From stick figure doodlers to first-rate talents, join us for a seaside, Plein Air sketch class with Sue Wheeler of Arts Abound in Magnolia. All skill levels are welcome! This two-hour session includes a 30-minute beginner sketch lesson. All you need to bring is a sketchbook, pencils and an eraser. We also encourage you to bring a folding chair and sunscreen. Sue has studied under numerous artists to learn watercolor, acrylic painting, cold wax & oil, and collage. Sue’s philosophy on the creative process encourages you to be concerned less about the final product and instead to enjoy the journey of creativity and get lost in the moment. Once you find yourself in your work, you may just surprise yourself!
Attendance is $20 per class.
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When would you like to visit us?
Aug 13/2023
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80 Hesperus Ave. Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
Don’t forget to sign up for Karen’s wonderful watercolor class. We know you will enjoy her painting style and have a wonderful time learning more about art and meet some great folks. Join us!
It is spring and it is a wonderful time to learn to paint or to improve your painting skills. Both Sue Ingram and Karen Keough are terrific teachers, each with their own technique and style, so don’t hesitate to sign up for both classes! They are filling up quickly so register soon…
We are currently holding a raffle to help the heartbreaking situation in Ukraine. Sue Ingram’s beautiful sunflower watercolor is being raffled off and all of the proceeds from ticket sales will go to Airlink.Airlink is a highly respected nonprofit whose mission is to work with aviation and logistics partners to transport relief workers and emergency supplies for reputable non-governmental organizations responding to rapid-onset disasters and other humanitarian crises around the globe.
Please come in to Arts Abound to buy your raffle tickets. No purchase necessary.
Recently, Arts Abound held a raffle to raise money for the Open Door Pantry, Gloucester’s food bank for the less fortunate. The prize was a basket of items donated by many of our artists, including Donna Ardizzoni, Stephanie Mason, Sue Wheeler, Karen Keough, Sue Ingram, and Tin Can Sally. There were several mugs, a beach towel, notecards, a Magnolia bag, earrings, and more. We raised more than $200 for this wonderful nonprofit. Many thanks to the artists who donated their crafts, and to the many customers who bought tickets.
Magnolia resident Amy Bealin is a generous and talented individual. Besides being a great athlete, mom, wife, teacher, and researcher, she loves to create pottery. She brought her bowls, plates, lamps, and candle holders to sell at Arts Abound. She donated all the money from her sales (minus expenses) to the Food Project. To date we have given this nonprofit more than $250. We continue to sell her pottery and hope that you will come in and support this wonderful organization. Arts Abound donates all of her pottery sales as well.
NEW FEATURED ARTIST
Arts Abound is pleased to announce that Judy Salah Plank is our newest Featured Artist. Come visit Arts Abound at 21 Lexington Ave in Magnolia Village in Gloucester, Massachusetts to view Judy’s amazing artwork. Her colorful, bold images are perfect for brightening up any room.
Judy’s Artist Statement
Massachusetts-based artist Judy Salah Plank has lived a life inspired by everything creative. She spent her professional years as the lead graphic designer for brands such as Adidas and Reebok, followed by an award-winning career curating her own tropical decor galleries and painting murals along the east coast. Judy now paints in a style all her own. It is her mission to create art that fills her life with light and her hope that this light shines a little color into your life as well.
IDEAS FOR GIFTS
One of Donna’s popular photos of Magnolia beach. As always, her stunning photos are available on towels, fleece blankets, canvas, metal or prints.
We have the best Magnolia pier tee shirts! The first row is long-sleeved, while the second row is short-sleeved.
Laurinda’s photograph, Crashing Wave, looks wonderful printed on metal.
Lisa’s amazing ocean-inspired pottery. Berry bowls (with the holes) are a great way to wash your fruit and serve in the same bowl. Comes with a plate for underneath the bowl.
Ellen’s amazing glass sun catchers, including her new Dr. Who pieces, are perfect for your window!
Susie’s Magnolia paintings and notecards depict the beauty of Cape Ann!
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Gallery hours listed on website; or available by appointment.
Our address:
Arts Abound
21 Lexington Ave
Magnolia Village in Gloucester, MA 01930
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We are holding a raffle for this beautiful sunflower watercolor by Susan Ingram. She is super talented and teaches painting locally.
All the proceeds will be going to Airlink, which is a nonprofit organization providing airlift of emergency supplies and relief workers for 130+ aid organizations responding to disasters and other humanitarian crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, occurring around the world. The organization works with airlines, logistics partners, and donors to provide medical care, food, shelter, access to clean water, and other essential assistance to communities in crisis.
Please stop in to Arts Abound to buy your raffle tickets. $5 each or three tickets for $10. No purchase necessary. Let’s all help out the desperate folks in Ukraine. Thanks.
Judy Salah Plank’s artwork is displayed at Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA. Judy Salah Plank’s artwork is unique, fun, colorful and interesting. Thank you for shopping local.
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Hope all are staying warm during this cold weather. Ardizzoni Photography has new blankets. These blankets are smaller than the larger ones. They are 30 x 40 and are very warm. You can use these blankets for babies or a lap blanket. Here is a couple of examples of the blankets.
If you would like to purchase please email at donna@ardizzoniphtography.com or call or text me at 339-234-0776. This blankets will also be available at Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA 01930. Thank you or shopping local.
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There is a raffle at Arts Abounds 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA. Arts Abound local artists have donated an item for the raffle. Arts Abound is open everyday til Christmas Eve. Thank you
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Local artist, Deb Schradieck, has created these great Christmas cards. You can come and get them at Arts Abound 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA 01930.
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Wander into Arts Abound on Lexington Street in Magnolia, and you’ll find a quiet world of local art. Fine art photography, watercolors and paintings, hand painted silk clothing, gifts, jewelry, and even home accessories. There are two common threads running through the shop—local creative talent and Susan Wheeler.
First, Susan Wheeler. An artist herself and a former pastry chef, the idea of opening a retail store with a cooperative bent and filled with unique, hand-crafted things just felt right. Wheeler had been coming to Cape Ann regularly from Vermont to visit her mother, Vivian, 93, who had moved to Magnolia in 1980. Eighteen months ago, she moved here permanently, and as she got to know Lexington Avenue and its retail community, Wheeler first thought there might be room for a creative meeting place to run art workshops, offer graphic design and maybe some retail items for purchase.
Susan Wheeler, owner of Arts Abound in Magnolia, is on a mission to promote and discover local artists on Cape Ann, with a cooperative approach to retail.
There was an open retail space, so in November 2019 with eight artists, she went for it. Wheeler said she found it “thrilling and interesting” to find artists, curate the items and “keep it interesting.” The shop, she said, got off to a good start with holiday shopping.
“I started with an open mind,” said Wheeler. “But there’s so much artistry here on Cape Ann. It hasn’t been a problem finding talented people who make beautiful things.”
Nearly two years in, Arts Abound has established itself and evolved. The store in the spirit of other Cape Ann retailers focused on local artists, like Local Colors, the artists’ cooperative retailer on Main Street in Gloucester or Gallery 53, the juried art gallery run by members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, also in Gloucester. Today, Arts Abound has 23 artists on her roster, nearly all from Cape Ann. They help Wheeler by offering their pieces on consignment, and Wheeler promotes and sells their work. And she is an enthusiastic promoter of their work, their talent, and their artwork.
The journey It hasn’t been without challenges. Less than six months into her new venture, the pandemic hit and like most businesses, Wheeler adapted. She offered hand-sewn masks (selling hundreds), offered appointment-only shopping, personal shopping and home delivery. She also put plans for workshops and education on the back burner and took on freelance graphic design projects.
“The pandemic hit businesses hard, and we were lucky to have supporters and get through,” Wheeler said. “I think about how great everyone was. Even with selling masks, which we made and left outside for people to pick up and pay on the honor system, every single person paid.”
Wheeler has also really gotten to know her retail neighbors along Lexington Avenue, where by chance nearly all are women-owned and the community is tight. There’s Shakteau Interiors, All Purpose Flowers, Jennifer’s Hair Salon, among many others. This summer, the neighborhood brought back its popular Sunday Magnolia Farmer’s Market, which closes down Lexington Avenue, brings in music, and most retailers set up displays on the sidewalks outside. It’s a real community feel.
Wheeler packs the space with all manner of artists, spanning painting, photography, pottery, glasswork, silk-screen, collage, and more. Besides Wheeler’s own work, there is Stephanie Mason, Brenda Malloy, Melissa Cox (the photographer, who is the artist behind Local Colors in Gloucester), Karen Keough, Lisa Knebel, Tin Can Sally, Donna Ardizzoni, Dave Fernandes, Erik Hahr, Alissa Cohen, John Abisamra, Alan Bourgault, Kaitlyn Manley, Christine Gauthier-Kelley, Derek, Miriabilio, Hermit Hill, and Larry Parsons.
Hand painted silk, by Manchester artists Christine Gauthier-Kelley.
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“We’re not just a local independent store,” she said. “Of all the artists featured here, and just about all of them are local.”
Gloucester artist Sally Seamans (“Tin Can Sally”) works with recycled cans to make art and jewelry.
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Looking ahead, Wheeler is excited about continuing to celebrate the work of local artists. She’s also excited to reconnect with some of her original ideas about making a space for people to mix and learn with artists’ workshops and reception that boost a bigger sense of community.
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Arts Abound, a Magnolia gallery and gift boutique, is celebrating a grand re-opening with new handcrafted items and original artwork. Store owner Sue Wheeler is an artist who paints colorful cold wax and oil, and acrylic sea, floral, and abstract pieces. The featured artist is Eve Perkins, who creates whimsical beach and maritime illustrations of Gloucester and Manchester. The gallery features photographer Donna Ardizzoni’s popular beach towels in a choice of local scenes as well as works by local photographers Laurinda Butcher, John Abisamra and Melissa Cox and others.
Also featured is Gloucester’s Stephanie Mason, who is known for her fish mugs, ornaments, and place mats, and Tin Can Sally (Seamans) who makes earrings using tin cans from all over the world. Rocky Neck’s Brenda Malloy features her hand-painted magnets and cards. Other Cape Ann artists are Gloucester’s Sue Ingram with local paintings of florals and seagulls, Rockport’s Deb Schradieck who paints watercolors of Rockport and Gloucester, and Manchester’s Christine Gauthier Kelley who creates hand-painted silk scarves and shawls. The shop features many other handmade items including ocean-inspired pottery, “Glosta” and Magnolia caps and tees, handblown glass and jewelry.
“Thank you for supporting neighboring artists and small businesses challenged by the pandemic,” said Wheeler. She also noted that the Magnolia’s farmers market will start the first Sunday in June on Lexington Avenue. Arts Abound is located at 21C Lexington Ave., in Magnolia village. For hours and more information visit www.artsaboundmagnolia.com.
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The the beauty of the Boulevard decided to make a beach towel with the gorgeous tulips on the Boulevard.
Thank you Sue Wheeler, owner of Arts Abound, 21 C Lexington Avenue, Magnolia Gloucester, MA for carrying my towels. If you need any gift or a hand made treasure for yourself come on down.
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