Cahoon Museum of American Art

Upcycled Clothing Workshop
2024-08-07 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Cahoon Museum, 4676 Falmouth Road (Rte. 28), Cotuit, MA, 02635, United States
Instructor Bo Anselmo guides you through the process of converting an old quilt into wearable art! Inspired by the history and presence of generations of women who created quilts from found and repurposed fabrics, make a timeless article of clothing from used textiles, giving them new life. Bo is an artist, educator and expressive arts therapy student who has been creating and teaching art for many years. Bring an old quilt, an old pair of jeans that fit you, a working sewing machine, thread and bobbins for your sewing machine, any decorative beads or buttons you might want to use, and your joy and great sense of humor! If you do not have a sewing machine, we have a limited number available to borrow, so please contact Leslie (lgoldman@cahoonmuseum.org).
$55 per person/45 museum members

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Guided Tour
2024-08-08 11:00 - 12:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. A great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with museum admission. Free for members

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Within the Frame: Sewing Workshop with Pat Pauly - SOLD OUT
2024-08-09 09:00 - 16:00
Friday, August 9-Sunday, August 11, 9am-4pm daily
Create your own fiber art square using improvisational sewing techniques in this three-day workshop. Use a square within a frame format to play with pattern and space and work with color, scale, and value to create a balanced composition. Bold, graphic prints are a useful tool for this kind of sewing project, and you will learn an effective way to incorporate one-of-a-kind fabrics into a composition.
A sought-after lecturer and teacher in contemporary fiber arts, Pat Pauly shares her wealth of knowledge from decades of working in design. Recognized nationally and internationally, her work evokes natural forms that are bold and graphic. Her award-winning art quilts have been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. Her workshops focus on design and technique, as well as when to apply the rules, and when to toss them out.
Students will need to bring their own sewing supplies. A detailed supply list will be provided to students upon registration.
$300/$250 members

Mermaid Illustration Workshop
2024-08-14 13:00 - 16:00
Develop your inner artist and drawing skills while transforming an image of yourself into a mermaid with illustrator and author Gabe Ribeiro!
Bring a photo of yourself (or someone else) and transform it into a mermaid drawing using watercolors and pens. No drawing experience is necessary and supplies are provided.
$55 per person /$45 museum members

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Guided Tour
2024-08-15 11:00 - 12:00
Offered every Thursday, this guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. A great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with museum admission.
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Professional Photos with your Phone with Linda Sharp
2024-08-15 13:00 - 16:00
Take professional quality photos with your phone with award-winning photographer Linda Sharp. Linda will lead you through your phone camera settings and share tips and tricks for making a strong photo. Use the Cahoon Museum and its grounds as your subject as you practice your new skills. Bring your charged phone with enough memory to take new photos. The class size is limited to 6 to allow for individual attention.
$50 per person/$40 museum members
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Mermaid Festival at the Cahoon Museum of American Art
2024-08-17 13:00 - 15:00
Celebrate the folk art of Cape Cod artists and museum namesakes Ralph Cahoon and Martha Cahoon in conjunction with the museum’s 40th anniversary. Meet a live mermaid, make mermaid-inspired crafts, participate in a scavenger hunt and decorate cookies! Take home a mermaid coloring book, with drawings from local artists, including the Cahoons. Don’t miss out on this festival of mermaid mirth. Dressing up not required but highly encouraged.
Included with museum admission; free for mermaids
Children and Members of the Boys and Girls Club: Free
Card to Culture: Free
Adults: $10
Seniors: $8
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
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Guided Tour
2024-08-22 11:00 - 12:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. This is a great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with museum admission. Members free.

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An Afternoon Tea with C.L. Fornari - SOLD OUT
2024-08-22 13:00 - 15:00
Enjoy a full afternoon tea with renowned author, radio host, and podcaster C.L. Fornari as she takes you on a journey through gardening on Cape Cod and her book Sand and Soil in the museum’s beautiful gardens.
C.L. Fornari is the author of eight books, including Coffee for Roses and The Cocktail Hour Garden. She’s a professional speaker, the host of GardenLine on WXTK, and co-host of the Plantrama podcast. She is a frequent speaker to groups nationwide, and has worked for a family-owned independent garden center for 25 years. C.L. grows vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees and numerous other plants at Poison Ivy Acres on Cape Cod.
$75 per person/$65 museum members
Price includes lecture and lunch.
Menu:
Currant Scone
Mixed Berry
Strawberry jam, clotted cream
Savory Canapés
Cucumber Sandwich
cucumber, lemon & herb cream cheese, dill
Coronation Chicken*
Vadouvan, crème fraiche, apricot
Endive Cup
Walnut, grape, manchego, prosciutto
Petite ham and Swiss croissant.
Sautéed spinach and feta croissant.
*vegetarian alternative: coronation chickpea sandwich
Bite size fresh fruit tart
Mini assorted cheesecake slices
Hot Tea
Iced Tea for a cold option
Lemonade

Needle Felting Workshop
2024-08-28 13:00 - 16:00
Using special felting needles you will learn how to transform raw wool into animals, figures, landscapes, patches, parts for jewelry, plants, mushrooms, and more. It is so satisfying to get out your frustration through this safe and creative way of making objects that make you go awwww. Instructor Bo Anselmo is an artist educator and expressive arts therapy student and is passionate about sharing her knowledge with people of all ages.
$65 per person/$50

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Guided Tour
2024-08-29 11:00 - 12:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. This is a great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with general admission. Members free.
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Gallery Talk: Ralph and Martha Cahoon
2024-09-04 11:00 - 23:30
Curator Leeann Reams guides you through the 40th anniversary exhibition 40 Year of Collecting, with a focus on the work of folk artists Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Learn the stories behind some of the works in the collection, including a clock decorated by Martha Cahoon that has been newly restored to keep time and chime the hour (arrive early to hear the clock chime at 11:00am).
Included with museum admission.
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Mermaid Drawing Workshop
2024-09-04 13:00 - 15:00
Learn fun and unique drawing techniques for creating mermaids from folk artist (and retired naval officer) Jim Parker. In this beginner-level workshop, Parker focuses on proportions and textures in pencil that add charm to your mermaid illustrations. Jim Parker has completed artwork for over 30 museums, 75+ historical societies, and many state, local and federal government groups and is happy to share his drawing techniques. Materials included.
$30 per person/$20 members
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Guided Tour at the Cahoon Museum
2024-09-05 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-09-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-09-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-09-26 11:30 - 12:00
This tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current exhibits.
Included with general admission.
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No-Sew Quilt Workshop
2024-09-11 13:00 - 15:00
Love the look of quilts, but don’t have time to sew? Using patterned fabrics and a simple design, make this small quilt top in a fun, relaxed atmosphere, no experience or sewing necessary. All materials are provided.
$55/$45members
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Paint Night at the Cahoon Museum
2024-09-13 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrate the fun of the fall season by creating your own version of Martha Cahoon’s painting Noon Rest. Education Programs Manager leads you step by step through the process of painting a harvest scene inspired by Martha’s original work, no experience necessary. Materials and light refreshments provided.
$55 per person/$45 museum members
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An Afternoon with Deborah Carter: Fantastical Fashions in the Garden
2024-09-14 13:00 - 15:00
Gather in the Cahoon Museum gardens with exhibiting artist Deborah Carter as she discusses her wearable artwork on view in the exhibition Garden Art Party. Additional works not included in the exhibition will be presented on live models. Enjoy light refreshments while learning more about the work of this innovative and accomplished artist in the spirit of a true garden art party. Advanced registration is required.
$30/$20 members
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Member Preview of Varujan Boghosian with Executive Director Sarah Johnson
2024-09-19 09:00 - 10:00
Join CEO Sarah Johnson on a journey through the exhibit Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry.
This exhibition presents collages and mixed-media pieces that span Boghosian’s career, including rarely seen artworks from the collection of his daughter, Heidi Boghosian. Well-known as an art professor at major American universities, Boghosian played a large role in the Provincetown art colony, influencing generations of artists and writers. As one of a group of artists who founded Provincetown’s Long Point Gallery, he showed alongside such artists as Robert Motherwell and Budd Hopkins.
Members of the museum no charge.
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Consider the Source: Influences on the Work of Ralph and Martha Cahoon with Cindy Nickerson
2024-09-19 16:30 - 18:00
In a tradition common to furniture decorators and folk artists, the Cahoons (especially Ralph) often borrowed designs and imagery from preexisting artworks, chiefly mined from book illustrations. Their sources were as varied as colonial trade signs, the paintings of Quaker artist Edward Hicks and French primitive Henri Rousseau, 19th-century conventions such as mourning pictures and theorem pictures, Harper’s Weekly engravings, and old photographs of Cotuit. Sometimes, their imitations were light-hearted spoofs – not infrequently involving a mermaid. But their originality always shines through, even when they were most faithful to their sources. Learn more about the story behind the Cahoons’ work with art historian Cindy Nickerson.
$25 per person/$20 museum members
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Wild Journals Workshop
2024-09-21 10:00 - 16:00
Join instructor Susan Porter for this exciting workshop to stimulate your creativity, unleash your colorful inner self, and launch your journals onto a new path. Many of us keep journals to gain insight into ourselves and our lives or to mark events that have special meaning for us. Others make travel journals or journals to commemorate special passages in their lives. This workshop will help you bring your journals to a whole new level. Give your creativity a boost as you add color, texture, collage, layers, and 3D forms to your journals. Build secret compartments, add flaps, tags, and windows into your pages. Beginners and practicing artists welcomed. Susan is an exhibiting artist in Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words opening on September 25th. She is also an active member of the New England Book Artists.
$95/$80 members
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Guided Tour
2024-09-23 08:00 - 17:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current exhibitions. A great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with general admission.
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An Afternoon of Envelope Making with Mary Kane
2024-09-23 08:00 - 17:00
Join Mary Kane for a casual conversation about envelope making and sending lovingkindness and beauty into the world one envelope at a time. Mary will have some envelope-making materials and poems to put inside. Come and make your own envelope and send it into the world.
Included with museum admission.
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Guided Tour
2024-09-23 08:00 - 17:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. A great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with museum admission.

Guided Tour
2024-09-23 08:00 - 17:00
This guided tour highlights something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions. This is a great way to get an insider’s sneak peek during a visit to the museum.
Included with museum admission.
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Member Preview of Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words SOLD OUT
2024-09-26 09:00 - 10:00
Special member’s walkthrough of the new exhibit Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words with Consulting Curator, Annie Dean.
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ConVERSations: Layered World, Layered Work with Poets Lauren Wolk and Brett Warren SOLD OUT
2024-09-28 14:00 - 15:00
This event is the first in a series of “conVERSations” about poetry and art held in conjunction with the “Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry” Exhibition. Like Boghosian, poets are collectors, gathering “artifacts ancient and modern” from the world around them, from family and cultural histories, from dreams and imagination. Using the limitations of poetry to focus and contain—the way Boghosian used a physical frame—poets select and arrange and layer these “found objects” to make poetry that relies on both instinct and intention and often leads to unexpected places.
Poets Brett Warren and Lauren Wolk will discuss and read poems that illustrate their practice of paying attention to the world, responding to their perceptions, and following where the process takes them. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.
Brett Warren (she/her) is the author of The Map of Unseen Things (Pine Row Press, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in Canary, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Halfway Down the Stairs, Harbor Review, Hole in the Head Review, Rise Up Review, SWWIM, and other literary publications. A triple nominee for Best of the Net 2023, she lives in a house surrounded by pitch pine and black oak trees—nighttime roosts of wild turkeys, who sometimes use the roof of her writing attic as a runway. www.brettwarrenpoetry.com
Lauren Wolk (she/her) is best known for her novels, especially the New York Times-bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow (2016), its sequel, My Own Lightning (2022), the Scott O’Dell Award-winning Beyond the Bright Sea (2017), and Echo Mountain (2020). She is also an award-winning poet and a visual artist represented by the Larkin Gallery in Harwich Port.
Included with general admission.

Volunteer and Visitor Services Meeting
2024-10-01 09:00 - 11:00
Volunteers and staff are invited to attend training for the 2024 season.
If you are interested in volunteering, please email us at info@cahoonmuseum.org.
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