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A Look into the Soul of Great Loss and Beauty, Vietnam and Cambodia Revisited

It was amazing arriving back in Boston after a month in Vietnam and Cambodia.  We had planned and waited a year to travel again with Professor Feldman of U Cal/Fullerton.  He and his wife Pam own a tour company East/West and they are the best bet for traveling in Asia and Eastern Europe.   They managed to pack a full course of Asian cultural history into a month. Look them up on the web, Google East/West travel.

We left Boston and took eleven flights and two overnight trains to span the entire country of Vietnam and Cambodia. Although we had done a bit of  preparation, nothing could have prepared us for the sights we were heading to see.  For people who came of age in the sixties, this was a pilgrimage of sorts.  We all grew up with our family and friends impacted by the war in Vietnam.  My best friend from elementry school had an older sister whose husband has remained a MIA .   We use to write letters to the Red Cross for years just in case  Gary was alive as a POW.  He was declared dead after many years putting some closure to twenty years of anxiety.  My cousin was shot down by friendly fire, a few short years after he left Harvard and became a Rhodes scholar.  My brother had a draft number of 50, while he was taking a year off from Princeton,  He went to North Carolina in the National Guard and contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever, close to death in intensive care for two months, he returned to Denver and recovered to return and graduate Cum Laude from Princeton three  years after his class.

We all protested the war in the end.  The University scene was frightening and we all were tortured by the never ending images of slaughter that filled the news, literature and film.  The best man from our wedding had joined the green beret special forces and went to Cambodia.  We later followed him to Asia as he went into international business and has remained connected all of our adult lives.

Steve was 4F because of his back surgery and we were the Americans who remained state side and watched in horror as the war  drug on.    Recently we watched The Fog of  War, and last night we rented The Killing Fields, and today we plan to watch the Quiet American, Graham Green,s novel, and Apocalypse Now.    These are classics that need to be seen again, they help us to understand how imporant it is to understand our connection to the world.

Now is the time to head to the studio and begin to pour out the images that have  haunted my dreams this pass month.

The ancient history of these two beautiful countries is so beautiful.  The temple at Hue is beyond belief, we had a Vietnamese professor who sat on the steps of this beautiful structure, now a UNESCO world heritage site, and told us of the dynasties of this once proud and artistic culture.

Hanoi and Saigon are modern cities, with third world infrastructure, electric wire bundled overhead in huge coils that make you shutter as the population many under 40 ride through the streets. A family of four is common, with six month baby in the basket in front, the mother, the three year old sister and dad all on a Vespa going through New York like traffic day and night.   Tube houses looking something like a shotgun in New Orleans only five stories tall, all with entrance through ground floor shops, very third world, with barbeques .a fire and camplike situation on the street.  We took a Cyclo(rickshaw with bicycle) through rush hour traffic.  It was the thrill ride you never thought you would take.

The people were the best part of the experience, they are beautiful, cafe o lait skin, with dark eyebrows symmetrical faces with high cheek bones, just beautiful , and the children even more engaging.

They are quiet, respectful, kind and easy to be around.   We felt welcomed and taken care of all the time.

Cambodia is even more exotic, the area at Angkor Wat is just beyond my  imagination in its scope and mystery.  The Museum at Angkor is a collection worth taking time to see.  My favorite room was 1000 Buddas, with every version of Budda you could imagine.  The IndoChina look of Cambodia is much more India than China and the sculptures were beautiful.   The Ruins are unbelievable.

I came back more humbled than ever at our great country. How much creativity and opportunity we have in this wonderful America.  I also came back aware of the beauty of the world, more fantastic than I had imagined.    

With President Obama now in office, I hope and feel we will have a newly open movement for the Arts.

Great cultures are remembered for the contributions to art, music, literature, film , performance and cultural brilliance.   With all the horror and repression and genocide that occured in Cambodia, and the horror of the war in Vietnam, there beautiful art, architeture, food,dance and textiles remain as brilliant as ever.   I hope I will be able to do it some justice in my own work this year. 2009 should be an interesting year, with as much promise and peril.

If you are interested in some of the photos or video send your email to katysidwell@comcast.net  and I will put you on the list of interested world travelers.

 

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When Life Seems Dark, For Whatever Reason, Artists have a little Secret

You have to be completely unaware or in a state of denial to not feel the collective anxiety of the times we are  going through, but I have an idea of something that might help.  Actually I use to hate to have someone cheerful or philosophical when I was sad or hurting, but there are so many things we can do to make this a better time for all of us.

When I was growing up, and it was a post Depression time, born in 1946, we heard a lot about the Depression and
what it meant to people.     The thought of children starving anywhere is the most awful thought I can think of. My uncle, Maurice Pate, of Osterville, was the founder of UNICEF, because he thought to be compliant in the starvation of children anywhere was morally unacceptable.   We are all going to be faced with new realities. There are a few small saving graces , the things we glean from hard times.  One of those for me is how I learned to make art out of almost nothing at all.

Artists come from a mindset that we create things,  things that interest us and things that make us laugh, things that make us cry, but always the urge is to give birth to something new.     If you can take that metaphor, imagine the dark time of pregnancy when a baby is closed in a dark womb growing.   That is where all the miracles take place.   When faced with what looks like a dark long time, remember that is a time for the incubation of creativity.

Eventually life looks toward the light and after a long silent dead winter, Spring Blooms.     That is why we must embrace whatever this time looks like in the coming weeks.    It may be a time of contraction for so many .

Money will not be availiable as it once was, but life will go on anyway.    What could that change look like in a daily life?   I have thought often these past few days of how meager our life in the fifties might look to a modern young
couple.   When my husband and I were married we lived in married student housing of sorts at the University of
Colorado.    It consisted of a renovated chicken coop, made of stone like some ancient building in Tuscany .
It was so small it had a wood stove and tin shower, no room for furniture in the bedroom, just a mattress on the floor and a kitchenet that was so low my husband could not stand up fully in it.   We took fifty dollars and bought
burlap and paint and made it into almost a doll house.     So romantic and rugged.   I remember the first frost of winter and how cold the cement bathroom floor seemed, and crawling into the cold tin shower was a shock.

Now we have an outdoor shower here on the Cape and can hardly wait to use it in the spring, and hate  closing it
down in the winter.   It is so much perspective really.

We made $350 a month with no credit, one yellow volkswagen bug and food we bought on discount at the salvage yard.   I guess it was hard times, but I don't remember it that way.   What we had was a lot more free time, close
friends and neighbors who came over and sat at our camp table with candles and played charades under the night
sky.   We were full of awe and wonder, not awe and shock.  

As children in a large Denver family, while blue laws existed, we had Sunday with our families, something only told
of in stories now.  We spent no money on Sunday because the stores were all closed.   We never drove around using gas.   We ate with our families and made toys of sticks and rocks from the yard.   My mother would take salt and
flour and water and make wonderful playdough from scratch for a  few pennies and we made sculpture for hours.

Some days she would mix up paint(poster paint) from dry pigment and we would carve potatoe prints and
print all the beautiful primary colors together on old newspaper,  the text would come through and I remember
the joy of the overlapping secondary colors and they evolved,  yellow and blue, then green, yellow and red then
orange.  It was pure magic, better than any color theory class I ever took.   Sometimes we would retrieve charcol
scraps from evening fires and draw with them.     On special Sundays we would make paper mache with wallpaper
paste and make sculptures using cardboard boxes and wire hangers as armatures.  

One of my favorite contemporary artists is Clyde Connell, from Louisiana, who after losing all of her material
wealth in the depression was force to move to Lake Bistenou, while her husband went from being a wealthy
Plantation owner to being a prison warden.    That was where she made her now world famous  Bound People
Sculpture from lumber scraps and brown paper bags and Elmers Glue,  Google her,  Clyde Connel and see these
timeless beautiful works that came from this desperate time in her life.

We will all be fine, we will roll up our sleeves and help those who need our help.  All that are able will help those
who are not. and be better for it, and make a new community.

In the meantime, buy a cheap set of number two pencils and good eraser and a  five dollar pack of  computer
copy paper and begin to sketch, take these supplies with you whereever you go , just incase you get bored
or have no access to TV or other modern time stealers,  and begin a journal of the ways life can be rich. and your
newly aware view of the world around you.    

Its not going to be easy without money for everything we seemed to think we need, but it may be a richer time for
our hearts and souls.   When in doubt or despair, or boredom or any strange emotional state, Make Art

That is the Artists Way and it can be quite an adventure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Importance of Art and loss of intelligent life in America

I  rarely get involved in politics, it is interesting Street Theater most of the time and it wastes the time I have to create, not only create a life of meaning, but art that can influence and inspire the world in which I live.  

I went to Syracuse this weekend for the premiere opening of  THE EXPRESS,  starring Dennis Quaid, and filmed at University  I had the opportunity to meet Dennis , and the other talented actors and actresses at the gala events that city so beautifully prepared.

You don't want to miss the beautiful film about Ernie Davis the first black Heisman Trophy winner  and the  struggle of  an entire culture to come to grips with its dark side.   Having lived through this era and being married to football coach, who coached both college and pros for forty years I was overcome by the  power of mythology to convey to a diverse population the issues that eat away at our collective souls and rot our true character and the   ethical  meaning in our lives. 

The most offensive manipulation in this election is the way the middle class and lower

middle class are segregated by those who actually prey on their vote.    The common buzz is that those who have been so lucky to go to our top colleges are to be scorned as elite, isn't this the beauty of the AMERICAN DREAM, that all people will have a running start to bring their talents and innate intelligence to the highest level.   The politicians have I believe spoken down to those who are working to raise themselves up.   I have several good friends who never went to college who are self educated and perhaps some of the most inventive and brilliant people I know.   I wish often they had a bit more resource because I know from my own education that study, exposure and experience only make life better and allow each individual to give the gift of their own life to the common good.

It's an insult the way the spinmeisters suggest that the "quote" common  man knows more that the educated man about what real life is.   It suggests that intelligence belongs only to rich and priviledged.

Some of the most influential people in history were artists and writers who died paupers but left the world enlightened.   Since when should we downgrade the movie industry that so artfully portrays our history to the largest population so we can all know more about the human journey.

I heard Dennis Quaid on CNN describe Ernie Davis and the coach he played as humans who were blessed with an understanding of  the  grace of God.      Since  when did being openminded, generous and creative become associated with headonistic secularism.

It's time for those of us in the Arts who grew up in public schools that taught liberal thought and connected it to the Christian message of grace and hope, to  expose this sham for what it really is, lets take back our flag.

I am not  really sure  what conservative means, or  liberal for that matter.  I am an artist who believes that creativity, excellence, God and the flag all belong together with nuance , patience, civility and kindness.  If this is what is not popular, I hope I am not popular.   Lets take back our  Flag and fly it high in our public schools, and teach tolerance, art and culture so that there is no child left behind, left out of the beauty of a deep, nuanced, soul filled life.

Not  a template party line filled with fear based, lack of intelligent life.  HELP  we have to wake up. We are in deep trouble.  We are being had.  If we don't wake up soon we are no longer going to have an American Dream.

A culture who can not articulate its path, which is what Art does, is a culture with no value and no future.

 

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Ned Sonntag at the Studio on Slough Road with Rob and Tracey Logan

   For  those of you who already know Ned Sonntag, and those who love Subculture Comix...  don't miss a wonderful offering of paintings and drawings by this great Cape Cod artist.  Ned's work is indescribable, powerful and complex at a distance; up close it is (Sub*!)genius in its meticulous craftmanship and composition...  He is a true Cape Cod treasure.    We became friends thru these blogs, and when we opened the studio a few years ago Ned became one of the favorite and best-dressed attendees at our celebratory Opening parties . 

   As I began to spend more time looking at his art, I thought of my friend Rob Logan who had frequented North Adams in the 90s
with his hip Pop Art paintings.  Rob is currently noted as the mind behind Red Bones Barbeque Installation in Davis Square in Cambridge.
   I had wondered if I could talk these two into hanging a Joint Show, so that the art community on Cape Cod could  get a first hand look at the  genius behind the images of these two artists.   (*Speaking of which, it is rumored that both fellows may have been devotees of the late-'70s Church Of The SubGenius art-cult!) 

    The Studio On Slough Road will therefore have an Opening Party Saturday night in their honor.
    Come join us and hear these artists talk about the creative process, and the place this talent has in their daily life.

   Ned delivered 15 pieces of his work tonight and Robert Logan should be here from Maine tomorrow...     

    Join us Saturday night for an evening of fun, good food from Ardeo's Tuscan Grill, wine plus a celebratory cake.
The directions are posted on the website www.studioonsloughroad.com    Come join the fun and help us
honor these artists.  We will open the doors around 4:30, with food at 6.

Ned's inspiration and muse, the beautiful Cheryl Kain is going to sing to him.   Don't miss this multimedia SubCultural Celebration!

 Furr Flyer for SOSR Show

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This Saturday a Special Look at the Creative Life

This has been a very strange summer at the Studio on Slough Road.  The Sidwells were in Spain, Portugal and Morocco for the month of June.  Leaving the Creative Life at Slough Pond in the capable hands of David Gessner and Nina De Gramont, while her new book "Gossip of the Starlings"  took off, and arriving home to  the opening of Benton Jones,  a well known Brewster Sculptor and glass artist from the Millstone Gallery,who had just sold a beautiful work to Eric Clapton. 

One of our deepest desires for this space is that it promote, inspire and help give birth to art , writing and culture.  That already has been beyond any question.  We are so thrilled that people are beginning to understand our mission here, which is to share whatever good fortune and support we have received to make the idea ot Cape Cod as a cultural, creatve Mecca viable for artist and other creative people.

We were so overwhelmed by the event for visiting artists Allison Stewart and Campbell Hutchinson from New Orleans and Aspen.   We had a wonderful evening of Celtic culture with paintings of  the red haired Highland Bulls, and visit from the wonderful piper and
drummer who brought misty eyes to Bill Murphy from Edinborough as they marched  down the road and played the songs of  his boyhood.

The trip to Portugal connected us with the wonder of Fado and new realization that Provincetown is the connection to Lisbon. We have placed the music of Mariza on our website to be the siren for new works about this beautiful , mysterious  experience of Fado.   If you don't know of Fado and we didn't, it is a gorgeous art form that is the soul
of Portugal, and Lisbon.  It takes you under like an undertow and you are gone, you are a slave to fate.   Such a beautiful form of expression it will feed my work for years to come.   We hope to connect to the Portuguese Festival next year with all this new inspiration.   The website is now showing some of the new work and this beautiful music. www.studioonsloughroad.com

 Now for the latest event, we are so  thrilled that Boston artists, well known on Cape Cod,and long time close friends of the Sidwell, Carolyn and John Evans will present a beautiful and provocative show of early works, rarely shown, from their personal archive.    Carolyn will show powerful and iconic sculpture from her early career, some
shown years ago with Alan Stone in New York, that will delight and perplex the viewer.
The work is fanciful, but belies a more powerful look at the nature of  both man and beast alike.
John will delight the art community with emotional work of the artists as a young man
in quest of mastery and meaning.

Both are graduates of Boston University and are collected nationally.  John, by the Smithsonian, the Fogg Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine arts.  Carolyn, a native of
New Orleans has recently shown at Cole Pratt in NO, and is collected at the New Orleans
Museum of Fine art as well as many national collections.

Come join us for wine, hor d'oeurves and summer chatter as we enjoy the overgrown
gardens  at Slough Road. Saturday, July 26, 5:30 to 8:30 .

We have begun our Filmfest, a  series of fun  cinema for friends and family,  We recently had seven children under  ten for about a week, all cousins.  We retire to the back outdoor cinema and watch film under the stars on our bedsheet  hung on the wall.   Popcorn and marshmallows are the fare of the evening.

Come join us this Saturday night for the Evans Opening Reception on Slough Road.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Amazing Linda McNeill-Kemp, A True Advocate for our young Talent

I attended a wonderful breakfast today at our fabulous CCCC, it
was to honor the Intership Program, The Schools to Careers  movement
that involves so many of our best and brightest, our own stars of the future.

If you are not aware of the tremendous arts education department at the
Cape Cod Museum of Art, you should get on their webpage  www.ccmoa.org and read about all that Linda McNeill-Kemp Education Director provides for the entire Cape Cod community. 

I agreed to participate with The Studio on Slough Road  by taking  Tess McCarthy as an intern for the fall semester.  She is a brilliant young art
student who was beginning the long arduous portfolio development for
admission to university. 
It was  truly inspirational working with her. Together we both grew and inspired  one another as artists, and human beings.  We will show together
at their May showing  in which both mentor and student present the fruits
of their experience.  The students works will travel to the statehouse  after the
show closes at the museum.  The curator was just taking in the works when
I  stopped by the museum last week.  They have a fabulous show he had
curated from the museum collection.  Large Scale paintings it was really quite
fine, not to be missed.  These young artists are so gifted and the museum is
such a treasure.  Don't miss this opening. Get on their webpage and read about
the opening reception etc.  There are so many things to enjoy at this beautiful
facility.

 If you are heading down 6A , take half and hour to visit
the wonderful work  they have up, and pick up a broschure about the education
department and all they have to offer. It is inspirational.
Please come by this Saturday and join in all the fun as The Studio on Slough
opens for another season.  Director Laurel Labdon welcomes all who enjoy
art to browse the studio for this first peak of the summer season, and The
Sidwells invite you to enjoy the gardens, the cottage and their art collection.

2 to 5 Saturday May 3 in conjunction with the beautiful Brewster in Bloom
Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dreaming in Shades of Saffron and Yellow

Starting our Third Year the Studio on Slough Road

Next Weekend The Studio on Slough Road opens on Saturday for a third year.  So much has happened in those three years it seems like some sort of  dreamstate to imagine we are arriving at this birthtime again.   The Studio Family, neighbors  and visitors are invited by the Sidwells and Labdons to an open party at 75 Slough Saturday 2 to 5.  The highschool jazz combo will grace us again with neighborhood sounds, art, gardens, chatter and food, sports trivia and just hanging out are all on the menu.   Come joins us in welcoming spring to Brewster.  For directions look on our website.  

It seems almost surreal the way Cape Cod comes to life the last week in April every  year.  It seemed to be the longest, grey winter that would never end,  the last month of the year 2007 and the beginning of 2008.  We even took to the snow to raise the dead of our winter souls.  Not without saying, I adore the silent salt marsh and quiet beauty on Cape Cod.  This year though, perhaps with the passing of so many dear to us,  a deep sadness started to veil the beauty of my treasured winter. The birth of new little girl, and the freezing trek through the Hudson Valley to Syracuse,still seemed to all be done in the dark haze of shorter than a nano second winter days,those ones that start at mid morning and end by three in the afternoon.

Somewhere in the reverie of old Seattle moody , short, damp days I had lingered over Joyce, and Proust, lying in bed with a down quilt reading 'Rememberance of Things Past' and being  glad the sun had not beckoned me forth.  But not this year.

Then right like clock work my yellow dreams appeared with the lengthening of the days.  The  Yellow Thing, that amazing phenomena when daffodils and forsythia take over my dreams again, and here it is, Spring in my artists heart again. As we cleaned up the studio and hung the new work, the gardens bloomed almost overnight.   It feels so good to be above ground again.  For all who have joined us at our gatherings, welcome again, for those who are new to us. come by join us on Slough Road.   Like an old fashioned block party, or as they say in New Orleans a "Cochon d' Lait" come by and enjoy the 'Laignappe' ,   Saturday, Brewster in Bloom, May 3  2 to 5.

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A gift of history and brilliant light, Provincetown Artist Roy Simmons

I had a most wonderful and enlightening art experience this week. While traveling
to see North Adams artist Brandon Graving, recent recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Grant,
and the Gottlieb Grant to help her restore her life after Hurricane Katrina wiped out
twenty years of her wonderful work,  I traveled over to Syracuse and down to Princeton.
While stopping in Syracuse I was scheduled to have coffee with Roy Simmons, a sculpture
and famous Lacross coach at the university.  I recently sold a suite of prints to Brook
Chase and his wife Lisa in Fayetteville, New York.  They kept telling me of the connection
I had to coach Simmons. both in an aesthetic sense and in our thoughts on contemporary
art.  Brook is from TheChaseGroup and recently renovated a beautiful old upstate New York
property which has amazing space and lighting for contemporary work.   He had been a player
for Roy Simmons at Syracuse and remembers his coach stopping  at galleries to educate
his players beyond sports to the world of art.  He left a huge impression on this group of young men.    When we met for a short talk ,it turned into an hour and half lesson of true
life art history.   Roy brought me a poster of a beautiful show of his work at the Emerson Gallery  at Syracuse.  As I looked at the image , and another work he had brought for us to
see I realized his art friends had been my heros and mentors for all these years.  He had lived
in Provincetown and was friends with Motherwell and Norman Mailer, and had framed for
many of the New York School artists who were the heart and soul of Ptown when art history
was changed for ever by these wonderful artists. He was friends with Alan Stone, who recently
died,and Gagosian.  His stories were just breath taking.   He was a student of the works of
Kurt Switters, and Joseph Cornell.   He has hinted that he may do a small show  of collages for us of this
 this summer and come to the studio to speak.  If we can get him over the mountain this
summer to talk to us it will be a night to remember.  Life is so rich and so many art connections turn into meaningful lessons in the connections and meaning of art in our
fast changing world.  Happy Thankgiving, be safe and make art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Glass the Elemental Beauty with Deep Cape Cod History

Meet a glass sculptor Thursday 

 The Studio on Slough Road will be hosting a beautiful evening  for Benton Jones, the Glass Sculptor from the Millstone Gallery on 6A in Brewster. One of the most sophisticated and elegant contemporary galleries in the area, Benton shows many styles and techniques with his beautiful vessels and very sophisticated aesthetic.  Join us Thursday evening from 6pm to 8:30pm.

The Studio will have the work displayed throughout the gallery and the gardens will be open to walk about and enjoy the woodlands and late summer blossoms. Sandwich was once the center of glass and Benton will speak about his experience as a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon, and his connection with Corning in New York.

He plans to use the internet to connect the the Studio on Slough by webcam to his studio as a Kiln firing is remotely controlled by internet.  He has set up a monitor so people can see this primal and beautiful process.

Having become entranced by glass while I was living in New Orleans with the fabulous Tulane Art Department Glass program, under Gene Koss, and the development of Studio Inferno in the Bywater area, with artist Mitchell Gaudet, both show at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, I went on to grow my love and knowledge of the medium.  In Seattle/Tacoma I was so fortunate to become involved with a  remarkable woman, Amy McBride, who ran the Public Art Program in Tacoma.  During her years there  the Internationally famous Tacoma Museum of Glass arrived. Dale Chihuly and Pilchuk leaders in the Art Glass World with the of City Tacoma were instrumental in putting this destination on the world scene in Contemporary Glass.  If you are intrigued, Google the Tacoma Museum of Glass and see the fabulous building designed around an open, huge Hot Box which give the structure is watery, nautical imagery in the Port of Tacoma.  To find this wonderful East Coast artist, celebrating and creating a new movement
right here in Brewster is just too wonderful.

Come by around 6pm on Thursday and hear him speak and see these beautiful "Vessels"  of Glass and other beautiful sculpture.  Check out the website under events for more information see our website.

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A Hidden Treasure at last Seen

Thursday Evening August 2 at 6 pm Ron Meservey , a fine photographer from Chatham a life long resident of Cape Cod will show his up to now hidden but gorgeous black and white photographs of the last thirty years.  These are all from private collectors now offered for viewing for two weeks.   We feel very priviledged to show these works at The Studio on Slough Road, 75 Slough Road, Brewster.  

These beautiful photographs have never been shown before to the public, they have been gathered from private collections and homes.  He is a 1958 graduate of the New York School of Fine Photography and a life long resident of Cape Cod.  He built his own dark room and has assembled a great collection of large and medium format Cameras.  He  will speak about his passion form this medium.  Come join us at 6 for a small wine and cheese reception and see these unknown but beautiful treasures.

Artist Kathleen Sidwell will talk a small bit about the use of Black and White photography in Contemporary Art.   Learn a bit about the work of Annie Lebowitz, Herb Ritts, George Dereaux, Sally Mann, Jock Sturges and Joel Peter-Witkin.

Ron has captured Cape Cod in some striking and haunting light.  These are true gems and will hang for two short weeks.  Come see his collection of Cameras and just enjoy a summer evening with us on Slough Road.

The mystery and magic of Cape Cod summer evokes such reverie for many, like the works  Edward Hopper, Ron has used the amazing northern summer light to illuminate his works, come see as he goes through about thirty years of images the magic he leaves behind in these photos for us all to give  meaning to this fragile, beautiful, vanishing way of life, the historic Cape.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" yes, but these truly stand on their own.  Go to our website for directions www.studioonsloughroad.com.  The works are not for sale, but you will love seeing them.  Join us Thursday.  One more of  Cape Cod's one of a kind neighbors, Ron Meservey.

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Kathleen Sidwell is a contemporary artist living in Brewster. She is the owner the The Studio on Slough Road. Born in Denver, she married a football coach and began a journey of travel and relocation that took her from Las Vegas to Brewster by way of Dallas, Wrentham, Indianapolis, New Orleans and Houston. Her large acquaintaince with contemporary artists all over the United States has evolved into an amazing letter correspondence that will now be shared on this blog. The subject will hover around the connection between Art and Life.

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