Category: Art

Have You Voted For The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour As The Best Annual Festival/Event in New England?

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I’m not sure that it’s the Best Annual Festival In All of New England or Even Gloucester But It Sure As Hell Beats The Heck Out of It’s Competition In The List of Nominations

Here are your nominees-

Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour – Cape Ann, MA

Lowell Folk Festival – Lowell, MA

Maine Whoopie Pie Festival – Dover-Foxcroft, ME

Sea Music Festival – Mystic, CT

Six Flags New England Fright Fest – Agawam, MA

Seems like a kinda random list, no????

No Rockland Lobster Festival?  No Big E?  No Topsfield Fair? No Newport Jazz Festival?  No Hemp Festival on the Boston Common? No King Richard’s Faire? No Saint Peter’s Fiesta?  But You Have The Very Prestigious Maine Whoopie Pie Festival?

Anyway, if we’re basing it just off of these choices it’s obviously The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour.  No Brainer.  Support Our Artists (and Artisans)

You can vote here-

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The Cape Ann Artisans Tour Is  A Must Do Event Every Year For Shizzy.

It’s funny when we were having the discussion with the people from the mass Cultural Council as to whether Downtown Gloucester deserves to be designated a Cultural district one of the things I brought up was our ridiculous number of Cultural events to attend here in GTown.

and that’s why I find it funny that the Cape Ann Artisans Tour is nominated in this category.  Because in many other communities The Cape Ann Artisans Tour would be their number one event of the year, hands down no contest.  But because we are so spoiled here we have monster events just about every other week and sometimes multiples in one week that would blow all of the other nominations out of the water.

It’s in no way shape or form a slight to The Incredible Cape Ann Artisans Tour.  It’s just a testament to how insanely rich we are with community organizations that band together and put on incredible annual events that we get to enjoy.

So vote and bring home yet another feather in the Cultural Cap of Gloucester.

Vote here

Check out Massachusetts HED’s promotion for the Creative Economy Industry and sign up!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan Submits-

Hi Joey

Check out Massachusetts ’ Housing and Economic Development’s re-tooled creative industries website.

Congratulations to everybody there and to Massachusetts ’ Creative Economy Industry Director,

Helena Fruscio, for the recent roll out of a new initiatives, PR and website!

I hope they add a home page prompt box directly linking to the MCC’s Cultural Districts and vice versa

Also check out their good work featured today at the Massachusetts Creative Economy Council which is an advisory council to HED.

If you haven’t heard about today’s featured panelists, you should!

Blair Benjamin, Assets for Artists

Debi Kleiman, MITX, MITX Up

Tim Loew, Mass Digi, Games Challenge

Wendy Northcross, Cape Cod Chamber, Arts App

Sign up for HED’s MA Creative Industries newsletter and Facebook.

And Check out their GOOGLE MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=212937354807807480167.0004b61af2b463c7aeb9e

I wrote them to add pushpins for some of our creative networks:

  • Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
  • All of the North Shore Cultural Districts
  • seARTS
  • HarborWalk
  • Good Morning Gloucester J

Come on Cultural Coast : Gloucester , Cape Ann and North Shore : Email them to add in yours!

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http://www.mass.gov/hed/economic/industries/creative/createmass.html

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Best of Rocky Neck

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 CONTACT: Stevie Black, Marketing Director

978-515-7004, marketing@rockyneckartcolony.org

The Rocky Neck Art Colony Welcomes Spring With The Best Of Rocky Neck Exhibition.  Artist members celebrate their diversity and community with a comprehensive and color-full exhibition.

March 13, 2013 – Gloucester MA – This spring, the Best of Rocky Neck exhibition celebrates the diversity of styles, media and techniques, and sense of community of the artist members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony. The comprehensive and color-full exhibit features one piece of current artwork from each of the participating members. The Best of Rocky Neck exhibition will run from April 4–28, 2013 and gallery hours are Thursdays – Sundays, 12–4 PM. Join us for the reception and meet the artists on Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 4–6 PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester MA 01930.

This April, the Best of Rocky Neck exhibition takes over both gallery levels of the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck much like the successful Winter Show a few months ago. This year’s spring members exhibition is sure to take its place alongside the many successful shows that have opened at the Cultural Center since last summer, and will certainly become a fixture on the Cultural Center’s year-round schedule of events.

The RNAC Cul tural Center Gallery is located at 6 Wonson Street, Rocky Neck, Gloucester and is open Thursday through Sunday, 12 to 4 PM. Please find the RNAC calendar at rockyneckartcolony.org

Gloucester High School sophomore, Jennifer Palazola won Best of School for her piece “Embedded by Nature” at the 6th Congressional District High School Art Competition

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Gloucester High School sophomore, Jennifer Palazola, daughter of Maryjo Lamphier, won Best of School for her piece “Embedded by Nature” at the 6th Congressional District High School Art Competition. The awards were presented Saturday, March 9, by U.S. Representative John F. Tierney at Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly and were hosted by Montserrat President Stephen D. Immerman.

Palazola’s teacher at Gloucester HS is Lorrinda Cerrutti, who submitted her pieces to the competition, along with junior Rosie Margetson’s, daughter of Annie Margetson.

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Don’t forget – Origami Class coming up at The Hive, for Easter / Passover!

Posted on by Matthew Green

I’ll be teaching an origami class at The Hive (on Pleasant Street) on March 14 at 7PM!

The theme this time will be Easter and Passover.  Models on our menu to fold include:

  • The traditional origami lily. Easter Lilies are a standard for decorating churches.  On one hand, the white color represents purity and joy.  More importantly, the lily bursts forth and blooms from a bulb which lies buried and hidden in the earth, like Christ who lay in the tomb and rose in glory from under the earth.  This model also introduces origami novices to a standard of the traditional origami repertoire, with its characteristics of elegance and simplification.
  • An Easter bunny/basket (designed by a Korean named Jacky Chan – not the martial arts action movie star!).   Not as directly related to the religious significance of Easter, this model combines a container (maybe for chocolate Easter eggs?) with a rabbit for something that looks kind of like a bunny-shaped slipper.  Cute and functional!
  • A lamb.   The lamb is a central part of the Passover meal, as well as a symbol of Christ for Christians.  This origami design also introduces the origami novice to the use of non-square paper (it is folded from a 2×1 rectangle).

I will have a few more options available to chose from, for both Easter and Passover themes.  That will include a cross (for Christ’s death and resurrection), frogs (one of the plagues leading up to the Passover), a Torah scroll (which contains the account of the Passover), etc.  Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to fold and photograph examples of each for this post, but you get the idea.

As usual, please contact The Hive to register, so we know how many people will need supplies although one or two latecomers are fine too!

To summarize:

Easter / Passover origami at The Hive!
Thursday, March 14th, 7-9pm, students $15, adults $20
call 978.283.3889 or email thehive@arthaven.org to register (although drop-ins are also possible)

To see some of my previous posts about origami (including photos) and origami classes, click here.

– Fr. Matthew Green

Cape Ann Giclee is hosting a Good Morning Gloucester FOB art and photography show

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey,

Cape Ann Giclee is hosting a Good Morning Gloucester FOB art and photography show here at our studio/gallery March 29th – April 7th. We will be displaying and making available for sale the work we have printed for GMG FOBs notables such as founder of the blog Joey C, Kim Smith, Donna Ardizzoni, Thom Falzarano and others – full list to follow. We will be donating our 15% gallery commission to the Cape Ann Food Pantry. We will also have a friendly best in show competition and award the first, second and third place winners with Cape Ann Giclee gift certificates in the amounts of $100, $50 and $25 respectively. To kick this show off and give a good start we will host an opening party on March 29th from 5pm – 9 pm. We hope that people will join us to celebrate the work of the many talented FOBs we are lucky to have here on Cape Ann.

For FOBs who have not spoken to us about submitting work for the show please contact us or just come on by the studio.

Contact:

Cape Ann Giclee
20 Maplewood Ave
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-546-7070
info@capeanngiclee.com

Lilliputian Landscapes Opening at Firehouse Center in Newburyport

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If you have a chance to get to Newburyport this month, go by the Firehouse Center for the Arts and check out Judy Robinson-Cox’ Liliputian Landscapes exhibit.  It is great to see so much of her work all together in one space, and many in large format.  Great exhibit, great opening.

 

Winter’s last gasp?

Posted on by Matthew Green

Maybe, maybe not. Anyway, here are some images from our latest storm.

St. Joachim’s in Rockport
Walking in a winter wonderland!
A wooden fish swimming among coral-like snow-covered trees in Rockport
Delicate coral, or sea foam on the beach in b&w? Or just wet snow on a window?
City Hall seen through drops of water in the window screen
Snow clings to the walls of St. Ann School

Snow at St. Ann’s Church

– Fr. Matthew Green

 

 

 

 

Don’t Miss a Reading by Jamie Quatro at Toad Hall Bookstore!

Posted on by S.D. Kelly
From the Annisquam artist Rachel Perry Welty:
My friend Jamie Quatro will be stopping on the North Shore on her book tour for “I Want To Show You More” on Monday, March 11, at 7 pm, and will do a reading and signing at Toad Hall. She has won all kinds of advance praise for her first collection of short stories, and she has been called a “brilliant new voice in American fiction” and compared to other writers such as Alice Munro. She is reviewed in the March 11 issue (this week’s issue) of the New Yorker. It’s exciting for me personally to be a small part of her debut, as I made the art for the cover. You can read more about Jamie and her book here:
Monday March 11
7 pm
Toad Hall Bookstore
47 Main Street
Rockport Mass 01966

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The Gloucester Committee for the Arts announces $13,200 in new private donation!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan submits-

Hi Joey

The Gloucester Committee for the Arts announces $13,200 in new private donation!

This jumbo gift enables the current conservation work on six of the Charles Allen Winter New Deal murals in City Hall to be completed without interruption. We would have still pressed on but there may have been an interruption (scaffolding down and then set back up again months later) as we continued to raise funds.  While the donors of the $13,200 contribution wish to remain anonymous, the funds were provided to the Committee through the Belinda Foundation at the Boston Foundation. 

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Committee member Roger Armstrong, the owner of the State of the Art Gallery on Rocky Neck and the State of the Art Gallery II located downtown on Pleasant Street , secured this immediate funding gift.   Armstrong stated, “We are so very fortunate to be the beneficiaries of generous Gloucester citizens who share our appreciation for these art treasures in City Hall.”

And it’s also thanks in no small measure to the recent local media coverage –from GMG, Cape Ann Beacon and the GDT –of the current restoration of City Hall murals! The Committee is extremely grateful for this support of the conservation work and the recognition of the significance of the City’s collection of WPA-era murals.

If you would like to join the effort to care for the irreplaceable City art including these historic murals and the work of the CFTA, contributions in support of our City Art can be mailed to:

The Gloucester Fund

45 Middle Street

Gloucester, MA    01930

Be sure to put “Committee for the Arts” on the memo line of the check.

Rocky Neck Art Colony New Artists Show

Posted on by Matthew Green

On Sunday, March 3, I attended the Rocky Neck Art Colony “New Members Show – Meet The Artists Reception” at the The Cultural Center At Rocky Neck.

As usual, the selection of art was intriguing and beautiful – well worth the visit! The show runs until March 18, so you still have time if you haven’t seen it yet.

I set about trying to get photos of each one of the artists with one of works. Here are a few samples.

Otto Laske:

 

Nadine Boughton:

 

Peter Reis:

To see the photos, click below:

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I only missed Thomas Martin, Rosella Park Sagall, and Deb Schradieck, who were not there while I was taking photos. 

– Fr. Matthew Green

C.B. Fisk Open Shop Invitation March 9th, 2013

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Greg MF Bover writes-

Dear Friends and Family,

Although I will be away on another installation in Indiana, my Fisk Colleagues will be ready to show folks around the shop and answer any questions during this event.  We are expecting a large contingent of visitors from the school in Niiza, Japan where this organ will be going, I hope you will come see this unique organ too.

Please feel free to bring along anyone you think might be interested, or to forward this invitation along to your own friends.

Regards, Greg

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Key to Gloucester City Hall’s City Council in Session 1937 New Deal mural by Charles Allan Winter

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan submits-

The Committee for the Arts is excited to share new “in situ” photographs of Gloucester ’s City Hall murals by noted architectural photographer, Chuck Choi.

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Here is Chuck Choi photographing and Mayor Carolyn Kirk eyeing his composition

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Here’s one featuring Charles Allan Winter’s City Council in Session in the lobby of City Hall (don’t miss our killer ship chandeliers!);

followed by a photo zoomed in to show all 34 figures

followed by a photo of the framed “key” that his installed below the mural, just above the collectors’ windows—more to follow on the key!

There was media coverage in the 1930s for the murals as they were completed, and many times since then. Here’s a fun one: In 1972 Senator William L. Saltonstall (Manchester resident and member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1967-1979) enlisted the help of media to announce a contest to help identify the portraits in some of Charles Allan Winter’s New Deal murals within Gloucester ’s City Hall. The Cape Ann VF insert published a photograph of the Winter mural in Kyrouz Auditorium, The Founding of Gloucester, with the caption: “Senator Saltonstall is offering dinner for two at a Gloucester restaurant to the first person to identify the most real people in the mural painting above.”

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The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad Give The Little Mermaid Jr At O’Maley A Bazillion Thumbs Up

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

We just caught the dress rehearsal and I’ll let the Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad’s review speak for itself-

Don’t be the neglectful parent that deprives your child the opportunity to see this performance!

The O’Maley Innovation Middle School’s Performing Arts Department cordially invites members of the Cape Ann Community to attend our upcoming production of Disney’s Little Mermaid Junior.

Performance dates and times are as follows and tickets can be purchased at the door.

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Since September, our cast and crew of almost one hundred 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students have been rehearsing twice every week after school.  You will be inspired by the talent and exuberance radiating from these young performers singing, dancing, and acting out this popular and heartwarming story.   Performing Arts classes during O’Maley’s school day focus on developing students’ 21st Century Skills and Common Core mastery through an interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum that utilizes the mediums of Theater, Music and Dance. This production is an excellent showcase of our department’s extra-curricular offerings, which focus on developing standards in the disciplines of Music (Chorus), Dance, and Theatre within a performance setting.

See you at the show!

Pictures from today’s dress rehearsal-

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The Bean’s Pictures from The Little Mermaid Jr Dress Rehearsal at The Bean’s World

also see coverage of today’s dress rehearsal from 5 year old Snopp Maddie Mad here-

The Little Mermaid Jr

and Jason Grow’s video-

Origami Class coming up at The Hive

Posted on by Matthew Green

I’ll be teaching an origami class at The Hive (on Pleasant Street) on March 14 at 7PM!

The theme this time will be Easter and Passover.  I’ll post photos of some of the models we will be doing, as soon as I pick them out… I’m thinking maybe a cross for the religious side of Easter and a bunny for the secular side of Easter, and I haven’t picked out the Passover designs yet – I have a book with lots of Passover-themed origami that I have to peruse to make a good selection!

As usual, please contact The Hive to make register, so we know how many people will need supplies although one or two latecomers are fine too!

To see some of my previous posts about origami (including photos) and origami classes, click here.

– Fr. Matthew Green

Paul Slifer has a book coming out this month with Schiffer Publishing. "A is for Anchor"

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey , our son tattoo artist,Paul Slifer has a book coming out this month with Schiffer Publishing. “A is for Anchor” is  child’s illustrated alphabet inspired by classic images from traditional tattoo design.The book combines Pauls love for classic folk tattoo art with his interest in kids books since becoming a Dad of our two terrific grandkids Esme and Sadie. The book is available on line from Amazon as well as from Schiffer books and will be in book stores soon. You may remember Pauls commemorative Ardelle launching painting in the same style a while ago. I hope all your tattoo enthusiasts here on GMG will like the book.

Best, Kathy Slifer

Pigeons and Gulls From Charlie Carroll

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Pigeons and Gulls… and a smattering of other stuff…

Am still going after Birds in flight… Pigeons are still a tough subject in the Air…

http://seasquared.viewbook.com/

We’re into March next week and I can start to look for some color.

C.

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