This Sunday, August 16th – A Perfect Day for Some Art

Artist Talk in Collaboration with
Rocky Neck Art Colony

Catherine Kehoe Artist in Residency

The Cape Ann Museum, in partnership with the Rocky Neck Art Colony, is pleased to present an artist talk by Catherine Kehoe on Sunday, August 16 at 2:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Auditorium. This program is free and open to the public. A reception with the artist will follow the slide presentation.

Catherine Kehoe was invited to be the Distinguished Artist/Teacher this summer at the Goetemann Artist Residency, a program of the Rocky Neck Art Colony. This program marks the 6th year of collaboration between the Museum and the Rocky Neck Art Colony. Her work is represented by Miller-Yezerski Gallery in Boston. Kehoe studied in the Yale Norfolk program and holds a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts, Boston University. She is the recipient of an Orlowsky-Freed grant, a Pollock-Krasner grant, three Blanche Colman Awards, a Berkshire Taconic ART grant, a St. Botolph Club Foundation grant and a Golden Foundation grant. She teaches painting and drawing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has run workshops at FAWC, Truro Center for the Arts, Art New England, Sedona Art Center, Cullowhee Mountain Arts, The Washington Art Association and the Jerusalem Studio School Summer Program in Civita Castellana, Italy.

North Shore Arts Association announces a special educational opportunity:  Jeff Weaver has offered to do a painting demonstration on Sunday, August 16 at 4 pm to benefit the NSAA’s Building Restoration Fund.  There is a ten dollar fee.  This is a rare opportunity to learn from one of Cape Ann’s most accomplished and extraordinary artists.

Working in the American Realist tradition and influenced by 20th Century approaches, Jeff relates, “My paintings and drawings of Gloucester reflect my long connection to, and fascination with, this unique place.  Its architectural diversity, decaying wharves, and working waterfront have provided me with an intriguing array of subject matter for almost 40 years.  I choose my subjects as often from the commonplace as from the inherently picturesque, looking for that which reveals the city’s true personality.”  Having graduated from the Boston Museum school, Weaver has painted in and around Gloucester for over 40 years with a studio on Rogers Street.  His work in murals and oil on canvas has won many awards and graces numerous collections around the country.

 The North Shore Arts Association’s galleries are open, free to the public, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.

More information on all North Shore Arts Association events is available by visiting  their website at www.nsarts.org, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.