Collage as a Way of Seeing with Caryl Hull Leavitt
May 1 – 2, 10 AM – 3 PM at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St, Gloucester
This workshop focuses on shape, color and pattern, looking to the works of modern artists such as Picasso and Matisse as inspiration for our collages. Artist Caryl Hull Leavitt will go through the whole collaging process from painting papers, to assessing the qualities of the artwork we are looking at, to making our collages.
Printing with a Gelli Place
Wednesday, May 29, 10 AMM to 3 PM at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson St.
In this one day workshop, learn to make unique monoprints using a Gelli plate. You will be shown various printing techniques which will include painting and drawing directly on the plate, using stencils and building textures and surface. This will be a fun day of printing and experimenting with different methods and materials.
Maria Malatesta is a painter and has been teaching art for 20 years. She has taught at The Artroom in Topsfield, Montserrat College of Art, Rocky Neck Art Colony and privately. She lives on the North Shore and she says her work is influenced by the changing colors of nature. More info and Sign up here
Life Drawing
Ongoing! Drop in (no pre-registration required) Mondays from 1 to 4 PM upstairs at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (6 Wonson Street). No instructor, but we’re a helpful and dedicated group of figure-drawing artists. We have easels and some boards. Bring your own charcoal and pencils and pads. If you paint, you need to bring a drop cloth to contain any spills. Cost is $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers. Get there on time as we fill up fast!
4-Day Intensive Workshop with Goetemann Distinguished Artist/Teacher, Sarah McEneaney
Monday, August 5 – Thursday, August 8, 10AM – 2PM – Artist Workshop at Montserrat College of Art (35 Essex Street, Beverly, MA): Paid workshop, advanced registration required. Signup here: Workshop Details and Registration.
McEneaney will also give a free public talk about her work at the Cape Ann Museum on Sunday, August 4 at 2:00 PM
My paintings are autobiographical narratives. Working from drawings, memory, observation, imagination and photographs I make detailed and highly colored paintings. Personal events, from the mundane to the horrific, describe universal themes as I record the daily life of an artist actively engaged in the world. Though very direct, even factual, the paintings read less as memoir and more like creative non-fiction. The scenes, moments and details are as carefully selected and edited as the formal decisions of color, line and perspective.
Sarah McEneaney (b. 1955, Munich, Germany) is a Philadelphia-based artist and community activist, who is well known for creating intricately detailed and intimately autobiographical works. She graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia in 1979. Her solo exhibitions have included Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; the Institute of Contemporary Art and Locks Gallery, both Philadelphia; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York and the List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. McEneaney is also the recipient of a number of prestigious grants, fellowships and international residencies.
Learn more about Sarah:
McEneaney’s recent Zoom talk with members of Rocky Neck Art Colony here: https://www.youtube.com/
https://www.locksgallery.com/
https://www.tibordenagy.com/
Interview with Sarah by the Brooklyn Rail about her show The World Around: A Mixed Bag at Tibor de Nagy
MAKE YOUR MARK! Art Workshop For Kids Entering Grades 6-8
5-day artmaking workshop based in the historic and creative neighborhood of Rocky Neck in Gloucester, MA.
Who: Aspiring artists entering grades 6-8
Where: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester
When: Monday, August 12 through Friday, August 16, 2024, 9 AM – 12 PM
Contact: RNAC.programs@gmail.com, 978-515-7004
Cost: $100 (a generous subsidy from a donor, along with help from the Gloucester Cultural Council, enables us to keep the fee low)
To Register: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/1bd7a133-ea60-45b3-995c-ef95fc75037e
Each day, the workshop will be taught by a different working Rocky Neck Artist:
Loren Doucette – pastels
Vanessa Michalek – oils
Amy Kerr- colored pencils
Erin O’Sullivan-Place- ceramics
AJ Jarret – comics
To Register: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/1bd7a133-ea60-45b3-995c-ef95fc75037e
Rocky Neck Art Colony, the oldest art community in America, is proud to offer emerging artists entering grades 6-8 a very special one-week summer workshop, August 12 – 16, 9 AM – Noon.
For more information about the workshop visit: https://rockyneckartcolony.org/make-your-mark-art-workshop-for-kids-entering-grades-6-8-details