Flocking to Tin Can Sally show

Local Colors Gallery at 121 Main St. in Gloucester is featuring a new show, "Birds Do It" by Tin Can Sally, which opens Saturday and runs through Sept. 13. Tin Can Sally is the pseudonym for Sally Seamans of Gloucester.

Tin Can Sally sculpts exclusively with printed tin, transforming containers of all shapes and sizes into mobiles, jewelry, clocks, and for this exhibit, birds. The spirited creatures sport a range of bright forms that betray their first uses, such as hard candy containers or advertising logos. Other examples of the containers Sally uses are olive oil, cookie, spice, tuna, coffee, tea, espresso, candy, sardine, anchovy, tobacco, biscuit, soy sauce, mustard, curry, ethnic food, popcorn, and sewing tins. She cuts the tins into many shapes and then assembles them with wire and adhesive.

The artist transforms tin to innovative effect, exemplifying how to recycle mundane materials into products of greater value of festive design.

"Working with found printed tin is just plain fun," said Sally. "I don't know why I am so drawn to the medium, but it inspires me like no other." Tin Can Sally's birds are of exuberant colors and disarming forms to draw viewers in.

For information, call the gallery at 978-283-3996 or visit www.local-colors.org.

The Seaside Festival and Pow-Wow will take place Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester. The event features host drum Walking Bear, guest drum Split Feather, singing, dancing, Native Indain arts and crafts, storytelling and children's activities. The event is presented by the Intertribal Council of Tolba Menahan.

The schooner Thomas E. Lannon will host a Celtic music sail on Sunday from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Celtic musicians and singers will perform traditional tunes and songs as the Lannon sails around Gloucester Harbor. Performers are singers Michael O'Leary and Jules Forman, fiddlers Eden Forman and Ramona Connelly, fiddler, bouzouki player and singer Dave Hallowell, flute and whistle player Lisa McManus, guitarist Lin Swicker, mandolin player Kevin Sheehan and banjo player Steve Levy. The Lannon sets sail from Seven Seas Wharf at the Gloucester House restaurant. Go to www.schooner.org or call 978-281-6634 for information and reservations.

The North Shore Arts Association will host an awards reception for its third exhibition of the season this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. The awards reception is free to the public, and refreshments will be served. Exhibition III features current works by 128 North Shore Arts Association artist members which will be displayed through Sept. 14.

The North Shore Arts Association has a thriving membership of more than 300 artists recognized nationally and worldwide. Its historic harborside building provides the opportunity to view the largest collections of paintings and sculpture on Cape Ann.

North Shore Arts Association,11 Pirates Lane in Gloucester, is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Please call 978-283-1857 or visit www.nsarts.org for more information.

The visionary art of Corey Tevan will surround and celebrate, while the extraordinary imaginative and abstract art of New York artist Hawley Hussey will entertain with its wildly lyric expression. The Corey Tevan Gallery will present the Mermaid paintings by Brooklyn artist Hawley Hussey as well as Tevan's latest fantasy seascapes titled "Summer Blizz" through Sept. 15.

Tevan, who has shown in Rockport at his gallery for the last 10 years, paints landscapes or symbolic subjects using his interpretation of classical mythology and dreams. Recently, Tevan was selected as one of eight artists to show work this fall at the Illuminations Gallery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Tevan's gallery is located in the heart of Rockport at 17 Mount Pleasant St. For more information, call 978 546-6660 or visit www.coreytevan.com.

The Thacher Island Association will hold its seventh annual Art and Photography Show today through Sunday.

A variety of works by more than 60 artists and photographers will be featured. Many works are from the recent Artist Days held on Thacher Island. All works will be available for purchase and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Thacher Island restoration efforts.

An opening reception will be held tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m. A reading of works by writers who visited Thacher Island will take place Friday at 7 p.m. Show hours will be 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

The event takes place in the Haskins Building, 37 Main St., Rockport. Admission is free. Call 978-546-2250 for more information or to exhibit.

One World Coffeehouse will hold "A Tribute to John Denver" concert at First Universalist Church in Essex this Saturday at 8 p.m.

The evening will feature an open mic with a John Denver theme, hosted by Tamarac, comprised of Roger and Fran Pierce who have performed many of Denver's songs over the past 31 years of their musical careers. Anyone who wants to perform has to do John Denver songs. This is a tribute to one of America's finest singer-songwriters and should be a wonderful evening of joyful and spiritually uplifting music.

The coffeehouse, 59 Main st. in Essex, is handicap accessible. A donation of $5 is suggested. For reservations, call 978-768-7056.

Gloucester Stage's performances of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, "Doubt, A Parable," close Sunday.

The show features Rockport resident and Elliot Norton Award-winner Nancy E. Carroll and Boston actor Lewis D. Wheele. Directed by Gloucester Stage Artistic Director Eric C. Engel, the powerful production also features Kortney Adams and Melissa Baroni in their Gloucester Stage debuts. This play focuses on events that may or may not have taken place in a 1964 Bronx, N.Y., convent and rectory. Bronx school principal Sister Aloysius, played by Carroll, takes matters into her own hands as she investigates the behavior of a young Father Flynn, played by Wheeler. Written by Academy Award-winner John Patrick Shanley, "Doubt, A Parable" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award and the Tony Award for Best Play. Gloucester Stage is located at 267 East Main St. For reservations or information, call the box office at 978-281-4433 or visit www.gloucesterstage.org.

As a family outing close to home, the 26th annual Antique and Class Boat Festival in Salem provides a rare chance to see many vintage motor yachts and sailboats up close. Tour the vessels, meet skippers and crews, and vote for your favorite boat. A crafts market, artists, old-time band music, the Blessing of the Fleet and Parade of Boats all add to this colorful event.

Come enjoy this family friendly event this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Hawthorne Cove Marina, 10 White St. in Salem. Admission is $5, and free for children under 12.

Pine Island Music invites all instrumentalists and vocalists, ages 10 to 17, to audition for its weekly fall JamShops (jam workshops). Auditions and placements will take place from Aug. 25 to 29 at its Byfield studio, which holds auditions to demonstrate ability and level for placement in an appropriate group session, so come prepared to play a piece on your instrument. Our weekly 11âÑ2-hour JamShop sessions will begin in early September, providing participants a forum to gain experience in live performance playing standard and creative rock compositions. For more information, visit www.pineislandmusic.com., or call 978-462-9020 to make an appointment for an audition.

A collection of Cape Ann drawings and paintings by Stuart Davis is on exhibit at Mercury Gallery, 20 Main St., Rockport.

The American modernist painter spent summers in Gloucester from 1915 through 1933, drawing inspiration from everyday scenes at the working waterfront, from piers to gas pumps. To a great extent Cubism influenced his work. He died in 1964.

"I went to Gloucester every year, with few exceptions, until 1934, and often stayed late into the fall," he said in his autobiography. "I wandered over the rocks, moors and docks, with a sketching easel, large canvases, and a pack on my back, looking for things to paint."

The Stuart display at Mercury consists of two paintings and nine drawings, and complements the exhibit of Cape Ann works by many artists.

Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. More information is available by calling 978-546-7620 or visiting www.mercurygallery.com.

Around Cape Ann is a column devoted to events happening on Cape Ann and artists from Cape Ann performing elsewhere. If you would like to submit an item, contact reporter Gail McCarthy at 978-283-7000, ext. 3445 or gmccarthy@ecnnews.com, or fax to 978-281-5748.

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Courtesy photo Local Colors gallery at 121 Main St. in Gloucester, is featuring an exhibit ÒBirds Do ItÓ by Tin Can Sally, from Aug. 23 to Sept 13. Tin Can Sally sculpts exclusively with printed tin, transforming containers of all shapes and sizes into mobiles, jewelry, clocks and, for this exhibit, birds.

Courtesy photo Robert Ross, Hawley Hussey and Corey Tevan perform at the Corey Tevan GalleryÕs Mid Summer Celebration this Saturday night.