My View of Life on the Dock
TUE, June 29: Studio Talk by Artist in Residence, Ekua Holmes
Golden, Collage on paper by Ekua Holmes
Collage artist Ekua Holmes will give a Studio Talk about the work she did during her residency
at 7pm on Tuesday, June 29 at the Residency Studio, 51A Rocky Neck Ave.
Don’t miss this refreshing and inspirational artist.
Heidi Wakeman Details The Again and Again 2010 Design Your Own Sailcloth Handbag Contest Video
Thanks For Watching
The contest which is free to enter and money raised through the auction of your cleverly designed sailbag goes directly to supporting the GHS Sailing program which gets Gloucester kids out on Gloucester harbor for no cost to them.
Frieda’s Again and Again shop makes bags from recycled sails. Instead of these sails clogging up landfills they are put to good use as gorgeous and functional bags made from this durable and water repellant material. You can learn more about the design your own sailbag contest in the video we made coming tomorrow
Heidi Writes-
Once again, Again & Again is hosting a Design Your Own Handbag Contest & Silent Auction to benefit the Gloucester High School Sail Team. This year we are partnering with Cape Ann Art Haven.
Pick up your materials pack at either Again & Again, located at 195 E.Main St. Gloucester, or Cape Ann Art Haven, located at 18OB Main St. Gloucester.
Deadline for submissions is JULY 26.
There will be a Silent Auction & Party on JULY 29 at Art Haven.
Questions? Email Heidi at againandagaincontest@gmail.com
ART & SOUL
Featuring new paintings by Brenda Malloy
Champagne reception Friday, July 2, 5-9pm
Gallery hours Sat & Sun, July 3 & 4, 12 – 7 pm
Kismet Wharf (next to The Studio Restaurant)
51 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, Ma.
info or questions call Brenda at 978-282-1346
http://www.ImagineRockyNeck.com
Colorful, funky, chunky, abstract art incorporating everything from clothing, birch bark, found objects and anything else that happens to be laying around. 3" x3" on up to 4′ x 5′, all price ranges. Come one, Come all, check it out!!!!!!!!
PEACE!
Early this year I posted a video about Art and Rockport Dances in the Sixties, at the end of the video you can see the KandyMen playing at a Gloucester High School Dance.
…”Years ago I heard from others
how he’d pulled two men out of the sea one night
off Eastern Point. They’d not been able to shed their jacks
when the ship went over, and when he caught them
they were going down too. He hauled them into Brace’s Cove,
even though the shore wasn’t there, it was such a storm and the sea so big
it had turned the Lily Pond
into an arm of itself.” … Continue reading
Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
BY CHARLES OLSON
Gloucester Portfolio
Joseph Flack Weiler is now exhibiting his Gloucester Portfolio at the Topside Grill, 50 Rogers Street, Gloucester.
The black and white photographs are made from film negatives and printed with a 1970’s enlarger by J. F. Weiler. The images range in time from 1987 through today.
They depict the schooners Adventure, 1988,
Thomas E. Lannon, 1997 and Bluenose, 2006. Also included is a selection of seascapes from Bass Rocks.
Many of the images have been made from kayaks allowing an intimate water level view. Changes that have taken place on the Gloucester waterfront over the past twenty-four years are documented in the photographs. Some of the photographs can also be seen at WeilerPhotoGallery.com
Photo Caption:
Dory time trial, 2000 photo by Joseph Flack Weiler
This one is marked $47 the markings on the lens say ANASTIGMAT BERTHIOT
Cool if for nothing else but decoration if you ask me.
The Angel from the Sea a familiar sight on Main Street when you pass Art Haven has been retired. A contest is being held July 9th at Art Haven for a new logo.
David Brooks scrapped her off the window and I believe there was a tear in his eye during the last scrape; she has served Art Haven for the past 2 years.
Several people came by and did their part in helping David.
Amy Writes-
A-Train Orchestra is going to be playing on the deck of Amy’s Coffee & Cones this Saturday, June 19th from 4pm-8pm. They are a fun band and crowd pleaser…they perform jump blues, boogie and soul!!! The drummer is Gloucester’s very own Dave “Doc” Vincent, it’s sure to be a fabulous time! Also very exciting news about Amy’s, as of tomorrow I am serving hotdogs and what is so exciting about that is the special sauce from my family’s restaurant when i was growing up….customers can now get a “Max’s Dog”!!! Please stop by tomorrow and try one out….I’ll even get on video again to share the history of this special sauce!
There’s a soccer game?
USA came back from being down 2 nil to tie it up against Slovenia. Remy’s Bar and Grill goes wild!!! Then a hard fought goal goes through and they score to go up 3-2 with only a few minutes to play. But somehow the psycho referee hallucinates an off-side and pulls the goal back. The USA player in replay is so wrapped up by a Slovenia player it isn’t funny. And the Slovenia player is hugging him while his back is to the goal. No off-sides!
Still, a 2-2 tie against Slovenia is good stuff. Remy’s Bar and Grill right on Boylston Street behind Fenway Park. All the sliders are open on this beautiful day. The ten foot TV screens are crystal clear. A better view than the referee gets, that’s for sure. Tall icy Bloody Marys on a Friday morning is a good start to the weekend.
It’s hard to imagine that the presses for the Gloucester Daily Times were in this very same space
Kate Seidman Rocks
Inside the Cape Ann Tool Company you could play a football game after a little sweeping.
Kurt Ankeny and Kate Seidman have been holding textile art classes high above Main street in the Corner building One Center Street (the third floor above Passports) The room was the former press room of The Gloucester Daily Times.
Video with Kate coming tomorrow
Dawn Gadow talks about the Logo Contest on July 9th.
Thanks to Linn Parisi for the tip-
The church’s 31 bells were cast by the Taylor Bell Foundry in England and installed during the summer of 1922, and restored by Meek, Wilson & Company.
Bill Meeks was on site directing the operations, photo of him strapping a Bell.
Each bell has a Saints Name in Portuguese, and a name of a person. There is a story for each bell, I am sure. The first Reverend, a Captain, and A. Piatt Andrew are the names on the bells shown. On A. Piatt Andrew’s bell is the inscription in Portuguese “The Heart of Jesus”, as he was instrumental in getting the bells brought to the church in 1922.
An elderly man stood watching them being re-installed, he said to me “I am so glad they are back, I thought I would never hear them ring again, but my prayers were answered.”
Good Morning Gloucester 
