Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

CONTACT:

PO Box 756, 10 Meetinghouse Road
Truro, MA 02666
508-349-7511
www.castlehill.org

Cherie Mittenthal, Executive Director

DESCRIPTION:

Castle Hill was founded in 1971 by Outer Cape artists. Its mission is “to foster and encourage arts and crafts through instruction, exhibitions, lectures, and forums, and to promote social interaction between artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.” It has provided stellar programs, featuring very distinguished and famous national cultural leaders in all kinds of events; in 2003, 800 students from all over America enrolled in its classes alone. It is known for great program ideas which combine accessibility with high artistic standards. With only an uninsulated building, its programs were concentrated in the warm months, but in 2001 it purchased a winterized building suitable for year-‘round activities. This presented a whole new set of challenges, because the Outer Cape (Truro, Wellfleet, and Provincetown) oscillates seasonally from a summer population of 100,000 generally affluent vacationers, to about 8,000 the rest of the year — retirees on fixed incomes, artists and ordinary mortals on limited incomes gained primarily from summer work. “The long winters are relatively void of engaging and challenging activities”, is one way to put it. So after diligent surveys of public interests and needs, the Center began year-round programming in 2003. This is not self-supporting as the summer is, for obvious reasons, so donations from the broader philanthropic community are needed. Consider the attractions and satisfactions of being a patron of this distinguished institution.

(2004: CULTURE: Arts: Visual, Literary and Crafts)