The HYArts district nurtures and celebrates the creativity and talent of established and emerging Cape Cod artists.
2012 artists:
This season there are three full season shanties:Sue Patev (wreaths and polymer clay jewelry) and Beth Higgins (photgraphy) are in the red shanty.
Barry Olofsson (oils,photography) and Val and David Small (wood carving) are in the blue shanty.
Chris Letsche (rope work) is in the green shanty.
The others all feature 'rotating artists' where each week new artists make the shanties their 'seaside studio' for the week. You will find them in the white, yellow and light grey shanties.
There is also one shanty (dark grey) where artists will be showcased for the month.
Come see all the artists this season-listed alphabetically below.
Roberta Anslow
www.robertaanslow.com
978-549-5449
Roberta Anslow is an award-winning photographer who specializes in original, natural light photography and digital art collages. Her work reflects her love of and fascination with the waterfront. Bold, vibrant color, larger than life prints on canvas or metal are her trademarks. The source of her inspiration is through the realization that objects, activities and scenes of daily coastal life, which are usually taken for granted, all contain subtle elements of artistic beauty. She is a juried member of the Cape Cod Arts Association as well as other art Associations throughout Massachusetts. Her work is sold in stores and galleries across Cape Cod.
Roberta will be in the rotating 'monthly' shanty in August.
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Joan Augustino
Joan is a folk artist whose paintings celebrate life's simple pleasures. It could be a mermaid taking a relaxing bath or a quaint New England village scene. I like to think my paintings are nostalgic and that the viewer feels a warm glow of memories from the past. Joan started my career as a decorative artist painting mermaids and nautical themes on wooden bowls and candle boxes. She still paints wooden items especially my popular personalized wedding bowls. Most of her time is spent painting on canvas or gesso board. Joan resies in Marstons Mills, a quiet village on Cape Cod with her husband, John (aka Augie) and their exuberant greyhound, Bella.
Joan will be in one of the rotating shanties the week of August 25th-31st and September 1st-7th.
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Hanne Bernstein
Hanne is originally from Denmark and has studied silversmithing and wire wrapping. In her work she incorporates her many years of working with fiber art. She is inspired by contemporary Scandinavian design and combines her historical heritage with a clean and modern look. Hanne incorporates the techniques of viking knit and crochet in her jewelry and lets silver and gold wire interact with pearls and gemstones in a sculptural design.
Hanne is sharing a rotating shanty with Jennifer Yogel (Local Color Jewelry) July 14th through July 20th.
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Allyson Bizer-Knox
www.knoxboxstudio.com
Allyson Knox is a local artist, educator and owner of KnoxBox Studio. She provides outreach programs in nature exploration, art and science. Allyson collaborates with local organizations to provide quality hands-on enrichment programs that include kids teaching kids. Allyson combines over 18 years of experience teaching at museums. Allyson uses a collaborative approach bringing people together creatively using talents and imaginations to make something tangible; her programs and fun and engaging.
“I feel that reviving materials and making beauty out of old 'stuff' is a valuable thing to do; by adding color, imagination & life to ordinary things. I love to be outside and appreciate the beauty of the natural world. Teaching allows me to share this passion, while igniting and nurturing an appreciation for both nature and art in others.”
Allyson will be in a rotating shanty June 1st-3rd and the week of June 22nd to June 29th.
Alexandria Boudreau
Alexandria56@comcast.net
Sandy is a watercolorist and oil painter who enjoys painting primarily marine scenes from local areas on Cape Cod; however she also paints other scenes as well as still life. Sandy grew up on the Cape and has been very active on the water. She loved watching her children sail at the Hyannis Yacht Club and says they were fun to paint!
Sandy will be in one of the rotating shanties August 11th-17th.
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Kim Brereton
Kim hand carves and hand paints unique New England White Pine seaside/folk art decor such as fish, whales, mermaids, starfish, oars, as well as local town and village signs
Kim is sharing a shanty with David Mullins May 25th through May 28th and September 1st through the 7th.
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Robert Carter
Robert Carter is showing both original and reproduction American Impressionist oil paintings of Cape Cod and New England. Robert is an artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association, the Provincetown Art Association, and the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. For more information about the artist and additional images of his work, please visit www.robertlcarterart.com.
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Mitali Chakraborty
www.mitalichakraborty.com
As an artist, I especially value the experience of embodying perspective and emotion in a tactile, multidimensional object. I have always been able to see ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Throughout my life I have worked in a variety of media, including lacework by tatting, paint (I particularly love watercolor), photography and most recently glass. I discovered glass as a medium for self-expression in 2006, since then have experimented, and learnt the various disciplines of glass art. I live for art and anything creative is my food for sustenance.
Everything I create is original, unique, organic and nature inspired designs.
My belief : Nature provides inspiration you have to just keep your eyes open.
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Mitali will be in one of the rotating shanties May 18th-20th.
Kathleen Chase-Jones, Terry Chase-Lewis
www.earthnfirepottery.com
Both Barnstable High School graduates, Kathy studied art at CCCC with an Associates of visual Arts & at Umass Amherst with a BFA in Ceramics.
Terry studied art & teaching at New Mexico Highlands University. Both sisters are accomplished artists with their own businesses, creating quilts, fiber art, pottery & jewelry here on Cape Cod. Terry owns In Stitches quilting shop & Kathy helps run Earth-n-Fire Pottery
Kathy and Terry will share one of the rotating shanties the week of July 14 - July 20.
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Susan Curley
susancurleyart@yahoo.com
Susan is a Cape artist and educator. She studied Graphic
Design at MassArt and is a self-taught painter. Her preferred subject is the abundant shores and waterways of her childhood adventures along Nantucket Sound and Bass River. Through her art, Susan strives to abstract her subject and breaks them down to the essential elements of color, light and emotion. The evident brush strokes and colors allow the viewer to freely associate, bring their own thoughts, experiences and imagination to a piece.
Susan will be sharing a rotating shanty with Tom Currier during the week of June 22 - June 29.
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Tom Currier
www.thcurrier.smugmug.com
Tom has been interested in photography and the Cape Cod landscape since childhood, spending a lifetime of summers taking photographs on Marth'a Vineyard and Cape Cod. He captures the landscape in new ways--differing times of year and times of day or night.
Tom is sharing a rotating shanty with Susan Curley during the week of June 22 - June 29.
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Tessa D'Agostino
www.tessadagostino.wordpress.com
www.thespiralstone.com
crowstudio.td@gmail.com
A native Cape Cod artist, Tessa's artwork consists of small scale pieces all of which are inspired by nature, including the actual use of Cape Cod natural materials. Items for sale include nature inspired jewelry, small scale paintings, drawings, and wall and tabletop sculpture.
Tessa will be in one of the rotating shanties the weekend of June 15 - 17 and the week of June 30 through July 6.
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Susan Dinatale
Susan handcrafts one of a kind jewelry. Pieces are created from hand selected semi-precious stones, sterling silver, gold, fresh water pearls, Swarovski crystals and more. Susan creates customized orders upon request.
Susan will be in a rotating shanty the week of June 22nd through June 29th, 2012.
Kathy Edmonston
www.kathyedmonston.com
After a career in advertising and marketing in the high tech publishing business, Kathy found her way back to her childhood love of art. In 2005, she signed up for a class in pastel painting and that was all it took. Her love of color and desire to work with her hands found a new voice with pastel, a medium that allows enormous expression and versatility with its rich pigments. Painting increases one’s ability to see; the more you look, the more you see. Every work enables her to see more of this great natural beauty, Cape Cod.
Kathy will be in a rotating shanty July28th through August 3rd, 2012
Jennifer Edwards
Jennifer works as a stoneware artist. Her work is original, hand carved tiles, sgraffito, and murals. She has also written a children's book inspired by true events on Cape Cod and the illustrations are original designs created in stoneware.
Jennifer is sharing one of our rotating 'monthly' shanties in July with Gretchen McPherson and Diane Titcomb.
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Linda Emerson
Linda works in watercolors and oils.
Linda will be sharing a shanty with Gretchen Irving the week of August 18th - 24th and September 15th - 21st.
Christine Esperson
Christine loves to travel and has been inspired by Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Central and South American pottery and jewelry. Working with clay, she likes to experiment with different forms, combining clay beads with silver, natural stones, wood and handmade glass. She collect beads during her travels and has friends who send them to her from all over the world.
Christine will be in a rotating shanty the week of July 7th - 13th and July 21st - July 27th, 2012.
Joe Fattori
My name is Joe Fattori and at age 62, after retiring from the corporate world, I’m enjoying my second life as a potter/sculpture. I have a BS in Design from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I gained sensitivity for form, function, and color. I learned how to throw clay on a kick wheel many years ago from a friend and potter in NJ named Don Bradford. Two years ago I became a member of the Ceramics Cooperative at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on the Outer Cape and have very much enjoyed sticking my hands in the mud again after being away from it for almost 30 years. I make functional ware as well as small figurative sculptures working primarily in porcelain and stoneware fired to cone 10. I can be reached through email at joe_fattori@hotmail.com. Please see my work on line at the following link. http://www.etsy.com/shop/JacobsMeadowPottery?ref=pr_shop
Joe is sharing the rotating 'monthly' shanty with Laurie Goldman in September.
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Laurie Goldman
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MudlarkPottery
Laurie creates functional and art pottery for everyday use. She likes whimsy and warmth and makes simple pieces that express solid feeling. Her pieces are thrown on the wheel, and many are hand painted or hand carved using a decorative technique called sgraffito. The images she creates are inextricably tied to the rich experience of living here on the Cape for more than two decades. They express her love of the Bay and the marshes and dunes. They are intimately informed by the years she spent as a whale researcher and science and nature writer. Many others reflect the joy she takes in family life. The characters she draws represent family in the broadest sense—they are big and little people together, parents and children hugging each other, sharing, protecting each other. Sometimes the little ones are straining away from the big ones, wanting to head out in the opposite direction. Sometimes the big ones aren’t quite paying as much attention as they should. But always, there should be a warm connection somewhere. Her work can be found at the Jewelry Inspirations Gallery (276 Route 28 (corner of Church St.), West Dennis, MA 02670 508-619-4855) or on line at www,jewelryinspirationsworkshop.com
Laurie is in the rotating 'monthly' shanty in May and in September.
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Ann Hanson
Ann is a metalsmith who creates handmade jewelry in mixed metals.
Ann Hanson will be sharing a shanty with Pat Kelly Ceramics the week of July 21 - 27th.
Emily Hibbard
Emily Hibbard, owner and creator of Flutterby Glass and Pottery is a native Cape Codder. Her educational background is primarily scientific based but she has always had a passion for artistic endeavors. In high school she excelled in a pottery class, and her interest only grew in college. She earned her bachelors degree in 2004 in Environmental Biology but chose ceramics as one of her elective courses. In between classes you could almost always find her in the campus pottery studio. As a graduation gift her father bought her a wheel and a kiln, and Flutterby Glass and Pottery was born. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Entomology and works for the US Department of Agriculture. She has a small studio at her home in West Yarmouth and sells the majority of her work here and at The Little Beach Gallery, Main Street Hyannis.
Emily will be sharing a shanty with Jen Villa May 18-20, May 25-28 and the week of August 18 - 24.
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Beth Higgins
http://www.bethhiggins.com
The natural beauty of the earth gives Beth a sense of peace, especially that of Cape Cod. She hopes her photography will evoke fond memories of times and places visitors and residents have enjoyed on Cape Cod. Her work is available for sale in many formats ranging in size from greeting cards to pieces of art to hang on the wall as a year-round reminder of beautiful Cape Cod.
You will find Beth in the red shanty for the season.
Gretchen Irving
Gretchen is a graduate of Rhode island School of Design (RISD majoring in Apparel Design, and holds a Degree in Art Education.
Gretchen taught Art in Public Schools in Holyoke, Chicopee, East Longmeadow, and Washington DC. She was Chairman of the East Longmeadow Art department for 25 years. Additionally she was Adjunct Professor at both Springfield College and Westfield State College.
Gretchen currently resides in Osterville and is a juried member of the Cape Cod Art Association, the Yarmouth Art Guild and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. She has had exhibits in Western Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the Guyer Barn in Hyannis. She currently participates in courses with Robert Messop in Watercolor at the Cape Cod Art Association.
Gretchen will say she never stops learning and continues to challenge herself in watercolor. She teaches art for children at her studio "Above and Beyond" in Osterville during the summer.
You can reach Gretchen at gg.artist@aol.com
Gretchen is sharing a shanty with Linda Emerson August 18 - 24th and September 15th - 21st.
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Christopher Kelley
Chris is retired from the construction industry where he did a lot of custom detail work. He also taught for 34 years in a vocational school. Chris is currenlty working part time at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis running their boat shop and teaching boat building courses. Some of the custom made wood products he has for sale are belaying pin latches for sheds or gates; boat planters; house number kits; and belaying pin book shelves.
Chris is sharing a shanty with Susan O'Brien August 4 - 10th.
Kyle Kochiss
www.heart2heartdesign.etsy.com
Kyle has always had a passion for art and for the beaches of Cape Cod. He collects heart shaped stones and creates ways of turning them into art.
Kyle will be in a rotating shanty July 14 - July 20th and September 1 - September 7th.
Chris Letsche
Chris has been fascinated by marlinespike art since college. Marlinespike art is the creation and embellishment of items with rope and twine, brought to its height during the age of sail. Chris combines traditional techniques with modern materials and color to create useful, decorative and unique items.
“Marlinspike art is multicultural just like the tall ship sailors who came from different nations, each one brought their culture to the art form.”
You will find Chris in the green shanty for the season.
Eileen Lipkind
www.EMLJewelrydesigns.com
EML Jewelry Designs are wearable works of art with clean lines and shapes. Each piece is designed from Eileen's hand crafted lampwork beads and fused glass, along with crystals, glass and gemstones. Each hand crafted bead is annealed in her digitally controlled kiln; her dichroic fused glass pendants are hand cut, cooked in the kiln and then slowly annealed. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind or limited edition.
Eileen will be in a rotating shanty during the weekend of June 1 - 3 as well as the week of August 18 - 24th.
Carol Magher
After 25 years teaching elementary school in New Hampshire, Carol retired to her summer home in Eastham where she became interested in working with clay. Her work is inspired by the ocean landscape and there is a sprinkle of Cape Cod in each of her pots. Beach sand is mixed with porcelain or stoneware to create a unique surface for functional pieces. Green, blue and brown glazes reflect the colors of the beach; mud from the marsh or beach is mixed with porcelain to form a decorating slip, used for inlaid designs and swirling surface decoration. Shell and starfish prints complete the seascape decorations.
You can find Carol's mugs, bowls, plates, casseroles and jars in the rotating shanty she will be sharing with Laurie Godman and Joe Fattori during the weekends of May 18 - 20 and 25 - 28; June 1 - 3, 8 - 10 and 15 - 17; and the month of September.
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Leigh Campion McInerney
Leigh Campion, a self taught oil painter, began painting five years ago. A juried artist member of the Cape Cod Art Association, Leigh finds inspiration from Cape Cod's wealth of unique and exquisite landscapes.
A third generation artist, from a large Irish family in Boston, Leigh comes from a deep, family pool of painters, writers, poets, authors, and photographers. Leigh’s greatest influence was her grandmother, Rosella Kenny Donlan, a respected painter and poet, who also started painting later on in her life. She inspired Leigh to follow suit and put to use God's gift of artistic talent. Leigh lives here on Cape Cod with her husband and her two children.
Leigh will be in a rotating shanty the week of August 11 - August 17th.
Gretchen McPherson
Gretchen designs one-of-a-kind mosaics that celebrate the beauty of the natural world. Gretchen's work has been exhibited in many galleries, as well as in local arts publications such as Cape Cod Life Magazine. For each new project, she carefully selects pieces from an infinite variety of tesserae, integrating stones and shells from Cape Cod beaches with the traditional mosaic materials--glass smalti and millefiore. Currently Gretchen is focusing primarily on permanent installation work, using smalti as her medium of choice.
You can see samples of Gretchen's work in the shanty she is sharing with Jennifer Edwards and Diane Titcomb from July 7th
to August 3rd.
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Janni Moselsky-Hansen
After a year at the Art Institute of Boston, Janni earned her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for several Boston companies, before ending up at M.I.T., all the while developing skills in the art of jewelry making.
Janni Designs uses semi precious gemstones strung within a colorful array of glass seed beads, weaving long, multiple strings that can be knotted in various lengths, doubled around the neck or worn out and loose. All creations can be worn with bracelets and earrings of matching colors and textures.
Janni will be sharing a rotating shanty with Chris Taylor during the weeks of July 28 - August 3 and September 8 - September 14.
David Mullins
David is a local photographer who enjoys shooting seascapes, landscapes, street scenes and items of local interest. David uses a variety of lighting techniques which add depth and drama to his photography.
David is sharing a shanty with Kim Brereton May 25 - May 28 and September 1 - 7.
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Susan O'Brien
Susan is an artist-member of the Cape Cod Art Association and the Falmouth Art Guild. She paints in watercolor and oil.
Susan will be sharing a shanty with Chris Kelley August 4 - 10.
Barry Olofsson
Barry is an award winning Cape Cod artist who paints portraits and local maritime and village scenes in oil, pastel, and charcoal. He also creates colorful digital art from photographs. He is available for commission paintings of your favorite people and places and offers giclée prints of his work.
You can find Barry in the blue shanty for the season.
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Sue Patev
Sea Hag Sue is returning for another exciting shanty season.Still featuring her original all Cape Cod seashell wreaths and mirrors, some suitable for outside. Sue loves working with polymer clay. You can find very interesting mermaid creations,one of a kind faces and black and white designs. She always is experimenting and creating new items daily.
Everything is handmade by the Sea Hag! Sue is always happy to see her returning visitors and can't wait to meet new ones this season!
Winner of Cape Cod A-list 2012- best jewelry!
http://capecodalist.cityvoter.com/
You can find her in the red shanty this season sharing with Beth Higgins.
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Robin Pierson
www.robinpierson.com
Phone: 508-944-4769
Residents of Cape Cod know Robin from her decorative painting business "Robin's Nest Interiors". Her unique line of decorative window art is created using old and antique windows salvaged from homes on Cape Cod. Incorporating colorful glass and found objects, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Robin studied Decorative Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work can be found in homes and galleries from Cape Cod, MA to Key West, FL.
Robin will be in a rotating shanty July 21 through July 27.
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Dawn Rosell
Dawn Rosell, a self taught artisan, was born and raised on Cape Cod and finds her inspiration from this lovely place and its diverse residents and visitors. She makes handmade unique jewelry with wire wrapping, hammering and beading techniques. She loves to create unique pieces from natural stones and artisan glass. She especially enjoys custom work because of the connection with the customer and the challenge to create something very special.
You can follow her on Twitter under Dawn Rosell. Pinterest under DawnRosell Facebook under D R Designs Jewelry and Artwork or check out her Blog at http://dawnrosell.blogspot.com and see what her other talents, ramblings and likes are.
Dawn will be in one of the rotating shanties for the weekends of May 18 - June 10th, the week of June 30th through July 6th and the week of September 8 - September 14.
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Margo Sherman
Margo@tapestriesunlimited.com
508-775-7076
Margo began Tapestries Unlimited in 2002, offering individually designed totes, shoulder bags, table runners, placemats, coasters, wine bottle bags, dream pillows, jackets and vests in both a Seaside and Vineyard Collection. Her choice of fabric gives her work a special creative uniqueness. Margo graduated from UMass with a BA degree in Fashion Merchandising.
Margo will be featured the week of July 7 - July 13.
Val Small
Fourteenth generation Cape Codders, the Small family has been creating whimsical seacoast folk art for thirty years. Inspired by the master woodcarvers of Oberamagau, Germany, American folkartists of the deep south and many outsider artists of the American West, Val and her husband David and daughter Trish create many designs in the time honored tradition of depticting folk art and whimsy from the region in which they live.
You will find Val and David in the blue shanty for the season.
Oliver Solmitz
Oliver earned a BA in Architecture in 2011 and his work is conceptually based, often dealing with space, scale, and light. Nature and environmental issues are inspring forces to the atist. His work includes sculpture, drawing, painting and photography.
Oliver will be in a rotating shanty the week of September 15 - 21.
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Leslie Spencer
www.skyfieldbedandbreakfast.com
Leslie is passionate about glass and silver and the natural beauty of the Cape is her inspiration for the creations that come out of her studio. She was trained at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art. Leslie teaches at her studio in Cotuit and local schools and sells at various galleries on Cape Cod. Visitors may find her at the skyfield bed and breakfast when she is not at the shanties! All may visit the studio and miniature horse farm by appointment.
Leslie will be in a rotating shanty the weekend of June 8 - 10, as well as the weeks of August 4 - August 10 and August 25 - August 31.
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Chris Taylor
www.taylorcustom.com
Chris's study of biology is the basis for most of his work. He began hand-sculpting wildlife and science related figurines while working at the Boston Science Museum.
Chris will be in a rotating shanty with Janni Moselsky-Hansen the weeks of July 28 - August 3 and September 8 - September 14.
Diane Titcomb
Diane has an Associates of Arts Degree in Photography and worked many years as a free lance photographer. She now paints and decoupages wooden boxes with images from old children's books, sheet music, and/or vintage wall paper included in the design. Every box is different.
Diane will be in the shanty with Gretchen McPherson and Jennifer Edwards from July 7 to August 3.
Max Todd
max.g.todd@gmail.com
201-394-5503
Max Todd began his art career by creating large sets for the theater. The small-scale modeling used in set design led him to origami and Max has been creating origami for three years. He first creates the designs and templates and then creates the flowers. Using each origami rose as its own "tile", Max then creates large scale origami "mosaic" works with up to hundreds of origami roses. He can create custom templates for use in promotions and events. This is his first year participating at the HYarts Artist Shanties.
Max will be in a rotating shanty the week of July 7 to July 13.
Jennifer Villa
littlebeachgallery@gmail.com
539 South Street, Hyannis, MA 02601
(508) 775-5522
www.thelittlebeachgallery.com
Jen owns The Little Beach Gallery on South Street in Hyannis. A photographer and collage artist, she currently lives on the street she grew up on, in West Hyannisport on "The Aves."
She also one of the organizers of Green Drinks Cape Cod.
She insists on taking a moment with the ocean every day…feeding her creative inspiration and enthusiasm.
Jen will be in a rotating shanty weekends in May: May 18-20, May 25-28 and the week of August 18 - 24. She is sharing the shanty with Emily Hibbard.
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Richard Wright
Richard is a woodcarver in the tradition of the classical European relief carvers. Influenced by medieval and renaissance carvers, he attempts to bring classical styles into contemporary work which is applied to artistic, decorative and functional items. He also brings this approach to his treatment of traditional Cape Cod quarter-boards, name signs, and house number signs. Based on Cape Cod, Richard displays in local shops, and has done commissions for home, business and church environments. He looks forward to meeting new people at the Shanty, to discuss wood carving and its application to contemporary life.
Richard will be in a rotating shanty from August 25 - August 31.
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Jennifer Yogel
Jennifer has always had a deep love of jewelry as art. After graduating with a BFA in Visual Design, Jennifer continued her
education in silversmithing at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln, MA. When
Jennifer works with sterling silver and gold-filled wire she imagines how the
textures of the metals, the saturations of the colors and cuts of the gems and
pearls will achieve a balance between art and comfort.
Jennifer is sharing a rotating shanty with Hanne Bernstein (Local Color Jewelry) the week of July 14 through July 20.
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