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“Painting Tidewater Plants with Natural Dye” by Anne Yoncha, Artist in Residence

“Painting Tidewater Plants with Natural Dye” by Anne Yoncha, Artist in Residence
Saturday, June 11
2:00pm-4:00pm
Visiting artist in residence, art professor, and Fulbright Scholar, Anne Yoncha, will give a FREE class on Saturday, June 11th, from 2:00pm- 4:00pm. The class will take place at Arts on Main. Yoncha will teach students how to create dyes from local materials such as pine straw. Then using these dyes students will make their own works of art on paper.

Please call Arts on Main to register for this class.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anne Yoncha (US) is Assistant Professor of Art at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, she earned her MFA at the University of Montana and recently completed a Fulbright fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, working with restorationists to make collaborative art-science work about former peat extraction sites outside Oulu. Her practice combines digital sensing technology, such as bio-data sonification, and analog, traditional processes including painting with ink she makes from locally-sourced plant matter. Her ongoing research with the HAB (High Altitude Bioprospecting) working group began in fall 2019 at Field_Notes, a residency of Finland’s Bio Art Society at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in subarctic Lapland, where she worked with artists, biologists, and programmers to attempt to detect high-altitude microbes using a heli-kite. Tree Talk, her temporary site-specific installation sonifying invisible processes within a stand of Ponderosa pines, was selected as the 2018 Emerging Artist project at Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild in Lincoln, Montana. She has also been awarded residencies at Cedar Point Biological Station in Ogallala, Nebraska, and Flathead Lake Biological Station in Polson, Montana. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, notably at the CICA Museum in South Korea, Finland’s Art Ii Biennial, the Budapest Environmental Project, and Codex Foundation’s international artistic exploration “Extraction: Art on the Edge of Abyss”. Outside the studio she can often be found doing another kind of environmental “research” via bicycle.

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Open Painting Critique with Nancy Tankersley, Artist in Residence

Open Painting Critique with Nancy Tankersley, Artist in Residence
Saturday, April 16th
3:30pm

Intermediate & advanced painters are welcome to reserve their space for bringing 1 or 2 paintings to be critiqued by the 2022 Gloucester Arts Festival Plein Air Judge and the founder of Plein Air Easton. This FREE and open to the public session will feature artist in residence Nancy Tankersley, an award-winning portraitist and plein air painter, review and discuss the work brought in by local painters.

Call Arts on Main to add your name to the list of painters who will be bringing paintings in for a critique.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nancy Tankersley began her career as a portraitist but entered the gallery scene with figurative paintings of people at work and at leisure. The working watermen of the Chesapeake Bay provide a perfect of blend of humans at work in a gorgeous landscape and have provided the artist with rich subject matter for the past decade. Incorporating non-traditional tools, supports and technologies for her paintings she remains faithful to her impressionistic style. Active in the current plein air movement, and a founder of Plein Air Easton, she travels worldwide participating in competitions, judging and teaching. Most recently, she was the Featured Artist at the 49th Annual Waterfowl Exhibit and Festival. In 2016 and 2017 she was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. As a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists, this year her work was included in the first international online exhibit of Marine Artists. Recent awards include Best Painting by a Maryland Artist at Plein Air Easton 2021, Award for Excellence at the American Impressionist Society Annual Exhibit in 2018, Best of Show at the Lighthouse Plein Air Festival 2017 and the Dickinson Award for Best Painting by a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society 2016 Annual Juried Exhibit. The artist maintains a studio in Easton and welcomes visits by appointment.

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Reading by Marcie Rendon, Artist in Residence

Sunday, March 20
1:30pm
Gloucester Public Library by Pocahantas mural

Join our Artist in Residence, Marcie Rendon, for a reading by the Pocahontas mural at the public library in Gloucester, VA on March 20 at 1:30pm. In case of inclement weather, reading will take place inside the library.

Marcie Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She is a writer across many genres. Listed in Oprah Magazine’s 2020 list of 31 Native American Author’s to read, Rendon also received Minnesota’s 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. Sinister Graves, the third Cash Blackbear novel will be published Oct 2022. Girl Gone Missing, the second Cash Blackbear novel was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award, 2020. Murder on the Red River received the Pinckley Women’s Crime Novel Award 2018. All available from SoHo Press. Rendon writes children’s books. Stitches of Tradition will be published in 2024, Heartdrum. Rendon has four plays published. Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA, will produce her script, Say Their Names, in their 2022 Theater in Homes project and a staged reading is being held at the History Theater, St. Paul, MN. Sweet Revenge had a staged reading at the Playwright Center, 2021. The creative mind of Raving Native Theater, she curated TwinCities Public Television’s Art Is…CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft’s 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women. This event is free and open to the public.

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“COUNTERCLOCKWISE: An Irish Celebration to Welcome Spring”- Performance Art by Nora Murphy, Artist in Residence

Saturday, March 19
6:00pm
John’s Point Landing

Nora Murphy is a fiber artist and author who will be an artist in residence from March 16 through March 30. Fifth-generation Irish-American, Nora Murphy explores Native American genocide and pathways for healing in her book White Birch, Red Hawthorn (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).  Currently she’s writing a novel that explores ancient Irish ways to live in closer connection with the earth and one another. Her performance of ancient celebrations of the Spring Equinox (an integral part of the novel she’s writing) is free to the public. Nora’s performance, ‘COUNTERCLOCKWISE: An Irish Celebration to Welcome Spring,’ will take place outdoors by the water on Saturday, March 19 @ 6:00pm at John’s Point Landing, a site along the Gloucester Blueways Water Trail.

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“Writing with Photos” Workshop with Mai Neng Moua, Artist in Residence

Saturday, March 5
3:30pm

Photos are moments captured in time. In this writing workshop at Arts on Main, Mai Neng Moua (first name is Mai Neng) will lead participants in writing their stories. Using the photos as prompts, participants will describe their photos using their five senses. Then, led by Mai Neng, participants will write more deeply about the back stories of the photos. For those who are willing, there will be opportunities to share your writing with another person and/or the group. This workshop will be free and open to the public.

Mai Neng will be an Artist in Residence at Arts on Main from February 27 until March 12.

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Painting Demonstration by Heather Friedli, Artist in Residence

Friday, March 11
5:30pm

Heather Friedli, is a painter who trained at the Maryland Institute of Art before moving to Minnesota. Heather will be an Artist in Residence from March 7 through March 22. Heather will be giving a painting demonstration on Friday, March 11, at 5:30.

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Meet Dathan Kane, one of the artists featured in o Meet Dathan Kane, one of the artists featured in our Black History Month Exhibit!

Dathan Kane is a contemporary abstract painter and muralist currently based in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He received his BFA in Art & Design from Virginia State University in (2014) with a focus on illustration & painting. The theme of his work focuses on the constant duality of life’s  choices whether positive or negative. He uses bold – organic, black/white shapes to explore the complexities of life and to gain a sense of balance through artistic expression. Dathan Kane has worked with numerous galleries, collectors and city mural projects across the state of Virginia, Baltimore Maryland and throughout the country. His work is currently included in the collections of Dollar Tree, Work Programs Architects (WPA) at Assembly Norfolk VA , VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) as well as other institutional spaces. His first international exhibition took place at the Sichuan Contemporary Institute in China (2017). Kane was recently selected to be a muralist for the RVA Street Mural Festival (2022) in Richmond VA, Three Notchd “Leave Your Mark!” Mural Festival (2022) in Richmond VA and has exhibited with the Chrysler Museum (Glass Studio) Gallery in Norfolk VA (2022). In addition, Kane completed a two week residency program in Baltimore via “Studio House” producing two murals curated by the CAN Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Hermitage Museum in Norfolk, Virginia and works on the (CAN) exhibition team at the Contemporary Arts Network in Newport News, Virginia.

Find more of his work at http://www.dkaneart.com
Story Shields Workshop by Featured Artist, LaKaye Story Shields Workshop by Featured Artist, LaKaye Mbah (Ages: Middle School Students-Adult)

Saturday, February 18
1:00pm-4:00pm

Arts on Main is excited to host a workshop by one of our February Black History Month featured artists, LaKaye Mbah. During this workshop, we will build a visual language based on our shared experiences, as well as what makes us unique as individuals. Together, we will discuss West African textiles and the history behind the creation of Story Shields, develop a shared visual language for the workshop participants, create story shields based on our shared visual language, and apply finishing touches that make each story shield unique.

‼️Registration deadline is Thursday, February 16 by 5pm.‼️

Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/story-shields-workshop-by-featured-artist-lakaye-mbah/
Meet Ray Johnson, one of the artists featured in o Meet Ray Johnson, one of the artists featured in our Black History Month Exhibit! 

“As an artist, I aspire to create art that is meaningful and emotional. My art engages representation of black beauty, strength and perseverance. With the influences of artist like Dr. Fahamu Pecou, Patrick Dougher and Clayton Singleton, I try to capture the power in what it means to be “black”. I want all people to be able to connect and relate to my work. But I particularly hope that people of color gain pride through the positive representation of the black men and woman that I create.

In my work I like to use men and woman of color to express the topics of love, struggle and togetherness. With acrylic and oil, my paintings of random nameless figures are full of emotion that come to life on canvas.” – Ray Johnson

@rayjohnsonart 

Find more of his work at https://artxrayjohnson.com
Beginners Watercolor Paint Night with Jan Finn-Duf Beginners Watercolor Paint Night with Jan Finn-Duffy: Sea Turtle 🐢

Friday, February 17
6:00pm – 8:00pm

Join watercolor artist Jan Finn-Duffy for a fun evening of mixing paint and water to create an original piece of art!  No skills are necessary when you arrive, but don’t be surprised if you have a few watercolor skills when you leave!  All supplies are provided by the instructor.  Just come to experience the joy and fun of painting!

Cost is $40 per person.

Registration deadline is Wednesday, February 15 by 5pm.

Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/beginners-watercolor-paint-night-with-jan-finn-duffy-sea-turtle/
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