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Young Artist of the week!
This young artist of the week is a very talented boy named Jason who painted this interpretation of Winslow Homer’s Two Men in a Canoe on a toolbox that he built himself. Jason picked out this painting himself and, I think, did a beautiful job of making it his own. What a cool piece of artwork for him to have and use for a long time!
If you know of a young artist that should be featured here, email dawn.gadow@gmail.com with a short description and a photo of some of their work!
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School vacation is next week… are you ready?
Cool stuff going on during February Vacation at Art Haven and Pathways for Children!
ELEMENTARY PROGRAMS
Paint Big: Monday, Feb 20 | 9 – 11:30am
Tie Dye a T-shirt: Tues, Feb 21 | 9 – 11:30am
Lord of the Rings Day: Wed, Feb 22 | 9 – 3:30p [Check out the video below for more info]
Book Making: Thurs, Feb 23 | 9 – 11:30pm
Jewelry Making: Friday, Feb 24 | 9 – 11:30pm
MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Paint Big: Monday, Feb 20 | 12:30 – 3pm
Tie Dye a T-shirt: Tues, Feb 21 | 12:30 – 3pm
Lord of the Rings Day: Wed, Feb 22 | 9 – 3:30p
Book Making: Thurs, Feb 23 | 12:30 – 3:00pm
Photoshop 101: Friday, Feb 24 | 12:30 – 3:00pm
There is a small class fee for each program, but financial assistance is available if needed. Fill out and return the registration form for more information.
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Young Artist of the week!
This young artist of the week is a very multi-talented boy named Ivan who made this incredible embossed monster in this week’s Metal Tooling class at Art Haven! Ivan has already taken art classes in a variety of mediums, and it’s always exciting to see what ideas and creatures come out of his creative mind next…
If you know of a young artist that should be featured here, email dawn.gadow@gmail.com with a short description and a photo of some of their work!
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Aja Heussi, queen of the buoys!
I think this makes an appropriate throne for Art Haven’s creative director…
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It’s a big, big world with Martine Bamford!
New workshops running at Art Haven for little ones to learn about other cultures, languages and art all at the same time, starting with France this session on Wednesdays! Click on the picture to check out her web site and get more info.
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New Art Haven classes start this week!
New classes start tomorrow at Art Haven, including a preschool class (learning French and art) and Metal Tooling. February Vacation schedule is also up on the web site – those classes fill up quickly, so sign up now!
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Artwork by the Compass Youth Program
Click on the picture to see a slideshow of artwork by the kids in the Compass Youth Program, run by Action Inc. If you don’t know about the Compass program, it’s a great alternative day school, night school and GED program to help all students get a high school degree – They’re doing great work and the kids are some of the most creative people I know!
These pieces were done by the day school program and were part of an art show at Cruiseport Gloucester last week – really cool and interesting stuff they came up with.
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Triumphant clay student and her Greek Amphora
Madison made this Greek Amphora as a part of the Ancient Archaeology class at Art Haven 🙂 Throughout the session they learned about ancient cultures through the ceramic vessels those cultures built and left behind!
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Buoy auction slideshow
Click on the picture above to see a slideshow from the Art Haven buoy auction on Friday night!
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THE PLACE TO BE TONIGHT!! CRUISEPORT FOR THE 2012 ART HAVEN BUOY AUCTION!
5PM Tonight At Cruiseport! Where all the cool kids will be!
Video here-
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Pop-up fish buoy and a sneak preview at some others… BUOY AUCTION TONIGHT!
Today’s featured buoy (by request) is the pop-up fish buoy by Kelsey Marr! Bidding starts at $20 in the comments section, send us an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) to confirm.
However, for your entertainment, I also bring you a great assortment of artist buoys to check out 🙂 If you’d like to put a bid in on any of these, you’re more than welcome to in the comments section, just make sure to send us an email also (arthaveninfo@gmail.com). And the online bidding ends at 4:00 today. THEN, you come to the auction from 5:00-8:00 at Cruiseport!
Also, keep in mind that there will be live music, lots of local food, tons of beautiful kids buoys, childrens activities and, in case you haven’t heard… A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ART HAVEN ABOUT AWESOME PLANS FOR THE YEARS TO COME!!
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TOMORROW is it… Check out the awesome fishing lure by Karen Conant!
For those of you familiar with The Hive or Crossfit Cape Ann, this style may look familiar 🙂 Created for Art Haven by Karen Conant, one of the wonderful super-involved folks of the Cape Ann community! Again, the rules:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂
Finally, for your enjoyment, the organizing process…
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Bid now on Deb Clarke’s Madonna and Child buoy – Only two days until the auction event!
After much painstaking work and a couple set backs, you may have already seen Deb Clarke’s buoy on the blog yesterday! It came out AWESOME and today you have the chance to bid on it in case you can’t make it to Art Haven’s big buoy auction event on Friday night…
All the buoys from this year’s lobster trap tree will be auctioned off THIS Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. Again, the details:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Bruce Herman buoy honoring Joe Garland
Today’s buoy is a very special one painted by Gloucester painter Bruce Herman in honor of Joe Garland. Not much else to say about it other than thank you to Bruce for this beautiful piece of artwork!
This is the fifth in a series of buoys that are being auctioned off to benefit Art Haven. All the buoys from this year’s lobster trap tree will be auctioned off next Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. Again, the details:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Buoy #4 – The Jason Burroughs fish
If you haven’t seen any of Jason Burroughs’ work (mostly creative underwater scenes and Gloucester landmarks), you gotta get down to the Teen Artist Guild gallery at 180B Main Street – definitely worth a look. As you bid, here’s a nice flashback interview with Jason from the summer of 2010 about some of his work:
If you don’t know what’s going on, we’re in the middle of a series of buoys that are being auctioned off to benefit Art Haven. All the buoys from this year’s lobster trap tree will be auctioned off next Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. Again, the details:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Buoy #3 – EJ’s Eastern Point Lighthouse
This buoy was generously created for Art Haven by GMG’s own Ejay Lefavour, renowned owner of the Ejay Kahn gallery on Rocky Neck! Start your bidding!
If you don’t know what’s going on, we’re in the middle of a series of buoys that are being auctioned off to benefit Art Haven. All the buoys from this year’s lobster trap tree will be auctioned off next Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. Again, the details:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Buoy #2 up for bids!
In case you missed it yesterday, we’re starting the bidding on some of our artist buoys here over the next week so you get a preview of some of the great stuff you can see if you come to Cruiseport next week!
All the buoys from this year’s lobster trap tree will be auctioned off next Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester as a fundraiser for Art Haven, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. Again, the details:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. Also, check out the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Let the bidding begin!
Not sure if you’re going to be able to make it to Art Haven’s buoy auction on the 27th? Or just so excited that you want to start bidding now? Here’s your chance!
Hopefully you saw this beautiful buoy hanging on the Lobster Trap Tree this holiday season and we’re giving you a chance now to bid on this and 7 other buoys painted by local artists, which you’ll see posted over the next 7 days.
If you didn’t know, all the buoys that adorned this year’s beautiful tree (featured in the NYTimes, in case you missed it…) will be auctioned off next Friday, the 27th at Cruiseport Gloucester as a fundraiser for Art Haven, including the ones featured here. But you can put your bids in now to get your name in the hat. So here’s the deets:
-If you like a buoy you see, bidding starts at $20, and you can just bid in the comments section below the post, HOWEVER
-Your bid doesn’t become official until you send Art Haven an email (arthaveninfo@gmail.com) saying you’re serious and letting us know how to get in contact with you.
-Finally, if you’re the highest bidder on the blog, that makes your bid the starting bid at the auction. We’ll be in touch about your max bid if you can’t make it to the auction.
If you’ve got any questions, leave ’em in the comments section. And in the meantime, check out all the artist buoys on Art Haven’s Facebook page and tell us if there are particular buoys you’d like to see go up here. And remember, your money is helping more kids on Cape Ann have access to crazy fun art activities 🙂 Happy bidding!
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Joey Ciaramitaro, a blogger from Gloucester, Mass., called it “ridiculously disfigured” and “horribly disproportionate.”
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
New York Times, Front Page. It’s What We Do.
Click here for the entire story
Excerpt-
When Jonesport joined Beals to make a lobster trap tree on the island for the first time last year — it was 56 feet tall — Joey Ciaramitaro, a blogger from Gloucester, Mass., called it “ridiculously disfigured” and “horribly disproportionate.”
Mr. Ciaramitaro said he preferred his hometown’s tree, which stands about 35 feet, illuminating a plaza in the fishing city’s downtown. Each year, a local arts group invites children to decorate buoys as ornaments, which are auctioned off to raise money for the group. There are 353 on the tree this year.
“I think ours has a lot more soul in it than the other trees,” Mr. Ciaramitaro said. “It’s not just a bunch of traps all stacked up.”
Gloucester is believed to have started the tradition of the large lobster trap tree when it built its first one in 2001. Janice Lufkin Shea, who was a Gloucester shopkeeper at the time, was frustrated that Main Street had no holiday display. She saw a tiny lobster trap tree in someone’s yard and thought a bigger version would be perfect for downtown.
Legend has it that when people in Rockland, Me., learned of it, they decided they had to have one, too.
Click here for the rest of the story at The New York Times Website
I mean was there ever any question? Last year’s fair and balanced poll proved out the numbers without a shadow of a doubt- the Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Is Clearly the Most Beautiful. Especially when you factor in the love and care from Art Haven and 353 sweet children who pulled together to adorn our tree with community messages and incredible art work. You see, Gloucester isn’t just one dimensional. Sure we have a great fishing community but it is so much more. The Arts, The Food Scene, The Literary Scene, we’re not just a one dimensional fishing town. We’ve got it all!
The Gloucester Lobster Trap Tree Has Been Constructed and Adorned With Buoys Hand Painted With Love and Special Messages Of Peace, Joy and Hope By The Children Of Gloucester. And then there are the sterile generic boring trees erected by prisoners of the Maine criminal system who have been incarcerated for unspeakable crimes against the elderly and sick and destitute.
We’ve Got God On Our Side. The Results Of The Poll Were Inevitable.
The numbers don’t lie, here’s the poll-
Nice That The Bean’s Buoy Was Featured In The Article-
Here’s the Bean painting her buoy last week at Art Haven-
Good Morning Gloucester 