Tag: Gloucester 400+

Special Exhibition in support of ‘400 Trees Gloucester, a 400+ project’. Opening December 2nd Jane Deering Gallery #GloucesterMA

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Generous art dealer announces a Special Exhibition in support of ‘400 Trees Gloucester’, a Gloucester 400+ program. The show features work by 26 artists. The Opening Reception is on Saturday December 2nd, 2023 from 1-4pm at Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street, in Gloucester, Mass.

“Dear Friends of JDG, Come and celebrate the holidays with us as we support the planting of 400+ Trees throughout Gloucester.

Jane Deering

Press Release:

In support of 400 Trees Gloucester, Jane Deering Gallery is pleased to present Branching Out. Two weekends only: December 2nd & 3rd; December 9th & 10th. The gallery will donate 30% of its proceeds to the 400 Trees project, founded by Gloucester resident Peter Lawrence. The project has three stages:

  1. Planting 400 Trees;
  2. Locating the city’s oldest trees;
  3. Learning about trees, done in collaboration with the Cape Ann Y, Sawyer Free Library and existing educational programs within Gloucester Public Schools.

26 participating artists: Aaron Fink, Adin Murray, Ann Conneman, Celia Eldridge, Coco Berkman, Elizabeth Awalt, Esther Pullman, Gabrielle Bazarghi, Geoffrey Bayliss, George Wingate, Hélène Falcon, James Paradis, Jesse Mireles, Juni Van Dyke, Karen Matthews, Katherine Richmond, Kristine Fisher, Laura Gettler, Liz Fletcher, Maria Malatesta, Michael Porter, Neeta Madahar, Paige Farrell, Ro Snell, Sue Willis, Tom Fels

Holiday refreshments on each day. Gallery hours: 1:00-4:00pm

Works from the exhibition can be viewed at http://www.janedeeringgallery.com

2023. JANE DEERING GALLERY. Branching Out . December 2, 3, 9 & 10Download

Bases readied! Stacy Boulevard Dedication. Generous Gardeners Chris Williams Bronze Suite #GloucesterMA 400+ Legacy Project

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Bases readied for Stacy Boulevard Chris Williams public art & commission, four bronze planters, a 400+ Legacy Project, led by Generous Gardeners for Stacy Boulevard landscape design by Ann Gilardi Johnson. Save the date: Saturday December 9, 2023, 3pm

Working with DPW, Ann Gilardi Johnson and Generous Gardeners design enhancements have been incorporated all along the Boulevard. See the plans and read more about that scope in a prior GMG post from 2017 here. The new flower beds and curved bench design astride the Fisherman at the Wheel replaced bench pairs and barrels long present.

Before | prior (no landscaping/flower beds 2019, 2021)

Original concept designs for Stacy Boulevard in 1908 were by Thomas Warren Sears,  major 20th century landscape designer and Olmsted student.  Recent garden expansions were designed by Ann Gilardi Johnson with DPW for the City of Gloucester and with Generous Gardeners. Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives memorial by Morgan Faulds Pike. Gloucester Fisherman at the Wheel Memorial (Man at the Wheel) by Leonard Craske

Parade of Sails. Schooner Festival #GloucesterMA 400+

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Aug.* September 3, 2023 Blooms, crowds, sails. Views from Stacy Boulevard and vicinity. Sky at times hazy smoky from wildfires as has been common during this summer.

*typo update–or clearly wishing for more summer 🙂

Progress at Stage Fort

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Link to post by Catharine in 2019 for old photos of area https://goodmorninggloucester.com/2019/10/16/sam-novello-asks-gmg-what-happened-to-the-cannons-at-stage-fort-park/

Jane Deering Gallery First Exhibit in 2023 is

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Our Opening Weekend is Saturday January 21st (11-5pm) and Sunday January 22nd (1-4pm) 2023 to coincide with the 2nd Annual Gloucester So Salty.  George Wingate opens the season with ‘Letters / Words / and.’  In the words of an artist friend, George is a postmodernist, a minimalist, a sculptor, a poet and an all over evocator. I would add he is a wordsmith; he invigorates the mind.

Come whenever you can. 

Come often during 2023; it’s Gloucester’s 400+ and there will be lots to view. 

The gallery welcomes all.

Jane Deering – Jane Deering GalleryPleasant St. Gloucester, MA

American Legion Post 3 and Our Lady of Good Voyage #GloucesterMA should be fixed up for the 400+ Anniversary

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Both buildings require immediate facade care. Preservation goals have been outlined for the Legion that will be necessary, too.

They’re heritage landmarks of cultural significance then and now.

Captain Lester S. Wass Post 3 of the American Legion is located at 8 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA.

Our Lady of Good Voyage is located at 142 Prospect Street, Gloucester, MA.

Private-public partnership projects for incremental studies, phases, projects and initiatives greenlit in Gloucester have been awarded funding support with big price tags: $400,000, 1 million, 4-5 million, 29 million, 56 -90+ million, and incentives. Perhaps **new** endeavors could include care of irreplaceable cultural mainstays as part of their ventures.

video clip above – spring 2021

Read more about the Legion then|now here

Legion organizing its own fundraiser – read the Gloucester Daily Times article here

Our Lady of Good Voyage Church – blue domes sustained damage. Read more about it here