ART NEWS DOWNTOWN FROM CAT RYAN

Editor’s note: When I posted this yesterday I forgot to take my watermark off which my blogging software does automatically for me.  Al these photos were taken by Catherine Ryan-

Hi Joey

Phil Cusumano, artist/captain, and volunteer juror for the 2013 HarborWalk Public Art Challenge administered by the Committee for the arts, stopped by to inspect the public art in process on Parsons Street. The artist, James Owen Calderwood, was being filmed for an interview by Lisa Smith for Cape Ann TV. Dale Brown of the Committee for the Arts was there, too.

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Jason Burroughs who is teaching with TAG is volunteering some hours yesterday and today for James’ project.

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Though difficult for painting, the off and on rain does provide opportunities for visiting. Last week there were business meetings, here with Sarah Garcia Harbor Planning Director.

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Today looking out from City Hall, peering past the high school kids cleaning, the bank, Parsons, and on to the harbor.

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James visiting the Hive.

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While there, we were privileged to witness GREAT news hot off the press and an intensity enough to match their vibrant space! TAG team members wrote and were awarded a $10,000 grant. Congratulations all!

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Pictured are David Brooks(TAG Director) Emma Johnson(Forest Foundation Intern), Alex Barrett(Forest Foundation Intern) , Satomi Nishimiya, Rachel McClenagan, Rebecca Siswick Graham (Tag Open Studio Manager), Chrid Boudrow(TAG Assistant Director) , Lauren Horne, and Greer Viau. Also Not pictured is Katie Flores (Forest Foundation Intern) not pictured. 

They were heading over to the Farmer’s Market and David promises to send in names and more information. They were also tracking down Mary Ann to share the news; she was at Maritime Gloucester with the Art Haven campers partnership week.

Next time we’ll head down Parsons over to see the permanent public art installation at Maritime Gloucester museum. The twelve foot diameter compass rose is being installed on city property where the HarborWalk crosses onto Maritime Gloucester. Two artists installing new public art downtown and connections—very exciting news.

Donna and Kathy documenting the compass rose on GMG:

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/video-compass-rose-installation-at-maritime-gloucester/

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/the-compass-rose/

Community Stuff 7/27/13

Reid R. Sacco lost his two-year fight with sarcoma in 2005 at the age of 20.  Reid learned first-hand of the tragic disparities faced by adolescents and young adults (AYA’s) diagnosed with cancer, particularly in the areas of age-appropriate care, access to clinical trials and survival rates.   Reid inspired many during his cancer journey with his courage, perseverance, selflessness and contagious optimism and laughter.   An avid sailor, Reid looked at his cancer journey like a voyage at sea and was unwilling to let the relentless storm of treatments and setbacks keep him from enjoying every minute of his life that he loved with family and friends.

Reid’s Ride began by Reid parents, family and friends, is the main fund-raising event for the Reid Sacco Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Fund.  That fund is dedicated to supporting clinical and scientific research into finding better treatments — and someday a cure — for the cancers that strike adolescents and young adults.  It is acknowledged by the medical community worldwide that this population of cancer victims has not benefitted from the advances in cancer treatment and survival rates as have other age groups.  It is a gap into which Reid and young adult cancer patients like him found themselves, willing to fight but without an army of options to help.

Most recently, the proceeds from Reid’s Ride have enabled Tufts Medical Center to launch the Reid R. Sacco AYA Program, including the Reid R. Sacco Adolescent & Young Adult Clinic for Cancer and Blood Diseases, located at the Tufts Cancer Center in Boston.

"Life is like sailing.  Change can come upon you suddenly.  But just because you sometimes have to alter your course, it doesn’t mean you have to stop sailing." – Reid R. Sacco, 2003


Dream Repeater: Toys Falling
IlaSahai Prouty and company

Flatrocks Gallery is pleased to present Dream Repeater: Toys Falling, a group show curated by IlaSahai Prouty. The opening reception is Saturday, August 3, from 7-9 pm. It will be followed by an evening of  poetry and stories on Saturday August 10th at 7pm.

 

In her on-going project Dream Repeater, Prouty creates artworks in various media based on bits of collected dream narratives. For this show, she has invited other artists to join her.

Prouty’s work deals with the ways repetition can intensify and expand meaning. “I’m exploring how a short snippet of a dream, essentially a short story, can grow to become something larger and more mythic.”

 

Last summer, Prouty’s Dream Repeater work, “Goldilocks, Save the World,” was installed at the Cape Ann Museum’s White Ellery House. This year, she returns to her home town to present a collection of works based on a dream called Toys Falling. “I have been working with these dreams myself, and I wanted to expand the project – to see where others might take the dreams, and how they look through other peoples eyes.”

 

Each artist in this show agreed to create work in response to the dream text. The show will include sculpture, painting, encaustic, illustration, mixed media, poetry, video, printmaking, quilting, and story telling.

 

Participating Artists are: IlaSahai Prouty, Caroline Bagenal, Rocky Delforge, Adriane Herman, Bo Hyung Lee, Vicki Paret, Doris Prouty, Hans Pundt, Sarah Slifer Swift, Stephanie Williams, Heather Atwood, Emily Wheeler, Tim Averill, and Peter Hickman.

 

IlaSahai Prouty grew up in Lanesville, Massachusetts. She is a former chair of the Art Department at the Waring School in Beverly, Mass., and considers herself an artist with Cape Ann roots. She has an MFA from the California College of Art in San Francisco, California., and is currently Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Prouty is also an Assistant Professor at nearby Appalachian State University.
Flatrocks Gallery is located at 77 Langsford Street/Route 127 in Gloucester, MA. Hours are 12-5pm, Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment. The gallery is focused on continuing the long tradition of artists in Lanesville, and is committed to offering works of art to the community that challenge and engage.

Choreographer/Dancer : Sarah Slifer Swiftsarasliffer

                           Mixed Media Sculpture:Hans Pundt

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Franklin Desk

Marsh as Metaphor

Rocky Neck Gallery’s Summer Artists Series: Marsh as Metaphor –

New paintings by Brenda Cirioni.

Wednesday, July 24 – Tuesday, August 13, 2013

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Marsh: Pool

mixed media on panel

24 x 24

$1600.

Rocky Neck Gallery is pleased to announce the fourth show of the Summer Artist Series featuring artist Brenda Cirioni and her exhibit Marsh as Metaphor.  This dramatic new show opens Wednesday, July 24 and runs for three weeks until August 13.  Meet Brenda Cirioni and learn about her intriguing creative process at an artist’s reception on Saturday, July 27 from 5-7 PM.  

Cirioni’s paintings, consisting of mixed media on panel, are energetic, thought provoking and beautiful depictions of nature.  This new series is inspired by her family home burning to the ground when she was sixteen.  While touching upon utter destruction, her paintings are celebratory, bursting with color and regeneration. 

In this series she explores the tension between nature and the elements.  Her work is about the power of transformation within nature and within us.  Cirioni paints the background composition, then draws, splatters and drips with acrylic ink and paint creating a surface rich with texture, color and movement.  She enlarges on the composition with torn paper scraps, feathers, fiber and other debris.  Her method of layering and juxtaposing disparate materials draws attention to the multiplicities and mysteries of nature and life.

Please join us and meet Brenda Cirioni on Saturday, July 27th from 5-7 PM for a reception.  Hear her talk about her work and process around 6 PM.  Delicious refreshments will be served.  Rocky Neck Gallery is located on 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester.  The hours are: Sunday – Wednesday: 11 AM – 6 PM, Thursday – Saturday: 11 AM – 8 PM.  Free parking is available.

 

15+ Things to do on a RAINY DAY & a classic video

Visiting Gloucester?  Have friends in from out of town?  You’re probably complaining to yourself that the weather isn’t cooperating, right?  Not to worry!  There’s lots to do in Gloucester and Cape Ann when the weather is lousy.  Just be glad you’re not on Cape Cod, where there really isn’t much to do except go to the beach.

Just to see what he’d say I asked a friend, who grew up in Gloucester and now lives in NYC (owns a bar and writes for a New York Time Blog) why would New Yorkers come here instead of Cape Cod.  Here’s the mini rant he wrote back:

Gloucester is a place for culture now, just like it was in the 1800s and 1900s. Contemporary culture is actually at its best here, maybe more so than any Mass city other than Boston and Cambridge.  Where else can you buy fresh caught fish, see a great play, hear Henri Smith play a bar or watch the Met opera in 3D, attend a reading by a national author, eat lobster in the rough or a 3-star style meal, hike, jump quarries, dive off rocks into the ocean (there are no rocks on Cape Cod), mountain bike, drink a $2 beer in barroom full of fisherman, see the most beautiful boats in the world, go to a world class museum, etc etc. 

You nailed it Ray!  Below the video, we’ve listed another 15 things you can do on a rainy day.  Just be glad you don’t live in England, where you wouldn’t expect the sun.  As John Lennon put it in the Beatles classic, “I Am the Walrus”:

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.

SEE 15 RAINY DAY IDEAS BELOW VIDEO:

Glazed – Paint Your Own Pottery & Glass Fusing
184 Washington St
Gloucester MA 01930
Phone    978-283-5751

Cape Ann Lanes
53 Gloucester Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930-2256
(978) 283-9753

Cape Ann Art Haven
 180B Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-283-3888

Gloucester Cinema
74 Essex Avenue (Rte. 133)
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9188

Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA

Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-281-0470

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester, Mass. 01930
Tours on the hour. Last tour at 4:00 p.m.

Cape Ann Foodie Tours
617-902-8291

Cape Pond Ice – Ice House Tour
104 Commercial Street
Fort Point Wharf
Gloucester, MA
978-283-0174

Ryan & Wood Distilleries
15 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA
978-281-2282

Sargent House Museum
49 Middle Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 281-2432

Rocky Neck Art Colony
Rocky Neck
Gloucester, MA

Cape Ann Community Cinema
21 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-309-8448

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Live Music – At over a dozen locations

Cape Ann Views and North Shore Gardens by Audi Souza

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There will be an exciting exhibit of Audi Souza’s acrylic paintings at Khan Studio, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., Gallery 3 from July 27 – August 9 with an Opening Reception on Saturday, August 3 from 6-8:00pm.  Come over to Audi’s opening before steppin’ out to the Beaux Arts Ball.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

A Huge Thank You To Our Buddy EJ and The Castle Manor Inn

EJ put on a spectacular show at Castle Manor Inn, curating the East Meets West show showcasing 8 of of fellow East Gloucester artists traversing the Great City and showcasing in West Gloucester’s castle Manor Inn.

First off the castle Manor Inn might be my first choice for a summer soirĂ©e out on that back covered deck.  the views, the set-up, the food- all spectacular.  Joey C A+ recommendation.

But on top of that I can’t thank our buddy EJ for all the hard work she put in curating this show.

I don’t sing her praises nearly enough.  But she really is one very special lady for all she does not only for herself but for everyone around her.

Thanks Laura Baker from Castle Manor and Thanks EJ

You rock!

Killer Beer Battered Fish Tacos at The Castle Manor Inn

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Castle Manor Does it With Flair

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Last evening was the opening reception for the East Goes West exhibit of works by Rocky Neck artists at Castle Manor Inn.  All I can say is, Castle Manor knows how to put on an event with a flair.  The function space looked beautiful, as did every other space in the Inn and restaurant, and the grounds are peaceful and meticulously maintained.  Appetizers and champagne served by a very professional and friendly staff were delicious.  Attendees were treated to tours of the exhibit and a sampling of rooms in the Inn, which are lovely and tastefully appointed.

If you have a wedding, anniversary or other function coming up, or friends, family or business associates coming to visit, you owe it to yourself to check out Castle Manor Inn.  On a more regular tip – check out Sea Glass restaurant or just stop by the pub for a drink.   The exhibit will be up through August, so stop by any time and check out the artwork and Castle Manor Inn. 

E.J. Lefavour

Community Stuff 7/24/13

Cabaret at the Shalin Liu Performance Center this September!

Theatre in the Pines will present the musical theatre presentation of "Cabaret," directed by Nan Webber, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center , 37 Main Street, Rockport .  Performances will be held on Friday, September 13, Saturday, September 14th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 15 at 3 p.m.  Tickets are now on sale at Toad Hall Book Store, 47 Main Street, Rockport and

The Bookstore of Gloucester, 61 Main Street, Gloucester.


Fireworks August 10 in Rockport!

Rockport’s First Fireworks show is approaching!  The firework’s which is called "Illumination Night" will light up the town at             9:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 10th off Granite Pier.  Anyone interested in donating towards the cost of the fireworks are welcome to send donations to: Rockport National Bank, Rockport Firework Fund, c/o Marcia Budrow, 37 King Street, Rockport MA 01966. 


Opening Reception featuring the work of Larry Martin-Bittman

Please join us on  Saturday, July 27th beginning at 6pm to officially welcome artist Larry Martin-Bittman to The Art Nook Gallery. Larry is originally from Prague, and has been a Rockport resident for over 20 years. His work reflects his love of both his native country as well as his current hometown on Cape Ann.

Come by for wine and food while we enjoy the vibrant, whimsical work of this talented artist!

The Art Nook 58 Bearskin Neck Rockport, MA

www.facebook.com/theartnook

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Flatrocks Gallery News:

wait until dark: film time changed to 8:30

We will be showing the documentary film Albert Alcalay:Self Portraits by Allen Moore, RobTranchin and Rob Eustis

on Tuesday 7/23 @ 8:30pm

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East Goes West- A GMG Event At Castle Manor In Tuesday Evening! Be There!

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Eight of East Gloucester’s Rocky Neck artists exhibit 44 pieces of work throughout the reception area, lobby, dining rooms of Sea Glass Restaurant and function area of West Gloucester’s elegant Castle Manor Inn at 141 Essex Ave.   The exhibit runs July 2 – September 2 with an Opening Reception on Tuesday, July 23rd from 5:00-7:00.  A great reason to visit the Inn and Sea Glass Restaurant.  Hope to see you at the opening being put on by the Inn – it will be great.

E.J. Lefavour

Origami for kids at Art Haven and Theatre Camp for Kids at the YMCA

This Thursday (3:30-5PM) is the last origami class for kids this month at Art Haven!  The content and level of difficulty of the class is entirely flexible according to the needs and interests of those who sign up.

So, for example, if your child (or a child you know) has an origami book and has stopped using it because he/she is stuck on a difficult model or discouraged, register them for the class and bring them with the book in question! I will help them through whatever difficulty they may be facing, and we can fold some model(s) from the book with the other students.

The possibilities are endless! Contact Art Haven for details on pricing and registration, and if you do register and have a specific interest or need, let me know ahead of time so I can prepare if necessary (you can comment on this post).  Here’s a photo from a previous class, showing me with budding origami artist Leon Calvo:

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We folded a boat, a dragon, a lotus flower, and a Brontosaurus (aka Apatosaurus). Leon’s father David Calvo is a wood carver who does beautiful work and teaches classes as well.


It’s not too late to sign kids up for Theatre Camp at the YMCA! I’ve heard great things about this program. “Murder on Rocky Neck: The Opera” was the result of a similar program with Henry Allen in the past.1077257_395860890520460_1502729790_oMatthew Green

Semi-finalist Group Exhibit Reception at the Sawyer Free Library

Georges and Charles Ryan ©Kim Smith 2013

George and Charles Ryan, Catherine and Cliff’s twin nine-year old sons, are avid GMG readers. They particularly enjoyed the Steak Bomb Challenge posts!

Mayor Kirk HarborWalk Exhibit ©Kim Smith 2013Friday’s reception for the Semi-finalist Group Exhibit, hosted by the Sawyer Free Library and Carol Gray, was well attended and beautifully organized by Catherine Ryan. The wonderfully appetizing and tasty hors d’ourves, dips, crostini, and fruits and cheeses were provided by Matthew Beach of Beach Gourmet

Carol gray ©Kim Smith 2013 copyCarol Gray, Sawyer Free Library Director

Thank you Mayor Kirk, Carol, Catherine, and the Gloucester Committee for the Arts for the exhibit, which is interesting and very informative to see all the semi-finalists responses to the public call to art. The exhibit is up and running through July 30th at the Matz Gallery of the Sawyer Free Library. Click HERE for the Library’s summer hours.

Bartek Konieczny Family ©Kim Smith 2013Finalist Bartek Konieczny and Family

Catherine Ryan ©Kim Smith 2013Catherine Ryan

Sean and Juni Van Dyke ©Kim Smith 2013 copy

Semi-finalist Juni Van Dyke and Her Son Sean

Justin DeSilva ©Kim Smith 2013 copyFinalist Justin DeSilva

Jame Calderwood ©Kim Smith 2013 copyFinalist James Calderwood

Konieczny daughters ©Kim Smith 2013Bartek Konieczny Daughter’s

Konieczny ©Kim Smith 2013Konieczny -2 ©Kim Smith 2013.

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Lots of Stuff Happening At Cape Ann Museum

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Photo from an earlier Music in the Courtyard featuring Renee & Joe, 2013.

Friday, July 26

Music in the Courtyard, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Join us in the Museum’s sculpture garden for an afternoon of acoustic music with local performer John Rockwell. This program is free and open to the public.

Saturday, July 27

Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour, 10:00 a.m.

Take a docent-led stroll past select Gloucester houses made famous by painter Edward Hopper. $10 members; $20 nonmembers. Space is limited. Reservations required.

August 5 – August 9th, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Science Explorations Through Art with Maritime Gloucester

For children ages 6-12, Mornings will be spent at Maritime Gloucester exploring wind and energy. Projects will include turbines, windsocks, sails and kites. After lunch, students will travel to the Cape Ann Museum to explore wind in Art, make wind powered kinetic sculptures and other projects. For more information contact Maritime Gloucester at (978) 281-0470 or info@maritimegloucester.org.

Saturday, August 3

Tin — Relics and Remakes by Sinikka Nogelo, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Contemporary Art Installation at the White-Ellery House. This program is free and open to the public as part of Escapes North’s 17th Century Saturdays.


Wednesday, August 7

Fitz Henry Lane’s Sunset Harbor Cruise, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

A narrated tour of Gloucester Harbor aboard the schooner Ardelle. This program is offered in collaboration with Maritime Gloucester. Members only, $20. Reservations required. For more information call (978) 281-0470 or visitmaritimegloucester.org.

Saturday, August 10

Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester Walking Tour, 10:00 a.m.

Join Museum docents for an informative stroll through this 19th century maritime artist’s Gloucester neighborhood. $10 members; $20 nonmembers. Reservations required.

Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here:

A Picture Postcard Tour of Cape Ann During the Gilded Age, 3:00 p.m.

An illustrated talk with Manchester Historical Museum Curator John Huss and Cape Ann Museum Archivist Stephanie Buck. This program is free for members or with Museum admission.

From The Blackburn Open Studios Weekend Event

Alicia Pensarosa forwards pics-

Hi Joey thanks! Here are some pics
My studio:

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Nina Fletcher, in front of her button self portrait:

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Robin Colodzin in front of her mixed media paintings:

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Pam Courtleigh in front of her Assemblage:

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Mary Beth Smith with her handmade Books:

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Luscious: Garden’s Earthly Delights

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Judith Monteferrante solo show: 

Marblehead Arts Association  

Luscious: Garden’s Earthly Delights

King Hopper Mansion Ballroom, Marblehead, MA

July 20 – August 25, 2013 with

Reception Sunday July 21, 2-4 pm

Sista Felicia’s Dream Team-The Making of a Dream Cookbook

Siasta Felicia writes-

James, Cathy, and Toni
I couldn’t ask for a better team of people to work with….we have been working side by side, round the clock, making sure every last detail is perfect,…I’m so blessed to be surrounded by these amazingly talented, caring, fun and creative people…..Each have made this process an experience I will never forget. after a crazy month of deadlines, photo shoots, photo retakes, cooking, and endless editing we are still having fun, joking with one another…at 2 am for the past two nights… you know your apart of a very unique group who all thrive on being creative happy to be working in the field they most love ! This has been an incredible experience.

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Rocky Neck Event of the Summer – The Beaux Arts Ball

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It is coming up fast, the 2013 Rocky Neck Beaux Arts Ball.  This year the theme is recycled, repurposed, revived.  Put on your creative thinking cap and come up with a fun, unique costume (plastic bags, newspapers, empty cans or bottles, fish net, a recreated second hand outfit – like our poster model Katharine Worth created and is wearing – from Bananas, Second Glance, Madcap Style or any of our many vintage, second hand and thrift shops, etc.).  Have fun with your costume, and then come and have fun at the Beaux Arts Ball at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center on Saturday, August 3rd from 6-10:00 pm.

 

Community Stuff 7/16/13

Tenth Annual Seacoast Seven Road Race Registration

FOS 2013 Race Registration Form


Harmonic Icons

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Our intention at Flatrocks Gallery is to spotlight Cape Ann’s creative heritage. This month with our latest exhibition we present three prominent artists who express our intent through their art and their lives. 

Albert Alcalay, Ruth Mordecai, and Juni Van Dyke have created distinct styles that engage and challenge. Relying on vibrant color, intriguing surfaces, and compositional grace, their unique and idiomatic works evoke vivid associations in the viewer.

All three have lived and worked on Cape Ann. And all three have made significant contributions in their professional lives – Alcalay as an inspirational teacher at Harvard, Mordecai as Director of the Goetemann Artist in Residency Program for the Rocky Neck Cultural Center and Van Dyke with her tireless work as Art Director at the Rose Baker Senior Center in Gloucester. 

We are proud and excited to present these three artists in our latest show . We invite you to visit and see for yourself why we have named it HARMONIC ICONS.

July 10 – July 28 

opening reception July 20, 6-8pm

Flatrocks Gallery 77 Langsford St Gloucester, MA

978-879-4683 Wed.-Sun. 12-5


Blackburn Open Studios Sat 7/20 & Sun 7/21

Blackburn Open Studios

Save the Date! This Saturday and Sunday from 12-6 we will be hosting open studios in the Blackburn building, 2 Main Street, Gloucester. Stop on by, say hi, browse our work and have some snacks!

Come through the parking lot to the entrance at the back/side of the building and take the elevator up toe the third floor.

I will have my vintage shop, Madcap Style, open so come and visit me on the 3rd floor! I will be adding lots of new summer clothes and accessories too.

Here’s the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/141926372680349/

I hope to see you there!

~Alicia

http://www.madcapstyle.com/