Week of January 10, 2016

Matz Gallery Artist for January: Suellen Wedmore

Suellen Wedmore, poet laureate emerita for the town of Rockport, has been painting since she was a teenager. She has studied painting with Skip Lawrence of Pemaquid, Maine, at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is presently in a workshop with Ron Straka  at the Rockport Art Association. She recently won first place in the Quill’s Edge Press “Woman on the Edge” contest, and her poetry chapbook , Mind the Light, was published with her painting of Thacher Island’s north tower on the cover. (The book is available at Toad Hall Bookstore, from the author, or on-line at the Thacher Island website and at the Quill’s Edge Press website.)

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The four Cape Ann public libraries are launching a yearlong innovative community reading program!                                                                                  The Cape Ann Museum is hosting the CAPE ANN READS kickoff event on Saturday, January 30, 2016.  Staff from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will be at CAM to lead a series of picture book-themed workshops for adults and children throughout that day.  Check our website for further details: Cape Ann Reads!