Call for Entries “Artist Drawings and Paintings”

Posted on by James Eves

Call for Entries
“Artist Drawings and Paintings”

An exhibition featuring artists who do both drawings and paintings

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) invites artists to submit work to be considered for inclusion in “Artist Drawings and Paintings”, a five-week exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.

Jurors:  Selected members of the RNAC Exhibitions Committee

Submissions:  Online, via http://SmarterEntry.com

Deadline for Submissions:  11:59 PM, Friday, June 2, 2017

Exhibition Dates:  July 7 – August 6, 2017

Gallery Hours:  Thursday – Sunday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM

Opening Reception:  Saturday, July 8, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Full Prospectus: http://rockyneckartcolony.org/current-call-for-entries/

The intent of this exhibition is to engage viewers in an exciting-ambitious-experimental-traditional-new-materials/traditional-materials exhibition of both paintings and drawings. Many artists do both paintings and drawings but tend to show only one or the other.  We are looking for large works as well as small. We will include one or more of the drawings submitted by each chosen artist AND also one or more of their paintings.  All selected drawings will be exhibited on one floor of the Cultural Center, and all paintings will be exhibited on the other floor, so each artist will have work on both floors.

Each artist may submit up to 3 drawings and up to 3 paintings for one entry fee. The submitted paintings and drawings may be related or they may be completely unrelated. They may be part of a series, or be individual works.

We seek a variety of works from experimental to more traditional in all media. Only original work will be accepted.

The medium does not determine if a work is a painting or a drawing. There could be oil drawings and pencil paintings! It is up to the submitting artist to determine what is a drawing and what is a painting, and to label each work as such by including the word “Drawing” or “Painting” in the title.

Eligibility:
Open to all artists 18 years and older.

For more information:
Email entry@rockyneckartcolony.org

LIVE at City Hall: GEF Gloucester Arts Festival

Posted on by Catherine

Listen to sweet voices from Veterans school chorus, “Imagine”.

 

Gloucester High School chorus

 

More theater, bands and chorus coming up!

Kurt Lichtenwald and GHS robotics presented at 1pm. GHS has 11  engineering courses — teaching to the top! Showing us Propane furnaces, LADAR, magnetic Newton’s cradle (no sound), a hovercraft that can carry 60 pounds… Design. Build. Modify. (More than one kid behind me said “I can’t wait to go to high school.”) Displayed art by O’Maley Middle school artists throughout City Hall, Cape Ann Museum and Sawyer Free.

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Woodwork display is amazing!

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North Shore Restorative Yoga

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

New yoga studio at 25B Lexington Avenue, Magnolia Village of Gloucester, MA 01930. I met Ms. Katie Schroeder on Friday and we had a quick chat. Great space for yoga and Katie was terrific. She also does massage and Reiki right there in the studio.

 

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North Shore Restorative Yoga
Classes 7 days a week
978-704-9807
http://www.nsryoga.com
info@nsryoga.com

Facebook: northshorerestorative.yoga

Mother’s Day Concert at Gloucester Meetinghouse

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

Tomorrow, Sunday, May 14th is Mother’s Day and at 3:30pm the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation will present the last in its 2016-17 Concert & Lecture Series featuring the Ipswich-based ensemble ‘The Orchestra on the Hill’ under the direction of Tom Palance.  The featured work is Aaron Copland’s colorful and evocative suite “Appalachian Spring” plus RalphVaughan Williams’ “Suite For Viola and Orchestra” with viola soloist Karen McConomy and “The Banquet,” a two movement piece by Chris Florio, Ipswich resident and award winning composer and performer.  This wonderful program is the first performance by ‘The Orchestra on the Hill’ in Gloucester, whose home venue is the music room of the the Crane Estate in Ipswich.  A reception will follow in which you may greet the musicians, some of the finest players on the North Shore.

This is a great opportunity to take your mother, or perhaps an extra-special woman in your life, to lunch someplace on Cape Ann and follow it with a truly memorable musical experience.  The historic 1806 Gloucester Meetinghouse has been described as “a concert hall appearing to be a church,” blessed with extraordinarily fine acoustics that will allow Tom Palance and the orchestra to demonstrate the expansive tonal and dynamic beauty of these works.

The Meetinghouse, home to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, is located on the green at the corner of Church and Middle Street where you may park.  The entrance with an elevator is located on the side of the building at 10 Church Street.  Tickets are available at the door and online, with more information, at gloucestermeetinghouse.org

CEDAR ROCK GARDENS IS OFFERING A VERITABLE BONANZA OF BLOSSOMS, VEGGIES, AND HERBS FOR MOTHER’S DAY!

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Elise and Sunshine

Cedar Rock Gardens is bursting with a fabulous selection of blossoms and veggies and all would be much loved by Mom. Load up now on milkweed, petunias, pansies, snapdragons, dianthus, violas, osteosperum, alyssum, thyme, cilantro, parsley, dill, and much, much, much more.

Check out Cedar Rocks Gardens updated and complete plant list here.

NEXT WEEKEND CEDAR ROCK GARDENS IS RELEASING THE TOMATOES!

 

Tucker is building dozens of new tray tables to hold all the fantastic seedlings coming along.

Jeffrey Thomas, Tucker Smith, and Irv Falk

Visitors from Out of State

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

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Couple enjoy a walk on the Lucy Brown Davis Pathway, on a very cloudy day.

They had plans to visit the Azorean, his ancestors were from San Miguel Azores.

Gloucester Smiles-604 In the Garden

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Cuteness overload

Posted on by Bridgette Mathews

There is nothing more adorable than puppies and babies, except for maybe 3 little fox kits playing on a boardwalk!   Their mama was out hunting and they were just having a ball being mischievous.   Definitely a first for me and what a treat!

 

Action Inc. Annual Meeting – JUNE 1st

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

megmerlinaction's avatarCape Ann Community

Please join us for a breakfast buffet at the Gloucester House and hear the latest from your hometown Community Action Agency, Action Inc.! Proudly serving Cape Ann since 1965.

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Teacher Feature: Ms.L’s creature collection helps students learn biology

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Biology teacher Jessica Lichtenwald with her pet snake.

THE GILNETTER
RACHEL VINCENT, Staff Writer
May 11, 2017
Filed under Features, Showcase

Are you an animal lover? Then head down to Gloucester High School’s very own zoo in Room 2411. There, you’ll find a variety of creatures – from the smallest cockroaches to to the longest snakes, and much in between.

Biology teacher Jessica Lichtenwald, also known as “Ms. L”, has accumulated these pets for years. Some she has bought on her own, while others were donated by students and friends. Her extensive collection contains a bull snake, corn snake, bearded dragon, tarantula, hedge hog, fish, and a colony of cockroaches.

“I like weird animals,” said Lichtenwald.  “I’m intrigued by the diversity, and the way they’re so adapted to their environments.”

When dealing with these different animals, Lichtenwald is able to get to know their different personalities.

Jasper, the corn snake, is very active in his cage but calms down when he is held. He’s not aggressive in anyway, in comparison to the bull snake, Snarky. “The bull snake, he’s more aggressive in general, especially about his food,” Lichtenwald said when asked about the contrasting natures of her snakes.

Mrs. L’s most recent addition was Libra, the hedgehog. This diminutive animal has come a long way from when she first arrived. When Libra was brought to her, she was very flea ridden and required special treatment to make the parasites go away. According to Lichtenwald, the animal is now much happier and slowly warming up to the people in her environment. However, because of the cool temperature in the classroom, Libra is being kept at Lichtenwald’s home until her return next school year.

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Join Betsy Williams at the Stevens Coolidge Place

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns
Join Betsy Williams Sunday, May 21 at the beautiful Stevens Coolidge Place in North Andover to create a Fragrant Flowering Garden in a 14” pot.
We’ll plant a combination of 6 sweetly scented annual and perennial plants, such as nicotiana, stock, heliotrope, nepeta, lavender, sweet alyssum, violas and miniature roses, accented with climbing, twining vines and fragrant variegated greens. 
 
With proper care, your pot will bloom happily all summer long on a patio, porch, sunny balcony or doorstep.
Please bring an apron and floral scissors to class.
 
Sunday, May 21, 2017.  1-3pm
 
To register contact Kevin Block <kblock@thetrustees.org> 

WINSOME WILLETS

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A Plain Jane, resting on a tuft of grass at the marsh edge, backlit, I at first thought she was a stone. A slight turn of the head and upon closer look, not a stone but a very large shorebird, with feathers worn in a subdued arrangement of brown and white—still, nothing special. Then she began to unfold her long elegant wings. Boldly barred in chocolate brown, this Plain Jane was swiftly transformed to Beauty Queen.

Willets are one of the few shorebirds that nest not in the Arctic tundra, but prairie and salt marshes of America and Canada. For over one hundred years Willets were hunted to non-existence in Massachusetts. Biologists have a name for this tragic occurrence, when a species is not extinct, but is no longer present in an area, and the term is extirpated. Because of the Migratory Bird Act of 1918, the Willet population is increasing and the Massachusetts coastline has once again become a safe home for these beautiful members of the sandpiper family.

Belonging to the same genus as yellowlegs, they do look similar to Greater Yellowlegs, but are comparatively larger, their beaks are thicker, and their legs are not yellow but gray. Look for Willets on beaches, marshes, mudflats, and rocky coasts. They forage on crabs and other small crustaceans, worms, mollusks, fish, and grass. The call of the Willet is unmistakable, piercing and urgent and their name comes from the ringing “pill-will-willet.”