My View of Life on the Dock
This cute couple from Newburyport stopped by the dock for a Sticka! The girl was wearing a pair of those very trendy rubber boots that are all the rage with the women folk nowadays. I found it a bit odd footwear choice given it being 8o degrees and sunny yesterday but hey, you gotta love the funkiness!
They were out and about shopping for a wedding ring, Congratulations!!!!
Cape Ann TV is Now Blogging click here to check it out
There will be a very special Art Rock Announced Sunday Morning at 9:00AM
Your Chance to Join “Art, Rocks!” Immortality!!!!!!!
Yes, we are definitely up to something 🙂
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Update: Found- look for the video 🙂
Nancy Goodman writes-
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.”
Mary Jean (Lily) Tomlin (1939- )
click picture to view Lily Tomlin wikipedia page
Detroit born comedian and actress Tomlin got her first big break in 1969 as a member of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In where she developed long-running characters such as Ernestine, the telephone operator, and Edith Ann, the wise and plain spoken five-year-old. She went on to create memorable roles in movies including “All of Me”, “Nine to Five” and “Short Cuts.” She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in Altman’s “Nashville”, and has received numerous awards including four Emmys, a Tony, and a Grammy for her Broadway and recorded work including the one-woman show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe".
photo from Susan Lucas
Wednesday, June 8th 7:30 to 9:00 pm.
Presenter: Jim McAllister, Local Historian and Art Collector
From the sandy beaches of Lynn and Swampscott to the rugged fishing communities of Cape Ann to the marshes of Ipswich, Boston ’s North Shore has long been a magnet for artists from America and Europe .
Winslow Homer, the Impressionist Childe Hassam, and Maurice Prendergast are just a few of the famous painters who were drawn to the area and left behind their visual impressions of its natural beauty and residents.
Join Jim McAllister as he traces the development of the lively North Shore art scene between 1870 and 1930. McAllister will profile some of the area’s home grown painters, including Frank Weston Benson, Arthur Wesley Dow, and Charles Woodbury. He will also look at specific North Shore locales, especially the Lynn Beach area, Ipswich, and East Gloucester , where artists gathered to paint.
McAllister’s talk will be heavily illustrated with images of works depicting North Shore scenes by both resident and visiting artists. These works will range from urban views of Gloucester by John Sloan, Edward Hopper, and Stuart Davis, to woodblock prints of the Ipswich River by Arthur Wesley Dow; to the charming naive paintings by Marblehead ’s J.O.J. Frost.
Waterline Center
66 Main Street, Essex Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Admission $8 members, $10 nonmembers For more information call (978) 768-7541
www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org
The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group meets on
the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the
Major Fred W. Rito Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Avenue , Gloucester . They provide support to Cape Ann families and friends who have family and friends serving in the military.
On Thursday, July 7 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., members of the Cape Ann Family Support Group will be in the Café at Addison Gilbert Hospital, please stop by and visit their
informational table.
During the month of June, items will be collected for our military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan . Items that are needed include:
Energy bars,Hard candy,Gum, Granola Bars, Pretzels, Pringles, Cookies, Canned nuts
Powdered Drink Mixes, such as Gatorade, Lemonade,, Kool-Aid, Ice-Tea mix, etc.
Micro-wave popcorn,Beef Jerky
Items may be left at the main entrance of the Addison Gilbert Hospital during the month of June. These items will be provided to The Cape Ann Military Family Support Group who will be making up care packages to our local soldiers serving.
Thank you for your consideration to help!
Tina Ketchopulos
Check It Out-
When Laurie Lufkin was little, her folks would buy subs from the local deli, the family would all pile into a boat with drinks, a big pot, and a bag of steamers, and they’d head downriver to the vast white dunes of Crane Beach. Her father owned the marina here, and her grandparents lived across the Essex River. "We’d boil up the clams and eat them right there on the beach," she says.Now Laurie goes down to the beach with friends in her own little skiff, puttering along the river, past the marshlands and Hog Island, out almost to the open ocean. "I’m so lucky to live so close to one of the most gorgeous places on the planet," she says.
For the rest of the story click here
Congrats Laurie!
Joey,
With Memorial Day this weekend I thought I could pass along a little information on flying your American flag that people may or may not know.
On Memorial Day flags should be flown at half-staff until noon.
It should not be displayed at all during stormy or rainy weather, unless for some special reason and in NO case should it ever touch the ground. It should be raised with hearty briskness and when lowered, it should be done solemnly and slowly.
When the flag is displayed horizontally or vertically flat against a wall or similar place, the blue field must be at the left of a person facing it.
I have proudly sold American flags at the store for over 12 years and proudly carry ONLY American flags that are Made in USA!
Whenever purchasing an American flag I think that people do not realize that many of the flags that cost less are made overseas.
Please buy American and fly it with pride.
Our next important date for flying your American flag is Flag day which is June 14th.
Don’t forget to thank a Veteran this weekend.
Pauline Bresnahan
Pauline’s Gifts 512 Essex Ave.
Gloucester, MA 01930 www.paulinesgiftshop.com
The above is a link to the trailer for the Canadian Evasion TV cooking show “Bouffe en Cavale” or “Gourmet on the Go”. Note the harbor in the image. In past seasons Chef Vincent Chatigay and good humored co-host Norman Helms travelled throughout Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. This season they have “Grilled” their way around New England. They were in Gloucester last fall to visit the local Rum Distillery, Ryan & Wood, home of Folly Cove Rum. In the show Distiller Bob Ryan explains the process of making his Folly Cove Rum. They stayed and ate in Gloucester for several days. In return Vincent and Norman showed some of the various ways they utilize the Folly Cove as a culinary ingredient. GIGOT D’AGNEAU GRILLÉ AU RHUM ET AUX ABRICOTS, SAUTÉ DE LÉGUMES AU CARI ET AUX FRUITS MACÉRÉS, PUNCH AU RHUM, are dishes on the show which were assembled one beautiful morning on the docks of East Gloucester.
If you have friends or customers in Canada have them watch the show and give them another reason to come back to Gloucester!
Cheers,
Bob Ryan-Ryan & Wood, Inc.
Laura Writes-
Hi, Joey,Thank you! for the most fun and most unique interview of my life.My only regret is that I didn’t get to ask you any questions and so missed an opportunity to learn more about you.Many, many thanks for your support and your interest.All best, Laura
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laura Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and librettist. She teaches playwriting at MIT and lives in Gloucester, MA. ALICE BLISS, her first novel, grew out of Harrington’s one-woman musical Alice Unwrapped, which ran off-Broadway in New York and in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival in 2009.
http://lauraharringtonbooks.com
Set in upstate New York, ALICE BLISS is about a 15-year-old girl in 10th grade, named Alice Bliss. She is deeply connected to her dad who is serving in Iraq with his Reserve unit. It’s a transforming coming of age novel about a small town looking after its own in times of loss; the love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between Alice and her mother, Angie; and first love between Alice and the boy next door. It’s a universal story and yet touches upon something very personal: these characters’ struggles amid uncertain times echo our own, lending ALICE BLISS an immediacy and poignancy that are both relevant and real.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Cambridge, MA Harvard Bookstore / 7:00 pm June 8
Peabody, MA Barnes & Noble / 7:00 pm June 9
Newburyport, MA Jabberwocky Bookstore @ the Tannery / 7:00 pm June 10
Concord, MA Concord Bookshop / 3:00 pm June 12
Northampton, MA Broadside Bookshop / 7:00 pm June 14
Rockport, MA Toad Hall Books @ Rockport Library / 7:00 pm June 15
Boston, MA Boston Public Library / 6:00 pm July 12
Portland, ME Longfellow Books/ 7:00 pm
July 27
Peak’s Island, ME Friends of Peak’s Island Library/ 7:00 pm
July 28
Our Sarah kelley wrote-
Catch features the work of artist Nina Samoiloff, as she collects and collates the pieces she finds on the beaches of Rockport (documented on her blog, also called Catch) before creating sculptures and photographs of her finds. But the artist’s beach finds aren’t the usual gallery suspects, the carefully edited and crafted work involving natural driftwood, shells, or even beach glass. Catch features items of a different sort, all of them man-made — the artist even uses cut lumber, washed up on the beach, instead of naturally-occurring driftwood in her pieces. The show is a sobering and impressive collaboration between man and nature, truly an expression of the time we live in, for better or for worse. A time in which we make permanent stuff to use for a very temporary moment — like water bottles, for instance — before throwing this same stuff away, much of which ends up in the eternal ocean before rolling back onto the shore — and back into our lives.
My sculpture and my obsessive morning ritual of picking up of plastic on the beach (which I document and post on my blog Catch) are symbiotic, without the one the other would not exist. Both are discarded products of a consumer society, and both are a challenge to me as to how to present these items artfully to the viewer. The beach lumber sculptures are a combination of my industrial design education and my desire to recycle. Each piece of lumber speaks to me, it’s shape, texture, color or the nails protruding from it have the potential to become part of a bigger finished sculpture.
– Nina Samoiloff
Gloucester’s Working Waterfront Walking Tour
June 4 – starting 10 am at the Fishermen’s Memorial
(weather permitting)
Come join Schooner Adventure for a walking tour of the Gloucester working harbor, starting at the Fisherman’s Statue and ending at the Fitz Henry Lane Park. We will be looking at old photographs and maps, taking us back to the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Old companies and buildings will be identified at their original locations as we make our way down the Boulevard and Rogers St. Tour lasts about 90 minutes. $5 per person. For more info call Schooner Adventure – 978-281-8079 or email bwelin@schooner-adventure.org
Boy Scout Troop 112 Fundraiser to defray costs of equipment and Summer camp.
Free Car Wash
Saturday, May 28, 2011
East Gloucester Marina, East Main St., Gloucester
8am to 12pm
Via Judy Robinson Cox
SEE OUR ONLINE CALENDAR FOR MORE INFO
A newcomer to the Top 25 list, Gloucester is home to museums, galleries and the oldest working art colony in the U.S.
Excerpt from magazine:
"Art is vital to the lifeblood of Gloucester. There are many beautiful places with seashores and harbors but the combination of arts, culture, and industry are rarely so integrated and integral to the life of a city. It makes Gloucester a very unique place that celebrates art in a way that most cities can’t," says resident and AmericanStyle reader Barbara Silberman. Gloucester is home to a large population of artists, many of whom display their work in Rocky Neck Art Colony galleries and studios. You can visit the Rocky Neck Gallery or enjoy open studios and entertainment during Nights on the Neck, on the first Thursday of the month from June to October.
See full story
www.americanstyle.com/2011/05/top-25-small-cities-2/
Thanks to seARTS, Kristine Fisher and everyone that voted for making this happen.
Join Kathy Archer on Saturday May 28th from 6-8 pm for drinks, warm weather (hopefully) and friends. There will be plenty of new work on view in the gallery. Enjoy dinner afterwards at one of Rocky Neck’s many restaurants. Let’s get summer started!
Al Czerepak (1928-1986), Essex, carved and painted wood.
Private collection.
Water Marks: Shifting Elements, 2010, 48"x68"
oil on canvas mounted on board
Ocean currents, navigation routes, intersection of land, sea, and sky, and the imagining of what exists in the unspecified depths of water are all sources for the paintings and works on paper by Kathy Soles. They suggest the mystery of what exists below the surface, sometimes turbulent and at other times quietly serene. Learn more about Soles’ work at an introductory lecture on Monday, June 6, 7pm at the Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave.
Soles holds a B.A. from Emmanuel College in Boston and an M.F.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. She studied printmaking and painting at Maryland Institute College of Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions. A professor of painting and drawing at Emmanuel College, she lives and maintains a studio in Milton, Massachusetts.
You are invited to stop by at GSC to learn more about the Renovation Design Process! Share Your Observations with Epstein Joselin & GSC Personnel
(during the production of Living Together)
Also on May 28 at 2:00 pm, NSAA will feature local artist and historian,Mary Rhinelander McCarl, lecturing on the Early Art Colonies of Cape Ann: Magnolia, Annisquam, Pigeon Cove and Gloucester from the 1870’s-1890’s.
Victorian House by Jeff Weaver
North Shore Arts Association presents Solo Exhibitions by Featured Artists, Jeff Weaver, May 29 through June 12 and Jack Jones, May 29 through June 12 in the Gordon Grant Room.
In his early years in Gloucester, Jeff Weaver supported himself at various waterfront jobs, as well as by painting boat portrait commissions for fishing vessel captains and murals in commercial establishments and private homes. This eventually led to many years of commercial work including more than 30 murals painted in Gloucester. Returning to fine art pursuits in the 1990s, Jeff again focused on depicting Gloucester and its environs in various media. He currently operates a studio/gallery at 16 Rogers Street on the Gloucester waterfront. His exhibit at NSAA will feature his drawings, many of which are studies for later paintings.
Jack Jones, an accomplished watercolor and oil painter and teacher, is known for his lively use of color. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and studied with Paul Goodridge for eight years. Together with his photographer wife, Phyllis, he has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean to capture the beauty of the various countrysides. His work has appeared in five major books on watercolor as well as being featured on both the cover of The Artist’s Magazine and in the 2003 issue of the Watercolor Magazine.
The first of nine Summer Artist Series exhibitions kicks off the season at the Rocky Neck Gallery beginning Wednesday, June 8. Photogapher Michael Seif will show new photographs of his figures in water.
I photograph the figure in water to convey the beauty and grace of the human being in motion. In water, surface swirls and glinting sunlight are telltale signs of motion, revealing an active, living creature of nature. By photographing from above, I change the normal perspective, so figures appear to soar, fall, dance, weave in and out of each other’s paths. They become schools of fish, or falling angels, a corp de ballet, or a whole other organism comprised of multiple bodies.
Please come to the opening party of the Rocky Neck Gallery Artist’s co-operative on Saturday, June 11, 5-8pm, 53 Rocky Neck Ave. See work by new members, John Cameron, fine furniture and wood engravings; Deborah Geurtze, printmaking; David Piemonte, silver gelatin B&W photography; and Ruth Worall, pottery. Returning members will also be showing new work and contributing creative hors d’œuvres and beverages.
Explore your creative side in Photography and go beyond taking snap shots. Explore the creative use of shutter speed and aperture, dramatic black and white or toned images from start to finish, or lighting – from using available light (any light that is available) enhanced with reflectors to flash or simple studio lights.
Small groups – limited to 6 maximum.
Critique included. $150.00
www.judithmphotography.com
judith@judithmphotography.com
978 283-6856 studio
or 914 469-6983 mo
by Judith Monteferrante
Friday evening introduction, then all day Saturday and Sunday:
1. Creative Photography with Color and Motion: including creative use of shutter speed and aperture, panning, HDR, zoom-spin, etc. June 10-12
2. Creative Photography with B&W or Toned Imagery including post processing in LightRoom and Photoshop: July 8-10
3. Creative Photography with Simple Flash or Studio Lights to include Light Painting at Night: August 12-14
This workshop will incorporate a number of techniques Sigrid has developed to allow free and spontaneous use of color and print in order to express one’s personal life vision. The goal is to open up to possibility and leave each participant inspired to leave all preconceptions behind and get on with the business of highly creative living. The mood will be equally upbeat and introspective, technically instructional while reaching deeper to unleash inner imagination and self-expression. We will use a three part media: painting, print and collage. There will be a focus on color mixing, color theory and self expression through color utilizing permanent brilliant watercolor inks on paper. In combination with the watercolor under-painting, there will be a print component, employing hand-carved rubber print blocks. The workshop culminates in a collage using all the elements practiced over the past few days. The notion of inspiration will be explored through guided meditation, audio-visual presentation and open discussion.
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Wolf Hill doing the installation under the watchful eye of Aaron Bourke
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