Open Studios at Manship Artists Residency
Featuring Resident Manship Artists Kelly Normand & Evan Morse

Join us for artist studio visits and conversation as current Manship Artists Residents Evan Morse and Kelly Normand share the work they have created during their two-week residency at Starfield.

Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists, learn about their creative processes, and experience newly completed works in the settings where they were made.

These informal open studio visits offer a rare glimpse into the artistic process and the opportunity to see how two artists working in different mediums have responded to the unique environment of Manship Artists Residency.

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About Kelly:

Kelly Normand is an artist and teacher who grew up in Beverly, Massachusetts near the beach. She moved to  New York City when she was seventeen to study art. She has continued to live and work in New York ever since.

During these two weeks in Gloucester, Kelly has been thinking about the solace of internalized memories of the earth and sea. She has painted the quarries and the view of the harbor from Ledge Road, on site and in real time. The residency has provided an opportunity to return and pay homage to the rocks, water, light and air of the North Atlantic.

The group of paintings Kelly will show during the open studio were created in these past two weeks at Manship. Work by Kelly Normand can be viewed at www.knormand.com

About Evan:

Born in Boston, Evan Morse earned an MFA in sculpture from Boston University and a BA from Wheaton College, MA. Following an influential semester abroad in Florence, he later returned to Italy to study in Carrara, practicing the traditional sculpture techniques of clay-modeling, plaster-casting, and stone-carving. He has made several returns to Italy, where he finds continued inspiration. Closer to home, Morse is an active member and instructor at the Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT.

Representing the National Sculpture Society as the Walker Hancock Sculptor-in-Residence, Morse is working in the figurative tradition and carving stone on site, right next to two of Cape Ann’s historic granite quarries. Find Evan‘s work at morsesculpture.com and goathousestudio.com

Photo credit: Tsar Fedorsky