Boatyard Cradles
Photographs by Kathy Chapman
Category: Art
THIS MORNING!!!! 10AM The Season Grand Finale Mug Up and Ryan & Woods Distilleries sponsored Bloody Mary Competition on Rocky Neck
The Season Grand Finale Mug Up and Ryan & Woods Distilleries sponsored Bloody Mary Competition on Rocky Neck (in case you didn’t already see it, forgot about it, or are on the fence about it), will be on Sunday, October 2 at 10:00 am. Bob Ryan has very generously donated some awesome prizes for the creators of the winning Bloody Mary entries, including coasters, t-shirts, and Ryan & Woods Beauport Vodka (!!). Also, for those planning to enter a Bloody Mary mix, so that we level the playing field and judging is based solely on presentation and mix, and no drink is heavy handed on the alcohol (it will be 10:00 am after all, and we have to protect our judges from inebriation), Beauport Vodka will be conservatively added to all mixes here before they go to the judges and attendees. So no one has to go out and buy vodka and everyone’s entries will be made with only the best locally distilled Ryan and Woods Beauport Vodka. Entrants only need bring a container of their best Bloody Mary mix creation and a glass with preferred garnishes for presentation to the judges. In the best interest of judging time and the judges’ alcohol levels, we will limit the number of entries to eight. Of course, entrants must be 21 years of age or older. As always at Mug Up, there will be plenty of great coffee, deviled eggs and whatever other Mug Up type fare people bring along to share. Always a good time and everyone is welcome at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck at Madfish Wharf. 10:00 am
Finally, there will be a Big Blow Out End of Season and Early Holiday Shopping Sale at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery from Saturday, 10/1 through Columbus Day, 10/10. There will be many items under $20 to choose from. Wendie Demuth Photography Gallery next door will also be slashing prices and she and other Madfish Wharf denizens have many great furniture pieces, clothes, household items, fishing gear and more for sale under the tent at Madfish Grille. Plenty of free parking, and it is such a pretty and cool place to visit. Other galleries and shops on Rocky Neck are still open too, so it’s a great time to visit and do some local unique holiday shopping while supporting your local art community.
E.J. Lefavour
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October at Art Haven
ELEMENTARY CLASSES
Color & Design (Ages 6-11)
w/ Aja Heussi
Monday 3:30 – 5:00pm
$40 for 5-week session, $10 walk-in fee
Students learn the principles and elements of art through the exploration of drawing, painting, printmaking, and other 2-D art forms. Experience the work and techniques of artists throughout history while developing your own unique artistic style!
3-Discovery: PAPER MAGIC (Ages 6-11)
w/ Aja Heussi
Tuesday 3:30 – 5:00pm
$40 for 5-week session, $10 walk-in fee
Explore the world of 3-D art including clay, plaster, paper-mache and recycled materials. Learn about some of the works of sculpture and 3-D art throughout history while experimenting with form in the third dimension!
Architecture for the Future (Ages 8-12)
w/ Keara Watson
Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00pm
$40 for 5-week session, $10 walk-in fee
Dive into the question of what cities and towns will look like 25 years from now while learning how to make architectural drawings, plans sections and elevations. Learn about structures and how buildings are constructed before designing and building a model with found materials! Your tool kit will include viewing images of buildings from different cultures and time periods while you learn to use writing and sketching to express your ideas.
MIDDLE & HIGH CLASSES
Youth Open Studio (Ages 12-18)
w/ Amelia Leonards
Tuesday, Thursday 5:30 – 7:00pm
$60 for 5-week session, $10 walk-in fee
Students design their own long-term projects, setting goals to accomplish those projects. The opportunity to work in any medium available, including clay, paint, pen & ink, design, etc.
Open Darkroom Time (Ages 12-18)
w/ Alex Daskalopolous
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:00pm
$70 for 5-week session, $15 walk-in fee
During this time, students who have taken the five week intro course are welcome to spend time developing their film and exploring their own projects in the darkroom. Also, they will be introduced to new alternative processing methods periodically.
Pottery Throwing (Ages 10-15)
w/ Mat Schetne
Thursday 3:30 – 5:00pm
$40/five-week session, $10 walk-in fee
Gain experience with the art of wheel-thrown pottery! The goal of each session will be to complete a basic table set.
CLASSES FOR ALL AGES
Art for Special Needs (Any age w/ a parent)
w/ Aja Heussi
Monday 5:30 – 7:00pm
$10 first child, $5 each additional
Artists of all ages and abilities are welcome to join us for fun art projects in everything from clay to colored pencil and collage!
Family Open Studio (Any age w/ a parent)
Friday 3:30 – 5:30pm
$10 first child, $5 each additional
Join us each week for a project organized by an instructor, followed by time to explore and experiment with everything our studio has to offer. A great time to hang out with the family and get the creative juices flowing!
ADULT CLASSES
Adult Pottery (Ages 16+)
w/ Phil Scheer
Monday 7:00 – 9:00pm
September 19th – October 24th (no class on Columbus Day)
$90 for 5-week session
A beginner level pottery class to learn the basics of throwing pottery to create useful and unique clay pieces.
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“SURVEY” AT ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION
Show by Award Winning Photographers Law Hamilton and Dale Blank with Sculptor John Fleming Opens October 2
“Survey,” featuring many new works by photographers Dale Blank and Law Hamilton and sculptor John Fleming, will be showing at the Rockport Art Association’s Martha Moore Room on October 2 through October 16, 2011. An Opening Reception with the artists will be held on Sunday afternoon, October 2, from 2 – 4pm.
The collaboration of Ms. Blank, a Gloucester landscape photographer, Ms. Hamilton, a Rockport naturalist photographer, and Rockport artist/sculptor Fleming, “Survey” provides sweeping landscapes, graphic close-ups and double exposures designed to share their unique views of the world. Most of the photographs are representations of Cape Ann. Mr. Fleming’s work is full of texture, yet reminiscent of charcoal drawing.
His sculptures inhabit the world created by the photographs.
“My sculpture primarily involves the human figure. To work on a sculpture, building and shaping the surface only to cut parts away and rebuild again, is to try to impart the same sense of growth, neglect, breaking down and recovery that we all experience,” says John.
Dale waits for the best light, in the golden hours before sunrise and sunset, or in the aftermath of a storm. “I hope to increase appreciation of the natural and built environments by sharing the beauty of these places.” Reflections, symmetrical components and fleeting light are the mainstays of her work.
Law is known for her unique photographs of the region’s flora. “Love of nature leads me to express through investigation, using patterns to lead the eye to a new perspective of what otherwise might be passed by,” she states.
All three are artist members of the Rockport Art Association. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10am – 5pm and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm. Galleries are open free to the public.
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The Finish Line Writing Support and Action Group October 4th Led By Our Girl Terry Weber!
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Peter Hunter From Charlottesville Virginia Paints A Scene Down The Dock
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LOCAL TEEN ARTISTS SHOW OFF CREATIVE SKILLS AND NEW WORKS
The Teen Artist Guild (TAG) fall gallery opening at Cape Ann Art Haven isn’t going to be your typical wine and cheese gallery opening. Instead, on October 1 at 6pm, you can join these local young artists to see them revealing new series’ and creating new works on the spot.
“We’re not just going to be selling artwork,” says 18-year-old artist Jason Burroughs. “We’re doing some cool new stuff and we want everyone to come be a part of the process.”
The TAG program was started by Cape Ann Art Haven in 2010 as a summer program. In its initial installment, a group of local student artists began learning how to market their artwork and sold work at the Cape Ann Farmer’s Market. Each student sold their original creations throughout the summer and donated 10% of their proceeds to a local non-profit of their choice.
Throughout the past two months, the program has expanded to include a small gallery at Art Haven’s 180B Main Street studio space and visits to Amy’s Coffee and Cones on Rocky Neck. The TAG students spent four Thursday nights with their work on display at the ice cream shop as a part of Nights on the Neck, a summer celebration of the historic art colony.
As fall approaches, some of these students are starting classes at local art schools while others go back to middle and high school. They’re all continuing to exercise their creative minds and get some real world experience of what it’s like to be a working artist in today’s world.
For more information about the Teen Artist Guild or Cape Ann Art Haven, you can visit www.arthaven.org or call (978) 283-3888.
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Cape Ann – a Farming Town
Goose Cove, circa 1890 Charle E. Dennison/ ©Fredrik D. BodinGloucester and Rockport have historically produced nearly everything they needed: Ships, anchors, tools, rope, lumber, granite, fish, produce, and milk. Our first farm was established in 1658 by James Babson, and was located at the Babson Cooperage property in Rockport. Gallery visitor Laura Kerr told me that she and her husband counted eighteen working dairies on Cape Ann. In my shop, I display bottles from Bass Rocks Farm (George C. Nugent), D.J. Spittle Dairy, Doctor Babson Farm (Washington Street in Riverdale), Kerr Farm (Riverdale), Lanes Dairy (The Best Milk – From Our Dairy to You), Lanes Farms, and O’Neil & Newman (West Gloucester). I wish I had more information and bottles.
F. Maynard Tucker’s Vegetable Truck, 1930 Alice M. Curtis/ ©Fredrik D. BodinPhotographs printed from the original 5×7 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Images # JW-001 (Cow) and A8457-037 (Vegetable Truck)
Dr. Babson’s milk bottle, from Fred’s collection.
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
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Chickity Check It! Another Magpie Nest’s Debbie Clarke Finds Inspiration In Rotten Pogies
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Capt Joey’s "Pogie"
Disclaimer- I’m not a Captain and don’t pretend to be one.
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Judith Monteferrante, Roger Salbury and Rich Seeley’s Out Of Africa Exhibit Opening Photos
Here’s a video from Rich Seeley
click the long skinny ones to view the panoramas
Khan Studio and The Good Morning Gloucester Gallery
77 Rocky Neck, G3, Madfish Wharf
Gallery Hours: Wens. – Sun. noon – 8:00 pm
www.judithmphotography.com
www.rogersalisbury.com
www.richardseeleyphotography.com
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Art Now Event in Rockport in Photos
We had a great evening at Art Now Rockport at the historic former Rockport Lodge (now the beautiful home of Abigail Cahill O’Brien & Greg O’Brien) enjoying miniature apple pies & spiked cider while discussing art with local contemporary artists Kurt Ankeny, Renata Fryshara, Nina Samoiloff, Karen Tusinski & Ben Macadam). We even had the chance to sit around the fire for a bit on a cold evening in early Fall before heading inside to hear art advisor Lydia Barry Kutko make a presentation on the local contemporary art scene. For a more detailed account of Art Now Rockport, click here. Meanwhile, enjoy some photos! (And if you didn’t join us this year, and would like to know when the next Art Now event is going to take place, be sure to click this link and sign up for our newsletter. Thanks!)
photos courtesy of Sandi Hickey and Abigail Cahill O’Brien
Relevant Links:
Wernau Asset Management (a big thank you to Wernau Asset Management, Inc, Art Now Rockport sponsors!)
5th Joy (Abby Cahill O’Brien’s blog)
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“ New England Inspiration – Two Views” Oils by Bruce Turner – Watercolors by Marilyn Swift September 19 – October 2 North Shore Arts Association
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Meet The Artist Bruce Turner at North Shore Arts Association
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Gray’s Hardware, the Talking Machine, and Four Generations
Talking Machine Sign for Gray’s Hardware, Gloucester, circa 1900 Anonymous/ ©Fredrik D. BodinMy research for Gray’s Hardware began a week ago when I got an email from Lynn Gray. She’s the great granddaughter of Charles A. Gray, who founded the store more than a century ago, and wanted to know if I had any photos of it. As you can see, I have a picture of Gray’s Talking Machine sign (or is it a horse-drawn billboard?). Lynn loved it, but what she really wanted was the front of the building, which was located at 129 Main Street (where Growing Pains is now). I was on a mission.
I called up an old friend and retired lobsterman, who grew up going to Gray’s for onion and potato sets (bulbs), nails, screws, and hardware. He said it was the first shop on Cape Ann to sell Kodak photo supplies. I think they were also the first “phonograph parlor” here, which were springing up nationwide since the Talking Machine’s invention in 1877 by Thomas Edison. My friend’s circa 1900 post card appears below, showing they named the intersection “Gray’s Corner.”
From Lynn Gray: “Gray’s Hardware was built in the early 1870’s. It was started by my great grandfather, Charles A. Gray, and was later run by my grandfather Charles J. Gray. My dad, James Gray, used to ride an old fashioned bicycle with the large front wheel around Gloucester as advertising for the store. He lives and works at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH. If anyone has a picture of my dad on that bicycle, now THAT’s something I’d like to see :)”
If you can help Lynn find her father on that bicycle – please let me know!
Talking Machine photograph printed from the original 5×7 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Image # A9357-002
Post card from a private collection.
Fred
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
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video- watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT at North Shore Arts Association
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NEW ENGLAND PAINTINGS:
watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT and oils by BRUCE TURNER
Meet the artists at the Opening Reception
Saturday, September 24th from 2-4pm
North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirates Lane
Gloucester, MA 01930
Water and oil mix well in this exhibition at the North Shore Arts Association, September 19 through October 2nd. Marilyn Swift will join up with former Rockport gallery partner Bruce Turner for a show in the Gordon Grant Room. Marilyn will exhibit recent plein air watercolors of coastal New England and Bruce will show new oils. More information available at NSAA 978-283-1857 or www.nsarts.org.
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Video- Discover Don Boye’s Island Art and Hobby at 117 Main St Gloucester
I finally linked up with Don to talk about newly opened Island Art and Hobby in the heart of beautiful downtown Gloucester.
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Sawyer Free Library Art Auction
Sawyer Free Library Art Auction
My Contribution:
“Stranded On The Annisquam”
Oil on Panel
There’s some Great Artwork at The Sawyer Free Library that’s up for Auction all through the Month of September. You can get a great deal on some awesome paintings and drawings from some of Cape Ann’s Famous Artists.
The Silent Auction will take place throughout the month of September in the Matz Gallery. The Live Vocal Auction will be held on October 5, 2011 at 7 pm. A Preview Party at 6 pm will precede the auction.
http://www.FrontieroGallery.com
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Art Now Rockport is Tomorrow!
Yes! Contemporary art is alive and well in Rockport. On Saturday, September 17th from 7 to 9 pm, meet five artists along with Lydia Barry Kutko, a New York-based art advisor who will give her take on the local contemporary art scene (check out her GMG interview here). Art, food and conversation all in the setting of the historic former Rockport Lodge.
Tickets to Art Now Rockport are $28 with a percentage of the proceeds supporting the community programming of Rockport Festivals. To reserve your spot, order online at artnowrockport.com. Tickets are limited and sold at the door on a first come, first-served basis. Art Now Rockport would like to thank Joey of Good Morning Gloucester for making his interviews with several of the participating artists available, Lula’s Pantry in Rockport for providing the food, Abigail Cahill O’Brien of 5th Joy for the venue, and Wernau Asset Management, Inc. for their generous support.
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Did You Know? Well now you do!
GMG’S own EJ has been selected as seARTS Member of the week. Congrats EJ!
From the seARTS Newsletter;
 seARTS Member of the Week: EJ Lefavour |
 What is your medium? I am a photographer, painter (primarily oils, acrylics and mixed media) and writer (including being a regular contributor to Good Morning Gloucester)
How long have you been an artist? I guess all my life, but began actively pursuing my life as an artist in 1990 after leaving the corporate world.
Where do you get your inspiration? Now that I am living on Cape Ann, my inspiration is everywhere I look, everyone I meet, and everything I learn about this amazing place. It’s a little overwhelming. I’m a type A corporate risk manager turned artist. I’ve traveled alot, lived many places, operated a number of galleries and non-profit cultural centers, and have also worked as a marketing services provider to artists for many years providing art printing, matting and framing, artwork photography, web design, and other services. Until I close the gallery on October 15, at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3 on Madfish Wharf. Always on my website at www.khanstudiointernational.com, on October 8th and 9th at the Annisquam Arts & Crafts Show at Village Hall in Annisquam. |
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