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In lieu of visiting the gallery in person, you may arrange a private video tour of this exhibition with the Gallery Director.

Museum educator Annie Storr will offer a fascinating guided session of looking at the exhibition In with the New on Sunday, January 28th, at 3:00pm. The special nature of her program brings insights to beginners and art professionals alike. The session is free, very informal, and no reservation is needed.

On Labor Day Weekend, 2016, as the city celebrates its maritime heritage during the Schooner Festival, Gloucester·Center will produce “The Deep Sea Has its Stars,” an inaugural event of art installation and performance.

Full information about the events and the concept is available at the Gloucester·Center web site at http://Gloucester.Center.

Producers

See below for short bios.

Emily Beattie

Emily Beattie is a Somerville based dance artist, experimental choreographer, and educator melding performance, interactive media, and film. She is an accomplished performer and her collaborative works have been supported nationally and internationally. This year Emily will be teaching at Endicott College and Walnut Hill School for the Arts as well as finishing an interactive dance experience with designer Eric Gunther and an immersive solo about an orca whale with wild artist cari ann shim sham. emilybeattie.com

photo: Julieta Cervantes

Alexandra Berger

A Brooklyn-based freelance dancer, Alexandra Berger has had the privilege of working with, among others, Pat Catterson, Merce Cunningham (RUG 2007), Douglas Dunn, Roz Newman, Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre (Founding member & Artistic Associate), and Matthew Westerby. Alexandra holds a BFA from The New School.

Andy Bergman

Andy Bergman is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist who plays clarinet, saxophones, and a variety of other woodwind and percussion instruments. His playing is grounded in classical technique and his musicality informed by years of work with a wide range of ensembles: from orchestras and theater pits to bands playing afrobeat, soul, rock, folk, reggae, and jazz. Andy’s growing list of credits includes appearances at the Chicago World Music Festival, Oslo World Music Festival, Festival Mawazine (Morocco), Cully Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto), Philadelphia Folk Festival, Boston Celebrity Series, and many other venues across North America and Europe. andybergman.com

photo: bluelime photography

Kristen Miller

Kristen Miller uses her cello and improvisatory skills to tell sound-stories of life, people, and places where words leave off. She enjoys using new and old technology and techniques to perform live, as well as recording in the studio on hundreds of projects of both solo and collaborative work. Kristen’s favorite new project is exploring far reaches of sound, melody, and spaces with dancer Sarah Slifer Swift. kristenmillermusic.com

Sarah Slifer Swift

Gloucester-based Sarah Slifer Swift is a dance artist and producer of experimental performance projects as Director of the Trident Live Art Series. Her choreographic work is informed and inspired by inter-media collaboration and site-specific environment, and has been recognized by several grants and Fellowships. She teaches dance in the Gloucester Public School System through support from the Gloucester Education Foundation, and also at The Boston Ballet School.

Trident Gallery is pleased to present Nest, a third annual partnership with the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon to present a program of visual and performance art with a natural history theme.

This year’s program explores birds’ nests as wondrous natural objects, emblems of shelter, and monuments in the cycle of life and death.

Press: Review by Keith Powers, Cape Ann Beacon, 2/16/2016

On view are four prints from John James Audubon’s Birds of America and two from his Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America drawn by his son John Woodhouse Audubon; a painting by Audubon’s associate and Massachusetts native Isaac Sprague; a remarkable series of photographs of nests by California artist and author Sharon Beals; photographs and a collage by Rosamond Purcell, Winston Boyer, and Nadine Boughton; and a drawing by Gabrielle Barzaghi.

On Saturday, February 6, at 7:00pm and again at 8:30pm, a program of performance art will develop the exploration and invite public participation. The Gallery will close at 5pm to prepare.

On Saturday, February 13, 5–7pm, the gallery will host a public wine and cheese reception to celebrate the exhibition.

Trident Gallery is delighted to be joined this year by the Rocky Neck Art Colony in establishing a winter tradition of exhibitions and programming celebrating the birds of Cape Ann and the nature of all Massachusetts in partnership with Mass Audubon, with the wider aim of reaffirming human continuity with the natural world and the power of art to deepen our sensibilities. Rocky Neck Art Colony’s exhibition of multi-media avian art For The Birds will be on view January 28 – March 6. See their announcement for details of the public reception, a talk on John J. Audubon by ornithologist Chris Leahy, an auction of artful birdhouses, and a raffle.

The Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon is a professional art museum within New England’s largest conservation organization, connecting people and nature through art. Located on a wildlife sanctuary in Canton MA and directed by Amy Montague, the museum houses Mass Audubon’s extensive art collection and mounts exhibitions of art by internationally recognized artists inspired by nature. For further information, visit massaudubon.org/maba.