Unfinished Woman: Who am I beyond the roles that I play?

Tue, Oct 7 until Mon, Nov 3. Galleries FREE to all | Open Tue– Fri, 10-5, and Sat, 10-3

Unfinished Woman: Who am I beyond the roles that I play?

Related events:

• Thursday, October 9 | 5-7pm: Exhibition opening with artists cocktail party with Best in Show award

• Friday, October 31 | 6pm: Dinner with Chef Nicholas

• Friday, October 31 | 7:30pm: Concert with Sioban Magnus

• Saturday, November 1 | 1–5pm: Screening of A year by the Sea with panel with Joan Anderson, and producer Laura Goodenow, moderated by Molly Demeulenaere

• Saturday, November 1 | 7:30pm: Christine Ernst one-woman show FACB: Old AF

• Monday, November 3 | 2–4 pm writing workshop with Joan Anderson and Christine Ernst

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The Cultural Center of Cape Cod warmly invites you to experience Unfinished Woman, a powerful contemporary art exhibition inspired by Joan Anderson’s A Year by the Sea series.

This show honors a profound and often overlooked chapter in a woman’s life—the quiet moment after the roles of partner, best friend, volunteer, or caretaker begin to fade. It is in that moment—standing in front of the mirror—that a new question emerges: Who am I beyond the roles that I play?

With few cultural roadmaps, limited resources, and too little visibility, women at this stage are expected to vanish quietly. Instead, they are awakening.

Unfinished Woman is a celebration of that awakening. The exhibition showcases artwork that embraces this season of emergence—raw, real, and unapologetically incomplete. These are not stories of conclusion, but of reclamation, courage, and transformation.