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In conjunction with the exhibition "Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist," organized by the Art Museum of West Virginia University and generously supported by Art Bridges. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.When the painter Blanche Lazzell called Provincetown home in 1918, she rooted herself among a community of working artists who inspired and challenged each other.
Provincetown’s art colony had been established by trailblazing artist-teachers, including the painter Charles Hawthorne, who launched his summer school at the tip of Cape Cod in 1899. Throughout her career, Lazzell displayed a prescient ability to seek out and study with artists practicing within the modernist art movements of the early 20th century—including post impressionism, cubism, fauvism, expressionism, and abstraction. As a teaching artist, and through the example of her own work, she has continued to inform and inspire generations of artists.
In this lecture artist and educator Lynn Stanley will explore Lazzell’s work through the lens of these formative connections with artist-mentors and friends, along with Lazzell’s legacy as an educator, and her formidable influence as a master of the Provincetown Print.
Lynn Stanley is an artist, educator, and writer. She received her BA from Smith College and her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan. As a grant writer, teaching artist, and program developer she worked for two decades in non-profit arts administration, including seventeen years with the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Stanley curated over sixty art exhibitions at PAAM, with a focus on supporting the creativity of K-12 students and educators, in collaboration with local artists and schools along Cape Cod. An award-winning educator and writer, she’s applied her passion for arts education to generate exemplary programs for learners of all ages, including professional development workshops and Visual Thinking Strategies training for K-12 teachers, and the Art on the Edge, Art Reach, and Reaching Forward Mentor programs at PAAM. Stanley continues to be invested in arts education, and the ways artists can support children, teens, and adults through the transformative power of human connection and creativity. Examples of her work can be found at www.bisforbird.com
Image: Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956), The White Petunia, block cut 1932, printed 1954, color woodblock print, 14 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. Art Museum of West Virginia University Collection, gift of James C. and Janet G. Reed.
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