Author: James Eves

SUCCESS!!  Gloucester Cinema, 74 Essex Ave, Gloucester will be showing the locally made movie MANCHESTER BY THE SEA this week.  “This movie has had a slow and limited release to the theaters across the United States, and until now Boston was the nearest theater playing it.” stated theater owner John Williams.

Gloucester’s first show will be on Thursday, December 1 at 7 p.m.  On Friday and over the weekend matinees will start at 10 a.m. for MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, in addition to the regular show times.  On Monday, December 5 thru Thursday, December 8 there will be shows beginning at noon for those who cannot make it over the weekend or want to see it a second time.  “It’s not unusual for folks to get confused about what time or day a show will run” commented John so he is advising folks to check the website — gloucestercinema.com — or call the theater’s recording 978-283-9188 for the most up-to-date information.

“I am so excited we are getting MANCHESTER BY THE SEA.  I am thankful that Director Kenneth Lonegran wanted to help us give local folks a chance to see his newest movie that was filmed in their home town.”  Residents of the Cape Ann area will be thrilled to see the film at a theater much closer to home.  It is a great way to get a group of family, friends and neighbors together to enjoy a story that features Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams in a local and well known backdrop.  It has fantastic reviews, and it is expected to be nominated for several awards during the awards season.

Gloucester Cinema is easy to find on Route 133, Exit 14 off 128.  It is handicap accessible with lots of free parking very close to the front door. While supplies last, there are small movie posters and postcards for those who purchase tickets at the theater.  For large group reservations or questions, please call John directly at 781-724-5368.

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC)
is seeking proposals from artists,
for exhibitions in 2017,
two of which will be chosen to
receive an honorarium grant.

RNAC will award the two grants of $1,000 for two five-week exhibition slots available in the spring of 2017. The grants will cover the cost of the exhibition space—for the selected artists—plus postcard printing and mailing.  RNAC is delighted to have received a generous grant from the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation to support a number of exhibitions at the Cultural Center from June of 2016 through July of 2017. The grant supports the RNAC objective, to move from artist-supported exhibitions to those supported by the organization.

Each proposed exhibition will include two or more artists and include at least one RNAC artist member. This is a great opportunity for artists in our community to exhibit their work at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. The deadline for grant proposal submissions is Wednesday, February 1, 2017. For more information and a complete prospectus please visit: http://rockyneckartcolony.org/cultural-center-exhibitions/

Please address any questions regarding proposals via email to entry@rockyneckartcolony.org.

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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 paintings in American art and a catalyst for the progressive ideas of artists from Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery, and Nell Blaine, among many others. Today Rocky Neck continues to attract artists and art lovers to a thriving creative community. For up to date information visit rockyneckartcolony.org

Massachusetts Special Olympics Calendar raffle tickets are now available and are only $10 a ticket this gives you 31 chances to win one of the great prizes available – see calendar above.

On this Sunday, November 20,  Cape Ann Special Olympics will have a table at Stop & Shop selling our calendar raffles from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm – please stop by and support our wonderful local team of athletes! Your generous $10 raffle ticket purchase helps us buy uniforms and equipment for our athletes!

You can also buy raffle tickets directly from a Cape Ann Special Olympics parent and at Cape Ann Giclee 20 Maplewood Ave Gloucester, or buy your raffle tickets ONLINE  with this link:

https://www.specialolympicsma.org/events/fundraising-events/calendarraffle/

When buying online you will see this under the “Additional Information Section”:

“Would you like to allocate donation to a particular SOMA local program/team? …”

Please write in “Cape Ann Special Olympics” in this section to ensure that the money goes directly to our local Cape Ann Special Olympics athletes.

 Thank you so much for your support!

Hi Joe,

I thought some of the local sports fans might like to see this amazing video from the other night in Boston where two north shore ladies received the Good Sportsman award from the sports editors of the Boston Globe for their stories.   You might recall Abbey D’Agostino from the Olympics as one and the other is of course our own Bobbi Gibb from Rockport!

I’ve posted the video and also photos from the event on this page below!

https://www.facebook.com/BobbiGibbMarathonSculptureProject/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

Thanks for sharing!
Jackie

Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
Marketer for Technology & the Arts
seARTS Cape Ann – Advisor

“We Need a Hero”
Closing Party & Panel Discussion
at Flatrocks Gallery

Nov. 20th 3pm 

A creative renaissance is occurring in a medium that had been mired in triviality for generations. Graphic novels – i.e. comics – have become a serious art form in the 21st Century. Comics are about connection. They express intense personal experiences while challenging cultural ideologies and precepts. Comics create meaning by sewing together fragments of data in fragmented times when data is everywhere. Employing the symbols and icons of popular culture, these artists build visions at once universal and deeply personal.

On Sunday, November 20th at 3pm, Flatrocks Gallery will host closing party and panel discussion with the participating artists in its current exhibition, We Need a Hero.

The artists participating in the We Need a Hero show will offer insight into the cultural importance of visual art, and the exploding phenomenon of graphic/comic book art as a means of expression in today’s complex world. Please join Jess Semeraro, Andrew Houle, Greg Orfanos, David Leblanc, Mark Hoffmann, Michael Crockett, and Kurt Ankeny for a lively discussion and a celebration. 

Flatrocks Gallery 77 Langsford St./Rt127
Gloucester, MA 01930  978-879-4683
www.flatrocksgallery.com

Annual Charles Olson Lecture Featuring Hettie Jones

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (October 13, 2016) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present a talk by poet Hettie Jones, in collaboration with the Gloucester Writers Center and the Charles Olson Society on Saturday, October 29 at 1:00 p.m. in the Museum’s auditorium.

Hettie Jones will discuss her first meeting with Charles Olson, her impressions of Gloucester, a few recent unpublished poems and a selection from Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones, her recently published book of correspondence with painter and sculptor, Helene Dorn. (Duke University Press Books, October 18, 2016) Love, H is available for purchase in the Museum’s gift shop.

Jones’ first collection of poems, Drive (Hanging Loose Press, 1997), was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye to receive the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the author of How I Became Hettie Jones (1990) and several books for children. The former Chair of PEN’s Prison Writing Committee, she currently teaches graduate writing at The New School and workshops at 92Y and the Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community.

$10 donation suggested. For more information please call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

This program is accessible.

“Far Eastern Roads”

Photographs By Jintara Nutprasas
Public · Art · by Pastaio Via Corta

Friday, October 21 at 5 PM – 9 PM
65 Middle St, Gloucester, MA 01930-5737, United States

Please join us on the evening of, October 21st, for a one night only gallery opening at 65 Middle Street in Gloucester for photographs by Jintara Nutprasas. Prosecco & Snacks will be provided by Pastaio Via Corta & Mayflour Confections.

Voicing the Woods

An exhibition of Jeremy Adams’s organs and harpsichords

 On View at the Cape Ann Museum
October 22, 2016 through February 26, 2017

A public opening reception will be held at the Museum
on Saturday, October 22 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

(left) Jeremy Adams Organ, 1986. Annisquam Village Church, Gloucester, MA; (center) Adams doing restoration work on a Pleyel harpsichord; (right) Adams at work in his shop. Photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg ©2016.

 Voicing the Woods:  Jeremy Adams, Instrument Maker showcases the prodigious skills and artistry of Jeremy Adams, one of the most gifted musical instrument makers in New England. The exhibition, which will be held in the Cape Ann Museum’s 1,500 square foot special exhibitions gallery, will include a one-stop chamber organ, a demonstration organ chest, a 1995 clavichord and a selection of harpsichords, each built in its entirety by Adams in his Danvers, Massachusetts workshop. In addition to the instruments that will be shown in the gallery, a selection of Adams’s furniture will be displayed in the Museum’s 1804 Captain Elias Davis House, offering an interesting contrast to the period furniture in the House.

A keyboard player from early childhood, Jeremy Adams took his formal training with Roland Sturgis, Gregory Tucker and Melville Smith at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. In the 1960s, an auspicious time for early music enthusiasts, Adams entered into a six-year apprenticeship at William Dowd’s Cambridge harpsichord shop, where he gained recognition for his skills as a musician and quickly developed his hand as a fine woodworker. (Dowd had established his workshop in the 1950s with harpsichord maker Frank Hubbard, engaging with the international movement to revive historic practices of performance and instrument building.) In the two years following his harpsichord apprenticeship, Adams honed his skills in reed voicing and tonal finishing in an organ building apprenticeship at the Gloucester workshop of Charles Fisk, working on signature instruments at Old West Methodist in Boston and Harvard University, among others. In 1969 Adams opened his own workshop on the North Shore.

Adams’s harpsichords, clavichords and pipe organs can be found in public and private collections around the world, including the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston; the Sapporo Episcopal Cathedral and the Kyoto Fukkatu Kyokai (Kyoto Episcopal Church) in Japan; Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury, MA; the Waring School in Beverly, MA; Maple Street Congregational Church in Danvers, MA; and the Annisquam Village Church in Gloucester, MA. Restorations and expansions of existing instruments include work on Martha’s Vineyard and in Barbados.

The design and construction of Adams’s furniture and objets d’art evolved, in part, from the refined casework required by the musical instruments, and in part from a lifelong interest in painting and sculpture. The intersection of these elements has led to commissions from clients far and near, and to exhibitions with the Jane Deering, Found and Oasis galleries, as well as representation in a competition at the Wharton Esherick Museum in Pennsylvania.

Photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg complement the instrument exhibit and document Adams’s studio and work process, highlighting some of the exquisite detail and workmanship on individual pieces and underscoring the breadth and volume of his work. 

Flatrocks Gallery‘s fall show

We Need a Hero

The show runs from October 20th-November 20th.  All are invited to an artists’ reception on Saturday, October 22nd from 6-8pm.

Caption #1, 10/1/16, 10:50 AM, 8C, 6392×5217 (694+2719), 100%, Art 1, 1/20 s, R112.7, G82.7, B93.4

We Need a Hero celebrates the fine art of illustration, with eight artists rooted in design and animation. Though there is borrowing from popular culture, distinctly unique visual languages are being explored here. Elements of folk and pop art, abstract expressionism and realism are cleverly interwoven into deeply personal reflections of our modern world. The show features paintings by Mark Hoffmann, Michael Crockett, Andrew Houle, David Leblanc, Greg Orfanos, and book art by Sean Randolph, Kurt Ankeny, and Jess Semeraro.

77 Langsford St./Rt127 • Gloucester, MA 01930
978-879-4683 • www.flatrocksgallery.com

TWO PLEIN AIR EXHIBITS AT THE CULTURAL CENTER AT ROCKY NECK, AND A JUDITH CURTIS PRESENTATION ON THE HISTORY OF THE ROCKY NECK ART COLONY

Two exhibitions highlighting plein air to coincide with the Cape Ann Plein Air Festival will be on display at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Oct 13 – Nov 13

Dual Receptions for both exhibits on Sunday, Oct 23, 3-5 PM

Plein Air – Here and Abroad

Montserrat College of Art Exhibition
October 13 – November 13, 2016

The Cultural Center Gallery at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester MA 01930

Artists Reception Sunday, October 23, 3:00-5:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM

Fields #31 by Maria Malatesta

Landscape by Barbara Moody

Midcoast by Amanda Hawkins

Singing Beach by William Fusco

Montserrat College of Art will present “Plein Air — Here and Abroad” at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St., Gloucester, Oct. 13-Nov. 13.  An opening reception with the artists will be held on Sunday. Oct. 23 from 3-5 pm and the public is welcome.

 The exhibit coincides with the first juried Cape Ann Plein Air Festival Oct. 10-16.

For nearly two centuries, Cape Ann (Massachusetts’ “other” Cape located 25 miles north of Boston) has been a destination for some of the finest painters who paint “en plein air.” Throughout its four picturesque seaside communities, Cape Ann Plein Air will host a week long plein-air painting celebration in October when the famous Cape Ann light shines at its very best.

Aritsts included in the Montserrat exhibit include former trustee William Fusco of Manchester, Founding Faculty member the late Roger Martin of Rockport, faculty Barbara Moody, Judith Brassard Brown and Ron DiRito;  alumni Susan Cottle Alberto, Colin Maguire, Loren Doucette and Amanda Hawkins, and current students. Programs highlighted through faculty work are the college’s Study Abroad programs in Viterbo, Italy and Mallorca, Spain, the continuing education division, offering views of the college’s activities through the art work created through them.

Montserrat College of Art is a four-year residential college of art and design located in Beverly, MA offering the bachelor of fine arts degree, continuing studies for teens and adults, study abroad opportunities and four public galleries offering free openings and lectures with artists and creatives from around the country.

Beyond Plein Air

October 13 to November 1, 2016 

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Studio Gallery
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Artist Reception: Sunday, Oct 23, 3-5 PM (Studio Gallery)
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM

RNAC member exhibition of non-traditional plein air paintings and photographs. The exhibit takes place at the same time as the Montserrat College exhibition “Plein Air — Here and Abroad” located in the Cultural Center Gallery.

Participating artists:  Matt Cegelis, Kathy Coakley, Anne Cowman, Ann Marie Crotty, Gail Gang, Kathleen George, Jan Goodwin, Dani Shirtcliff, Martha Wakefield

PRIOR TO BOTH RECEPTIONS ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 at 1PM:

Judith Curtis, author of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1850-1950 will be giving an illustrated talk on the history of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, and the important American artists who have lived and worked on the peninsula.

Free and Open to the Public. If you wish to donate all proceeds of Judith Curtis’ talk will be accepted towards updating and expanding the Rocky Neck Historic Art Trail.

Meetinghouse event:
‘Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde’

Sunday, October 23, at 6:00pm

Gloucester Meetinghouse, corner of Church & Middle Street.
Accessible side entrance at 10 Church Street.

Silent horror film classic ‘Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde’accompanied by organist Peter Krasinski at the Gloucester Meetinghouse on Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 6:00pm.

World-renowned sonic artist Peter Krasinski performs on the grand 1893 Hutchings-Fisk pipe-organ in the historic Gloucester Meetinghouse, improvising accompaniment to 2 silent film classics:  the Buster Keaton comedy, ‘The Haunted House’ and the scary main feature ‘Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde.’  Event opens with a fun costume parade and an impressive organ prelude.

COST:
$15 General, $12 Students & Senior (65+), kids under 12 free.

TICKET SALES BENEFIT:
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation Preservation Fund

 SPONSOR:
Cape Ann Savings Bank

Opening of the World Family Puppet Theatre!

We are announcing the exciting news of the opening of the World Family Puppet Theatre here in Gloucester!

The most recent venture of a continuous thread of multicultural arts programming for children for 39 years, since 1978, this endeavor seeks to instill in Cape Ann children a love for their world neighbors through engaging puppetry workshops which brings world cultures alive through their beloved folktales. Rob Newton, proprietor of the Cape Ann Cinema & Stage, has lovingly embraced the idea of a fun and educational puppetry experience at his theater at 21 Main Street in the West End of downtown Gloucester for the children of the Cape Ann area.

Know as “Dora the International Explorer”, Dora has brought an astonishing 35,000 programs, from International Festivals to Afterschool Programs to Teacher Trainings to Traveling Cultural Resource Kits to families, schools, libraries and the community of Cape Ann, and Massachusetts since 1978, earning her and the mother Ethnic Arts Center the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award from the City of Somerville.

On the forefront of multicultural programming for children in the Boston area, Dora has presented her programs to Cape Ann for the past twenty years, including the Spar and Spindle Girl Scouts, Rockport New Years Eve, and Essex, Beverly, Hamilton, Peabody, Rockport, and Gloucester schools, preschools, museums, and libraries. What motivates her to work with local children, is a “friendship based model” a “microcosm” of the world where children actively take part in a teamwork setting.  Ancient tales contain the truths of how a problem can be solved peaceably.  Creating and bringing alive puppets incorporates all the arts and proves that magic still exists.

Two puppetry classes-one for preschoolers and one for school-age children will be offered, beginning on October 12.  Cultural theme Birthday Parties will also be available, including the celebration of Sicily, and Finland, amongst other local cultures.  No child will be turned away due to financial constraints or special needs.

At no other time in our country’s history has such a need existed-to inculcate the love for our fellow man.  Dora cites three of her mentors who have influenced her the most: Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Ghandi, and Martin Luther King.  Here is a treasure tucked away in our intimate Cape Ann Cinema & Stage, just waiting for the local children to embrace.

Press the Puppetry button on the Cape Ann Cinema web page (capeanncinema,com) to register or pay.  Visit the Webpage of the Ethnic Arts Center at www.ethnicartscenter.org.  Take a photographic journey to the Facebook page of the World Family Puppet Theatre.  Call Dora Tevan at 978-546-3222 for more information.

Researching Your Italian Ancestry
With “Genealogy Roadshow” PBS Co-Host Mary M. Tedesco

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to welcome Gloucester native, Mary M. Tedesco, Co-Host / Genealogist on the PBS TV series “Genealogy Roadshow” (season 2 & season 3) and the Founder of ORIGINS ITALY, to speak on Saturday, October 8 at 1:00 p.m.

Do you have Italian roots? Come to the Cape Ann Museum on October 8 to learn about essential Italian genealogical records and how they are accessed. Italy and Sicily offer many records beyond birth, marriage and death. Onsite research in Italy and research by correspondence with repositories in Italy will also be discussed.

This program is free and open to the public. For more information please call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

 Mary Tedesco speaks fluent Italian and travels often to Italy to conduct client genealogical research and visit family. She is the co-author of “Tracing Your Italian Ancestors” an 84-page Italian research guide published by Moorshead Magazines. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Boston University and a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University’s Center for Professional Education. In addition to her Italian ancestry (Calabria, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Tuscany) on her father’s side, she also has deep American roots (German, Irish, Danish & English) on her mother’s side and is a proud member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Tedesco is a native of Gloucester, MA.

I’ve a couple pieces in an interesting and big group show
at the Rockport Art Association, 12 Main St.

Hibbard & Maddocks Galleries
Experimental Group Exhibition – Unexpected #3

Sep 30 – Oct 12, 2016

John Bassett  www.basglas.com

The Sawyer Free Library will hold the Annual Art Auction on Wednesday, October 5, 2016. The Silent Auction will take place in the Matz Gallery from September 6 through October 3, to give visitors an opportunity to see the exhibit of paintings and bid early. The Vocal Auction will be held, at 7:00 PM. A preview party will precede the auction. Refreshments will be served and music by Jeannine Lynch and Peter Phillips. The auctioneer is Jack Good, who has volunteered  for over a decade. His humor and encouragement to bid adds to the delightful entertainment of the evening.

But the best part is the works of art, displayed in the Adolph Matz Gallery located in the main lobby of the library. Great interest is generated throughout the month as the bid book fills up. The final vocal auction is always an exciting event. This year there is seventy paintings in a variety of mediums, from oil, to watercolor, to collage; all original. The artists are all local and the subject is generally Cape Ann. It’s a great way to buy a small painting for yourself or as a gift to others. Noted artists such as Ray Crane, Jeff Weaver, Peter Tysver, Theresa Wonson, Carole Loiacono, Bob Blue and Don Gorvett are represented along with many artists who regularly contribute paintings. This year the quality of the artwork is awesome. Proceeds to the Art Advisory Fund provide scholarships, art supplies, art books and much needed supplies.This has been an important fundraiser for the library for many years, and its success is due greatly to the ongoing support by the contributing artists and loyal supporters.

So check out this year’s paintings and place a bid in the Silent Auction and then come to the live vocal auction to support your bid. If no one bids higher that your “Book” bid in the Silent Auction, your bid will be successful. But come to the live auction and enjoy the competition, food, music and find yourself a charming painting for a great bargain that will give you or a friend a lifetime of pleasure.

Beasts and Blooms, Elizabeth St. Hilaire-Collaged Paper Paintings, Martha Grover-Porcelain

Sept 23-Nov 27, 2016, Reception Sat Sept 23, 5-7pm
Lexicon Gallery, 15 Lexington Ave., #1, Magnolia, MA
www.LexiconGallery.com

Martha Grover, Pouring Vessels, Porcelain

Elizabeth St. Hilaire, “Percy Peacock,” Collaged Paper Painting

Whimsy is the theme at LEXICON GALLERY’S next show. “Beasts and Blooms,” combines Elizabeth St. Hilaire’s collaged paper paintings of friends from the animal world with Martha Grover’s functional porcelain flowery forms. Show dates are September 23, 2016-November 27, 2016 with an opening reception Saturday, September 23, 5:00-7:00pm.

Gallery 53 Features Tricia O’Neill with “ Sign Language”

A Narrative of Americana via Old Signs Along Route 1

The Rocky Neck Art Colony is delighted to welcome photographer, Tricia O’Neill as the seventh Summer Artistin the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Summer Artist Series at Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck. Her photography exhibition, Sign Language, documents handmade and lettered signs, destined for extinction, along Route . O’Neill’s show opens on Wednesday, September 21 and continues to October 15 with the opening reception on Saturday September 24, from 6-8 pm.

ABC Vacuum, photograph by Tricia O’Neill

In Sign Language, O’Neill uses photography to preserve the traditions and histories of the art of sign painting. Paying homage to sign art and artists that came before her, she records those remaining manifestations of the dying craft of handmade, hand lettered signage that still line the historic national highway, US Route 1.

A fine art photographer working in the documentary tradition, O’Neill has been painting signs since her early 20s–executing murals, working with gold leaf, lettering trucks. In that time she saw a continuous change in the art of sign making. As Route 1 has diminished in importance, so too has the art of hand lettering. Because of today’s municipal ordinances, controlling size and structure, these old signs cannot be replaced as they exist today. What was once hand-lettered with brushes is now digitally printed or made of electronic parts. The remaining hand-painted signs continue to carry a deep resonance, displaying a narrative of Americana.

In this body of work O’Neill investigates what remains of this visual medium and the changing landscape of this historic road. Inspired by Berenice Abbott’s work in the 1950s documenting US Route 1 during its heyday–before being supplanted by Route 95, O’Neill is documenting today’s Route 1, now past its prime.

Tricia O’Neill has a fine arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts and studied both film and digital photography at the SMFA. She also studied the art of hand lettering at Butera School of Art and founded the company Signs Unique in 1986. O’Neill’s years behind the brush, painting signs and murals, informs her photography. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast, in solo shows, juried shows, group shows and is in private collections.

For more information about the show call Gallery 53 at 978-282-0917.

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 paintings in American art and a catalyst for the progressive ideas of artists from Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Milton Avery, and Nell Blaine, among many others. Today Rocky Neck continues to attract artists and art lovers to a thriving creative community. For up to date information visit rockyneckartcolony.org

Flatrocks Gallery is honored to present Robert J. Anderson, Cape Ann Modernist

September 22 to October 16
Opening Reception on September 24 at 6 pm.

Quietly but persistently, Bob Anderson (1934–2016) created an astounding body of work, mainly oil paintings on canvas and paper, in his Pigeon Cove home studio over a period of forty-six years. An exuberant, restless inventor, he was a deeply observant and technically gifted artist. Anderson’s roots were in the 1950s, a time of fertile experimentation in the arts. After attending the Art Institute of Chicago and winning the coveted Logan Art Institute Prize in 1957, he continued to paint and exhibit in the lively Chicago art scene until 1964, when he and his wife moved to New York City. In 1969 they came to Cape Ann to live. Anderson was influenced by the German Expressionists as well as by contemporaries such as the Chicago Imagists, but he sought tirelessly to develop his own ideas. “I guess I could be considered eclectic in that I’ve gone through so many phases in my work,” he said. Motivated always by the next discovery and the challenge of finding new ways of seeing, he used the formal elements of his discipline as a structure for experiments in expression. With meticulous attention to detail, he often produced works in series, pushing through the variations to the revelation. Anderson’s work, never static, made playful use of many materials. He created sculptures in wood and reliefs in concrete and paint, produced silkscreens on fabric, and incorporated stencils in his oil paintings. His keen sense of humor shines in his figurative paintings and ink drawings, where people with exaggerated features consort

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with pigs on a busy street corner, dogs dance with women, and figures morph seamlessly into machines and vice versa. Anderson’s independent spirit was obvious from the start. Early in his career he had a one-man show at Crown Hall, Mies van der Rohe’s landmark glass building at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, which ended abruptly because the administration found his paintings too shocking. Many of Bob’s oils are suggestive of the landscape he loved here on Cape Ann. Though not

representational, they make use of the forms and colors of the cracked and broken granite, the earthy tones of the woods, the light of the sea. “You can’t get it out of you,”

he remarked.  Bob Anderson’s art was his life, and this exhibition takes us through the many facets of that well-lived life. A beloved figure on Cape Ann, he will be missed by all who knew him. Anderson exhibited his paintings and sculptures at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, the Orphanos Gallery in Boston, Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, the School Street Gallery in Rockport, and the West End and Acacia galleries in Gloucester. His work is in the collection of the Cape Ann Museum, as well as in private collections throughout the United States.

Flatrocks Gallery is open noon to 5 Thursday – Sunday 77 Langsford St./Rt127 Gloucester [or by appointment 978-879-4683]

www.flatrocksgallery.com

Lanesville Music Festival & Dance Party

Saturday, September 24, 2016 – Gloucester, MA

The Lanesville Community Center (LCC), located at 8 Vulcan Street, Gloucester, MA, proudly presents its 7^th annual Lanesville Music Festival and Dance Party. This will be a fun-filled day and night for friends, neighbors, the Cape Ann community, featuring local talent, food, artisans and community partners, with activities for kids and beverages for adults, all supported by enthusiastic Lanesville volunteers.

Festival: non-stop music from noon to 7:00PM. Admission is by donation. Evening dance party from 8:30PM to 11:00PM featuring King Brown Mattacks and Gates (KBMG). Admission is $10 at the door. Rain or Shine. For full performance schedule visit: www.lanesvillecommunitycenter.org and www.facebook.com/LanesvilleCommunityCenter.

WHEN?  3-4pm (10 weeks) Each Tuesday, Sept 13th – November 15th

WHERE?  St. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 48 Middle St., Gloucester

WHO? Facilitated by Dr. “D” (DiPrima) for young adults – Ages 10 – 15

WHAT? Using proverbs from around the world, participants will explore meaning through a variety of dramatic forms – Theatre games, movement, music, dramatic play, Storydrama, Improvisation and Reader’s Theatre

COST? $100, need based scholarships available

Contact: Jay DiPrima 978-283-1708 or jay@stjohnsgloucester.org