Cape Ann Museum Green

Pose like a sculpture on the lawn of the Cape Ann Museum Green with Erin McKay from Treetop Yoga.

Pose like a sculpture on the lawn of the Cape Ann Museum Green with Erin McKay from Treetop Yoga.

Pose like a sculpture on the lawn of the Cape Ann Museum Green with Erin McKay from Treetop Yoga.

Pose like a sculpture on the lawn of the Cape Ann Museum Green with Erin McKay from Treetop Yoga.

The Cape Ann Museum will participate in a statewide initiative coordinated by Mass Humanities to do a public reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The event is designed to bring people from all walks of life together to read aloud Douglass’ work and reflect on how themes addressed in the speech still resonant with Americans more than 150 years after they were written.

The Cape Ann Museum's special exhibition displays the works by Essex sculptor Brad Story and Ipswich photographer Dorothy Kerper Monnelly. Each artist has been inspired by their surroundings here on the North Shore and in particular the Great Marsh which extends from Cape Ann up to the New Hampshire border.

This August, the Cape Ann Museum is partnering with Cape Ann Community Cinema to take art outside with a free screening of Gloucester-based classic Captains Courageous (1937) at the Cape Ann Museum Green. Reservations are required.

Celebrate the opening of the Cape Ann Museum Green and the Janet & William Ellery James Center. Join in on the community celebration at the Museum's new community and cultural resource with a day filled with art exhibits, live events, and activities.

Prism is a meditation on light, space, and chaos, made collaboratively by the artists. The Cape Ann Museum is excited to bring this local collaborative performance to Cape Ann Museum Green where the performance will take place outside with projections on the side of the Janet & William Ellery James Center.

Join the Cape Ann Museum’s Teen Art Council at CAM Green to celebrate the fall season. Open to ages 13-19, attendees will carve their own pumpkin to help the Cape Ann Museum decorate for Halloween! Teens who attended the first Teen Night in August will also get a chance to see their self-portraits on display in Quilted Together: An Exhibit of Community Portraits.

Caroline Harvey, former Professor of Poetry at Berklee College of Music and co-owner of Dogtown Books in Gloucester, presents an 8-week course for poets and writers- those just beginning, those returning home to their craft, and those with previous experience as wordsmiths.

Celebrate Earth Day at the Cape Ann Museum Green on Friday, April 22 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Bring a picnic blanket and your favorite lunch to enjoy the return of spring. Then pick up a free art project at CAM’s Art Cart!

Celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States! The Gloucester Juneteenth Festival is presented at the Cape Ann Museum Green by the North Shore Juneteenth Association and CAM’s Community Engagement Committee Member, Toni Waldron, who hosted the first Gloucester Juneteenth Celebration in 2021. Learn about the Juneteenth Holiday and its connection to Cape Ann history while celebrating Black history through music, dance and food. Visit the special exhibition of Doris Prouty’s quilts…

Scialo has received several awards and fellowships for her work in alternative processes in photography. Her artwork has been exhibited at art centers on the east coast and internationally. Using the historic photographic process of cyanotype sun printing, participants will meet at the Cape Ann Museum Green to craft designs and will arrange found objects pulled from Gloucester’s maritime industry with natural plant materials for inclusion on the fabric mural. Once the design is complete, the group will spread the…