Author: James Eves

Viva San Pietro!

Cape Ann Museum celebrates Fiesta with film, photography, sculpture and more

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (June 10, 2015) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to offer a special view of Fiesta-inspired art. The mini-exhibit will be on display in the lower level atrium from Tuesday, June 23 through Sunday, June 28 during Museum hours. Drawing on the Museum’s own collection, along with private collections in the area, the exhibit includes works by New York artist Philip Reisman who worked in Gloucester during the 1940s and 1950s, painters Lucette White and Eileen Mueller who captured the color and excitement of Fiesta in more recent years, and collage artist and sculptor Hans Pundt. Two documentary films about Fiesta will be available for viewing on a continuous loop throughout the week. Related exhibits and information can be found in the Museum’s Maritime Galleries.

St. Peter’s Fiesta – Festa di San Pietro – honors St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. It is the largest and most colorful of the celebrations that Sicilian immigrants brought to Gloucester. The tradition of celebrating Fiesta began in Gloucester the late 1920s as a neighborhood novena and expanded to a city-wide event in the 1930s. Fiesta is still celebrated in Gloucester in late June, with four days of music, dancing, parades, fireworks, seine boat races and the traditional greasy pole competition. On the last day of Fiesta, an outdoor Mass is held, followed by the blessing of Gloucester’s fishing fleeet.

Images available on request.

32nd Annual Open Studio Tour

June 20-21, 10am to 5pm each day
24 Artisans in 22 Studios

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, June 20 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 Cape Ann 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.

The Widows Handbook

Reading by Contributors

Souvenirs of Pigeon Cove

Local authors discuss their latest book, a history of the Rockport neighborhood of Pigeon Cove

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to welcome John and Betty Erkkila for an illustrated presentation and book signing on Saturday, June 20 at 10:30 a.m. The Erkkilas will present a selection of images from their new book, Souvenirs of Pigeon Cove. Copies of the book will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop and the authors will be available to sign copies following the presentation.

Dance and Music Performance
on Sat 20th at Trident

ARTISTS’ RECEPTION:
Fishtown Art at Local Colors

Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative, 121 Main Street, Gloucester, MA

ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: June 19th, 6:30-8:30

Fishtown Art.  A New Exhibit and Reception at Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative celebrates the fishing tradition and natural beauty of Cape Ann.  Each of the 16 artists has interpreted the theme according to their artistic calling. The public is invited and light refreshments will be served.

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

Tickets: $15 at the door, $10 Rocky Neck Art Colony members.
Limited seating – call ahead to reserve, 978-515-7004

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) Only Excellent Music series is thrilled to present an outstanding evening of jazz by the Russ Gershon Trio (RG3).

The leader of Boston’s legendary Either/Orchestra, Russ Gershon will be on saxophones, flute and piano joined by bassist Blake Newman (Lizard Lounge poetry band, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Agachiko) and drummer Oscar Suchanek (Either/Orchestra) for an evening of soulful jazz. The program will include Sonny Rollins’ seldom-heard Freedom Suite, Charles Mingus’ Meditations on Integration and music by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gershon and others. Swinging, bluesy, exploratory and exciting.

Rocky Neck is gearing up for the
summer season and we need you! 

Many helping hands are needed to
keep this vital part of the community
evolving and moving forward.

We invite folks who are interested in participating and helping with the following areas to contact Brenda Malloy at 978-282-1346 or BrendaMalloy@hotmail.com for further information on: Music programming, gallery sitting at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, marketing, exhibitions committee, special events and social media.

If you have 2 to 8 hours a month to give, are interested in one time events or being involved on an ongoing basis, we have many different ways to be involved.  We are a lively, friendly, open group and welcome new comers.

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

Summer Gallery hours, Thurs-Sun, 12:00-6:00 PM

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.

CHINESE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6 – 7:30pm

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

The Rocky Neck Art Colony will engage in a cultural exchange with China by hosting two Resident Artists; traditional cut paper artist Du Jun and classical brush painter and muralist Juntao Fang at the Goetemann Residency Studio from June 16 – 27, 2015.

Their engagement will begin with a lecture/demonstration at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Thursday, June 18 at 6pm. The couple will be available at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio, 51A Rocky Neck Ave, regular studio hours will be scheduled and posted so visitors may visit them working and view artwork on display.

Mandarin speakers are encouraged to attend the event and visit the couple while in residence.

THE ARTISTS

Du Jun is currently the Director of the Paper Cutting Museum in the village of Shanjai Gou, a privilege she shares with her grandmother, Pingying Zhou, they have been nationally recognized for the preservation of this traditional art form.

Du Jun’s husband, Juntao Fang, is a Professor of Art at Janing University. He is trained in the Classical methods of Chinese brush painting, but his teaching focus and national reputation have been established for his contemporary expressionistic adaptations of the Classical style. He specializes in large mural sized paintings that often have social content.

Sunset Tours of Gloucester Harbor

Sail away on the Schooner Ardelle to the world of Fitz Henry Lane

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (June 4, 2015) – The Cape Ann Museum, in partnership with Maritime Gloucester, is pleased to announce three dates for their popular Fitz Henry Lane Sunset Harbor Cruise this summer. The narrated tour of Gloucester Harbor aboard the Schooner Ardelle will be offered on the following Wednesday evenings: June 17, July 15 and August 12. Cost is $30 for Museum members; $45 for nonmembers. Space is limited; reservations required. For more information please call (978) 281-0470 or visit maritimegloucester.org.

The newly 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.

Thank you to the schooner captains, Tom Ellis, Harold Burnham, Mike Rutstein and their crews and everyone who came out to support the Museum. It was an evening of fun with plenty of wind and waves. Here’s a slide show of some photos from the Challenge.

Hope to see you all again next year.

Essex Shipbuilding Museum

 –Len Burgess

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Many of the artists that print with us opt to be represented in our marketing initiatives to sell prints. Call (978) 547-7070 or email info@capeanngiclee.com us to get started on using our free marketing initiatives or set up an appointment to talk about an affordable website to sell your work. Our marketing and website initiatives include:

1- Making your prints available for sale in our online gallery, artists set their own price, we print and ship the prints and charge printing costs, shipping costs and a 20% commission. There is no fee to be included in our online gallery. This service is FREE. You can see the Gallery here –

http://www.capeanngicleeshop.com/product-gallery

2- We offer websites for artists and photographers who would like us to do their print fulfillment. Websites include hosting and a robust ecommerce solution that is tied to our print fulfillment and automatically loads pricing and sizing into your website making uploads of new images easy for you. You use your own custom url ensuring that any SEO you generate for your website is yours. Prices start at $199/year and we have found the $199/year website to be large enough for all the artists we print for but larger options are available and we are happy to go over those with you. For customers who place an initial all at once print order of $1200 with us we waive the $199 website fee and if the customer maintains at least $1900/year in print orders with us we continue to waive the fee.

3- Many artists and photographers have their own websites, they may, however, find it cumbersome to get an order from a customer, forward the order to us, pick the print up from us, and ship it out to the customer. We can show you how you can let your website do the work for you and have your website let us know when you get an order so that we can print it and ship it for you even if you are away on vacation, that way you will never have to worry about keeping your customers satisfied while you are away. We even include your marketing materials and use you business name as the return address so your customers don’t even know it’s coming from us. This service is FREE

4- Our studio space doubles as a gallery space and we gladly show the work of our clients in our gallery space, have a one man show or get together with other artists and do a group show, original works of art are welcome as long as you are willing to take giclee orders for your original art and any photo prints must be printed by us. Call us or stop by to talk about showing your work in our gallery. This service is FREE

Cape Ann Giclee is located at 20 Maplewood Ave, Gloucester, MA. and is open from 10am to 5 pm Mon-Fri.

Mile Marker One
75 Essex Ave, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930

Join us this weekend…June 12-14

Celebrate 26 years of Art in the Barn at Greenbelt. The grounds will come alive with music, sculpture, fine art, pottery, wood work, jewelry, and more, including live art demos. Check out our Facebook page for a sneak peak.

Friday, June 12:
Opening Reception 6 – 8:30pm
Join us for a night full of live music from EJ Ouellette & Crazy Maggy and refreshments from Metzy’s Mobile Taqueria and the Ipswich Ale Beer Truck.

Exhibit Hours:
Friday, June 12: 12 noon – 4pm & 6pm – 8:30pm

Saturday, June 13: 10am –  6pm

Sunday, June 14: 10am – 4pm

One-time parking fee $5/car

Location: Cox Reservation   |  82 Eastern Ave  |  Essex, MA 01929 | 978-768-7241

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES:  NOTED ROCKPORT ARTIST, BONNIE GRAY, “I Love To Paint!” SOLO EXHIBITION.  June 4 – June 27, 2015.  Opening Reception June 14th, 2 – 4 pm.   Open and free to the public.

Enjoying the challenge of painting still life, landscapes, and florals in oil, Gray says, “I love to paint!  I appreciate the richness of the colors made possible using oil on canvas, and strive to create a sense of realism.  A day spent painting is as refreshing as any vacation day might be.  My interest in art, and love of painting is without doubt one of the great blessings in my life, and I strive to convey that feeling in my work.”

 Having studied at Massachusetts College of Art while in high school, Gray was also a student of the late Helen Van Wyk, focusing on still life painting with a concentration in the techniques of the Dutch Masters.  In addition to being an artist member of the North Shore Arts Association since 1995, she has been a member of the Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative in Gloucester, MA since 2008.  Her work can be found in private collections on Cape Ann and around the country.

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.

Book launch for
Phoenix of the Seas, by Chester Brigham

The saga of the Gloucester schooner
Ernestina-Morrissey, State Ship of Massachusetts

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to welcome author Chester Brigham to the Museum on Saturday, June 13 at 3:00 p.m. Brigham will be reading from and signing copies of his latest book, Phoenix of the Seas (books will be available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop). This program is free for members or with Museum admission.

Phoenix of the Seas recounts the journeys and travails of the Ernestina-Morrissey, State Ship of Massachusetts. The schooner, repeatedly written off as doomed, is now undergoing complete restoration thanks to a combination of state and private funding,

The Ernestina-Morrissey’s story is one of wide-ranging maritime adventures, lived by a remarkable cast of captains, crews and voyagers. Launched in Essex in 1894, she sailed to the Grand Banks from Gloucester for cod in the 1890s, voyaged to the Arctic every year for almost two decades on scientific expeditions, served under both the U.S. Army and Navy in the Arctic during World War II, crossed the Atlantic a dozen times as a packet ship, linking Cape Verdean-Americans in New England with family members on their home islands, then back in America under sail out of New Bedford she was a floating schoolroom where boatloads of school children learned about the wonders of their ocean environment.

Behind it all has been the ship’s indomitable spirit, sensed by all who have sailed her: Gloucester fishing captains Bill and Clayton Morrissey, Arctic navigator Bob Bartlett, Henrique Mendes on Cape Verde, round-the-world captain Dan Moreland. And by those whose lives she has touched: dory-trawling fishermen on the Grand Banks, hardy field scientists, Inuit hunters, GIs at remote weather stations, Atlantic islanders, volunteers who have sacrificed much for love of the ship.

Gloucester author Chester Brigham has written three other books relating to the maritime and cultural history of Cape Ann: On Opposite Tacks (2011), Gloucester’s Bargain with the Sea (2007) and The Stream I Go A-Fishing In (2003).

Saturday, June 13, 7:00-9:00 pm
261 Main Street, Gloucester, MA

Join Eastern Point Lit House in welcoming local authors J.D. and James Scrimgeour for a special father and son reading of their work. There will be an open mic at 7 pm, followed by the Scrimgeours at 8 pm. Everyone is invited to read!

For more info: http://www.easternpointlithouse.com 

65 Middle is opening it’s doors as Gloucester’s first gallery and project space featuring new and contemporary art culture. Founded in 2015 by Elizabeth Randlett, a former Brooklyn based creative director with strong Gloucester roots, 65 Middle is a multi-disciplinary project space in the downtown area of the city. The contemporary raw gallery is a platform for emerging and established artists from LA and New York, offering it’s patrons a look into a new time and culture of art.

Please join us in welcoming Los Angeles based painter and multi media artist Harrison Driggs Fraley to 65 Middle where he will be presenting his solo exhibition, Take Care & Control.

HARRISON DRIGGS FRALEY

“Take Care & Control”

June 5 – July 5, 2015

Inaugural Opening Reception: Friday June 5, 4pm – 7pm

Harrison Driggs Fraley’s work incorporates pharmaceutical beeswax, dye concentrates and processed drawing. “Take Care & Control” is a survey of material, and ultimately the remnant thereof, and explores how painting functions within a living experience. Performative and saturated, he implements wax and dye as a nod to the formal objectives regarding the ‘act’ and process of painting, while each surface is sized and titled after the French Neo-Classic painter Jean Ingres’ troubled lesser works. Combining the cynicism of new media culture and historical “baggage,” Take Care & Control encompasses a formal concern with painting’s relevancy, signature materiality, and a healthy disregard for the historical lineage of painting itself.

Harrison Driggs Fraley (b. 1986) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his education at the Savannah College of Art and Design and Atlanta College of Art, 2005-2009.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Take Care & Control, 65 Middle, Gloucester, MA, 2015; Best Wishes/Revenge, Western Canon Projects, Beverly Hills, CA, 2010, 2012

Upcoming and group exhibitions include Landschaft (Heresy) LDC, Joshua Tree, California 2015; Moving Spaces, traveling from OAK DTLA, Los Angeles to OAK, New York City, 2015; Ryobi Room: Miami, Darlington Resort, Miami, Florida, 2014; Starving in the Middle of Nowhere, Werkarts, Los Angeles, 2014.

The exhibition is open to the public Tuesday – Friday 10 to 2 and Saturday – Sunday from 12 to 5.
For further information and/or images, please email elizabeth@65middle.com
65 Middle St, Unit 1 Gloucester, MA
Elizabeth Randlett, Owner / 508-838-5920 / www.65middle.com / @65middle

MASON DARING and JEANIE STAHL:
Celebrating 40 Years!

Saturday June 13, 7:30pm

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck • 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 • 978-515-7004

Tickets: $15 at the door, $10 Rocky Neck Art Colony members.  Limited seating – call ahead to reserve!

Gloucester MA, May 21, 2015:  The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) Only Excellent Music series is pleased to present Mason Daring and Jeanie Stahl, celebrating forty years of musical collaboration and a brand new release!

Daring and Stahl, core members of the Passim All-Stars, will bring their sweet harmonies and humor to the Cultural Center stage with bassist Richard Gates on Saturday June 13. Their new album, entitle “40” features songs ranging from folk and jazz to a little country, original tunes and some classics.

Mason is a noted film and TV composer and record producer and Jeanie a premier vocalist. In the 70’s they were the darlings of the Cambridge folk scene, recorded two albums together and garnered national attention with Mason’s song, Marblehead Morning, which also got them a spot on the Today Show. Mason went on to become an award winning composer for film and TV (The Secret of Roan Inish, Eight Men Out, Music of the Heart, themes for Frontline and Nova and more). Jeanie continued performing as a featured vocalist on videos for Masterpiece Theatre and for films, and in addition recorded solo albums on the Daring Records label. In collaboration with her husband, John Jacobsen, she executive produced the Oscar nominated IMAX film, The Living Sea.

“Mason and Jeanie still sound great together…There’s a timelessness to the songs on the album and [their] originals stand tall next to the classics.”  FolkRootsFolkBranches

Check them out on Facebook (Daring and Stahl) and at their website www.daringandstahl.squarespace.com/

 Link to ePressKit including 5 songs from the new CD