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Tag: Art
Wanna show off your construction skills this Saturday?
Art Haven can use some help this Saturday framing out their new space on Pleasant Street! If you’ve got construction experience and some free time, grab your tools and come on down – it’s sure to be a good time. Work will start at 9am, but feel free to come down whenever you can and help out. For more info about what’s going on, check out this interview with Dave Brooks, founder and visionary 🙂
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On The Wall art show at The Annie tonight!
If you haven’t heard, there’s going to be a great art opening at The Annie tonight with a group of fantastic young artists from around town! Watch the video below for more details, check out the Facebook page, or just show up sometime this evening to take it all in. Doors open at 4:00!
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Young Artist of the Week: Leon!
This week’s young artist is Leon, shown above as a part of Art Haven’s summer programs. Leon has done everything from clay to mermaid robot building, but most notably created an incredible squirrel painting and poem! In Picturing Poetry with Aja Heussi, he created a poem about the intricacies of squirrel life:
Squirrels eating nuts
in a hole in a tree.
Squirrels bushy butts
and a squirrel sees a bee.
Squirrels are crazy
Squirrels are fat
Squirrels are rambunctious
They’ve caused trouble in the past
Squirrels are mammals
Squirrels have sharp claws
They can’t see when they’re babies
When they have little paws
I love squirrels
I love them a lot
They are so funny!
But when they bite, they’re not.
-Leon Calvo
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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Pleasant Street is going to be awesome!!
I was just walking down Pleasant Street this morning and realizing how AWESOME it’s going to be once all the work that’s currently happening there is finished. Just think about it! Between the Johnstone & Schlichte building being re-done, the great new entrance and windows on Pleasant Street Tea Co. and, my [extremely biased] personal favorite, the old office supply store becoming an incredibly creative community space, Pleasant Street is really gonna be rockin! Some photos of the works in progress for your enjoyment:
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Rocky Delforge work up at Pleasant Street Tea Co.
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Slideshow of Debbie Clark’s demonstration at the Cape Ann Museum
The demonstration was fascinating. Debbie’s creative process is very free and spontaneous – which works, I think, because she has developed great skill and has lots of talent! She described how the some of materials she uses often change over time through interaction with each other and with the environment, so on-going change is a part of the artwork. You can see some of the results hanging on the wall behind her. Really beautiful work!
Incidentally, these photos were all taken with my iPhone, many of them using some cool lenses I bought. As you can see, the lenses aren’t “transparent”, in the sense that they cause some distorsion, but it’s an interesting effect. I’ll post about that later for anyone interested in exploring iPhonography…
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April Vacation Workshops at Art Haven and Maritime Gloucester
Art Haven and Maritime Gloucester are collaborating on April Vacation programs! There are also opportunities to make a bowl for the Empty Bowl dinner, make Mother’s Day cards, paper flower bouquets or come to HARRY POTTER DAY!! Call 978.283.3888 or email arthaveninfo@gmail.com to sign up now.
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From my Sketch Book
Debbie Clark at the Cape Ann Museum
Come to the Cape Ann Museum now to see Debbie Clark demonstrate her technique, 3-5pm today, and 1-4pm tomorrow.
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Statue in Calvary Cemetery
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Cole Herbst and other young artists showing at The Annie next Friday
Great show next Friday of some exciting young artists from Gloucester! If you haven’t seen any of Cole’s stuff before, look here and here. Jason Burroughs, Jamie Rynkowski, Jake Stafford and Justus Dunton will be showing work also – really fun new stuff from some young local artists!
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More fishing boats at St. Ann’s
A last photo of the murals in St. Ann’s. It’s a pity they are in such poor condition. However, we don’t have the money to do anything to preserve them right now…
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Jean jackets, shadow boxes, and picturing poetry!
A new session of classes starts at Art Haven today, including classes in jacket re-decorating, poetry illustration and undersea shadow boxes. There’s also youth open studio, family studio, pottery throwing, and other fun stuff. Click on Kerry Christman’s shadow box for the full schedule!
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chickity check it- evie’s 366 day sketch project
Hey Joey!
This is Evie from the tea co. I’m doing a sketch a day project for a year (or in this year’s case, 366 days) and at the end will take said sketches, turn them into a postcard book and start my snail mail revolution that I’ve been blabbing about forever. To you I ask, can I put up my sketches on the good morning gloucester blog?
Hope all is well,
Evie.
http://www.facebook.com/SkarillaArt
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Cole Herbst mural almost done at new Eco Boutique
This mural by Cole Herbst with the Eco Boutique logo and some really sweet flowers and fairies is going up in Eco Boutique’s new space at 186 Main Street – stop in and check it out!
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Demolition happening now at Art Haven’s new space – carpets tomorrow!
Here’s a little video of some of the demolition started this morning at Art Haven’s new space at 11 Pleasant Street. They’re looking for some volunteers to come help rip up carpets tomorrow afternoon if anyone’s interested… Great way to get out some pent up aggression! Just call (978) 283-3888 or email su@orenblu.com for more details or just come down at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon!
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Anybody excited to see somethin happenin in the old office supply store?
You may have noticed they’ve been putting new windows in the old office supply building on Pleasant Street over the past couple months, but did anybody notice all the folks in there taking down ceiling tiles this morning??
Well…. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Art Haven signed a lease for the space at 11 Pleasant Street last Friday and is going to be EXPANDING to have high school and adult programming at the new space! Kids from the RAYS program were there this morning starting the first step of development: taking down ceiling tiles. Work is underway, and the planned open date is EARLY MAY with studios for rent, an art materials thrift store, classroom space, and a multi-use room for all kinds of events!
If you’d like to know more or even want to help out, you can call the Main St. studio at (978) 283-3888 or email arthaveninfo@gmail.com (Or just stop in and say hi!
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Young Artist of the week!
This young artist of the week is a very talented 14-year-old photographer named Sarah. Sarah does digital and darkroom photography, and did a great series of graffiti photography last fall for the TAG gallery opening [one pictured below]. Above are some of her photos on display at Nights on the Neck last summer, but you can see more of her work at the TAG gallery at 180B Main St.
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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Community Stuff Sunday
The Splendor of Asia – Photographs
An exhibit of photos from Nepal and India is up at Lone Gull Coffeehouse at Gloucester main st. Holding the Buddha’s nose – Virtue or Misdeed? and other beautiful images are on display in the month of March. Come around and let Jurek Schreiner’s colorful glimpses of Asia infuse some warmth in you during these cold and grey days. Click here to get a taste of them online.
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