"Appearances: 2012 Artist Advisory Committee" -
Dorothy Palanza, Chairperson (Provincetown, MA) Visual Artist
Dorothy is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with an MFA in painting and printmaking. She studied painting with Jeremy Foss and John Grillo (a student of Hans Hoffman), and printmaking with Fred Becker. Dorothy is a member of the
BBK Berlin (Berufsverband Bildender Kuenstler Berlin E.V.) Her site specific artworks include a grant funded 3-dimensional mural project at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, reverse glass paintings at Rockefeller Center, commercial murals for Versace and murals/designs for private residences, such as NYC’s Riverhouse, featured in Architectural Digest. Dorothy’s numerous group and solo shows include a 2009 exhibit at the Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany. She is collected by private patrons internationally and has taught at the Stadtteil Genossenschaft, Berlin, Germany; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and the Massachusetts College of Art. Aside from her work as a visual artist, Dorothy has written screenplays and two best-selling European children’s books. Sally Brophy (Provincetown, MA) Printmaker/Graphic Artist
Sally Brophy grew up in Central Maine and was always involved in some type of artistic endeavor working mostly with acrylics and pen and ink throughout high school and college. After graduating in 1982 from Curry College in Milton, MA with a B.A. in English, she moved to Laguna Beach, CA and began her career as a writer and graphic artist. She returned to Maine from 1986-1996 where she continued to do graphic design. During that time she studied ceramics at the Portland Pottery School for eight years. She moved to Boston in 1996 to work as Art Director for a group of parenting publications. While there she also took classes in woodworking and bookmaking. It wasn’t until moving to Provincetown that she finally discovered the art form that most appeals to her. After 25 years as a graphic artist, she was finding that computers were pushing her design work to be faster and faster, and more about technology than technique. As a result, she was especially drawn to printmaking – the slow, deliberate process of cutting wood to create a line, then gradually applying paint to board and paper to produce a print, which brought her back to the roots of the creative process. She also likes the connection she feels to Provincetown’s past artists through working on a technique that began here. Katharina ‘Ini’ Chichester (Berlin, Germany) Conceptual Artist
Katharina (Ini) received her degree in art and history from Rheinische Friedrichs Wilhelm University in Bonn. Professionally, she has been involved in a broad range of creative arts and is a conceptual artist. She has performed and been a teacher in theatre in the US, the former Czechoslovakia and Germany, as well as being on faculty at the University of Bonn instructing in photography, drawing and painting. In 1992 she was an artist in residence fellow at the Fonda del Sol Museum of Washington, DC. She has participated in many solo, juried and group shows in Europe and the US and was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts for her two-room installation “Fear and Freedom: Thoughts on the Berlin Wall", and received awards including the Dean Witter Reynolds Prize and best in show, ARTEMIS XVII. Katharina served for ten years on the Kunstfond of Germay (comparable to the National Endowment for the Arts). Jay Critchley (Provincetown, MA) Conceptual/Performance Artist
Jay’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He was recently featured in the LOGO channel’s Ptown Diaries, and interviewed by BBC/UK. A longtime Provincetown resident, he utilizes the town, landscape, harbor, beaches and dunes as his medium. He created and directs Theater in the Ground@ Septic Space in his backyard septic tank, and founded the patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation, which won a controversial three-year legal battle for its US Trademark. He produced, wrote and directed several movies and documentaries, including: Toilet Treatments, HBO Audience Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival; Providence Dirt Newsreel; Global Yawning for a small planet; and 21 Gun Salute. He produced a CD, Big Twig Tunnel Tapes – Boston’s Big Dig Sings, recorded 125 feet below Boston before the tunnels opened for traffic. Jay has taught at the Museum School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has had recent residencies at Harvard University, AS220 in RI, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in NYC, and recently, Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon. He received a Special Citation form the Boston Society of Architects for Martucket Eyeland Resort & Theme Park, which toured Holland, Germany and England. Global Yawning for a small planet was exhibited at the Boston Center for the Arts and re-created in Bogotá, Columbia in 2009. Final Passage a mummified 1965 Chevy Impala was installed in an abandoned mausoleum in a Providence, RI cemetery in 2008. His social practice includes running the Provincetown Community Compact, sponsor of the annual Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, a fundraiser for AIDS and women’s health, now in its 24th year, set for September 10, 2011. He is represented by DNA Gallery in Provincetown. Dorothy Delutis Beaton (Chatham, MA) Dancer/Performance Artist
Raised in a creative atmosphere, Dorothy DeLutis Beaton received her early training from her mother who established the DeLutis School of Dance in 1939. She continued her education in Boston, Jacob's Pillow, New York and the Boston Conservatory (Dance). Dorothy danced professionally with the Christopher Ryder Revue and toured New England with the Dance Makers. Her teaching resume includes co-director of the DeLutis School of Dance and faculty member and Artistic Advisor to the Dance Department at Franklin School for the Performing Arts . She is a member of the Dance Teachers Club of Boston and Dance Masters of New England for whom she served as First Vice President and an adjudicator for National Dance Competitions. She is involved with teaching and performing in the community and is currently creating dances for people living with Parkinson’s Disease, a unique dance program developed by Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn, NY. Truro, MA; Peterborough, NH; NYC) Visual Artist
Tim received his BFA from the NH Institute of Art. He is a past member of the Guggenheim Young Collectors Acquisition Council and is a juried member of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath UK. Tim has been a guest juror at the McDowell Colony Centennial and is the Director and Curator of Launch Art (Peterborough, Provincetown, New York). His work has been exhibited locally at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Schoolhouse Gallery and FARM (Wellfleet). Lauren Ewing (Provincetown, MA; NYC) Sculptor/Visual Artist
Lauren Ewing is a sculptor and installation artist. Her art addresses the relationship of individuals to institutions, the collapse of nature into culture and the vast construct of material culture in relation to memory and desire. Many of her site sculptures and installations are polyvocal. They involve image, materiality, simulation, language, sound and unique electronic texts which are thematically provocative and richly poetic. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries and in museum installations, including Diane Brown Gallery; Castelli Graphics; John Weber Gallery; Sonnabend Gallery; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Decordova Museum, MA; Storm King Art Center, NY; Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Denmark; Interim Art, London and the Sydney Biennale, Australia. Her work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York; The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; the Walt Disney Collection; the San Diego Contemporary; the Virlane Foundation, New Orleans and many other sites. Her site sculptures are located in many American cities including Seattle, Sacramento, Atlantic City, Bernardsville and Bordentown, NJ, Denver and Philadelphia. Lauren received her MA from Indiana State University and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served on the arts faculty at Rutgers, Rhode Island School of Design and Williams. She is presently an Instructor at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA. Teri Lehner (NYC) – Art Acquisitions Advisor, Citigroup
Christine McCarthy (Provincetown, MA) – Museum Director
Christine is the Executive Director of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA (since 2001). She is responsible for all artistic, administrative, fiscal and strategic directions of the largest presenter of Cape Cod art by national, regional and international artists. Programs include visual arts exhibitions, educational initiatives for children and adults, publications, lectures and performances. Under Christine’s direction, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum was awarded Silver LEED Certification as the first “green” art museum in the country upon successful completion of a five million dollar renovation and expansion project in 2006 and completed the accreditation process as set forth by the American Association of Museums in 2009. Since 1985, Chris has worked in numerous galleries and museums in New England including: the Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery at Providence College; the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT; The Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, NY; and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, MA. She received a B.A. from Providence College in Providence, RI in 1989 and an M.A. from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY in 1992. She is an adjunct professor at Boston University’s Metropolitan College and teaches ‘Managing a Visual Arts Organization’. Cherie Mittenthal (Provincetown, MA) Visual Artist/Director
Cherie works in many mediums: encaustic paint (wax), tar, marble dust, oil sticks, graphite and most recently clay. She graduated with a Master in Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford. She is the Executive Director of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She is the treasurer of the board of Campus Provincetown and is represented by Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown. Pearson (Provincetown, MA) Poet
Nancy is an American poet. She is author of Two Minutes of Light (Perugia Press, 2008), and has had her poems published in many literary journals and magazines including The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review. Nancy grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA from George Mason University. Her honors and awards include the 2010 Wabash Poetry Prize, Sycamore Review, 2010 Spoon River Poetry Review, Editor’s Prize, 2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize, 2010 Anderbo Poetry Award, 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Finalist Grantee, 2009 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for Two Minutes of Light, 9th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards, “Must Read Book” 2009 for Two Minutes of Light, Lambda Literary Award finalist, 2008 Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poems and publication of Two Minutes of Light, 2008 Dorothy Sargent Memorial Award • 2008 Astraea Writers Fund, Honorable Mention Grantee, 2008 Key West Literary Seminar, Scotti Merrill Scholarship, 2008 Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2008 Cultural Center of Cape Cod Poetry Prize, 2007-2008 Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Seven-Month Fellowship, Provincetown, 2006-2007 Fine Arts Work Center, Seven-Month Fellowship, Provincetown, MA, 2007 Iowa Review Poetry Award, second place and 2006 Whiskey Island Review Poetry Prize. Dennis Rhodes (Provincetown, MA) Poet
Dennis hosted the Poets Corner on WOMR-FM for 9 years. He is author of "Spiritus Pizza and other poems" and "Entering Dennis". He co-produced the Provincetown Poetry Festival from 1999 thru 2001. Alix L.L. Ritchie (Provincetown, MA; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; NYC) Publisher/Writer/Collector
Alix is a media strategy consultant involved with several national media projects. She was the founder and owner/publisher of the Provincetown Banner, a community newspaper covering outer Cape Cod, and recipient of the New England Press Association Newspaper of the Year Award, among others. A self-described agitator and activist, she is passionate about the principle of stewardship--the long-term commitment to leaving a place better than you found it. After moving to Cape Cod, she became involved in regional and national efforts to create consensus between economic and environmental interests. Prior to moving to the Cape, Alix worked professionally as a writer and editor in New York, as a public relations manager for AT&T and was selected by the U.S. Presidential Commission on Executive Interchange to serve as consultant to the Asst. Secretary for Public Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department. A recipient of the Distinguished Service in the Arts Award, Alix has been involved with and a supporter of numerous arts organizations, has been active in theater in New York and Provincetown and is a published poet and photographer. Other regional and national awards include: New England Press Ass'n Award for Serious Columnist; Certificate of Appreciation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Appreciation Award from the Educational Facilities Center for outstanding contribution to the advancement of education in America; Environmental Recognition Award from the MA Secretary of Environmental Affairs; Person of the Year and Regional Leadership Award from the Planning Commissions and Councils of New England, Citizen of the Year from the Provincetown Business Guild and selection as one of the 25 most influential people on Cape Cod. Anne Sanow (Provincetown, MA) Writer
Anne is the author of the story collection Triple Time, winner of the 2009 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the 2010 L. Winship/PEN New England Award for fiction. Her book has been selected as a "Must-Read Book" from the 10th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. Anne’s work has been published in Dossier, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Malahat Review, and elsewhere. A five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the winner of the 2009 Nelson Algren Award for the short story from the Chicago Tribune, she has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Chris Scherer (Rome, Italy) Art/Creative Director
Chris is the Creative Director of one of Europe’s pre-eminent identity and design firms, Inarea (Milan & Rome) and previously served in a similar capacity for Dragon Rouge London. His clients have included Pfizer, London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, Xansa, Universal Music, Ford Europe, AXA France, Credito Italiano, Thomas Cook, Deutsche Bank, Krups and Merrill Lynch. Chris is a graduate of the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he received his certificate as 'Diplom-Designer'. Christopher S. Slover (Austin, TX) Gallerist/Collector/Entrepreneur
Chris is an avid art collector and developed the former Volitant Gallery, a groundbreaking and adventurous downtown Austin contemporary art gallery featured in Art Forum. He served on the advisory board and also as a benefactor of the Austin Museum of Art. As an entrepreneur, he owns and manages healthcare companies, insurance and real estate holding corporations; finances film production companies, restaurants and entertainment venues; and has been a financial planner and stockbroker. Chris earned a BA in Economics/Business from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves in volunteer leadership roles for Associated Tileworks, Austin Museum of Art, several healthcare advocacy organizations and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Frank Vasello (Provincetown, MA) Installation Artist
A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art in 1987, Frank has lived in Provincetown since 2001. An installation artist, Frank has organized three outdoor exhibitions in Provincetown, he is also a member of the Provincetown Cultural Council and is on the Exhibition Committee at PAAM. Alexandra (Sasha) Wachtel (Boston, MA; NYC) Art Historian – bio pending
