Provincetown Public Art Summer 2024
A Summer Long Festival of Murals & Sculpture curated by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation.
Ten local and regional artists lent their talents to create breathtaking pieces of artwork that now adorn Trap Sheds on MacMillan Pier, Commercial Street, and beyond.
Each piece tells a unique story and adds a touch of color and whimsy to the charming streets of Provincetown, curated and funded by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation with support from the Town of Provincetown DPW and Harbormaster’s Office, as well as our generous sponsors: Bay State Cruise Company, Boston Harbor City Cruise, McLaughlin Upholstery, The Provincetown Brewery, The Provincetown Business Guild, The Yingling Family.
Take a stroll through town and discover the beauty and creativity that this festival has brought to Provincetown this summer.
Explore the works and learn more about the talented artists behind them below:
Extreme High Tides of the Gulf of Maine
By Mark Adams
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier.
Mark Adams is a painter, printmaker, and a cartographer with the National Park Service and has been based on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard since 1987. He exhibits regularly at The Schoolhouse Gallery where he has focused on works of art that use layered images of maps, personal notebook pages, text, data and images of animals and friends in light accumulation on paper and wood panels. Adam’s work is about things that imperfectly represent nature to our society, harvesting curiosity, wonderment and a little biology as source material. Adams has taught at the Provincetown Art Association, Castle Hill Center for the Arts (Truro MA), and the Provincetown School Academy program and as a guest in the MFA program of the Fine Arts Work Center/Massachusetts College of Art. He has studied ecology, landscape architecture, printmaking and photography at University of California, Berkeley, California College of Arts and Crafts and studied with artists at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He also worked as a wildlife field biologist, scientific illustrator, forest fire fighter, gymnastics coach. His current interests include geologic time, taxonomies, coordinate systems and layering of information in maps.
Somos Unos /
We Are One
By Silvia Lopez Chavez
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
Silvia López Chavez is a Dominican-American artist whose community-centered murals form connections across disciplines and cultural boundaries. She uses joy as an act of resistance and celebration through her vibrant murals. In 2023, Silvia received a Common Good Award from MassArt, The Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship award, and Amplify Latinx ALX100 award. She was honored with a Leadership in Public Art Award by New England Foundation for the Arts in 2021. Silvia recently completed art residencies in Mexico City, Mass MoCa, Haystack, and Vermont Studio Center. Commissions include the U.S. Chinese Embassy in Beijing, Google California, Peabody Essex Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, SeaWalls Boston, MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern Universities. She is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art & Design and Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic. Silvia continues her studio practice close to the ocean between Boston and DR.
Return
By Esteban del Valle
Located on MacMillan Pier Management Office
Esteban del Valle is a Brooklyn, NY based interdisciplinary artist originally from Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. from RISD and has exhibited his work and produced murals internationally. His work has been featured in various publications, including HiFructose and Washington Post. Del Valle has been the recipient of several visual arts residencies and fellowships including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, and The Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. He has also been awarded residencies at Chulitna Lodge in Lake Clark, AK, Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, SC, Djerassi in Woodside, CA, and received a fellowship from the Arts Student League in New York. In the Spring of 2020, he was awarded The Daniel F. Breeden Eminent Scholar Chair at Auburn University. Del Valle also has original work in several permanent collections including the Urban Nation in Berlin, Germany, The Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, NJ, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, MA. Additionally, in the summer of 2021, he was awarded the inaugural commission for the Provincetown Public Art Foundation.
Blessing of the Fleet
By William Evaul
Located on Harbormaster Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
William Evaul, A Provincetown artist since 1970, produces oil paintings and white-line woodblock prints as well as works on paper: drawings, watercolors and monotypes and monoprints. He employs a vibrant color palette and a kind of figurative expressionism to create a wide variety of images including musicians, New York skylines, nudes, wine bottle still lifes and a lively fauvist/cubist series called “Dancing Houses.” As an educator, curator and art consultant in the field of 20th Century Art, Evaul conducts art workshops in white-line woodcut printmaking, slide lectures on Provincetown Art History, organizes exhibitions, produces certified appraisals and can advise on collection management.
Three Rotating Bureaucrats,
By George Greenamyer
Located at 467 Commercial St.
Tatiana Del Deo Photography ©2024
George Mossman Greenamyer (July 13, 1939 – April 26, 2023) was a renowned American sculptor known for his unique and innovative works. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1963 from the Philadelphia College of Art and later completed his Master of Fine Arts in 1969 at the University of Kansas. Greenamyer served as a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art for over thirty years, inspiring countless students with his artistic vision. One of Greenamyer’s notable creations from 1983 involved transforming two turbines from power plants into sculptures, which were then installed at the AEP Building in Columbus, Ohio. He also organized the annual event “Fire and Ice” at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where he crafted massive ice sculptures that were set ablaze over a bonfire. Throughout his career, George Greenamyer left a lasting impact on the world of sculpture, pushing boundaries and challenging conventional norms in art. His legacy lives on through his celebrated works and the inspiration he continues to provide to aspiring artists.
Awesome Blossom
By Felipe Ortiz
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
Felipe Ortiz is a Colombian artist who focuses on the practice of painting, from traditional easel painting to murals and public installations. In 2009, he earned a BFA in 2D Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Felipe has participated in numerous art exhibits of private and public collections, including the Fuller Craft Museum, Punto Urban Art Museum, and the corporate loan collection at DeCordova Museum. His installations have been featured in the Knight Foundation’s Horizontes Project, Northeastern University’s public art collection, Fundación Culata’s Muro al Barrio, and the Ministry of Culture in Cali, Colombia. Felipe has been awarded Mass MoCA’s 2018 Assets for Artists Grant and Massachusetts Cultural Council’s STARS residency grant in 2023 to continue “Harvest” and ongoing mural project in East Boston in partnership with the Boston Public Schools, HarborArts and Eastie farm. Felipe has also participated in various public art projects at local and international levels. In 2016, he founded the Fresco Exchange, a group invested in the creative and cultural exchange for artists across countries. Currently, Felipe Maintains his studio practice while also coordinating public art projects.
The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me
By Jackie Reeves
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
Jackie Reeves is a Cape Cod based artist, known for her mixed media artworks that blend figurative and abstract elements. Originally from Montreal, she received her M.F.A from Massachusetts College of Art and Design through the low residency program at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown. She is the recipient of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Artist Fellowship award and her work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions throughout New England. Reeves has been featured in numerous art publications including WHITEHOT Magazine (Brooklyn), Art New England, Artscope Magazine, Cape Cod Life Magazine and the Boston Globe. Beyond her artistic endeavors, Reeves actively contributes to the Cape Cod community by providing art mentorships and classes for adults and teens at local art centers. Jackie resides in Sandwich with her family and works out of Chalkboard Studio in the Old Schoolhouse of Barnstable Village.
Rose for Agnes S
By Vicky Tomayko
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker who works with a variety of techniques to create one-of-a-kind works on paper. She is a member of the Ratbirds, a sound based performance group. Tomayko teaches at Cape Cod Community College, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in their Summer Workshop Program. She manages the print studio for the Fine Arts Work Center during the 7 month Residency Program. Tomayko taught in the Massachusetts College of Art Low Residency Masters Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from 2009 to 2014. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for ten years. Tomayko was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College, 1979 through 1981, and was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1985. She received an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University, and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation Grants. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Basel,Venice, Istanbul, Basel, and Melbourne.
Helping Hand
By Sophy Tuttle
Located on Trap Shed at MacMillan Pier
Sophy Tuttle is an English-born American muralist, painter, and installation artist. Her work celebrates nature and creates new narratives that explore regenerative, resilient culture-building between humans and all other forms of life. Sophy’s indoor and outdoor murals can be seen from Massachusetts to Colombia and many places in between. Combining natural elements with abstract and geometric shapes, these murals are a way to begin conversations within the community about our relationship with nature and the ways in which we both conflict and collaborate with our fellow creatures.
Anything Could Happen
By Joe Wardwell
Located at at Court & Commercial St.
Joe Wardwell is an Associate Professor of Painting at Brandeis University and the founder of the Brandeis-in-Siena program. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Washington, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University. Wardwell’s work has been showcased at MASS MoCa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Boston Public Library and beyond. Wardwell has received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Creative Arts at Boston University. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, New Haven, Boston, and Seattle, and is represented by the LaMontagne Gallery in Boston. Wardwell resides in Jamaica Plain with his family and works out of his studio in Dorchester.
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