Partners In The Arts Grant

On October 10th, President Mimi McQueen and Executive Director Corinne Woodcock accepted a generous grant from the Berks Arts Council’s “Partners in the Arts” program, awarded at the Reading Public Museum. It will fund an exhibit of Provincetown color wood block prints - a unique medium indigenous to the former fishing village at the tip of Cape Cod where Charles Demuth spent several summers and other holidays during the years that the art form was developed and popularized: 1914-1934. Provincetown prints by approximately two dozen artists will be exhibited during the spring 2000. In connection with the show, William Evaul, one of the few artists still making Provincetown prints on site, will be a guest of the Demuth Foundation to demonstrate the rare technique in a workshop open to the public. Also, Mr. Evaul will speak about the Provincetown art scene during the time the prints were made, 1915-1935. The Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) program is a partnership initiative between local arts organizations and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. The Berks Art Council and the Regrant Program administers Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts for the North-Central Pennsylvania region and distributes funds to non-profit organizations, institutions, or associations located in North-Central Pennsylvania for the purpose of promising and strengthening local arts and cultural programs. State funding for the arts comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s general Assembly and from the national Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.