Title: Navigating Art & Science

Location: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester

Dates: August 28 – October 13, 2025

Opening Reception: 4–6 PM, Sunday, September 14, 2025 

Gallery Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 12–5 PM

Free and Open to the Public.

Navigating Art & Science featuring eight artists who are deeply involved in scientific inquiry and activism. While local scientists search for ways to help ocean species be more resilient to survive the rapidly changing marine environment, these artists, alert to the predicament, are creating art with urgent messages for stewardship and action.  

The exhibit coincides with a city-wide initiative STAND UP for Art & Science, coordinated by Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute volunteers.

While all the work in the exhibition has been created in response to human impact on the environment, in addition, several of the artists have been inspired by expeditions to the Arctic Circle and Greenland and residencies in marine laboratories on Cape Ann and beyond. The seven-week exhibit shows how art can transform the impact and implications of science into something concrete, visible and personal. 

The public is invited to celebrate Navigating Art & Science at the Opening Reception on Sunday September 14, 4–6 PM. Mark your calendars for exhibition-related programming at the Cultural Center: a sneak preview of Ken Riaf’s new play, “Copy and Acknowledge” read by Lanes Coven actors on September 7 at 7:00 PM and an artists’ panel discussion on Sunday, September 28 at 4:00 PM, moderated by artist and writer, Chris Volpe.

Exhibiting Artists: Resa Blatman, Daisy Braun, Georgie Friedman, Perri Lynch Howard, Michelle Lougee, Michelle Samour, Jessica Straus, and Christopher Volpe.

Rocky Neck Art Colony presents: Rephrasing at Cove Gallery 8/21-9/14

Exhibition Title:  Rephrasing

Location: Cove Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930

Dates: August 21 – September 14, 2025 

Opening Reception: Thursday,  August 21 from 4-7PM

Hours: Sunday and Monday, 12-5PM; Thursday – Saturday, 12-7PM

Rocky Neck Art Colony is proud to present Rephrasing, an exhibition curated by Janice Brand. This show, the fifth for the season at Cove Gallery, encompasses the mixed-media work of four artists who utilize the concepts of adaptation and revision.  

Shira Karman focuses on fragments that relate to some other time or place, whether known or unknown. She is interested in how these fragments tell a story that she may know or hope to uncover.  

Tobi Klein explores mono-printing, collage, and other mixed-media techniques, taking inspiration from the continual shifting of light, color, and pattern of the granite quarries and the sea. She builds a story, inviting viewers to peel back the layers and look below the surface.

Helen Tory uses diverse media to express her connection with birds described in her father’s 1930s nature diaries. A variety of paint, mark-making, torn papers, and string elicit each bird’s particular characteristics.

Patricia Wellenkamp uses a series of carved linoleum blocks to print on cotton and other fabrics. She incorporates embroidery, paper, and other elements to add ornamentation and complexity to images that might come from an ancestor’s dress, dahlias in her garden or imagined landscapes.

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The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, nurtures excellence in the arts through exhibitions, workshops, residencies and vibrant cultural events for its members and the public. On picturesque Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, RNAC operates three exhibition spaces, open to the public for free: The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck (6 Wonson Street); The Salted Cod Arthouse (53 Rocky Neck Ave.), a partnership gallery and café; and Cove Gallery (37 Rocky Neck Ave.), open seasonally in the former gallery of local artists Gordon and Judith Goetemann. Check the website, www.rockyneckartcolony.org, for hours, openings and special events. For more information, see the website or call 978-515-7004.