CULTURE SCENE and SEEN
Enthusiasts & Creatives Across the Circuit
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Perri Lynch Howard - Whale Songs
Jonathan Latiano Begins his Goetemann Residency
Ruth Mordecai, Jonathan Latiano, Kathy Archer.
The latest Goetemann Resident Artist has arrived on Cape Ann, launching his month-long project with a September 7 presentation at the Cultural Center. The audience was enthralled with Jonathan Latiano's photographic record of fantastical installations, often room-size and constructed of unexpected materials, such as salt and Fordite. The residency program offers a month of free creative generation, with no thematic limitations. There is plenty of community excitement over this project, now in the works at Ocean Alliance.
Jonathan Latiano’s opening presentation at the Cultural Center on September 7.
With Kate Seidman and Ruth Mordecai.
Perri Lynch Howard Completes Her Goetemann Residency
Perri Howard, photographed in the midst of her installation at Ocean Alliance, produced a multi-disciplinary project during her Goetemann Residency. The spectrographs created a visual counterpoint to a haunting soundscape, which she made by combining original whale recordings with ambient sounds of bell buoys, ocean waves, hydrophone recordings of ship traffic, and NOAA weather broadcasts for Gloucester waters and Stellwaen Bank. The spectrographs enabled tracing of the whales' repetitive auditory patterns, considered to be "songs", which were hidden within the recordings. Perri is originally from Marblehead and now lives and works in Twisp, Washington. Her next big adventure is on a vessel with 30 other artists, headed to the Arctic Circle. To follow her work: www.perrilynchhoward.com.
Vincent Castagnacci Lecture at CAM Includes Reunion
As part of the ongoing exhibition at Cape Ann Museum, Vincent Castagnacci: Notes from a Quarry, the artist gave a presentation which wonderfully traced the themes and continuum's in his work. Two school chums were in the audience.
Left to right: Kathleen Adams, Director of Music, Annisquam Village Church; Joy Buell, Artist and COSMOS Correspondent; Vincent Castagnacci. Forever linked by their days at the Boston Museum School.
Press Boat Circles the Schooners
On Thursday evening September 1, the first of the fleet of schooners began their elegant arrival for Gloucester's Schooner Festival. The provided Press Boat was a helpful resource for photographers in search of "at sea" closeups. The photo above includes not only the skipper, right, but a rare sighting of the deadline-driven photographer for the Gloucester Daily Times. Sitting in the bow, one can see Michelle Williams, Board Chair of Discover Gloucester. Other fearless reporters on board were filmmaker Kim Smith, Tess McGolgan, Executive Director of Discover Gloucester, and COSMOS Culture Scene correspondent. No cell phones were lost at sea while many a closeup was captured, as seen with the Bald Eagle stern shot, one that would have eluded an aerial drone camera.
The actors take their bows, then on to the opening night reception!
Norm Jones Brings The Tempest to Gordon College Theater
Director Norm Jones has been teaching theater at Gordon College since 1985, directing 54 plays during his tenure. The Tempest is his 11th Shakespeare production. He has been the force behind 15 premieres or commissioned plays, and in 1992 founded History Alive, a theater company based in Salem, Mass. Norm is a playwright and actor, with credits at Gloucester Stage Company and Gordon College productions. He has also performed an original one-person script as Nathaniel Hawthorne, in dozens of different settings.
The current production of The Tempest is a hearty delivery of the Bard's classic, acted by current students in the college's highly respected theater arts department as well as a handful of its graduates. The costumes were designed by Anna-Maria Forger, with three of her standouts shown below.
Prospero, played by Drew Cleveland (2017).
Caliban, played by Drew Scott (2025).
Ariel, played by Gail Maxwell (2024).
