Pathways
for Children is honored to have the participation of many Cape Ann artists
in the CHAIRS for CHILDREN event.
Check back
often as we will be updating the artist bios.
George Anderson
To find out more about George Anderson visit his website
at www.RockportArtist.com
Artspace
To find out more about Artspace, follow the link to www.artspace.org.
Andrew Bablo
Andrew Bablo is a student in his Junior year
at Montserrat College of Art. He is majoring in graphic design and currently
designs for a licensed sports apparel company. He enjoys photography,
snowboarding, hockey, and the outdoors. Andrew plans on pursuing graphic
design or advertising further after receiving his degree in the spring
of 2007.
Originally from upstate New York, he chose to reside in Beverly because
of its unique location and numerous opportunities. Andrew can be reached
by email at: abablo@montserrat.edu.
Oliver Balf
Ollie Balf is a Founding Faculty and Professor
Emeritus of Montserrat College of Art. He is a retired consulting designer;
his clients included Parker Brothers and Educators Publishing Service.
Ollie received his BFA at Temple University and has studied at the Art
Students League and New School for Social Research in New York City
and with Hans Hoffman. Awards include: Rockport Art Association, young
Artist's Prize, Carl Butman (Best Watercolor), Ann Fisk Award and an
Honorary Doctorate, Montserrat College of Art. Ollie has shown extensively
throughout the region including the Rockport Art Association, Botolph
Gallery, Wenniger Gallery and Rotenberg Gallery.
Joan Bediz
"Nothing's harder than being given
your chance."... a quote that hangs in my studio and continues
to revisit me as I sometimes find it hard to believe that I'm living
my dream as an artist. The marshes and small towns of Boston's North
Shore provide me with endless opportunities to paint on location. When
traveling abroad, I try to look at the world with a sharp sensitivity,
feeling a degree of responsibility to bring this information home on
canvas and share it with others.
Joan is an award-winning artist on both the local and
national levels. Her work is in many private and corporate collections
throughout the United States and Canada. She is represented by Local
Colors Gallery at 121 Main Street in Gloucester, MA.
John Caggiano
John Caggiano was born in Brooklyn, New York,
where he studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School.
He received a BA degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt
Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses
at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design
in New York.
He relocated to Rockport, Massachusetts
in 1980, drawn to the physical beauty and unique quality of Cape Ann's
light. He travels extensively, both here and abroad, painting on location.
This plein aire approach enables him to capture the essence of the time
and place that he interprets into his bright and colorful "Impressionistic-realism"
style. The work is further enhanced by his daring use of a palette knife,
keeping brushwork to a minimum. "Painting for me is the bold and
dynamic use of color that infuses life into the subject of the painting."
An artist member of many organizations,
Caggiano has served as President of the Rockport Art Association, and
has been a member of its Board of Governors since 1990. Both he and
his award-winning paintings have made appearances on nationwide television.
His art has also been featured in and graced the covers of numerous
books, magazines and newspapers. He is represented worldwide in many
private and corporate collections and galleries across the country.
John Caggiano has maintained a gallery
on Main Street and a studio on Bearskin Neck in Rockport for the last
Twenty-five years.
Jan Charles
Kathy Connolly
Kathy Connolly's vibrant portraits in pastel
and oil can be found in many North Shore homes. Painting from life and
reference photographs, she specializes in finding the spirit of her
subject and drawing it out.
A painter and a printmaker, Connolly is
best described as a colorist. Current themes for her painting and monotypes
are inspired by nature's own canvas: sea life, landscapes, and flowers.
Connolly works and exhibits her work at
Beach Street Studios in Manchester, Massachusetts, as well as in group
shows throughout the region through her associations with the New England
Monotype Guild and the Cambridge Art Association.
www.BeachStreetStudios.com
Charles Crowley
& Claire Sanford
Charles Crowley and Claire Sanford live and
work together in a former nun's retreat in West Gloucester. Both work
in metal and are partners in Top Dog Studio. Charlie's work ranges from
architectural ironwork to sterling teapots to carefully rendered 18k
gold and steel jewelry. He has recently been exploring the use of Cape
Ann granite with steel. Claire's work ranges from jewelry in various
materials to patinated copper sculpture. Her recent work involves a
production line of jewelry designed by their children, Zander and Maddie,
titled Aminal Bug.
Both attended Boston University's Program
in Artisanry, have received numerous awards, including a National Endowment
for the Arts grant and several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council. They both teach part time and exhibit their work nationally.
Locally their work can be found at Side Street Jewelry in Rocky Neck.
www.TopDogStudio.com
Astrida Cutter
Astrida Cutter is a Gloucester artist inspired by the interplay of light,
color, and texture afforded by New England’s coastline. Well known
local artists David Curtis, Bernard Gerstner and Marilyn Swift figure
prominently in her development as a painter. Her oil paintings have
been featured in numerous shows from Gloucester to Portland Maine.
Chuck Detra
Chuck Detra studied at Regis College and
has an Associate Degree in Interior Design. She has studied painting
with Ture Bengtz, William Maynard, Gracia Dayton, Paul George, Frank
Federico, PSA, NNS and at the North Shore Art Association. "Nature
& Color have been a great influence in my painting. Gracia Dayton
has supplied the inspiration for exploring new horizons.
Loren Doucette
Loren Doucette is a watercolor artist, a mural and
decorative painter, and currently teaches art classes to adults and
children.
After studying fine arts at Salem State College and
The School for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Loren became very
passionate about painting, mainly watercolor.
The natural beauty and artistic energy of Cape Ann
inspired Loren to move to Gloucester five years ago with her son Andrew
(now 8). She painted her first Gloucester mural and began teaching art
to children at the Cape Ann YMCA.
There, she met her husband Rick Doucette, now the Y's
Executive Director. Together, they are working to build a comprehensive
art program to better serve the community. Loren will serve as lead-teacher
at the newly renovated YMCA Arts and Activity Center in downtown Gloucester,
which will feature a variety of classes, clinics and performances. During
the summer, Loren serves as the Art Director for YMCA Day Camp Spindrift.
Loren is always eager to learn and explore with her
painting. Her art continues to be inspired by the light of Cape Ann
landscapes, the movement of the ocean, and the fellow artists that live
and create here.
Several of Loren's recent watercolors may be seen at
the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce during the month of April. Loren looks
forward to her website, www.lorendoucette.com
going "live" in April as well. She welcomes commissions and
can be reached via email: loren@clubjeff.com or by phone at :(978)283-2085.
Loren thanks Pathways for Children for the opportunity
to partake in this wonderful event.
Val Doyon
Valerie Doyon has a gallery and shop in Rockport that
goes by the name of Soulstice. Painting for the past thirteen years,
she has developed a style of her own that intertwines the art of Mendhi
and traditional landscapes in some of her most recent pieces. Portraits
of families, homes, motorcycles, and musicians are commonly commisioned.
Valerie creates murals as well. She uses multiple mediums in her artwort
such as charcoal, pastels, henna, glass, stone, and plaster but favors
the use of Acrylic paints. Painting on a large scale or small, there
will always be her heart and soul put into the piece she creates.
Paul Gaucher
Rose-Marie Glen
Rose-Marie Glen studied at the Beaux Arts
School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where she won the Arthur
Lisner Scholarship. More recently, she was a student at the Massachusetts
College of Art and has studied with Erma Wheeler in Gloucester and John
Imber of Deer Isle, Maine. Her work has won extensive awards and is
represented by galleries in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. Her
paintings are found in numerous private and corporate collections. Since
1984, Glen has worked as a home designer and licensed builder, specializing
in historic renovations and reproductions.
The artist writes: "As an artist, my view of the
landscape encompasses all aspects of our surroundings from the pure
unaltered terrain - trees, rocks, sea; the invaded landscape marked
by man and tools; and the human 'manscape', a totally built environment.
The seacoasts of New England, Cornwall and the Golden Isles of Georgia
have provided me with endless images, as have Mexico and Italy."
Glens work can be found at the Soho Myriad Gallery,
Atlanta.
Christopher Gurshin
To find out more about Christopher Gurshin visit
his website at www.ChristopherGurshin.com.
Gurshin writes, "This little boy
or girl's chair was brought to their favorite place in the whole world,
Good Harbor Beach. It sank into the sandy dunes with a classic view
of the beach. The old book of "Gloucester Beach Tales" by
B. Good gives the idea of treasures to be found, such as sand dollars
and shells. The painting on the cover shows Thatcher's island twin lighthouses
nearby. Although the book was written by B. Good you'll find that there
was a little carving on the arm's right side. Mike's Italian cookies
make a nice snack as does a popsicle. It wasn't finished because this
scene takes place in late July...........greenhead season. There are
a couple of greenheads still on the chair but perhaps one bit, so the
little one enjoying their treats ran and jumped in the water."
Pamela Ellis Hawkes
Pamela Ellis Hawkes is a self-taught artist living in
Rockport. Her work was recently featured at the Danforth Art Museum's™
2003 New England Photographers exhibit and at her fourth one-person
show in May 2003 at the Pepper Gallery in Boston. This October, she
was selected for a Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic
Workshops. Her photographs have been published in Lenswork, Camera
& Darkroom and Photography Quarterly among others.
Her work is in the collections of :
* The Addison Gallery of American Art
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* Boston Public Library
* Fidelity Investments
* Polaroid Collection
And other public and private collections. Hawkes is
represented by the Pepper Gallery, 38 Newbury Street, Boston.
Marcia Hermann
Marcia was born in Indianapolis and raised in the nearby
suburb of Speedway, Indiana. After college, she fled to the East Coast
and wound up on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Through a series of
misadventures, Marcia found herself in art school and this is where
her life really got interesting.
Marcia was not a talented child. Just ask any of the
multitudes of piano, ballet, swimming or sewing teachers who tried to
jam Stars & Stripes Forever, battement tendues, diving or bound
buttonholes into her brain. Yet, something in the oil paints at Montserrat
College of Art appealed to her (probably the smell of the paints - she
grew up 3 blocks from the Indy 500 race track) and she has worked exclusively
in that medium ever since.
Marcia's work has been called "autobiographical
fiction." The figures and situations, which she changes to suit
her themes, are people and places from her life. Her titles come from
snatches of conversations (be careful what you say around her). Nearly
all of her paintings are interiors because of her deep horror of the
outdoors.
Marcia majored in Painting at Montserrat College of
Art. Her exhibitions include the Wenham Museum, Wenham; Acacia Gallery,
Gloucester; Visual Art Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston; Mingo Gallery,
Beverly; the Firehouse Center, Newburyport; Brush Gallery, Lowell; and
the Bromfield Gallery, Boston. An award-winning painter, she is currently
represented by Chameleon in Newburyport and Jules Place in Boston. She
has an upcoming show at the Firehouse Center in August 2006.
Marcia's work can also be seen on the web at www.marciahermann.com
Hughes - Bosca
Hughes-Bosca are jewelry designers, visit them at
SideStreet Gallery, 17 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA.
We use the finest quality of unusual stones and metals,
handcrafting each piece. With insights gained through blacksmithing
and classic training in jewelry-making, we produce bold and energetic
pieces. Our passionate interests in gardening, architecture, color,
and texture emerge naturally, infusing each piece with character and
intimacy. Ancient yet contemporary, our jewelry embodies an aesthetic
of timeless appeal.
Juni Van Dyke's Art Program for
Senior Citizens at the Rose Baker Senior Center
Juni Van Dyke is a graduate of the Boston Museum School
and Tufts. For the past thirteen years, Juni has been the Arts Coordinator
at The Rose Baker Senior Center where she has developed a successful
program for Gloucester Senior Citizens, connecting them to their community
through worthwhile art projects. Van Dyke's work can be viewed on the
web at the Jane Deering
Gallery.
Ken Knowles
A native of Rockport, MA, Knowles is known as a
late 20th Century Impressionist. He resides in Rockport with his wife
Margaret and son Walker. Knowles has been working with oils for 25 years
including teaching and demonstrating. A member of several Art Associations,
including Rockport and Academic. He has an award winning reputation
in many national exhibitions. Knowles' work is part of hundreds of privat
collections nationwide and several corporate collections abroad.
Lawrence Martin-Bittman
Lawrence is a naturalized American who grew up in
Czechoslovakia. After receiving a doctor of international law degree
and master's degree in journalism , he held various positions inside
the Czechoslovak diplomatic and intelligence services. After the invasion
of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968, he refused to accept
the authority of the new regime in occupied Prague, escaped to Germany
and asked American representatives for political asylum. For this decision
the communist military court sentenced him to death in absentia.
In the United States he devoted most
of his energy to academic work at Boston University.He is the author
of numerous books on international communication, disinformation and
propaganda which have been published in the US, Germany, Switzerland,Indonesia,
Spain,Portugal,Canada and, after 1990, also in the Czech Republic.
Gradually he became interested in visual art and since September 1996
when he left Boston University as Professor Emeritus, he has devoted
all his time to painting. Using watercolor as the major vehicle,his
pictures are evolving from purely representational to realistic phantasy
and semi-abstract visions.
Among the major artistic influences on
Bittman's work are a Czech artist Josef Lada and the Austrian painter
Fritz Hundertwasser. With their colorful vitality,Prague,Gloucester
and Rockport are the major sources of his artistic interest and inspiration.
Brigid Alverson of North Shore Town Online said : " When he turns
to Rockport,his home over 30 years,his paintings come alive with fish
and fishermen,with light dancing on water,with boats bumping into one
another in colorful profusion. It's clear from his work that Bittman's
heart is in Cape Ann." Lawrence Martin-Bittman is a permanent member
of the Local Colors Gallery in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth McLindon
My work is figurative and narrative. The figure is
always a presence in my work, whether depicted or absent, the subject
of the work or the viewer himself or herself. My "tools" are
use of color, texture, space organic vs. inorganic form and story telling.
The stories range from personal to political, humorous to spiritually
and meditatively introspective.
Environment is a strong influence in my work and so
are the effects of time. A sense of chronology is also present, being
expressed in physical aging of the materials chosen as well as through
the effects of time and nostalgia on memory.
Elizabeth has a BS in Textile Design and a MFA in Sculpture
and has lived in Buffalo, Dublin, New York City, Boston, Cape Cod and
now lives on Cape Ann. Her academic background in both two-dimensional
and three-dimensional work has coalesced into a unique mixed media.
Having worked in reductive and additive sculpture, relief, textiles,
drawing, pastels, oil and acrylic painting, and in gallery installation,
Elizabeth is now working in assemblage (3-dimensional collage) using
found, painted, sculpted and constructed elements.
Visit Elizabeth's work on the web at www.elizabethmclindon.com.
Shaun McNiff
Artist Statement:
The two lasting influences on my painting
were early studies with the abstract expressionist painter Theodoros
Stamos and my work with untrained artists at Danvers State Hospital,
where I became an art therapist in March of 1970. The patients taught
me how to paint in direct and authentic ways.
In 1974 I started graduate programs at Lesley University
that pioneered the use of art in healing and the integration of all
of the arts in education. Through my studio workshops in the US and
many other countries and my books on the creative process, I have developed
methods of practice that combine artistic expression and depth psychology.
Recent paintings have explored my home environment in
Gloucester and my ongoing fascination with relations amongst people,
animals, and nature. Everything I do in art therapy and in my writing
about the creative process is guided by my practice of art and how it
cures the soul.
BIO:
Shaun McNiff is the University Professor at Lesley
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an internationally recognized
figure in the areas of the arts and healing and creativity enhancement,
and the author of many books that include Art Heals: How Creativity
Cures the Soul, Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go;
Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Creating with
Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace;
Art-Based Research, Depth Psychology of Art, and The Arts and Psychotherapy.
To learn more about Shaun, visit
his webpage.
Judy Metcalfe
Judy Metcalfe is a Signature Member of the New England
Watercolor Society and has exhibited work with the American Watercolor
Society in New York. She is an artist member of the Academic Artists
Association and of the North Shore Arts Association.
She has won numerous awards in local, regional, and
national competitions including the New England Watercolor Society's
2004 North American Open Show and Best of Show in juried competitions
at the Newburyport Art Association, first in 2001 and then again in
2003.
Her work will be featured in the 2006 Edition of American
Artist Watercolor Magazine.
Judy Metcalfe is currently represented by the Walsingham
Gallery in Newburyport, MA, for more information about her work, visit
her website at www.judymetcalfe.com
Ruth Mordecai
"I started this project by trying to figure out
how to make the back of the Adirondack chair larger so I would have
a larger paining surface. I thank Mike Salmon of HRM Group contractors
of Gloucester for donating the carpentry for this and doing such a beautiful
job.
I had been thinking about what I wanted to paint since
agreeing to do the chair for Pathways. I knew I wanted it to be painterly
and free and having some connection to my studio work. I learned that
Marilyn Swift suggested we use Benjamin Moore low lustre exterior acrylic
house paint. That was a great Suggestion!
Apples, sunrises, landscapes, reflections have all been
part of my studio work from 1998-2002. A series called Apples Hanging
from the Sun (the name of the chair) was inspired by a happy childhood
experience. The fall was a time when we went out into the backyard and
shook the apple tree and collected the apples for my mother and she
made apple pies and apple sauce.
In Gloucester, I had been going out at 5am to the salt
marsh near Wingearsheek Beach and painting the sunrise. As if in a dream,
sometime during that period I had an image of apples hanging from the
sun. It was a very happy time in my life and the work reflects that.
The sun celebrates the start of a new day. Certainly, it is symbolic
of life renewing. I hope this chair brings joy and peace and renewal
to whoever buys it!
Ruth's work is represented by Soprafina Gallery in Boston,
MA.
She can also be found on the web at www.RuthMordecai.com
Don and Christine Mosher
Donald Mosher grew up on the North Shore and has lived
in Rockport since 1980. His interest in art began after winning his
first award at the age of eight, and he has since won over 200 awards
for his work. A 1968 graduate of the Vesper George School of Art, Mosher
has been a painting instructor and demonstrator and has been featured
in several national publications, including Yankee magazine and American
Artist. Mosher writes: "In each painting I do, I strive to convey
my feelings toward my subject as I see it on that particular day. It
is with great pleasure that I spend each day painting. My hope is that
others enjoy viewing my work as much as I enjoy creating it."
Christine Mosher attended the Boston Museum School,
Vesper George School of Fine Art, and Massachusetts College of Art.
She is the daughter of artist Salvatore Crivello and is a member of
the North Shore Arts Association, Rockport Art Association, and the
Academic Artists Association. She is also a Copley Master in the Copley
Society in Boston.
Christine has won several awards for her distinctive
oil painting style and has been exhibiting her paintings for the past
15 years in her Rockport gallery. She receives much of her inspiration
from her travels to Europe and the Caribbean.
Carleen Muniz
Carleen Muniz is a member of the Rockport Art Association,
the North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester, and Academic Artists.
Her awards include the Gordon Grant Memorial Award and the North Shore
Arts Association Award, both from the North Shore Arts Association;
and the Chrislee Darrand Award and the Martha Moore Memorial Award,
both from the Rockport Arts Association. Her work ranges from sports
activities to landscapes to figures.
Visit her website at www.cmuniz.com
Steve Negron
Steve Negron is a graduate of the Parsons
School of Design, New York, NY and went on to get a M. Ed at Endicott
College in Beverly, MA. He worked in education as the Dean of Enrollment
Management and Admissions at Montserratt College of Art, as the Associate
Dean of Admissions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and an instructor
a the School of Design at Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic
for many years.
Negron is currently the Coordinator of Programs and
Special Events and an Instructor at LynnArts, Lynn, MA. He decided 16
months ago to leave his respectable position in education in an attempt
to reinvent himself and rediscover his younger artistic self as he felt
he has spent the last century surrounded by other people's art but made
little of his own.
Tom Nicholas
Tom Nicholas was born in Middletown, Connecticut,
in 1934. From 1953-1956 he was a scholarship student at the School of
Visual Arts, New York City. In 1961 he received an invitational Greenshield
Grant for two years independent painting abroad and in the U.S.A. Tom
is an Academician of the National Academy of Design and a Dolphin Fellow
of the American Watercolor Society. Included among his more the 25 awards
are 40 Medals of Honor. He has had 35 one-artist shows in New York City,
Washington, Boston, California, Florida, and Texas. Since 1960, Tom
has painted throughout Europe and the United States. Listings include:
Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Art and Who's
Who in the East. Tom's work is in many private and public collections
including the Farnsworth Museum, Maine; the Butler Institute of American
Art, Ohio; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
and the Hispanic Society of America, New York City.
Nicholas's work can be found at the Tom Nicholas Gallery,
65 Main Street, Rockport, MA.
Peter A. Niemitz
The founder and President of Niemitz Design Group, Mr.
Niemitz brings over twenty-eight years of restaurant and hospitality
design experience to his firm. His work has been recognized numerous
times for its excellence by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine, Nation's
Restaurant News, The International Hotel/Motel Association, and many
others.
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design
with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture,
Mr. Niemitz went on to work with Morris Nathanson Design before starting
his own design firm in 1993.
Peter Niemitz's independent restaurant portfolio includes
the renowned Rialto Restaurant in Cambridge, Clio in the Eliot Hotel,
Aquitaine, Sel de la Terre, Grill 23 and Union all in Boston, Lundy's
of Brooklyn, Ouest, Cesca and Carmine's in Manhattan, and Amaroni's
in Hong Kong and Taipei.
Sigrid Olsen
An artist by trade, Sigrid Olsen brings her respect
for nature's inherent beauty to the bold colors and distinctive prints
of the fashion label that bears her name. Following her graduation from
Montserrat College of Art in 1974, Sigrid began her career as a weaver.
Inspired by her experience with color and pattern, she developed her
unique stamp printing technique for textiles and in 1984, founded the
apparel brand that bears her name.
In just over 20 years, Sigrid has broadened the scope of her designs
from casual sportswear to a lifestyle collection of sportswear, fashion
accessories, bed and bath linens, eyewear, and coming soon....shoes!
There are 48 Sigrid Olsen retail stores open nationwide, and the line
can also be found at major department & specialty stores.
Sigrid's personal passions extend far
beyond fashion. She maintains a painting studio in her home, enhancing
her design work with her one-of-a-kind watercolors and handprints. Visit
www.sigridolsenart.com to
learn more about limited edition prints of Sigrid's artwork.
Sue Ann Pearson
Sue Ann Pearson is a native of the area, born
in Ipswich and has lived most of her adult life on Cape Ann. She has
always been involved in the arts from a very young age. Her art education
consists of studies in Montreal, Goddard College in Vermont and Montserrat
College of Art. She has worked in the performing and visual arts for
over 25 years, including North Shore Music Theatre, Montserrat College
of Art and now the Director of Marketing and Development at The Firehouse
Center for the Arts in Newburyport.
Her art has been exhibited at Mingo Gallery in Beverly,
The Montserrat College of Art Annual Art Auction, S.A.F.E. Studio Art
Auction, Essex Greenbelt Art Auction, The Firehouse Center for the Arts
Gallery, Newburyport Art Association, Castle Hill in Ipswich and has
pieces in private collections in the area.
The concept of my Gecko Garden Chair was an inspiration
from my dear friend Susan and her husband, who always and continue to
be an inspiration to me!
Pathways Parents
Barbara Robertson – is a Pathways Policy Council
member and a Head Start parent from Rockport. Barbara attended art school
in California.
Nikki Lewis – is the Secretary of the Pathways
Policy Council and a School Age parent at Pathways. Nikki is a local
self-taught artist who can be seen at different festivals and fairs
around Gloucester displaying her work.
Tricia Reed – is the Vice Chairperson of the Pathways
Policy Council and a Head Start parent from the Fuller School. Tricia
was instrumental in helping to get the chair ready for the other artists.
Annemarie Beauparlant – Annemarie is a past parent
whose children have been in all the programs at Pathways. She has been
the Family Involvement Specialist for 10 years. Annemarie attended Butera
School of Art in Boston.
P. Domingos Reis
Graduated Art Institute of Boston 1963
Graduated Holyoke Community College 1976 Graduated Univ of Mass - Amherst
1982 received BFA
Peter had a one man show at Holyoke Community College
in the 1980's. All Art that was available for sale was sold.
Sally Seamans
Sally's Statement about her chair, "At the bottom of Gloucester
Harbor":
At the bottom of Gloucester Harbor I envision there is everything from
sunken boats and old car bodies to domino pieces and marbles. But mostly
I envision there are many, many tins; olive oil tins, cookie tins, sardine
tins, anchovy tins, coffee tins, tea tins, candy tins, cleaning fluid
tins, spice tins, tobacco tins, biscuit tins, soy sauce tins, crayon
tins, mixed nut tins, medicine tins, Cracker Jack tins, mustard tins,
beer and soda cans, bottle caps, etc.
On this chair are many vintage tins, including an old
oyster tin (oysters used to come in tins the size of gallon paint cans),
and pickle and tobacco tins. There is also a Johnny Damon baseball trading
card, because that is where it belongs - at the Bottom of Gloucester
Harbor!
Sally Seamans is a Gloucester sculptor whose mobiles
are made of wire, plastic, metal, printed tin, line and motion. She
also creates a line of work, under the name Tin Can Sally, in which
she uses recycled printed tin as her medium. Like her inspiration, Alexander
Calder, her background and work experiences are eclectic. While creating
art, she has been the full-time Slide Librarian at Montserrat College
of Art for over twelve years. For more than 20 years Sally was a graphic
designer, including eleven years at Mullen Advertising. She studied
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hartford Art School
at the University of Hartford, Montserrat College of Art, the Decordova
Museum and Sculpture Park and at Metalwerx. Her work has been exhibited
in New England, and is included in schools, private collections and
galleries.
Sally's work can be seen on the web at www.sallyseamans.com.
Tin Can Sally can also be found at Local Colors Gallery,
121 Main Street, Gloucester MA 01930. 978-283-3996 www.local-colors.org.
Kathleen Speranza
As a painter my work is essentially about observation.
Perception is a dialogue between interior and exterior. My process is
deeply rooted in the long tradition of representational painting, yet
the abstract structure of a piece ultimately reveals it's content. Many
of my most recent works reflect the endless subtleties and complexities
of nature. Human beings evolved through and with the natural world and
I believe we need to strengthen that tie wherever possible. I want my
work to provide a link and connection with this world. A desire to get
closer to a subject and evoke its physical presence is the ultimate
goal.
MFA Yale University School of Art 1986
BFA Boston University School for the Arts 1984
Current show "Owls in Art and Nature", Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem, MA. November 2005 through October 2006.
Speranza's work can be found at Alpers Fine Art in Andover,
MA.
Gene Stewart
Gene Stewart was born in Louisville, Kentucky and began
his art career as a cartoonist in his high school paper. In his senior
year he transferred to Aaron's Trade School to study commercial art.
In 1952 Gene went to Barcelona, Spain to further his
education which included art. He also spent a short time in Rome, Italy
where he was able to deepen his appreciation of the many masterpieces
found in that city.
Upon his return to the States in 1955 he continued his
studies for two more years in Silver Springs, Maryland. While there
he was charged with learning to hand set type and run a hand fed printing
press. This he used to produce the various pieces of literature used
by the college.
In 1958 he returned to Louisville, KY and worked in
the advertising department of the Courier Journal & Louisville Times
while attending night courses in fine arts at the University of Louisville
until his induction into the army. Gene served three years at Fort Banks
in Winthrop, MA as a Map Draftsman and as the post Sign Painter.
Upon discharge from the Service he began working as
a scratchboard illustrator for some of the major retail stores in downtown
Boston on a freelance basis. Gene continued for 5 years as a commercial
artist while studying Technical Illustrating at night at MIT and Technical
writing at Harvard. His career included art director for Sylvania and
later art director of Haley and Aldrich Geotechnical Firm. Gene spent
some time as an airbrush artist and mold maker at Parker Brothers and
finished his commercial career as an industrial model maker with American
Industrial Models.
Since he retired he stays busy as a freelance model
maker, art teacher, artist and craftsman. His hobby is lapidary, cutting
and mounting one of a kind semiprecious stones.
Loretta Stride
Loretta has lived in Gloucester for twenty years
where she moved after earning a BFA from Southeastern Mass. University.
She recently moved to Rockport and has a house in Littleton NH. Her
studio space remains in Gloucester. Loretta has studied at the New England
School of Art and Design in Boston and has been involved in a variety
of group exhibitions, most recently at Studio 412 in Boston and the
Wenham Museum in Wenham, Mass. In addition to studio work, Loretta has
been painting furniture and murals for clients throughout New England
on and off for the past fifteen years. Her main concentration is painting
and drawing, but has recently been working in mixed media collage. Her
works are inspired by the colors and textures of nature and from her
surrounding landscape be it Cape Ann or the White Mountains. They are
a record of how she experiences life and are a way of controlling the
chaos that can sometimes encompass it. She finds harmony and calm in
the natural world that surrounds her, and it is her hope to share with
the viewer a sense of this order and harmony through color, texture,
and composition.
Studio open by appt.:
34 Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Gloucester, MA
Marilyn Swift
I have lived in Gloucester for more than thirty years
and paint primarily in watercolor, mostly outdoors on location. My work
is widely collected by individuals and corporations, most recently by
Boston Private Bank and Borel Private Bank and Trust of California.
I am an active artist member of the Rockport and North Shore Art Associations
as well as Boston’s Copley Society of Art, the New England Watercolor
Society, and several national associations.
My Studio / Gallery in East Gloucester is open anytime
by appointment or during Cape Ann Artisan Open Studio Tour weekends
in June and October. Please visit my website at www.marilynswiftstudio.com
My watercolor paintings look nothing like this whimsical
Octopus chair or the
decorative Lobster I painted for the previous Pathways
fundraiser. A visit to my website www.marilynswiftstudio.com will confirm
this. The Adirondack chair presented its unique challenges and it seemed
somehow logical to paint the arms (or legs?) of an Octopus wrapped around
it, invitingly, along with fantasy fish and other sea creatures to decorate
the sea green background.
Upon completion of this chair, I came across this fitting
Ogden Nash poem:
THE OCTOPUS:
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee Octopus;
If I were thou, I’d call me Us.
Paul Swigart and Shayla Kaufman
Paul was born 1956 in Illinois, and educated
at Mass College of Art.
Paul has been a studio artist all his life. Early in his career he concentrated
on sculptural ceramics. He spent many years as a fine woodworker and
now concentrates on making paintings.
Paul has maintained a studio in Gloucester since 1981, and has worked
out of his current East Gloucester studio since 1987.
For ten years Paul was a principal in the art collaborative called Charba,
creating installations, custom pieces and a constant stream of paintings
and sculptures.
Charba morphed into Charbanova, and Paul is the sole remaining full
time maestro. He still collaborates from time to time with former partners.
Paul's current media of choice include painting and digital imagery.
Bruce Backman Turner
Throughout his career, Mr. Turner has been the recipient
of many national and regional awards, including the prestigious "Louis
Seley Purchase Prize" at the Salmagundi Club. He's listed in Who's
Who in American Art, and has appeared in American Artist Magazine, Monhegan
- The Artist Island, and The Best of Oil Painting to name
just a few.
"My primary goal as a plein air painter has always
been to capture the elements of the outdoors...the essence of light,
atmosphere, time and place...and to create paintings which interpret
that experience in a compelling and heartfelt way. Cape Ann is one of
those places which encompass an environment and quality of life that
provide such a wealth of inspiration."
Turner's work can be found at Fine Arts of Rockport,
43 Main Street, Rockport, MA
Alyssa Watters
Originally from Ledyard, CT, Alyssa now resides in Beverly where
she will be a senior in Montserrat College of Art's illustration program.
She loves painting and drawing and is also interested in making jewelry
and greeting cards. She is spending the summer completing an internship
at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and is excited for whatever the
future may bring.
Jeff Weaver
A Massachusetts native, Jeff Weaver moved to Gloucester
in 1972, his first year as a student at The School of the Museum of
Fine Arts. The following year Jeff had a sold-out, one-man show of his
woodcut prints and drawings at the Harvard Co-op Gallery, Cambridge.
For over 30 years, weathered houses, packing plants, fishing boats,
and the people who work them have served as subjects for his art. He
has studied the way light defines the unique landscape, architecture,
and life of Cape Ann, and has sought to render it in various mediums.
His award winning paintings are shown at the Rockport Art Association,
the North Shore Arts Association, and have hung in many galleries including
the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport and the Marine Arts Gallery,
Salem. His well-known and loved murals are found throughout Cape Ann.
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