Hopper’s Houses
A Guided Walking Tour

Get your art fix outside.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present a guided walking tour of select Gloucester houses made famous by American realist painter Edward Hopper on Friday, July 1 at 10:00 a.m. Tours last about 1 1/2 hours and are held rain or shine. Participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. Cost is $10 for Cape Ann Museum members; $20 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited and reservations are required. Email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10 for more information or to reserve a space. This tour will be offered again on July 23, July 30, August 12 and August 27.

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.

The Trident Gallery presents

Pamela Ellis Hawkes
ARCHIVES AND ARTIFACTS

Reception: Saturday, July 9, 6-8pm
Show Dates: July 2-31

2016; photograph

2014; photograph

2015; photograph

Three new series of photographs by Pamela Ellis Hawkes continue the artist’s sensuous and provocative exploration of the the history of art and the meanings of images in societies past and present. With a playful spirit, a sense of humor, and an unwavering eye for seductively mysterious beauty, she raises deep questions about the natures and interrelationships of visual representation, memory, value, possession, and pleasure. In the circus mirror of her art, we mistake the banal for the sublime, and the sublime is exposed as an imposter. Emerging from the funhouse, we find our pockets have been picked of some prejudgments, exchanged for the gift of seeing more authentically.

Trident Gallery
189 Main Street | Gloucester | Massachusetts
978-491-7785 | Trident.Gallery

Coco Berkman Selected as the
Third Summer Artist at
Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck

Reception: Saturday, July 2, 6 to 8 pm
Show Dates: June 29 – July 19, 2016

Long time Gloucester resident Coco Berkman was selected as the third Summer Artist in the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Summer Artist Series at Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck. Her show opens on Wednesday, June 29 and continues until July 19, with the opening reception on Saturday, July 2, from 6-8 pm. The public is invited.

Inspired by literature, the natural world and the free play inherent in drawing, artist printmaker Coco Berkman creates images that delight her and hopefully others through the process of linoleum printmaking.

Berkan uses sharp Japanese tools to carve fine lines into soft surfaces, or draw scratchy lines into sheets of copper, zinc and plexiglass. She rolls thick sticky, messy ink onto these etched surfaces with a tool called a brayer and prints
those inked images onto clean crisp beautiful sheets of handmade papers with the help of a hand cranked Etching Press.

“This is my passion” says Berkman. “I am very grateful that I am able to indulge in this most serious and important work of PLAY.”

Berkman studied at Massachusetts College of Art, Monserrat College of Art, Museum School Boston, Frogman Press University of South Dakota, and the Art Students League in New York City and has taken workshops in San Francisco and Dublin,Ireland. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in Cape Ann and the North Shore and has received many awards and grants. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury MA; Gloucester Writer’s Center; Common Crow, Gloucester; Dublin Writer’s Museum, Ireland; Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City; and the Haruki Murakami Writer, Tokyo, Japan.

For more information about the show, please call Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck at 198-282-0917

Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck
53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930
Gallery hours, Daily, 10:00-6:00 pm, ‘till 8pm Fridays and Saturdays

Public Sculpture Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum
Get your art fix outside.

 The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its Public Sculpture summer walking tour, Saturday, July 2, focusing on the public sculpture we see around us every day. Participants will learn about art, history and culture all while enjoying the beautiful summer breeze afforded by Gloucester’s harbor.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Public Sculpture –July 2, July 9, August 13

Get up-close and personal with the sculptures you drive by every day. From works commemorating those who went to sea, to those who fought in war to those who changed the artistic landscape of Cape Ann forever—this walking tour will uncover the stories behind the public sculptures of Gloucester, including the unique processes of the artists who created them.

Music in the Courtyard at the
Cape Ann Museum

An afternoon with
Rockport High School musicians

  The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present cellist, Jace Mason and violinist, Clara Mazo on Friday, June 24 from 4:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. as part of the Museum’s Music in the Courtyard summer concert series.  This program is free and open to the public. For more information please call (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

Jace Mason is going into tenth grade at Rockport High School. He is an accomplished student cellist who has studied the instrument for six years, has just completed his second year in New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Program, and is a former member of Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras. He has also studied at Berklee College of Music’s Global String Intensive and at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Mike Block. He enjoys playing jazz, contemporary, and fiddle music in addition to classical. He also studies guitar, piano, and voice in addition to the cello.

Clara Mazo is entering her tenth grade at Rockport High School. She has been playing violin for 12 years and has been taking private lessons at New England Conservatory for 3 years with Mark Lachirovich. She has played in the Massachusetts Northeastern District Orchestra since 7th grade and made the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra this year, performing at Boston Symphony Hall in March. Clara has also played the trumpet for 5 years, performing with Rockport High School’s top jazz ensemble in addition to the school orchestra on violin. Clara has also played at local weddings in Gloucester and in Rockport.

This program is free and open to the public.

Interested in supporting the Museum through membership? Join now and get free admission to the Museum and discounted tickets to all of our events!

*In the event of inclement weather the concert will be moved inside the Museum.

Gina Loves Gary and other
new works by Brian Murphy

Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Goetemann Artist Residency Studio
51A Rocky Neck Avenue Street, Gloucester, MA  01930

Friday, June 24 from 4 to 9 pm and
Saturday, June 25, 2016 from noon to 8 pm

Former Gallery 53 Summer Artist, Brian Murphy is showing a new collection of his whimsical wire sculpture on Friday and Saturday June 24-25 at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio. (51A Rocky Neck Ave. between the Studio Restaurant and Gallery 53).  Brian is hosting public reception on both evenings from 5 to 8pm.

For more information contact Brian Murphy at
857-334-4323
or murphycares@gmail.com.

Bird Mancini and T Max return to help raise money for the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck by performing an entire night of wonderful songs made famous by The Beatles. Within the hits and their personal favorites, expect a lot of three-part harmony, familiar riffs, and the unforgettable melodies that have lived in our hearts and minds since The Beatles 1964 invasion. Tickets available in advance at www.rockyneckartcolony.org – programs – music.

BIRD MANCINI

Boston’s Bird Mancini is a cosmopolitan fusion of blues-tinged rock, Latin-flavored bossa nova, country-folk balladry, and woolly psychedelia, with lush vocals, guitar, accordion, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles. In recent years they’ve toured the West Coast and performed for the International Pop Overthrow Festival in Boston, NYC, and The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.

Critically acclaimed and ASCAP/Boston Music Award nominees, Bird Mancini were twice named among the Top 10 Year’s Best by Metronome Magazine.  They’ve opened for Leon Russell, David Crosby, Joan Osborne, Gregg Allman, Jonathan Edwards, The Stompers, The Outlaws and others.

The duo features Ruby Bird-vocals, accordion, melodica, harmonica, percussion; Billy Carl Mancini-vocals and guitar.

www.birdmancini.com

T MAX

New England-based, T Max is a man of many hats (literally and figuratively).  He’s the singer/ songwriter/ storyteller who has run The Noise (New England’s longest running music magazine) for 34 years. He also founded Boston Rock Opera (produced and acted in Jesus Christ Supertar), wrote two folk-rock operas, released nine solo albums, produced Boston Rock ‘n’ Roll Trading Cards, was the music director for Project Eno (a tribute to Brian Eno), lectured on marketing music media at Emerson College, was a fine artist in wood, is an art photographer, graphic artists, and to show that he’s not just interested in fields of art, he placed 4th in the US Open in 1988 (playing chess). New England music legend Willie “Loco” Alexander says, “T Max is a man from another century, like Ben Franklin or Ian Whitcomb, a man of a thousand voices (and hats). His music runs the gamut of standards to scat—creating songs from the lost jukeboxes of time.  Amen.”

www.gimmesund.com/tmax

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION,
EXHIBITIONS, RECEPTIONS, AND LECTURE.

“New Members” Exhibition and “Artist Members” Exhibition II plus “Art of the Sea and Science” Exhibition and Silent Auction:  ALL June 17 – July 30th.  Receptions for all three Exhibitions on Sunday, June 26th, 2-4 PM.  Open Free to the Public.

            Lecture, “Why Whales”, same date as Receptions, June 26th from 12:30-1:30PM, given by Ian Kerr CEO of Ocean Alliance in conjunction with “Art of the Sea and Science” Paint Factory Painted Slate Show and Silent Auction.

The Gloucester Arts and Cultural Initiative (ACI) is excited to announce the receipt of a $5,000 lead gift to its Campaign for the Arts.  An anonymous donor will match the next $5,000 in contributions to ACI dollar for dollar.  ACI seeks donors to help meet this donor’s challenge and double the power of their gift by giving today.  All gifts will help meet the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) Adams Grant minimum fundraising requirement of $16,800 by June 30, 2016.

ACI  invites people who live and work in Gloucester to take the lead in building Gloucester’s communities through arts and culture by supporting the Campaign for the Arts.  To make a tax deductible donation, please press the donate button on our Facebook Page, @GloucesterArtsAndCulture,  or send a check made payable to our Fiscal Agent “Rocky Neck Art Colony/ACI” to Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative, 6 Wonson St, Gloucester, MA 01930.

The Gloucester Arts and Cultural Initiative was founded in 2015 by Rocky Neck Art Colony, seARTS and ArtsGloucester to address ongoing needs in arts and culture identified in Gloucester’s 2001 Community Development Plan.  Today, backed by more than fifty collaborators and a $45,500 two-year Adams Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), the Gloucester Arts and Cultural Initiative is a unique opportunity to leverage these resources and the mandate to reach the goal set in the 2001 Plan.  The mission of ACI is to support the City’s arts and cultural heritage sector and to strengthen and promote the cultural vitality of the City’s waterfront and neighborhoods.

Background

The Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative (ACI), an exciting opportunity to build community through arts and culture. Dedicated to sustaining Gloucester’s rich heritage of cultural traditions and artistic accomplishments, ACI aims to broaden awareness, participation, and enjoyment of arts and culture for everyone who lives or works in Gloucester. Together, we will rejuvenate of our sense of place and foster diverse creative expression within our city. The need for such an Initiative has been recognized for over 15 years, and today Gloucester is well positioned to act on that need.

In 2001, Gloucester’s Community Development Plan set a goal “to support Gloucester’s arts and cultural community as a cultural and economic resource by integrating the arts and culture into the life of the community, downtown, and in villages and neighborhoods.” It went on to identify areas for action and specific goals, and it recommended that a municipal arts organization take the lead in moving Gloucester towards them. Three new arts groups responded, and they have achieved crucial results, but fifteen years later, no group has been established with the authority and resources needed to fulfill the highest and most far-reaching goal of broad integration of Gloucester’s communities, artists, businesses, organizations, and government through support of arts and culture. Our research confirms that this goal remains as important as ever to our community.

Today, backed by more than fifty collaborators and a $45,500 two-year Adams Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), the Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative has a unique opportunity to fulfill the mandate of the 2001 Community Development Plan.

ACI will celebrate Gloucester’s strong cultural heritage and use it as a bridge to a future that recognizes the creative expression all around us and the value it brings to our lives, our community, and our world. As Gloucester’s umbrella arts and culture organization, ACI will work with the broader community in three principal roles:

1. Catalyst

ACI will serve as a catalyst for projects and collaborations that address unmet needs and pursue opportunities for creative expression.

In this role, ACI hosted four Ward Forums in April 2016 in which over 70 participants identified development of studio and performance space as a top area of need. Participants also expressed hopes for expanding the range of Gloucester citizens who experience, appreciate, understand, make, perform, and participate in arts and culture. ACI will host future forums to explore ways for groups to work together to address identified needs efficiently, uncovering synergies and overlapping goals to strengthen groups and address gaps in support for the full range of our community.

2. Manager

ACI will manage arts and culture initiatives to address identified needs.

In this role, ACI will partner with local businesses, arts groups, and elected officials to identify underutilized spaces and create zoning overlays to provide needed visual and performance studio spaces, with an aim to cluster artists together to promote creative collaborations, innovations, and economies of scale.

3. Clearinghouse

ACI will act as a clearinghouse for information about resources of interest to local organizations and artists.

In this role, ACI will gather and disseminate information about grants, business courses for artists, marketing partners, municipal contacts, and more. By serving as the Gloucester’s central point of contact for artists, cultural organizations, event organizers, and creative businesses, ACI will foster connections, collaborations, synergy, and innovative ideas that enrich our lives and community.

To complete the establishment of a successful program, the Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative needs to do two things: build awareness of the Initiative, and raise $16,800 in matching funds required by the MCC Adams Grant. Our Campaign for the Arts aims both to open the door to continued significant support for Gloucester from the state of Massachusetts and to begin to assume an umbrella role by building broad public awareness and support. We are currently seeking generous lead donors to help fuel a campaign to educate the community and gain support for the Initiative.

Campaign for the Arts

1 x $15,000 one donor — accomplished as MATCH (anonymous donor)

2 x $12,500 two donors

5 x $11,000 five donors

5 x $11,800 multiple donors

Total 5 x $16,800 matching funds required by MCC grant

ACI invites friends of Gloucester to take the lead in building Gloucester’s communities through arts and culture by supporting the Campaign for the Arts. Should you care to make a tax deductible donation, please press the donate button on our Facebook Page, @GloucesterArtsAndCulture, or send a check made payable to our fiscal agent “Rocky Neck Art Colony/ACI” to Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative, 6 Wonson St, Gloucester MA 01930. Thank you for supporting and being part of Gloucester!

Project Manager

Martha Wood

Program Partners

Rocky Neck Art Colony

seARTS

ArtsGloucester

Steering Committee

Henry Allen

Jo-Ann Castano

James Caviston

Jo-Anne Crawford

Tom Daniel

Robert Haverkamp

Judith Hoglander

Suzanne Gilbert Lee

Brenda Malloy

Valerie Nelson

Martin Ray

Matthew Swift

CONTACTS:

Martha Wood

Project Manager

Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative

Martha@GloucesterArtsAndCulture.org

(978) 857-6731

Matthew Swift

Steering Committee

Gloucester Arts and Culture Initiative

Matthew@Trident.Gallery

(978) 491-7785

Rockport’s newest Contemporary Art gallery is welcoming the Summer season with an exhibit of creatively reimagined Contemporary seascapes.  The exhibit will feature work by Nationally recognized local and regional artists including physicist-turned-artist Dr. Regina Valluzzi, former Czech spymaster Lawrence Martin-Bittman, and Rockport and Gloucester native Kathleen Miller.

Waves of Inspiration

What: Contemporary Seascapes at G19 Gallery, featuring the work of gallery artist Dr. Regina Valluzzi and local artists Kathleen Miller and Lawrence Bittman

Where: G19 gallery, 19 Broadway, Rockport, MA 01966

When: June 7 – July 1;   Gala Reception:  Saturday, June 25, 4pm – 7 pm

Contact:  Cynthia Belchou (978) 290-1411   artfulartisans@gmail.com
Gallerist Cynthia Belchou, owner and Art Director of G19 Gallery in Rockport, MA has curated an exciting exhibit of seascapes by artists with a connection to Cape Ann.  The seascape subjects in the exhibit acknowledge Rockport’s long history and storied tradition of creative art and artists.  The artists’ creative use of color, form and media infuse the exhibit with a fresh, exciting and thoroughly modern contemporary flair.

“Ribbons of Water” by Regina Valluzzi

“Rhapsody on the Sea” by Regina Valluzzi

an untitled seascape in oil by Kathleen Miller

“Tranquil Moment” in oil and sand by Kathleen Miller

“The European Tourists” by Lawrence Martin-Bittman

The sea and shore have always inspired artists.  In Contemporary Art, seascapes lend themselves to abstraction and to modern styles.  The simplicity of seascape compositions both invite and require an artist’s creativity to bring motion, interest, a story, or a meditation into each scene.  The artists in “Waves of Inspiration” approach the Sea in unique and personal ways.  Each artist brings a different and fascinating insight into the subject of “Sea”.

Featured artist Dr. Regina Valluzzi is an Arlington, MA resident with strong ties to Rockport’s artistic community.    Her frequent visits to Rockport, MA allow her to appreciate the area’s unique seacoast, skies, natural habitats and beauty with fresh eyes on each excursion.  Valluzzi was trained and worked as a research scientist for over a decade before switching to art 5 years ago.  Her history as a Materials Science innovator informs her approach to painting.  Valluzzi uses the unique properties of acrylic paint and media to create dazzling scenes.  Transparent patterned layers of acrylic modulate sparkling metal and dimensional patterns of glimmering mica, while tiny glass spheres focus and reflect light.  Valluzzi sees seascapes as a unique challenge for painting.  How can a painter capture something that is always in motion?  How can paint capture a scene whose essence is dancing patterns of light?  By using the transparent properties of acrylic with light manipulating media, her work brings the light and movement of the sea into her mixed media paintings.

Featured artist Kathleen Miller is local to Cape Ann.  She grew up in Gloucester and currently lives and works in Rockport, MA.   Her sensitive approach to her medium and her subjects has created a strong regional following for her work.  In her abstracted seascapes light and color are fractured and abstracted into juicy chunks of clear color.  Her style could be described as a modernized re-imagined pointillism.  Many of her paintings use sand and other natural local materials to create subtle variations in texture and granularity.  The play of patterns created through her confident brushwork and finely detailed textures lead the viewer to imagine scintillating patterns of water, sand and sky.   Kathleen Miller’s seascapes often feature people enjoying the scene.  The human element blends perfectly with her nuanced and textured use of oil painting media.

Another featured artist on exhibit is Lawrence Martin-Bittman.  An ex-spy from the former Czechoslovakia, he fled to the West and defected to the USA during the Cold War.  After a successful career as a Journalism professor at Boston university, Larry Bittman (Larry the Spy) relocated to Gloucester, where he maintains a studio space and a small gallery.  Larry is an avid fisherman with a special relationship to the sea.  His works are a clever and sophisticated mix of influences.  One can see the threads of both the Folk art and Fine art of his Czech heritage running through complex pieces that draw from his deep knowledge of Art.  His pieces are often clever and humorous and are infused with allusions to a secret narrative.  looking at his work, one can glimpse entire mythologies he has created, capturing his special relationship with the Sea.

Cape Ann is known for beautiful scenic coasts and charming towns full of character.  The beauty of the area and independent Yankee spirit has nurtured generations of artists and spawned a number of notable Art Colonies and Schools of Artistic expression.  Rockport, MA has been home to The Rockport School of painting, and to generations of creatives working and exhibiting in the Rockport Art Colony.  Contemporary Art is flourishing in Rockport, continuing a storied tradition with renewed vibrancy.

G19 Gallery:         https://www.facebook.com/G19-Artisans-346696715526515/
Regina Valluzzi:   http://DreamingLines.com
Kathleen Miller:   https://www.facebook.com/kmillergallery/
Lawrence Bittman:     http://www.studio006andahalf.com/

At the end of the parking lot on the right, just after you turn onto Rock Neck Avenue to go onto Rocky Neck, there’s a blue and white information sign that’s been there in some form for many years.  We’ve created an upgrade, it is beautiful!

The new sign is being installed this Friday, June 17^th, in the morning.  There’s going to be a Gloucester Times photo op at 11 a.m. and all are welcomed.  Then there’s also going to be an “unveiling” ceremony on Thursday, June 23^rd, at 5:30 p.m., and Herhonah The Mayor will be there for that little ceremony.

The new “wayfinding” map was designed by a committee of dedicated RNAC artists, and it shows the locations of places of business on the Neck, including 20 Artist Galleries, representing over 50 artists.  (We thought about also showing all the artists who live and work on the Neck but don’t maintain galleries, but there were so many that it was impractical.)  Rock Beaudin of White Light Design, in Beverly, did an amazing job of translating the many ideas the artists had into an integrated, clear, and effective design which will help tourists understand and enjoy Rocky Neck.

The framing and installation of the sign is going to be 100% professional and absolutely beautiful, thanks to the generosity of Frank Biscardi, Gloucester Resident, support of the arts, and owner of Boston Fence Company.  The carpentry of the frame is amazing, done by Rocky Neck resident, violinist, artist, and Master Carpenter Jimmy Lounsberry.  It’s beautiful, it’s strong, and it’s gonna last us many, many years!

Everybody’d invited to both events!

Artist Demonstrations
at Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck

Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck is sponsoring a series of artist demonstrations for the 2016 season.

On Saturday, June 18th Katherine Bagley shows silversmithing techniques.

Several galleries across the country have displayed and sold Katherine’s work. She has been a member of Gallery 53 for 4 years.

On Saturday, June 25 printmaking artist Mary Rhinelander will demonstrate linoleum block carving and will let visitors try their hand at making a print to take home with them.

For more information about the show, please call
Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck at 198-282-0917

Q&A WITH THREE ARTISTS
at Cultural Center on Rocky Neck

Sunday, June 19, 2:00 PM

Kathleen Gerdon Archer, Michele Fandel Bonner and Conny Goelz-Schmitt talk about the work in the exhibition, Time Matters: Three Explorations on view through July 4 at the Cultural Center. These aesthetically allied artists recognized that their work, while employing different mediums, shared a  fascination with the impact of time on the physical nature of objects, and the evolution of lives and cultures. Learn more about their work and approach.

The public is invited: Free

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA

Stephen LaPierre, Key West oil painter
joins Rocky Neck Art Colony for 2016 Season

Stephen LaPierre, the Key West oil painter, has relocated to Rocky Neck this summer. Known for his startling plein air nightscapes and dayscapes, capturing Newburyport to Cape Ann, Vegas to Key West, and Havana to Oslo, LaPierre is also spending studio time this season expanding his epic clowns-with-cellphones series.

Stephen LaPierre plein air painter at work in Key West

Gloucester Harbor: Stephen LaPierre, 15” x 12” oil on canvas

LaPierre’s studio, filled with over two hundred original pieces, offering a twenty five year retrospective, is located along Madfish Alley, 77 Rocky Neck Avenue, in Gloucester; open Thursday through Sunday from noon until dark, or by appointment.

LaPierre is represented by Manchester resident, Susan Wadia-Ells. For more information: susan.we@comcast.net or info@stephenlapierre.com or 978 578 1546.

Historic Middle Street Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum

History and Culture while you walk.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its Historic Middle Street walking tour on Friday, June 17^th. Middle Street represents an ever-evolving neighborhood packed with four centuries of social, economic, and architectural history.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!

Did you know that a resident of Middle Street, Gloucester, saved the town from a British attack by sea during the Revolution? Or that a leading feminist and religious free thinker lived halfway down Middle Street? Or that the 1764 Saunders House that forms part of the Sawyer Free Library has undergone at least three radical architectural changes including a massive Victorian tower? Four centuries of Gloucester’s social, economic, and architectural history are packed into this one short street in the heart of downtown Gloucester. Join us for a docent-led tour of an ever-evolving neighborhood where you will see surviving evidence of the past and will learn about structures and people now gone.

Fitz Henry Lane Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum

Get your art fix outside.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its new and improved Fitz Henry Lane walking tour, Fitz Henry Lane: On Foot and Online, on Saturday, June 18.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!

Experience 19th century Gloucester history as this tour leads you through the neighborhoods and waterfront that inspired the artwork of native son Fitz Henry Lane. Learn how Lane rose from modest beginnings in the pre-civil war era to worldwide recognition as a marine painter and why, even today, numerous artists journey to Cape Ann to capture its unusual light, first immortalized by Lane.

Participants are encouraged to bring smart phones or tablets in order to use the rich sources of information in the newly released Fitz Henry Lane Online catalog raisonne. During this walk, you will connect specific locations to the paintings they inspired by accessing the online catalog. Alternative visuals will also be available.

Upcoming Tour Dates: June 18, July 29, August 6, August 19.

“Persona”
at Flatrocks Gallery

With Flatrocks Gallery’s new show, Persona, four artists are combined to make connections between the personal and the public self. Featuring Nina Fletcher, Kurt Ankeny, Gabrielle Rossmer and John Weidenbruch.  Each offers with their unique medium a challenge to look below the surface. Nina Fletcher, a former nurse, uses her knowledge of the human body as her muse and diverse materials for inspiration. She adeptly moves from printmaking, to sculpting wire, to glass casting to convey her subtly loaded message about the conflicts and universality of being human.  The painter, Kurt Ankeny, offers observations of the ‘others’ and his own anonymity. The figures in his oils(often faceless) are merely a part of the landscape, used to explore the formal elements of line, form and texture on a flat surface. The ordinary and mundane become curious, offering a psychological depth that is at once reassuring and unsettling.

eyes-of-the-world_detail-gabrielle-rossmer

John-Weidenbruch-Crosstown

Kurt Ankeny-Man at Garage

Nina Fletcher-Foot wheel

Gabrielle Rossmer’s sculptures are a series of pillars rooted to the ground rising up, alive with form and color. They are built with wood, covered with plaster, painted with of rich color, the layers become integral to their message. These abstract figures create a tension between stability and mobility,  the personal and the private and define the space around them.

John Weidenbruch’s photographs represent an array of perspectives and emotions, and hint at untold stories. His opportunity to travel the globe has offered him the experience of numerous cultures. With a curious eye he seeks to catch the unexpected moment. In the context of this show, Weidenbruch invites the viewer to join him as the outsider, the observer, an individual within a crowd.

Persona runs through July 10th.
There is an artists’ reception open to the public Saturday, July 18th 6-8pm.

77 Langsford St. Gloucester, MA
978-879-4683 • www.flatrocksgallery.com

hours:  12-5 Thurs.-Sun.

Gloucester’s Tin Can Sally
Opening Gala
at Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck

Tin Can Sally is the second artist in the Summer Artist Series at Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck. Her show opens on Wednesday, June 8, with the gala opening reception on Saturday, June 11, from 6-8 pm. The public is invited.

Tin Can Sally (Sally Seamans) creates birds, fish, jewelry, collages, mobiles, and more from printed tin containers of all shapes and sizes. She finds tins at yard sales, flea markets, antique shops and serendipity. She is a tin hunter/gatherer. Some of the tins she uses are olive oil, cookie, coffee, tea, candy, biscuit, soy sauce, mustard, ethnic foods, popcorn and sewing tins. “I greatly appreciate any tins that are kindly recycled my way,” says Semans. She is also known as Sally Seamans of Gloucester, MA

World-jazz ensemble Natraj
at Floating Lotus ~ Gloucester

World-jazz ensemble Natraj performs its adventurous blend of Indian classical music, West African music, and contemporary jazz at Floating Lotus, 169 Main St., Gloucester, MA 01930. The show begins at 8:00PM. Tickets are $15 (gen adm), $25 (pref seating). For tickets, visit http://www.floatinglotus.net/products/natraj-world-music-concert-series or call 978-546-2367.

Listen to the world-jazz ensemble Natraj’s adventurous blend of Indian ragas, African rhythms, contemporary jazz and browse fair trade, handmade items from around the globe! Featuring special guest, tabla wizard, Amit Kavthekar (second set only).

“Natraj… The future of jazz… The future of world music… a spellbinding tapestry… a jazz hybrid of celebration and reflection.” – Times of India

“Natraj… a soul-stirring performance… intoxicating, meditative music… an exotic blend of… West African rhythms with the fluid and complex ragas of Southeast Asia… an unforgettable musical journey. ”- India New England

THIS SUNDAY, June 12th at 1:30pm

A special tour with professional art historian Mimi Braverman, lecturer at the Museum of Fine Arts and a long time Gloucester summer resident.

Ms. Braverman will walk visitors through the museum’s distinguished collection of paintings, describing the personalities and anecdotes surrounding the sitters and portraitists. This tour is a unique, detailed introduction to the history of Gloucester’s notable residents and the famous artists that captured their likenesses.

Tickets still available, but they are limited.
Admission $20, tickets available via button above, or on our website: sargenthouse.org/events

The Annisquam Art Gallery is opening
Monday, June 13 through Monday, July 25, 2016.

Annisquam Art Gallery
32 Leonard Street, Gloucester, MA
(upstairs from the Annisquam Exchange)

Hours:
Mon- Friday: 10AM-4PM
Saturday: 9AM -1PM

ELIZABETH ENFIELD Photo exhibition 
at the Beverly Farms Library

June 1st-29th

45 PHOTOS. PEOPLE, PLACES TUSCAN HILLS, COMPOSITIONS

Beverly Farms Library
24 Vine St, Beverly, MA 01915

Hours:
Mon, Wed, Fri: 10-5
Tues, Thurs: 10-9. 

An ongoing series of one-day contemporary art installations at the Historic White-Ellery House

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present CURRENT by Tim Ferguson Sauder and Rob Alexander on Saturday, June 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the White-Ellery House in Gloucester. This collaboratively created installation will use sculpture to explore issues related to Cape Ann’s fishing industry. Tim Ferguson Sauder is design professor at Olin College and a resident of Lanesville; Rob is Creative Director of Office, a brand strategy and design firm based in San Francisco.

The White-Ellery House (1710), owned and operated by the Cape Ann Museum, has served as the backdrop for a series of one-day contemporary art installations since 2010. The House is located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester and is free and open to the public on select Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each month from May through October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays.

Design/Build: The Drawings of Phillips & Holloran, Architects

Opening reception: June 4
On view: June 4 to October 9, 2016

This summer, the Cape Ann Museum presents a special exhibition exploring the work of Phillips & Holloran, one of Cape Ann’s most successful architectural firms. Design/Build will delve into the 300-plus sets of drawings they produced while in business from 1894 through the 1950s. The plans, which were given to the Museum in 2011, include drawings, blueprints and elevations of private residences, civic buildings, summer hotels, artist studios and commercial structures.

Working during a time that witnessed the professionalization of the field of architecture, the firm of Phillips & Holloran left an indelible mark on a substantial and important swath of Cape Ann’s built environment. Included in the collection are such recognizable and notable structures as the T.S. Eliot House on Eastern Point, sections of the Cape Ann Savings Bank on Main Street in Gloucester, the iconic Bent house in Annisquam, Spiran Hall in Rockport, the Pulsifer building at the corner of Beach and Union Streets in Manchester and the saloon built for Howard Blackburn on the east end of Main Street in Gloucester (pictured here).

The Museum will be partnering with Historic New England and other regional resources to provide a broad selection of programs and events designed to complement the exhibition—a full schedule can be found at http://www.capeannmuseum.org/events/exhibition-related-programming/.

Public Sculpture Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum

Get your art fix outside.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its first summer walking tour, this Saturday, June 4, focusing on the public sculpture we see around us every day. Participants will learn about art, history and culture all while enjoying the beautiful summer breeze afforded by Gloucester’s harbor.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

 Public Sculpture – June 4, July 2, July 9, August 13

Get up-close and personal with the sculptures you drive by every day. From works commemorating those who went to sea, to those who fought in war to those who changed the artistic landscape of Cape Ann forever—this walking tour will uncover the stories behind the public sculptures of Gloucester, including the unique processes of the artists who created them.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Henri Smith on Saturday, May 28 from 11:00am to 1:00p.m. as part of the first annual Harbortown Arts Festival.  Smith, a jazz musician, will perform outside in the Museum’s courtyard. This program is free and open to the public. For more information please call (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

Smith was born and raised in the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans, and began his career polishing his sophisticated and dramatic vocal delivery at a young age. Today he thrills audiences with his New Orleans Jazz, Blues, Creole and Cajun flavored music touring extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

Hurricane Katrina took his home in New Orleans and he moved to Cape Ann, where he now lives and shares his Creole and Cajun heritage.

Bring a friend or bring a lunch to this mid-day concert and enjoy an all-star performance.

A Conversation with Nubar Alexanian, Saturday, May 28, 2016, 5:30–7:00pm

Trident Gallery is pleased to host a conversation with Nubar Alexanian on Saturday, May 28, 5:30–7:00pm, a moderated conversation with the artist and author of the limited edition large-format book of photographs Gloucester: When the Fish Came First, recently published on May 6, 2016. A selection of Alexanian’s photographs will be on view, and copies of the book will be available at a 10% discount. The event is free and open to the public.

New season presents artist demos and 8 new members

Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck opens for the season on Wednesday, May 25, followed by a festive opening party on Saturday, May 28, from 6 – 8 pm to celebrate the new season and welcome seven new gallery members. Save the date! The public is invited to visit the gallery on beautiful Rocky Neck in Gloucester, MA to meet the artists and enjoy an array of beverages and delicious edible treats.

The gallery welcomes eight new members: Deborah Barnwell, jewelry; Pam Courtleigh, assemblage; Rob Dieboll, painting; Gail Gang, painting; Ellen Garvey, blown glass; Kathleen George, painting; Shana Holub, ceramics, and Cornelius Sullivan, etching. See our Facebook page and web page rockyneckartcolony.org/gallery-53-on-rocky-neck/ for more pictures and further information about the upcoming season full of surprises.

On the same Saturday, May 28, our first Summer Artist Series artist holds her opening reception at the gallery, as well. The abstract paintings and mixed media of Kathy Soles, former Goetemann Artist in Residence on Rocky Neck, are on display in the Ann Fisk Room at Gallery 53 from May 25through June 7. The Gallery 53 SAS (Summer Artist Series) this year is exciting with seven incredible artists showing their work. See rockyneckartcolony.org/summer-artist-series/ for detailed information.

The season also includes a series of artist demonstrations on Saturdays, from 1-3 pm. Please join us and watch how art is made up close and personal. A schedule and full list of participants is available on our web page rockyneckartcolony.org/gallery-53-on-rocky-neck/.

Here is a link to
“A Kids’ Guide to Cape Ann 2016”

Click Here to Download the PDF

This booklet is the product of The Dusky Foundation and is a gift to Cape Ann families from Linzee and Beth Coolidge. Linzee and Beth wanted to advocate for families on Cape Ann to be sure that kids are finding healthy and fun activities for their summer break.

The booklet is also a resource guide for all families of summer and year round activities offered throughout Cape Ann and beyond.

Inclusive activities are listed alphabetically from dance to farms to preschools to yacht clubs and beyond!

The booklet finishes with road races, festivals, green spaces, ongoing events by town, and “worth the drive.”

And It’s all in YOUR backyard!
There are no ads involved — just pure family fun!

Gloucester’s Harbortown Cultural District is excited to present a weekend of creative events that celebrate arts and culture in the heart of Downtown Gloucester over Memorial Day Weekend on Saturday May 28 and Sunday May 29.

The highlight of this weekend is the Harbortown Arts Market, an eclectic open-air marketplace to be held at I4C2 (65 Rogers Street) on Saturday, May 28th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Harbortown Cultural District is proud to produce this event in collaboration with Gloucester’s own Rusty and Ingrid Creative Company and Mill Gypsies, an art market producer. This novel market brings the best of New England’s vibrant indie-maker scene to Gloucester’s inner harbor with over 30 designers, artists, and vintage curators from Cape Ann and across Massachusetts to sell their handmade wares and hip vintage finds. In addition to free on-site parking, this market will feature a gourmet BBQ food truck and an Asian-fusion food truck.

This weekend Arts Festival will also include numerous festive events hosted by downtown businesses and cultural organizations, including Music in the Courtyard with Henri Smith at Cape Ann Museum; the installation of monumental banner image of a painting by Laureen Maher on the harbor-side of 189 Main Street, which houses Trident Gallery and Wisdom’s Heart; an origami master class at Law & Water on Pleasant Street; the grand opening of Art @ The IceHouse at Cape Pond Ice; and, many more engaging activities for the whole family. The complete calendar of events is below.

The Harbortown Arts Festival is made possible by funding from the Cultural District Initiative of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

SATURDAY, MAY 28

• 10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Harbortown Arts Market. Free parking. 65 Rogers Street.
• 10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Sea Glass Jewelry-Making Demonstration. Premier Imprints. 48 Main Street.
• 10:00 am – 4:00 pm: Art @ The IceHouse OPEN HOUSE, Cape Pond Ice Company. 104 Commercial Street.
• 11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Music in the Courtyard with Henri Smith, Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant Street.
• 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Origami Master Class – “Know When to Fold Them.” Law & Water Gallery. 18A Pleasant Street
• 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Talk and Talkback with Gloucester Photographer Nubar Alexanian. Trident Gallery, 189 Main Street.

SUNDAY, MAY 29

• 9:00 am – 3:00 pm: Art @ The IceHouse OPEN HOUSE, Cape Pond Ice Company. 104 Commercial Street.
• 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Retrospective Exhibition of Gloucester Etchings with Lecture and Demonstration. Cornelius Sullivan Studio at The Fort, 27 Commercial Street
• 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Celebrating Harbortown, Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church courtyard, 10 Church Street.

Debuting at this weekend’s Harbortown Arts Festival, we are pleased to announce our new “ART @ the Ice House” gallery at Cape Pond Ice Company, Fort Wharf, 104 Commercial Street, Gloucester.

We will be hosting an Open House / Gallery launch Saturday, Sunday & Monday, May 28 – 30, from 10 am – 3 pm.  A special retrospective of the paintings and art of Sue Memhard (1941-2011) will be featured.  www.SueMemhard.com for more information about Sue’s life, creative passions, work and art.

Gallery space to exhibit is also available – painting, pottery, sculpture & photography – so please contact us if interested in showing with us this summer.  email:  office@capepondice.com  Fort Wharf Arts Collective, Gallery @ Cape Pond Ice

We had so much fun last Wednesday and Thursday meeting all of our new Pigeon Cove Tavern guests (and now, hopefully, regulars!) that we’ve decided to extend our Grand Opening Special again.

Bring a friend along with you this upcoming Wednesday (5.25) or Thursday (5.26) to have dinner at The Tavern and one of your two entrées will be on us.

Give us a call to make your reservation at 978-546-6321. Cheers!

https://www.facebook.com/pigeoncovetavern/

The Emerson Inn recently completed renovations which include a tavern. Anna and I couldn’t be more excited. It’s fun to have a great place that we can walk to and have drinks. The view may well be the best in town.

James Eves is now offering

“Photoshop for Photographers I and II”

Each seminar is a a three hour/one session seminar. The seminars will be held in our studio Cape Ann Giclee 20 Maplewood Ave Gloucester, MA 01930. Class times are 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Space is limited to 20 for each seminar date.

Photoshop for Photographers I 

A seminar for professional, fine art and hobbyist photographers who want to learn about file management, color balancing, why shooting in RAW is better, shadows and highlights moves, contrast, ways to save and send image files, using Bridge and more. This is a chip to print seminar, it is not a how to shoot photos seminar, it’s what to do with your image files once you have them. This seminar is for beginners/intermediate. Prerequisite is a good working knowledge of computers, this class is taught on a Mac but all functions will work on a PC. You may bring your laptop, wireless WiFi is available but please make sure it is fully charged as outlets will not be available.

Photoshop for Photographers II 

A seminar for professional, fine art and hobbyist photographers who want to learn about photo editing, retouching, compositing, and much more. This seminar starts where Photoshop 1 for Photographers left off, it is not a how to shoot photos seminar, it’s a how to enhance or chage your image files. This seminar is for beginners/intermediate. Prerequisite is Photo shop for Photographers 1 or a solid knowledge of all the info in that class and NO questions relating to Photoshop 1 will be covered. You may bring your laptop, wireless WiFi is available but please make sure it is fully charged as outlets will not be available.

To sign up you must register by making a payment online. Once you are registered and have paid you will receive an confirmation email. Registration must be done using the link below. If you have any questions you can contact us at 978-546-7070.

Sign Up Here

James Eves, owner of Cape Ann Giclée, Fine Art Printing and Gallery, is GMG’s Arts Enthusiast and the Calendar Guy. To submit arts related press releases, photos of arts events or any arts related posts email: james@capeanngiclee.com.
To add an event to the GMG Cape Ann Calendar go here to see how to submit events.

New North Shore Artist David  P.  Curtis’s Work
on Display at First Ipswich Bank’s Gloucester Branch

First Ipswich Bank is pleased to announce that  work  by  local  artist,  David  P.  Curtis,  is  on  display  at  its  Gloucester  branch  –  207  Main Street ‐ through July.

David P. Curtis grew up on Cape Ann, and was introduced to painting at an early age by his artist father, Roger W. Curtis. Primarily a plein air landscape painter, Curtis has been instructing outdoor oil painting classes and workshops on Cape Ann since 1993.

“To paint nature,” says Curtis, “you need to be out there, on location, where you can savor  the  ambience  and  really  get  a  sense  of  the  atmosphere  and  how  it  affects  the  landscape.” To view his works online, please visit http://www.davidpcurtis.com.

An open reception for David will be held at the branch on Friday, May 20 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM to offer the opportunity to meet him and learn more about his work.

About the program: One artist’s work will be shown every three months; David’s work will be on display through July. A new artist will then be featured from August through October 2016.

For  more  information,  please  contact  Rebecca  Sumner,  Branch  Manager  at  978‐356‐3700, or Beth Taber at 978‐356‐8120.

First  Ipswich  Bank  has  branch  offices  in  Essex,  Gloucester,  Ipswich,  Newburyport  and  Rowley,  Massachusetts – you can find them online at http://www.firstipswich.com, as well as on Facebook.

Please join us on
Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22
10am to 5pm each day
You can download our brochure and map here.

Saturday Evening Girls:

Immigrant Artists and Scholars of Boston in the Early 1900s
An illustrated lecture by Dr. Dorothy E. King

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present a special lecture entitled, Saturday Evening Girls: Immigrant Artists and Scholars in Boston in the Early 1900s on Saturday, May 21 at 2:00 p.m. The lecture will be presented by Dr. Dorothy E. King, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn State Harrisburg. Joanne Riley, archivist at UMASS Boston and Roz Kramer, daughter of pioneer Saturday Evening Girls (SEG) researcher Barbara Kramer, will also participate.

This program is $10 for CAM members / $20 for non-members (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. For more information, email us at info@capeannmuseum.org. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Museum at 978-283-0455 x10 or online at Eventbrite.

The Saturday Evening Girls was a social club organized in Boston in 1899 to assimilate young immigrant women into American culture. Girls—who met Saturday evenings—were introduced to literature, art and history. They were also given the opportunity to make and decorate ceramics at the Paul Revere Pottery. In 1906, a summer camp was built for the girls’ use at Wingaersheek Beach in west Gloucester.

Dr. Dorothy E. King, a native of York, Pennsylvania, holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. King began conducting her research on the Saturday Evening Girls in 2013. In addition to being an educator, Dr. King is a performance poet, playwright, and founder of PenOwl Productions Theater Company.

Rocky Neck Art Colony presents

Emerald Rae & Somer O’Brien in concert

at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck,
Saturday May 21. Doors at 7:00 PM,
music begins at 7:30 PM.

Emerald Rae and Somer O’Brien are a neo-folk fiddle and accordion duo polished with a quasi-art-music sheen. Their repertoire is a montage of Celtic, French, Italian and Greek tunes intuitively rendered with a delicate mix of authenticity, curiosity and artistry.  Their arrangements are fiercely vivacious, ardent and candid and are presented with warmth, wit and humour.

A fearless and masterful fiddler with a heavy background in driving dance music, Emerald Rae blends softness and strength to create a uniquely expressive sound. Being a traditional music guru requires a dedication to history, using an approach similar to that of a museum curator.  She describes the process of collecting carefully-sourced tunes as being akin to grave-robbing.  “Tunes are our currency.  To find them you have to dig, wipe off the dust, and breathe life into them.  Then they become part of your story.”

Somer O’Brien’s original accordion playing belies a lifetime of study as a classical pianist.  Her compelling rhythms and singular harmonic textures push the boundaries and defy categorization.  She weaves a fine tapestry with exotic colors from Afro-Latin, Jazz, and Folk.  “As a teacher I am a perpetual student.  My ears are always expanding, as is my knowledge of and relationship to the accordion.  I think this is what keeps my style fresh.”

With their whimsical style and passion for eclecticism, Rae and O’Brien piece together a surprising and refreshing mosaic, taking you on a journey that will spark your inner wanderlust.  Their first full-length album, Artifact, will be released in the summer of 2016.

For up to date information visit http://rockyneckartcolony.org/events/category/music/list/. 

James Eves, owner of Cape Ann Giclée, Fine Art Printing and Gallery, is GMG’s Arts Enthusiast and the Calendar Guy. To submit arts related press releases, photos of arts events or any arts related posts email: james@capeanngiclee.com.
To add an event to the GMG Cape Ann Calendar go here to see how to submit events.