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Dancers from the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre performing Quarry Dance 7 in a private Lanesville Quarry in 2018. Photo: Lisa Hahn.
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or more than a century, America’s most celebrated artists have trekked to Cape Ann, on Massachusetts’s north shore, inspired by its varied and dramatic landscape. Artists of all styles, from marine painters Winslow Homer and Fitz Hugh Lane to modernists Edward Hopper and Marsden Hartley to Ashcan artists John Sloan and Stuart Davis, flocked to the region to escape the confines of their urban studios in Boston and New York. Many painted outdoors, refining their skills and experimenting with new techniques. Comprised of four towns— Essex, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Rockport—Cape Ann offers an opportunity to experience the same views from the perspective of an artist: working harbors, ocean vistas, granite quarries, quaint towns and more. Begin exploring the region in Lanesville, on the northern tip of Cape Ann in Gloucester, home to the Manship Artists Residency and Studios (MARS). Open to the public only for special events, this estate, dubbed “Starfield,” was the summer home and studio of sculptor Paul Manship, who created the Prometheus Fountain in New York City’s Rockefeller Center (Manship’s
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son, John Manship, an accomplished painter, and daughter-in-law Margaret Cassidy, a sculptor, are also part of the estate’s legacy). This idyllic 15-acre property, encompassing two abandoned granite quarries as well as five acres of forest, has been preserved as an artist residency and cultural center. “Our first resident artists were here in May,” says Rebecca Reynolds, president of Manship’s board of directors. “Prior to that we had visiting artists and arts professionals working on site during the day.” Artists living and working at Starfield during July are community arts organizer Miranda Aisling, whose newest creation, a tiny house called Aubergine, will be on site; Lara Lepionka, an inter-disciplinary, community-based artist; and augmented reality artist Will Pappenheimer, a founding member of the artist collective Manifest.AR. Artist/scientist Daniel Jay is in residence during August. Public events include The Sky Tonight, a presentation and stargazing event, held with the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club on July 6; and, on July 20, special ticketed tours of Starfield from 10 am–noon. Continue south via scenic Route 127 to the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, in the
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rural community of Pigeon Cove. Windhover was established more than 50 years ago as a girls’ performing arts camp by Ina and Herb Hahn. Their daughter, Lisa, now operates Windhover, presenting all types of performance from dance and music to theater. From July 26 to 28, the center presents one of its most popular productions: Quarry Dance VIII, a week-long outdoor dance performance featuring the Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre. The New York-based company choreographs and performs an original production in one of Cape Ann’s famed granite quarries. “We use a site-specific quarry as a stage,” says Hahn. “The location changes every year.” The company also leads a summer intensive for area dance students. During July and August, Windhover hosts summer yoga retreats; and the Taylor 2 Dance Company, a six-person troupe from the famed Paul Taylor American modern dance company, performs in early September. Take Route 127 south for two miles into picturesque Rockport. A good starting point to explore this vibrant community is downtown at the Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M). Hard to miss, with its sunny yellow exterior
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“anything that catches my eye,” Robinson says. One of his favorites is a poster in French from 1942 You Were Never Lovelier featuring Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire. All of the posters displayed are restored, framed and protected by UV Plexiglas to prevent fading. Also nearby on Main Street is Three Stones Gallery, a seasonal gallery owned by Jennifer Johnston (she also owns a year-round location in Concord, MA). Open for its second summer in Rockport, Three Stones features work by established and emerging New England artists working in media including painting, photography, mixed media, ceramics, jewelry and sculpture. “The art I have is complex and offers a rich experience with traditional contemporary work, ceramics and jewelry,” Johnston says. “It’s a small gallery that packs a punch.” On view are paintings by Emily Passman, Jonathan MacAdam and Ghetta Hirsch; collage by Betsy Silverman; colorful stone necklaces and rings by Emily Rose Maultsby; and jewelry combining beach stones, glass and silver by Lisa Scala. From Three Stones Gallery it’s a very short walk to Bearskin Neck, a spit of land jutting into Sandy Bay. Stroll this pedestrian-friendly area, lined with shops, galleries and restaurants (take a slight detour as you approach Bradley Wharf to snap a photo of the famed red fishing shack, Motif #1, purportedly the most painted building in the world). Midway out Bearskin Neck is Scott Tubby Fine Art. Known for his distinctive burnished and saggar-fired, as well as raku, pottery, Tubby’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art as well as Changing Day (detail), Oil pastel on canvas, 42 x 46". Artist Caleb Rulli.
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in numerous private and public collections. More recently, Tubby has turned his artistic talents to painting. “Painting expresses more of who I am,” he says. “Clay for me is a very technical process. You can say more with painting.” Tubby’s colorful works depict scenes inspired by Rockport views, as well as boats, bridges, even interiors. Visitors can watch Tubby paint in the gallery during the summer (his pottery studio is a short distance away). In addition to original paintings, Tubby sells posters and reproductions of his work. From Bearskin Neck stroll to nearby Rockport center. A short walk down Broadway is iartcolony, owned by art consultants and curators Bob and Jill Whitney Armstrong. Known for its cutting-edge and slightly irreverent exhibitions, the gallery features thought-provoking regional and international artists. Through August 8, iartcolony presents propaganda, a multimedia group show
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the Cape Ann Museum and the Rockport Art Association & Museum. We hope you’ve planned ahead and have reservations at one of the Inns of Rockport, a unique group of more than 25 independentlyowned inns and bed and breakfasts. “We’re all a little different,” says Lynne Norris, owner of the Pleasant Street Inn in Rockport. “Our main purpose is to find something accommodating to entertain our visitors. We offer tips only locals would know.” In addition to suggestions like the area’s best beaches, whale watch tours or galleries and antiques shops, the innkeepers have collaborated on a new cookbook: The Inns of Rockport Cookbook. A compilation of the inns’ most beloved and oft-requested recipes—from breakfast to dinner to dessert—the cookbook is colorfully illustrated by Rockport artist Lauri Kaihlanen. The image of Motif #1 on the book jacket is by realist painter David Arsenault. Cookbooks are available on Amazon and at participating inns. Take Route 127A south to Gloucester, recognized as America’s oldest seaport, established in 1642. Here you can access Rocky Neck, a small peninsula in Gloucester Harbor that’s home to America’s oldest art colony, the Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC). Rocky Neck has long been a destination for artists eager to capture its geography and unique light. Artists as diverse as Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko have come to the area, drawn to the landscape and working waterfront. Now, painters, potters, textile designers, photographers, jewelry makers and more work from their galleries on Rocky Neck during the summer.
RNAC operates two galleries showcasing local artists: its Cultural Center, housed in a former church; and Gallery 53, a fine art and craft gallery, the largest on Rocky Neck. In the Cultural Center through July 28 is Eviction/Destruction/Renewal, a show featuring Boston area artists Susan Greer Emmerson and Tatiana Flis and photographer Rebecca Skinner. The artists share their perspectives on darkness, loss and renewal of humanity through sculpture, photography, drawing and mixed-media installations. A quick walk from the Cultural Center, Gallery 53 is housed in a historic waterfront building. In addition to showcasing the works of 30 artists and artisans, the gallery’s Summer Artist Series features the oil paintings of Vanessa Michalak from July 3 to August 6, and paintings on glass by Ingrid Pichler from August
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CAPE ANN, MA 7 to September 2. RNAC also offers self-guided walking tours of the area and a summer residency for visual artists, the Goetemann Artist Residency. Around the corner from Gallery 53, on Madfish Wharf, is the summer gallery of Sallie Strand, a former pastry chef who’s traded her cooking tools for an artist’s palette. A contemporary abstract painter in oil and acrylic, Strand also works at Lincoln Studios in Waltham, MA. She shows her own work seasonally in the Rocky Neck gallery as well as mobiles by California artist Julie Frith and pop-up exhibits by other artists. Her work is colorful and energetic. “I work with oil but lately I’ve been using acrylics so I can create bigger works,” Strand says. “I’m also experimenting with collage on canvas.” Largely self-taught, Strand creates textures through layering, mark making and
scraping; her tools includes bowl scrapers and palette knives. “It’s a little like frosting a cake,” she says. In the same building as Sallie Strand Gallery is FLOAT Gallery, featuring the paintings and photographs, respectively, of owners Barbara Moody and Kathy Gerdon Archer. Moody, a professor at Montserrat College of Art (as well as the college’s former vice president and dean), paints large, colorful images, hovering between representation and abstraction, with flowers, leaves and other elements in focus while others dissolve into color, light and space. Archer, copresident of Rocky Neck Art Colony and former director of its Goetemann Artist Residency, is a photographer whose work, for the last seven years, is inspired by geology. “I make an ice sculpture,
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then layer rocks and organic material and freeze each layer,” Archer says, describing her process. “Then I turn it out and photograph it as it melts. It’s very abstract. You don’t know what you’re looking at. There are beautiful glowing areas because of the light showing through.” Moody and Archer have shown their work in Boston galleries yet made the leap to open their own gallery this year—this is FLOAT’s first summer. Before you leave the colony make one more stop at The Gruppé Gallery, featuring the paintings of Robert Charles Gruppé and the works of his father, Emile (1896–1978), who, inspired by Frederick Mulhaupt’s Gloucester Harbor paintings, moved to Rocky Neck and opened The Gruppé Gallery from the family home in 1929. Emile ran the Gloucester School of Painting from 1940 until 1970 where over 7,000 painters studied and watched his vibrant demonstrations. Robert, the third generation of this artistic family, studied with his father for more than 20 years. “When my dad started painting, it was the Depression. You couldn’t give away paintings,” Robert observes. “He was one of the best painters of his generation.” Robert, whose passions are fishing and painting, spends summers on Rocky Neck and winters in Florida. His impressionistic oil paintings of Rocky Neck and Florida are drenched in color. “I like boats and consider myself a marine painter, there’s water in everything I paint,” he A collection fine art and craft says. He prefers live-painting outdoors. “You of have housed in a historic 19th century to be inspired to paint something every day,onsize building the water, offering up the scene, compose it and attack,” he says. place to purchase a picturesque hand-made art. Just outside Rocky Neck, in Eastoriginal, Gloucester, is the North Shore Arts Association (NSAA). rockyneckartcolony.org /Gallery53
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CAPE ANN, MA Established in 1922, the NSAA shows the art of its more than 600 artist members in its galleries overlooking Gloucester Harbor. During July and August, NSAA features juried member shows, including Exhibition III—Small Works Show, from July 12 to August 3 and Exhibition IV, August 9 to September 7. On August 2, NSAA hosts its annual Fine Art Auction with auctioneer Michael March of Essex, MA. “It’s our biggest fundraiser of the year,” says NSAA gallery director Linda Cote. “There’s an eclectic mix of media and genre, everything from abstract to traditional. Visitors can come in three weeks prior to the auction to preview the art.” On August 31, the gallery features its annual Schooner Fest Paint Out and Party. This one-day event gives NSAA members as well as nonmember artists an opportunity to spend three hours painting outdoors at a location of their choice. Artists then return their works to the gallery for a “wet paint” preview and sale. A five-minute drive from NSAA, in downtown Gloucester, is the Beth Williams Studio, entered through a flower-filled brick courtyard. A jewelry designer, Williams was captivated by glass beads in the early 1990s while searching for ways to make her gold and silver jewelry stand out. “A desire to add color made me switch over to making glass beads,” Williams says. “I was on a quest to make my jewelry different and developed my own aesthetic.” Williams honed her lampworking and flameworking technique in Murano, Italy; her fanciful, rainbow-hued jewelry reflects her love of nature, color and natural forms. She recently developed a technique for melting Prismacolor colored pencils—which have a
high ratio of wax—into her glass creations, then burnishing and sealing them, then finally handcrafting them into jewelry. “It’s eye-opening,” she says. “The colors you create can be pastel hued or more vibrant depending upon how many layers you add. I think it’s an untapped technique.” Steps away from the Beth Williams Studio is the Cape Ann Museum, celebrating Cape Ann’s rich artistic and cultural history. The organization’s collection encompasses all types of art made on and about Cape Ann, including the largest collection of works by Gloucester native Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865), whose family was among Cape Ann’s original settlers in the 17th century. Through July 7, the museum features Stephanie Cole—My Life in Pieces: Painting with Stuff, a look at the artist’s mosaic-like sculptures, created using
found objects from colored glass and ceramic shards to bits of clothing and old typewriter keys. Opening August 3 is Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter’s Journey, 1869–1880, an overview of Winslow Homer’s development as a marine artist. “We’re featuring many of the watercolors he painted between 1860 and 1880, when he was living in Gloucester,” says Meredith Anderson, the museum’s media coordinator and designer. “Gloucester was pivotal to Homer’s artistic development.” The exhibit is curated by art consultant and historian William R. Cross. For more information on the artists who populated Cape Ann, join one of the museum’s many walking tours of the area. From the museum, continue on Route 127 into Gloucester, along the harbor and past Fort Stage
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CAPE ANN, MA Park, site of one of the city’s signature festivals, the Gloucester Waterfront Festival, August 17 and 18. More than 50,000 people come over the two-day celebration to see work by 200 juried artists and craftspeople as well as enjoy live music and sample local foods. “It’s a beautiful venue that visitors love,” says Kerry McKenna, director of events for the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce. On the menu is New England seafood including a lobster bake and beer from Ipswich Ale Brewery on Saturday. On Sunday, tuck into a pancake breakfast and enjoy a look at some fine antique automobiles displayed by the North Shore Old Car Club. It’s a short drive south on Route 127 to the former fishing community of Manchester-by-the-Sea. Established in 1623, the community, with its sandy
beaches and dramatic coastline, became an escape for wealthy Victorian families from Boston, New York City, St. Louis and Chicago. Today, its quaint town center includes Gladstone, a jewelry boutique that also features fine art and photography. Owner Elaine Souza opened the business with her husband, Charles, in 2008; their daughter, Lucy, joined in 2017. In addition to featuring unusual, antique, vintage and designer pieces from around the world, “We work with clients to develop their own pieces,” says Elaine. “Sometimes they bring in an old family piece and we repurpose it.” Seasonal fine art exhibitions include painting, photography and works on paper by renowned and emerging artists. Through August 17, Gladstone features works on paper (including watercolors, intaglio prints and monotypes) by Boston artist Joel Janowitz.
A summer trunk show featuring 18K gold jewelry by Australian artist Ray Griffiths is July 19 and 20. Downtown Manchester-by-the-Sea is also site of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s Festival by the Sea on August 3. The full-day celebration taps into local artistic and musical talent, with works by more than 100 artists and craftspeople on display as well as live music on two stages. Local restaurants and area farmers offer foods to sample and many local stores and boutiques offer specials as well. The town’s largest outdoor festival, it extends from downtown to Weed Park and Masconomo Park, where the festivities culminate in an evening waterfront concert. Manchester-by-the-Sea is one of the communities participating in the fourth annual Cape Ann Plein Air, October 6 to 14. Up to 40 artists from
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around the country compete for $20,000 in prizes by spending a week painting outdoors—en plein air—in locations around Cape Ann. “We had 22 new artists juried in to the event this year,” says C.F. Hayback, a founder of Cape Ann Plein Air. “We have artists from around the world who apply to enter the festival. They paint in an area that still offers the views painted by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and John Singer Sargent.” Participating artists stay with host families during the week and paint from sunrise to sunset during the day. On October 14, an exhibition gala featuring all of the artists’ creations—including works in acrylic, oils, watercolor and pastels—is held at the North Shore Art Association. The world-class lineup of painters includes Lon Brauer, Patrick Lee and Shelby Keefe. “We want to celebrate Cape Ann
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