Cape Ann Artisans News
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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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Spring 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 & Gloucester’s Designation as a Top Ten Crafts Destination!
The Cape Ann Artisans Spring Tour … Read the rest
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Terry Del Percio-Piemonte
Hi Friends. I’m Terry Del Percio-Piemonte, and my studio is located at Bond Street Studio (#21 on the Tour this year), along with my husband’s, photographer David Piemonte. I’m a contemporary and mixed media painter...
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Rob Diebboll
This winter I’ve continued my exploration with figures on Cape Ann’s Good Harbor and Cape Hedge beaches. Figures tell stories, and a group of figures in the context of the ocean, time of day, season, and the cape’s light offers infinite possibilities...
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From the Studio Spring 2018: Judith Wright
I was brought up in the Boston area and often went fishing with my father in his small boat. This left me with a deep love of the sea...
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From the Studio, Spring 2018: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
Learning about cultures through travel and conversation with local people has been a mainstay of my personal passions since I was old enough to jump on an airplane...
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Do the Tour on Plug-In Cape Ann Tours!
I was thrilled to be selected to offer an easier way to get around the picturesque main streets and backroads of the 35th Annual Cape Ann Artisans Open Studio Tour! It is a unique opportunity, to be invited into the private studios and homes of these artists, and this year, we will “Plug-In” some history, and make getting around part of the fun!
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Media Advisory: Cape Ann Artisans Announce Details for 35th Anniversary Open Studios
The Cape Ann Artisans have set the schedule for 2018. The Spring Tour will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 2-3. The Fall Tour will encompass the entire three day Columbus Day Weekend, Oct 6-8,...
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Our Fourth Annual Holiday Show and Sale!
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Beth Williams
The Art of Collaboration! The concept of collaboration has been buzzing around in my head increasingly for the past couple of years. I've made a few collaborative pieces with friends working in various media...
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Sinikka Nogelo
2017 has brought new attention to the recyclables/found objects art of Cape Ann Artisan Sinikka Nogelo. She recently exhibited wall pieces in New York - of metallics and plastic in Brooklyn, shredded paper in Manhattan, and now unveils a new sculpture in Newburyport...
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Cynthia Curtis
Story Telling I noticed something very special during the last Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour...
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Margaret Rack
Margaret Rack has been working with metals in a very linear way for more than a decade. Using wire, she has been “drawing”. These pieces have tended to combine two and three dimensional aspects, ...
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Cape Ann Designs
Wearable Art on Steroids and Sea Glass Combinations Reimagined for a Fall Collection: The years that I have chaired the biennial Celebrate Wearable Art runway show are the most challenging to balance time creating my own work vs. creating a highly evocative and colorful event...
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Invite You to Our 34th Fall Open Studio Tour
The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour is a beautiful fall ride to the studios of twenty-two juried artisans in Rockport and Gloucester. The self-guided Studio Tour route meanders through Cape Ann with studios interspersed with frequent glimpses of the ocean framed by the fall foliage...
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From the Studio Fall 2017: Pam Stratton
“Wrack Line” Won an award for Artistic Distinction in the New England Mosaic Society Member Exhibition. If you are interested to attend the exhibit here is the information...
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Bart Stuyf at Pingree’s 8th Flying Horse Sculpture Exhibit
Featured here in North Shore Magazine's article, "Alfresco Art", the eighth annual Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, including work by Cape Ann Artisan Bart Stuyf, runs from...
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Video: The Cape Ann Artisans 2017
Get a glimpse of each artisan at work...
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From the Mosaic Studio 2017: Pam Stratton
I am having fun exploring the integration of cold wax, oil and encaustic painting into my mosaic work. Sometimes combining both techniques into one mosaic piece!
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From the Studio 2017: Mi Robertson
POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD: Not looking forward to another winter in the frozen north of New England, I spent the months of November, December, and January on a great road trip across America…
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From the Studio 2017: Camilla MacFadyen
My studio has been a welcome sanctuary from the unsettled world this winter. Like a pocket I can climb into, a suspended animation where time slows and my singular focus is chasing where the medium takes me...
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans Welcome Spring With 34th Open Studio Tour
The 34th Annual Cape Ann Artisans Open Studio Tour is just around the corner, Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4. For artists and visitors alike, the Cape Ann Artisans tour delivers a full creative immersion and that rare opportunity to re-ignite artistic juices...
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From the Studio 2017: Rob Diebboll
This past winter I ventured back to Good Harbor Beach after spending much of 2016 on Cape Hedge and Long beaches. I experimented with the muted colors of the colder months by using fog as the foil for the human and canine figures passing by in their coats...
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From the Studio 2017: Beth Williams
Emergence…a theme for Spring. Bulbs are emerging from the cold ground, forsythia flowers are emerging from their bare stalks, leaves and buds emerge from every tree, bush and plant in the garden…
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Gloucester Makes America’s Top Ten Towns for Craft Lovers 2017
For the past month, craft lovers have been logging on to the American Craft Week website to choose their favorite place to enjoy a vibrant craft scene. With more than 17,000 votes tallied, the contest closed Sunday, April 16 at midnight...
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From the Studio 2017: Deborah Gonet
Having visited the Cape Ann Open Studios tour for many years, it is such a privilege to be included with this group of accomplished artists – though admittedly somewhat intimidating...
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4 Artisans showing in “Unexpected” 4 at the Rockport AA&M
Pam Stratton, David Piemonte, Terry Del Percio, and Sinikka Nogelo have been selected for the Experimental Group's show, "Unexpected" 4, at the Rockport Art Association and Museum...
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From the Studio 2017: Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco
I knew if I looked hard enough, I would find inspiration somewhere in my studio. With the diverse sizes and shapes of sea glass, it’s usually not far away, but alas – how to turn it into something wearable!...
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From the Studio 2017: Mary Ann Wenniger
My new life as a widow is illuminated in my original prints, which are called collagraphs. Using this unique medium, I share what lifts me out of myself, as for example, the sheltering coves and harbors of Cape Ann,...
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From the Studio 2017: Terry Del Percio
I’ve been reading a book called “Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go” by Shaun McNiff. Shaun talks about the creative process. Did you know that everyone has creativity within him/her, even if one doesn’t think so?...
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Media Advisory: The 34th Annual Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour
The 34th Annual Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour Announces New Dates & Returning Artisans...
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PRESS RELEASE: Cape Ann Artisans back under one Roof at the Rockport Art Association
Nine Artists to join Holiday Show including special guest sculptor Chris Williams...
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From the Studio Fall 2016: Pam Stratton
This is a busy season in the studio. The tour is around the corner. I continue to have fun playing with the lime plaster technique integrating mosaics of found treasures from walking our beautiful beaches....
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