News

Cape Ann Designs welcomes two new galleries! Mimi Gifts in Manchester-by-the-Sea and Karenna Maraj Collection in Waltham.

Check out the newest items in the collection – Sea Glass Bobbi Pins in silver & gold colors; pendants made from large pieces of historic pottery sea-shards or sea glass!

Cape Ann Designs completes second year at Art in the Barn and Manchester Arts Festival. Many thanks to all our returning and new customers for their support!

Upcoming 2010 Events

Save the Date: Gloucester Middle Street Walk – Saturday, December 11, 2010. Stay tuned for the 4th year of the seARTS Wearable Arts show, Friday evening, December 10th and all day Saturday, December 11th!

Our friend Carole Lambert of the Sea Glass Chronicles has done it again! In November, you can look for the Sea Glass Hunters’s Handbook from Down East Books. Here’s the gist of it:

The perfect guide for both seasoned and novice “seaglunkers,” the Sea Glass Hunter’s Handbook reveals how to locate the best beaches and predict optimum conditions; understand coastal access laws; determine the personal and professional value of sea glass; and identify the source of individual fragments. Sea glass connects civilization and nature, often in surprising ways. This guide investigates how tiny bits of glass and ceramic have engaged generations of avid collectors throughout the world.  For more information, visit Down East.

A Passion for Sea Glass by C.S. Lambert.

Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco and other Cape Ann collectors are featured in this book, written by Carole Lambert. You can purchase Passion for Sea Glass directly from Jacqueline at any upcoming show , at her studio, or these shopts: The Art Room in Gloucester, MA. and Tugboat Alley in Portsmouth, NH.

Email Jacqueline: Jackie@capeanndesigns.com for signed copies of the book.

News Archive

August, 2009: Cape Ann Designs was recently featured in a destination article called "Fishing for Art" by Kimberly Evering Rendezvous & Total Health Destination Writer of Leesburg Virginia on the Talk Loudoun. Click here to read more

The 2008 Winter Issue of Cape Ann Magazine profiled Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco at her studio in Gloucester.

The 2008 Holiday issue of North Shore Magazine featured Cape Ann Designs venus barrettes in the Shore Things column.

October 2008 - Passion for Sea Glass Author, Carole Lambert joins local sea glass collectors in a talk at the Sawyer Free
Library.

Shining Sea, Boston Globe Magazine, July 16th, 2006
“Every shard of sea glass that washes up on the shore is the result of chemistry and chance. A bottle or bowl, lost at sea, is buffeted by waves and scrubbed by sand for decades, even centuries. Eventually, a crystalline surface develops on the glass and the edges of the pottery turn smooth as bone, a reminder of humanity’s ability to create and nature’s power to erode. Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco gathers these jewels and, at her Cape Ann Designs studio in Gloucester, arranges pieces of beer-bottle amber against the elusive ship-light red to produce tableaus on brooches and hair accessories. While “mechanically assisted” sea glass is widely manufactured, Ganim-DeFalco uses only material that has gained its beauty on the ocean floor.”   Joe Ann Hart, for the Boston Globe Magazine (July 16th 2006)

January 2006 Jackie Ganim-DeFalco elected President of the Board of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts on Cape Ann. http://www.searts.org/gdt11-7-05.html

April 2005 "Revisiting the world of Sea Glass", published by Coastal Decor Shop.

February 2005 Women’s Business: Article – Jacqueline was featured in the February issue as one of three entrepreneurs who broke out of the “corporate” world to start new ventures. Her consulting business, her husband’s painting company, and her jewelry business were profiled.