Category: Art
Pete Chamberlain Khan Studio/GMG Gallery Guest Artist
You can see Pete’s stuff at the Gallery now through the 23 of June. I’ve never seen a man with such broad artistic talent from furniture making to watercolor to sculpture and printmaking the guy can do it all. Amazing.
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You Are Invited to an Art Reception for FOB Kathy Gentile Roberts
Please Join Me and My family at an Artist Open House on June 16, 6-9 pm. New Paintings Will be on Display as well as, Prints, Miniature Paintings and Note Cards. Look forward to seeing you!! A Special Thanks goes out to The Franklin Cafe for Supporting the Show!!
Kathy
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seARTS 4th Annual Art@Bass Rocks June 15th
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Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour Saturday June 11th
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Wendie Demuth Gallery Grand Opening On Rocky Neck Saturday and Sunday
There is going to be plenty of adult beverages as well as Joey C Iced Tea.
77 Rocky Neck Ave, Madfish Wharf Gallery G4 (right next to the Khan Studio/GMG Gallery)
GRAND OPENING FESTIVITIES SLATED FOR THIS WEEKEND ON ROCKY NECK’S MADFISH WHARF AT WENDIE DEMUTH PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY!
Saturday and Sunday June 11 & 12, Noon-9:00, 77 Rocky Neck Ave, G4 on the Madfish Grille Wharf
Newly minted Gloucester resident Wendie Demuth will officially christen her first photography gallery this weekend and everyone is invited! In addition to unveiling luscious global imagery shot everywhere from Indonesia to Africa to Europe– and of course the center of the universe, Cape Ann — Wendie will be treating visitors to snacks and her newly-launched brand of proprietary ice tea that has appropriately been branded “Joey C. and Wendie D.’s Iced Tea”—in addition to other festive libations!
This gallery’s photography is as cool as the ice tea and promises to deliver the kind of wonder and curiosity only Mother Nature can concoct. Images include panoramic views of giant red sand dunes from Namibia (the largest in the world!), vivid close-ups and landscapes of Holland’s tulips, crazy colorful abstracts, and loads of other visual delights that will have you wondering whether you’re looking at a painting or a photograph– all priced so everyone can afford to decorate their spaces with a completely inspiring and original print of one size or another!
So come down to the Madfish Wharf on Rocky Neck this weekend to help Wendie celebrate her opening and eat, drink and be merry with all your fellow FOB-ers and all the other totally cool Rocky Neckers– and of course make sure to stop by the GoodMorningGloucester Gallery–G3, right next door!!
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Catherine Ryan Talks About Our Lady
Catherine Ryan writes-
I really like your cropped close up portraits of the our lady of good voyage in CAM and the craske Fisherman sculpture, by the way. Hard to do something new with these and I think you LOVE Gloucester so much they’re really portraits, alive for you.
The little carved wooden one has the boat and baby—given to Piatt Andrews (he and Gardener helped pay/raise funds for build out after fire) wonder why both and who worked with Halfdan H on it
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ART IN THE BARN June 9th-12
Hi Joey,
So many Greenbelt employees connected with Gloucester say you are THE news source on Cape Ann. We hope you can assist in publishing information about Greenbelt’s annual blockbuster – Art in the Barn, which will take place NEXT weekend, June 9-12. Details attached. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks much.
Mary Williamson
Director of Community Engagement
GREENBELT PRESENTS 22nd ANNUAL ART IN THE BARN
Artisan Showcase and Sale June 10 – 12 to benefit Essex County Greenbelt
Essex, MA, May 26, 2011: Essex County Greenbelt, the region’s premier membersupported
land conservation organization will present the 22nd Annual Art in Barn artisan
showcase and sale, June 10-12, at its Cox Reservation Headquarters in Essex. For one
weekend every June, the barns and grounds at the Cox Reservation are transformed with
color and form as paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolor, monoprints, ceramics and pottery,
jewelry and sculpture in wood and iron decorate the surfaces and surroundings of this iconic property. Even the conference room within the LEED certified, “green” headquarters will be transformed into creative jewelry display space, inviting all to discover the work of over 150 participating local artisans.
Greenbelt welcomes the public to Art in the Barn to see and purchase the diverse work of
talented artists from throughout the region, inspired by the natural landscapes and light that have drawn artists to Cape Ann and Essex County for decades. In fact, it is not unusual to see painters set up, palette in hand, on the many Greenbelt public reservations throughout the region. Renowned regional landscape painter and teacher, David P. Curtis, who frequently uses the Cox Reservation as his instructional “studio” confirmed, “For any plein air artist to have nature as an inspiration is important, but this location in particular, provides compositions and designs, which are ever varied and inexhaustible, to any creative individual.”
“The Cox Reservation has been an inspirational painting location for many years for many
artists – especially its namesake, Allyn Cox and his father Kenyon, two of America’s most
famous mural artists,” Mr. Curtis added. “From rolling meadows and open vistas, to the
intimate scenes of wildflowers along old stone walls, the Greenbelt has offered artists,
photographers and nature lovers, a beautiful tranquility that acts as a safe haven from the
world’s distractions,” he continued. And you could say the Greenbelt offers the ambiance of
particular state of mind. As Plato said, ‘It is beauty I seek, not beautiful things.’
Given its long-running popularity, Art in the Barn draws artists in every medium, and at
every experience level and price point. The participating artists submit to a rigorous
application and jury process for admission. The event continues to draw strong audience,
with crowds often numbering 4,000 attendees over three days. “Art in the Barn offers the
public a marvelous opportunity to see and purchase the work of fine regional artists, while
supporting Greenbelt’s important land conservation work,” said Sheilagh Doerfler,
Greenbelt’s Operations Manager, who manages the Art in the Barn event. “It’s one of many ways Greenbelt can connect people to the land and landscapes we cherish here in Essex County, and one way we can take a small piece of its beauty home with us!”
Sidebar: The schedule for the Art in the Barn 2011 event is as follows:
Public Exhibit: Friday, June 10, 9:30 am to 4 pm;
Wine & Cheese Reception: Friday, June 10, 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Exhibit: Saturday, June 11, 9:30 am to 6 pm
Public Exhibit: Sunday, June 12, 10 am to 4 pm
Since 1961, Greenbelt has been working with local individuals, families, farmers and
communities to protect ecological areas, farmland and scenic vistas. Greenbelt has protected more than 14,000 acres of local land in the last fifty years and has had a direct role in 75% of all land conserved during most of the last decade. For more information about Greenbelt programs visit http://www.ecga.org or call 978-768-7241
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Kathy Soles: Goetemann Artist in Residency Rocky Neck
Learn more about Soles’ work at the Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave.
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Gloucester Door Series White Bird Gallery Rocky Neck
I love how Kathleen has the flowerpot offsetting the door and the sign. Quite a lovely aesthetic. Ya think that was intentional or just luck?
I bet she knew exactly what she was doing. Beautiful!
For the rest of the Gloucester Door Series click here
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Gloucester Doors Series- Alma McLaughlin Gallery
You can tell a lot about a community by the doors on its buildings. The door on Alma McLaughlin
McLaughlin’s Gallery is one that holds many parallels with the city we love, Gloucester.
It’s both worn and beautiful with many layers of paint much like the layers of character that is the fabric of our city. This is no pre-molded factory produced door which adorn the bedroom communities grotesque subdivisions. This is a door that has seen it all and still beams bright and beautiful.
Welcome.
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Kathy Soles: Goetemann Artist in Residency Introductory Presentation Tonight June 6th!
look for our coming video interview
Tonight!
MON, June 6, 7pm: Kathy Soles, Goetemann Artist in Residency Introductory presentation
Ocean currents, navigation routes, intersection of land, sea, and sky, and the imagining of what exists in the unspecified depths of water are all sources for the paintings and works on paper by Kathy Soles. They suggest the mystery of what exists below the surface, sometimes turbulent and at other times quietly serene. Learn more about Soles’ work at an introductory lecture on Monday, June 6, 7pm at the Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave.
Soles holds a B.A. from Emmanuel College in Boston and an M.F.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. She studied printmaking and painting at Maryland Institute College of Art and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions. A professor of painting and drawing at Emmanuel College, she lives and maintains a studio in Milton, Massachusetts.
for more of her work-
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GMG Photo Trek
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Rocky Neck Gallery’s Opening Reception on Saturday, June 11
Waiting by Martha Wakefield
Meet new and returning artists at Rocky Neck Gallery’s opening reception on Saturday, June 11, from 5-8 p.m. Joining 22 other North Shore and regional artists at the cooperative gallery in Gloucester are John Cameron, fine furniture maker and engraver, Deborah Geurtze, printmaker; David Piemonte, traditional black and white photographer; and Deborah Worrall, potter.
East Gloucester is the setting for John Cameron’s workshop where he designs and builds furniture on commission. He believes that “furniture should be quietly pleasing, humming softly rather than loudly proclaiming its presence … fitting into a room for many years to come.” John studied with James Krenov in California and has shown his work in galleries in New York State, California and numerous venues on the East Coast.
A deep connection to nature is reflected in the etchings and monotypes of Deborah Geurtze. She writes, “Wilderness – its patterns and complexity – are a continual source of my inspiration.” Deborah studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and printmaking with Robert Bero. She has recently moved to Rocky Neck from upstate New York.
Six months in Venice, Italy, was a pivotal point in David Piemonte’s career. There he discovered the beauty and solitude of night photography. Working exclusively with black and white film, Piemonte makes traditional prints using archival processing techniques. He has exhibited his award-winning work in numerous venues and has lived on Cape Ann since 1980.
Now living in Gloucester, but originally from Ecuador, Ruth Worrall came to the United States at age 16. After taking a pottery class in Maine in her mid- twenties, she was briefly excited about becoming a potter. Fifteen years later, she went back to college and took more pottery classes. It was then that she realized “clay was what I was meant to do!” Ruth makes traditional, functional pottery and loves knowing her work will bring art into the day-to-day lives of those who own her pots.
Returning Rocky Neck Gallery members include oil painters, watercolorists, potters, printmakers, mixed media artists, photographers and jewelers.
Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930 Hours, June to October, are: Sunday – Wednesday 11-6; Thursday – Saturday 11–8. See our Facebook page and Twitter for up-to-date information and visit our website atrockyneckgallery.com
Telephone: 978-282-0917
Sticks and Stones by David Piemonte
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Join Us For Coffee At The Khan Studio Good Morning Gloucester Gallery Sunday Morning June 5th at 10AM
We will have an unveiling of the new colors on the GMG Sticka version 5.0, free coffee, your favorite GMG personalities and more. If you are a FOB or a vacationer who is visiting from out of town this is a great way for us to meet you.
Bring your cameras if you have them and if people want we can go on a photo safari afterwards. There aren’t many more photographic opportunities than right outside the doors of the GMG Gallery on historic Rocky Neck. Industrial waterfront meets the oldest working art colony in the United States and we’re right smack dab in the middle of it!
Come say hey!!!!
77 Rocky Neck Ave at Madfish Wharf 10:00AM Sunday June 5th
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Chickity Check It! Deb Bretton Robinson’s Latest Gloucester Harbor Painting
Hi Joey.
This is my newest Gloucester painting, Gloucester Harbor. I think it looks like the sun is just about to go down. A very restful time.
Deb
Debra Bretton Robinson
Fine Artist
http://tinyurl.com/brettonarts
here’s an interview with Deb we did at Alchemy-
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FIESTA GEAR RETAIL HQ- TINY ISLAND BEACH GLASS
44 MAIN ST GLOUCESTER MA
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ONLY 18 Days ‘til Fiesta!!!!!!!
Greasy Pole Flag From 2006
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New Twin Lights Beverage T Shirts Are In At Alexandra’s Bread Co
I don’t remember what flavor this one represented. Was it Birch Beer?
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First North Shore Mass Cultural Council Cultural Districts Information Session to be held in Gloucester City Hall June 6
First North Shore Mass Cultural Council Cultural Districts Information Session to be held in Gloucester City Hall
seARTS and Gloucester Committee for the Arts invite Civic Leaders, Business Leaders, and the Community to Join
What: Cultural District Information Session presented by the MCC
Who: Mass Cultural Council, the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts & Gloucester Committee for the Arts
Where: Gloucester City Hall, Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA.
When: Monday, June 6, 1:00-3:00 PM
Register:
The Mass Cultural Council will hold its first North Shore "Cultural District" Information Session at Gloucester City Hall on Monday, June 6th from 1-3PM. Mayor Kirk will open the meeting and the public is invited to attend. All North Shore communities have been invited to this meeting.
The Cultural Districts Program was authorized by an act of the Massachusetts state legislature in 2010, and launched in April 2011. Cultural districts can help local arts, humanities and science organizations improve the quality and range of their public programs so that more local families can benefit from them. They can enhance the experience for visitors and thus attract more tourist dollars and tax revenue. And they can attract artists, cultural organizations and entrepreneurs of all kinds — enhancing property values and making communities more attractive. "For our local civic leaders, the arts and cultural organizations, individual artists, and businesses on Cape Ann, this offers a unique opportunity to position our arts districts for the future and we encourage anyone interested to attend this meeting so that we can be proactive as a community in moving this initiative forward," says James Caviston, seARTS President.
The statute that created cultural districts has specific goals. They are:
- Attract artists and cultural enterprises
- Encourage business and job development
- Establish the district as a tourist destination
- Preserve and reuse historic buildings
- Enhance property values
- Foster local cultural development
Any city or town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is eligible to apply for designation of a cultural district. The city or town, after identifying a specific geographic area, must establish a partnership with other organizations and stakeholders. Cities or towns may apply for more than one cultural district but each designation must be applied for separately.
Prior to submitting an application, the city or town must form a cultural district partnership. The partnership must comprise a diverse mix of organizations that represents the interests of the district. The majority of organizations in the partnership must be located in the district.
At least one cultural organization that is incorporated in Massachusetts must be in the partnership. Cultural organizations located outside the geographic boundaries of the district may be involved in the partnership but must provide programming on a regular basis within the district’s boundaries. Organizations that represent artists in the community must be included as partners.
For more information on Cultural Districts, please visit the Mass Cultural Council website: Mass Cultural Council website. To attend this meeting, please register with the Mass Cultural Council at the address above.
Thank you.
The seARTS Board
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