Make a Mess Making Art!

This event sounds like a good time for a good cause! Check it out, below…

Messy Art Night Essex PTO

ESSEX ELEMENTARY HOLDS 5TH ANNUAL MESSY ART NIGHT

Essex, MA (January 27, 2014) – Essex Elementary School (EES) and the Essex Parent-­‐Teacher Organization (PTO) will hold their annual Messy Art Night on Friday, February 7, 2014. This will be the fifth year of the event, which draws attendees from all over Cape Ann and the North Shore for it’s hands-­‐on art projects led by artists from the area’s vibrant artistic community.

Over a dozen local artists will demonstrate their crafts and host hands-­‐on make-­‐your-­‐own projects at Messy Art Night, including sculptors, painters, collagists, mixed media artists, potters, and others.

Confirmed artists include: sculptor Chris Williams, illustrator Chrissie McNiff Twombly, potters from Art Haven of Gloucester, painter Kathleen McHugh, the Art School of Salem’s Andrew Carr, painter Margaret Sweet, illustrator Leslie Galacar, painter Emily Gala, The Art Center of Hamilton’s Erin Clark, mixed media artist Jen Mayer, painter Kristen Wilson, and sculptor Scott Mulcahey. Local Essex museums Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum will also host projects at the event.

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Gloucester House Showcases North Shore Artists

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Participating artists include: Charles Francis, Annie Ziergiebel, JP Ware, Deb Shradieck, Susie Fiels, EJ Lefavour, Camilla Macfayden, Beth Williams, Donna Ardizzoni, Phil Cusumano, Marty Morgan, Thi Linh Wenau, Kathy Roberts, Elynn Kroger, Nina Goodick, Mary Ann DeLouise, Conrad Roeske, Catherine McGeary, Karen Tibbets, Tory and Ally Voner, Eileen Oliver, Amanda Cook, Mary McCarl, Theresa Testaverde, and the folks from Cape Ann Giclee.

Thanks to the Gloucester House Restaurant for sponsoring this art event for the community and North Shore artists!  Hope to see all of you there.

E.J. Lefavour

Central Street Gallery – This Saturday at 5:00 PM!

Central Street Gallery
currently on display at the gallery
 Touch the heart with art: A new show @ central
 
Please join us for chocolates, prosecco and wonderful artwork. 

Reception: Sat., February 8, 5-8pm 
Show starts Friday, February 7. 

Show runs through April 6. 

An exhibition of artwork by talented Manchester High School students will be featured at the gallery mid February. Click here for information. 

Alison Rowell | Gallery Director
Central Street Gallery
11 Central Street,Manchester-by-the-Sea
tel: 978 526-7650
www.centralstreetgallery.com

Art Haven February Vacation Schedule

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It’s $40/day from 9:00am – 3:00pm. Brown bag lunch.

Scholarships for $20/day are available.

20 student MAX enrollment

We sell out fast!

Questions?  Call Art Haven at 978-283-3888 between 3 – 7pm M-F.

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Flatrocks Gallery – a Little Out of the Way but Well Worth the Trip

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The opening of Translucence at Flatrocks Gallery Friday night was extremely well attended, but not at all surprising for such an excellent show and gallery space.  For us on this side of Cape Ann, it may seem a little out of the way, but it is well worth the trip over to Lanesville to see it.  Gloucester’s art scene is just killing it!

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E.J. Lefavour

Video: MACKLEMORE LIVE!!!

Nominated for Seven Grammys!!!!!!!!!!! 

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are nominated for a Grammy award in the following categories: Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Best Rap Album, Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video.

Can’t wait to see the Grammys tonight. Will Macklemore take all?!? Who do you think will win tonight?

I filmed Macklemore and Friends live in New York City, performing “Can’t Hold Us,” this past November while a guest of my daughter Liv at the Best Buy Theatre.

See more GMG posts about Macklemore and Ryan Lewis:

MACKLEMORE LIVE at Best Buy Theatre

Same Love Marriage

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Win THREE Awards at the VMAs!!!

BomBom Butterflies Video

Stunning New Video from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton

What was on Your Playlist this Summer?

Do you Love Great Bird Paintings and Birding?

Trident gallery opening_winter meditations

Then definitely go check out the Winter Meditations exhibit at Trident Gallery, 189 Main Street.  The Opening last night was great and the work is exceptional and very exciting to be able to see right here on Main Street.  The space is wonderful and I’m just sorry it took me so long to check it out.  A fabulous addition to Gloucester’s art scene.

From Friday, January 24th, through Sunday, March 2d, Trident Gallery is proud to host a loan from the Massachusetts Audubon Museum of American Bird Art of more than 30 prints, paintings, and miniature sculptures by the renowned and important artists John James Audubon, Milton Avery, Andy Warhol, Allen James King, Robert Verity Clem, Lars Jonsson, and others. All the works of art depict bird species present on Cape Ann in winter, and their exhibition constitutes a new extension to the Cape Ann Winter Birding Weekend (Friday–Sunday, 31 January – 2 February) a festival which celebrates the winter bird life of Cape Ann, especially those Arctic species rarely encountered farther south. Sponsored by Mass Audubon and the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, the event draws several hundred participants to hear expert presentations and embark on bus tours and a boat trip to see the birds. A birding guide for the event in past years, Director Swift has this year orchestrated the festival’s new art component at Trident Gallery.

Throughout Winter Meditations, the public is invited to respond with commentary and with contributions of their own winter meditations at TridentGallery.com/WinterMeditations (not yet live). Director Swift will share selected Meditations submitted by the public within the gallery.

Works of art by Gabrielle Barzaghi, Winston Swift Boyer, Charlie Carroll, Susan Erony, Dennis Flavin, Eileen Mueller, Joe Poirier, and Lynn Swigart will be on display during the entirety of Winter Meditations. In the final phase, Persephone’s Return, additional works of art by these and other Trident Gallery artists will take the place of the departing Mass Audubon winter bird art.

E.J. Lefavour

TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT!!! 2014 ART HAVEN BUOY AUCTION AT CRUISEPORT 5-8PM!!!

6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction & Family Fun Night January 24th

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Looking for a fun event the whole family can enjoy tonight? Come to the 6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction and Family FUN Night.  There will be art activities, live music, open buffet, silent auction of our amazing artist buoys and much more!

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$20 Family | $10 Adult | $5 student. [@ DOOR: $25 Family | $20 Adult | $10 student]

2014 Art Haven Buoy Pre-Auction Party At The Hive

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a million times- The Hive and Art Haven have to be either close to or at the very top of a vast majority of organizations involved in making cool events happen in Gloucester.
The positive energy radiating from this place off the chain.
Good people top to bottom and fun times are guaranteed just by being in their presence.
That being said, there is no better time to be in their presence than the annual buoy auction next Friday night when the biggest fundraiser of the year for the organization takes place.
Go and have a fun time and at the same time support a tremendous group of young energetic people who are putting in a ton of energy to make our community a better place.

Huge thanks to major sponsor of the Buoy Auction Cape Ann Savings Bank-

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6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction & Family Fun Night January 24th

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Looking for a fun event the whole family can enjoy? Come to the 6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction and Family FUN Night on January 24th from 5:00 – 8:00pm. There will be art activities, live music, open buffet, silent auction of our amazing artist buoys and much more!

$20 Family | $10 Adult | $5 student. [@ DOOR: $25 Family | $20 Adult | $10 student]

BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE or through your local parent representative:

6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction & Family Fun Night January 24th

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Looking for a fun event the whole family can enjoy? Come to the 6th Annual Cape Ann Art Haven Buoy Auction and Family FUN Night on January 24th from 5:00 – 8:00pm. There will be art activities, live music, open buffet, silent auction of our amazing artist buoys and much more!

$20 Family | $10 Adult | $5 student. [@ DOOR: $25 Family | $20 Adult | $10 student]

BUY YOUR TICKETS ONLINE or through your local parent representative:

West Parish: Stephanie Pallazola

East Gloucester Elementary: Muffy White or Aria McElhenny

Beeman: Jennifer Sanfilippo

Veterans: Melissa Francis or Jenn Fernandez

Plum Cove: Kristen Virgilio

Eastern Point Day School: Traci Corbett or Muffy Lake

St. Johns: Mary Terelak

Rebecca Borden

President & interim Executive Director

Check Out Bobby Viau’s Buoy- Speaks to me for some reason Smile

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Bad Ass!

Also Check Out Bex Borden’s-

Bex wrote-

Here is the buoy I made. Labor of love, baby. You can plug in the lights. I made 98 traps and 80 mini buoys. It’s ridiculous

RebeccaBorden1

January Newsletter from Art Haven + The Hive

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6th Annual Buoy Auction & Family Fun Night
January 24th from 5:00-8:00p at Gloucester Cruiseport

Looking for an event the whole family can enjoy? Come on out to our 6th Annual Buoy Auction and Family FUN Night. There is free food, engaging art activities, silent auction of our amazing Artist Buoys and the live auction of kids’ painted buoys.

BUY YOUR AUCTION TICKETS ONLINE

Family $20.00
Adult $10.00
Student $5.00

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AT THE DOOR:
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Adult $15.00
Student $10.00

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Juni VanDyke ~ Shout Out to a Beautiful Lady!

Juni VanDyke ©Kim Smith 2013Juni VanDyke and Her Son Sean ~ a beautiful lady, in every sense of the word!

The very talented, yet never self-aggrandizing, Juni VanDyke sent a hand written thank you note for a brief recent little post that we did about the Rose Bake Senior Center’s quilt project-in-progress, “Gloucester: A Community of Neighborhoods.” I don’t ever want readers to think that we expect thank you notes, ever, it is just always very sweet and much appreciated when it does happen. Thank you Juni!

To find out more about “Gloucester: A Community of Neighborhoods,” read here:

Simply Stunning Work in Progress

Gloucester: A Community of Neighborhoods Quilt Project Featured at Inauguration 2014

Painting Buoys

I want to Thank Rebecca Borden, from Art Haven/ The Hive, for helping me with instructions on how to paint the buoys.  Since my grandchildren could not be in Gloucester the day of painting we decided to paint them last weekend in Maine.  They had a ball painting them.  Here is a picture of the buoys all painted.

Avery, age 2, dressed to paint the buoys.

January 4, 2014 2 year old Avery painting her buoy

 

January 4, 2014 buoy

West Parish Student in Boston Ballet

Hi, Joey.  Here is something for you.  The photo was taken by Rhian’s mother, Michelle Williams.

West Parish Student Danced in Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker for Third Year

Ten-year old West Parish student, Rhian Williams, performed in the Boston Ballet’s iconic production of The Nutcracker at the Boston Opera House for a third consecutive year.  Rhian, the daughter of Michelle and Paul Williams and granddaughter of Ward 5 Councilor Elect, Bill Fonvielle and Atlantic Vacation Homes president, Carole Sharoff, has been a student at the heralded Boston Ballet School for five years.   In this year’s production, she danced the part of a mouse that emerges from a fireplace and runs off with a giant cookie.  In previous productions, she has been a doll and a page. 

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Fork Spinning At The Fort Square Cafe

A guy makes two of these a week. Perfectly balanced forks, one of which hangs just by a tine and spins around the other.
You can see them for yourself at The Fort Square Cafe.

Wishing You Peace and Joy

Forgiveness ~ Nelson Mandela in his actions emodied the teachings of  Jesus. At his inauguration, Mandela’s jailers were given front row seats.

Live performances of Hugh Masekela performing “Mandela” (Bring Him Back Home)

1 Day til Christmas Song ~ “Silent Night”

Wishing you Peace and Joy on Christmas Eve

Mahalia Jackson

Soweto Gospel Choir

2 Days Before Christmas Song ~ “Oh Holy Night”

Submitted by GMG reader kate d. Thanks so much Kate for your recommendation!