Making Light: Past Events

November 18, 6:00pm

Grace Emmett is a visual artist, writer, naturalist, educator, and serves as PAAM’s Curator of Community Education. Her place-based art practice is dependent on an intimate relationship with the land informed by her foraging and natural ink making process. She has shown in galleries, museums, and universities across the Northeast and her artwork can be found at Frying Pan Gallery and Farm Projects. Grace is the author of Solstice Tree: A Story of a Forest in Times of Darkness and Light and the substack Sundog published seasonally.

Amy C. Davies is an award-winning video and film producer who has specialized in local storytelling on Cape Cod for over twenty-five years. Amy is a visual artist who regularly exhibits work around Cape Cod and New England. In her previous career in hyperlocal media, she taught thousands of people video production, anchored local radio newscasts, and wrote for various local newspapers. Amy currently serves as the Digital Content Officer at Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM).

Ken Field is a saxophonist & composer. He leads the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, an experimental & improvisational brass band, a longtime member of the electronic modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and he performs & records with a number of prominent Outer Cape musical groups. His solo releases document his work for layered saxophones and his soundtracks for dance and film. Field's music is heard regularly on the children's television program Sesame Street.  He is the host of WMBR & WOMR’s The New Edge and co-host of WOMR’s Trash or Treasure.

October 21, 6:00pm

Fermin Rojas is a producer, filmmaker, playwright, and composer, and the founder of DKR Films, a film production house specializing in imaginative, inspiring, and socially conscious documentaries. InAlumbrones—a documentary about artists living and working in Cuba—one of the artists shared: “All I can do is leave a record of what I’ve done for my country.”

Denise Coffey is a writer, a reporter for the Cape Cod Times, and a poet. She is a bird enthusiast and Marc Chagall aficionado.

Mike Carroll is an artist who also writes and speaks on art and exhibition spaces, being himself the owner and director of the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. As an artist he’s attuned to hidden forces at play in each work; as an artist a gallerist he is a nurturer of others’ expressions of joy or pain.