Panel Discussion: 'She Says' Women Leading and Inspiring in the Arts

Panel Discussion: 'She Says' Women Leading and Inspiring in the Arts

Offered in conjunction with the exhibition, She Said, this panel discussion brings together three dynamic women who have made significant contributions to the arts on Cape Cod and beyond. These trailblazers will share their experiences, challenges, and triumphs in the arts community. Moderator Mindy Todd will lead the discussion. The Museum will be open from 4:00 - 5:00 pm for ticket holders to view the galleries prior to the event.

Jo Hay

Cherie Mittenthal

Mindy Todd

Jo Hay is a contemporary British American portrait painter. Born in 1964 in Newcastle Upon-Tyne, England, she received her BA from Middlesex University, London, UK in 1983 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY in 2012. Hay received the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant 2010 sponsored in part by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and was the recipient of the New York Academy of Art Portrait Scholarship 2011. Her portrait from the Benders series entitled Dodger was a semi-finalist in the BP Portrait Award 2015 at the National Gallery in London and was a finalist in Art For Freedom A Global Initiative curated by Madonna.

In 2017 Hay began the ongoing project titled Persisters, large-scale portrait paintings representing contemporary, trailblazing women in their pursuit of justice. In 2019, a solo exhibition of the Persisters series was shown at The Provincetown Commons. Her portraits of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vice President Kamala Harris were exhibited in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2020 and 2021 respectively. In February 2022 Hay was selected as the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s inaugural Artist of the Year. Hay currently lives and works in Provincetown MA.

Megan Hinton is a painter known for reconfiguring genres of landscape, figurative, and object painting. Her art utilizes appropriation from painting’s history along with found and discarded material to investigate line, color, shape, surface, and scale. This fusion of subject and formalism spans further to her work in collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and printmaking. In 2024 Provincetown Art Association and Museum honored Hinton with the prestigious annual Award for Artistic Excellence. Megan holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary arts from Mills College where she won the Hung Lui Painting Prize. She has received residency fellowships from Twenty Summers in Provincetown and The Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She is a recipient of the Alice C. Cole ‘42 Merit Grant from Wellesley College. She shows her work at Farm Projects Space in Wellfleet. Megan is also an art educator, curator, and writer.

Cherie Mittenthal has her MFA from Purchase College at the State University of New York and her BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. She has been the Executive Director of Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill since 2002. She is the director of the 18th International Encaustic Conference that takes place in Provincetown each June. She serves on the board of Provincetown Cultural Council, Outer Cape Artist Resident Coalition (OCARC). She has a studio in Provincetown where she paints and works in ceramics. She lives in Provincetown with her two Bedlington terriers. Instagram Website

Moderator Mindy Todd is the host and executive producer of The Point on CAI which examines critical issues for the Cape, Islands and Southcoast. She brings 40 years of experience in radio and television to the job. Her career has covered nearly all aspects of broadcasting. She has received numerous awards. In February 2012 Mindy was named Managing Director of Editorial. She has sat on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations and is currently a Trustee at Falmouth Academy and sits on the WHOI Sea Grant Marine Outreach Guidance Group.

This panel discussion is offered in conjunction with She Said: A Docent Curated Exhibition from the CCMoA Permanent Collection, on view through May 20, 2025. In recognition of Women’s History Month in March, the CCMoA features artworks from our Permanent Collection created by women. Women have been historically underrepresented in museum collections throughout the world. The CCMoA will take this opportunity to provide the platform and research needed to celebrate the artistic merits of regionally significant woman artists, while also examining our Permanent Collection to identify female artists who may have been overlooked in the collection. Artworks will be displayed in conjunction with wall texts made possible by the research of the CCMoA Docents.

Image: "Two Figures, Black and Red", 1996, Selina Trieff, Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 36.75" x 30.75" x 2.25" framed. Gift of the Artist.

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.