The Falmouth ArtMarket takes place on Tuesday July 11, from noon to 6 PM, with live music, a Meet the Author Booth, 25 creative artists, and ice cream available from Sea Scoops. The ArtMarket continues every Tuesday throughout the summer at Falmouth Marine Park, 180 Scranton Avenue.
The Rum-Soaked Crooks will perform from 3 to 5 PM on July 11. Tom Goux, Jacek Sulanowski, Dan Lanier have been cruising the New England shoreline (and beyond) for the last three decades and have inflicted much musical and poetic damage with a pungent mix of sailors’ chanteys, ballads and ditties. There is often irrefutable evidence left in their wake: victims leaving the scene with toes tapping and choruses ringing in their heads, as they happily hum and whistle all the way home.
The Crooks have shared their songs and stories, both historical and contemporary, at festivals and maritime events across the country and in Europe, and have recorded on the Smithsonian-Folkways and Whaling City Sound labels. Their repertoire spans three centuries of seafaring melody and verse, featuring an exceptional sampling of Cape and Islands sea songs and poetry.
Lee Roscoe, the author of Wampanoag Art for the Ages, will be in the Meet-the-Author booth. She is a long-time journalist, currently serving as a correspondent for Artscope and Provincetown magazines. She is an award-winning environmentalist and playwright and the writer-director of the film Dreams from a Planet in Peril (available on Vimeo) with filmaker-producer Janet Murphy Robertson.
Roscoe begins her book with a discussion of the wetu (a domed hut made by the Wampanoag people) and goes on to explore pottery, wampum, clothing, adornment, matting, twining, finger weaving, painting and more with some of the foremost Wampanoag creators, including Annawon Weeden, Ramona Peters (Nosapocket), Elizabeth and Jonathan James-Perry, Julia Marden, Robert Peters, Emma Jo Mills Brennan, and Mother Bear. Wampanoag Art for the Ages is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for excellence in independent publishing.
Among the many artisans to be found at the ArtMarket is Carlah Kramer of Cape Cod Artworks who creates mixed media art using glass and wood. A self-taught artist, she makes a variety of artworks, including pen-and-ink drawings on shells, humorous and inspirational signs, and decorated bottles. She upcycles glass bottles and jars by painting them, sometimes decorating them with decoupage or beads, and adding nautical cotton rope, reflecting the Cape Cod lifestyle. The finished bottles can be used as vases or decorative items.
Always inspired, she recently started hand painting cotton bags. “I find painting very relaxing,” she said. “I’ve been doing various crafts since 2000. I like to change things up. It gets my creative juices flowing.”
Kramer enjoys being at the ArtMarket and talking to people. “I love making humorous signs,” she said, “and hearing people laugh when they read them.”
This week the ArtMarket also includes the Crazy Quilters, who will have tickets available for a chance to win their 2023 Raffle Quilt, “Seaside Chandelier.” Proceeds go to various local charities.
For a full list of artisans, musicians, and authors, visit Falmouthartmarket.com.
Notes on The Arts 