Celebrate our Waters Artists’ Reception, Demonstration and Book Signings

Amy Sanders will demonstrate building depth and luminosity with pastel as she works towards bringing a painting to life through multiple layers. Pastel particles retain their individuality within layers. If carefully layered using strokes in a variety of colors, weights and direction, light bounces among the particles creating a unique radiance. Questions and comments from audience member of all ages will be encouraged and add to the event.

Sandy Macfarlane will be on hand to answer questions and sign copies of her latest book, Swirling Currents.
During one remarkable day early in 2017, more than two hundred highly endangered North Atlantic right whales, nearly half of the entire world’s population, were seen in Cape Cod Bay. Swirling Currents tells the stories behind the headlines highlighting how a local event is often part of a much larger picture. Whales; sharks chasing seals chasing fish; turtles stranding; functionally extinct oysters and aquaculture filling the gap; the Gulf of Maine heating swiftly and the Gulf Stream slowing down — all happening in the global context of dynamic coastal change.

Susan Baur will be signing A Guide to the Best Ponds on Cape Cod and the Best Ways of Preserving Them. The aim of the Guide is to teach readers how the pond ecosystems on Cape Cod work and encourage them to treat ponds with care. With this guide you can find hidden jewels, learn what every pond needs to stay healthy, and leave those you visit cleaner than you found them.

Baur lived in Chatham from 2003 to 2009 where she switched from swimming in salt water to fresh. Soon she became intrigued by the painted turtles, stinkpot or musk turtles, and enormous snapping turtles that she encountered in local ponds from Orleans to Harwich. She started an illustrated journal and made an entry for every one of the 60-plus swims she took each summer, noting each turtle she encountered. Drawing maps of several ponds, she marked exactly where she saw each one. Eventually she was able to identify about a dozen turtles by sight. Next she bought a couple of wet suits and extended her turtle-watching season to a full five months.

Heidi Clemmer and Marisa Picariello will be presenting the Cape Cod Eco-Tales book series. Author Heidi Clemmer was an educator at Wellfleet Elementary School for 21 years. Cape Cod Eco-Tales is the result of a passion for the varied and significant eco-systems that dominate the Outer Cape Cod landscape. Illustrator Marisa Picariello is a Wellfleet resident who studied art at Wheaton College. She finds inspiration in the natural world and has always enjoyed exploring the Outer Cape landscape.

For information on other Celebrate our Waters activities, please visit http://www.orleanspondcoalition.org/celebrate-our-waters