Day: January 28, 2026

Save the date! Special open studios and receptions throughout downtown

Working artists welcoming the public to their studios 1-4 on February 14, 2026

• Elizabeth Gauthier at 5 Parsons Street
• Joe Higgin’s Fish Impressions at 206 Main Street
• Stephen LaPierre at 11 Harbor Loop, behind the Building Center and ftg. Barbara Lynch work
• Jeff Weaver at 16 Rogers Street

And downtown galleries!

• the late Jon Sarkin’s Fish City Studio at 39 Main Street
• Matz Gallery at Sawyer Free Library
• COSMOS Gallery
• Jane Deering Gallery Pleasant St.

Gloucester’s 2nd cultural district was established downtown in March 2013. Jeff Weaver and Sawyer Free / Matz were original partners! Annual surveys from the stakeholders, partners and residents rejected the forced moniker “harbortown” — preferring what they chose and what we know is ‘downtown’. Gloucester’s downtown district stretches from the train station, encompassing the iconic Fisherman at the Wheel Memorial, Stacy Blvd, Stage Fort Park all the way over to Crow’s Nest and everything in between– much as the historic walking, cycling and trolley travel journals encouraged from the late Victorian age through the 1930s and beyond.

images: Jeff Weaver | Stephen LaPierre