How the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis has been able to make its vast collection of decades of local creativity available to audiences from anywhere will be highlighted next week at a talk in Washington, D.C.
Benton Jones, the museum’s artistic director, will be one of six speakers and the only one from New England invited to present – in person and virtually – at the Digital Transitions Fall 2022 Roundtable on Nov. 2 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Washington.
Digital Transitions designs and manufactures digital solutions specifically for cultural institutions, according to an announcement from the event. Its two annual gatherings draw people from a variety of countries, disciplines and institutions, he said, to learn about the latest scanning technologies, learn best practices from experts, discuss workflow tips and network with industry leaders. other cultural heritage professionals.
In a presentation titled “Transformation, Discovery, Digitization Funding and Support,” Jones is to explain how CCMOA’s permanent collection was previously inaccessible to the public, as well as its own curatorial staff. The museum was able to fund the digitization of the collection last summer through a combination of matching grants and support.
Jones is expected to stress, according to museum information, the importance of making the small regional art museum’s collection easily accessible, and how the digitization process has helped recalibrate the museum’s plan, mission and vision while helping to preserve, protect and preserve the collection.
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Other presenters at the Digital Transitions Roundtable will include: Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director of Libraries and Archives at the Smithsonian; Gregory Hunter of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University; Nathan Ian Anderson, Smithsonian Institution/Imaging Services program manager; Rebecca Wack, deputy director of Digital Imaging NYPL; and Doug Peterson of Digital Transitions.
For tickets 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 is part of New York exhibits
The work of Provincetown artist Bill Evaul is on display this week at two national exhibitions in New York. He is one of more than 140 contemporary printmakers featured in the Society of American Graphic Artists’ 87th Annual Juried Exhibition.
In the shows that began on Monday, the art is on display at two locations this year, with the first part of the exhibit running through Nov. 4 at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Ave. The opening reception will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday. , October 28. The second part is exhibited at the Gallery at the MET Store, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., with a meeting with Tom Hück, member of the SAGA, from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission from October 30 is free for all events.
Evaul’s “Southwest #3,” a monoprint printed in 2022 at Funk and Schuster Fine Art Printing in Provincetown, is on display at the Salmagundi Club, the artist says via email, and his “New York Skyline,” an etching on wood in white color, is visible at the gallery of the MET Store.
SAGA, a national jury membership organization founded in 1915, describes itself on its website as one of the oldest organizations of printmakers, with members and supporters confirming “a vital commitment to constantly seek the excellence and inclusivity while removing barriers to the advancement of creative printing.”
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Provincetown artists have been represented since the organization began, Evaul says, including Childe Hassam, Frank Benson and Abraham Walkowitz among the founders and many Outer Cape artists among members since.
Three writers win Eventide gaming competition
Eventide Theater Company recently announced the 2022 Kaplan Prize winners of its Jeremiah Kaplan Playwriting Competition designed to nurture locally connected writers.
The first grand prize winner of $1,000 was “The Tempest-Tost Theatre” by Jonathon Ward of Valley Stream, New York. The play is set on Cape Cod in 1611 and features “a vision of people creating on the stage of Mother Earth before the tragedies began to unfold on the mainland”, according to Eventide – suggesting “that if people could have created a culture together, the world would be different.
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Second place ($500) went to “The Playground” by Jim Dalglish, from Truro and Quincy, about the mother of a rambunctious 4-year-old girl who quits her tenure-track job to follow her husband to New York City and finds “a surreal world of wealthy white female privilege” in a Central Park playground.
Third place ($250) was “Dreamsville” by Susan Lumenello of Centerville. This is a one-man show illustrating the “unlikely journey” of the real Gloria Stavers who made 16 magazine “the teen idol bible” for a past generation of girls.
Thirty-six pieces were entered into this year’s contest, according to officials at Eventide, run by Candace Perry, a former Kaplan winner.
The future is surreal in a new film connected to Cape Town
A film starring Cape Codders recently became available on Amazon Prime and, according to the 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.
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In the film, Nicholas M. Garofolo, a graduate of Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, Cape Cod Community College and Bridgewater State University, 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 film – 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.
This year, chapters of the feature 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.
