Wednesdays at Wellfleet Preservation Hall from 2:00 to 4:00 PM - April 10, 17, 24 and May 1

" Join Deborah Forman on a journey through the history of the Provincetown art colony, which can be viewed as a microcosm of 20th-century American art. The course will open with the launching of the colony when Charles Hawthorne opened his school in 1899.

It will look at the early conflicts between the traditionalists and modernists, the impact of the Hans Hofmann School, and the golden years of the late '40s,'50s, and '60s when the Abstract Expressionists were in town and New York galleries had satellite locations in Provincetown. When the art colony began to languish in the late '60s, the effort to revitalize it with the founding of the Fine Arts Work Center and the impact of Long Point Gallery will attest to the determination to maintain the town's cultural integrity.

Deborah graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia with a degree in journalism, and also studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. She was the features editor of the Cape Cod Times and editor in chief of Cape Cod VIEW magazine before she began writing Perspectives on the Provincetown Art Colony (Schiffer Publishing 2011), a history of the art colony, based on interviews with dozens of artists and writers. She wrote the script and helped film Art In Its Soul, an award-winning documentary of the history of the Provincetown art colony, which was aired on public television stations nationwide and will be shown as introduction to the course . "