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The Volker Goetze Quartet, featuring musicians Volker Goetze, world renowned Sri Lankan drummer Uthpala Eroshan, Oran Etkin, and Alexis Cuadrado, will return to Manship Artists Residency for a performance entitled, Musical Crossroads on June 15. The new musical compositions were born at the Manship Artists Residency in 2023. 

The work transforms ancient Sri Lankan folk tales inspired by Kandyan traditional dances into a contemporary context. They highlight stories of reincarnation, sacrifice, and selfless devotion. Each musician brings his own richly informed cultural intelligence to the group’s sound. A gorgeous experiment in cross-cultural collaboration, Musical Crossroads brings together the traditions of Jazz and Kandyan percussion to create a new musical vision.

The Volker Goetze Quartet is a recipient of a 2023 grant from Chamber Music America’s Artistic Projects program, funded through the generosity of The Howard Gilman Foundation. The performance and residency are supported by The Prometheus Circle of the Manship Artists Residency and Ken Kinna. 

This special performance will take place Saturday, June 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. It is a fundraiser for Manship Artists Residency. Tickets are $75/person. To register please go to the Manship Artists Residency website at ManshipArtists.org. 

ABOUT the VOLKER GOETZE QUARTET

Volker Goetze is an artist, composer, and trumpeter. In 2023 he united bassist Jonathan Toscano, Sri Lankan drummer Uthpala Eroshan, and clarinetist Oran Etkin to compose the globally focused Musical Crossroads at Manship Artists Residency. Their work consists of arrangements of traditional melodies and original compositions by Volker Goetze. This June, Volker Goetze, Uthpala Eroshan, and Oran Etkin will return to Manship Artists Residency with composer, producer, bandleader, bassist and educator Alexis Cuadrado to perform their new compositions. www.volkergoetze.com/quartet 

ABOUT the MANSHIP ARTISTS RESIDENCY 

The site of the Manship Artists Residency was once the summer retreat of Paul Manship, the sculptor of the Prometheus Fountain at Rockefeller Center. Many of the same opportunities and qualities that attracted Manship to Cape Ann are available to those who come here seeking solitude or community in this restorative landscape. Manship Artists Residency gives artists and the creative spirit time and space to flourish for the benefit of our community by welcoming artists and thought leaders from around the world to work in these serene surroundings steps away from the scenic northeast coast of New England. Our residents magnify the social capital and the cultural value of Cape Ann, and our innovative programming contributes to the health and vitality of our community and beyond. ManshipArtists.org

Workshops and Events featuring the
• Distinguished Artist/Teacher Sarah McEneaney
• Environmental/Installation Artist in Residence Caroline Bagenal
• Gloucester Invitational Artist Loren Doucette.

Sunday, August 4 at 2:00 PM
Distinguished Artist/Teacher Talk with Sarah McEneaney,
Cape Ann Museum 
27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA

Monday, August 5 – Thursday, August 8, 10AM – 2PM
Artist Workshop with Sarah McEneaney,
Montserrat College of Art 
35 Essex Street, Beverly, MA
Paid workshop, advanced signup required
Intensive Workshop Registration via Zeffy

Wednesday, September 11, 7PM
Environmental Installation Artist Talk with Caroline Bagenal,
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester

Wednesday, October 1, time to be determined
Environmental Installation Closing Talk with Caroline Bagenal,
Ocean Alliance 
32 Horton Street, Gloucester

Thursday, October 10, 7 PM
Gloucester Invitational Artist Opening Talk with Loren Doucette,
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester

Sunday, November 3, 1 – 3 PM
Gloucester Invitational Artist Closing Studio Viewing and Informal Talk with Loren Doucette,
Cripple Cove Studios
97 East Main Street, Gloucester

All Talks Free and Open to the Public

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) announces an exciting slate of public events featuring awardees of the 20^th annual Goetemann Artist Residency program: Sarah McEneaney as the Distinguished Artist/Teacher in Residence, Caroline Bagenal as the Environmental Installation Artist, and Loren Doucette as the Gloucester Invitational Artist.

About The Distinguished Artist/Teacher in Residence: 

Sarah McEneaney’s paintings are autobiographical narratives.  She makes detailed and highly colored paintings of personal events, from the mundane to the horrific. She records the daily life of an artist actively engaged in the world. The scenes, moments and details are as carefully selected and edited as the formal decisions of color, line and perspective.

Her workshop will focus on developing the independent visual voice of each student through one-on-one critiques, group discussions of work, and technical guidance.  Students can expect a lively environment of experimentation and imagery drawn from a variety of sources. 

She will give a talk on August 4 at 2:00 PM, to be held in the Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St. in Gloucester.

The Workshop will be held at Montserrat College in Beverly, Monday, August 5 through Thursday, August 8 from 10 AM to 2 PM 

For more information and to register for the workshop, visit: WORKSHOP LINK GOES HERE. Space is limited.

About the Environmental Installation Artist:

Caroline Bagenal was born in Scotland and lives in Newburyport, MA, and Cumbria in the UK. She has an MFA in Painting and an MA in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown widely in both the UK and the USA including The Maritime Museum in Liverpool and OIA Gallery, New York. Her work has been reviewed in Boston Art Review, Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, Art New England, Artscope and other publications and is included in both private and corporate collections. She has received numerous awards and artists residencies, most recently in 2023 at Cove Park, Scotland. She was an Associate Professor at Montserrat College of Art for twenty-five years.

In August 2021, Caroline fell off her bike and broke both arms and her jaw. Swimming outdoors became an important part of her recovery and the origin of a new body of work. She made her first swimming sculptures from recycled nets, and then larger swimming sculptures from recycled woven plastic, bubble wrap and other materials that float.

For the Goetemann Residency, her intent is to continue the swimming sculpture project, taking it in new directions. She is planning to make a film using drones to better convey the idea of the swimmer as part of a vast ocean environment. Her father was a marine biologist, and she plans to use some of his research in this project as a homage to him. Bagenal will present two Public Artist Talks: 

Introductory opening talk:  Wednesday, September 11, 7-8:30 PM at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck

Closing presentation and Q&A: Tuesday, October 1, time, tbd at Ocean Alliance,  

For more information, visit https://rockyneckartcolony.org/2024-goetemann-artist-residency/

About the Gloucester Invitational Artist:

Loren Doucette lives in Gloucester, MA working as a full-time painter. Her work has shown in solo and group exhibitions since 2006. She received a BFA in Drawing and Painting in 2013 from Montserrat College of Art where she participated in Montserrat’s study-abroad program in Italy. It was there that landscape painting became a stabilizing force in her work. Using Oil, Acrylic, Pastel and Gouache, her work includes architectural landscapes unique to Gloucester’s harbor, vibrant floral paintings, emotional figurative work and abstractions that come from the bones of all three subjects.

In her words: 

“My work is a search, an asking, a prayer. Even though the subjects are sometimes recognizable as landscape, flowers or figures, it is about recalibration, remembering, revisiting, reconstruction and discovery. I mainly use three mediums: oil, acrylic and pastel. I use oil for it’s heaviness; the messy squishing and sloshing takes me to more unruly places than acrylic can.  I use acrylic on the other hand for it’s vibrancy. It’s quick drying qualities allow me to draw into the work in between paint layers. Finally, pastel is where I draw and construct from flowers and landscape with overlying abstraction and color experimentation.

Within all these mediums, I am searching for a new discovery to unfold both in the materials and spiritual content.”

Loren will give a talk about her work and career at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Thursday, October 10 at 7PM and will welcome people into her Cripple Cove Studio for a closing talk and viewing on Sunday, November 3 from 1-3PM.

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The Rocky Neck Art Colony, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. Long renowned for its luminous light, this harbor and coastal location has been a magnet for some of the most revered realist painters in US art such as Edward Hopper and Emil Gruppe and has also been a catalyst for the progressive ideas of Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Theresa Bernstein, Milton Avery and Nell Blaine, among others. Today, Rocky Neck continues to attract artists and art lovers to a thriving, creative community. www.rockyneckartcolony.org. Telephone: 978-515-7004.

“Ask and you shall receive” was in full play recently when I visited Sabine at the newly opened 80 Main Antiques & Ephemera on Main St in Gloucester. I do love ephemera and I mentioned I was always on the lookout for cut glass tumblers. Within a few days, I heard back from Sabine that she had some available for me to look at. I came home with 2 beautiful (and reasonably priced) glasses to class up my evening cocktail hour. Thanks Sabine! Looking forward to returning.

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June 7th, 2024

6PM Cocktail Hour 7PM Dinner.

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3) Caprese stuffed portobello mushroom

Grilled marinaded portobello stuffed with heirloom tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella and drizzled with a balsamic gastrique, caesar salad, cheesecake.

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Put it in the books! The first ever Cape Ann Pride Weekend took place this past weekend with events in Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester and Essex to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and culture on Cape Ann. People danced and laughed and bowled and made art and picknicked and raised Pride flags in three different towns. Here are some pictures of the fun below. We’re already looking forward to Cape Ann Pride Weekend 2025!

You can read more about the first ever Cape Ann Pride Weekend on GMG here.

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