stages of the firing.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and was a finalist in the 1995 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Visual Artists Fellowships.

Malcolm Davis will teach a Fall Clay Intensive September 1 - 5

The Presidents Chair honors:
Dorianne Laux
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon (W.W. Norton), is the recipient of the 2005 Oregon Book Award. It was also short-listed for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States and chosen by the Kansas City Star as a noteworthy book of 2005. Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) introduced by Philip Levine, recently reprinted by Eastern Washington University Press, What We Carry (1994), now in its 7th printing, and Smoke (2000). Red Dragonfly Press will release Superman: The Chapbook, later this year. Co-author of The Poet's Companion, she's the recipient of two Best American Poetry Prizes, a Best American Erotic Poems Prize, a Pushcart Prize, two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Best of the American Poetry Review, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, and she's a frequent contributor to the New York Quarterly, Orion and Ms. Magazine. Laux has waited tables and written poems in San Diego, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Petaluma, California, Eugene, Oregon and Juneau, Alaska. In 2008 she will move to Raleigh, N.C. where she will join the faculty at North Carolina State.

Dorianne Laux will teach a class called “What Makes a Poem Memorable?”
August 4 - 7

The Mary Lou Friedman Chair Honors:Michael Burbank

Michael Burbank is a self-taught artist and "junk" collector. He's been scouring beaches, bottle dumps, and rust farms for years looking for the odds 'n sods that spark his imagination. Burbank has exhibited his shadow boxes and assemblages at the Perrin Gallery in Boston, the Concord (MA) Art Association, the Cherrystone gallery in Wellfleet, and at PAAM in Provincetown. He has installed commissioned works of assemblage in private collections in Boston, North Carolina, San Francisco, and Wellfleet.

Michael Burbank will teach a class in Found Object Sculpture:
August 18 - 22

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