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Falmouth Art Center’s Art Talk Series 2026

4 Talks in April & May!

Falmouth Art Center Member price: $10 per talk or all 4 talks for $30

Non-member price: $15 per talk or all 4 talks for $50

Purchase tickets online or by phone at 508-540-3304

Talk #1: “The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris”

Talk by  Jennifer Dasal, author 

Thursday, April 2 at 4:00pm
in person at the Falmouth Art Center

“A captivating look at a glamorous and singular part of the history of women in the arts, and a testament to the power of community and support.” — Shelf Awareness

Jennifer Dasal will give a talk on her 2025 non-fiction book about the American Girls’ Club in Paris, a sanctuary for female artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book details how this safe haven allowed women to pursue art education, form communities, and challenge the male-dominated art world, connecting with figures like Rodin and Gertrude Stein while finding support and opportunity in a city that was a hub for artistic innovation.

Books will be available for sale at the lecture from Eight Cousins, and she will be available to sign books.

Jennifer Dasal is the former curator of modern and contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the host of the independent podcast ArtCurious, which she started in 2016 and which was named one of the best podcasts by O, The Oprah Magazine and PC Magazine. She holds an MA in art history from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in art history from the University of California, Davis. She has also completed PhD coursework in art history at Pennsylvania State University. She lectures frequently on art both locally and nationally.

Talk #2: THE PROVINCETOWN PRINT – Where it Came From and Where it’s Going

 Art Talk and Demonstration with Artist Bill Evaul of Provincetown

Thursday April 16th at 4pm
in person at the Falmouth Art Center

Bill will be including a comprehensive history of woodcut printmaking and the events which led to the invention of the White Line Woodcut Print in Provincetown. The heart of the talk will be the founding artists and their peers who quickly joined, telling about how they rose, flourished, then faded over the course of 20 plus years.  It continues with Blanche Lazzell and her refusal to let the Provincetown Print die, by teaching many artists while still producing a great body of original prints herself.  It concludes with a look at the state of the contemporary white-line color woodcut community and a look towards the future.

A Provincetown artist since 1970, Bill Evaul produces oil paintings and white-line woodblock prints as well as works on paper: drawings, watercolors and monotypes and monoprints. He employs a vibrant color palette and a kind of figurative expressionism to create a wide variety of images including musicians, New York skylines, nudes, wine bottle still lifes and a lively fauvist/cubist series called “Dancing Houses.” As an educator, curator and art consultant in the field of 20th Century Art, Evaul conducts art workshops in white-line wood cut printmaking, slide lectures on Provincetown Art History, organizes exhibitions, produces certified appraisals and can advise on collection management.

Talk #3: Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi Occupied France

with Author Christopher C. Gorham

Thursday, April 30 4:00 pm

in person
at Falmouth Art Center

“An impeccably presented portrait” –BookPage

Christopher Gorham will give a talk on his 2025 book that focuses on the years 1940-1944 when Matisse, despite being gravely ill and elderly, defiantly remained in Nazi-occupied France, mostly in Nice, while many of his contemporaries fled. Gorham’s book highlights how Matisse’s decision to stay was a source of national inspiration and how his art during this period, particularly his innovative paper cut-outs (including iconic pieces like The Fall of Icarus and his book Jazz), served as subtle acts of resistance and a beacon of hope against the darkness of fascism. The book also details the extraordinary and dangerous efforts of his family members in the Resistance.

Talk #4: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

with Adrienne Spinozzi,
Associate Curator, The American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thursday, May 7 at 4:00
in person at Falmouth Art Center

Adrienne Spinozzi will speak on the history of enslaved potters working in the Old Edgefield District, a rural area on the western edge of South Carolina famous for its natural clays. Historians describe Old Edgefield as a site of “industrial slavery.” For roughly fifty years before emancipation and the end of the Civil War, the Black potters of Old Edgefield crafted stoneware storage vessels later sold to neighboring plantations. Despite their beauty and expert craftsmanship, these vessels were made under duress. Edgefield stoneware was a staple of life across South Carolina and parts of Georgia and known for its affordable prices, durability, and glassy, impervious glaze. By the 1840s, multiple potteries served the growing population, producing tens of thousands of vessels per year. Enslaved African Americans led all aspects of this labor-intensive industry.

A Major Thank you to our Sponsor:

Burton & Burton of Sotheby’s International Realty

for making this speaker program possible.