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Announcing Two Mini-Tours, July 18th and August 15th
A small group (sub-set) of the formal Cape Ann Artisans will open up their studios twice over the summer for the full days...
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Not exactly business as Usual
– but the Cape Ann Artisans are here! As we embrace the warmer weather, it usually means that the Spring Tour is in the air. Like so many other "events," sadly we have had to cancel to ensure the safety of each of us and you. However,...
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From the Studio, Spring 2020: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
At this time of year, I would normally be preparing for the Northeast Sea Glass Expo, the Spring Cape Ann Artisans Tour, and Art in the Barn. With all of these events either postponed or virtual, I am using my creativity in new ways.
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From the Studio, Spring 2020: Pam Stratton
This spring my exploration in mosaic work is turning towards the sculptural and more spontaneous. A small series of work came out of a favorite broken pot. I call it the shaman series...
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From the Studio, Spring 2020: Marcie Rae
With a “call for entry” for an exhibition named “Hidden Treasure”, you can’t just send the piece of jewelry currently in process on your jeweler’s bench. Hidden in the recesses of your mind must be a pendant or pin with its own secret tresure, ready to reveal with one simple gesture.
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Marcie Rae in “Hidden Treasure”
Marcie Rae, Jeweler juried with the League of NH Craftsmen and the Cape Ann Artisans, has a pendant entitled “What’s Behind Door # 1?” in the Juried Exhibition “Hidden Treasure” at the League of NH Headquarters in Concord, NH from January 17 through 27, 2020.
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From the Studio, Spring 2020: Chloe Leigh
Meet Our New Member, Chloe Leigh. Chloe is a Fine Jeweler from Cape Ann. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing in May 2017 and sought additional training by attending Alchimia Contemporary Jewelry School in Florence, Italy...
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Media Advisory: Cape Ann Artisans Announce Details for 37th Anniversary Open Studios
Inquiries: jackie@capeanndesigns.com 978-283-8333 or info@capeannartisans.com
Cape Ann Artisans Announce Details for 36th Anniversary Open Studios – Partnership Opportunities Available through Feb 1
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From the Studio, Fall 2019: Beth Williams
Fall is my favorite time of year (along with Spring and Summer! 😉) and this year I was lucky enough to spend the beginning of it in San Diego and on the big island of Hawai’i!...
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From the Studio, Fall 2019: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
For some reason, circles are comforting. It may be that we are always looking for closure? It may be our circle of life – something that starts and ends almost at the same place...
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Fall 2019 Open Studio Tour
The Cape Ann Artisans have deep roots in the community – connecting artistically and in many other ways with both visitors and residents year round. This Fall, for the first time, in addition to welcoming the general public, the Artisans will roll out the red (yellow, and orange) carpet for the Cape Ann Plein Air painters who are part of the week long Plein Air event leading up to the 36th Annual Cape Ann Artisans Open Studios...
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From the Studio, Fall 2019: Sinikka Nogelo
Since the spring Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour I’ve continued experimenting with stain painting. I’ve painted “plein air” on the lawn, making outsized abstracts...
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From the Studio, Fall 2019: Pam Stratton
This Summer I continued to play with integrating mosaic art and encaustic wax. My work “Interwoven” won an award for artistic distinction in the annual New England Mosaic Society juried exhibition. It is made with Sodalite, pebbles and hand made bark paper...
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From the Studio, Fall 2019: Deborah Gonet
Hard to believe it’s already mid-September! On a whim I decided to take a Viscocity Monotype workshop with Joyce Silverstone at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in August...
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From the Studio, Spring 2019: Anni Melançon
This spring I’ve been making porcelain pieces coated with black slip (liquid colored clay) to carve surface decoration on. I knew that I couldn’t make enough pots to fill my big kiln before the Cape Ann Artisans spring studio tour, so I decided to spend some time with a series of sgraffito (scratching) animal designs on some mugs, platters and serving bowls...
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Spring 2019, 36th Year, Open Studio Tour
The Cape Ann Artisans are preparing to welcome hundreds of visitors and community members to their studios for the Spring Open Studios Tour - Saturday and Sunday, June 1-2 during the hours 10AM-5PM. There will be 15 unique studios locations and 17 artists sharing works from across the fine art and craft spectrum...
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From the Studio, Spring 2019: Andy Matlow
There is a cyclical rhythm deeply rooted in the process of working with clay: Build, Dry, Bisque, Glaze, Fire. | Each cycle produces themes which link what came before to what will follow...
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From the Studio, Spring 2019: Deb Schradieck
This is my first year with the Cape Ann Artisans and I’m thrilled to be part of this diverse and talented group! With our Spring Tour just around the corner I’m busy organizing new work, getting the studio shaped up and preparing for my first weekend of receiving visitors...
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From the Studio, Spring 2019: Beth Williams
The Road to Vegas....T minus 7 days and counting! Next Sunday I will present my newest work to the International Society of Glass Beadmakers at our annual conference, "The Gathering", in Las Vegas.
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From the Studio, Spring 2019: Pam Stratton
It has been a busy off season. I was thinking, “What have I been doing?” A better question is, “What haven’t I been doing!” Lots of new work in the studio...
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Cynthia Curtis at MFA’s Art in Bloom, 4/27-29
Artisan Cynthia Curtis is one of twelve artists from across the region invited to participate in the MFA's Art in Bloom event, April 27-29.
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From the Studio, February 2019: Rob Diebboll
While the beaches in summer are one source of inspiration for me, I do love the other seasons here in New England. Winter provides more quiet time that I use to stretch canvases and design new work. As it turned out though...
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From the Studio, February 2019: Cynthia Curtis
BIG YEAR! Recently, Kory Curcuru from Bridge Cape Ann and the camera and production crew from 1623 Studios in Gloucester came to my studio to do an interview and photo/video shoot for a piece to come out later this spring.
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From the Studio, January 2019: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
I am writing this in January. It’s the dead of winter and it’s too cold to go out and forage for sea glass. I am staring at 30 bottles overflowing with glass and pottery that I have collected for 25 years...
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Media Advisory: Cape Ann Artisans Announce Details for 36th Anniversary Open Studios
*** Partnership Opportunities Available through Feb 1 ***... details...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Cynthia Curtis
As we enter October, I think about the dark weather of Fall/Winter. Our studio is filled with natural light and warmth from the kilns creating a very cozy environment for making pottery. In the gallery, we keep it warm with an antique wood stove that my uncle gave me...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Anni Melançon
2018 is my 40th anniversary of making pottery here on Cape Ann. One of the things I’ve been doing is revisiting past work, series, techniques and designs...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Rob Diebboll
Summer began with the Rockport Garden Tour, in which we were one of nine Rockport gardens open to the hundreds of curious gardeners from around the region and beyond. We also had a group of plein air painters, including myself, finding inspiration in the flora. It was fun for me to come home from the beach to take on the completely different subject of the garden with all of its complexities of flowers and architecture.
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Sinikka Nogelo
Cape Ann Artisan Sinikka Nogelo has once again created a piece for the annual sculpture show that transforms Maudslay State Park each September. This year’s theme, “Contact”, has inspired "lots of strong, surprising, work; a lot of energy, color, sense of fun, mixed with serious questions, too," according to Bert Snow, who heads the group of over thirty artists. Show ends Sunday, September 30th!
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Erin Lee O’Sullivan
Erin Lee O'Sullivan is participating in an exhibit, "Marvin Sweet & Friends: A Celebration", showcasing the legacy of Marvin Sweet, through October 26th at the Gorse Mill Studios, 31 Thorpe Road, Needham, MA.
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Pam Stratton
I have been playing in my yard, creating a path from my front door to the new sculpture being created. It is made from some of the wood from my tree and a lot of cedar from a friend who also lost a tree to a storm...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Mi Robertson
For the last two winters I have been on the road crossing from New England to California and back...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Andy Matlow
All my work is hand-built and sculptural even when functional. Curiosity is my primary inspiration. I welcome mistakes, which keep me open to the unexpected and see things I otherwise may not have thought of...
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From the Studio Fall 2018: Beth Williams
It’s been a fabulously hot, busy exciting summer....full of first experiences as well as revisiting a couple of my favorites from last year. As much as I prefer not to leave Cape Ann during the summer, when an opportunity presents itself that is too good to pass up....well, I don't pass it up!
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Fall 2018 35th Year Open Studio Tour
Inquiries: jackie@capeanndesigns.com
978-283-8333 or info@capeannartisans.com
Cape Ann Artisans Celebrate 35 Years of Open Studios
Celebrating American Craft Week with artists around the nation
The Cape Ann Artisans Fall Tour … Read the rest
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From the Studio, Fall 2018: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
2018 marks my 15th year of designing wearable art in sea glass. It all started with hair accessories and my desire to revive the art of hair jewelry. But I quickly learned that this would simply not be enough...
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From the Studio Spring 2019: Cynthia Curtis
Spring always inspires me to make flower vases. This year I have a large selection of vases in many sizes, shapes and colors, some with beach glass melted into the rim, some with shells hanging from leather cord...
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Beth Williams
I think - dare I say it? - that we've finally made the transition out of winter, and I have flowers to prove it! The sun is gloriously warm - and the pollen is starting to show...the good and the bad...
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Camilla MacFadyen
This winter, I worked on embroidering the surfaces of my seaweed printed silks. I continue to be inspired by 19th century German biologist Ernst Haeckel’s technical drawings of single cell sea organisms and other creatures...
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Pam Stratton
A lot has been going on this Winter. I have been doing mosaic demos at the Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC) www.societyofcrafts.org in their new beautiful gallery on Boston’s waterfront and right here in our own Gloucester library...
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