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Creative Life
00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9ab20000Our series Creative Life discontinued on October 30th, 2017. It has been replaced by Ways of Life. The Creative Life archive lives on this page. Creative Life offered an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on the Cape and Islands. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell.Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.Creative Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

The Village Portrait Project: Painting a Community, Bringing Together a Village

Anna Rose MacArthur

Artist Jon Goldman is painting 781 portraits of his Woods Hole village to bring his community closer together.  781­ is the number of people living in Woods Hole, according to the 2010 U.S. census.

Goldman hopes the project will bring his community together. He says, “If it gets people talking about the community, if it gets people talking about art, then I’ve been successful. So if one person asks a question…one person recognizes somebody that they see, it’s a success.”

Goldman paints the portraits digitally on a tablet computer, using a stylus. Each portrait is about the size of a business envelope. Right now, 100 of them hang in his Woods Hole studio. Eventually, he hopes all 781 of the portraits will hang in a public place in Woods Hole.

To view the project online, visit Goldman’s website or Facebook page.

http://www.goldmanarts.com/village-portrait-project/

https://www.facebook.com/villageportraitproject

Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison and made possible by the Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Anna Rose is a recent graduate from the Transom Story Workshop held here in Woods Hole through our production partners: Atlantic Public Media