An Afternoon with Deborah Carter: Fantastical Fashions in the Garden
2024-09-14 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Cahoon Museum, 4676 Falmouth Road (Rte. 28), Cotuit, MA, 02635, United States
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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Guided Tour at the Cahoon Museum
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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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.
Register

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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Gallery Talk: Varujan Boghosian
2024-10-02 11:00 - 23:30
Join the Education Programs Manager for a closer look at the artwork of artist Varujan Boghosian. What gives an object meaning? How does putting objects near each other change their meaning? Consider these questions in the context of this master of juxtaposition and learn more about the stories behind this artist’s work.
Included with museum admission.
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Fall Open House and Exhibit Reception
2024-10-05 10:00 - 16:00
Experience art at the Cahoon Museum of American Art with free admission, family fun activities and programs, and the reception for Varujan Boghosian and New England Book Artists!
Schedule:
Classroom – Papermaking with exhibiting artist Sheryl Jaffe – 10-11:30am
ArtCart – Boghosian Collages – 10am-4pm
Learning Center – Mini Book Making -10am-4pm
Artist reception – 1-3pm
Free admission.
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Guided Tour of the Cahoon Museum
2024-10-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-10-17 11:00 - 12:00
Discover something special about the museum’s historic house and current art exhibitions in this informative tour.
One hour in length.
Included with general admission.
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Director’s Talk: The work of Varujan Boghosian with Executive Director Sarah Johnson, PhD
2024-10-17 14:00 - 15:00
Join Cahoon Museum Executive Director and exhibition curator Sarah Johnson for a closer look at the work of Varujan Boghosian in the exhibition Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry. Learn more about Boghosian’s unique process and the stories behind the works currently on view.
Included with general admission
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Cape Cod and Islands Art Educator Association Meeting
2024-10-17 16:30 - 18:00
Join the Cape Cod & Islands Art Educator Association (CCIAEA) for its first members meeting of the 2024-2025 school year at the Cahoon Museum of American Art. Open to all members of the community who teach art to children, the meeting will include a tour of the museum, refreshments, and a CCIAEA 2024-2025 calendar of events to take with you.
No charge.
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Botanical Illustration: Beautiful Bounty
2024-10-19 10:00 - 16:00
With the growing season at an end, the markets are overflowing with beautiful fresh produce. Join Ellen Duarte in celebrating the harvest season. Draw and paint a variety of fruits and vegetables. Find interesting ways to present the season’s abundance while learning approaches and techniques unique to botanical illustration.
$115/$100 members
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ConVERSations: Discussion with Mary Kane and Angela Rose - SOLD OUT
2024-10-19 14:00 - 15:00
Exhibiting artist Angela Rose and writer Mary Kane discuss their collaboration 122 Days: a Conversation in Drawings and Sentences currently on view in the exhibition Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words. Learn more about the genesis of the project and the development of this creative partnership.
Included with museum admission

Long Point Gallery Remembered with Grace Hopkins
2024-10-24 11:00 - 12:30
Founded in 1977 by 13 Cape artists, this legendary cooperative gallery revitalized the Provincetown art colony, spawned new galleries, and attracted dealers and collectors in its heyday. Long Point’s influence grew with the importance of Provincetown, recognized as “home of the nation’s oldest art colony” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Grace Hopkins presents each artist’s history and artwork as well as stories from her experience growing up with them on Cape Cod.
Grace is the daughter of Budd Hopkins, a renowned abstract expressionist painter and one of the founders of Long Point, and April Kingsley, art historian and author. A year-round resident of Wellfleet, Grace presently lives in a Cape modern house and is a fine art photographer, international guidance counselor for the arts, and director of Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry; Boghosian was one of the founding members of Long Point Gallery.
Included with general admission.
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Book Art Workshop: Tunnel Books and Flag Books - SOLD OUT
2024-10-26 13:00 - 16:00
Explore the creative possibilities of artist books with exhibiting artist Ronni Komarow. Learn to make two fun, easy artist’s book structures, flag books, and tunnel books. Once you master the basics, you can embellish and alter the project to truly make it your own.
$55 per person/$45 museum members

Fall Festival and Ghost Story Reading
2024-10-27 13:00 - 15:00
Celebrate fall at the Cahoon Museum with fun crafts and a special scavenger hunt. Plus, create your own ghost story and enter our ghost story contest. Stories entered will be read aloud at 2:00pm.
Special prices for the winners! Halloween costumes are encouraged.
Included with museum admission.
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Cyanotype Workshop - SOLD OUT
2024-10-31 13:00 - 16:00
Would you like to learn about Cyanotype image making?
Join exhibiting artist Sara Ringler to learn more about this alternative way to make prints from the sun. Experiment using the “Wet and Dry” techniques, forming a simple book structure or hanging piece of art. A lightbox will be available in case of inclement weather. Sara Ringler has been a professional printmaker and art professor teaching drawing, printmaking, and design at Cape Cod Community College for over 27 years. Her work is featured in the Cahoon Museum exhibition Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words.
$55 per person/$45 museum members

Paper Making - SOLD OUT
2024-11-02 13:00 - 16:00
Make unique, expressive handmade papers from various plants while learning the papermaking process. Bring your own fabrics, threads, ribbons or flower petals to use in this fun, experimental workshop. Explore pulp painting and wet collage. No experience necessary. All materials provided, but it is recommended that you wear shoes and an apron that can get wet. Exhibiting artist and instructor Sheryl Jaffe has been exhibiting her work throughout New York and New England for over 30 years. She studied traditional hand papermaking in Japan and China and has taught papermaking at home and abroad.
$80/$75 members

Gallery Talk: Book Arts
2024-11-06 11:00 - 12:00
What is an artist book? Discover more about this expressive and varied art form while exploring the work currently on view in the exhibition Book Arts: Conversations in Art and Words. Learn more about how these artists from all over Cape Cod combine words, art and paper engineering to make these one-of-a-kind pieces.
Included with museum admission.
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Poetry Drawn and Cut: Found Poetry and Cut Paper Workshop
2024-11-06 13:00 - 15:00
Combine the relaxation of zentangles, a form of doodling, with found poetry and paper cutting on upcycled book pages to create beautiful artwork with Education Programs Manager Leslie Goldman. No experience is necessary, and materials are provided.
$35/$25 members
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Guided Tour at the Cahoon Museum
2024-11-07 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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Gelli Printing Workshop
2024-11-07 13:00 - 16:00
Learn Gelli printing, a monoprinting process that does not require a press, and explore textures and layers by combining materials to make a finished collage. Explore printing on book pages and sheet music, inspired by the work of Varujan Boghosian on view in the museum. A wide range of tools and materials will be supplied during the workshop.
Instructor Christine Martell has taught a wide range of techniques for over 30 years. Of all media, Gelli printing is her favorite topic to teach because anyone can be successful with it at any level of artistic ability. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MS in Education from Portland State University.
$55/$45 members
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