PAAM Announces Recipients of 2023 Artist Grant

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Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Art Association and Musuem (PAAM) is pleased to announce the recipient of its annual grant for artists, The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant. They are: Brian Cirmo of Albany, NY; Frederick Hayes of NY, NY; Catherine McCarthy of Boston, MA; Terri Rolland of Sante Fe, NM; and Elizabeth Thach of Brighton, MA.

The artists were awarded a total of $36,000 and will have a group exhibition at PAAM in 2024.

The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Grant is awarded annually to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45 who demonstrate financial need. The mission of this grant is to promote public awareness of and a commitment to American art, and to encourage interest in artists who lack adequate recognition. The Orlowsky and Freed Grant was started in 2010. There have been 40 recipients to date with more than $375,000 being dispersed to under-recognized American painters over the age of 45.

The jurors for this year’s grant were Tim Doud, artist and Professor and Chair of the MFA Program is Studio Art at American University in Washington, DC; Patricia Hickson, Patricia Hickson Art Advisory art appraisal and consultation, former Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; and John Zinsser, painter, writer, and Assistant Professor at New School University in New York.

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