My View of Life on the Dock
Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk talks about Gloucester’s arts and cultural community.
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Purchased in Rockport and given to my son Brian for his recent birthday, this is perhaps the only wall hanging whale in all of Brooklyn.
light art!
every once in a while my work catches me off guard with an inner certainty that i am on the right path. the sun hit this painting yesterday. that ‘light patch’ is flattened out in this image. the reality of the reflected light is that it existed in space, sort of like a hologram. damn, if i could paint like that, But, I don’t know how to. Yet.
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Anna Vojtech At Cripple Cove Studio Part I
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I stumbled upon a super cool Edward Hopper site that was commissioned by the Julietta House. A screen writer traded a place to stay for finding the Hopper houses in Gloucester. They now offer a self guided tour available at their front desk. I was surprised that the “now” pictures seemed to fire people up stating “How could they allow this to happen!” Hopper painted 1920’s ordinary scenes and was focused on lighting and space. Ordinary houses get painted, covered in vinyl, torn down and converted into two families. I do think it would be cool if This Old House would come and restore one of these to as they were when Hopper painted them. It would also make for a great single subject blog, book deal, movie, documentary…
I don’t know much about Art, but I love all things Hopper. I have ties to his hometown, Nyack NY and always went right to his paintings at the Whitney Museum in NYC. It was great to find out that he found success as a painter in Gloucester and it was where he met his wife.
Here are some more of Hoppers paintings in Gloucester that are not in the Edward Hopper House Tour. Share anything about Hopper or the locations in the comments. Thanks!
Portuguese Church in Gloucester, 1923
Prospect Street, Gloucester
1928
Italian Quarter, Gloucester
Essex Farm House – Is this the farmhouse across from Candlewood Golf Course?
Gloucester Harbor
After nine years as my neighbor I finally got inside to see Anna’s Studio during her Open House this weekend.
in the meantime you can check out one of her websites here-
Video tonight
In the second clip, Charlie discusses what he means by “simplicity” in his work. Interestingly, he chooses a highly complex scene – the aft deck of a dragger – to illustrate his meaning.
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The film "My Tale Of Two Cities" (www.MyTaleOfTwoCities.com), a funny and hopeful comeback story, kicks off the final weekend of The Cape Ann Film Festival (www.CapeAnnFilmFest.com) on Friday, Oct. 15th at 7:00pm at the Rockport Music Cinema (www.RockportMusic.org) at the Shalin Liu Performance Center at 37 Main Street in Rockport with Guest of Honor, David "Mr. McFeely" Newell of the long-running kids’ staple, "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood." The film is an entertaining and inspiring story about coming home again and people and cities reinventing themselves for a new age.
After the screening, Newell, who is featured in the film and is Guest of Honor of the 2010 Cape Ann Film Festival, will lead a special "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" sing-along. The film’s director, "St. Elmo’s Fire" screenwriter and "Saved By The Bell" producer Carl Kurlander, will also participate in a Q&A after the screening.
As an additional special treat for Cape Ann moviegoers, Sunday Oct. 17 at 2:00pm at the Cape Ann Community Cinema (www.CapeAnnCinema.com) at 21 Main Street in Gloucester, the Festival will present "Speedy Delivery" (www.SpeedyDeliveryMovie.com), a heartwarming documentary focusing on the quest of actor David Newell (aka "Mr. McFeely" the delivery man from "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood") to keep alive the legacy of Fred Rogers and "The Neighborhood." Newell will also appear at that screening and will conduct a "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" sing-along after the film.
The two-venue Cape Ann Film Festival opened on Friday, October 1st with a sold-out presentation of the local interest documentary "The Gloucester 18," and wraps on Sunday, October 17th at 5:00pm at Rockport Music Cinema with a presentation of the restoration of Fritz Lang’s silent 1927 masterpiece, "Metropolis" with a live score by the renowned Cambridge trio, The Alloy Orchestra. Local cellist Kristen Miller will open the show with a new score for Maya Deren’s experimental 1944 short, "At Land."
MORE ABOUT "MY TALE OF TWO CITIES":
When "St. Elmo’s Fire" screenwriter and "Saved By The Bell" producer Carl Kurlander left Los Angeles for what he thought would be a one-year Hollywood sabbatical to teach at the University of Pittsburgh, little did he think the journey would land him as a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on a program about people who had changed their lives, much less inspire a feature documentary. But shortly after, Kurlander told Oprah how happy he and his wife were raising their daughter in Pittsburgh — the real-life "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" where Mister Rogers had produced his TV show for 40 years — Pittsburgh and America’s favorite neighbor Fred Rogers passed away and the City of Pittsburgh went bankrupt. With both himself and his hometown in a mid-life crisis, Kurlander set out on a Don Quixote quest to make a film to help the city he had grown up in.
Armed with a cranky cameraman, funded by his dermatologist, and often battling his wife, who longs to return to the sunny West Coast, Carl asks his neighbors from the famous (Steeler Franco Harris, Teresa Heinz Kerry) to the not-so-famous (his old gym teacher, the girl who inspired St. Elmo’s Fire) how this once great industrial giant, which built America with its steel, conquered polio, and invented everything from aluminum to the Big Mac, can reinvent itself for a new age.
Kurlander goes cheese shopping with Teresa Heinz Kerry where they discuss her late husband John Heinz’s belief that sometimes your worst problems can become your best opportunities; tosses a football with legendary Pittsburgh Steeler Franco Harris; visits with Andy Warhol’s nephew at a local scrapyard, and goes fishing in Pittsburgh’s once polluted rivers with his brother actor Tom Kurlander and, after eating a catfish, consults with famed coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht to find out if they will live. Along the way, the film documents one of the most inspiring urban comebacks in recent history as, during the course of filming, Pittsburgh went from the brink of bankruptcy to being named in 2010 "America’s Most Livable City."
As comedian Louie Anderson jokes in the film, "My Tale Of Two Cities" is not a "Roger & Me," but a "Mister Rogers & Me" — a feel-good movie which explores whether you can go home again and how all of us can make a difference in the communities in which we live. But in the end, this quirky, personal, and often funny, film may be most about what Oprah said to Kurlander when he was on her show — the search for a more "authentic life."
On March 23, 2010, "My Tale Of Two Cities" became the first movie ever to play Capitol Hill at the new U.S. Visitor’s Center where many shared Congressman Mike Doyle’s sentiment that this is "a comeback story that can inspire cities around the country." The film has gone on to play in theaters across North America including Windsor Ontario, Pittsburgh, Tempe, Harrisburg, New Haven, Cleveland, Boston, Portland and Louisville.
For more information and media inquiries or screeners, email Marketing Director Chelsea Strub at MyTaleOfTwoCities@gmail.com. "My Tale Of Two Cities" is distributed by Panorama Entertainment.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT "MY TALE OF TWO CITIES":
"Made in the first-person style of Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, and Bruce Weber, this witty and heartfelt documentary interweaves Kurlander’s personal odyssey with an account of the rise-and-fall-and-rise-again of The Steel City, touching upon such touchstones as TV icon Mr. Rogers (who also went back to Pittsburgh), onetime local filmmaker George Romero ("Even the dead left Pittsburgh!"), football legend Franco Harris ("The Immaculate Reception"), Andy Warhol, and many more." -The Gene Siskel Film Center
"A story of comebacks, coming back, and what a beautiful day in the neighborhood can mean." -Barb Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A movie that is timely, moving, and – above all – entertaining. You can’t get an entire city into therapy– but this film is the next best thing." -Mitch Teich, Milwaukee Public Radio
"… a wry, funny tale…. A cross between Woody Allen and Fred Rogers, Kurlander reminds us that our cities are the real "Real America in which we can best renew ourselves, our country, and our hope for all humanity." -Howard Fineman, Newsweek
"Delightfully quirky" -Chicago Reader
"Schlubbier than Michael Moore." -The Boston Globe
Ok, What better day than 10/10/10 to make my first entry into my Sketchbook Project. I picked my favorite place to sit and watch the waterfront work, Nature change by the minute and meditate. This is the view looking straight out from my parking space today. I may add some color to it with Gouache paint. After the Sun went down I walked around and took some photos for GMG of the area at nighttime.
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Fueled up with Joey and the crew at Passports in the morning Joey told me a must see on the tour was Marty Morgan. Something about a pulley sending her pots into the river. Sounded crazy and it was. She has a great way of winching her loaded kiln shelves into her big gas fired kiln but I am getting ahead of myself.
To reiterate some of my Day 1 post. Fifteen artists, go here to download pdf map so you can follow the numbers.
1) David Montgomery 2)Marty Morgan 3) Leslie Bartlett 4) Kurt Ankeny 5) Judith Wright, 6) Margaret Rack, 7) Mi Robertson, 8 ) Anni Melançon, 9) David Archibald, 10) Cynthia Curtis, 11) Pam Stratton 12) Eileen Mueller, 13) Scott Place/Erin O’Sullivan, 14) Marilyn Swift 15) Bart Stuyf.
We did 3,8,9 Saturday and I wanted to finish with all the pottery so did 2) Marty Morgan, 10) Cynthia Curtis, and 13) Scott Erin and Erin O’Sullivan today.
2) Marty Morgan; Pottery and Sculptural Tile, 428 Washington Street, (just past where Washington crosses Mill River.). If I had this studio I am afraid I wouldn’t get much done since you could have a kayak into the Mill River off the back porch in a second. If you want to find that wedding gift that they are going to remember you have to check out the tiles and pottery here. I’m drinking coffee as I type from a very large mug I just picked up at Marty’s.
10) Cynthia Curtis, Stoneware Pottery, 80 Pigeon Hill Road, (head to the Paper House and just keep going up the hill to the end.) A huge assortment of styles and what better place to learn pottery but from someone who does something of everything. I want to poke holes in pots and make a berry dish. (Just rinse and put in the fridge and it drains right out. I’m not describing it well you have to check them out.) Cynthia teaches tons of classes in pottery all levels, kids (catch them early) to adults (play in clay, it’s fun). We picked up a beautiful blue lamp from Cynthia on the tour two years ago which goes well with our daughter’s perrywinkle painted room.
13) Scott Place and Erin O’Sullivan; Pottery and Sculpture, 52 South Street , Rockport. I was drawn to the more entertaining pieces on display here. Complete life size busts of some very strange characters. Fish heads, lots of fish heads. A whole school of fish heads seemed to be having a conversation on one wall. One of them is going to be speaking to me in my kitchen. Since I forgot my camera I brought my fish head home and stuck it on a block of clay. Maybe I will make the rest of the fish.
I think I will call him Spot. You can talk to Spot in my kitchen.
October Classes at Pop Gallery, 67 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Now You’re Making Scents!
Learn the art of Scent Making with Roberta Andrade of Elemental Scents
Pop Gallery’s artesian perfumer Roberta Andrade-Gringorten maker of the Elemental Scents line of fragrances will lead fragrance lovers and aspiring perfumers through a 2-hour course on everything about how to make fragrance.
This informative program will introduce participants to what perfume is, including a short history, how perfume materials are produced, and odor identification of numerous fragrance ingredients.
The event will include hands on experiments with participants mixing classic perfume formulas and finally producing their own custom scent to take home.
Roberta is a classically trained perfumer who studied with veteran perfumers and flavorists in Bangkok Thailand and brings many years of experience to share in her class.
Thursday, October 21, 7 to 9pm
Event cost $75.00 covers all materials and your final take home creation.
Please send a check to Pop Gallery to reserve your spot in the class or sign-up online at http://www.elementalscents.com/id118.html
Make your own beaded jewelry and take your art to a whole new level!
Jewelry making class with Joyce Roessler of Roessler Glass
Learn jewelry making techniques, and create jewelry for yourself or gifts in this one evening workshop! Using simple techniques we will create beautiful beaded earrings, and a necklace. Feel free to bring along with you any beads from home you may want to use. Tools will be supplied at class with an option to purchase at end of day. Bring glasses if needed for close up work.
Friday, October 22, 6:30 – 9:30pm. 6 people per class max.
Classes will be held on Friday evenings through Dec. If you have a group of friends pick a date and we can plan a class for you.
$75. includes materials fee. Materials will include sterling silver wire and findings, and 2 oz. hand blown glass beads.
Call 617-426-4705 or email info@roesslerglass.com to reserve your spot in one of the four upcoming classes on Friday evenings. Payment can be made by credit card when reserving your space or a check mailed to the gallery in advance.
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Great talent exhibited at the Annisquam Village Hall
October 8th -10th Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Video contains some of the art and crafts and interviews
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GloucesterArtists.com got a chance to talk with Charles Movalli at his home/studio last week. Charlie is well known as an author, editor, teacher, and artist around Cape Ann – a contemporary of some of the best painters in the world.
In this first video clip, he uses one of his paintings to illustrate his use of light and dark shapes as the basis for rendering a scene.
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See http://www.GloucesterArtists.com for more great interviews
Click here for Map and brochure. That way you can follow the numbers. Fifteen artists open their studios this long weekend 10AM to 5PM.
1) David Montgomery 2)Marty Morgan 3) Leslie Bartlett 4) Kurt Ankeny 5) Judith Wright, 6) Margaret Rack, 7) Mi Robertson, 8 ) Anni Melançon, 9) David Archibald, 10) Cynthia Curtis, 11) Pam Stratton 12) Eileen Mueller, 13) Scott Place/Erin O.Sullivan, 14) Marilyn Swift 15) Bart Stuyf.
A high concentration of artisans in Lanesville so I figure I will start there and pick off number 3, 8, and 9, to start the weekend.
3) Leslie Bartlett; 1033 Washington Street, Natural Light Photography, and around here that means Quarries. These prints are amazing. You think you’ve seen quarries but this must be one of those “you got to get up pretty early in the morning” to see them like this. Les has a huge printer which makes enormous prints, paper and cloth. The studio was a Catholic Church– while we were there a couple came in to see what had been done to the place where they were married. Amazing space. I extracted quite a lot of information about Lanesville and Rockport quarries from Les that I will follow up in future posts.
8 ) Anni Melancon; Dogtown Studio Pottery, 1181 Washington Street, broad range of pottery and porcelain from the fine to primitive. Sue and I met Anni two years ago on the tour and she is getting me all amped up about actually turning on my own kiln. She makes it sound easy, (I know it isn’t), but at least she has convinced me I won’t burn my house down. Anni does terracotta with white glaze that is just amazing. Works of art out of which you can eat. Felt like having some soup in a big bowl but we had to get one more artisan done or we would fall behind.
9) David Archibald; 9 Woodbury Street, Plum Cove Pottery (turn up the hill right before Folly Cove). We met David the same tour two years ago and quickly figured out he knew David Platt (prior owners of our house). This time around he was telling stories of drinking a beer in the kitchen. David has been working on his glazes applied to porcelain and stoneware for fifty years and he has figured out a few things. Not exactly sure what he is going to pull out of the kiln but the depth and richness of the cobalt blues, the copper reds, the celadon, make pieces you have to just stare at for a while. Galaxies and waterfalls are in there. We escaped with just one white milk pitcher that has a light red glow to it that I might post a photo of (when I find my good camera).
And my cell phone only took one good shot the whole day. Tomorrow onto a dozen more artisans.
Then it was on to Alchemy for some French Onion Soup to refuel.
View from the Pier
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Passion for the Art
I got an email from GoodMorningGloucester doing a video about Jon Sarkin a local artist in our hometown, Gloucester. I really enjoyed watching this. It lead me to Jon’s website and I got to see the makings of the artwork for Guster’s new album “Easy.Wonderful’. I was totally intrigued. Hence this letter to follow. It is so amazing to me how they do all of this work and then the finished product. I hope you will take time to visit these videos that are being posted. I have to say that seeing all of this brought tears of joy to my eyes and compelled me to share all of this art with you. Artists and musicians are creators with such passion and I can understand it because I receive it the same way they give it. I hope you enjoy it too.
Jon Sarkin
Art in progress with Jon Sarkin for Guster’s “Easy. Wonderful” Album
http://jsarkin.com/news/concept-for-gusters-do-you-love-me/
The finished product
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-VAlIPzKg&feature=player_embedded
p.s. Look at what I got in my email from 92.5 The River
After all of this I submitted a letter to 92.5 The River for the chance to see Guster. Needless to say I did not win the chance to go. A good friend of mine Cynthia Sisco got a call from Irene Collins who works for the river and she invited Cindy to see Guster and to celebrate 92.5 15th Birthday. Well the rest is history. Cindy told Irene that I was trying to get passes so Irene was kind enough to put me on the list. Now Cindy is famous for doing kind acts like this. She has also been responsible for getting airtime on The River’s Home Grown segment http://www.wxrv.com/onair/homegrown.php for musicians such as Chelsea Berry, Fly Amero, Bingo Fridays and Brad Byrd .
The music at this venue performed by Guster was excellent. I mentioned to Cindy at one point that this has to be the best quality of live music I have ever heard and she said yes they are a very tight band. I mean, what you hear coming through the sound system. Things have stood out to me before like melodious vocals, an awesome bass player, rippin lead guitarists and wild music but all around quality, this show was it. Not blasting your eardrums out, sweet harmony, and no pronounced off key notes any where, that I noticed. The audience was certainly in love with Guster and I can see why. At one point this sweet girl standing in front of me to the left offered to have me get closer to take a photo and she even took my cup to hold to make it more comfortable for me to do so. Now that was sweet. I then asked if she wanted to be my daughter. They have a wholesome happy thing generating out to the fan base and you could certainly feel it with the unity and all. I heard so many people there singing along like they were part of the band, and that they were. For the last song Guster and his band came onto the floor to be with their fans. This was different and so intimate.
After all of this I suddenly realized that I had to have a souvenir of this event so off to to take more pictures and to purchase the special edition of Guster’s new CD “Easy. Wonderful” It’s so cool to have my own piece of Jon Sarkins art as well as Guster’s music.
Immediately after this I got to meet Irene Collins from 92.5 The River and thank her for this opportunity. Right after this Cindy and I met and talked to Chad Carlberg ( his lovely daughter who is in the Concept Video for Guster’s “Do You Love Me” and Emile Doucette who were major in the making of the videos for Guster’s CD.
Here are just a few photos, videos and slide show of the event. It was hard holding the camera up in the air in a dimly lit room to get photos so beware of the imperfections.
Enjoy,
Joanne
Guster
Irene Collins and Cynthia Sisco
Emile Doucette and Chad Carlberg
Guster, Cindy and me.
Signed by Guster
Stay With Me Jesus
Do You Love Me. Just a piece of it.
The slide show.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9
Children’s program, including Henry Ferrini reading Little Charlie Goes to Gloucester
Saturday, October 10:00 a.m., Cape Ann Museum
Moderated "Town Meeting" Discussion:
"Remembering Olson" moderated by Peter Anastas
Saturday, October 9, 10:30 a.m., Cape Ann Museum
Moderated "Town Meeting" Discussion:
"Olson’s Project" with Charles Stein, Kristin Prevallet, Fred Dewey, and Kate Tarlow Morgan moderated by Ammiel Alcalay
Saturday, October 9, 1:00 p.m., Cape Ann Museum
Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf’s Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place*
Saturday, October 9, 3:00 pm, Cape Ann Community Cinema (21 Main Street)
Reading featuring Diane di Prima & Michael Rumaker*
Saturday, October 9, 7 p.m., Independent Christian Church
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
Maximus Walk with readings
Readers include Kevin Gallagher, David Rich, Henry Ferrini, Peter Anastas, Jim Cocola, Carol Weston, John Galloway
Sunday, October 10, 11 a.m., Downtown Gloucester
(meeting place Cape Ann Museum)
Click here for route.
Olsonian Performances*
Sunday, October 10, 3 p.m. Blackburn Performing Arts (Main Street)
3:00 p.m. Blue Suit, performed by Kate Tarlow Morgan and Ammiel Alcalay
3:30 p.m. Olson’s Apollonius of Tyana, performed by Sarah Slifer, Mark Wagner, and others
4:15 p.m. Musical performance by Willie Alexander
Farewell party and reception
Sunday, October 10, 5 p.m. Alchemy (3 Duncan Street)
All events free and open to the public. Donations of $5 are suggested for events marked with an asterisk*.
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