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My Studio Blanche Lazzell

Committed to the artists who have shaped the town's cultural past and to their contemporary counterparts, the Julie Heller Gallery is a monument to Provincetown's rich heritage as an art colony. Housing the most extensive Provincetown art available for purchase anywhere, much of the gallery is hung "salon style" with the walls filled end to end with striking treasures. "Its list of artists reads like a Who's Who of Provincetown's art history," writes Adam Lambert in The Gallery Guide . Once the box office and museum of the famed Provincetown Playhouse on the Wharf, the gallery walls now set the stage for varied exhibitions that survey nearly a century of vibrant innovation and timeless tradition in the visual arts. Julie Heller is an art historian, chairperson of the Provincetown Arts Commission and owns the Julie Heller Gallery. The works in the gallery reflect her interest in works by both emerging and well established early and contemporary Provincetown artists. She encourages artists to submit their slides with a self addressed stamped envelope to the gallery for consideration. In a recent article in Provincetown Arts , she comments, "On a good day, I'm terribly open-minded and I like to think people are looking for something to enhance their life. It may not be what I like or what I consider art. But they are people who are making room for art. I think it's important that people have art in their lives. How could people not have art? To me it would be like living without air."