In the second clip, Charlie discusses what he means by “simplicity” in his work. Interestingly, he chooses a highly complex scene – the aft deck of a dragger – to illustrate his meaning.
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The Sketchbook Project: My First Entry 10/10/10
Ok, What better day than 10/10/10 to make my first entry into my Sketchbook Project. I picked my favorite place to sit and watch the waterfront work, Nature change by the minute and meditate. This is the view looking straight out from my parking space today. I may add some color to it with Gouache paint. After the Sun went down I walked around and took some photos for GMG of the area at nighttime.
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October Classes at Pop Gallery
October Classes at Pop Gallery, 67 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Now You’re Making Scents!
Learn the art of Scent Making with Roberta Andrade of Elemental Scents
Pop Gallery’s artesian perfumer Roberta Andrade-Gringorten maker of the Elemental Scents line of fragrances will lead fragrance lovers and aspiring perfumers through a 2-hour course on everything about how to make fragrance.
This informative program will introduce participants to what perfume is, including a short history, how perfume materials are produced, and odor identification of numerous fragrance ingredients.
The event will include hands on experiments with participants mixing classic perfume formulas and finally producing their own custom scent to take home.
Roberta is a classically trained perfumer who studied with veteran perfumers and flavorists in Bangkok Thailand and brings many years of experience to share in her class.
Thursday, October 21, 7 to 9pm
Event cost $75.00 covers all materials and your final take home creation.
Please send a check to Pop Gallery to reserve your spot in the class or sign-up online at http://www.elementalscents.com/id118.html
Make your own beaded jewelry and take your art to a whole new level!
Jewelry making class with Joyce Roessler of Roessler Glass
Learn jewelry making techniques, and create jewelry for yourself or gifts in this one evening workshop! Using simple techniques we will create beautiful beaded earrings, and a necklace. Feel free to bring along with you any beads from home you may want to use. Tools will be supplied at class with an option to purchase at end of day. Bring glasses if needed for close up work.
Friday, October 22, 6:30 – 9:30pm. 6 people per class max.
Classes will be held on Friday evenings through Dec. If you have a group of friends pick a date and we can plan a class for you.
$75. includes materials fee. Materials will include sterling silver wire and findings, and 2 oz. hand blown glass beads.
Call 617-426-4705 or email info@roesslerglass.com to reserve your spot in one of the four upcoming classes on Friday evenings. Payment can be made by credit card when reserving your space or a check mailed to the gallery in advance.
Pop Gallery, 67 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
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Pop Gallery
67 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
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Annisquam Art and Craft Show – Video
Great talent exhibited at the Annisquam Village Hall
October 8th -10th Saturday and Sunday 10 AM – 5 PM
Video contains some of the art and crafts and interviews
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Dave and Maggie Sullivan Interview Charles Movalli
GloucesterArtists.com got a chance to talk with Charles Movalli at his home/studio last week. Charlie is well known as an author, editor, teacher, and artist around Cape Ann – a contemporary of some of the best painters in the world.
In this first video clip, he uses one of his paintings to illustrate his use of light and dark shapes as the basis for rendering a scene.
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See http://www.GloucesterArtists.com for more great interviews
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SAT, Oct 9 : 10 – 5 pm – Cripple Cove Open Studio
Seeing as Cripple Cove Studios Are Located Dead Smack in Front Of Captain Joe’s You Ought To Check It Out and Then Swing Down and Say Hey To Your Pal Joey 🙂
97 East Main Street, Gloucester
Deb Aldrich – watercolor
Sinekka Nogelo – painting
Linda Sojda – painting
Jenn Powell – mixed media
Anna Vojtech – painting and illustration
Maura Cronin – cranio-sacral therapy
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Olson 100 is here!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9
Children’s program, including Henry Ferrini reading Little Charlie Goes to Gloucester
Saturday, October 10:00 a.m., Cape Ann Museum
Moderated "Town Meeting" Discussion:
"Remembering Olson" moderated by Peter Anastas
Saturday, October 9, 10:30 a.m., Cape Ann Museum
Moderated "Town Meeting" Discussion:
"Olson’s Project" with Charles Stein, Kristin Prevallet, Fred Dewey, and Kate Tarlow Morgan moderated by Ammiel Alcalay
Saturday, October 9, 1:00 p.m., Cape Ann Museum
Henry Ferrini and Ken Riaf’s Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place*
Saturday, October 9, 3:00 pm, Cape Ann Community Cinema (21 Main Street)
Reading featuring Diane di Prima & Michael Rumaker*
Saturday, October 9, 7 p.m., Independent Christian Church
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10
Maximus Walk with readings
Readers include Kevin Gallagher, David Rich, Henry Ferrini, Peter Anastas, Jim Cocola, Carol Weston, John Galloway
Sunday, October 10, 11 a.m., Downtown Gloucester
(meeting place Cape Ann Museum)
Click here for route.
Olsonian Performances*
Sunday, October 10, 3 p.m. Blackburn Performing Arts (Main Street)
3:00 p.m. Blue Suit, performed by Kate Tarlow Morgan and Ammiel Alcalay
3:30 p.m. Olson’s Apollonius of Tyana, performed by Sarah Slifer, Mark Wagner, and others
4:15 p.m. Musical performance by Willie Alexander
Farewell party and reception
Sunday, October 10, 5 p.m. Alchemy (3 Duncan Street)
All events free and open to the public. Donations of $5 are suggested for events marked with an asterisk*.
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The News From Rocky Neck
Thanks to Judy Robinson Cox who forwards-
On the Neck
open until October 16: The Best of Rocky Neck
Rocky Neck Art Colony Member’s Exhibition
Participation artists include: Dale Blank, Yhanna Coffin, Robin Colodzin, Marci Davis, Vicki Diez-Canseco, Devera Ehrenberg, Jim Fesler, Joan Frank, Gordon Goetemann, Judith Steele Goetemann, Elynn Kröger, Brenda Malloy, Barbara McLaughlin, Elizabeth McLindon, Judythe Evans Meagher, Judith Monteferrante, Ruth Mordecai, John Nesta, Tom Nihan, Michael Oleksiw, Diana Pasquariello, Mary Rhinelander, Ken Riaf, Karen Ristuben, Judy Robinson-Cox, Tom Robinson-Cox, Roger E. Salisbury, Michael Seif, Richard Seeley, Sally Smithwick, Kate Somers, Patricia M. Sullivan, Marie Sweeney, Marilyn Swift, Barbara Dugan Tessicini, Theresa M. Testaverde, Ed Touchette, Anna Vojtech, Martha Wakefield, Jan Walker, Rokhaya Waring, Joseph Flack Weiler, and Heidi Caswell-Zander.
FRI, Oct 8, 5-6pm : Dedication of Ann Fisk Room at Rocky Neck Gallery
On Friday, October 8, The Rocky Neck Art Colony will dedicate a room in the Rocky Neck (formerly Bryan) Gallery to Ann Fisk, who with the help of Martha Ingalls, ran the gallery for many years.
Refreshments will be served as friends and family share their memories of Ann.
Art Colony members (past and present), friends, family, and acquaintances are invited to attend.
Rocky Neck Art Colony Honored in Arts & Humanities Month Speech
Video From Ferrini Productions
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Weiler Photo Gallery Closing for the Season on Oct 10
www.weilerphotogallery.com 978-281-6443 WeilerPhotoGallery@comcast.net
Farewell to Bernie Gerstner
After over thirty years on Rocky Neck, Bernie Gerstner has closed his Rocky Neck Art Gallery. Anyone who wishes to contact Bernie can reach him at his Lanesville home studio at 978-283-0196.
Galleries for Rent
Several galleries are for rent for the 2011 season. To get first choice of prime space contact
Niki Ahearn at 617-543-2977 OR e- mail: NicoleAhearn@comcast.net.
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Annisquam Arts and Crafts Show October 9th and 10th
Katie McManus Writes-
Hi Joey, Love your blog and I look forward to it everyday. I am hoping you could post some info and photos for the Annisquam arts and crafts show, which will be this weekend at the Annisquam Village Hall.
The Annisquam Arts and Crafts show will be celebrating its 25th anniversary on Saturday October 9th and Sunday October 10th from 10AM to 5PM at the Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard Street, in the center of the quaint village. This year more than 40 local North Shore and New England artists and artisans will be displaying and selling their handcrafted items, which include pottery, jewelry, fabric arts, children’s toys, jams, photographs and paintings. This is a wonderful opportunity to support local artists and artisans and get a head start on holiday gift shopping.
This much anticipated annual event brings to it a longstanding history of celebrating the talents of local artists. Among them are Gloucester residents: Katie McManus of Katie Mac Designs with her one-of-a-kind handcrafted jewelry featuring freshwater pearls and semi-precious gemstones. Margaret Derby with her luxurious and colorful scarves from unique fabrics. Illustrator Penny Neal with her framed prints and whimsical note cards. And, Camilla MacFayden with her exotic seaweed printed silk scarves and nature inspired t-shirts.
Paintings by such Gloucester artists include Alby Waugh, Carolyn Roy, and Ann Ziergiebel, along with photographs by Brad Dickinson reflect and interpret New England’s distinct atmosphere.
As Patsy Whitlock, executive director of this year’s show, explains: “Although this is a fundraiser for the Annisquam Village Church, it has grown to be larger than that. In fact, for many it is a rite of the passage from summer into fall, that especially colorful and invigorating time of year. 2010 marks our 25th consecutive show, which gives some indication of the appeal this display of local talent inspires. For those of us who set up the show, it is an anticipated time of wonder. As organizers, we are always amazed and humbled by the ways in which artistic eyes have reflected, interpreted and re-created what they see around them. It arouses our own fantasies of talent and that is an invigorating feeling. But then, once reality has fallen back into place and we acknowledge that our own untrained and meager talent might not be as alluring as what were seeing, we can feel a sense of accomplishment by buying a striking gift for another. “Besides,” she adds, “the holidays will soon be here so we can get a leg up on gift shopping!”
As Patsy further explains, “for many Cape Ann residents as well as those from ‘over the bridge’, the Annisquam Arts & Crafts Show serves as a satisfying destination for a fall outing. It is nestled in the community center of an old New England village; a lovely and calming sight (and site) of tradition at this time of year. It offers temptation to gift one’s self, but also suggest gifts to tickle the delight of even the most difficult person on your list.”
There is a snack bar filled with homemade soups, sandwiches, and cookies provided by Cape Ann Coffees to keep you fueled as you fantasize about your own creativity or to reward you for your unselfish impulse to give to another.
A portion of the proceeds from all of these inspired works will go to the Annisquam Village Church, Cape Ann’s historic third Parrish, established in 1728. Checks can be made out directly to the Annisquam Village Church. This facility is wheelchair accessible and there is NOT an entrance fee. All sales are tax deductible.
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Free Necklace or Bracelet For GMG Readers With Any Purchase At Imagine Sale
Big, HUGE SALE AT IMAGINE/Brenda Malloy Gallery this weekend 11 – 9pm Sat, 11 – 4 Sunday and Monday
Anyone mentioning they saw this announcement on Good Morning Gloucester blog gets a free necklace or bracelet with any purchase of any amount!!!!!!!!!
Scarves, handbags, hats, clothing, jewelry, handmade greeting cards, paintings, heart magnets, everything is on sale!!!!!!!!
IMAGINE
43 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester
978-282-1346
ALSO, there will be FREE LIVE MUSIC across the street from IMAGINE on Saturday from 5-9pm with A-Train Orchestra…Funky, Jump, Boogie Blues!!!!!!!!
www.ImagineRockyNeck.com
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Cape Ann Artisans Tour October 9,10th and 11th 2010
October 9, 10 & 11th, 2010
Please join me for the fall 2010 Cape Ann Artisans Tour, from 10 am to 5 pm daily on the dates above.
During this art weekend, I will be offering all works displayed in the gallery at one-third off their normal sale price.
This is a one-time offer, only good during this event weekend. Call 978.281.2803 or write kurtankeny@gmail.com for more information.
Thank you! I hope to see you during the tour.
—Kurt
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Jon Sarkin- Office
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Deb Clarke Donates Painting To Marilyn Curcuru Van Fund Cause
Hi Joey,
Here’s a link to my post with a pic of a painting that i did as a demo for my students during a class last June. The painting is a Stuff.
maybe you could post the link to encourage folk to go down, look at it and maybe buy it for a good cause.
Thanks Joey!
Deb.
http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/2010/09/intershell-seafood-oil-on-canvas-275.html
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Art Rock Found By Bonnie- Eurodam Cruiser Ends Up At Petco Park In San Diego! Go Padres!
From Gloucester All The Way To San Diego! That’s one well traveled Art Rock! Thanks So Much for sending in the picture Bonnie!
Thanks so much for sending in the photo Bonnie!
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Gloucester Legislators to Declare October Arts & Humanities Month
Guest Post From Jo-Ann Castano Announced first here On GMG!
What: State Senator Bruce Tarr and Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante of Gloucester will read a proclamation from Governor Deval Patrick declaring October Arts & Humanities Month in Massachusetts, kicking off a month-long series of events designed to showcase the public value of the arts and humanities in communities around the state. The event coincides with the kick-off of the "Charles Olson Festival," a week-long collaborative celebration among the City of Gloucester’s cultural institutions and its community of writers, artists and businesses, to honor the 100th year of the poet’s birth.
When: Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 1 p.m.
Where: White-Ellery House, 245 Washington Street, Gloucester
Who: Sen. Tarr, Rep. Ferrante, Ronda Faloon, Director, Cape Ann Museum, Jo-Ann Castano, ArtsGloucester, Peter Anastas, The Charles Olson Society
About the Massachusetts Cultural Council:
The Massachusetts Cultural Council promotes excellence, access, education, and diversity in the arts, humanities and sciences, to improve the quality of life for Massachusetts residents and contribute to the economic vitality of our communities. MCC is committed to building a central place for arts and culture in the everyday lives of communities across the Commonwealth. The agency pursues this mission through a combination of grants, services, and advocacy for cultural organizations, schools, communities, and artists. MCC receives an annual appropriation from the state of Massachusetts and funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and other sources.
THE EVENT: Proclamation will be presented on Sunday, October 3rd at 1:00 pm at the …
(left) Susan Erony, To Gloucester with Love. Courtesy of the artist. (right) Paul Cary Goldberg, Olson, Fragment #3. Courtesy of the artist.
The Man Who Loved Gloucester, by Susan Erony
The Big O, by Paul Cary Goldberg
To Gloucester with Love is Susan Erony’s ode to Olson and his passion and to Gloucester through him. She made it with respect and awe for his momentous work. Other works in the installation, The Man Who Loved Gloucester, are condolences for the environment Olson wanted so much to protect. Paul Cary Goldberg’s installation is "a series of photographic fragments, interpretations and riffs on Charles Olson the manpoet, the largeness of him and his work, the BIG O." This program is part of a series of events associated with the Charles Olson Centennial Celebration and is free and open to the public. The historic White-Ellery house will also be open that day as part of Escapes North’s 17th Century Saturdays
Then go out to lunch in downtown Gloucester and head back over to the Cape Ann Museum
on Pleasant Street at 4:00 p.m. for the…
BOOK LAUNCH
Charles Olson: Letters Home 1949-1969
Edited by David Rich, published by Cape Ann Museum
Sunday, October 3, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) took the fishing port of Gloucester as the subject of his Maximus Poems, an enduring literary achievement that explored the relation of self to place on an epic scale. From childhood summers at the Barrett campground to living at Fort Square as a controversial poet at the height of his powers, Charles Olson was fascinated by Gloucester.
This book, published in Olson’s centennial year, is a study in letters of Charles Olson and a sampling of ten people in Gloucester who were part of his circle: artists, writers, a publisher, a museum president, an inventor, and an architect. Editor David Rich has taken the unusual step of arranging each chapter by correspondent and presenting both sides of each exchange when possible: the result is a group portrait, with Olson at the center, of a vibrant literary and artistic scene.
The book signing and reception with editor David Rich will be held at the Museum; this program is free and open to the public as part of the Charles Olson Centennial Celebration.
(left) Book jacket; (right) Charles Olson contemplating a statue of the Madonna, 1961, Fort Square, Gloucester.
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Jon Sarkin Interview At His Birdseye Building Studio Part II
Jon Sarkin Interview At His Birdseye Building Studio Part II
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Jon Sarkin Interview At His Birdseye Building Studio Part I
Jon Sarkin Interview At His Birdseye Building Studio Part I
Jon talks about his relationship with Chad Carlberg, gives us a tour of his workspace inside the Birdseye building, shows how some of the pieces for the Guster Music Video were made and how success breeds success.
Look for part II tomorrow
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WED, Sept 29th: Anne Krinsky Artist in Residence Studio Talk
WED, Sept 29th: Anne Krinsky
Artist in Residence Studio Talk
Delineation Lime, by Anne Krinsky, acrylic on panel, 24” x 24”
Goetemann Artist in Residence and printmaker Anne Krinsky will talk about her experience on Rocky Neck and show work that she has completed during her residency on Wednesday, September 29 at 7pm in the Residency Studio, 51A Rocky Neck Ave.
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Jon Sarkin Interview Part I Coming Tonight
I had the honor of interviewing the great Jon Sarkin in his studio space at the Birdseye building. Jon has been featured in GQ, Tom Cruise buys his life story with the intent of Tom playing Jon. His work has also been purchased by many serious art collectors and he has shows all over the world. Recently his work was featured in the latest music video for the band Guster which was produced by Chad Carlberg’s Gloucester based Production Blue studio.
From Jon’s Website–
HOW MY DISABILITY HAS INFLUENCED MY WORK
In 2006 Sarkin was nominated for a Wynn Newhouse Foundation award for artists with disabilities. As part of the application, he composed the below essay to describe his disability. Sarkin ended up receiving one of the runner-up prizes at the awards ceremony in New York in the spring of 2007.
There is no facet of my work that has not been profoundly impacted by my stroke. Because of this fact, any note of how my disability has influenced my art is very difficult. It is hard to describe this precisely because my disability has affected every aspect of my life so pervasively. It is extremely challenging to be objective about a thing as subjective as yourself.
Why am I unable to be reflective about how my stroke affected my work?
Our physicality and perception are how we access and negotiate and navigate our environment and surroundings.
When these were paradigmatically and physically altered, so too was my understanding of, and my relationship with, the outside world.
There exists a connection with the external world and my “internality” that is truly intimate. TRULY.
When this balance is disturbed, the resulting disequilibrium changes everything. EVERYTHING.
How this intimacy has been disquieted informs every aspect of my art. One of the things that is most apparent is its sheer abundance. I create in a fever, in a mad torrent of ideas and images. This directly relates to my inability to censor the floodgates of my imagination. Another part of my work is its stream-of-consciousness “texture.” This correlates with how my neural architecture has been scrambled by my stroke, resulting in an inability to think linearly and logically. Also, because my stroke has caused me to be obsessive, my art involves working with the same images over and over and over again. suffer from a syndrome I like to call “obsessive-compulsive-manic-depressive-creative-disorder.”
I see everything differently now. Much of this has to do with my double vision. When one’s vision is doubled, i.e., when one cannot focus on the same image with both eyes, one loses depth perception. I see objects quite differently now, and this is translated into how I draw them. My sense of color is changed, too. My perception of everything, including color and shape, and, come to think of it, sound and smell and the way things feel, has been cataclysmically and deeply altered.
This is why it’s hard to explain how my disability has influenced my work.
Here is a video the ABC did about Jon’s disability and how it has created the artist that he has become-
Look for part one of my interview with Jon tonight.
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There’s a New Blog in Town!
There’s a New Blog in Town!
Don’t worry Joey, GMG has nothing to worry about. Even though I will be posting some Great Stuff! This Blog will be following the progress of Six Artists participating in the “Sketchbook Project” all of us either live here in Gloucester or have Ties here. Deb Clarke can explain it better. Check it out below.
From Deb Clarke;
“Hello,
We are 6 intrepid sketchbookers with a common love of gloucester massachusetts that have decided to participate with 17,000+ other sketchbookers in “The Sketchbook Project”. This began with Elizabeth Bollenberg asking me (deb clarke, her mom) to get her a sketchbook so that she could participate in the project. I ordered a sketchbook for her and one for me. My goodmorninggloucester friend and student Paul Frontiero ordered one. Then my friend, co-worker, and goodmorninggloucester friend Sabine Ocker ordered one. Then my friend, now living in Palm Springs and goodmorninggloucester friend Helen Anne Lind ordered one.
my personal approach…i’m going to start posting regularly on it after i deliver eb’s sketchbook to her tomorrow. i have some fun ideas, and of course, since i am an artist and am used to stretching into unknown territory, i’m going to dive in, dive down deep, then re-surface. whatever i do, i trust it will be full of surprises, with unexpected consequences.
at least this is one art object that i won’t have to store and take care of after it leaves my hands.
We invite you to follow our progress towards the successful completion of our sketchbooks.
Anyone can participate, you don’t have to be an artist! If you would like to participate in the sketchbook project too, click the sketchbook project link. If you would like to share your sketchbook work for The Brooklyn Art Library’s traveling ‘Sketchbook Project”, we would be pleased to see your work and perhaps share your progress on our Blog; http://somethingsketchy.wordpress.com/ and here on GMG too.”
Click the Banner below for more Info on the “Sketchbook Project”
Deb
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