Tag: Gloucester’s downtown cultural district

Grimdrops meets Saluti a dub! Summer of 2026 windows and walls art for downtown businesses #GloucesterMA

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Emily Grace mural (2022)
gig rowers (2025)
image: artist-grimdrops-mike-grimaldi-harbor-village-action-inc-mural-commission_-gloucester-ma-400th-anniversary-2023_-photo-2021-aug-13-© C. Ryan

Throwback 2017 photo of Art Haven murals (begun in 2015) on Parsons inspired by Gloucester iconography — with the monumental HarborWalk Fishnet mural by Jamie Calderwood, 2012 –appear to have inspired some of these 2026 temporary works.

Gloucester Mural Map | Public Art

Gloucester murals | Public art map Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Downtown Art Walk coming up fast! Looking warm and vibrant #GloucesterMA

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Downtown Gloucester Art Walk

Meet the working artists  

&  

Visit downtown Gloucester’s diverse galleries 

Saturday February 14th 2026 1-4pm 

Food and music 

Suggested Art Walk itinerary

Create a custom tour and map with the artists and galleries according to their addresses in downtown Gloucester, Ma. 01930 

Jeff Weaver. 16 Rogers Street  

Elizabeth Gauthier. 5 Parsons Street 

Stephen LaPierre Open Studio.    11 Harbor Loop 

Barbara Lynch (guest at Stephen LaPierre Open Studio). 11 Harbor Loop 

Fish Impressions.    206 Main Street 

Local Colors. 121 Main Street 

Amend Bish Gallery. 51R Main Street 

Fish City Studio. 39 Main Street 

Matz Gallery – Sawyer Free Library.  2 Dale Ave 

COSMOS Gallery.  20 Pleasant Street 

Jane Deering Gallery.  19 Pleasant Street  

Images:

  • Amy Chase’s piece is called “Cat,Dog”  mixed media on canvas, at Fish City Studio.
  • Barbara Lynch’s pieces are oil on canvas… at Stephen LaPierre’s Open Studio
  • Page #2 of the attached release includes a fish print by Joe  Higgins  at Fish Impressions

Print and share flyer

Susan Wadia-Ells shares the latest printable press release here:

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

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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

Artist Stephen LaPierre of Gloucester is open a lot! A recent work in progress, “Main Street: West End, 2026” is now complete. Stop in to see that painting and what’s on the Easel on Harbor Loop

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What a treat– and talk about accessibility! Stephen LaPierre’s studio 11 Harbor Loop in downtown Gloucester is open… Monday-Sunday 11-7.

Main Street: West End (L) oil in progress (26″ x 30″). | (R) completed

Stephen LaPierre images: Duncan Street and Secret Beach II