Cape Cod talent, creativity celebrated here and beyond our shores
How the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis was able to make its wide collection of decades of local creativity digitally available to audiences from anywhere will be spotlighted next week at a conference in Washington, D.C.
Benton Jones, the museum’s director of art, will be one of six speakers and the only one from New England invited to present — both in person and virtually — at the Nov. 2 Digital Transitions Fall 2022 Roundtable at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel.
Digital Transitions designs and manufactures digital solutions specifically for cultural institutions, according to an announcement for the event. Its two annual gatherings draw people from a variety of countries, disciplines and institutions, it said, to see the latest digitization technology, learn best practices from experts, discuss workflow tips, and network with other cultural heritage professionals.
In a presentation titled "Transformation, Discovery, Digitization Funding and Contributed Support," Jones is due to talk about how the CCMOA permanent collection had previously been inaccessible to the public, and also to its own curatorial staff. The museum was able to fund digitization of the collection last summer through a combination of matching grant funding and contributed support.
Jones is due to highlight, according to museum information, the importance of making the collection of the small, regionally focused art museum easily accessible, and how the digitization process has helped to recalibrate the museum’s plan, mission and vision while also helping to conserve, protect and curate the collection.
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Other presenters at the Digital Transitions Roundtable will include: Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Gregory Hunter from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University; Nathan Ian Anderson, the Smithsonian Institution/Imaging Services Program Officer; Rebecca Wack, assistant director of Digital Imaging NYPL; and Doug Peterson from Digital Transitions.
For tickets to and information on the in-person or virtual roundtable: https://heritage-digitaltransitions.com/fall-roundtable-2022/. Information on the Dennis museum: https://www.ccmoa.org/.
Bill Evaul art part of New York City exhibits
Provincetown artist Bill Evaul’s work is on display this week in two national exhibitions in New York City. He is among more than 140 contemporary printmakers featured in The Society of American Graphic Artists’ 87th Annual Juried Exhibition.
In shows that started Monday, art is on display in two venues this year, with the first part of the exhibit through Nov. 4 at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave. The opening reception will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. The second part is on view at the Gallery at the MET Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., with a meet and greet with SAGA member Tom Hùck from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 30 Admission is free for all events.
Evaul’s “Southwest #3,” a monotype printed in 2022 at Funk and Schuster Fine Art Printing in Provincetown, is on view at the Salmagundi Club, the artist says by email, and his “New York Skyline” a white-line color woodcut, is on view at the Gallery at the MET Store.
SAGA, a national juried membership organization founded in 1915, describes itself on its website as among the oldest organizations of creative printmakers, with members and supporters upholding “a vital commitment to constantly strive for excellence and inclusivity while removing barriers to the advancement of creative printmaking.”
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Provincetown artists have been represented since the organization’s start, Evaul says, including Childe Hassam, Frank Benson and Abraham Walkowitz among the founders and numerous Outer Cape artists among the membership since.
Three writers win Eventide play competition
Eventide Theatre Company recently announced the winners of the 2022 Kaplan Prize from its Jeremiah Kaplan Playwriting Competition designed to nurture locally connected writers.
First-place winner of the $1,000 grand prize was “The Tempest-Tost Theatre” by Jonathon Ward of Valley Stream, New York. The play takes place on Cape Cod in 1611 and presents “a vision of people creating on the stage of Mother Earth before the tragedies began to unfold on the continent,” according to Eventide — suggesting “that if people had been able to create a culture together, the world would be different.”
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Second place ($500) was awarded to “The Playground” by Jim Dalglish, of Truro and Quincy, about the mother of a rambunctious 4-year-old who leaves her tenure-track position to follow her husband to New York and finds “a surreal world of wealthy white female privilege” at a Central Park playground.
The third-place ($250) play was “Dreamsville” by Susan Lumenello of Centerville. It’s a one-woman show depicting the “unlikely journey” of the real-life Gloria Stavers who made 16 magazine “the teen-idol bible” to a past generation of girls.
Thirty-six plays were entered in this year’s competition, according to Eventide officials, which was directed by Candace Perry, a former Kaplan winner.
The future is surreal in new Cape-connected movie
A movie featuring Cape Codders recently became available on Amazon Prime and, according to filmmakers, will soon be seen on other niche streaming services.
“Crime Traveler: The Adventures of Dave Slade,” is about a man in a closed amusement park who is told he is a very important person in the future and becomes a hero through various adventures.
Starring In the movie is Nicholas M. Garofolo, a graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, Cape Cod Community College and Bridgewater State University who also co-wrote and co-produced. Music by Marc Thalasitis, who has performed with local bands Syndicate and the Freeze, is featured in the film, and he performs the theme song.
Besides Amazon, the movie — which involves futuristic vampires, Coney Island and a struggle to figure out what is real — can be viewed at https://tubitv.com/movies/693418/crime-traveler-the-adventures-of-dave-slade.
Chapters of the feature this year have won awards at the Retro Avant Garde Film Festival, the Golden Wheat Awards Festival and the Hollywood Monthly Film Festival.
Contact Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll at kdriscoll@capecodonline.com. Follow on Twitter: @KathiSDCCT.
This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod art: Creativity, print-making, plays, movie win accolades
