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8th Annual Painting Restoration Assessment with Roy Blankenship September 17th (1-3pm) Do you have a painting that is showing signs of aging? Would you like an assessment of what’s happening from a professional painting restorer? NSAA Artist Member, Roy Blankenship will offer free painting restoration assessments at North Shore Arts Association on Saturday, September 17th, 2016 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. http://nsarts.org/pdf/2016_Blankenship_Restoration.pdf
CAPE ANN SISTERHOOD EXHIBIT NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION AUGUST 5 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
CAPE ANN SISTERHOOD EXHIBIT NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION AUGUST 5 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm They say, “It is better to give than to receive,” but sometimes you can do both simultaneously as a group of current and former board members of North Shore Arts Association has discovered. Some fifteen years ago, Anne Demeter, former and current President of NSAA, Trudy Allen, former Gallery Director, and Judythe Evans Meagher, former Trustee Board Member, arranged to meet for dinner at the Windward Grille in Essex. The folks at the Windward were so welcoming, accommodating and tolerant (there was a fair amount of raucous laughter that evening), that the group decided to do it again and again and again. In a little while, they were joined by the then Treasurer, the late Carleen Muniz, Corresponding Secretary, Janice Turner, and another Trustee, Bonnie Gray. Bonnie introduced to the group Andrea van Gestal, who has since served as President, Treasurer and Recording Secretary, and she invited Trustee, Judy Metcalfe. Before long (nobody remembers exactly when anymore), they were joined by Trustees Pamela Giarratana and the late Connie Mullen. The management of Windward Grille has seen a lot of this group over the years, including their annual Yankee Swap, and has remained welcoming, accommodating and tolerant even though the raucous laughter has never ceased and may even have increased in volume. This is a diverse group of women in many ways, with backgrounds ranging from law to interior design, mediums ranging from oils and watercolor to alcohol inks, and painting styles ranging from photorealism to abstract. All but Janice Turner are painters, but since she has been the wife and helpmate of Rockport artist Bruce Turner for over 50 years, the group considers her an artist by association. These friends have formed strong bonds and a support network that has seen them through the inescapable life challenges of illness, death and divorce. But what binds them together at the core is their love for and dedication to the North Shore Arts Association. If you were to tally their combined years of volunteering as trustees, officers, committee members and chairs, workshop teachers, event coordinators, hangers of exhibitions, writers of programs, along with all the little tasks and roles that don’t even get a name, you would easily surpass a century. They are all very mindful, not of what they have given to North Shore, but what they have gained as a result, something they have dubbed “The Cape Ann Sisterhood.” Read about the “Sisterhood” in the Gloucester Daily Times . . . http://www.gloucestertimes.com/…/article_133dc33a-ca46-5d38…
Paint Factory Painted Slate Fundraising Silent Auction – Own a Piece of History! Groundbreaking Collaboration by NSAA, Ocean Alliance, and Rocky Neck Art Colony “Art Exhibition of the Sea and Science” June 17-July 30. Right – Betty Lou Schlemn, Top – Jeff Weaver, Bottom – Andy Van Gestel.
North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester celebrating its 94th year, reflects this philosophy with its “Art in Action – Connecting Communities”
North Shore Arts Association: American writer, artist and philosopher E. Hubbard said “Art is not a thing, it is a way.” The historic North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester celebrating its 94th year, reflects this philosophy with its “Art in Action – Connecting Communities” focus this season, by hosting a groundbreaking collaboration with Gloucester’s marine conservation/research group Ocean Alliance, now headquartered in Gloucester’s iconic Paint Factory, and historic Rocky Neck Art Colony. Supporting the Ocean Alliance mission to protect and preserve our oceans and marine life and North Shore Arts Association and Rocky Neck Art Colony’s mission of supporting the arts, an “Art Exhibition of the Sea and Science” will be on display June 17 through July 30 in the galleries of NSAA. Although works of all genres will be on display, the main focus will be works depicting the sea and Cape Ann. A very unique component of the exhibition will be a show and silent auction of works painted on old roofing slates removed from the historic Paint Factory building. These historic slates donated to NSAA by non-profit Ocean Alliance provide the substrate used by NSAA Artist Members to create original paintings, each approximately 12″x24″ depicting a myriad images. Bids for the silent auction may be placed June 17 through July 30 by visiting or contacting NSAA. One hundred per cent of silent auction proceeds will go to fund the ongoing restoration of the NSAA’s gallery building and Ocean Alliance’s Paint Factory headquarters. The collaboration also offers an extraordinary series of Ocean Alliance and Rocky Neck Art Colony lectures and performances. This special programing was made possible through partial funding by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. The first of the series will be marine conservation/research group Ocean Alliance presenting a lecture “Why Whales?” by CEO Dr. Iain Kerr on Sunday, June 26th, 12:30-1:30pm followed by a reception, open free to the public 2-4pm. A dynamic performance/poetry reading, “Sea Change: Reversing the Tide” will be presented by President of Ocean Alliance Dr. Roger Payne – whose profound discovery of whale songs has been a major force in their protection – and his wife, noted British actress Lisa Harrow on Thursday, July 7th at 7pm. Rocky Neck Art Colony President and arts and marine conservation advocate Karen Ristuben will present a lecture “Intersection of Marine Science, Conservation, Activism and Art on Saturday, July 23rd 3pm. All lectures and performances are free with a suggested donation of $5. To learn more about these three iconic non-profits visit http://www.nsarts.org, http://www.whale.org and rockyneckartcolony.org.
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