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2008 Exhibition Schedule A Feast for the Eyes March 1-April 13 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 7 Food, glorious food is the theme, and there are scrumptious works by some 50 Cape artists on the menu. With subjects ranging from growing food to cooking it to eating it, the show promises to be low in calories, but strong in eye appeal and good taste. Proceeds from the sale of these works will, in part, benefit the Family Pantry in Harwich. v v v v v "Gifts from the Fire: Contemporary Ceramic Art" April 15-May 25 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 18 New England, and Cape Cod in particular, boasts a rich tradition of ceramics, a heritage continually vibrant and innovative today. Featuring nine contemporary potters, Gifts from the Fire explores how Cape artists have continued to exploit all facets of the potters craft, from adapting traditional techniques such as slip trailing and sgraffito, to employing rare clays and glazes taken from deep ocean cores or the stardust of outer space. v v v v v "A Retrospective for Frank Milby" May 27-June 22 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 30 Working in Provincetown for over five decades, Frank Milby has developed a diverse repertoire of images-from cityscapes and landscapes to still life, seascapes, and portraits-encompassing media as diverse as watercolor, oil, and pastel. Milby's compositions reveal a skillful manipulation of color, image, and line exerting an influence upon a host of artists. His rich landscapes, seascapes, and soulful portraits are sure to delight and surprise the eye. v v v v v "The Past as Present: Vintage Photographs of Samuel Chamberlain" June 24-July 20 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 27 Trained as an architect at MIT, Samuel Chamberlain discovered a talent for art resulting in an outstanding body of pioneering photographic work recording the fast-evolving yet eternal face of Old Cape Cod from its colonial architecture to its quaint towns and pristine ocean vistas. Shot in 1936 and 1952, these stunning, large format images reveal through line, shadow, brightness, and composition the subtle beauty of this special habitat. v v v v v "At Home in America: 19th Century Genre Painting" July 22-September 7 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 25 Following the popularity of Hudson River School painting in the first quarter of the 19th century, and prior to the advent of photography and the upheaval of Civil War, American artists began to explore domestic images, scenes of daily life that celebrate the democratic spirit of the American homeland and the American people. This exhibition features outstanding examples of such genre pictures by leading American painters of this art. v v v v v "Trend Meets Tradition: Ethnic Heritage in Contemporary Art" September 9-November 2 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, September 12 Talents all across the melting pot known as the United States are finding exciting ways to merge the creative traditions of their ancestors with current trends in art. So time-honored techniques find fresh expression when combined with pop-culture subjects. Or native designs take on a modern look when executed in synthetic materials. Participants will include artists of American Indian, African, Latin, Asian and European lineage. v v v v v "A Measured and Deliberate Response: The Art of Colin Berry" November 4-December 31 Opening reception:: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, November 7 Contemporary New Hampshire oil painter Colin Berry draws upon the rich tradition of the Italian Renaissance "window on the world" motif. In the process Berry creates hauntingly evocative and beautiful images that are both mysterious and glowing with inner life. Poetically evocative, these paintings feature a resolute realism replete with mystery and aesthetic depth. 4676 Falmouth Road · PO Box 1853 Cotuit, MA 02635 (508) 428-7581 · fax (508) 420-3709 © 2001 Cahoon Museum of American Art

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