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Gloucester Daily Times: 'The Changing Times' to Explore Changes in Local News and Photos
Feb 7, 2024
“For the times they are a-changin’,” sang Bob Dylan, and the same could be said about the way local news and photos are gathered on Cape Ann and elsewhere in ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Plows to painting: Hundreds visit downtown for So Salty event
Jan 22, 2024
Hundreds braved the cold to enjoy the third annual “So Salty” celebration that filled the weekend with everything from music to art and activities that make the winter enjoyable. The ...
WBZ News Radio: Third Annual "Gloucester's So Salty" Festival Takes Over Cape Ann Museum
Jan 21, 2024
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The Gloucester's So Salty festival began during the COVID-19 Omicron variant surge in late 2021 and early 2022 as a way to keep community spirit ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Around Cape Ann: Winter fun and music all around this weekend
Jan 18, 2024
This weekend is going to be filled with an assortment of free events with the third annual “So Salty” celebration, which offers everything from music to art and activities that ...
Boston Globe: In Gloucester, ‘Above the Fold’ celebrates those behind the lens
Jan 4, 2024
The Cape Ann Museum show spotlights the photojournalists of the Gloucester Daily Times. GLOUCESTER — “Above the Fold: The Photographers of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1973-2005” includes well over 200 ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Photojournalists as storytellers and documentarians build understanding, add drama in a struggling industry
Jan 4, 2024
Photography is a powerful tool in journalism. Photojournalists add depth to stories. They capture emotion. They take people to places and times unavailable to many. Cape Ann Museum’s exhibit “Above ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Gift of 1M images leads to CAM's 'Above the Fold' Show
Dec 4, 2023
By Ethan Forman With many of the photojournalists in the gallery whose cameras captured life on Cape Ann from 1973 to 2005, the Cape Ann Museum held a preview for ...
WBUR: Buoyed by record attendance, Cape Ann Museum eyes renovation
Nov 30, 2023
Gloucester's Cape Ann Museum is on a roll. Its exhibition, “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape,” broke attendance records at the 148-year-old institution, attracting more than 36,000 ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 'Above the fold' Exhibit turns a lens on Cape Ann
Nov 29, 2023
Gail McCarthy Cristin Gisler captured the unthinkable, a home being washed into the North Atlantic during what is now called the “Perfect Storm” of 1991, and later the outpouring of ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Commentary: Edward Hopper and Gloucester art
Nov 9, 2023
My View | John J. Ronan The Edward Hopper exhibit at Cape Ann Museum was a jewel. Officially "Edward Hopper and Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape," it attracted national ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Hopper banner comes down on banner year for CAM
Oct 19, 2023
A banner for the “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann” exhibition that has dominated the front of Cape Ann Museum on Pleasant Street all year came down Wednesday morning after the ...
The Salem News: Hopper Banner comes down on banner year for CAM
Oct 19, 2023
GLOUCESTER - A banner for the “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann” exhibition that has dominated the front of Cape Ann Museum on Pleasant Street all year came down Wednesday morning ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Sold-out Hopper show won't be extended
Oct 11, 2023
Cape Ann Museum’s ground-breaking and record-setting special exhibition of works by celebrated American artist Edward Hopper is sold out. The show, “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape,” ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Hopping for Hopper; Exhibit breaking attendance records
Oct 4, 2023
Cape Ann Museum’s ground-breaking special exhibition of works by celebrated American artist Edward Hopper has broken all previous attendance records in the museum’s 148-year history. The show, “Edward Hopper & ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Moving Mush8n; Preparations for the Cultural Heritage Festival Underway
Sep 29, 2023
Mush8n (pronounced Mashoon), a Native American dugout canoe, will be on display at the Gloucester 400+ Celebration of Place: The Cultural Heritage Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7 and ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Music, art and other fall fun; Edward Hopper Symposium
Sep 28, 2023
Edward Hopper symposium Cape Ann Museum will host the symposium “Cape Ann & the Making of Edward Hopper” starting with a keynote lecture Friday evening and continuing with the program ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Painting Brings Joy of Remembrance
Sep 20, 2023
My View | Bruce Tobey My love of art museums and galleries was born during my college years, and it has only grown since. No matter the location or the ...
The Eagle-Tribune: Our View: Cheers and jeers for recent newsmakers
Sep 15, 2023
CHEERS to Jane and William “Wilber” Ellery James for their donation of a massive, exceptional collection of Cape Ann American Art to the Cape Ann Museum. The collection gifted by the ...
Gloucester Daily Times: A homecoming for the James collection
Sep 8, 2023
A commitment to gift an exceptional collection of more than 300 pieces of Cape Ann American art by former Rockport residents Janet and William “Wilber” Ellery James, now of ...
Northshore Magazine: Hopper Comes to Cape Ann
Sep 5, 2023
In late July, the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester opened the single most comprehensive collection of work by renowned artist Edward Hopper outside of the Whitney Museum, including some 66 ...
Artscope: Fierce, Fresh and Furious - Mr. Hopper's Neighborhood Starts at Cape Ann Museum
Sep 1, 2023
Surreal, puckish touches everywhere: An unimposing wall of a sea captain's mansion blares as if with a spotlight for a celebrity to enter or exit; or perhaps an invitation for ...
Art New England: FlashPoints - Appointments, Awards & Notables
Sep 1, 2023
Pat Layman has been appointed the new director of development at Cape Ann Museum. Layman has had a long and successful career in development and fundraising. She recently spent three ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 400+ Events Celebrate Fine Arts, Coast Guard
Aug 14, 2023
An exhibition of Addison Gilbert Hospital’s art collection is now on view at Cape Ann Museum Green, 13 Poplar St., Gloucester, off Grant Circle. The show, free to the public, ...
Boston Public Radio's Jared Bowen Reviews "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating An American Landscape"
Aug 4, 2023
Boston Public Radio Live from the Boston Public Library Friday August 4 2023 - YouTube Coverage begins at 1:55:05.
The Cricket: The Heart of Edward Hopper's Success
Aug 4, 2023
In the early 20th Century, Cape Ann served as a pivotal outlet for Edward Hopper, the renowned American artist. Hopper’s exploration of technique and image along the north-east coastline kick-started his ...
The Washington Post: When Edward Hopper fell in love with Jo Nivison, she turned his life around
Aug 3, 2023
A brilliant show at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Mass., looks at the four summers Hopper spent in the seaside town with the painter he married. Review by Sebastian ...
WBUR/ NPR's Here & Now: How a meet cute led Edward Hopper to become a prominent 20th-century artist
Aug 2, 2023
By Andrea Shea. There's a good chance you've seen Edward Hopper's quietly dramatic landscapes and scenes of ordinary life. "Nighthawks," his painting of a luminescent, late-night diner is iconic. But ...
MSONEWSports: Busy Summer at Cape Ann Musuem in Gloucester: Curator Martha Oaks – Stuart Davis Exhibit – Much More
Jul 31, 2023
Interview with Chief Curator, Martha Oaks. (Audio) Busy Summer at Cape Ann Musuem in Gloucester: Curator Martha Oaks – Stuart Davis Exhibit – Much More – MSONEWSports
WBUR: How Cape Ann, a lost cat and a meet-cute catalyzed artist Edward Hopper's career
Jul 21, 2023
There's a good chance you've seen Edward Hopper's quietly dramatic landscapes and scenes of ordinary life. "Nighthawks," his painting of a luminescent, late-night diner is iconic. But it took time ...
Boston Globe: For Edward Hopper, Gloucester was a last chance and a fresh start
Jul 20, 2023
GLOUCESTER — The pervasive reek of fish, and a sky filled with gulls are signature elements of summer here in the heart of Cape Ann; I firmly believe those not ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Cape Ann Museum honors founder of its docent program
Jul 16, 2023
Dawn Dexter was surprised to learn that an outdoor lunch meant for a new class of docents, museum volunteers and existing docents at the James Center at Cape Ann Museum ...
Boston Globe: The Cape Ann Museum’s Edward Hopper show opens this month, but he wasn’t the only famous artist who painted here
Jul 14, 2023
GLOUCESTER — “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape” is the summer’s big show up here; the Cape Ann Museum will open the exhibition next week, produced in partnership with ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 'The Mansard Roof' at home at Cape Ann Museum
Jul 3, 2023
One hundred years ago, in Gloucester's 300th anniversay year, a New York artist best known for his etchings and illustrations and who had not sold a painting in 10 years ...
The Boston Globe: When quarries are the photographic quarry
Jul 2, 2023
In Gloucester, 9 photographers look at the remains of a once-thriving Cape Ann industry. GLOUCESTER – “QuarryArt” is a double-edged title. The show consists of, yes, art about quarries: 37 photographs by ...
American Art Review: Edward Hopper and Cape Ann
Jul 1, 2023
By Elliot Bostwick Davis. When Edward Hopper (1882-1967) arrived in Gloucester in the summer of 1923, he would be celebrating his forty-first birthday on July 22nd. This year, July 22nd ...
The Art Newspaper: Hopper's New England Epiphany
Jul 1, 2023
GLOUCESTER, MA. It may surprise some that it took over 40 years for Edward Hopper (1882-1967) to sell more than one painting. Throughout the early 1900s he experienced constant frustration ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Juneteenth Sparks Joy in Gloucester
Jun 19, 2023
GLOUCESTER — It was a day of joy at the third annual Gloucester Juneteenth Festival Sunday. A crowd of locals and visitors alike gathered outside of City Hall, the Sawyer ...
Chronicle on WCVB-TV News Channel 5: 100 years ago, artist Edward Hopper found inspiration on the shores of Gloucester
Jun 12, 2023
The idyllic North Shore served as Hopper's muse for his work "Mansard Roof." Watch this segment to learn more! https://www.wcvb.com/article/100-years-ago-artist-edward-hopper-found-inspiration-on-the-shores-of-gloucester/44178590#
The Cricket: "Quarry Art" Photography Exhibition Opens Saturday at Cape Ann Museum
Jun 8, 2023
A unique photography exhibition, "QuarryArt," opens Saturday at the Cape Ann Museum that was produced with freelance photographer and former Boston Globe reporter David Arnold that explores the majesty of Cape Ann’s many ...
Art New England: Edward Hopper a la Gloucester
Jun 1, 2023
Buying his first car in 1927 indirectly changed Edward Hopper’s career. With the newfound mobility through their secondhand vehicle, he and his wife, artist Josephine “Jo” Nivison, had the freedom ...
Vanity Fair: Sun Soaked
Jun 1, 2023
The wet, hot American summer shines on, in a quartet of rich visual histories. Edward Hopper & Cape Ann. Elliot Bostwick Davis takes a fresh look at a formative Hopper ...
Cape Ann North of Boston Life: Countdown to Hopper
Jun 1, 2023
Cape Ann Museum is bustling with work this summer as it mounts a major exhibition - "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape." The show, which will have ...
Cape Ann North of Boston Life: The Dory Story of the Century
Jun 1, 2023
The fisherman nicknamed Centennial was an unlikely hero whose dory and story carry a Gloucester shine worthy of remembering in the city's 400th year. Capt. Alfred "Centennial" Johnson, born in ...
Art Sense: Ep. 98: Author and Curator Elliot Bostwick Davis "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape"
May 30, 2023
A conversation with author and curator Elliot Bostwick Davis about her new book “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape” and the accompanying exhibit which runs July 22 ...
The Wall Street Journal: Fireworks, Fishing Derbies and Schooner Parades: A Guide to Summering at America’s Seaports
May 26, 2023
Seaports hold our imagination as places of work and wanderlust, crossroads for business and pleasure, where trawlers unload cargo and whale-watching tour boats pick up passengers. That is true for ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Navajo Dancers perform on Cape Ann
May 19, 2023
The Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers made presentations and performed on Cape Ann late last week. On Thursday, the dancers performed in Manchester-bythe- Sea in commemoration of the 155th anniversary of ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Unpacking Hopper: Exhibition works start to arrive
May 19, 2023
Excitement is mounting at Cape Ann Museum in anticipation of its major summer exhibition — “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape.” The first crates came in this ...
Boston Globe: 10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer
May 19, 2023
EDWARD HOPPER & CAPE ANN: ILLUMINATING AN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE The paintings of the intensely urban Edward Hopper are so closely associated with New York City in the first half of the ...
Gloucester Daily Times: City celebrates arts in schools
May 15, 2023
Saturday's weather cooperated and hundreds attended the Gloucester Education Foundation’s Student Arts Festival, the first since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Over the course of the afternoon, attendees had a chance ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Cape Ann people in the news
Apr 30, 2023
Erik Ronnberg Jr. received a special recognition award Thursday from Essex Heritage for his significant contributions to preserving and enhancing the significant maritime history of Cape Ann, Massachusetts and beyond. The ...
Good Morning Gloucester: DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING: HOPPER: AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY
Apr 28, 2023
On May 20, The Cape Ann Museum will be screening documentary Hopper: An American Love Story, in advance of the Museum’s July exhibition, Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape. ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: Cape Ann Blossoms Preview Party
Apr 19, 2023
CAPE ANN BLOSSOMS PREVIEW PARTY Cape Ann Museum – Fundraising EventMay 5, 6-9pmCape Ann Museum’s ode to springtime in the galleries begins with a Friday preview party of Cape Ann Blossoms. At ...
The Cricket: The Summers on Cape Ann That Transformed Edward Hopper
Mar 30, 2023
IN JULY 2023, Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum will launch, “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape,” an exhibition of the critically acclaimed American artist during a turning point in ...
Manchester Cricket: The Summers on Cape Ann That Transformed Edward Hopper
Mar 30, 2023
IN JULY 2023, Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum will launch, “Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape,” an exhibition of the critically acclaimed American artist during a turning point in ...
WBUR: Honoring indigenous communities in Gloucester and the North Shore
Mar 24, 2023
Efforts are underway to honor indigenous life and culture in Gloucester in the past, and present. This year marks 400 years since English colonial settlers came to the land now ...
WBUR: 10 art exhibits to check out this spring
Mar 21, 2023
'This Unique Place: Paintings & Drawings by Jeff Weaver'Cape Ann Museum Through June 4 Coming this summer, the Cape Ann Museum will exhibit work by iconic American realist Edward Hopper, who, ...
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum to Exhibit Works By Local Artist Jeff Weaver
Mar 17, 2023
One of the area’s most beloved contemporary artists, Jeff Weaver, is the subject of a special exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum set to run from March 18 through June ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: Jeff Weaver: Witness to Gloucester
Mar 8, 2023
It is Saturday afternoon at 16 Rogers Street, where Jeff Weaver holds court from a corner in his gallery. People drift in and out of the space, a mix of ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 5 Native objects help tell Cape Ann's history during Gloucester's 400+ year
Mar 7, 2023
As part of Cape Ann Museum’s efforts to highlight the millennia-long span of history of indigenous peoples on Cape Ann, the museum has put on display five objects on loan ...
WCVB Chronicle: Nautical labors of love on the coast of Massachusetts
Feb 22, 2023
Sail Cape Cod and the Cape Ann Museum both hold their own labors of love with a maritime theme. Cape Ann Museum: Museum in Gloucester, MA, celebrating the art, culture, ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Hopper-like perspectives- Teens create art for museum show
Feb 9, 2023
The Cape Ann Museum is working with every area eighth-grader to create original works of art inspired by Edward Hopper. The program, "A View from my Window," invites Rockport, Gloucester, ...
Northshore Magazine: 5 Places to Celebrate and Honor Black History Month on the North Shore
Feb 3, 2023
The history and accomplishments of Black people are too often lost in the mainstream conversation. Thankfully, Black History Month offers us plentiful opportunities to learn more about these neglected stories- ...
Boston Globe: Strokes of genius
Feb 3, 2023
Edward Hopper, one of the foremost American painters of the 20th century, launched his fame by creating visions of Gloucester. Now the Cape Ann Museum is preparing to display his ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: The Art of Mary Blood Mellen
Jan 25, 2023
Although often linked to her mentor Fitz Henry Lane, Mary Blood Mellen (1819-1886) was an accomplished artist who deserves her place in the history of art on Cape Ann. To ...
Newburyport News: Hopper exhibit coming to Cape Ann Museum
Jan 23, 2023
Cape Ann Museum recently announced the opening of "Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape," an exhibition of the critically acclaimed American artist during a turning point in ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 'So Salty' fest celebrates seaport
Jan 16, 2023
Celebrating the nation's oldest seaport, the second annual "So Salty" event takes place this weekend in the heart of Gloucester's downtown with many free events for all ages. Inspired by ...
Beverly Patch: Second Annual Gloucester's So Salty
Jan 13, 2023
To celebrate Gloucester's recognizably salty character, the Cape Ann Museum (CAM) is partnering with several area cultural institutions and businesses to offer the second annual Gloucester's So Salty celebration on ...
Gloucester Daily Times: AROUND CAPE ANN: A luminist, Scandinavian winter, and Folly Cove
Jan 12, 2023
Cape Ann Museum offers a plethora of activities and exhibitions this winter, including the opening this weekend of an exhibition celebrating a woman pioneer in the field of luminist painting. ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Model ship builder retires from museum
Jan 7, 2023
A ship model maker with a lifetime of achievement, Erik Ronnberg Jr. has retired after serving nine years as maritime curator at Gloucester's Cape Ann Museum. "We have been truly ...
New TV: Museum Open House- Designed and Hand-Block by The Folly Cove Designers
Dec 20, 2022
Jay talks with Oliver Barker and Leon Doucette from the Cape Ann Museum, which is located in Gloucester. Oliver serves as the Director of the museum and Leon is an ...
Boston Globe: Of garments and Gloucester- celebrating the Folly Cove Designers
Nov 9, 2022
Over decades, the women's collective built a national following for their hand-printed fabrics and wares. In a new exhibition, the Cape Ann Museum looks at the process and precision that ...
The Cricket- New Folly Cove Designers Program Opens at the Cape Ann Museum
Oct 7, 2022
During their three decades in operation, they participated in 16 museum exhibitions and supplied designs to well-known wholesalers and retailers including Lord & Taylor, R. Schumacher, and Skinner Silks. The ...
Art Daily: 'Designed & Hand-blocked by the Folly Cove Designers" opens at Cape Ann Museum
Oct 6, 2022
In early October, the Cape Ann Museum will open a new and expanded exhibition on the acclaimed Folly Cove Designers, made world famous by their leader, designer and author Virginia ...
Boston Globe: Poet T.S. Eliot’s Gloucester connection
Sep 22, 2022
This city’s relationship to the visual arts is well known. It starts with Fitz Henry Lane. The Cape Ann Museum has the world’s largest collection of his work. Next July, ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum hosting Indigenous Heritage Day this Saturday
Sep 21, 2022
To tell the full history of the land that is now called Gloucester, the Cape Ann Museum and the Wampanoag curatorial firm SmokeSygnals are hosting Indigenous Heritage Day at Cape ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum hosting free Brazilian Independence Day Celebration on Sunday
Aug 26, 2022
There will be a free 200th Brazilian Independence Day Celebration at Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St. in Gloucester on Sunday, Aug. 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. Although the ...
Yahoo News: Participatory exhibit looks at American identity
Aug 13, 2022
A special exhibition, "American Flags," opening this weekend at Cape Ann Museum Green explores the mosaic of identities that make up the United States. "In a country where political discourse ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Castagnacci show
Aug 10, 2022
"Notes from a Quarry," a special exhibition featuring Vincent Castagnacci's paintings, will be on view at the Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant St., through Oct. 9, focusing on his more ...
Berkshire Fine Arts: Vincent Castagnacci: Notes from a Quarry
Jul 20, 2022
This summer, the Cape Ann Museum presents a special exhibition of works by contemporary artist Vincent Castagnacci. Notes from a Quarry will focus on Castagnacci’s drawings and paintings from the mid-2000s to ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum unveils Jodrey State Fish Pier plaques Saturday
Jul 8, 2022
Two bronze Depression-era bronze plaques, once installed on Jodrey State Fish Pier, have been conserved and the Cape Ann community is invited to see them at no cost this Saturday. The ...
The Boston Globe: A port of call for Gloucester’s fishing memories
Jul 7, 2022
For Nina Goodick, life has never strayed far from the water’s edge. She has lived in this harbor town her whole life. One of her great-grandfathers came to Gloucester from ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Fishing families exhibit opens at CAM
Jun 22, 2022
A special exhibition that celebrates Gloucester's legacy of family-owned commercial fishing vessels opens during St. Peter's Fiesta weekend at Cape Ann Museum. Organized in consideration of the city's 400+ commemoration ...
Northshore Magazine: How to Observe Juneteenth North of Boston
Jun 15, 2022
This weekend marks just the second year that Juneteenth has been observed as a federal holiday, but the celebration is far from new. The holiday commemorates the day in 1865, ...
Travel + Leisure Magazine: Cape Ann Profile
Jun 9, 2022
The North Shore of Massachusetts may have a lower profile than other parts of New England — but that, according to one travel writer, is the whole point. Most summer ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Celebrating the Creativity of Doris Prouty
Jun 9, 2022
The enormous creative spirit of Doris Elizabeth Prouty (1947-2020) will be celebrated this weekend in a new exhibit. The enormous creative spirit of Doris Elizabeth Prouty (1947-2020) will be celebrated ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: In Her Mind's Eye- Doris Elizabeth Prouty
Jun 8, 2022
The 2022 season at Cape Ann Museum Green will kick off with an exhibition by Doris Elizabeth Prouty (1947-2020), who lived and quilted in Gloucester for over 40 years. As ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Indigenous Cape Ann
May 25, 2022
Cape Ann News in Brief: Indigenous Cape Ann Cape Ann Museum is presenting its exhibition of local indigenous artifacts from Cape Ann, on view in the downtown campus, 27 Pleasant ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Maud/Olson Library finds new home at Cape Ann Museum
Apr 30, 2022
The collection of 4,000 volumes informing what books the celebrated 20th-century Gloucester-based postmodern American poet Charles Olson owned, read or referred to got a new home Friday. That’s when the ...
WBUR Radio: Indigenous History
Apr 27, 2022
Gloucester is celebrating what it considers its 400th anniversary next year. The Cape Ann Museum is taking the opportunity to highlight the thousands of years of Indigenous history that came ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: New Art Exhibitions
Apr 27, 2022
April seems like a much better month for starting anew than January. April seems like a much better month for starting anew than January. One need simply inhale the outdoors ...
Good Morning Gloucester: Judy Rotenberg
Apr 18, 2022
In time for spring, the Cape Ann Museum will proudly host an exhibit of the vibrant, large scale works of Judi Rotenberg. Life-long Rockport summer resident and highly-respected gallery owner, Rotenberg ...
The Cricket (Manchester): Sculpting Self, An Education in Mirroring
Apr 16, 2022
Sculpting Self, An Education In Mirroring Last year, local eighth graders learned about the renowned work of Cape Ann sculptor Walker Hancock (1901-1998) while creating their own sculptures for an ...
Comcast Newsmakers: Oliver Barker
Apr 11, 2022
Spotlighting Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, And Manchester By The Sea; Cape Ann Museum with Oliver Barker of the Cape Ann Museum The Cape Ann Museum tells the story of the ...
See Great Art: Local resident Judi Rotenberg gets exhibit at Cape Ann Museum
Apr 11, 2022
The Cape Ann Museum will host an exhibit of the vibrant, large scale works of Judi Rotenberg. Life-long Rockport summer resident and highly-respected gallery owner, Rotenberg has spent 40 years creating ...
Boston Globe: Project explores history of Cape Ann’s Indigenous peoples
Apr 8, 2022
Project explores history of Cape Ann’s Indigenous peoples As Gloucester prepares to observe its 400th anniversary next year, a new project is highlighting the story of the Indigenous peoples who ...
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum and Historical Societies Celebrate and Share Indigenous History
Apr 4, 2022
The Cape Ann Museum, Manchester Historical Society, Sandy Bay Historical Society, and Annisquam Historical Society have joined together to create a slate of programming to highlight the Indigenous history of ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum show to pair sculptures of Cape Ann students, artist
Apr 1, 2022
Sculptures by Cape Ann eighth-graders will be incorporated in an upcoming exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum. Cape Ann Museum education manager Miranda Aisling visited Manchester Essex Regional, Rockport and ...
Boston Globe: Marsh photos, a revolutionary panel, and a book tournament
Mar 3, 2022
The Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester will hold a new exhibit titled “Window on the Marsh” from March 19 through Sept. 27. The exhibit will include paintings and photos inspired by a ...
Gloucester Daily Times: AROUND CAPE ANN: New show focuses on Cape Ann modernists
Feb 24, 2022
“Cape Ann Modern,” a new exhibition drawn from Cape Ann Museum’s permanent collection that spotlights the works of modernist artists who found inspiration in the region during the mid-20th century, ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Cape Ann news in briefs
Feb 24, 2022
On Wednesday, March 2, from 3 to 5 p.m., the Cape Ann Museum’s Teen Arts Council is hosting a Creative Career Fair to help young people learn about a variety ...
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum Announces New Exhibitions, Creative Career Fair
Feb 22, 2022
As winter winds down, the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester is preparing new exhibits and events for late February, March, and into the spring. Featuring works from the museum’s permanent ...
ArtfixDaily: Massachusetts Modernist and Marsh-Themed Works Form 2 New Exhibitions at Cape Ann Museum
Feb 20, 2022
Stretching across 25,000 acres of vast salt marsh, barrier beaches, and tidal rivers on Massachusetts’ North Shore is the Great Marsh, a natural wonder that has captivated many artists over ...
Gloucester Daily Times: People came out to play at Gloucester’s So Salty
Jan 24, 2022
Despite the frigid temperatures, many came out this weekend to celebrate the two-day Gloucester’s So Salty festival. The Cape Ann Museum, partnering with several cultural institutions and businesses, presented the ...
Boston.com: Explore winter delights at Gloucester’s So Salty Festival
Jan 22, 2022
Celebrate Gloucester’s salty character with ice sculpture displays, free kids activities, and salty sweets Inspired by Salem’s So Sweet chocolate and ice sculpture festival, Cape Ann Museum will partner with cultural institutions and ...
Good Morning Gloucester: Gloucester’s So Salty
Jan 21, 2022
To celebrate Gloucester’s recognizably salty character, the Cape Ann Museum is partnering with several area cultural institutions and businesses to offer Gloucester’s So Salty on Jan. 22 and 23 from 1 p.m. ...
Northshore Magazine: Gloucester’s So Salty celebrates the city with art, food, and one giant scream
Jan 19, 2022
Gloucester has always been known as a town that is down-to-earth, full of personality, and not short on flavor. In short, it’s kind of salty. On January 22 and 23, ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Social media sleuths solve mystery of “Portuguese Hill” painting
Jan 19, 2022
GLOUCESTER: When Mayor Greg Verga chose the undated Carl Peters painting labeled “Portuguese Hill” from Cape Ann Museum’s collection to grace the wall in his City Hall office, it was because ...
North Shore Radio: Interview with Cape Ann Museum Director Oliver Barker
Jan 16, 2022
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Gloucester Daily Times: Mayor Verga decorates his office with paintings of local scenes
Jan 15, 2022
GLOUCESTER - Some new artwork has joined the Works Project Administration murals at City Hall. On Friday, three paintings were delivered and hung in the barren office of new Mayor Greg ...
Wicked Local: Island vistas from Monhegan Island and Cape Ann in Gloucester exhibit
Nov 22, 2021
GLOUCESTER - Cape Ann and Monhegan Island, two rocky outcroppings into the Atlantic Ocean, share more than granite and rough weather. Both longtime summer art colonies claim early-century painters like ...
1623 Studios: Cape Ann ARTWaves — Oliver Barker Interview
Nov 21, 2021
The Cape Ann Museum located in Gloucester, MA, is among the top cultural treasures in New England with an international reach. Did you know that its director, Oliver Barker, in ...
WGBH: Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas, Eben Haines, and more
Nov 19, 2021
Season 10 Episode 18 The Cape Ann Museum presents an exhibition examining two of New England’s most famed arts colonies. We speak with the Foster Prize-winning artist about Shelter in ...
WGBH: Arts This Week: ICA exhibit spotlights how a lack of affordable studio space in Boston hurts artists
Nov 18, 2021
This week, GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen recommends an exhibit that supported artists through the pandemic, a look at two New England artist colonies and a comedy that takes ...
American Art Review: Stow Wengenroth
Nov 4, 2021
Homeport: Stow Wengenroth For audiences accustomed to viewing art in color, appreciating works done in black and white can sometimes be a challenge. Stow Wengenroth (1906-1978), one of New England’s ...
American Art Review: Monhegan Island Vistas
Nov 4, 2021
Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies In the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, some American artists began to gather into more-or-less unstructured social groups in places ...
Fox Weather: How Gloucester honors the Andrea Gail and a fishing legacy spanning over 400 years
Oct 31, 2021
The hometown of the fishing crew lost to the “Perfect Storm” in October 1991 has a long and storied past — one that revolves around the highs, heartaches and evolution ...
The Denver Channel: This art exhibit is connecting strangers from behind their masks
Oct 29, 2021
After nearly two years of the pandemic, a new art exhibit is hoping to reconnect strangers from behind their masks, at a time when museums are hoping to regain visitors ...
Gloucester Daily Times: AROUND CAPE ANN: Grant in Schlemm's name to be given to artist
Oct 28, 2021
"Art is our emotion organized into art forms." — Betty Lou Schlemm (1934-2021) Most everything that is shared in this column falls into the meaning of the above statement. Schlemm ...
ARTFIXdaily: 'Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England Art Colonies' Exhibition Travels to Massachusetts
Oct 19, 2021
The growth of two of New England’s oldest and most revered summer art colonies will be the subject of a special exhibition, Cape Ann & Monhegan Island Vistas: Contrasted New England ...
Wbur: New self portrait exhibit aims to connect strangers from behind their masks
Oct 12, 2021
It's been months since many of us have really seen strangers Grocery stores, restaurants - sometimes even street corners - remain full of masked faces. Which means we're missing something, ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Sculptor's gift of 'eternal love' installed on Cape Ann Museum Green
Oct 1, 2021
The inaugural sculpture installation — of an 8-foot high work, a gift of native son Aristides “Aris” Burton Demetrios and his wife — happened Friday at the new 4-acre Cape ...
Incollect: Cape Ann Island Vistas
Sep 22, 2021
Around the turn of the twentieth century many American artists began to gather seasonally into informal “colonies” dotted across the country from California to the Northeast. This exhibition, Cape Ann and ...
Gloucester Daily Times: CAM Green hosts day-long welcoming event and a new exhibition of self portraits
Sep 22, 2021
A human mosaic, featuring self portraits of more than 600 local residents, now hangs larger than life in an exhibit called “Quilted Together: An Exhibit of Community Portraits” in the ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Cape Ann news in brief
Sep 17, 2021
Biz at the beach The Next Gen Young Professionals is hosting a networking beach party Friday, Sept. 17, at Cape Ann Motor Inn, 33 Rockport Road in Gloucester, from 5:30 ...
Cape Ann COSMOS: ALight on MARS
Sep 15, 2021
MANSHIP will host an outdoor exhibition with works by sixteen members of the Boston Sculptors Gallery at Starfield Their installations are inspired by the Manship Artists Residency’s new Firefly Initiative, the stunning natural setting, ...
Boston Globe: 'We haven’t seen each other’s faces in so long'
Sep 9, 2021
The Cape Ann Museum is inviting area residents to a new art show — one many of them helped create. For the past year and a half, the Gloucester museum ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Pictures of patriotism: Veterans draw themselves for museum project
Sep 3, 2021
Sitting perfectly still, with a cracked smile and caring eyes, Vietnam veteran Gerry Devoe posed for his 8-year-old granddaughter to color his portrait. “Wow!” Cape Ann Museum Director Oliver Barker ...
ArtDaily: Cape Ann landscape inspires Learning to Swim exhibit at Cape Ann Museum Green
Aug 17, 2021
Cape Ann has many places to learn to swim -- beaches, harbors, quarries, ponds, and swimming pools. Generations of people on Cape Ann have swum in these waters and generations ...
Gloucester Daily Times: In the swim of things
Aug 12, 2021
Teens work on new museum show Cape Ann has many places to learn to swim - beaches, harbors, quarries, ponds, and swimming pools - and generations of artists have depicted ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Teens help museum market art, itself to teens
Aug 6, 2021
Growing up, Chandra Lavery was always surrounded by art. "I was infatuated with it," Lavery, 16, of Gloucester said. "That made me want to be a part of something I ...
Taunton Gazette: On the Go - SouthCoast tied into North Shore history, art at Gloucester's Cape Ann Museum
Jul 13, 2021
Collection offers masterpieces as well as insights into women's history, and Gloucester's vibrant Portuguese community With everyone itching to get back out into the world this summer, bookings for extended ...
MetroWest: Salt and sea: Wade through the Great Marsh with artists at Cape Ann Museum
Jul 1, 2021
Wade through the Great Marsh with artists at Cape Ann Museum The new Cape Ann Museum Green campus opens its first official public exhibition this month with “Dorothy Kerper Monnelly, ...
Boston Globe: Great Marsh art, historic treasures, and movies under the stars
Jun 22, 2021
Evoking Nature An exhibit of sculpture and photography inspired by the Great Marsh has opened at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. Works by Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich ...
Northshore: Cape Ann Museum Presents Great Marsh Sculpture & Photography Exhibition
Jun 18, 2021
The exhibition, which opens June 18 at the Cape Ann Museum Green, features works by Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly. Drawing inspiration from the vast ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum Hatches Free Show
Jun 18, 2021
Bird sculptures, photographs inspired by Great Marsh A free exhibition featuring works by Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly opens Friday at the Cape Ann Museum ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Nursing group gives Gruppe to museum
Jun 13, 2021
The Cape Ann Museum announced that VNA Care, a nonprofit visiting nurse association, recently donated its painting, "Always at Your Service" by Emile A. Gruppé, to the museum. Gruppé was ...
Wicked Local: Great Marsh to host exhibition of works by Brad Story, Dorothy Kerper Monnelly
May 28, 2021
Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly will showcase works in a special exhibition “The sculptures and photographs by each artist are particularly striking as they reflect ...
Art New England: Oliver Barker
May 18, 2021
An in-depth profile of Oliver Barker, Director of Cape Ann Museum Barker is funny, brilliant, and most assuredly in the right place at the right time. For a region that ...
Cape Ann Beacon: Cape Ann Museum Provides Meals For Grace Center
May 7, 2021
In keeping with the Cape Ann Museum's community outreach efforts during the pandemic, the museum is continuing to partner with the Grace Center throughout this year to serve lunch twice ...
Wicked Local: Cape Ann Museum connects its patrons with history
Apr 29, 2021
Who hasn’t had moments of self-examination during the past year? “We had wonderful resources, and no way of sharing them,” says Cape Ann Museum’s director, Oliver Barker, recalling the time ...
WBUR: Activities To Keep Younger Kids Engaged During April School Vacation
Apr 19, 2021
Cape Ann Museum: Bringing Cassie the Sea Serpent to Life April school vacation is here! There’s a virtual cinema that will play a film every afternoon, a museum visit designed ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Sea serpent coming to the museum
Apr 15, 2021
Cassie will be the focus of several activities at the Cape Ann Museum in the coming weeks.
Cape Ann Beacon: Photographer Robey Benson's 1979 trip aboard the Debbie Rose
Apr 6, 2021
Cape Ann Museum tells story of photographer's 1979 trip aboard the Debbie Rose In late 1979, Essex County Newspapers ran a full-page article on a young woman named Roberta (Robey) ...
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum Continues Virtual Lecture Series March 19
Mar 15, 2021
As part of their lecture series, this Friday at 4 p.m. the museum holds a virtual lecture on how John Singleton Copley painted women. https://www.nshoremag.com/community-news/cape-ann-museum-continues-virtual-lecture-series-march-19/
Gloucester Daily Times: Local
Mar 15, 2021
Members of Gloucester's COVID-19 Contact Tracing Team gathered at an art exhibit in memory of those lost to the disease on Cape Ann.
Boston.com: Cape Ann Museum honors those lost to COVID-19 in 3-part memorial
Mar 13, 2021
“I hope it will provide the community with an opportunity to grieve, remember, and begin obviously what is a long process of healing" —Oliver Barker, Director, Cape Ann Museum By ...
artnet News: How Do You Mourn a Pandemic?
Mar 12, 2021
See How Artists Around the World Are Building Monuments to Those Who Died of COVID-19 As the world continues to battle the spread of disease, artists and architects are helping ...
Cape Ann Beacon: Cape Ann Museum lecture to look at Copley's paintings of women
Mar 11, 2021
Community Content https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/cape-ann-beacon/2021/03/12/cape-ann-museum-host-virtual-lecture-copleys-painting-women/4636768001/
Boston Globe: Cape Ann Museum holds online opening for COVID-19 memorial
Mar 10, 2021
By Andrew Stanton, Globe Correspondent https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/11/metro/cape-ann-museum-holds-online-opening-covid-19-memorial/
CBS Boston: Cape Ann Museum Honors 2,200 Victims in Essex County
Mar 10, 2021
WBZ-TV's Ken MacLeod reports live at the Cape Ann Museum's COVID memorial program on March 10, 2021 https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/03/10/cape-ann-museum-gloucester-memorial-covid-victims-in-essex-county/ GLOUCESTER (CBS) – A projector tossed squares of light toward the heavens ...
WBUR - The Artery: Cape Ann Museum Pays Tribute To Lives Lost Due To COVID-19
Mar 10, 2021
By Magdiela Matta https://www.wbur.org/artery/2021/03/10/cape-ann-museum-covid-19-memorial As we approach the one year mark of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cape Ann Museum is reflecting on the 2,168 lives that have ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Opinion
Mar 10, 2021
Opinion piece by Sefatia Romeo Theken, Mayor of Gloucester
Gloucester Daily Times: Massachusetts marks one year under emergency rules
Mar 10, 2021
Christian M. Wade, Statehouse Reporter
Gloucester Daily Times: Cape Ann Museum welcomes six to staff
Mar 10, 2021
Cape Ann Museum has added six women to its staff ...
WGBH - In It Together with Arun Rath
Mar 9, 2021
https://www.wgbh.org/news/inittogether GBH Host of In It Together Arun Rath talks with Oliver Barker, Director, Cape Ann Museum — listen at minute 17 for the interview.
Boston Globe: In Gloucester, a place to remember lost lives and ‘a year from hell’
Mar 9, 2021
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/09/arts/gloucester-place-remember-lost-lives-year-hell/
Gloucester Daily Times: Art Installation memorializes local COVID-19 deaths
Mar 8, 2021
Taylor Ann Bradford, GDT Staff Shining light on those lost https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/shining-light-on-those-lost/article_b3290a85-c695-533d-99c7-36e31cd5e85a.html
Manchester Cricket: COVID Memorial to Honor Locals Lost
Mar 5, 2021
This Coming Week: COVID Memorial to Honor Locals Lost / Editorial Staff https://www.thecricket.com/out_and_about/this-coming-week-covid-memorial-to-honor-locals-lost/article_f0d8d2e0-7c55-11eb-b905-3f03b5b70b75.html
Wall Street Journal: A Luminist's Hometown Harbor
Mar 4, 2021
ART REVIEW The Cape Ann Museum holds an unrivaled collection of painter and printmaker Fitz Henry Lane’s works. By Willard Spiegelman → Read online
Gloucester Daily Times: Art to commemorate Cape Ann COVID victims
Mar 4, 2021
Cape Ann Cosmos: Lane Gallery Redux March pick
Mar 2, 2021
... A visit to Cape Ann Museum's re-envisioned Lane Gallery is COSMOS Select for Best of March. → Read online here
Boston Globe: With stones, fiber, and light, Cape Ann Museum will remember those lost to COVID-19
Feb 28, 2021
By John Laidler Globe Correspondent → Read online here
Patch: CAM Virtual Lecture Series: African Americans in Essex County
Feb 26, 2021
https://patch.com/massachusetts/boston/calendar/event/20210226/979516/cam-virtual-lecture-series-african-americans-in-essex-county
The Cricket: Cape Ann Museum Welcomes New Hires
Feb 26, 2021
In Visitor Services, Collections, and Executive Support
Cape Ann Beacon: Cape Ann Museum honors the COVID dead
Feb 26, 2021
Art installation pays tribute to thousands lost in Essex County Community Content → Read online here
Gloucester Daily Times: Celebrating history on many levels, from museums to film
Feb 24, 2021
https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/the_catch/celebrating-history-on-many-levels-from-museums-to-film/article_fe312525-6fb2-527d-98cd-168996de3125.html
Cape Ann Beacon: Cape Ann Museum to host virtual lectures
Feb 24, 2021
→ Read online here
ArtDaily: Museum welcomes Miranda Aisling as new Education Manager
Feb 22, 2021
https://artdaily.com/news/133161/Museum-welcomes-Miranda-Aisling-as-new-Education-Manager#.YDO652NOkW9
ArtDaily: The Cape Ann Museum welcomes four new hires
Feb 22, 2021
https://artdaily.cc/news/133097/The-Cape-Ann-Museum-welcomes-four-new-hires#.YDO7KmNOkW9
Northshore Magazine: 5 Reopened Museums to Visit This February Break
Feb 18, 2021
Area museums that shut down in December are once again operating—be sure to reserve a ticket in advance to visit these local art hubs. By Natalie Gale The North Shore ...
National Geographic: Why this salty Massachusetts coastal town hooks artists
Feb 18, 2021
By Hannah Sheinberg → Link to the article here
The Cricket: Cape Ann Museum Announces New Key Staff
Feb 18, 2021
Editorial Staff — The Cape Ann Museum announced this week that Kathleen Cooke Ryan is the museum’s new Chief Philanthropy Officer, and Miranda Aisling is the Education Manager. → Read ...
Boston Business Journal: Kathleen Cooke Ryan Chief Philanthropy Officer at Cape Ann Museum
Feb 16, 2021
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/potmsearch/detail/submission/6493644/Kathleen_Cooke_Ryan?l=&time=&ind=&type=&ro=4
Art Daily: Cape Ann Museum welcomes Kathleen Cooke Ryan as new Chief Philanthropy
Feb 16, 2021
https://artdaily.cc/news/132977/Cape-Ann-Museum-welcomes-Kathleen-Cooke-Ryan-as-new-Chief-Philanthropy-Officer#.YCwjm2NOkW9
Boston Globe: Talk with focus on history of Black Americans in Essex County
Feb 16, 2021
By John Laidler, Globe correspondent https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/16/metro/talk-will-focus-history-black-americans-essex-county/
Boston Globe: Walking through Gloucester with some of history’s greatest artists
Feb 9, 2021
By Murray Whyte / Globe Staff https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/09/arts/take-walk-gloucester-with-some-historys-greatest-artists/
WBUR The Artery: 5 Things to Do this Weekend
Jan 28, 2021
https://www.wbur.org/artery/2021/01/28/weekend-chinese-zodiac-boston-harbor-wildlife
North of Boston: Business
Jan 27, 2021
Getting Creative — Organizations find ways to keep the arts alive while planning comebacks
Gloucester Daily Times: Connecting and reconnecting through art
Jan 7, 2021
In "Around Cape Ann"by Gail McCarthy https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/the_catch/around-cape-ann-connecting-and-reconnecting-through-art/article_c487a718-cbcb-56f8-87ff-426609dbde54.html
Art New England: Tom and T. M. Nicholas, A Cape Ann Dynasty
Jan 1, 2021
https://artnewengland.com/profile-tom-and-t-m-nicholas-a-cape-ann-dynasty/ “At some point I’m going to make a living as an artist and today’s the day. But I forget exactly when that was,” laughs T. M. Nicholas, who ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Celebrating craftsmen, both past and present
Dec 16, 2020
Artisans who worked on Cape Ann Museum Green honored By Gail McCarthy, Staff Writer https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/honoring-craftsmen-both-past-and-present/article_1e2bcbc9-ecd8-5734-b2a7-711d67fdb485.html
Boston Globe: An off-season stroll through Edward Hopper’s vision of Gloucester
Nov 30, 2020
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, Globe correspondents → Read the article in the Boston Globe here How a house at 35 Middle St. in Gloucester looks today. It was ...
Cape Ann Beacon: How a statue of Masconomo made it to Manchester
Nov 25, 2020
The Cape Ann Museum celebrates Cape Ann as a place, and an important part of its legacy is our area’s Native American history. In this multi-part series of articles, the ...
Northshore Magazine: Museum Offers Socially Distanced Walking Tours
Nov 6, 2020
The Gloucester museum will offer walking tours on Saturdays and Sundays this month for a safe and fun way to learn more about our region During the month of November, ...
Cape Ann Beacon: Museum reinstalls Fitz Henry Lane exhibit
Nov 6, 2020
→Link to the Beacon here The Cape Ann Museum is home to a collection of works by the Gloucester-born maritime artist Fitz Henry Lane. In recent months, the museum has ...
Eagle Tribune: Art at the Gateway
Nov 6, 2020
Museum erects murals near Grant Circle By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Link to the article here Gigantic canvas murals are now broadcasting to passers-by Cape Ann’s artistic legacy and that ...
Manchester Cricket: Portraits at the Museum
Oct 21, 2020
Local Gems Right Now: Cape Ann Museum's "The Porch-Rait Project"
Cape Ann Beacon: Native Americans of Cape Ann
Oct 16, 2020
Read online at Wicked Local Gloucester The Cape Ann Museum celebrates Cape Ann as a place, and an important part of its legacy is our area’s Native American ...
Good Morning Gloucester: With Oliver Barker and Paul Horovitz
Oct 14, 2020
Posted by Joey Ciaramitaro A visit to the Cape Ann Museum Green with Olver Barker and Paul Horovitz
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum Reopens to the Public October 1
Oct 1, 2020
With reduced capacity and other safety measures in place, the Gloucester museum reopens its renowned art collections today. https://www.nshoremag.com/arts-culture/cape-ann-museum-reopens-to-the-public-october-1/
Cape Ann COSMOS: Open for October Preview
Sep 30, 2020
A sleek addition to the Cape Ann scene → Read online at Cape Ann COSMOS Cape Ann Museum is delivering a second magnificent venue to Cape Ann. Situated at the ...
The Cricket: Cape Ann Museum Reopens to the Public
Sep 28, 2020
https://www.thecricket.com/out_and_about/cape-ann-museum-reopens-to-the-public/article_5c4408b2-0193-11eb-9eb3-13485db76123.html
Boston Globe: Cape Ann Museum adds green space, galleries with new satellite campus
Sep 25, 2020
By Diti Kohli, Globe Correspondent → Read online here Just as autumn settles in, the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester is unveiling a four-acre satellite campus that ties together three ...
Boston Globe: Five things to do online and in person Sept. 28 to Oct. 4
Sep 25, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/25/magazine/five-things-do-online-person-september-28-october-4/
Gloucester Daily Times: Museum now open to members
Sep 25, 2020
Taylor Ann Bradford, staff writer, Gloucester Daily Times Public can peruse galleries beginning Oct. 1 After having been closed for six months due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, Cape Ann Museum was ...
Art Daily: Cape Ann Museum Green premieres an exhibition of family portraits taken during the pandemic
Sep 17, 2020
Link to the full article on ArtDaily here: https://artdaily.cc/news/128323/Cape-Ann-Museum-Green-premieres-an-exhibition-of-family-portraits-taken-during-the-pandemic#.X2S4wkl7kW9
Northshore Magazine: New Cape Ann Museum Green Opens September 17
Sep 17, 2020
The new Cape Ann Museum campus opens today with a moving new photography exhibit, shot locally, The Porch-Rait Project. September 17, 2020 → Read online here Located near the Gloucester town ...
Gloucester Daily Times: History and 21st century possibilities at Cape Ann Museum Green
Sep 15, 2020
New building, exhibition open Thursday By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Paul Bilodeau/GDT staff photo The new and the old have come together at the 3.7-acre Cape Ann Museum Green, which ...
Studio 1623: Cape Ann Today, with Oliver Barker
Sep 14, 2020
Wicked Local: Cape Ann Museum Prepares to Reopen
Sep 11, 2020
https://gloucester.wickedlocal.com/news/20200911/cape-ann-museum-prepares-to-reopen
WGBH/Jared Bowen Arts This Week: Massachusetts Museum Reopenings
Sep 10, 2020
This week, Jared Bowen provides an update on the latest museum reopenings. Link to the full article here: https://www.wgbh.org/news/arts/2020/09/10/arts-this-week-massachusetts-museum-reopenings
ArtDaily: Cape Ann Museum Green campus taking shape with landscaping, solar panels, and final touches
Sep 4, 2020
Read on ArtDaily.com here: https://artdaily.com/news/127946/Cape-Ann-Museum-Green-campus-taking-shape-with-landscaping--solar-panels--and-final-touches#.X1KpWEl7kW9
ArtFixDaily News Feed
Jun 14, 2020
"Odds Were Against Me" Exhibition Features Renowned 20th-Century Women Sculptors
Cape Ann Beacon: Stories in Time: Gloucester’s Portuguese Crowning ceremony
Jun 4, 2020
Stories in Time is an occasional series from the Cape Ann Museum’s curators and archivists. June 4, 2020 Cape Ann BeaconBy Cape Ann Museum Curatorial Department → Read the article ...
American Art Review: Odds Were Against Me
May 29, 2020
By Martha Oaks, June 2020
Wicked Local: Stories in Time: Preserving Cape Ann's Treasures
May 28, 2020
Cape Ann BeaconBy Cape Ann Museum Curatorial Department → Read the article online at WickedLocal.com Stories in Time is an occasional series from the Cape Ann Museum’s curators and archivists. ...
Eagle Tribune: Virtual entertainment: Local events and activities to check out online
May 20, 2020
Cape Ann Museum puts offerings online Cape Ann Museum seeks to continue its mission to tell the stories of the community and its contributions to American art and industry even ...
Northshore Magazine: Virtual Programming from Cape Ann Museum’s Video Vault
May 20, 2020
→ Read online here Museums might be closed, but learning isn’t. Check out the art museum’s collection of lectures, archival material, and educational content. Although the Cape Ann Museum is closed ...
Gloucester Daily Times: 60 trees being planted at White Ellery House property off Grant Circle
May 16, 2020
Gloucester Daily Times, Photos by Jaime Camps, staff photographer → Read online here The Cape Ann Museum cleared land off Proctor Street last year that it has owned since ...
Studio 1623: Community Update: "In Gratitude"
May 14, 2020
Stephanie Benenson, artist and founder of Harbor Voices, discusses her recent installation at Grant Circle.
Northshore Magazine: Cape Ann Museum Expands with a New, Modern Building
May 13, 2020
→ Read online here By Sarah Shemkus The historic museum spreads its wings with a contemporary, state-of-the-art facility, and continues to share the area’s culture, arts, and history. On one ...
Wicked Local: Messages of thank you to light up White-Ellery barn
May 7, 2020
Wicked Local – Gloucester In an effort to boost the city’s spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cape Ann Museum is presenting a CAM Contemporary exhibition involving the projection of ...
Northshore Magazine: CAM Plans Message of Thanks to Essential Workers
May 7, 2020
Northshore Magazine Tonight through Friday, the Cape Ann Museum displays a “Thank You Frontline Heroes” message outside their Gloucester building, for essential workers returning home → Link to the article ...
Gloucester Daily Times: Light of hope to be projected in city through Friday
May 7, 2020
Taylor Ann Bradford, Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times → Link to the article here An actual light of hope and inspiration will shine in the city this week. "Thank You ...
Studio 1623: Community Update: Gloucester Endures
May 6, 2020
1623's Kory Curcuru and Heather Atwood talk with CAM Director Oliver Barker about the Museum's pivot toward supporting the city’s critical frontline services and keeping the museum accessible in novel ...
Boston Globe: Stuart Davis in Gloucester
Apr 17, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/arts/gloucester-stuart-davis-found-freedom-topographical-severity/ In Gloucester, Stuart Davis found freedom and ‘topographical severity’ By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated April 17, 2020, 12:01 a.m. GLOUCESTER — Looking at a Stuart Davis painting ...
Cape Ann Magazine: Bonded Through Art
Mar 3, 2020
Cape Ann Magazine — North of Boston Life — Spring 2020 By Gail McCarthy | Photos by Ryan McBride
Manchester Cricket: Manchester's Weems Celebrated at CAM Show
Feb 28, 2020
Wicked Local: Cape Ann Museum to host sculptor exhibit
Feb 28, 2020
https://gloucester.wickedlocal.com/news/20200228/cape-ann-museum-to-host-sculptor-exhibit
Digital Antiques Journal: Floors and Walls: Fashion for a Federal House
Feb 27, 2020
Digital Antiques Journal It is not often that we can walk into Federal rooms with authentic carpets and wallpapers. The Elias Davis House in Gloucester, Mass., just re-opened after a ...
American Art Review: Tom and T.M. Nicholas
Jan 21, 2020
By Judith Curtis, February 2020
Gloucester Daily Times: Familial Pairing
Jan 9, 2020
Gloucester Daily Times, By Gail McCarthy → Link to the article here
Antiques and the Arts Weekly: Tom & T. M. Nichols
Jan 9, 2020
Antiques and The Arts Weekly
Wicked Local: Free membership to Gloucester city employees
Dec 3, 2019
Wicked Local Rockport - By Jason Brisbois A popular exhibit has helped to draw in record numbers, prompting the Cape Ann Museum to provide a tempting offer for locals in ...
Homer painting gifted to Cape Ann Museum
Nov 27, 2019
Gloucester Daily Times - Gail McCarthy, Times Staff An artwork by a celebrated 19th century American artist Winslow Homer will come back to the place where it was painted — in ...
Homer watercolor in permanent collection
Nov 26, 2019
Art Daily. Homer watercolor in permanent collection.
Cape Ann Museum Receives Homer Watercolor for Permanent Collection
Nov 25, 2019
North Shore Magazine - The painting, Boy Hailing Schooners, arrives a week before the successful Homer at the Beach exhibit comes to a close. The Cape Ann Museum has ...
Homer's Long Love Affair with the Sea
Nov 18, 2019
PBS News Hour - Homer's long love affair with the sea.
Homer show breaks museum records
Nov 16, 2019
Gloucester Daily Times. An exhibition of a celebrated marine artist’s work broke Cape Ann Museum attendance records. And now, thanks to an anonymous donor, some local families will enjoy it ...
Cape Ann Museum announces new appointments
Nov 15, 2019
Gloucester Wicked Local. Cape Ann Museum announces new appointments.
Homer and free city employee memberships
Nov 15, 2019
Cape Ann Beacon. Homer and free city employee memberships.
Shore Birds II
Nov 1, 2019
American Fine Art Magazine - Review by Jay Cantor I prefer lakes. This is likely the result of 13 youthful summers on a lake in southwestern Maine. The glassy surface ...
Judith Sargent Murray's Legacy at the Cape Ann Museum
Nov 1, 2019
Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Diane Wortis - Director of Development at Cape Ann Museum
Oct 31, 2019
Boston Business Journal. Diane Wortis - Director of Development at Cape Ann Museum.
The New Criterion - Topic: "Winslow Homer"
Oct 28, 2019
https://newcriterion.com/topic/winslow-homer
Arts This Week: 'Homer At The Beach'
Oct 10, 2019
WGBH News, Open Studio with Jaren Bowen, October 10
WGBH/Boston Public Radio
Oct 9, 2019
WGBH/Boston Public Radio
Art Review 'Harvard rethinks Winslow Homer’s Civil War legacy ...'
Oct 3, 2019
Art Review Harvard rethinks Winslow Homer’s Civil War legacy with provocative ‘Eyewitness’ show By Murray Whyte Globe Staff
This Fall Homer Returns Home at the Boston International Fine Art Show
Oct 1, 2019
ArtFixDaily
Winslow Homer Inspired by Gloucester
Sep 24, 2019
WCVB Channel 5 Chronicle
Two Takes on Winslow Homer
Sep 17, 2019
Antiques and the Arts Weekly - By Jessica Skwire Routhier If it’s summer in New England, odds are there is a Winslow Homer show to see. So closely has Homer ...
Water, Oil and Photography
Sep 13, 2019
The Cricket, by Emma Cooper, Sept. 13, 2019 → Link to the article here
Winslow Homer was sentimental. That’s a good thing.
Sep 11, 2019
Review by Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, September 10, 2019 → Link to the article here
Review: Flotsam, Jetsam, Handsome
Aug 31, 2019
Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2019 By Lance Esplund An intimate look at the artist’s seaside work made during the early part of his career is augmented with historical ...
Winslow Homer’s Eagle Head: More Than Meets the Eye
Aug 23, 2019
Manchester Cricket, August 23, 2019 https://www.themanchestercricket.com/out_and_about/winslow-homer-s-eagle-head-more-than-meets-the-eye/article_14e696e8-c42b-11e9-86dd-efc56b16d919.html
Maritime Curator Erik Ronnberg, Jr. to receive Edgar B. Caffrey Award
Aug 22, 2019
Tribute to a career dedicated to maritime heritage; ceremony on August 24, 2019 Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Sr. (1909–1988) and Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. (b. 1944), Model of 1902 Mackerel Seiner ...
'Homer at the Beach' Museum takes look at painter's early years
Aug 12, 2019
Gloucester Daily Times, Gail McCarthy Staff Writer When Cape Ann Museum opened this past weekend, more than 25 people were waiting in line to enter the Gloucester museum to see ...
Homer at the Beach on View at the Cape Ann Museum
Aug 6, 2019
See the painter’s North Shore-inspired watercolors now through December. Northshore Magazine, August 6, 2019 This summer, the Cape Ann Museum exhibits some 50 original works by renowned American artist Winslow ...
‘Homer at the Beach’ art exhibit opens at Cape Ann Museum
Aug 5, 2019
By Keith Powers, Correspondent, Wicked Local Sommerville The great American landscape painter and illustrator Winslow Homer set up his easel in Gloucester on several different occasions during the late 1800s, ...
Winslow Homer Beach Paintings ...
Aug 2, 2019
The Art Newspaper, August 1, 2019 By Aimee Dawson
Homer at the Beach, a Winslow Homer exhibition, at Cape Ann Museum
Aug 2, 2019
Art Daily
Gloucester serpent to surface at Cape Ann Museum
Jul 18, 2019
Cape Ann Museum expands in Gloucester
Jul 4, 2019
By John Laidler, Boston Globe Correspondent A rendering of the new Collections Center, under construction at the Cape Ann Museum.(designLAB architects) → Link to the article in the Boston ...
Homer at the Beach Preview
Jul 1, 2019
Northshore Magazine, July 2019 By Robert C. Pushkar
Cape Ann Museum receives grant
Jun 7, 2019
Wicked Local To help pay for the construction of the new White-Ellery campus off site Collections Center and public exhibition/education space at Grant Circle in Gloucester, the Mass Cultural ...
Cape Ann, Massachusetts: A charming alternative to Cape Cod ...
Jun 3, 2019
Cape Ann, Massachusetts: A charming alternative to Cape Cod with sandy beaches and fried clams, James R. Carroll, Special to USA TODAY. Link to full article here.
Everything to see this summer ...
May 31, 2019
Wonderland - Everything To See This Summer: Scissors • Murals • Renoir • Woodstock • Corpses • Fairy Tales • Winslow Homer
Try a different Massachusetts: Cape Ann
May 15, 2019
Philadelphia Inquirer, by Alexandra Pecci, Washington Post, Updated: May 15, 2019 For New Englanders, going "down the cape" means visiting Cape Cod, that storied Massachusetts peninsula southeast of Boston jutting 65 ...
Museum expands property
May 3, 2019
Floral designers match bouquets to museum works this weekend
May 3, 2019
PAUL BILODEAU/Staff photo. Rashed Alsweidani of Gloucester uses a cart to bring in his floral design during the set up of the Cape Ann Blossoms, which brings together 22 North ...
Esther Pullman’s evocative greenhouse photos
Apr 17, 2019
By Keith Powers for Wicked Local Esther Pullman has photographed greenhouses — not all of them abandoned — for more than two decades. Arranged into more than a dozen triptych ...
Museum buys historic home
Apr 9, 2019
Babson-Alling House eyed for preservation Gloucester Daily Times | By Ray Lamont Staff Writer
Cape Ann Museum Appoints Oliver Barker as Director
Feb 7, 2019
Gloucester, Mass. (February 7, 2019) — The Board of Directors of the Cape Ann Museum (CAM), announced today that Oliver Barker has been appointed Director of the Museum, effective April ...
Cape Ann Museum appoints Oliver Barker as new Director
Feb 1, 2019
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Two exhibits of note at Cape Ann Museum
Jan 11, 2019
Cape Ann Beacon | art review by Keith PowersFriday, January 11, 2019
Young at heart
Jan 3, 2019
Gloucester Daily Times - Cape Ann Life |Thursday, January 3, 2019 By Gail McCarthy Cape Ann Museum and Cape Ann Reads encourage literacy in new show
Cape Ann Museum to present "Once Upon a Contest"
Dec 21, 2018
Cape Ann Beacon | Friday, December 21, 2018
Work at White-Ellery House
Dec 20, 2018
Cape Ann Museum renovating barn, building collection center Gloucester Daily Times | Ray Lamont, staff writer → Read online at gloucestertimes.com
In A Rapidly Changing World, 'The Little House' Endures
Nov 21, 2018
Audio story by Amelia Mason → Listen on WBUR's The Artery
"Gone ... Fishing" Review
Nov 20, 2018
Art New England, November/December 2018Reviewed by Julianna Thibodeaux (click to enlarge)
Revisiting 'The Little House'
Nov 1, 2018
Revisiting 'The Little House'; Special exhibition spotlights legacy of children's author Virginia Lee Burton / Special exhibition spotlights legacy of children's author Virginia Lee Burton By Gail McCarthy, Staff Writer, ...
Cape Ann Museum selected for the Barr-Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative
Oct 3, 2018
A $25 million investment in 29 arts organizations from across Massachusetts over six years to strengthen their financial health and “adaptive capacity” → Link to the article GLOUCESTER, MASS. (October ...
Garland and his city to be celebrated anew Saturday
Jul 25, 2018
Staff, Gloucester Daily Times Garland and his city to be celebrated anew Saturday The late Joseph Garland wrote “The Gloucester Guide: A Stroll through Place and Time” in 1973 for ...
American Art Review: Harrison Cady
Jul 14, 2018
Cape Ann Museum exhibits paintings and magazine work of Harrison Cady
Jul 5, 2018
By Keith Powers / Correspondent → Link to the article here A new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum, “Harrison Cady: View from the Headlands,” brings welcome levity for ...
Q&A: Molly O’Hagan Hardy
Jul 3, 2018
W. A. Demers interviews Dr. Molly O'Hagan Hardy, Director of the Library & Archives in Antiques and the Arts Weekly. Link to the article here.
Stephanie Buck Passes the Torch
May 16, 2018
Posted by Pat D. on Good Morning Gloucester https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/stephanie-buck-passes-the-torch-at-cape-ann-museum-libary/
Passing city history's torch
May 16, 2018
Passing city history's torchArchivist Stephanie Buck retiring; Hardy to take stories online By Joann Mackenzie, Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times → Read the article online here
Insights into Harold Rotenberg on 1623 Studios
May 7, 2018
Insights into the Artist - Harold Rotenberg With Cape Ann Museum Curator, Martha Oaks and daughter of the artist, Judi Rotenberg. → Watch on You Tube
Unfolding Histories - 1623 Studios
Apr 24, 2018
Meet some of the people who contributed to the Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900 exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum. Jim Witham, Curator of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Beth ...
Celebrating Massachusetts' other cape
Apr 19, 2018
By Mark Feeney, staff writer, Boston Globe
Getting an Eyeful at the Captain Elias Davis House
Apr 1, 2018
Old House Journal | April 2018 By Regina ColePhotographs by Eric Roth
Women in the Arts
Apr 1, 2018
North Shore Magazine, April 2018 By Dinah CardinPhotographs by Anthony Tieuli A new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum celebrates the natural and raw grit of the area, as seen ...
‘Unfolding Histories’ brings old Gloucester to life
Mar 31, 2018
Keith Powers, Correspondent | Wicked Local Link to the article here We all went there. And we never went back. It was fifth grade, or sixth. The school bus took ...
Hidden lives uncovered: Cape Ann exhibit reveals region before 1900s
Mar 29, 2018
Gail McCarthy, staff writer | Gloucester Daily Times Link to the article here
Personal Glimpses
Mar 16, 2018
Championing Women special exhibition in the Manchester Cricket, March 2018
A Day at the Museum
Jan 11, 2018
By Gail McCarthy, staff writer, Gloucester Daily Times
Cape Ann Museum Director to Retire
Jan 9, 2018
By Gail McCarthy, staff writer, Gloucester Daily Times
"The Painter as Printmaker"
Dec 12, 2017
Gail McCarthy | Cape Ann Magazine, December 2017
Northshore Magazine: "Collaborative & Commercial"
Dec 1, 2017
By Robert G. Pushkar → Read it here!
Art Review by Cate McQuaid: Honoring an artistic native son in Gloucester
Nov 29, 2017
Cate McQuaid | Globe Correspondent GLOUCESTER — We don’t know a lot about Fitz Henry Lane. The master of glorious light, atmosphere, and seafaring rigs left no journal behind, or ...
Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Nov 28, 2017
Drawn From Nature & On Stone: The Lithographs Of Fitz Henry Lane Published: November 28, 2017 By Rick Russack GLOUCESTER, MASS. – Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) is best known for ...
Open Studio with Jared Bowen: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane
Nov 14, 2017
Jared Bowen interviews Drawn on Stone curator Georgia Barnhill and CAM curator Martha Oaks on WGBH's Open Studio with Jared Bowen.
ART REVIEW: Cape Ann Museum focuses on oil painter Fitz Henry Lane’s expertise in lithography
Oct 31, 2017
By Keith Powers / Correspondent Posted Oct 18, 2017 at 3:56 PM Updated Oct 18, 2017 at 3:56 PM → Link to the article here Fitz Henry Lane, one of the 19th century’s most noted oil painters, ...
Cape Ann Museum Explores Fitz Henry Lane As Printmaker
Oct 6, 2017
Antiques and The Arts Weekly October 6, 2017
Cape Ann Museum show looks at painters' love affair with Gloucester
Aug 3, 2017
By Cate McQuaid - Globe Correspondent August 03, 2017 GLOUCESTER — The great painter Stuart Davis, before he shook loose from realism into flattened, abstracted cityscapes and still lifes, was ...
Rocks and docks: Exhibit gathers some of the best Cape Ann paintings
Jul 20, 2017
By Keith Powers, Correspondent GLOUCESTER - You’ll never see a lot of Cape Ann’s greatest paintings. Unless you go to the Cape Ann Museum this summer. “Rock Bound: Painting the ...
Art Review: Nathan Benn shares 1978 photos at Cape Ann Museum
Jan 16, 2017
By Keith Powers, correspondent, Salem Wicked Local Link to the article here. Nathan Benn visited Cape Ann in the way that he visited many of the far corners of ...
Photography Review - A vivid time capsule of the North Shore
Jan 13, 2017
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe staff, reviews Kodachrome Memory: Nathan Benn's North Shore, 1978 Link to the review here. GLOUCESTER — In 1978, National Geographic magazine sent Nathan Benn ...
Look with your eyes and listen with your ears
Jan 13, 2017
By Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe Correspondent Link to the article in the Boston Globe here. Photo credit: Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff In the musty cavern of a former ...
Jeremy Adams on Open Studio with Jared Bowen
Jan 6, 2017
Jared Bowen talks with Jeremy Adams in his workshop and in the gallery about his life and work, and Martha Oaks is interviewed in the gallery the exhibition, Voicing the ...
'Voicing the woods': Museum showcasing woodworker's instruments
Oct 19, 2016
Gloucester Daily Times / Times Staff An exhibition showcasing the master skills of a Gloucester woodworker opens at the Cape Ann Museum this weekend. A public opening artist reception for "Voicing ...
Cape Ann Museum to reimagine its fishing exhibits
Sep 27, 2016
Gloucester Daily Times - Sean Horgan, staff writer Link to the online article here
Cape Ann Museum receives NEH Grant
Sep 9, 2016
Cape Ann Museum receives NEH Grant for planning reinterpretation and reinstallation of its fisheries collection GLOUCESTER, Mass. (September 9, 2016) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to announce that ...
Review of "Design/Build"
Sep 7, 2016
Review by Elizabeth S. Padjen, FAIA | ArchitectureBoston Fall 2016
The Unlikely Story of the Folly Cove Guild
Aug 21, 2016
... the Best Designers You've Never Heard of. Led by beloved children's author Virginia Lee Burton, this group of mostly untrained women created immortal designs. By Cara Giaimo, Atlas Obscura ...
Fitz Henry Lane Online
Jul 27, 2016
Antiques Journal, August 2016
Cape Ann Museum displays historical architectural drawings
Jul 13, 2016
By Keith Powers / Correspondent Architectural styles around Cape Ann vary wildly, from Victorian to Greek Revival to Shingle to Queen Anne. Many buildings show a brash mixture of several ...
Digital Arts - Fitz Henry Lane Online
May 1, 2016
Northshore Magazine, May–June 2016By Nancy E. Berry
Love of Creating Art Shines Through
Apr 18, 2016
Keith Powers, Cape Ann Beacon “God Bless Art: The Portraits of Earle Merchant” at the Cape Ann Museum shows almost six dozen works by the Gloucester portraitist. Merchant (1903-97), who ...
God Bless Art
Apr 6, 2016
Gail McCarthy, Gloucester Daily Times The Cape Ann Museum is opening a new exhibition by a quirky local painter, the late Earle Merchant (1903-1997), who captures the likeness of residents ...
Welcome to the Neighborhoods
Jan 14, 2016
Museum exhibits quilts made by local seniorsGloucester Daily Times, Gail McCarthy
ART REVIEW: 'Three Visions' of Gloucester's waterfront at Cape Ann Museum
Nov 28, 2015
Wicked Local Salem - Keith Powers, Staff writer With the works of three contemporary artists — Peter Vincent, Jeff Weaver and Don Gorvett — the Cape Ann Museum has brought ...
The grit and beauty of Gloucester inspires exhibit at Cape Ann Museum
Nov 5, 2015
Gloucester Daily Times – Gail McCarthy, Staff Writer The gritty, yet picturesque scenes of the flurry of activity on the waterfront of the nation’s oldest seaport provided a boat load ...
Bronze doors heading back to bridge
Oct 24, 2015
By Keith Powers / [email protected] Everyone who lives on Cape Ann has whizzed by the commemorative bronze doors that grace the tall pylons supporting the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge. Since ...
Gloucester Days at the Red Cottage - Society for Young Art Lovers
Sep 22, 2015
Joann Mackenzie covers John Sloan and the Red Cottage Society in Sloan Rangers in the Fall 2015 issue of Cape Ann North of Boston Life magazine.
Sloan is restrained yet insightful
Sep 1, 2015
James Foritano reviews John Sloan Gloucester Days in the Sept/Oct 2015 issue of Artscope Magazine SLOAN IS RESTRAINED YET INSIGHTFUL http://zine.artscopemagazine.com/2015/09/gloucester-days/
For Fitz Henry Lane and Other 19th-Century Painters, Catalogues Raisonnés Go Digital
Aug 15, 2015
By Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times, August 13, 2015 New technology and fresh perspectives are jumpstarting efforts to assemble exhaustive lists of works by 19th-century American painters, sometimes ...
Open Studio with Jared Bowen
Aug 7, 2015
Jared Bowen sits down with curator, Martha Oaks to discuss the Gloucester days of John Sloan. Link to the video here.
With these twins, differences lie in the details
Jul 28, 2015
By Sebastian Smee Globe Staff July 28, 2015 GLOUCESTER — The two boys in this painting — Samuel and William Wonson — are twins who grew up on Cape Ann. ...
'John Sloan Gloucester Days' is worth visiting twice
Jul 21, 2015
By Keith Powers, Wicked Local, Cape Ann Beacon ART REVIEW: 'John Sloan Gloucester Days' is worth visiting twice "John Sloan Gloucester Days,” on view now at the Cape Ann Museum, ...
Show Captures John Sloan in Gloucester during WWI
Jul 17, 2015
By Sebastian Smee - Globe Staff - July 16, 2015 Link to the review in the Boston Globe here. GLOUCESTER — Over the five consecutive summers he spent in Gloucester ...
Art Up Close on WGBH
Jul 17, 2015
Art Up Close: John Sloan Gloucester Days At The Cape Ann Museum By Amanda Kersey & Emily Wishingrad Through this fall, the Cape Ann Museum has on view some of ...
John Sloan Gloucester Days on NECN
Jul 16, 2015
Sloan's Gloucester: Prestigious exhibit gives view of city through famed artist's eye
Jul 9, 2015
Posted: Thursday, July 9, 2015 9:00 am By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times A stroll through Cape Ann Museum’s exhibition of John Sloan artwork is a walk back ...
'Reflection' in a garden: Steel sculpture installed at Cape Ann Museum
Jun 30, 2015
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 3:00 am By Ray Lamont Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times Artist Rob Amory said he had long been looking to find just the right place ...
Sea-inspired art, music at Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Jun 11, 2015
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:00 am By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times ROCKPORT — The Rockport Chamber Music Festival presents an innovative concert Saturday night featuring a ...
Telling the Story of the Bay State's Ship
Jun 11, 2015
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 3:00 am By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer The story of a schooner that has traveled from Cape Ann to the Arctic to Cape Verde and ...
In Mid Twentieth Century, Folly Cove Artisans Reunited Designers and Craftsmen
Apr 29, 2015
By Steve Moyer, Humanities - The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, May/June 2015, Volume 36, Number 3 Link to the article here. Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios was ...
Gloucester bridge's works of art
Apr 14, 2015
Museum offers close look at A. Piatt Andrew doors By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times Residents and visitors traveling over the A. Piatt Andrew Bridge along Route 128 ...
Board Dynamics: An Interview with Ronda Faloon and John Cunningham of the Cape Ann Museum
Mar 1, 2015
New England Museums Now, Volume 1, No. 3, Winter 2015 - NEMA publication Although there is no “one size fits all” for museum governance practices, one thing is clear. The relationship ...
Editorial: State honor a source of Gloucester pride
Feb 26, 2015
Gloucester Daily Times - The Commonwealth Award presented by the state’s Cultural Council to the city of Gloucester Tuesday doesn’t necessarily mean the city will be receiving more state aid ...
Museum show spotlights Roger Martin works
Feb 12, 2015
Gloucester Daily Times, Times Staff - The Cape Ann Museum is opening a new exhibition this weekend honoring one of Cape Ann’s own with “Bill of Lading,” a special showcase ...
Gloucester's working waterfront topic of museum panel
Jan 22, 2015
By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer - Gloucester Times waterfront reporter Sean Horgan will moderate a panel discussion at the Cape Ann Museum on Saturday that will feature a panel of ...
The Young at Art
Jan 15, 2015
Wicked Local Gloucester, Jan. 15, by Greg Phipps - The Cape Ann Museum and area preschools decided to collaborate on an arts outreach program called Young at Art for students ...
Jeffrey Marshall "Knots" and January Free Admission
Jan 8, 2015
Gloucester Daily Times, January 8, 2105 - Gail McCarthy, staff writer
A New Look for Cape Ann's Maritime Past
Jan 1, 2015
Marlinspike Magazine - Winter 2015 - by Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr.
Artscope Capsule Preview
Jan 1, 2015
Artscope Magazine - Jan/Feb 2015 - Capsule Previews
Letter: Museum grateful for support, welcomes residents
Dec 20, 2014
To the editor: Cape Ann Museum wants to thank the community and reminds residents of free admission during the month of January. The Cape Ann Museum celebrates “place.” For generations, ...
In Gloucester, portraits that cover the waterfront
Nov 30, 2014
By Mark Feeney, GLOBE STAFF, NOVEMBER 29, 2014 GLOUCESTER — Portraits are about “who.” That’s obvious. What’s not obvious is that they don’t have to be only about who. That’s true of ...
Cape Ann Makeover
Oct 23, 2014
WCVB Channel 5 Chronicle - A breath of fresh design for Gloucester's Cape Ann Museum. Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle/cape-ann-makeover/29290718#ixzz3HHVH8T24
Not A Funeral: Portraits Of Gloucester’s Working Waterfront
Oct 20, 2014
BOSTON — The fishing industry is reeling this month following emergency calls from federal regulators to further limit cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine. A final vote is expected in November. One ...
Fishtown Local Gordon Baird
Oct 20, 2014
Here’s an interesting idea: what if you took all the boat owners and shoreside support in the Gloucester fishing industry and lumped them all into one big room at once? ...
Letter: Hancock daughter thanks city for tribute to dad
Oct 14, 2014
To the editor: Leaving Cape Ann’s sea air, early autumn colors and dear friends was especially poignant after the outpouring of affection for my late father. I would like thank ...
Open Studio with Jared Bowen
Oct 10, 2014
Jared Bowen visits the Cape Ann Museum to review their $3.5 million renovations and sits down with author Robert Hofler to discuss his new book Sexplosion, about the entertainment industry ...
Portraits of a Working Waterfront in Artscope
Oct 9, 2014
Portraits of a Working Waterfront reviewed in Artscope Oct. 9 Eblast
OUR WATERFRONT WORKERS Portrait show spotlights Cape Anners who make living in jobs tied to the sea
Oct 9, 2014
Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:00 am | Updated: 12:46 pm, Thu Oct 9, 2014. By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Dominic Nicastro, 64, a father of three and grandfather of five, was a ...
Wonson family cycle
Sep 17, 2014
By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Two historic objects from the 19th-century Wonson family of Gloucester have been reunited at Cape Ann Museum with a recent gift from Roger Choate Wonson. ...
If it sounds like Cape Ann, he wants to know
Sep 16, 2014
Composer collecting sounds for museum exhibit 'Portraits of a Working Waterfront' By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester composer Robert Bradshaw has embarked on a project to create a Cape Ann ...
Touring The Renovated Cape Ann Museum
Aug 20, 2014
BOSTON - WGBH News, Greater Boston - The Cape Ann Museum was closed for the better part of last year and for good reason. It’s been undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation. ...
"New" Cape Ann Museum's Debut
Aug 18, 2014
GLOUCESTER - Gloucester Daily Times, Sean Horgan, staff writer The Cape Ann Museum opened its doors again Saturday night for a gala celebrating the end of the 10-month renovation that, ...
Cape Ann Museum Reopening After Long Renovation
Aug 15, 2014
Karen Twomey, WBZ News Radio 1030 GLOUCESTER (CBS) – After nearly a year of renovations, the Cape Ann Museum is once again ready to feature its rich collection of locally-based art and ...
Quiet but Special
Aug 14, 2014
Keith Powers for the Cape Ann Beacon - When the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester reopens Aug. 19 to show off its extensive renovations, the focus will naturally be on ...
Polishing Its Past and Preparing Its Future
Aug 13, 2014
New York Times, Travel - Glenn Collins O.K., you think you know Cape Ann, the North Shore peninsula that has been faintly patronized as Cape Cod’s little sister. It’s there ...
With $3.5m renovation, Cape Ann Museum has a new focus
Aug 7, 2014
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff 19th-century lighthouse lens is key feature in renovated space GLOUCESTER — The recently rehung Fitz Henry Lanes are just around the corner and there’s a ...
Renovated and Ready
Jul 24, 2014
Cape Ann Beacon - SALEM - Art and history enthusiasts in the region can anticipate many quality improvements and facility comforts when the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester reopens in August. "We’ve ...
Shipwreck shards, sea sagas: New artwork installed in museum's functional spaces
Jul 9, 2014
Gloucester Daily Times - When the Cape Ann Museum reopens next month after a year-round renovation, much of its collection will be in new places. But a new work may ...
Angel back on high - Museum reinstalls sculptor's scale model of famed work
Jul 1, 2014
Gloucester Daily Times - A plaster model of one of the best-known works by one of Gloucester’s most famed sculptors was installed Monday at Cape Ann Museum. The work is ...
Sharing a part of history
Jun 20, 2014
Gloucester Daily Times - A number of Cape Ann residents visited the Times offices on Whittemore Street Thursday to share their historic Gloucester photos and have them scanned to be included ...
Giant lens crafters
May 21, 2014
Gloucester Daily Times - A giant lens that, for more than a century, once served as a beacon warning mariners they were approaching Thacher Island is being rebuilt this week in ...
Fitz Henry Lane: The Master of the Silvery Mist
Apr 4, 2014
By John Wilmerding, The Wall Street Journal - Artist produced just a half-dozen foggy views. 'Ship Starlight in the Fog' was one of his most beautiful. Painting the optical conditions ...
Cape Ann Museum leads tour of massive rehab project
Feb 22, 2014
By Keith Powers, Cape Ann Beacon - The Cape Ann Museum has had many lives. Its roots trace to 1830, when the Gloucester Lyceum hosted the likes of Emerson, Thoreau and ...
Museum renovations get $250K lift
Feb 22, 2014
By Ray Lamont, Editor, Gloucester Daily Times - The arrival of $250,000 through a grant from the state’s nonprofit MassDevelopment partnership has provided a significant boost to the $3 million, ...
Cultural Facilities Fund Supports Renovations at Gloucester Museum
Feb 20, 2014
MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Cultural Council have provided a $250,000 Cultural Facilities Fund grant to the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. Founded in 1873, the Museum’s rich collections represent the ...
City, Rockport Aid Giant Lens Project
Dec 24, 2013
By Gail McCarthy, staff writer for the Gloucester Daily Times - A joint effort to preserve a mammoth lighthouse lens that assisted Cape Ann mariners for more than 120 years, ...
Cape Ann Museum to Close for Renovations
Sep 26, 2013
The Cape Ann Museum will close at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 29 in preparation for a major renovation project. This transformational project will focus on four areas: updating the ...
Museum Presents Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits
Sep 18, 2013
A special screening of Albert Alcalay: Self Portraits will be shown at the Cape Ann Museum on Saturday, September 28 at 2:00 p.m. This program is free for Museum members ...
Illustrated talk looks at city in '50s
Aug 6, 2013
Illustrated talk looks at city in '50s 7/12/13 A well-known local writer will give an illustrated talk, "Coming of Age in the East Gloucester Art World of the 1950s"...
Review: 'Hopper Redux,' at the Cape Ann Museum
Jul 11, 2013
Hopper houses reframed July 11, 2013 Edward Hopper loved the houses here. The porches, the turrets, the mansard roofs, all offered ornate detail and complex shadow play...
Gorton's Challenge: Cape Ann Museum raises funds for fall renovation
Jul 2, 2013
Gorton's Challenge: Cape Ann Museum raises funds for fall renovation July 2, 2013 In a case of one cultural icon supporting another, the company behind the famous Gorton's Fisherman is ...
Cape Ann Museum eyes $5M in upgrades
Jun 1, 2013
Cape Ann Museum eyes $5M in upgrades May 29, 2013 The historic Cape Ann Museum, through a $5 million capital campaign, is about to embark on a 21st-century renovation project ...
Editorial: Museum project deserves wide support
Jun 1, 2013
Editorial: Museum project deserves wide support May 30, 2013 The Cape Ann Museum is our area's premier showcase for exhibits and programs focusing on art, history and on Gloucester's and ...
REVIEW: Rocky Neck, Cape Ann Museum feature local artists
Mar 7, 2013
REVIEW: Rocky Neck, Cape Ann Museum feature local artists March 7, 2013 Art-making is a renewable activity on Cape Ann. Two exhibitions simultaneously foster that idea, offering sweeping reminders of ...
Cape Ann Artisans at 30: Museum pays tribute to group with new exhibit
Feb 28, 2013
Cape Ann Artisans at 30: Museum pays tribute to group with new exhibit February 28, 2013 A special Cape Ann Museum exhibition will pay tribute to the Cape Ann Artisans ...
Great food, music, and winter walks on Cape Ann
Feb 7, 2013
Great food, Music, and Winter Walks on Cape Ann February 6, 2013 Alas, Beauport and Hammond Castle are closed for the season, but the Cape Ann Museum (27 Pleasant St., ...
Critics Picks - Upcoming arts events around Boston
Jan 2, 2013
Boston Globe, Theater & Art, Upcoming arts events around Boston January 2, 2013 ARRANGED BY CHOICE: THE ART OF RALPH COBURN Coburn came up with the Boston Expressionists but made ...
Favorite Things: Art Made Around Boston
Dec 31, 2012
By Greg Cook, Arts Reporter, WBUR December 31, 2012 Over the past decade, art museums and institutions around Boston have put more than $1 billion into renovations and expansions—from the ...
Cate McQuaid reviews 'water, water' in the Boston Globe
Aug 20, 2012
From The Boston Globe (Art Review, August 20, 2012) GLOUCESTER — Collaboration rarely turns out the way you expect it. In fact, that's sometimes the point. Artists collaborate in order to ...
Cultural grants steer $250K to Museum
Jul 19, 2012
By Gail McCarthy, Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times The city’s cultural rejuvenation received another boost Wednesday with the announcement of “bricks and mortar” grants to cultural institutions across the state, ...
All in the family: Mom, daughter create art together
Jul 19, 2012
By Gail McCarthy, Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times An Annisquam mother and daughter have teamed up in a contemporary exhibition titled “water water” now on display at the Cape Ann ...
Isabelle Esteves recommends the "unexpectedly amazing" CAM on Helium.com
Jul 2, 2012
A visitor's guide to the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts on Helium.com Located in the heart of downtown Gloucester is the unexpectedly amazing Cape Ann Museum. Cape Ann is an ...
Hartley exhibit reviewed on Yankee Magazine's blog
Jun 20, 2012
Posted on June 20, 2012 by Ed Beem "Dogtown looks like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in its appearance - it gives the feeling that ...
Boston Globe critic Sebastian Smee reviews Marsden Hartley exhibition
Jun 19, 2012
'Dogtown' show captures a landscape of lonliness ... Marsden Hartley's unease, unmatched talent distilled in Cape Ann Museum exhibition
Hartley exhibition reviewed in the Portland Press Herald
Jun 10, 2012
Staff writer Bob Keyes reviews Soliloquy in Dogtown for the Portland Press Herald.
Milton Avery painting added to the collection
Dec 20, 2011
The Museum is delighted to announce the receipt of a Milton Avery oil, Woman at Table (1941). The gift was donated in accordance with the wishes of Muriel K. Pokross ...
Park open to the public
Dec 1, 2011
A new landscaped park and sculpture garden has emerged on the site of the former Moose Lodge, adjacent to City Hall, a wonderful amenity for the citizens of Cape Ann ...
Welcome to new staff
Oct 24, 2011
Please join us in welcoming three new staff members Leon Doucette, born and raised in Gloucester, has returned to the area following his graduation from the New Hampshire Institute of ...
New Board members
Jun 1, 2011
Over the past year the Museum has had the pleasure of welcoming two highly accomplished women to the Board: Stevie Neal and Hinda Simon. Stephanie "Stevie" Neal lives in Gloucester ...