Thank you Meredith Glaser and Plum Cove Grind for years of excellent food. What’s next for Lanesville center 1064 Washington Street Gloucester?
Author: Catherine
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(thumbnail portrait of Catherine at MFA, Boston © David Cox photo)
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Leigh Slingluff show at Lone Gull Coffeehouse until February 28th
Lone Gull Coffeeshop 146 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, stands out with local art. Two dynamite mini solo shows are currently on view:
One exhibit features 20 oil paintings, acrylic paintings and gouache drawings by fine artist, Leigh Slingluff. Slingluff works on Cape Ann and resides in Rockport. You may have seen her award-winning painting on exhibit during Cape Ann Plein Air or in the seArts Art Loan @Bass Rocks annual exhibit.
Paintings by William (‘Bill’) A. Travis are also on view www.watravis.com along the brick gallery wall.
Lone Gull maintains a sign up sheet for 2 featured art exhibits monthly. They have begun booking into 2018 (although scattered months with 1 wall may still be available)
Bob Stephenson’s painting is on permanent display.
Lone Gull gives space to various art books and an entry peppered with local current notices, too.
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Fish and bricks
Motif Monday: City Hall
Architecture as art and muse
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Ma Audubon’s Chris Leahy retirement party May 21
It’s not a surprise party, but it is limited in size. Invitations will go out in April. Mass Audubon is hosting a special retirement tribute for Chris Leahy in celebration of his remarkable career –45 years of “impact and success”. How nice to see a Gloucester naturalist treasure being recognized in the spring –(bird-a-thon season!)– at Joppa Flats Education Center, Parker River National Wildlife sanctuary. Folks and fans can also swarm cards and MA Audubon gifts as a great way to acknowledge this milestone. Chris’s astonishing powers of observation and communication skills can make anyone care about birds, nature, and place. Within a mere twenty seconds of conversation he can capture history and immediacy in such an affable and effortless manner. What an ambassador.
“If I said, ‘Are there more birds around in the summer or the winter?’ most people would say the summer, and that’s right. But not by much,” said tour leader Christopher Leahy of Gloucester, who holds the Gerard A. Bertrand chair of natural history and field ornithology at Mass Audubon. “Actually almost 50 percent of the 300 bird species that occur in Massachusetts occur here during the winter.”– Chris Leahy from Boston Globe article Thrills and Chills: Birders Brave the Cape Ann Cold and Find What They’re Looking For by Joel Brown, published February 5, 2009
Congratulations, Chris
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Gloucester seaside little free library
Artist Carol Kriekis hand painted Gloucester designs
Thanks to the Holiday Delights Youth Acting Program at Gloucester Stage, I had the lucky chance to spend some time with artist Carol Kriekis. I thought her home and studio were a perfect reflection of her warmth and style, elegant and layered like an Aesthetic Movement interior. Kriekis works in different media, mostly grounded in representation. I saw series inspired by nature and renderings of flowers.
Recently she’s transformed her classic ‘Glosta’ and other Gloucester designs into oval stickers, each with some hand flourish. The potential for art everywhere around us — stickers, hand painted– that had me thinking about aestheticism, too. 
Commission design for clients:
Photograph below shows some new branding design by Carol. There’s something coming this spring for Caffe Sicilia…No reveals, yet.
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Legion then Legion now including photograph printed by Fred Bodin and shared by Sarah Dunlap from the Gloucester Archives
Captain Lester S. Wass American Legion Post 3 8 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA
Gloucester’s Historical Commission and the Legion are working together to plan for the building’s restoration. Sarah Dunlap, City Archivist, shared a historic image that predates the vintage postcard.
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Sawyer Free at the back
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Broken Heart
by Dennis Flavin at Trident Gallery, 189 Main Street Gloucester
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goodlinens on Main Street Valentine’s Day
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Art and planning: save the dates creative Placemaking, Smart Cities, Sustainable cities, cultural districts, Smartgrowth
small sample of arts and planning save the dates:
February 15th, 2017:
Massachusetts Commonwealth Awards at the State House hosted by the MCC
February 23, 2017:
Placemaking workshop hosted by MA Smartgrowth and A Better City
MA Smartgrowth is hiring
Join our #SmartGrowth team and apply to our open position, Director of Local Leadership! More info here: http://ow.ly/bvwh307LgRG #mapoli
March 16, 2017:
Cultural districts regional convening (Beverly) MCC
March 21, 2017:
Northeast meeting will be March 21st, location and agenda is not posted yet. MassMoves “Help bring 21st century transportation to Massachusetts, part of Commonwealth conversations” https://malegislature.gov/cc
March 25, 2017
Mass Land Conservation Conference Worcester
Scaling Up: Meeting New Challenges
Convened by the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
May 3, 2017
worldwide conference comes to the US for the first time.
May 5, 2017 – third annual National Consortium for Creative Placemaking Leadership summit
May 18, 2017
MA Smartgrowth annual conference Worcester, MA. I want it to come to Gloucester Beauport Hotel next year. See Smartgrowth Amercia Dangerous by Design 2016 report for MA state ranking
June 20, 2017
Have ideas for Boston Mobility Summit hosted by Microsoft with the support of the Barr Foundation apply to attend there’s only 120 international mobility leaders to be selected
August 1, 2017
Deadline! The Massachusetts Office on Disability is holding a call for art through August 1 for a juried art exhibition with the theme of “Breaking Barriers.”
FEBRUARY 2018
Hey Gloucester — let’s come up with a list of possible projects needed in Gloucester and pick one that art and culture can help be part of and apply together for next year’s application! MA connections in the video: Javier was born and raised in Holliston. Art and Culture to strengthen social, economic fabric in communities. ArtPlace grants: For more information see the video NCPF Announcement 2017 from ArtPlace America on Vimeo.
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Motif Monday: Gloucester Oxbow
Happily resigning myself in each season as it passes to the beauty and nature of Gloucester. At low tide, this vista has me at Oxbow.
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Birds on bergs
Resting up on slow moving ice floats before the next winter storm
Water high before blizzard 2
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This week at the State House: February 15th MCC handing out state’s top annual Commonwealth awards to David Tebaldi Mass Humanities, Boston Foundation Paul Grogan, others…
Gloucester won one back in 2015.
Congratulations to the 2017 honorees: the Acton Discovery Museums; The City of New Bedford; Keith Lockhart Boston Pops; Jose Mateo Jose Mateo Ballet Theater; Springfield Scitech High School Band; Nancy Donahue cultural philanthropy Lowell; Paul Grogan Boston Foundation; David Tebaldi Mass Humanities; Greenfield Cultural Council; the Berkshire Daily Eagle; and the Mayor of Fitchburg.
The event is free and open to the public; details and registration information available online. 
Read more from the MCC press release: Continue reading “This week at the State House: February 15th MCC handing out state’s top annual Commonwealth awards to David Tebaldi Mass Humanities, Boston Foundation Paul Grogan, others…”
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Gloucester House Valentine’s Day Breakfast is a 4 decades tradition for Meals on Wheels
Gloucester booth looks great at the Boston Globe Travel Show: Discover Gloucester volunteers and a gorgeous photo on that cover
Booth 418 February 10-12 — Look forward to hearing their report
http://www.bostonglobetravelshow.com/
Kate Bibeau Cape Ann Museum and Steve Douglass Cape Ann Harbor Tours
John Orlando Harborview Inn and Elizabeth Carey Discover Gloucester (photos sent to GMG from the floor!)
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Orbitz gifs Edward Hopper in Motion
There are a lot of Hopper gifs out there and now Orbitz add 9 Edward Hopper in Motion. Fly into Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Des Moines, New York, Washington to see the real deal.
Automat, Des Moines Art Center, IA
Chop Suey, private collection
Hotel Window, Forbes Magazine collection
House by the Railroad Tracks, MoMa
Lighthouse Hill, Dallas Museum of Art
Morning Sun, Columbus Museum of Art
New York Movie, MoMa
Nighthawks, Art Institute of Chicago
People in the Sun, Smithsonian
http://americanart.si.edu/hopper/
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Snow marsh
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Storm: so it’s like this now
