Author: James Eves

“Lookie Lookie” Community Dance Party
Friday, August 8, 2015, 7:30pm

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

Back by popular demand, Lookie Lookie will again bring their infectious Latin bugalu vibe back to Rocky Neck on August 8 for a community dance party. All are welcome, no need for a partner or sophisticated dance chops – the music makes for a groove guaranteed to make you smile! Admission $15 at the door or online at http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org

“With the summer heating up, there’s no better time for some dance music, and this congregation of musicians from Human Sexual Response, Either/Orchestra, Bim Skala Bim, and other Boston bands have just the thing with their revival of bugalu, the explosive ‘60s Nuyorican mélange of various Latin and African American styles.” – Stuart Monro, Boston Globe

Hopper’s Houses – A Guided Walking Tour

A tour in downtown Gloucester to view houses immortalized by renowned American realist painter Edward Hopper

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, August 7 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. The Hopper’s Houses tour will also be offered on August 15, August 22, September 5 and September 12 .

American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. His earliest visit in 1912 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.

Gloucester’s Middle Street
An ever evolving neighborhood

Guided walking tour offers historic perspective

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Historic Middle Street, a guided walking tour of one of Gloucester’s many historically rich streets, on Saturday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m. The tour meets at the Cape Ann Museum at 27 Pleasant Street and lasts about 1 1/2 hours. Tours are held rain or shine. Cost is $10 for Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited, reservations required. Email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455, x16 for more information or to reserve a spot. Additional walking tours are offered throughout the summer – please visit capeannmuseum.org/events for more.

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.

The recently renovated Cape Ann Museum celebrates the art, history and culture of Cape Ann – a region with a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial and artistic achievement. The Museum’s collections include fine art from the 19th century to the present, artifacts from the fishing & maritime and granite quarrying industries, textiles, furniture, a library/archives, and two historic houses. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.

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.

The Gallery on the second floor of the Old Leonard School is now in its 58^th year.  The August show starts on August 3 and runs through September 7.  Hours of operation are the same as the Annisquam Exchange.  Monday through Friday 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.  For more information you can all 978-501-0715.  The address is 38 Leonard Street, Gloucester, MA  01930.

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.
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James Eves is now offering “Photoshop for Photographers 1”, a three hour/one evening seminar. The seminars will be held in our studio Cape Ann Giclee 20 Maplewood Ave Gloucester, MA 01930. Space is limited to 20 for each seminar date. Click the image to register.

Photoshop for Photographers is 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.

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.

From August 4th-9th, the Annisquam Village Hall will be transformed back to the middle ages as the AVP proudly presents this year’s summer musical production of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot. Come and see the show; you’ll be amazed at the talent in the community! Show time is 7:30 each night.

General Admission (16.00) and Reserved Seats (32.00) are available at the Annisquam Exchange, 32 Leonard Street, Gloucester, MA: Cash and Checks only made out to Annisquam Village Players. Tickets are also available electronically, with a small service charge, by logging on to www.annisquamvillageplayers.org.

The Village Hall, 34 Leonard St., Gloucester, MA, is air conditioned and handicap accessible.

Tickets are now on sale.

The Annisquam Village Players have been providing community theatre since 1917. The mission of the AVP to provide an opportunity for local Cape Ann residents, young and older, to engage and develop their talents for musical theater. For two months every summer, we rehearse scenes, music, songs and dances; create sets, design costumes, prepare lights and sound, hawk tickets, set up chairs and welcome the audience, all in the hope of offering an experience — a brief midsummer night’s dream — that will engage, entertain and enrich our community, and that will provide lasting memories for our friends and children to pass on.

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.

PIECES OF GLOUCESTER:
Recent Paintings by ROKHAYA WARING

Opening Reception
Sunday, August 2, 5:00-7:00 PM

Exhibit Runs: July 30 – August 23, 2015

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, 12:00-6:00 PM

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Wonson Street is pleased to host the solo exhibition: Pieces of Gloucester: Recent Painting by Rokhaya Waring.  The paintings in this exhibit allow the artist to share her passionate response to Gloucester’s ever-changing light, color, and mood. Waring focuses on land and seascapes of her hometown of Gloucester, presenting works from her studio as well as direct, plein-air paintings. During the course of her artistic career, Waring has often chosen the form of diptych, triptych, or other multiples; contrasts in time of day, weather, distance from a subject or placement of the horizon line to provide an endless number of compositions or “pieces” that can stand alone, or as a group, and emphasize the constant shift in our visual perception. Furthermore, Waring’s recurring motifs of city skyline, rooftops, and boats on the water convey the overarching theme of single and multiple, solitude and community.

Pieces of Gloucester is on view at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, July 30-August 23, 2015 during gallery hours Thursday-Sunday from 12-6 PM. The public is invited to the Opening Reception at the Cultural Center on Sunday, August 2, 5-7 PM. Light refreshments will be served.

ABOUT ROKHAYA WARING

“I paint the way I cook and the way I garden. Inspiration is an appetite; canvas and paint are the soil and seeds. The process is immediate and physical: I delve with my hands, things move and evolve. Through flavors, colors and textures, what I hope to convey is the feeling of being there; wind and sun, air and light, the power of nature—a transient beauty that is often bittersweet.”

Rokhaya Waring was born in 1966 in Santa Fe, NM. French by her mother and American by her father, her dual-nationality and bilingualism have had a profound influence on her work, as has her homeschooling. In 1972, Waring’s parents settled in Rockport, MA and founded La Petite Ecole out of their own home, now The Waring School. Her most lasting memories are of days at this school, the outdoors and the hand-made; camping across America, printing on an antique letterpress, milking goats and baking bread…and above all, sketching daily. The habit of visually recording her experiences and the natural world has not only helped keep memories alive, but become the foundation of her artistic technique and vision.

After graduating from Princeton with a BA in Art History/Visual Arts, Waring spent her first summer painting in the Provencal village of Forcalquier. Her principal home for most of the next twenty years, this cultivated yet rugged landscape perfectly suited her artistic vision, providing inexhaustible inspiration. Waring also spent time living and painting in various parts of New England, San Francisco and LA, Charleston, SC., Israel, Italy and the UK, the Caribbean, and Tahiti. In 2008 Waring moved to Gloucester.

The majority of Waring ‘s current work is inspired by this gritty, albeit picturesque New England town. Many aspects of Gloucester and Cape Ann recall la Haute Provence of her own formative years with one locale situated on the North Atlantic coast, the other in the lower Alps. The spirit of Impressionism and plein-air painting, with its constant change in light, color and mood, are a natural extension of her sensibilities and lend vibrancy to her work. Waring enjoys the advantages of painting directly from nature, and in her studio. It is in the quiet focus of this space that her vision is distilled and refined.

Waring has exhibited in dozens of solo and juried group shows in Boston, New York, San Diego, Paris, and Provence, including the Salon Des Artistes Français and the Salon d’Automne, and the Currier Museum of Art. Her paintings are held in hundreds of collections internationally. Notable collectors include Carl Crossman, art dealer and appraiser for Antiques Roadshow; U.S. CTO (2009-14) Todd Park; and actress Brooke Shields. Waring is featured in the book “100 Artists of New England” (Schiffer 2011) and in “The American Flag in Contemporary Art”, (Schiffer, 2015).

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.

Historic Home free and open to the public
for 17th Century Saturdays

The Cape Ann Museum, which owns and operates this historic property, will open the White-Ellery House on Saturday, August 1 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Museum docents and staff will be on hand to educate the public about the unique house and its history. The house is located at 245 Washington Street at the corner of Poplar Street in Gloucester and is open to the public at no charge on the first Saturday of the month from May through October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays. Parking is available off Poplar Street in the field behind the house.

The White-Ellery House was built in 1710 and is one of just a handful of First Period houses in Eastern Massachusetts that survives to this day. Unlike other structures of this period, the largely unfurnished house has had very few interior alterations over the years. Stepping inside today, visitors enter much the same house they would have 300 years ago.

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The recently renovated Cape Ann Museum celebrates the art, history and culture of Cape Ann – a region with a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial and artistic achievement. The Museum’s collections include fine art from the 19th century to the present, artifacts from the fishing & maritime and granite quarrying industries, textiles, furniture, a library/archives, and two historic houses. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.

HISTORIC NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL FUNDRAISING FINE ARTS AUCTION AND GALA

One hundred percent of the proceeds going to its Building Restoration Fund.
Saturday, August 1, 5:30 pm.

The event of the summer auction season! Kaminski Auctions, the North Shore’s premier auctioneer for over 25 years, will conduct live and online bidding at the NSAA’s exquisite harbor side galleries overlooking East Gloucester’s Smith Cove. Over 80 original works, including watercolors, oils, graphics, and sculpture by the NSAA’s extraordinary, multi-award winning and nationally acclaimed artists, will be offered for bidding.

A rare opportunity to add to your Cape Ann artists collection, and also a rare opportunity to help fund the NSAA’s restoration of its home for over ninety years. The Annual Fine Art Auction proceeds are paramount to funding the much needed restoration of the windows and exterior siding of its historic gallery building.

Tickets are available through NSAA’s website http://www.nsarts.org, by telephone or at the door. Elegant hors d’oeuvre and wine gala.

The North Shore Arts Association’s galleries are open, free to the public,
Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.

More information on all North Shore Arts Association events is available by visiting their website at www.nsarts.org, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.

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.

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.

Please Join us Wed. July 29th at 7pm to hear Mark Carlotto talk about his new Dogtown book, THE CELLARS SPEAK. After a short reading, local singer/songwriter Kitt Cox will provide Dogtown-inspired musical entertainment.

77 Langsford St. Gloucester MA
Open Thurs. through Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment
978-879-4683 • www.flatrocksgallery.com

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.

The Conduit Sound Meditation @ Floating Lotus Gloucester, Friday, July 31st.

Call the shop to book your time 978-546-2367.

Spaces fill up fast for this event. Group bookings are available.

Hello Lotus Friends,
Announcing The Conduit Summer Sound Meditation Series @ Floating Lotus Gloucester & Yoga Joy, Friday, July 31st at 169 Main Street, Gloucester. This is the ultimate sound journey experience! Come enjoy your state of bliss with the Conduit! Planetary gongs, singing bowls, chimes and other calming sounds induce relaxation & meditation! These will be extra long super sessions, 45 minutes long! Sessions commence at 7, 8:15 & 9:30 PM. $25 suggested donation, refreshments will be served.
Call Floating Lotus at 978-546-2367 to book your space. This event fills up fast! Can’t wait to see everyone.
Namaste~

Mug Mondays

Mondays 4-7pm
During Magnolia Farmers Market

Pottery for Sale from the Cape Ann Community
Come and Find your Treasure

Lexicon Gallery
Location: 15 Lexington Ave., Magnolia, MA 01930
Hours: Fri-Sun, 12-5pm
Mon 4-7pm (During Magnolia Farmers Market)
Or By Appt SeyrelWilliams@gmail.com
www.LexiconGallery.com

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.

Contributors from Good Morning Gloucester will be taping this weeks GloucesterCast from the Cape Ann Farmers Market at 5PM from the Bandstand in Stage Fort Park. Come down and see the shenanigans complete with interviews with some of your favorite vendors.

And If that’s not enough, Sista Felicia, partnered with Marshall’s Farm Stand is now officially offering sumptuous fare from her kitchen. Here’s the Menu:

Come on down to Stage Fort Park, shop to fill your cupboards with the best food and treats that Cape An Farmers have to offer. Check out the Farmers Market web site for all the details!

Thursdays, June 11th to October 8th
3-6:30pm at Satge Fort Park – FREE PARKING!

Third Summer Exhibit: July 25 – August 25

Opening Reception: Friday, July 24^th, 6-8 pm

The Third Summer Show will be on view throughout the Association’s Galleries.  The exhibit highlights the RAA’s Members in Painting, Sculpture and Graphics in the Main Building, Hibbard & Maddock’s galleries and also features it’s Photography Members in the Martha Moore room just at the top of the stairs.

Also on display at this time:

Artist Showcase: George Martin July 23 – July 28

Artist Demonstration in Oil Painting in the Hibbard Gallery
Saturday, July 25^th at 10:30 am. The Showroom (Upstairs)

This summer at the RAA we are featuring Artist Members in their own solo exhibits in the Showroom, just at the top of the stairs in the Main building.  At 10:30 am on the Saturday of their show, the artists will be offering a free demonstration in the Hibbard Gallery.

The RAA is open free to the public Monday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm, Sunday 12 – 5
Rockport Art Association, 12 Main Street Rockport, MA • 978-546-6604 www.rockportartassn.org • info@rockportartassn.org

New exhibition features 39 paintings from July 11 to Nov. 29

One of the country’s most important painters of the early 20^th century, John Sloan (1871-1951) made his name painting urban daily life in New York City before coming to Cape Ann for five summers (1914-1918) to paint scenes of the sea, marshes, homes, rocky outcroppings, downtown views, and landscapes that proved to be a hallmark of his career.

In a special loan exhibition, the Cape Ann Museum will feature 39 paintings that Sloan created while in Gloucester, thought to be among his finest work and most prolific period. The Museum holds five major paintings in its permanent collection and will be borrowing 30 more pieces for the exhibit from a wide-reaching network of institutions across the country. JOHN SLOAN Gloucester Days opens July 11 and runs through Nov. 29.

Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania in 1871, grew up in Philadelphia, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1904, he moved to New York City where he affiliated with a group of artists known as “The Eight;” in addition to Sloan, the group included Robert Henri, Maurice Prendergast, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, Arthur Davies, Ernest Lawson, and George Luks. The Eight evolved into the better-known Ashcan School, a loose-knit group of artists who sought to capture the reality of daily life in New York City.

The forward-thinking Armory Show of 1913 in New York was a turning point for Sloan. Inspired by the progressive work he saw there, Sloan sought new venues for painting.  He was invited by fellow artist and friend Charles Allan Winter to Gloucester in the summer of 1914, and together they rented a little red cottage near Rocky Neck where Sloan would often paint two landscapes a day. The house was a popular gathering spot for many of their friends, including Stuart Davis.  The red cottage still stands on Gloucester’s East Main Street.

Intrigued by the lush green seaside grass juxtaposed against the blue sea, Sloan captured recognizable scenes downtown and along the shoreline. He returned to Cape Ann for four more summers. “After coming back with our easels, canvases, and paint boxes, we would each sit in a corner of the dining room to study our work,” Sloan recalled. “One summer Stuart Davis and family shared the cottage. We went out painting together. All of us were interested in developing different orchestrations of color on the palette.” By 1919, Sloan sought new landscapes for his work and moved to New Mexico.

Cape Ann Museum’s Sloan collection includes: Sunflowers, Rocky Neck, 1914; Old Cone (Uncle Sam) 1914; Glare on the Bay, c. 1914; Red Warehouses at Gloucester, 1914; and Dogtown, Ruined Blue Fences, 1916.

The exhibition will also feature  additional  paintings  on loan from the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Lehigh University Art Galleries; Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NY; Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Syracuse University Art Collection; Delaware Art Museum; Duke University Museum of Art; University of Washington Museum of Art; Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, FL; New Britain Museum of American Art; Tacoma Art Museum; Kraushaar Galleries; Parrish Art Museum in NY; as well as private collections.

“Gloucester afforded the first opportunity for continuous work in landscape, and I really made the most of it,” Sloan recalled. “Working from nature gives, I believe, the best means of advance in color and spontaneous design.”

Related JOHN SLOAN Gloucester Days lecture series:

Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m.:
Three Moderns Paint Gloucester: Sloan, Hartley, and Hopper on Cape Ann

Presented by Carol Troyen, an independent scholar and author, and the Kristin and Roger Servison Curator Emerita of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Although they never overlapped in Gloucester, three of the greatest painters of the early 20^th century – John Sloan, Edward Hopper, and Marsden Hartley – spent significant parts of their careers on Cape Ann. The three artists’ responses to the region differed markedly, but the area’s appealing vistas led each to a new and modern style. The lecture will trace their steps through Gloucester and compare what each found there.

Thursday, Aug. 13 at 7 p.m.:
John Sloan, Robert Henri, and John Butler Yeats: A Portrait of Friendship

Presented by Avis Berman, an independent writer, art historian, and author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art; James McNeill Whistler and Edward Hopper’s New York.

Understanding how artists consider portraits and the deeper emotional currents that inspire them is especially revealing in the case of American painter and printmaker John Sloan. He could not have matured into the artist that he was without his connection to two other forceful personalities and fellow painters, Robert Henri and John Butler Yeats. The intense, transformative, and intellectual friendships were central to Sloan’s life and work.

Friday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m.:
Passing through Gloucester: John Sloan Between City and Country

Presented by Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History and Director of the Master’s Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory at Purchase College, State University of New York and author of Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art; James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics and History in the 1960s; and John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration.

In contrast to the urban setting of John Sloan’s most memorable Ashcan School paintings, the works the artist produced in Gloucester are more pastoral in nature. Sloan’s time in Gloucester overlapped not only with his own political interests but during the era of World War I. Those political considerations will be discussed in how they relate to Sloan’s images of New York and his treatment of Gloucester’s seemingly idyllic scenes.

Tickets for the lecture series are $10 for members and $15 for non-members. For the series, tickets are $25 for members and $40 for non-members. For more information, call 978-283-0455 x10 or email: info@capeannmuseum.org.

Captivating Moments: Music, Dance, and the American Landscape

The exhibit dates: July 1 – 27
Where: Beverly Public Library, 32 Essex St., Beverly, MA 01915

Photographer Thom Adorney of Beverly, MA will have a photography exhibit at the Beverly Public Library during the month of July. The exhibit will feature photographs of artists, such as Angie Miller, Livingston Taylor, Steve James, and Comedian Patty Ross, who have performed at The Cabot Theater, as well as landscapes from across America.

“I love capturing artists in that exquisite moment when they are lost in the act of creating,” says Thom. “There’s a purity in that.”

A New England native, Thom spent 35 years in Colorado and traveling the West. He’s photographed in the canyon lands of Utah and Arizona, the Colorado Rockies, and the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone in Wyoming. “There’s something supernatural about the vast spaces and dramatic landscapes in the West,” he says. “But the North Shore, with it’s rocky coastline, marshes, and towering woods, is no less beautiful. I’m delighted to have a new palette to work from.”

The photographs in the exhibit, as well as those on his website, will be available to purchase, with a portion of the profits being donated to renovating The Cabot Theater. “Volunteering at The Cabot is truly gratifying,” says Thom. “I feel that I am helping re-create a cultural hub for Beverly and the North Shore.”

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.

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION, LOCATED IN EAST GLOUCESTER, MA, A FAVORITE PAINTING VENUE OF ARTIST LEGENDS WINSLOW HOMER, EDWARD HOPPER and FITZ HENRY LANE, CELEBRATES ITS “Year of The Artist!” WITH AN EXCITING JURIED, THIRD MEMBERS’ SHOW OF THE 2015 SEASON. Thursday, July 2 through Saturday, July 25. OPEN FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

Artist Anita Johnson, Popular Award for Exhibition II, (image not shown)

Honoring its founding artists Theresa Bernstein, Frederick Mulhaupt, and Hugh Breckenridge among many others, and 9 decades of groundbreaking exhibitions, the artists of the North Shore Arts Association continue to offer a stunning display of their oil, graphics, watercolor, and sculpture works in their third major exhibition of the 2015 season. These NSAA artists, national award winners in every medium, invite you to join them in celebrating “The Year of The Artist!”.

The historic North Shore Arts Association opens an exciting Artist Members’ Small Works Exhibit, July 30 – August 29, and offers its First Juried Associate Members’ Show of the 2015 Season, August 6 – August 29.   Receptions for both the Small Works and Associate Members’ Exhibits will be held Sunday, August 23, 1 – 3 pm.   Refreshments served.  Open and free to the public.

Many giants of the art world including Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Vermeer painted much treasured and highly prized small art works.  The appeal of small works is manifold with flexible display options:  the work can be clustered in and around other pieces; or placed in tiny, sometimes awkward spaces; or hung in discreet groupings, and easily placed on small easels atop a side table, and often lower price points are also an advantage.  The main appeal, however, is to enjoy an intimate and condensed expression of the artist’s focused vision.

Come join the North Shore Arts Association as it celebrates its “Year Of The Artist!” with a Small Works members exhibition and Associate Members Show.

“Three Artists, Three Unique Demonstrations”  will be a special demonstration and discussion of three unusual painting techniques.  Saturday, July 25, 10:30 am at North Shore Arts Association.  Open and free to the public.

 Essex artist Susan Guest-MacPhail will discuss mixed media and demonstrate Gelli Plate printing that requires no presses, special inks or paper.

 Gloucester artist Susan Daly is working with new mediums in Acrylic painting that create a variety of matte and glossy finishes and textures.  These new techniques have earned her recent awards.

 Gloucester artist Trudy Allen will demonstrate the trendy use of Alcohol inks which can be used on non-absorbent materials such as tiles and Yupo to create vibrant colors and unusual results.

The mini demos will accommodate questions and answers.  The audience is encouraged to actively participate and share their own discoveries in any new and exciting art materials and their uses.  Creativity has no boundaries!

The North Shore Arts Association’s galleries are open, free to the public, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.

More information on all North Shore Arts Association events is available by visiting  their website at www.nsarts.org, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.

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.