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Before we begin... It’s been quite a year. Heck, it’s been quite a six weeks. Just before Thanksgiving, we launched our first issue, dropping it off at a few locations around Barnstable without giving it much thought except that it was fun to make. Little did we know that our fourth issue would nearly span the Cape, available in almost 150 locations from Mashpee and Sandwich all the way to the edge of Eastham. The most prominent question seems to be, as a the editor of a local newspaper asked me the other day, “what is it”? Defining yourself is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, people like to compartmentalize. We like knowing what we’re getting ourselves into. The flip side to that, of course, is once you make that grand statement, it’s hard to turn back the clock and redefine if you decide to make a slight change of course. In the spirit of entering a new year, we’ve decided to have a go at self-definition, but first want to define what we aren’t. We aren’t a news outlet. There are myriad ways to get caught up on local happenings, events, politics, and sports, many of which do a great job, and all of which do a better job than we ever could. We aren’t an advertising supplement, with more ads than content and thinly veiled promotional pieces disguised as articles. Though we do, on occasion, have ads from businesses we write about. We aren’t an “art magazine”, though we love and appreciate art, and will absolutely showcase it. We aren’t a “kids” mag, though we all have families. Of course, this doesn’t mean we won’t have features that appeal to all ages. What we are is a group of friends who have fun making a mag, and do our best to make one that reflects what we would like to read about. We live here, we love it here and, most of all, we have fun here. Dinghy is a reflection of who we are. We hope it shows. Happy new year!
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Made. Jen Villa of the Little Beach Gallery
Jen Villa is one of those artists who’s presence and work has become synonymous with the changing face of art on Cape Cod. Her outspoken insistence on creating the community she wants to live in shows through in her photos, collages and of course her alter ego, the Little Beach Gallery, which prides itself on featuring all local artisans.
So let’s start at the beginning... You’re from the Cape, but you left for a while, then came back and opened a gallery. How did all that transpire? What made you choose the Cape for your gallery over the arguably more “artsy” California? I grew up spending my summers on the Cape, while residing full time in Northboro, Mass. After high school my folks sold my childhood home and we essentially came full time to the Cape. I went off to college and spent summer vacations here working and growing a deep love for Cape Cod. I spent one “off season” down here after college and then set my eyes on Southern California. After a few years of working in San Diego, I decided to go back to school for photography. I ended up at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. Upon graduating I got a freelance job with the
Santa Barbara Independent, a well known local publication. I spent a lot of those years in California coming back to the Cape for summer visits and holidays and felt a strong pull to come back. On my 28th birthday, while lying on a beach in an adorable Cali town called Summerland, I decided I was going to move to Cape Cod and open a gallery. I had seen the building I am now in was for rent when I was home visiting and the building spoke to me. In a way, I created the brand of The Little Beach Gallery around the little green building that it resides in. I also named it after the beach I grew up on in West Hyannisport, one we called “the little beach.” You’re a photographer, but seem to combine photography with elements of collage. How would you describe your work, what is your process and what inspires you? I love images. And words, usually positive and inspiring ones! I have always loved photography and the idea that you can capture a moment within those four walls that maybe would have otherwise gone unnoticed. I also love the idea of combining these images with a thought or phrase, one that will hopefully evoke something in the viewer. Or possibly one of my pieces with give a moment of serenity amidst a chaotic day. I sometimes work from the image and build off that with a concept, but I often work from a body of text or a quote I find inspiring and create a piece around it. What is the creative process for your custom work? One of my favorite things about what I do is creating custom collages with other people’s images or ideas. Customers give me a concept or a theme they want brought to life and I use their provided images with some of my own. I am currently work on a HUGE family tree piece that is fascinating. I get to create a masterpiece out of the mere glimpse I get into their lives. It’s inspiring and creatively challenging!
What drives you to be so “local-centric”? Why do you feel so strongly about it? Hmmm, the “LOCAL” thing. I LOVE The Cape. I LOVE my life here on the Cape. The sense of community I have experienced is shocking and wonderful. I have met so many fabulous people through the existence of my shop and just in being out and about. People you meet once become your friends. That seems to be the difference here versus other places I have lived. If you connect with someone through one conversation, odds are you will see them again in the very near future. I think it’s so important to feed the web that is our small year-round Cape Cod. During these hard times around the world – environmentally, financially – it is so important to make smart decisions that keep quality in our lives. Whether that be through things you buy, or companies and people you support. What is the single best thing about being an artist on Cape Cod? And to contrast, the worst? I love being an artist here. I think this is one of the most creative places in the world. I feel like I meet an artist every day. The landscape that is Cape Cod is so inspiring. It doesn’t get much better than that. I would
say one negative is perhaps “perception.� What I mean by that is that people may assume that there’s not enough going on here year-round, culturally, to support a thriving artist community, but that is a misconception. People are realizing that there are things happening here that will rival many, many other communities..We just gotta keep walking the walk and talking the talk!! www.TheLittleBeachGallery.com
Taste Local chef handcrafts cheese at new shop.
When you think of Cape Cod and local foods, visions of chowders, oysters and fried fish quickly come to mind, but a national trend in crafting locally sourced, artisan foods is slowly settling in, bringing us such foodie pleasures as chocolates, baked goods, beer and, now cheese. Many of you will know chef Kathleen Kadlik from her familiar post at many a local farmer’s market, selling delicious bundles of hand made cheeses and pasta. “It was pretty crazy, we’d set up and sell out in the first hour and a half,” Kathleen explained while stirring curds into a large metal bowl of hot water. “So the next week we’d double the inventory, and then it would sell out again. It took us almost a whole season to dial it in.” After three years of success, she decided to take advantage of the Cape’s apparent appetite for her gourmet goodies and took the leap into a retail space, opening Fromage á Trois behind the general store on Route 149 West Barnstable. Kathleen hasn’t always made her cheese making, well, cheese. After retiring from her south shore cleaning business about five years ago, she decided to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a chef, attending the Cambridge College of Culinary Arts. It was there that she first got her hands wet in a cheese making seminar, leaving the former ceramics major hooked.
After a brief stint as an apprentice to chef and artisan cheese make Lourdes Fiore Smith, Kathleen returned to the Cape and found a home using pastry chef Lisa Raffael’s commercial kitchen in Falmouth, where she honed her craft and subsequently graced the tables of many a farmer’s market attendee. Making cheese is a tactile experience, involving constant stirring and handling in closely controlled temperatures. Getting a feel for it doesn’t come right away. “I bought a hundred pounds of curd, and worked my way through it,” she said. “By the time you’ve made it through fifty or seventy five of them, you’re a human thermometer.” When we visited Kathleen the year’s first snow was swirling outside, but her shop was aglow with warmth from her wood stove and the chef herself, who was making mozarella, deftly stretching the off-white curds into rubbery balls. She then wrapped them around an herbed goat cheese or crafted them into burrata – or butter – cheese, which has the pure mozarella outside and a rich mix of mozarella and cream inside. Other varieties mix fruits or nuts with the creamy center. The fresh balls of cheese were then soaked in a selection of water, going from hot to cool, and finally dipped in a brine mixture before being wrapped for sale. Fromage á Trois features a wonderful selection of Kathleen’s freshly made mozarella and burrata cheeses, which are all made from curd sourced within New England, as well as Armenian String Cheese, delicious hand made pastas, and daily delivered fresh breads from Hearth in Plymouth. Currently they are open Thursday through Saturday 10 - 6 and Sunday 10 - 3. www.fromageatroiscapecod.com
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words David Shepard photos Laura Poole
Nantucket attracts many people both as tourists and residents. Today I sat down with Matthew Oates, a well known Island year-rounder. His driveway is hard to miss as you drive down Hummock Pond Road – it’s the one flanked by colorful creations, like something out of Alice & Wonderland or the Island of Misfit Toys. The chaos of his work is matched only by his eccentric nature. He would describe it as Island Eccentric. Hello, and often his goodbye, is instead, “Party like a Rockstar!” I asked what this expression meant to him. When I was a little kid growing up in New Jersey and would see my friends we would great each other by saying, ‘Party Like a Rockstar.’ We were kids. We didn’t even know what party-like-a-rockstar was. [But] it would remind us all the time that you should always have fun. Be fun. Be happy. You shouldn’t waste any time. What inspires you? Why do you build? I grew up in a household where you never threw anything away. My parents saved everything, fixed everything. I grew up with an attitude of saving things. I’ve done this kind of artwork my entire life. Ever since I was a kid. Not as extensive as I do it now, but I’ve always made stuff I found out on the side of the road or stuff that was deemed junk—worthless—made something fun out of it or something interesting. Maybe four years ago or so people started coming over to the house and were like, ‘Wow that’s really neat art.’ Well I never considered it art. It was just something I had always done.
Do you want your work to last forever? I reuse it. Something’s been up for a little while I bring it down to the basement. Strip it down to the nuts and bolts. Put the pieces in bins and they become something else later. What about Nantucket inspires you? How does it influence your art? People here encouraged me to be a little more serious about it. The Nantucket School of Design and the people who run that are very encouraging of alternative art styles on the island. Matty goes on to tell how he came to learn what he was doing was called Art in the Environment. Not like a bronze statue in the park… Something more colorful, ‘make you think’ kind of art. It was strange for me to discover that something I had been doing all my life was an art form. I didn’t realize that this was something that had a history to it. Where do you get your materials? The Take It or Leave It at the dump is a fabulous source of material for someone who does what I do. Recently I’ve come up with themes. I like building towards a theme. Like three years ago it was bike pieces. I tried to make everything using something from a bicycle. Then the next year I used weed-whackers. I took the time to collect them, store them until I was actually ready to start making something out of them. This year it was vacuum cleaners. I’m thinking next year I want to do typewriters. Do you ever sell your work? I give stuff away sometimes. I had this five foot long centipede in my yard. A woman knocked on my door and said ‘I live on a farm in Vermont and I want to take that’ and I was like, ‘Just take it.’ Do you have a mission statement? Color. I hope they put that on my tombstone. If they put Lived In Color on my tombstone I would be
very happy… and maybe Helped Stray Dogs. That would be good. Do you have a favorite piece? I like the dragonfly that’s displayed in the community garden. Someone requested that… It came out really good. Where would you most like to build something? The park by the Library—downtown—would be the ultimate place for an Art in the Environment project. Do you have a dream project? I would love to make something you could see from space. Any parting thoughts? Party Like a Rockstar!
P h o t o s
A heron looking for lunch in Chatham. photo James Joiner
Winter’s first snow looms above the Marstons Mills airfield. photo James Joiner
Shucking Wellfleet’s finest. photo James Joiner
A winter walker spooks some seagulls near Popponessett. photo James Joiner
Wildcare mascot Quacker’s the duck contemplates dinner. photo James Joiner
A sullen crow reflects the weather in Cotuit Bay. photo James Joiner
A warm winter tricks trees into budding. photo James Joiner
A pine needle hitches a ride. photo James Joiner
The Dinghy Staff’s New Year’s Resolutions. 10. Spend more time in the outer Cape. Nothing harkens back to the spirit of Cape Cod like the sandswept beaches and dunes of the outer Cape. While we love this whole place, there’s something to be said for kicking off your shoes and watching (real) waves crash. While we’re down there we should... 9. ...See a movie at the Wellfleet Drive-In. Summer air, blankets and a blockbuster? Count us in. 8. Spend more time fishing. Not sure if it’s possible, but it can’t hurt to try. 7. Visit some art galleries. How often do we look around and say, “there’s nothing to do”? Well, there’s literally hundreds of small galleries spread across the Cape & Islands, with every possible style of art imaginable. There’s always something to do. 6. More Cape Cod Baseball games. We fell off the wagon with them last summer, but it’s one of those things you always wind up missing once they’re gone. The games, and the hot dogs. 5. Explore. How simple is that? There are probably thousands of miles of hiking trails and beaches here. No way we’ve seen ‘em all. 4. Beach comb. It’s a time-honored tradition for many. With the aforementioned miles of beaches, all manner of interesting and exciting things was up. Warning: some of them smell better than others. 3. Learn to dive. There are a ton of places that teach it, and just think about the unexplored (and probably uncrowded) world just a few feet off shore. Just don’t wear your seal suit. 2. Watch more sunsets / rises. Now that we’ve established twe’re missing out on all these great things to do, might as well wrap them in an inspiring sunrise and finale-like sunset. A great place for that first cup of ‘Joe and last nightcap. 1. Smile more. Oh sure, this sounds weird. And we are generally cheerful. But with all the electronic dictractions constantly vying for our attention, it can be easy to forget to make eye contact and smile. Try it, it will make your (and someone else’s) day.
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