Author: James Eves

July 31, 2022, 7:00 to 8:30

Westward Ho!  music about and from our West.

The best popcorn in Massachusetts is here!  Children are especially welcome.  Folding chairs and blankets are good. 

Bob Rick, Conductor and Music Director

Jeff Fioravanti Solo Show and Pastel Demonstration  

Jeff’s Solo Show is at the Beauport Hotel, 55 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 in the lobby
July 27 – August 2, 2022 

Pastel Demonstration: 
July 28, 2022, at 6:00 PM at
North Shore Arts Association, 11 Pirate’s Lane, Gloucester, MA 01930 

Cost: Open and free to the public
   

North Shore Arts Association and the Beauport Hotel have partnered to create solo art exhibitions for local artists in the lobby of the Beauport Hotel. Jeff Fioravanti’s solo show consisting of stunning seascapes and florals is on display July 27 – August 2, 2022. He has won numerous awards nationally and most recently won the Best Pastel Award at Newburyport art Association’s 2022 Regional Juried Show, and he was honored with the Advancement in Pastel Award in the Pastel Society of America International Juried Exhibit 2020. To see more of his work and his accomplishments please visit his website at: Fioravanti Fine Art. 

As part of Gloucester’s Culture Splash Jeff is giving a pastel demonstration at North Shore Arts Association on Thursday, July 28^th at 6:00 PM, and this is a fantastic opportunity to experience his artistic process and will give insight into his work. Come see him in action and enjoy wine and cheese for a full evening out. 

“Painting today, to preserve the past, for tomorrow!” – Jeff Fioravanti 

All are welcome! North Shore Arts Association is located at 11 Pirate’s Lane, Gloucester, MA 01930. For more information about events please call (978) 283-1857 or email arts@nsarts.org. Visiting hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM and Sundays 12 – 4 PM.   

July 24, 2022, 7:00 to 8:30

Music from the silver screen, great songs from the movies.

The best popcorn in Massachusetts is here!  Children are especially welcome.  Folding chairs and blankets are good. 

Bob Rick, Conductor and Music Director

“This program is supported in part by a grant from the Rockport Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency

Jude Abbe Oil Painting Demonstration

North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirate’s Lane, Gloucester, MA 01930

Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 6:00 PM
Open and free to the public

North Shore Arts Association is excited to collaborate with the Rocky Neck Cultural District Partners to celebrate art on Cape Ann every Thursday night in July and August for the Culture Splash between 4 – 8 PM. During Thursday’s extended hours come experience free artist demonstrations starting at 6 PM by extremely talented, well-known artists.  

We are thrilled to welcome NSAA’s local award-winning artist Jude Abbe, who is giving an oil painting demo this Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 6:00 PM. Jude is going to focus on how light plays a major role in still life painting by showing how light interacts with the subject. She hopes that her demo will inspire new and experienced artists alike to “look at things differently”.  

“There’s nothing better than seeing art being created live.” – Jude Abbe 

Jude is the recipient of the Charles Movalli Gold Medal and the Grumbacher Award of Distinction! She is an active member of the North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association & Museum, and the Lyme Art Association.  

North Shore Arts Association is located at 11 Pirate’s Lane, Gloucester, MA 01930. For more information about events please call (978) 283-1857 or email arts@nsarts.org. Visiting hours are Monday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM and Sundays 12 – 4 PM.  

Cape Ann Artisans Announce Summer Mini-Tour Participants

Visit Studios on the first day of MA Sales Tax Holiday

Cape Ann summers bring many visitors to Gloucester and Rockport and the Cape Ann Artisans are pleased to welcome everyone into their studios for a mid-summer event called the Mini-Tour.   For this special event on Saturday, August 13th, nine studios will be participating between the hours of 10AM and 5PM.

The tour is “self-guided” and visitors can start anywhere they wish.  However, planning is encouraged and the online map is a good guide to make the most of the day.  A special Mini-Tour rack card shows the participating studios.   The CAA encourages visitors to do some advance planning to maximize their visit by using the CAA map which is now available at all the tourism outlets and online.    You will find brochures at the Cape Ann Chamber, North of Boston CVB on 95 South, Stage Ft. Park Visitors Center, local banks, and CAA partner locations.  You can visit these studios on August 13^th and enjoy a Sales Tax holiday with retail items up to $2500.

Cape Ann Arts Alive! ~ Music & More

A one-week arts program for children age 6-13,
designed to foster appreciation for the history and culture of Cape Ann.

Mon.-Fri, August 22nd -26th , 2022  8:30am – 12:30 pm  
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 48 Middle St., Gloucester. 

Based at St. John’s Church, our activities will include songs, art and drama projects,
visits with local personalities and historic landmarks, including a Cape Ann Museum tour and workshop,
a Schooner Adventure harbor sail, sketching alongside the Fitzhenry Lane statue, and a final presentation at the church on Friday, 
all focused on the geographical, industrial, and cultural magnificence of Cape Ann. 

Instructors are Cape Ann musicians/educators – Kathleen Adams, Kristina Martin, Steve Lacey, Renée Dupuis.

In addition, CAAA 2022 participants have been invited to perform along with Daisy Nell of Essex, 

her original song –  “A Heartbeat from the Sea”, at the Maritime Museum in August and at the Schooner Festival on Labor Day weekend.

Tuition for the week is $100 per student, $75 for each additional child in the same household.  
Registration/payment information are obtainable at:  capeannartsalive@gmail.com, or Kristina Martin (978-509-4995).
Photos and further information are available at www.capeannartsalive.org,  or on facebook.

Windhover Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Saving Grace Dance Ensemble

“ARTFULNESS” dance concert showcases eight LOCAL professional and pre-professional dance companies

Rockport, MA – Robyn Goulette and Saving Grace Dance Ensemble will present the collaborative dance concert ARTFULNESS – An Evening of Inspiring Dance on Monday, July 25^th on the outdoor stage under a large tent at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, MA. The performance begins at 7:00pm and features classical and contemporary dance performed by eight local professional and pre-professional dance companies.

With a passion to collaborate and share the stage with other dance companies, Robyn Goulette, Artistic Director of New Hampshire-based Saving Grace Dance Ensemble, creates a strong program that is diverse and exciting with something for everyone! The program includes dance companies from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and guest artists originally based in New York City.

Saving Grace Dance Ensemble will present excerpts from modern dance pioneer José Limón’s classic work, There is a Time, made possible by arrangement with the José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc. under the direction of Kathryn Alter. The company will also perform Peace, choreographed by guest artist Jere Hunt and Robyn Goulette’s contemporary ballet entitled Being, as well as a student repertory workshop dance. 

Forty Steps Dance (Nahant, MA) will present The Flood. NSquared Dance (Manchester, NH/NYC) will debut a new work choreographed by Nick Neagle. Joining Artfulness for the first time, Onstage Dance Company (Malden/Boston, MA) will present a contemporary work choreographed by Erica Thorp. Southern New Hampshire Dance Theater (Bedford, NH) will showcase several classical and contemporary works by Douglas Davis, Sophia Hancock and Maille Zelco. Soloist Ava Girard (NH) will bring one of her original solos to the stage, and as part of the dance duo Veya, will present a shared work with Peyton Colegrove. Speaking in Taps (New England) under the direction of Aaron Tolson will bring a big smile to everyone’s face with their tap piece Sunday Best. 

Tickets are $34 for general and accessible admission and $24 for students, and are available at https://windhover.org/performances/. Performances happen rain or shine under the big tent on Windhover’s outdoor stage. Seating begins at 6:30 and audiences are welcome to bring refreshments of their choice and picnic on the grounds on Windhover’s picnic tables before that time. For more information about Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, please visit https://windhover.org/

About Saving Grace Dance Ensemble

Saving Grace Dance Ensemble was established as a non-profit corporation in the state of New Hampshire in August 2012. They are the host and producer of The New England Inspirational Dance Festival in southern New Hampshire held annually at The Amato Center for the Performing Arts in Milford, NH. Saving Grace Dance Ensemble’s mission is to present spiritually uplifting performing arts events and opportunities for dancers to be part of something special, keeping art alive and dancers dancing! www.robyngoulette.com

About Windhover

For more than 50 years. Windhover has served the community as a place to learn, perform, and share the beauty of dance and the related arts in a natural setting.

In 1967, modern dancer Ina Hahn and her husband Herb Hahn purchased the last farm in Pigeon Cove, a small village near Rockport, Massachusetts, and created Windhover. In less than a year, Herb Hahn converted the farm’s barn into a dance studio, the stable into a library, out-buildings into dormitories and the main house into a dining-kitchen complex. In 1968, Windhover opened as a performing arts camp for girls, drawing students from the US, Canada, and Mexico. New buildings included a chapel/theater, a second dance studio, and an outdoor stage.

In 1983 Windhover became a 501(c) (3) non-profit foundation that offered dance classes, teen dance intensives, residencies and performances in all of the performing arts to the Cape Ann Community and beyond. In 2016,  Lisa Hahn became Executive Director of Windhover and is ushering in a new era with more performances, classes and retreats than ever before, Windhover is reaching out to collaborate with other groups, hold spiritual retreats and meditative events, and host conversations of topics of interest to the community.Dance. Theater and Music remain the focus.

Lisa Hahn, Executive Director

Windhover Performing Arts Center

P.O. Box 2249

(257 rear Granite Street)

Rockport, MA. 01966

978-546-3611

www.windhover.org

RAA Member Artist Solo Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: June 25 -July 14

Summer Light is the solo art exhibition featuring oil paintings by artist Lully Schwartz.  Known for her vibrant colors and light in paint, nationally recognized and awarded artist, Schwartz brings sun filled work to Rockport Art Association & Museum’s, Pearson Gallery on 12 Main Street in Rockport.  Lully Schwartz: Summer Light  opens June 25 and remains on view through July 14, 2022.  Of her new paintings, Lully explains ‘I paint the color of light with all its complexities, moments of joy and natural beauty’. Bathed in summer light much of Schwartz’ art reimagines Cape Ann from a contemporary perspective.  Beach Bathers, bold flowers and brilliant sea and landscapes convey the artist’s love for summer moments found in Rockport and Beyond.

Lully Schwartz lives and works on the North Shore of Massachusetts. www.lullyschwartz.com

Rockport Art Association & Museum, 12 Main Street, Rockport MA

Hours: 10 AM-5PM, Sunday 12-5, closed Mondays. Call 978-546-6604

Join us for the grand opening of Gallery Number One, 1 Main Street, Rockport, on Saturday June 18th from 4:00-7:00. Gallery partners are Deb Schradieck, watercolor painter; Stephanie Mason, fish print maker, both from Rockport; and John Abisamra, landscape photographer from Gloucester. Also featured are jewelry, ceramics,  and silk scarves made by local artisans. 

Visit the websites of Gallery Number One partners: Deb Schradieck at www.DebsArtGallery.com. John Abisamra at windowoflight.weebly.com; and Stephanie Mason at FishPrintLady.com. 

Parking is metered on the street. Light refreshments will be served. Enjoy our gallery and all that downtown Rockport has to offer! 

Today 6 – 9 PM

The Emerson Inn

1 Cathedral Ave, Rockport

Cape Ann Makers Market (CAMM) excited to announce the first of its monthly summer Moonrise Markets, in partnership with the Emerson Inn, beginning Tuesday June 14th, at 1 Cathedral Avenue, Rockport from 6 pm to 9 pm.

The market event will feature over a dozen Cape Ann Artisans, Crafters & Makers offering nature and coastal inspired handmade art and crafts, including jewelry, metalsmithing, painting, photography, fiber arts, candles, hand harvested artisanal sea salts, natural body care and much more.

In addition, the historic Emerson Inn is offering a dinner buffet, bar service and live music to accompany while you shop and wait for the Moon to rise over their spectacular ocean front vista!

June 14th Vendor Include:
Apothecary Suil Crow
Ardizzoni Photography
Cape Ann Sea Salt Co.
Eleven Eleven Elixir
Gloucester Quilter
Hold Fast Company
Mini Lobster Traps
Rock Neck Aprons
Salters Point Provisions
Sew Nice
Stephanies’s Scents
Temple of Enora
And more

Explore the Unexpected

Exhibition Dates: June 16 to July 10, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 16, 5-7 PM

Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Ave., Gloucester, MA
Galleries open: Sunday-Monday, noon-5 PM; Thursday Through Saturday noon -7 PM

Explore the Unexpected

Explore the Unexpected is a curated group show presented by 18 members of The Rocky Neck Art Colony at the Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, in Gloucester MA. 

The show opens on Thursday, June 16 and runs until Sunday, July 10, 2022. Gallery hours are Sunday and Monday noon to 5 PM and Thursday through Saturday, noon to 7 PM. The Opening Reception takes place Thursday June 16 from 5 to 7. 

Explore the Unexpected includes work created Pat Alto, Jeanne Carey, Donna Caselden, Robin Colodzin, Pam Courtleigh, Terry Del Percio-Piemonte, Kristine Fisher, Cindy Journey, Nella Lush, Steve Lush, Kat Masella, Judy Robinson-Cox, Patty Ryding, Judy Schmid, Pam Stratton, Suzanne Ulrich, Lidija Vukovic and Karen Watson.

Each of these artists is also a member of The Experimental Group of The Rockport Art Association. This group embraces chance and experimentation, allowing the artist’s intuition and feelings to convey attitudes and emotions through nontraditional means. It is through practice and experimentation that artists encounter unforeseen and unexpected outcomes across varying media and range of personal experiences.  Founded by renowned artist and teacher, Nella Lush, The Experimental Group promotes and encourages self-expression by giving artists the opportunity to come together, explore and share ideas. Through its monthly meetings with art presentations, demos, and talks The Experimental Group offers connection, exploration, and sharing of ideas and methods with the intent to reach creative freedom and increases awareness in our communities that all art forms matter.

The Cove Gallery, run by the Rocky Neck Art Colony, is the former home and gallery space of beloved Rocky Neck artists Gordon and Judith Goetemann. Cove continues the tradition set by the Goetemanns of showing the best in local art. The space is made available to the organization through the generosity of Gordon and Judith’s son Mark Goetemann. 

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The Rocky Neck Art Colony, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. Long renowned for its luminous light, this harbor and coastal location has been a magnet for some of the most revered realist painters in US art. Edward Hopper and Emil Gruppe are examples. It has as well been a catalyst for the progressive ideas of Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Theresa Bernstein, Milton Avery and Nell Blaine, among others. Today, Rocky Neck continues to attract artists and art lovers to a thriving, creative community. www.rockyneckartcolony.org. Telephone: 978-515-7004.

Opening Reception on Saturday June 11th from 3-6pm. Artists working in Gloucester, and more broadly on Cape Ann, have a unique vision of the promontory. What is their feel for our place along the sea? And how do they wish to present it to us, the viewers of their thoughts? Each exploration of light, land, sky, stone, architecture, industry, and countless other features is singular. There is communication between artist and place; and we sense, we hear, those conversations in their art. Participating artists include: Coco Berkman . Ann Conneman . Celia Eldridge . Paige Farrell . Erin Luman . Jeffrey Marshall . Adin Murray . James Paradis . Michael Porter . Christopher Pullman . Esther Pullman . Beverly Ripple . Caleb Hershey Rulli . Juni Van Dyke.  Gallery hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm; Sunday 1-4pm; and by appointment @ 917-902-4359 . 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester. janedeeringgallery.com 

Starting Sunday, June 5^th, our first residential dance company, Continuum, arrived to stay in the cabins at Windhover for the next 8 days. This culminates in three informal performances next weekend: June 10^th, June 11^th and June 12^th from 6:00-7:00pm. Many other performance, classes, workshops and events take place in the month of June on the Windhover campus, along with an invitation for a celebration on Tuesday, June 7^th. 

Windhover extends the invitation to all of you to join us on Tuesday, June 7th from 2:00 to 3:00pm for a Greater Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting to celebrate the brand new Windhover permanent tent inaugurating the 2022 season! Senator Bruce Tarr will kick off this celebratory event with prosecco and a toast to the 2022 Summer Season. Friends and guests will be there to share the informal ceremony.  All are welcome and no rsvp is required.

Tickets are on sale now for these exciting June performances:

New York City-based ballet company, Continuum Contemporary /Ballet, will perform three shows on June 10, June 11, and June 13 all from6:00pm-7:00pm, featuring works-in-progress of choreography that merges classical pointe technique and modern dance elements with a contemporary flair. A Q&A session will follow the performance. Tickets are $22.00 and are available on the website: www.windhover.org

 PLUS:

Live! Humor for Humanity”, includes an add-on which is a fundraiser for Ukrainian refugees. Tickets cost $34.00 and the student rate is $24.00. If you add a $20.00 donation ticket to your ticket order, you can join Jimmy after the show for a reception in Windhover’s chapel and know that the money will go to Ukrainian refugees.

THE QUEEN OF NÖRI, on Sunday, June 26th at 6:00pm, is an original story ballet that follows a Queen who turns to dark magic to save her kingdom from war with neighboring powers. THE QUEEN OF NÖRI takes ballet into the 21st century by way of GAME OF THRONES and explores magic, parenthood, and what happens when people in positions of power are put to the ultimate test.

Visit Windhover.org to see the full line up of 2022 performances, classes, workshops and retreats. 

Upcoming Special Event: 
Please mark your calendars:

Windhover’s Benefit Gala Tuesday, August 16th at 6:00pm.  Tickets cost $85.00 and include dinner and live dance entertainment.

Spending time at Windhover in the summer is a Cape Ann tradition. Please make room in your calendars for Windhover’s Benefit Gala on Tuesday, August 16th at 6:00pm, which will include a dance performance by Cornfield Dance and a celebration of the performing arts on Cape Ann, along with culinary delights from Willow Rest, our local cherished market and restaurant.  

Ongoing Match: ​​
$25K Matching Grant is Still Open

Windhover is still accepting donations to meet the $25,000 Matching Grant for its restroom transformation, expansion, and handicap accessibility. Can you kindly provide financial support for this important project? The deadline for gifts, in any amount, is June 30th, 2022. Thank you for your donation! Please Make A Donation Today

Summer Job Opportunities

Windhover is looking for two Production Crew members and a Box Office Manager. This is a perfect place to spend your summer! 

Windhover thanks you for your participation in fostering the arts and supporting an entire summer of performances, classes, residencies and workshops at Windhover.

Warm wishes,

Lisa

Saturday May 28th 9am to 4pm
Castaways Vintage Cafe, 65 Main st., Gloucester, MA

Castaways Vintage Cafe Market is supporting local crafters, makers and vendors by having weekend markets – the first one is tomorrow – come check it out!

Vendors:
Cape Ann Sea Salt Co. – delicious locally made solar finishing salt 
Pat D’s Photos and Adventures – awesome photo gifts 
Temple of Enora – beautiful handmade jewelry 
Zoe Bee Designs 

Music – Matt Rich 

Extra incentive:
Free T-shirts (while supplies last) with the purchase of an açaí bowl

Hope to see you there!

Gordon Massman Studio, 31 Pooles Lane, Rockport, MA 01966

Abstract artist Gordon Massman, in conjunction with Cape Ann Cosmos Media, will host an OPEN STUDIO event in the artist’s 2500 square foot industrial studio warehouse, on June 11, 4:00-7:00pm, at 31 Pooles Lane, Rockport MA. FREE and open to the public. 

Mr. Massman paints large-scale emotional depth charges, taking the viewer on magnificent journeys into the soul. The artist’s statement:

“I paint the unstructured indeterminate character of feeling, irrespective of logic and reason. I reach deep inside the complex nature of urges, desires, wishes, and motivations of the blazing human psyche. In the end, for me, there is only the tube of paint, the canvas, and the sum total of my life. I am blessedly untrained and, therefore, have no guardrails or painterly traditions to restrict my creativity.”

The Matthew Swift Gallery in Gloucester represents Gordon Massman’s work. In addition, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, represents eight of his “museum quality” paintings through its corporate lending program.

Before Mr. Massman embraced painting full time, The New York Quarterly Press published seven volumes of Gordon’s poetry. In 2013, his four-hundred-page volume of collected poems was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize. 

Mr. Massman holds an MFA in creative writing from The University of Alaska. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas-Austin in 1972. 

The June 11 Open Studio event will be Gordon Massman’s first unveiling of his work to the public. Attendees should be astounded, moved, and inspired by this vibrant, large-scale production of a uniquely creative outburst of expression. Gordon continues the legendary Rockport art tradition but moves into a new dimension and an unparalleled scale of painting. 

Food, libations, and music will enhance a wonderful experience for all.

Rockport Art Association & Museum is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Lully Schwartz. The exhibition will open 25 June and remain on view through 14 July 2022. 

Exploring a range of subject matter, Lully Schwartz creates oil paintings that capture the light of summer with a spectacular range of colors.  Rich strokes of paint combine abstract qualities with realism to form Lully’s signature style of art.  Beach bathers, bold flowers and brilliant ocean surfaces seem to convey the artist’s love for sun-soaked moments found in Rockport and beyond.   “I paint the color of light with all its complexities, moments of joy, pain and beauty” explains Lully of her recent paintings.  This exhibition offers the audience visual art that reimagines Cape Ann from a contemporary perspective.      

LULLY SCHWARTZ (b. in Beverly, MA) graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1983 and today paints and teaches from her studio known as the North Shore Atelier.

Numerous past solo exhibitions include ‘Paris Work”, French Cultural Center, Boston; “Mid-career Retrospective” Gateway Gallery, Portsmouth, NH; and “Smith Cove Paintings”, Gloucester, MA. 

Group Exhibitions include Christie Street Gallery, NYC; Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA; Prince Street Gallery, NYC; Mill Pond Gallery, Long Island, NY; JL Newbury St. Gallery, Boston; Cornell Museum of American Art & Culture, West Palm Beach FL; New York Public Library, NYC and more.

Lully Schwartz lives and works on the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Rockport Art Association & Museum, 12 Main Street, Rockport MA

Hours: 10 AM-5PM, Sunday 12-5, closed Mondays. Call 978-546-6604