Historic Middle Street Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum

History and Culture while you walk.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its Historic Middle Street walking tour on Friday, June 17^th. Middle Street represents an ever-evolving neighborhood packed with four centuries of social, economic, and architectural history.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

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Did you know that a resident of Middle Street, Gloucester, saved the town from a British attack by sea during the Revolution? Or that a leading feminist and religious free thinker lived halfway down Middle Street? Or that the 1764 Saunders House that forms part of the Sawyer Free Library has undergone at least three radical architectural changes including a massive Victorian tower? Four centuries of Gloucester’s social, economic, and architectural history are packed into this one short street in the heart of downtown Gloucester. Join us for a docent-led tour of an ever-evolving neighborhood where you will see surviving evidence of the past and will learn about structures and people now gone.

Fitz Henry Lane Walking Tours
at the Cape Ann Museum

Get your art fix outside.

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present its new and improved Fitz Henry Lane walking tour, Fitz Henry Lane: On Foot and Online, on Saturday, June 18.

All tours begin at 10:00a.m. in front of the Cape Ann Museum. Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

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Experience 19th century Gloucester history as this tour leads you through the neighborhoods and waterfront that inspired the artwork of native son Fitz Henry Lane. Learn how Lane rose from modest beginnings in the pre-civil war era to worldwide recognition as a marine painter and why, even today, numerous artists journey to Cape Ann to capture its unusual light, first immortalized by Lane.

Participants are encouraged to bring smart phones or tablets in order to use the rich sources of information in the newly released Fitz Henry Lane Online catalog raisonne. During this walk, you will connect specific locations to the paintings they inspired by accessing the online catalog. Alternative visuals will also be available.

Upcoming Tour Dates: June 18, July 29, August 6, August 19.

“Persona”
at Flatrocks Gallery

With Flatrocks Gallery’s new show, Persona, four artists are combined to make connections between the personal and the public self. Featuring Nina Fletcher, Kurt Ankeny, Gabrielle Rossmer and John Weidenbruch.  Each offers with their unique medium a challenge to look below the surface. Nina Fletcher, a former nurse, uses her knowledge of the human body as her muse and diverse materials for inspiration. She adeptly moves from printmaking, to sculpting wire, to glass casting to convey her subtly loaded message about the conflicts and universality of being human.  The painter, Kurt Ankeny, offers observations of the ‘others’ and his own anonymity. The figures in his oils(often faceless) are merely a part of the landscape, used to explore the formal elements of line, form and texture on a flat surface. The ordinary and mundane become curious, offering a psychological depth that is at once reassuring and unsettling.

eyes-of-the-world_detail-gabrielle-rossmer

John-Weidenbruch-Crosstown

Kurt Ankeny-Man at Garage

Nina Fletcher-Foot wheel

Gabrielle Rossmer’s sculptures are a series of pillars rooted to the ground rising up, alive with form and color. They are built with wood, covered with plaster, painted with of rich color, the layers become integral to their message. These abstract figures create a tension between stability and mobility,  the personal and the private and define the space around them.

John Weidenbruch’s photographs represent an array of perspectives and emotions, and hint at untold stories. His opportunity to travel the globe has offered him the experience of numerous cultures. With a curious eye he seeks to catch the unexpected moment. In the context of this show, Weidenbruch invites the viewer to join him as the outsider, the observer, an individual within a crowd.

Persona runs through July 10th.
There is an artists’ reception open to the public Saturday, July 18th 6-8pm.

77 Langsford St. Gloucester, MA
978-879-4683 • www.flatrocksgallery.com

hours:  12-5 Thurs.-Sun.