You Art What You Eat 2021 - April 29

We have reinvented our annual You ART What You Eat fundraiser for the Zoom era! The event now consists of four special Art Talks on Zoom. Each family that purchases tickets gets a special gift from the Falmouth Art Center while supplies last. The gift features a gift bag with a handmade item from our weavers and a handmade ceramic piece from our potters.

The fundraiser is doubling as a promotion for our local restaurants that are struggling at this time. We are encouraging everyone who purchases tickets for the talks to order from a specific local restaurant that has created a special takeout meal for the evening. Order directly from the restaurant—they keep 100% of the proceeds—to help support our wonderful local restaurants.

Our Third Talk: Democracy of the Land: Mobil Warming with Jay Critchley of Provincetown

The term ‘spiritual’ refers to a yearning to seek something superior than the self; the desire to search for the source of life and the nature of death, and the acknowledgment of elusive forces at work in the universe beyond materialism.  Art and the theme of spirituality have had throughout time a firm union often entwined and reciprocally supportive.  Conversely, art that touches on spiritual essences is not automatically linked with any specific religion or dogma in the institutional formal sense of the meaning.  Today numerous artists produce work that evinces the spiritual.

Speaker Bio:

Jay Critchley
The personal is planetary.

Jay is a public artist who has created such iconic cultural images and projects as the patriotic Old Glory Condoms Corporation, sand-encrusted automobiles and pre-demolition buildings, his backyard Septic Theater and Miss Tampon Liberty herself. He was honored in 2012 by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and founder and director of the Provincetown Community Compact (The Compact), producer of the Swim for Life, which has raised $5M for AIDS, women’s health and the community.

Living on the tip of Cape Cod in Provincetown, its geology has strongly inspired his work.
His multi-media work has its roots in the environmental, economic, cultural and materiality
of place. His collaborative and community based work employs public proposals, press
conferences, installations, logos, sculpture, media, video, corporate entities and personas.

He is a conceptual and multi-media artist, writer and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Ireland and Columbia.

Jay’s movie, Toilet Treatments, won an HBO Award and he recently gave a TEDx Talk: Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation. His 2015 survey show at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum traveled to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. He has received awards from the Boston Society of Architects and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC.

The artist’s annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, held on January 7 since 1983, after the Twelve Days of “Stockpiling” of the Christmas season, is a community ritual that “reroots” us to the environment and purges the previous year. It includes song, chant, diatribe and the burning of a discarded Christmas tree boat in the ocean at sunset.

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