Arts at Canal Place in the news

From the 12/29/09 Cumberland Times News...

"Judy McCaughey arranges her watercolor paintings and monotype prints Monday afternoon at Arts at Canal Place in Cumberland. More than 30 local artists participate at the cooperative art gallery, which includes art, such as drawing, glass, jewelry, paintings, photography, pottery, sculpture, textiles and turned wood. The gallery at the Shops at Canal Place on Howard Street is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit the Web site www.artsatcanalplace.com."

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Judy McCaughey arranges her watercolor paintings and monotype prints Monday afternoon at Arts at Canal Place in Cumberland.

Midnight Madness at Arts at Canal Place - December 17th

- Stop by and visit the Gallery during Midnight Madness –
December 17th – 10 am to Midnight
Sign up for a $50 Gift Certificate

~ Great Hand Crafted Christmas Gifts ~
With Convenient Hours and Free Gift Wrapping!

Decoys, Jewelry, Paintings, Photography, Pottery, Printmaking, Sculpture, Iron, Driftwood Art, Textiles, Turned Wood – All made in the Tri-State Area!

Stop by and enjoy hot chocolate, cookies & roasted marshmallows on our patio and warm yourself by our cozy fire and hot artists!

Also take part in the Gallery’s Silent Auction to help with your gift giving. Come and bid on the many hand made items by local artisans. Bidding begins 12/9 and will end at midnight on 12/17.

Enjoy Holiday Decorations & Lights at the Railway Station and The Shops at Canal Place. Holiday Specials at The Shops at Canal Place

“The Hard & Soft of It” - Featuring the art of Mary McCunn & Jean Barnes Downs

December 3, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 5 from 6-8 p.m.

This is the third paired show for jeweler/sculptor McCunn and printmaker Downs whose artwork focuses this time on hard and soft colors, textures and rhythms of nature.

Along with McCunn’s usual materials, copper, brass and sterling silver, there will be a strong presence of steel in her jewelry and sculpture. The typical feel of her current work will be there, but with a new and occasional soft direction incorporating wool and other softer materials into her work. She will utilize her metal techniques, presenting work that has both a soft, natural and organic feel, while blending it with a harder edge using geometric shapes and harder lines. As in nature, these two can be found together; the soft fuzzy baby chick awaiting feeding in a hard branchy nest, the soft flowing hay around a piece of farm equipment or a steel metal bridge or especially a lamb by a steel barbed fence. Always present is this natural pairing of hard and soft.

Downs' monotypes will feature strong simple abstract compositions with blocks of color and variations of hard and soft edges suggesting tender plants growing in a rock crevasse or water cascading over solid stone. Geometric shapes will be offset with the flowing contour line of drawing as she plays with mixing mediums incorporating pastel and the printing process of chine collé. Ever present are her multiple layers of color and texture drawing the viewer into each piece to seek out a story hidden there.

You can learn more about the individual artists by visiting their websites at www.meadowbrookarts.com and www.solitudestudio.com. Both artists will be present to discuss their work and greet visitors at the Opening Reception on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 6 to 8 p.m.