My View of Life on the Dock
Sorry to anyone who was looking for a Rock yesterday. I posted i was going to leave one somewhere in Gloucester at 6pm on 03/19/2011. But I was unable to make it. Sorry Again.
But I did have a little break today and was able to do one after my Meditation session.
Follow me on twitter for it’s location: http://twitter.com/#!/capeannpainter
Sorry, but no photos. I didn’t have my camera with me.
Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, MA
Show Dates: May 20 – June 3, 2011
For more information and to download application go to
www.rockyneckartcolony.org/spring.html
The Rocky Neck Gallery is accepting proposals for two-week shows to be held this summer in the Rocky Neck Gallery from June 8 to October 12, 2011. The exhibit space is a 12′ x 6′ corner section of the gallery. Any artist, group of artists, or authorized representative of a deceased artist may apply in any medium. The Rocky Neck Gallery will provide publicity, signage, gallery sitting, help with hanging and receptions, and will handle sales. In return, the gallery will charge a fee to cover costs. For more information and to download an application, go to www.rockyneckartcolony.org/Summer_Artist_Series_application.pdf or call 978-283-3598.
The Rocky Neck Gallery, located at 53 Rocky Neck Ave., is a co-operative gallery run by members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony. A limited amount of space is available for new artists in 2011 for the
19-week summer season (June 7 to October 15). All media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, mixed-media, collage, sculpture, pottery, jewelry and other fine craft will be considered. For more information and to download an application go to www.rockyneckartcolony.org/RNG2011application.pdf Deadline to apply: April 1, 2011.
407 S. Pineapple Ave. Sarasota, FL
(941) 312-5826
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-5 pm
or by appointment.
extended hours on occasion
See the new winter home for our combined gallery and ISLA beach house boutique, featuring Sigrid’s original artwork, prints, cards and hand-painted ceramics artfully blended with fashion and accessories from other designers around the world.
The Gloucester Stage Company is looking for visual artists that might want to donate a piece of artwork for a silent auction to take place during their 2011 Spring Benefit Gala in May. The benefit is a dinner/dance event to "kick off" the GSC’s 32nd Summer Play Season and will be held at Cruiseport Gloucester on Friday, May 20. It will be marketed on their 2011 Season Brochure, which will be mailed in early March to 5000+ constituents, as well as on posters, invitations and internet event listing sites.
Those artists who participate in the auction will receive recognition on the invitation, on the GSC website, and at the event. Recognition will also be given to the artists and the Rocky Neck Art Colony at the event.If you would like to donate artwork for this event, please contact John North, Development and Marketing Director Gloucester Stage Company (978) 281-4099, jabjen@juno.com.
This workshop will incorporate a number of techniques Sigrid has developed to allow free and spontaneous use of color and print in order to express one’s personal life vision. The goal is to open up to possibility and leave each participant inspired to leave all preconceptions behind and get on with the business of highly creative living. The mood will be equally upbeat and introspective, technically instructional while reaching deeper to unleash inner imagination and self-expression. We will use a three part media: painting, print and collage. There will be a focus on color mixing, color theory and self expression through color utilizing permanent brilliant watercolor inks on paper. In combination with the watercolor under-painting, there will be a print component, employing hand-carved rubber print blocks. The workshop culminates in a collage using all the elements practiced over the past few days. The notion of inspiration will be explored through guided meditation, audio-visual presentation and open discussion.
Montserrat College of Art
23 Essex St. Beverly MA 01915
Ruth Mordecai is trying to organize an amazing community project that involves a French street artist named JR and the Ted project that is using art to turn the world Inside Out. To learn more watch the video
TED Prize Winner JR & INSIDE OUT from TED Prize on Vimeo.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html and contact Ruth (RGlouc@comcast.net) if you want to get involved.
Judith Monteferrante is helping Topside Grill in Gloucester to set up a B&W (or sepia toned) Gloucester Waterfront themed show for the bar upstairs (April to Jan). No commission for sales! Will try for an opening reception as well. Looking for options and images to review in March. Contact Judith@judithmphotography.com for more information.
LynnArts is now accepting proposals for group and solo shows for 2012. The Willow Community Gallery, suitable for two to four person or solo shows and installations is 12′ x 25′ with 12′ ceilings (5 openings) with a standard size door entry. Accepted artists are required to install their show, produce show cards and provide an opening reception, though no fee is charged for the space. LynnArts sends out press releases on all shows, but strongly encourages artists to send their own promotion materials as well. Artists are also strongly encouraged to offer a community component to their exhibition like a gallery talk or demonstration.
We accept proposals for all mediums and installations, though film/video artists must supply their own equipment. The deadline for proposals is May 1. For information on how to submit a proposal, please visit our website: www.lynnarts.org. For questions, please contact Susan Halter, 781-598-5244 or swhalter@lynnarts.org.
25 Exchange Street, Lynn MA 01901
Susan who owns toodeloos on Main Street in Gloucester is going to open an art store here. She has requested that artists send her lists of what materials (specific brand names etc) they use so she can begin to figure out what to order. Contact her at 978.281.2011 or TOODELOOSTOYS@YAHOO.COM.
It’s time to renew your Rocky Neck Art Colony membership. Go to www.rockyneckartcolony.org/2011Membership.pdf to download a membership application.
Email all materials to judy@robinson-cox.com
A meeting for current members of the Rocky Neck Gallery will be held on Sunday, March 27 at 4pm at the Random Arts Gallery, 25 Lexington Ave., Magnolia.
Several galleries are for rent for the 2011 season. To get first choice of prime space contact
Niki Ahearn at 617-543-2977 OR email: NicoleAhearn@comcast.net.
97 East Main Street, Gloucester
Harbor view, great light, quiet, parking, incl. utilities
$300 monthly
Please call Anna 978 281 3436
If you happen to be in Stanwood, Washington from March 12 to the 27th, please stop in to Gallery by the Bay to see the 10th annual unclad art show – Unclad 2011! Three of Michael’s photographs are in the show. You can follow this link to my photographs and to see all the artworks in the show: http://www.uncladart.com/unclad-2011?page=3
Unclad 2011 Opening Day Celebration
Saturday, March 12th from 11 am to 8 pm!
Semi Circle, photograph by Michael Seif
Judith Monteferrante received a Silver Award for her photograph, "Fluid Motion" the COLOR Single Image Contest and was published in COLOR Magazine Issue 13, May 2011 – available now.
Fluid Motion, photograph by Judith Monteferrante
Rokhaya Waring is featured in the book, 100 Artists of New England, by E. Ashley Rooney, now available online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other resellers.
One hundred artists have come together to share the distinctiveness of New England. Oil paintings, glass and metal sculptures, and works in wood offer a fresh look at this region’s long, rolling hills and famous autumn colors. Learn histories of the art colonies, including Rockport-Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts; Monhegan Island and Ogunquit, Maine; Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut; and North Conway, Cornish Colony, and MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire. A great resource for artists, collectors, and art dealers, as well as art historians.
E. Ashley Rooney has extensive writing background on various topics, including landscaping and architecture. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts and thoroughly enjoys using her talents to highlight the talents of others.
Richard Seeley’s image "Thor’s Hammer Sunrise" receives an Honorable Mention at the Mile High Wildlife Photo Club in Parker, Colorado (near Denver).
Thor’s Hammer Sunrise – The clouds open-up to highlight Thor’s Hammer at sunrise in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/
Rocky Neck Art Colony, PO Box 60, Gloucester, MA 01931
Chris got this Phoenix tattoo a couple of weeks ago when he was stationed in Louisiana. Quite impressive. He came home Friday night for a weekend surprise visit before he goes off to Afghanistan next week. 😦 “sigh” —Sharon
Donna Writes-
Found this at Raffe’s Chasm, looks like a fish…
Rachelauren Somers Comes by to talk about opportunity for area Artists
There was Shooting going on at the Beach!
And this is what they shot.
The Ferrante’s
Katie Fontana
The Scola’s
The Russo’s
The Orlando’s
Much more to come. Pictures and videos. I only stayed through 5 houses as I needed to get the girls home but our boy Manny is with Sista felicia and hopefully all the houses will get captured.
All I can say is that it was beautiful and emotional with waves of old school tradition washing over the rooms as the women sang and embraced each other.
The videos should be spectacular and photos will be plenty.
I’m Hurt! and somebody’s gotta pay! and it will probably be Joey! Being left off his Twitter list is an insult! How dare you? No “Art, Rocks!” for you! only for someone who follows my twitter account! http://twitter.com/#!/capeannpainter
Follow if you’d like a Free piece of Art! You’ll have to do some leg work to collect it. but you have to be one of my Twitter followers. Goodluck! Next rock coming very soon.
Greasy Pole Magnets
Check out the website-
Daya Project at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport
Daya Project presents…The Boston String Quartet and local artists
Daya means compassion. The Daya Project works to give the
300 million children in India and Nepal a chance to live life
instead of living in survival mode.
On Friday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at the Shalin Liu Performance
Center located in Rockport, MA, a benefit concert will be presented.
Tickets are $25. per person and tickets available at www.dayaproject.org
The goal of this special evening is to raise $25,000. The money raised
will go to building a Daya Home for children in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Painting by local artist will be presented for a silent auction during the concert event.
Meet Dean Snell, owner of The Restoration Works at 16 Rogers Street. However, actually meeting Dean is not quite as easy as wanting to meet him. First you must find the entrance to the building (it’s on the side) and then climb a steep staircase up three stories to his wonderfully aloof loft that is home to his office, workspace and storage facility that is chock full of antique furniture awaiting his skillful hand.
Dean has owned and operated The Restoration Works for about 18 years, first in a garage, then his home and for the past 15 years or so in his third floor sanctuary on Rogers Street.
Willa Brosnihan, Gwynne Fosberg, Morgan Phippen, Lila Olson, & Rebecca Dowd: The talented writers of Song of the Sea, perform their first song written for the show, “The Shanty of the Lunch Ladies ( or Beans and Squash and Cheese).” Set for production in October, 2011, Song of the Sea will feature an intergenerational cast at Henry Allen Theatreworks at The Cape Ann!
Artist Statement
I create because I am compelled to. Creative expression drives my soul. A balance, a release, a meditative state of purity, a flow. Capture.
Capturing the moment, the movement, collecting the subtleties, the essence, a feeling.
A fleeting feeling expressed in painted color on a smooth delicate piece of hand-made paper, or collaged on a battered block of salty driftwood. To completely immerse myself in the quiet intense focus of excitement and discovery.
I create to clarify my mind, to allow deep thoughts to emerge, to unearth connections with images, textures and text in relationship to my world, our world. Our world – a beautiful disaster. So fragile, yet resilient.
I create to connect and build with nature, to bridge art with the environment.
To engage with the sounds, visuals, and conscious, of a swish of a flock of sand pipers simultaneously taking off for flight, the reflection and ripples of a street puddle captured between thawing ice, or the light riding a wave onto the hard sand, of a shell covered beach.
I create to understand humans’ relationship to our earth, our cultures, and to express my respect for its undying strength as it continues to amaze me.
Share. I educate because of my desire to share. I want to share these moments with others, share the artists mind, the contemplation of the beauty and life in everything. Lightness and heaviness, natural and un-natural, to release the burdens and routine of life and add a certain weightlessness to them.
To surprise the viewer and challenge their way of seeing.
I create to be whole…. will you create with me?
Here’s an interview with Kyle and some photos of her work
Click Here For Pictures Of Kyle Browne’s Art
Henry Allen TheatreWorks and Cape Ann Art Haven have teamed up to offer a unique and exciting summer theatre and art camp, with workshops for ages 6-18!
The sky’s the limit on what magic can be spun out of the imaginations of young people! In our unique Summer Playcamp, students of will engage in the collaborative art of crafting then performing a short play, including the design and creation of their own sets, costumes and props! Each session will culminate in a staged performance for family and friends. These original short plays will be inspired by the folklore of Cape Ann. Playwriting and practice will take place in the TheatreWorks lab at The Cape Ann (or ‘The Annie’ to her friends), and the art classes will take place at Cape Ann Art Haven. Regstration is OPEN. Call Cape Ann Art Haven to register today! 978.283.3888
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Song of the Sea: the first original work of Henry Allen TheatreWorks’ Young Playwrights Series. Here some of the young playwrights, in the early stages of the development of their show, discuss the general theme and how they are enjoying working with Mr. Allen. You can read the full synopsis of the show at www.TheCapeAnn.org Registration is still open for this workshop, so contact Henry Allen TheatreWorks to join! info@HenryAllen.org
The most angst ridden young person I know (well from her twitter feed that’s what I glean anyhow) and also the most talented tattoo artist, Molly McKinnon has a brandy new blog-
She’d be the one I would go to if I ever got the lobster tattoo that I’ve been dreaming of for years.
This is the tattoo I’d like on my forearm-
Bu if you know me you know I’m a hairy freak and I’m not sure that tattoos are all that attractive on a hairy arm. So I put it off………..
in case you are new to the blog you can check out this link for the fishermen tattoo picture series I’ve taken from our local guys-
Look for our interview with these creatives tomorrow. The future looks bright. 
Good Morning Gloucester 