Author: James Eves

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Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Calendar

Friday June 12 @8:00 is our annual
Welcome to Amateur Astronomy Night
at GAAC!

The Lanesville Community Center is at 8 Vulcan Street in Lanesville.

We’ll have telescopes of every size and description set up inside the LCC for you to inspect and ask the owners about. What are the benefits of that particular scope? What can you see? How much did it cost? And that’s not all:

At this meeting we’ll have six quick ten-minute visual presentations on different Astronomy topics for you to enjoy, and of course the usual goodies and wonderful conversation you’ve come to enjoy from GAAC.

Don’t miss this annual overview of everything you need to know in order to enjoy exploring the cosmos in the company of very nice people.

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION OFFERS, “Capturing the Living Landscape,” an outdoor oil painting workshop with Mark Shasha, Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, 10 – 4 pm at NSAA.  Sign up online through the NSAA website, by phone or by mail.

In this two day workshop, award winning painter Mark Shasha will help you learn to manage the challenges that clouds, wind and sea offer when attempting to paint with oils out of doors.  Sharing insights from his thirty years of painting experience, he will discuss composition, traditional techniques, and special methods of reaping aesthetic rewards when capturing on canvas the natural color, light and mood of living landscapes.

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, and by email at arts@nsarts.org, or by telephone 978 283-1857.

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Summer at Cape Ann Art Haven!

Summer is right around the corner and we can’t wait for it to start! Click on the icons below to find out more about each of our awesome weekly programs here at Cape Ann Art Haven.

BUILDERS & SCULPTORS WEEK: June 29-July 3

DRAWING & ILLUSTRATION WEEK: July 20-24

MIXED MEDIA & PRINTMAKING WEEK: August 10-14

ANIMATORS WEEK: July 6-10

CERAMICS WEEK: July 27-31

FASHION & FABRIC ARTS WEEK: August 17-21

NATURE ART WEEK: July 13-17

PAINTERS WEEK: August 3-7

BOOKMAKING & PORTFOLIO WEEK: August 24-28

In addition to our morning programs, we are also excited to launch the Cape Ann Creative Crew, which will run Monday-Friday from 1-3pm.

If you have any questions about our programming or registration, please call us at (978) 283-3888, or e-mail Laura@arthaven.org.

GLOUCESTER’S ACCLAIMED NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES JURIED MEMBERS SHOW, Thursday, June 4, through Saturday, June 27.  ALL ARE INVITED TO  the Opening Reception, June 7, 2 – 4 pm.  Open and free to the public.

North Shore Arts Association’s artist members are renowned both nationally and internationally.  Come view over 150 oil paintings, graphic arts, sculptures and watercolor works created by our own New England master artists.

Enjoy visiting tree lined peaceful ponds, local harbors, beaches and inlets, snow covered hills, European countrysides, and wooded glades as interpreted and captured in exquisite light, shadow and glowing color by noted local artists.  And then consider adding one of these exquisite art works to your personal collection.

Come join us as we celebrate the NSAA’s “Year of The Artist!” with its second major exhibition of the 2015 season.

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.

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.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Peggy’s House, a Cape Ann Cottage, a photographic series by Robert Lerch. The one-day exhibit will take place at the White-Ellery House on Saturday, June 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The White-Ellery House is located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary. This program is free and open to the public.

Peggy’s House is a collection of photos, primarily interiors, all taken in one particular house in Annisquam. Built in 1761, “Peggy’s House” is one of only 65 or so known surviving Cape Ann cottages. Typically referred to as a story and a half with a gambrel roof, it was the vernacular house of the time. During the Colonial period, approximately 350 Cape Ann cottages dotted the coastline around the island, and were home to the many families who made their livelihood fishing and farming.

Robert Lerch said of working on this project, “I am fortunate and grateful that I was given the opportunity to photograph inside a very special Cape Ann Cottage, within the current owner’s daily living space.”

Robert Lerch is a contemporary fine art photographer who has owned and operated a gallery on Bearskin Neck in Rockport for 35 years. His work is sensitive, soulful, and full of substance. He uses all found material and works only with natural light.

The White-Ellery House, located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary, 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. The historic home will be open this year on the first Saturday of June, August, September and October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays. Parking is available off Poplar Street in the field behind the house.

Victoria Petway at Cape Ann Museum just set up a Google Calendar for museum events, made it public and shared it with me, jameseves3@gmail.com giving me  access to “Make changes AND manage sharing”. I then added her calendar to the ever growing calendars on the GMG “Cape Ann Calendar”. Now when ever she adds and event or makes changes to an event it immediately shows up here on GMG.

This calendar is permanently hosted and can be viewed when ever you want at capeanngiclee.com on the ‘events’ page.

To submit entries for this calendar email text only to james@capeanngiclee.com the following:

A Title
A Date and Time
A Place including complete address
A Short description (no more than a paragraph)
and a link for more info

I post regular Arts related PR and announcements directly to GMG daily, so send those to me too.

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.

Join us on our Terraced Lawn for
JUDITH SPEAKS

June 4, 2015, 5:30-7PM • $5 suggested donation

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.

http://www.sargenthouse.org | Sargent House Museum | 49 Middle Street | office@sargenthouse.org

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

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”

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.”

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.

Monday, June 1, 3rd Annual Schooner Challenge, Sails from Gloucester Maritime Center, Gloucester, MA – Three Vessels – Ardelle, Lannon, Fame $40 per person (go to Details of Next Events tab to purchase tickets)

When The Fish Came First
Gloucester Photographs by Nubar Alexanian
May 28-June 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 28, 6:30-8pm

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.

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.

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.