I am a graphic artist specializing in Photo Enhancement, Photo Retouching, Photo-Illustration and Design. I reconnected to my fine art roots when my wife Anna and I opened Cape Ann Giclée, Fine Art Printing and Gallery.
Magnolia Historical Society is once again hosting the biannual Art In The Schoolhouse and you’re invited. The art reception is at Blynman Schoolhouse June 5 from 6 to 9 pm, with the show running June 6 noon to 6 pm and June 7 from noon to 4 pm. Join us for light beverages, hors d’oeuvres and fun. Sell your pieces, mingle with friends and support a great cause – the Blynmann Schoolhouse Restoration Project. Spacing is limited and demand is high. So what are you waiting for? Register Now and visit our web site for more details.
Little Red Schoolhouse
46 Mangolia Avenue, Gloucester MA 01923
978-223-7760
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Come hear Cape Ann Students read Judith’s words that are brilliant, profound & hilarious. One of America’s most influential thinkers, Judith Sargent Murray’s ideas still resonate. Hear Judith on writing, capital punishment, prejudice & female politicians.
We are honored to present Joseph Stiliano, Artistic Director of the Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe, and Patricia Bridgman, living-history interpreter, performing selections from The Mingling of Souls, from Sorrow to Joy, by Jay DiPrima: a love story of Rev. John Murray and Judith Sargent Murray.
Will reschedule ASAP. We are hoping to do it next Monday, June 8. Mike and Tom are available and Harold is attempting to juggle his schedule to make it happen. Hopefully we will have an answer tomorrow as to the new date.
We’ll get you better weather for helping us keep schooner history alive! Thanks for your understanding.
ESSEX SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
We’d like to thank Mary Kay Taylor of the Schooner Ardelle, who has agreed to manage a calendar for Schooner, Wooden Boat and Shipbuilding Events. She’s got it going and it has now been added to The “Cape Ann Calendar”
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Rockport Gallery, iartcolony has three very unique pieces that were tailored to honor Cape Ann specifically.
Owner/Artist, Jill Armstrong says,
“I believe there is an audience who would love to know these were created – and would love to see them – and at only $675 – maybe take one home. One of our clients from Gloucester represented in Swampscott artist Samara Pearlstein’s art, played against Jeff Juden in highschool – got a hit off of him, during a two-hitter game. Not that long ago. And, I love the Stuffy McInnis Card – there must be an audience for them.”
Stuffy McInnis – Cracker Jack 1914 – Gloucester, MA
Ken Hill – Donruss 1990 – Lynn, MA
Jeff Juden – Score 1994 – Salem, MA
Artist statement:
When considering Motif #1, it is impossible to not think about what it means to represent place. Motif itself has been represented over and over again, but it’s as much about an iconic image of the North Shore and its associations as it is about the building itself.
The baseball cards represented here all belong to Major League Baseball players who were born on the North Shore. With the figure removed from the baseball card, what is left are the aesthetic signifiers of a specific era, baseball’s relationship to design in that era, and a focus on place over person— a reversal of the usual role of a baseball card.
Each card also prominently features red as a design element, a selecting factor that serves as an additional nod to Motif, arguably the most famous use of red on the North Shore and in landscape painting.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
The studio drawing classes will run for five Mondays, June 15th through July 13th and begin again on five Mondays, July 20 through August 17. All classes are 10 AM – 1 PM.
This much loved Gloucester artist and former fisherman shares about perspective drawing, “To be an artist in a traditional or classical style, you must understand perspective. If you don’t understand perspective you will not fool anyone. Your paintings and drawings will be weak. You must understand the lines. I will show you where the lines begin and end. When you know perspective, you will be a more confident artist able to draw anything. You will see…I will show you. Join me.” Please check the NSAA’s website for more information.
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.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (May 27, 2015) – In conjunction with the special exhibition Bill of Lading: The Art & Poetry of Roger Martin, the Cape Ann Museum presents a celebration of the life and work of Roger Martin on Saturday, June 6 at 2:00 p.m. This program is free for Museum members or with Museum admission.
Roger Martin, 2012. Photo by Al Mallette.
Celebrating Roger Martin will take place in the special exhibition gallery where Bill of Lading is currently on view (the exhibition closes on June 28). A panel discussion will be lead by John Ronan, producer and host of The Writer’s Block. John will be joined by Greg Bover, Vice President of Operations at C.B. Fisk who will discuss Martin’s time at Fisk and bring examples of Martin’s carvings done for Harvard University’s Memorial Church; publisher and historian David McAveeney of Curious Traveller Press, the publisher for Martin’s Rockport recollections; Thorpe Feidt, Martin’s friend, Montserrat colleague and fellow artist; and his children Mari and Chris who will share their father’s poetry.
Bill of Lading explores the art and poetry of Rockport native, Roger Martin (1925-2015). A founder of Montserrat College of Art and a long-time member of its faculty, the town of Rockport’s first Poet Laureate and compiler of three books celebrating the people and poetry of his hometown, and a highly respected graphic artist, illustrator and painter, Roger Martin has long been one of Cape Ann’s most distinguished and creative individuals.
November Tide, 2003, oil and stick on canvas. Collection of the artist.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
The Sawyer Free Library is maintaing their own google calendar of events that they “share” with me ( james@eves3.com ). Now they can add and update events and it instantly shows up on GMG. Cool, Huh?
Here’s to the men and women who have sacrificed so much and artist Thi Linh Wernau who’s dedication to support them here at home is an inspiration to us all!
Thi Linh’s photography series “You Are Beautiful: Warriors” has been an inspiration to me for several years. Her dedication to the wounded warriors is unparalleled in the artistic community.
IN HONOR OF ITS 2015 SEASON’S “Year of The Artist!” THEME, The NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION INTRODUCES ITS “New Artist Members of 2015” EXHIBITION in The Gordon Grant Room, Thursday, June 4 – Saturday, June 27. Combined Opening Reception with Juried Members Exhibit, Sunday, June 7th, 2 – 4 pm. ALL ARE INVITED. OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC. (Note: For additional information on all sixteen new artists please see the NSAA’s Blog)
Come celebrate with us the fresh, exciting work of our sixteen new member painters, sculptors, and graphic artists among whom are:
Boston based watercolorist, Gary Tucker, who shares that he “feels the ‘art spirit’ when he is struggling, creating.” Sensing a commonality with Turner, he finds “power through brushwork, and subtlety through transparency,”
Painter Katalin Spang of Burlington, MA, who works in oil and pastel, says “Painting for me is a spiritual experience. It is a careful distillation of my interpretation, in a visual language, of the beauty I find around me,”
Mike Foley, a Gloucester stone sculptor, releases the beauty from local and internationally sourced granite who offers, “I find beauty in the gifts of the earth, as well as in the wisdom of mathematics. My sculptures, in their small way, attempt to transform the fusion of these beauties into expressive forms, frozen in time, but warmed by each human hand which reaches out to touch them,”
Artist Cynthia Dunaway who moved to Cape Ann in 1986 to pursue her interest in painting and has, since then, been deeply committed to the development of her artistic expression through the use of charcoal and pencil in life drawing, and as a ‘plein air’ painter, and
Portraitist Dana Levin, also a still life and landscape artist, trained in the painting and drawing techniques of the Old Masters. Her intense study of realism in oil painting has taken her to museums and art institutes throughout Europe, Russia and the USA.
Gary Tucker, “Winter Light”, w/c, 11″x15″
Katalin Spang, “Afternoon in Venice”, oil on canvas, 16″x20″
Mike Foley, “Humpback Whale”, black African granite, 24″ long
Cynthia Dunaway, “Judy”, ink, 18″x20″
Dana Levin, “Portrait of A Young Man”, oil on linen, 18″x24″
All of our new members have trained and studied with master artists and at major art institutions in New England and around the world. The NSAA invites you to share our excitement in welcoming these superb artists as our New Members of 2015!
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.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS) proudly announces its eighth year in partnership with the Bass Rocks Golf Club for the Annual seARTS Art Loan Program. This year’s show presents works by 19 regional artists at its opening reception on May 28th. The opening provides a chance for seARTS members along with the general public to view the works and meet the artists in this wonderful and picturesque setting.
The program is a year-round exhibition, showing and selling the work, and since its inception artists have sold nearly $15,000 worth of artwork through the program, netting more than $10,000 to the artists in the show. The fresh and bold work of the 2015 show balances a body of returning artists with new, introducing the space to completely new genres of work.
“Eastern Point Lighthouse at the Golden Hour” by Deb Schradieck ~ Watercolor, 19″x22″
Among the newly enrolled artists are Charlie Carroll, Matt Cegelis, Anne Marie Crotty, Janel Houton, Eva-Lynn Loy and Marny Williams. Returning to the show from previous years are Katherine Coakley, Anne Cowman, Rob Diebboll, Susan Guest-McPhail, Mary Forte Hayes, Leslie Heffron, Michael Oleksiw, Ron Pruett, Patricia Yarborough Reed, Judy Robinson- Cox, Ruth Schneider, Deb Schradieck and Marilyn Swift.
Responsible for the show’s thoughtful and lively selection of art is this year’s jury, consisting of Manchester resident and Rockport gallery owner Bruce Johnson, photographer Paul Cary Goldberg, auctioneer and art/antiques dealer Michael March and Central Street Gallery director Alison Rowell. The jury will award honors that will be announced at the event. Awards are sponsored by Manchester-by-the-Sea’s Nor’east Frameworks, Artemis Custom Framing of Gloucester, and Hershey Frame Shop of Rockport.
Jurors Bruce Johnson, Michael March and Alison Rowell will hold a panel discussion about the art work and their selection process, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. (Paul Cary Goldberg is unable to attend.) seARTS is pleased to welcome art historian Judith Curtis as panel moderator. Judith, the author of Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1850-1950, will also give a talk: “For the Love of Light; Cape Ann as a Painter’s Destination.”
Details of the Evening: Date: Thursday, May 28, 2015 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM Location: Bass Rocks Golf Club, 34 Beach Road, Gloucester, MA, (978)-283-1866
Please RSVP by leaving a message at (978) -281-1222 or emailing info@searts.org
Event is Free & Open to the Public
Light Fare & Cash Bar
Raffle of Gift Basket, Generously Donated by Local Merchants
seARTS Cape Ann, a registered 501(c)3 is a coalition of artists, art lovers, cultural institutions, businesses, and municipal organizations, all working together to improve the economic base for the arts and the larger Cape Ann community. In 2013 seARTS launched a new website where there is a robust section about the Art Loan Program and the works that have been on display. Find out more about this signature program and more at www.searts.org.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Friday, May 22, 2015, 7:30 PM $5 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Upstairs at Short and Main, 36 Main Street, Gloucester
An hour of true stories told live. This month’s theme: Rock and Roll. Come hear local, and not so local, folks relate a huge variety of tales. Contactmaureenaylward@comcast.netif you have a story to tell. More information atwww.gloucesterwriters.org.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Saturday, May 23, 11am – 12 noon. ALL ARE INVITED. OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
Come spend an hour or so listening to visual historian and beloved Rockport artist and teacher, Ron Straka, at the North Shore Arts Association, Saturday, May 23rd, 11 am to 12 noon. He will share his deep and intimate knowledge of the work of his friend and fellow artist, Bob Blue, with whom he spent many hours ‘en plein air’ capturing our northern light as it graces Cape Ann’s shores. Straka’s gallery walks are well known to be fun and fascinating. Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear one of Cape Ann’s great artists share his knowledge about another great Cape Ann artist and legend, Bob Blue.
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, by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Check it out we are expanding the GMG Cape Ann Community Calendar. We are now including iCalendar feeds from the City of Gloucester and a Community Service Calendar
This much loved Gloucester artist and former fisherman shares about perspective drawing, “To be an artist in a traditional or classical style, you must understand perspective. If you don’t understand perspective you will not fool anyone. Your paintings and drawings will be weak. You must understand the lines. I will show you where the lines begin and end. When you know perspective, you will be a more confident artist able to draw anything. You will see…I will show you. Join me.” Please check the NSAA’s website for more information.
Good Morning Gloucester 