Tag: Art

The 7th Annual Rocky Neck Art Colony Winter Show Begins November 18th

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Rocky Neck Goes to Town

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The Seventh Annual Winter Exhibit and Sale –
Rocky Neck comes to downtown Gloucester for its seventh annual winter exhibit and sale from November 18 through December 29, 2011 at 130 Main Street in Gloucester. The public is invited to a Meet the Artists Opening Reception on Saturday, December 3, from 5 to 8 pm, featuring tastings from your favorite local restaurants.
The special focus of this exhibit will be the abundance of the Captains Table. The show will feature painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, and jewelry by members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony where, during the summer season, over 50 working artists display their work in Rocky Neck galleries and studios.

The exhibit will be open Monday-Wed 10-6, Thurs 10-6 but to 8 on Thursdays in December, Friday-Sat 10-6 and Sunday 12-5.

For more information contact: Marie Sweeney at 978 281-6130 or email    sonomarie@comcast.net

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The Center at Rocky Neck COMMUNITY-WIDE MEETING Wednesday Nov. 16, 7 pm

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Karen Ristuben writes-

Hello friends and supporters of The Center at Rocky Neck (our new working title for the former Christian Science Church):
This is a friendly reminder that we will meet at The Center next Wednesday, November 16, at 7 pm.
  Since our first community-wide meeting on September 15:
* the Rocky Neck Art Colony voted 55-3 to move forward with next steps toward the building’s purchase, specifically, to conduct a Feasibility Study (est. $10,000) and to pay for the option to purchase the building ($1,000/month for the 2012 calendar year).  We are in the process of our initial fundraising drive to collect donations toward those efforts.  A convenient Paypal system is now in place at www.rockyneckartcolony.org. 
* Jay Paget, the lead administrator for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Cultural Facilities Grant visited the building and offered support and  encouragement through our application process in the upcoming 2012 funding cycle.
* Mayor Kirk conducted her State of the City address at The Center last weekend (photo attached) and again offered her support for the building project, indicating that Community Preservation funding may be available.
* At her fundraiser luncheon yesterday, Rep. Ann Margaret Ferrante enthusiastically discussed the building project as a beacon of cultural economic development for East Gloucester.
* Necessary building improvements are underway by present owners Steve and Kathy Archer.
At Wednesday’s meeting, we’ll discuss:
1.  planning and development to date;
2.  The Center’s mission and vision;
3.  the role of the RNAC and the broader community in The Center’s programming;
4.  The Center’s governance and management.
If you have any concerns or questions before the meeting, please feel free to call me or contact any of the other officers of RNAC. 
PLEASE come and show your support – we hope to see you there!
Yours,
Karen Ristuben
President
Rocky Neck Art Colony

Beth Williams Studio Panorama and New Pendant Line

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You can check out Beth’s website here- http://www.bethwilliams.com/

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Beth Won the first ever GMG  Downtown Gloucester Flowerbox Competition

A View from Capt. Joe and Son’s Dock

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A View from Capt. Joe and Son’s Dock taken August 29th 2010

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This is It! The Last Weekend for the Kahn Studio/GMG Gallery

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This Is It!

The Last Weekend for the Kahn Studio/GMG Gallery

This Colombus Day weekend is the last weekend for the Kahn/GMG Gallery until next year. I think I have 4 small Paintings framed and one unframed left. Any Framed painting will be $60.00 any size. the unframed one will be $35.00. All drawings framed or unframed will be 20% off.

EJ has some of her Beautiful Paintings, Prints, “Did You Know” Book and her popular Fishermans Calendar at Discounted prices available.  Also Joey C. and Sharon have some Awesome Photos Available. And don’t forget Paul Morrisons Pottery. All at Discount prices. If your interested just drop by the Gallery at the Madfish Wharf on Rocky Neck. Tell EJ  I sent you.

Kahn Studio/GMG Gallery

77 Rocky Neck Ave. G3 Madfish Wharf

  12 to 8pm Until Columbus Day

Here’s a few of mine that are available:

Tied up at “Fisherman’s Wharf” Gloucester

Sharpie Sketches;

Http://www.frontierogallery.com

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Vocal Art Auction Tonight at the Sawyer Free Library

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Vocal Art Auction Tonight at the Sawyer Free Library 10/05/2011

The Silent Auction Bidding is over. But!, you still have one more chance to bid on your favorite painting. The Vocal Auction starts at 7pm and The Preview Party Starts at 6pm. There will be plenty of Food and Drink to get you primed for the Vocal Auction.

WHAT KIND OF FISH IS THIS?

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From deb Clarke;

WHAT KIND OF FISH IS THIS?

found it in a tank at the Seapocket Lab of the Gloucester Maritime Center

http://www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org/. A simple google search identified the image as a grunt, my Audubon field guide identifies it as a Porgy.

I’m gathering this information for a new body of work based on fish that I have not painted before. Some of the new paintings will be of favorite aquarium fish that I have lived with. Others will be new encounters through tidepools, my visit to the Maritime Center, the Boston Aquarium (a visit is next on my list). The artwork will exhibit up in Maine in the New Year. to see my progress subscribe to my blog:

http://www.debbieclarke.blogspot.com

best,

deb

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2011 Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour On Tap For Next Weekend

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Marty Morgan invites you to spend the holiday weekend visiting 14 studios of
professional artists in beautiful locations all around Gloucester and
Rockport.

“SURVEY” AT ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION

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Show by Award Winning Photographers Law Hamilton and Dale Blank with Sculptor John Fleming Opens October 2

DaleBlank_ToolCompany“Survey,” featuring many new works by photographers Dale Blank and Law Hamilton and sculptor John Fleming, will be showing at the Rockport Art Association’s Martha Moore Room on October 2 through October 16, 2011.  An Opening Reception with the artists will be held on Sunday afternoon, October 2, from 2 – 4pm.

The collaboration of Ms. Blank, a Gloucester landscape photographer, Ms. Hamilton, a Rockport naturalist photographer, and Rockport artist/sculptor Fleming, “Survey” provides sweeping landscapes, graphic close-ups and double exposures designed to share their unique views of the world. Most of the photographs are representations of Cape Ann.  Mr. Fleming’s work is full of texture, yet reminiscent of charcoal drawing.
His sculptures inhabit the world created by the photographs.

“My sculpture primarily involves the human figure. To work on a sculpture, building and shaping the surface only to cut parts away and rebuild again, is to try to impart the same sense of growth, neglect, breaking down and recovery that we all experience,” says John.

Dale waits for the best light, in the golden hours before sunrise and sunset, or in the aftermath of a storm.  “I hope to increase appreciation of the natural and built environments by sharing the beauty of these places.” Reflections, symmetrical components and fleeting light are the mainstays of her work.

Law is known for her unique photographs of the region’s flora.  “Love of nature leads me to express through investigation, using patterns to lead the eye to a new perspective of what otherwise might be passed by,” she states.

All three are artist members of the Rockport Art Association. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10am – 5pm and Sunday, 12pm – 5pm. Galleries are open free to the public.

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Chickity Check It! Another Magpie Nest’s Debbie Clarke Finds Inspiration In Rotten Pogies

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Check Out Deb Clarke’s Post Here-

Capt Joey’s "Pogie"

Disclaimer- I’m not a Captain and don’t pretend to be one.

“ New England Inspiration – Two Views” Oils by Bruce Turner – Watercolors by Marilyn Swift September 19 – October 2 North Shore Arts Association

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video- watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT at North Shore Arts Association

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Check out Marilyn’s Website here–

NEW ENGLAND PAINTINGS:
watercolors by MARILYN SWIFT and oils by BRUCE TURNER

Meet the artists at the Opening Reception
Saturday, September 24th from 2-4pm
North Shore Arts Association
11 Pirates Lane
Gloucester, MA 01930

Water and oil mix well in this exhibition at the North Shore Arts Association, September 19 through October 2nd. Marilyn Swift will join up with former Rockport gallery partner Bruce Turner for a show in the Gordon Grant Room. Marilyn will exhibit recent plein air watercolors of coastal New England and Bruce will show new oils. More information available at NSAA 978-283-1857 or www.nsarts.org.

Sawyer Free Library Art Auction

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Sawyer Free Library Art Auction

My Contribution:

“Stranded On The Annisquam”

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There’s some Great Artwork at The Sawyer Free Library that’s up for Auction all through the Month of September. You can get a great deal on some awesome paintings and drawings from some of Cape Ann’s Famous Artists.

The Silent Auction will take place throughout the month of September in the Matz Gallery. The Live Vocal Auction will be held on October 5, 2011 at 7 pm. A Preview Party at 6 pm will precede the auction.

 

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Tina Greel Represents Before the Paint Mfg Demolition

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Tina Greel Represents Before the Paint Mfg Demolition

Hey Wait! I gave her a Sticka but where’d she get my Official GMG Press Pass?

IF YOU SEE TINA PLEASE TELL HER I’D LIKE IT BACK!

How am I supposed to get into any big local events (for free) without it?

 

Please Tina give it back. It won’t do you any good. You don’t look anything at all like the photo on it. You have too much hair.

Did You Know? Well now you do!

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GMG’S own EJ has been selected as seARTS Member of the week. Congrats EJ!

From the seARTS Newsletter;

memberoftheweekseARTS Member of the Week: EJ Lefavour 
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What is your medium?  

I am a photographer, painter (primarily oils, acrylics and mixed media) and writer (including being a regular contributor to Good Morning Gloucester)

 

How long have you been an artist?  

I guess all my life, but began actively pursuing my life as an artist in 1990 after leaving the corporate world.

 

 

Where do you get your inspiration?  

Now that I am living on Cape Ann, my inspiration is everywhere I look, everyone I meet, and everything I learn about this amazing place.  It’s a little overwhelming.
What else would you like us to know?   

I’m a type A corporate risk manager turned artist.  I’ve traveled alot, lived many places, operated a number of galleries and non-profit cultural centers, and have also worked as a marketing services provider to artists for many years providing art printing, matting and framing, artwork photography, web design, and other services.
Where can we find your works?   

Until I close the gallery on October 15, at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3 on Madfish Wharf. Always on my website at www.khanstudiointernational.com, on October 8th and 9th at the Annisquam Arts & Crafts Show at Village Hall in Annisquam.

http://www.searts.org/