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Paul Ciaramitaro has been a roofer, a mover, a fisherman, and – at the same time – an artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWjqbrl2jw
Dave is producing videos for Good Morning Gloucester and Cape Ann TV
His work can be seen in the Cape Ann Historical Museum, the Seacoast Nursing Home, the Rockport Art Association, and the North Shore Arts Association… and you can see Paul and some of his art in this interview we did for Cape Ann TV
Thanks for watching
Good Morning Gloucester 
I love it! Absolutely love it!
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My god that was riveting!
I have no idea if I’m related to Paul but his work is truly amazing and hearing his words and giving props to the lumpers of which if you know what I’ve done all my life you know I’ve unloaded fish and lobster alongside my cousin Frank and Father and Uncle charlie you would know what hard exhausting work it is.
I wish I had the type of physically gifted bodies like my cousin , father and uncles have for this type of work but I’m the runt of the pack and dont pack nearly as much muscle as other men in my family. We get it done though and have so for years. I just hope my body will hold out until I can retire.
Excellent excellent piece and Paul has absolutely no problem relating his emotions through his paintings. the work of a great interviewer and the work of a great interviewee.
Thanks so much for sharing. I’m looking forward to much more from Dave and Maggie Sullivan!
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So happy that you like the interview Joey and thank you for your kind comments. We needed time to respond to the video cause Dave needed to fix the video and audio parts of all three. Dave and Maggie Sullivan did an awesome job. It’s people like you guys that make the world go around. Kind regards, Paul and Norma Ciaramitaro
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That was amazing. I was a lumper, of peat moss, horse food, bags of grain from trucks and railroad cars at a grain mill. I feel like those jobs taught me how to get a job done.
But shoot, for the most part, all I needed was to get that car empty before the train came back the next morning or the driver wants the limestone out by 5 so he can head back.
I have a feeling that lumping fish was a bit different since any time you took made the price of the load go down. Peat Moss still sold the same price the next day if I took my time but a nice cod might be more time dependent.
Good interview.
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i’ve admired Paul’s work for a long time. it is nice to hear him talk about the ‘backstory’ to his work. funny, i was just looking at a stack of drawings i did of the cove and realized there is only one with a figure in it.
this has given me some food for ‘art’ thought.
thank you,
deb clarke
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Wonderful…
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Dave you did an excellent job fixing the problems in the video parts 1, 2, and 3. We look at them daily to see how many people have watched them. We are still in awe.
We are spreading the word around to others to watch and the feedback has been tremendous. Again not to sound like a cracked record but you and Maggie did an awesome job. Can’t thank you enough. Paul and Norma Ciaramitaro
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His figures really are extraordinary. They have a heroic quality like you sometimes see in the WPA murals. Walker Hancock did that, too, so that his figures had a powerful, larger-than-life quality.
Paul’s work has really, really evolved. I’m glad he mentioned studying with Charlie Movalli — Charlie has done so very much to encourage the arts here in Gloucester.
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