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Artist studios! Galleries! Downtown Art Walk Feb. 14th #GloucesterMA

Posted on by Catherine

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

From Rocky Neck to Harbor Loop! Stephen LaPierre’s Fine Art Studio and Gallery Grand opening! Plus inaugural guest artist Barbara Lynch #GloucesterMA

Posted on by Catherine

Stephen LaPierre’s studio and gallery has a new location downtown!

Grand Opening December 14, 2025!

Find Stephen LaPierre’s new works in his new digs, 11 Harbor Loop, tucked in between the Building Center and the Coast Guard station—befittingly viewable from the Fitz Henry Lane site & Al Duca bronze iconic vista, threshold-bookended between murals (Studio Fresh FHL homage and Jeff Weaver trompe l’oeil windows), and on the route to Maritime Gloucester and the Lobster Trap Tree at this time of year!

Susan Wadia-Ells shares the news from Stephen LaPierre:

“Stephen LaPierre…the Gloucester oil painter…is having the grand opening of his new 11 Harbor Loop, downtown Gloucester, Mass., Open Studio on Sunday December 14, 2025. Barbara Lynch, former celebrity chef, will be his guest artist at the opening, also showing her new works from 1-4pm.”

Where is it? photos: December 2025

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC ART | MURAL MAP HERE

**maybe LaPierre will add a mural here, too, along with Rocky Neck one**