Friday, March 13, 2026, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm, followed by Q/A with Director of Art Benton Jones Richard Neal will discuss the relationship between art and politics in his own art, as well as through examples in art history.

Richard Neal was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Maryland. He earned a Master's degree at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and works at Chalkboard Studio in Barnstable Village. In 2024, his work was the subject of a one-person exhibit at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and this summer his work will fill the Great Hall at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in a multi-media installation entitled Grand Curio Charade.

The writer, André van der Wende has observed that “Neal is a master at creating distressed surfaces full of invention and the unexpected, tough and confrontational in their manufacture and effect.”