Month: September 2015

NORTH SHORE ARTS OFFERING
Painting Restoration Assessments by Roy Blankenship, Fellow, AIC and NSAA member.

Saturday, September 19^th, 1:30 – 3 pm.
Up to three paintings.  Free of Charge.  Open to the public.

 If you have a painting that is showing signs of aging, and would like a one to one Restoration Assessment (this is NOT an appraisal of value) by a professional painting restorer, come to the North Shore Art Association on Saturday, September 19^th, from 1:30 pm to 3 pm.   For up to three paintings you can enjoy a restoration assessment by artist member, restorer, and Fellow of The Institute of Conservators, Roy Blankenship.

Roy Blankenship has consulted and professionally restored fine art for museums, galleries, public, private, and institutional collections including many of the priceless paintings owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston.  In addition to his 47 years experience in art restoration, both he and his wife Lois Showalter Blankenship are professional artists.  More info www.royblankenship.com.

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.

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CAM Connections Third Tuesdays

Reconnecting older adults to art and their community

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to welcome older adults and care partners to CAM Connections , on Tuesday,  September 15 at 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. This program meets on the third Tuesday of every month and is free and open to the public. Reservations are required – to make a reservation or for more information please call (978)283-0455 x12 or email katelachance@capeannmuseum.org.

The Cape Ann Museum CAM Connections Third Tuesdays program brings art, culture and history to underserved seniors in the Cape Ann community. The program offers personal engagement with the Museum collection through small group art conversations. The heart of the program is to create space for a meaningful experience in the welcoming environment of the Museum, where participants can share responses and reflections as well as form new social connections. Individuals with memory challenges and their care partners are warmly welcomed.

Third Tuesdays offers seniors the experience of slowing down and becoming still to look closely at art with others. During small group conversation, participants view paintings, objects and artifacts in an open-ended discussion format, stimulating personal curiosities and stories, while having fun, growing and learning together.

The Cape Ann Museum, a regional center of local art, history and culture, has a treasured collection that resonates with the personal and collective history of seniors with ties to the region. Committed to improving the lives of seniors, CAM Connections values the arts as healing and believes active engagement with the arts offers needed connection, reduces isolation and promotes health and well being. Past participants have witnessed the many ways the Museum’s unique collection offers a bridge to a meaningful and enriching life experience.

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Trails & Sails at the Cape Ann Museum
Hopper’s Houses – A Guided Walking Tour

A tour in downtown Gloucester to view houses immortalized by renowned American realist painter Edward Hopper

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present, in tandem with The Essex National Heritage Commission’s Trails & Sails Weekend of Walks and Water, a guided walking tour of select Gloucester houses made famous by American realist painter Edward Hopper on Saturday, September 19 at 10:00 a.m. Tours last about 1 ½ hours and are held rain or shine; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. The tour, along with Museum admission, is offered at no charge on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited, no reservations. For additional information please email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10 during Museum hours.

American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months between 1912 and 1928. His earliest visit was made in the company of fellow artist Leon Kroll. During his second visit to Cape Ann in 1923, Hopper courted the young artist Josephine Nivison. He also began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. In 1924, Hopper and Nivison who were newly married returned to Gloucester on an extended honeymoon and continued to explore the area by foot and streetcar. During his final two visits to the area, in 1926 and 1928, Hopper produced some of his finest paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.

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Hey Joey!
This weekend is closing weekend at Palazola’s! A wholesaler is coming in next week to take whatever inventory, fixtures, office equipment, etc etc are left. Can you post post this information on the blog? This is the last weekend to pick up some great stuff cheap!! They are open Saturday from 9am-6pm and Sunday from 10am-5pm.
Thanks so much!!
Steph

ART HAVEN FALL KICK OFF & FRO YO NIGHT

(Friday Sept. 18th 4-6pm)

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to reach out to let you know that Cape Ann Art Haven is hosting an info session about fall programs tomorrow at Art Haven. We’d love for you to stop by and get info about how to connect kids who will benefit from the programs we offer.

Our focus has always been and always will be to serve the underserved and reach kids who don’t have an outlet to express themselves. We’ve got an awesome team of staff and volunteers who are great mentors for the students and create a fun and creative environment for the students at Art Haven.

This is also a great chance for you to meet Laura Donworth who is doing a fantastic job coordinating the space and programs at Art Haven. You can also meet check out the new Sound Harbor space that runs a variety of music programs and will be doing demonstrations and tours of their space at the kick off on Friday.

All are invited to join and there will be Fro Yo from Orange Leaf and plenty of opportunity for the kids to get their hands messy in some clay.

Thanks for all of your continued support!

Best,

David Brooks

Cape Ann Art Haven, Founder

NEW PROJECT SEEKS TO EXPAND FREE EXPRESSION

Boston reporter & British photographer team up for media initiative

The Cape Ann Forum opens its final season with veteran reporter Charlie Sennott and photo-journalist Gary Knight on the GroundTruth Project and their efforts to promote freedom of expression in a new media environment. The free program, featuring a talk and visual images, will be held at Gloucester City Hall on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 7 to 9 p.m.

Sennott, an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe who left in 2008 to start the online news service GlobalPost and went on to found GroundTruth earlier this year, will talk about the stories they’re focusing on, how they cover global news differently, and what they’re doing to prepare the international reporters of the future. Knight, the project’s visual editor, will talk about the role of visuals in narrative story-telling and share photographs from his work.

“In the digital age, as we are bombarded with so much information from afar, GroundTruth values the idea that being there on the ground and calibrating events in human terms is the key to getting it right,” says Sennott. “We focus on narrative storytelling about issues that matter for an increasingly interconnected world and we search for solutions to these issues.”

GroundTruth, based at WGBH Boston, trains correspondents from around the world to work together across different media platforms and cultural backgrounds with a focus on human rights, freedom of expression, emerging democracies, the environment, religious affairs and global health. Organizers say their objective is to foster dialogue and engagement while exposing injustice and finding solutions.

Over a career spanning 30 years, Sennott has been on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in 15 countries, from the jungles of Colombia to the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. During the “January 25th Revolution” in Cairo in 2012 he served as lead correspondent on two award-winning documentaries for the PBS series Frontline.

He was the Globe’s Middle East Bureau Chief in Jerusalem from 1997 to 2001 and Europe Bureau Chief in London from 2001 to 2005. He founded GlobalPost after the Globe phased out the last of its overseas bureaus in 2008, and he built a global network of correspondents, many of them victims of budget cuts at print publications, who went on to win the Overseas Press Club, Polk and Peabody awards as well as the RFK Award for Human Rights Reporting.

Sennott says his experience reporting internationally led him to launch the GroundTruth Project to train the next generation of international journalists for the digital age. The project’s editorial partners include GlobalPost as well as NBC News, NPR, PBS Frontline and PRI’s The World.

British-born photographer Gary Knight started his career as a photo-journalist in 1988 covering the war between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge and then spent six years in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. He has photographed for news magazines, art-directed magazines, designed books, started media foundations and won numerous honors, including Amnesty International Awards for Journalism in 1997 and 2002, Overseas Press Club Awards, and POYi Awards.

He founded the VII Photo Agency in 2001 to “give free expression to the small number of leading news and current affairs photographers it represented.” In 2003, it was named the third most influential entity in photography by American Photo Magazine. Today it is part of GroundTruth.

“VII created a new space in the media environment that not only acts as a distribution hub for concerned visual narratives to the media but as a publishing entity and a platform for communication strategies with NGO’s such as MSF [Doctors Without Borders], Human Rights Watch and the ICRC [International Committee for the Red Cross],” says Knight who has also worked with the Crimes of War Foundation, the Frontline Club Foundation and the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, among others.

From 1999 to 2009, Knight was a contract photographer for Newsweek, during which he photographed the invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, Darfur, and other significant world news events. In 2009, he was awarded a prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and moved to the United States. He now directs the Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at Tufts University.

This is the 90th Cape Ann Forum since the organization was formed after 9/11 to increase public understanding of international issues, and it will be the last full season, according to founder and chair Dan Connell, who says they are not sure whether they will fold it up next spring or scale it back and continue doing programs.

“We’re not sure what we’ll do next—perhaps an annual event and an expanded online presence, maybe a merger with another Cape Ann organization, maybe something else,” he said. “These are things we’ll talk about with our constituents over the course of this year.”

Other events planned for this “transitional” season feature Essex human rights activist Karen Keating Ansara on relief and development in post-earthquake Haiti (Nov. 15); Forum founder Dan Connell on refugees and global migration (Feb. 21); foreign policy analyst and author Stephen Walt on the U.S. and the Middle East, with journalist Christopher Lydon moderating (April 3); and security analyst, career army officer and author Andrew Bacevich on challenges the U.S. faces in the years ahead (May 15).

For more information on the Forum and future events, go to the website at www.capeannforum.org.

For media only: To interview Charlie Sennott, email him at csennott@thegroundtruthproject.org.