Past Exhibitions
Walls That Connect: The Cape Cod Mural Project - August 16, 2023 - November 12
Walls That Connect: The Cape Cod Mural Project, curated by Samuel Tager, includes both an indoor and an outdoor component. Three murals commissioned by the Cape Cod Museum of Art will be mounted along the museum’s front exterior. These muralists are: Joe Wardwell, Jackie Reeves and Esteban del Valle. The accompanying indoor gallery exhibition celebrates the studio practices of all five participating artists. Two of the artists - Felipe Ortiz and Sophy Tuttle will be creating new, site specific installations in the CCMoA gallery allowing museum visitors to observe the creative process.
Read a recent article about Walls That Connect in The Provincetown Independent
Watch a video of the Gallery Talk & Reception!
Walls That Connect: The Cape Cod Mural Project, curated by Samuel Tager, includes both an indoor and an outdoor component. Three murals commissioned by the Cape Cod Museum of Art will be mounted along the museum’s front exterior. These muralists are: Joe Wardwell, Jackie Reeves and Esteban del Valle. The accompanying indoor gallery exhibition celebrates the studio practices of all five participating artists. Two of the artists - Felipe Ortiz and Sophy Tuttle will be creating new, site specific installations in the CCMoA gallery allowing museum visitors to observe the creative process.
Read a recent article about Walls That Connect in The Provincetown Independent
Watch a video of the Gallery Talk & Reception!
Walls That Connect: The Cape Cod Mural Project, curated by Samuel Tager, includes both an indoor and an outdoor component. Three murals commissioned by the Cape Cod Museum of Art will be mounted along the museum’s front exterior. These muralists are: Joe Wardwell, Jackie Reeves and Esteban del Valle. The accompanying indoor gallery exhibition celebrates the studio practices of all five participating artists. Two of the artists - Felipe Ortiz and Sophy Tuttle will be creating new, site specific installations in the CCMoA gallery allowing museum visitors to observe the creative process.
Read a recent article about Walls That Connect in The Provincetown Independent
Watch a video of the Gallery Talk & Reception!
Curator’s statement:
Murals have the power to engage with and transform communities like no other art form. Paintings on walls have expressed our aspirations, values, interests, and concerns since the beginning of human history. Public murals connect to diverse audiences and inspire a sense of neighborhood and community ownership by creating a direct and unmediated viewer experiences.
We are living in a great age for public art and mural painting.
Community-based mural projects have transformed post manufacturing-based urban areas in Massachusetts and beyond in a widespread acknowledgment of the positive impact that art and culture sector investment can have on communities struggling with challenging social and economic conditions.
Artists can express ideas like no-one else. We are fortunate that in this time of major change to our environment, we may look to today’s talented and professional mural artists to create beautiful, inviting, and inclusive images
even while their subject matter often inspires a serious call to action.
This exhibition has been organized to celebrate the creativity and accomplishments of 5 professional artists with strong ties to Cape Cod and to acknowledge the contributions that they have made to celebrating the importance of our natural environment and engaging with and giving a voice to the best values of our communities.
- Samuel Tager, Guest Curator and Executive Director of the Provincetown Public
Art Foundation
Samuel Tager has been developing, designing, producing, and installing museum and gallery exhibitions for the past twenty five years. He served as Director of Exhibitions at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and more recently as the Assistant Director and Senior Designer for Harvard’s, newly formed, Museums of Science and Culture. In 2020, Tager became the founding Executive Director of the Provincetown Public Art Foundation and since that time has guest-curated and designed exhibitions for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), The Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMoA) The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM), Harvard Law School, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston. Tager also serves on the board directors of Provincetown Arts Press.