“Spring Fling” at Newburyport Art Association

Solo Show by Award Winning Landscape Photographer Dale Blank Opens April 1

NEWBURYPORT, MA– “Spring Fever”, a solo show featuring the new work of award-winning local photographer Dale Blank, will appear in the Laura Coombs Hills Gallery of the Newburyport Art Association (NAA) from April 1 through April 14, 2010. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday night, April 3, 2010 from 7 to 10 pm. Reflections, symmetrical components and fleeting light are the mainstays of Ms. Blank’s photography. Natural and man-made light are featured: sun and moon rises and -sets, fireworks, fairs, city lights or movement through time and space.

“Spring Fever” features photographs from the North Shore, Sonoma, Barcelona, New York City and Washington, D.C., all works being expressive of the season. Ms. Blank is a member of the NAA, the Rockport Art Association and the Rocky Neck Art Colony. Her work has appeared at many of their shows, exhibitions and sales. She was awarded an Industrial Development Foundation Award for Photography at the NAA Winter Show 2009 and the M.A. Arakelian Memorial Award for Best of Show Winter 2006.  She has held solo shows and participated in juried shows and exhibitions at many other local venues. “The artist has managed to frame heat as atmospheric condition with a quiet spring landscape. This is a wonderfully rich image, full of contrasts…keep looking,” wrote juror Elizabeth Wykoff of one of Ms. Blank’s winning works. “Hours after first experiencing (the piece) I am still drawn to the attraction/repulsion relationship. I love that the image provides opportunity for various narrative interpretations,” Cynthia Meyers Foley wrote of another. A Massachusetts native, Dale is a graduate of Brandeis University. Her landscape photography is the basis for the Cape Ann Calendar series. Her work has been featured in many other calendars, visitors’ guides and private collections. She resides in Gloucester.

Show hours are Monday and Wednesday through Friday, 11am-5 pm; Saturday, 11am- 5 pm and 7-9 pm; and Sunday, 1-5 pm. The NAA is closed on Sunday, April 4.  CONTACT: Carol Reynolds, Gallery Director Newburyport Art Association 65 Water St., Newburyport, MA 01950 978-465-8769

Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce & Industry Annual “Big Win” Drawing

Newburyport - The countdown has begun, leading up to the Greater Newburyport Chamber of Commerce & Industry annual “Big Win” drawing (formally known as the Chamber Pot).

The drawing of over $20,000 in prizes will take place at the Big Win.Big Party event on March 18th, 2010 at The Strand Theater on Green Street.The Chamber’s Big Win tickets are a great way to support your local Chamber AND take a chance on big winnings. The odds are 28 to 1 that YOU will be a winner. Odds this good don’t come along every day! Tickets are $100 each. Split your ticket with your friends, family or coworkers. Up to ten people can go in on a ticket together.

Read more

The Port Tavern’s Irish Coffee

Warm up with The Port Tavern’s classic Irish Coffee. By Lauren Carelli.

There’s a cold rain falling on old snow, and the slush on the sidewalks has soaked through your boots, turning your wool socks into frigid sponges. Fortunately, The Port Tavern in Newburyport serves a few warm drinks to heat you up, including one of the oldest cold-weather remedies around: Irish Coffee. Read more

Holiday Cheer at Valentines in Newburyport

Join Valentine’s Store at 27 Water Street in Newburyport to fill stockings for the needy children through the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center for the Holidays! Starting December 1st 2009, we will provide a list of suggestions for stocking stuffers both online at our website, and at our store location! This will include $25.00 gift cards to Local Toy Stores, and Market Basket in hopes to help with Holiday Dinner along with toys and stocking stuffers to give the children something to look forward to Christmas morning. Return your gift or gift card to the front desk at Valentine’s, and receive 5% off of your purchase as a thank you from Valentine’s! Give back this Holiday Season to the children that need a little extra Holiday Magic in their lives! Every little bit helps, and will restore a smile to the faces of many children this season. Happy Holidays to you all!

Help yoursELF to Happier Holidays

The Tannery Marketplace in Newburyport is offering discounts and deals as well as special events every day of the week until Christmas!

Monday: Senior Discount Day. Various discounts will be at shops throughout the Tanner Marketplace for folks 60 and over. Includes a free Tannery courtesy Cab that will bring you to the Tanner and back home. 978-462-4442 for transportation.

Tuesday: Taste of the Tannery. Meals, soups, salads and appetizer specials at various Tannery eateries. 15% discount on the top ten best selling cookbooks every Tuesday.

Wednesday: Health and Wellness. From 1-7pm relax with chair massages, fitness demos, free intro yoga classes, TRX and spin class, free smoothie samples, free make-up consultations, half off dance classes for new students, and discounts on featured best selling health and wellness books! New salon customers are eligible for deep discounts.

Thursday: A Toast to You. Fine European wine sampling from 6-8pm throughout the Tanner. Live music and appetizer/soup specials also. Bottle of fine French wine raffled every Thursday at 8.

Friday: Invitation Night. Live theatrical performances presented by The Actors Studio along with Invitation Night celebrations throughout the Tannery on December 4th and 11th.

Saturday: Kids Giving Back. One of the most important events all week. Kids can drop off canned goods at the Tannery and parents of the gifting child will become eligible to win an assortment of certificated. Kids can pain an ornament with any food donations. Free music programs, kids boot camp and parents spin class, also free bike maintenance classes, plus day bike safety checks.

Sunday: Farmers Market. Newburyport Farmer’s Market, every Sunday inside and out at the Tannery you will find an abundance of locally grown produce, along with fine artisans crafts, and the Market lounge will be featuring live music.

For more information visit tannerymarketplace.com

Green Home Design in Newbury

The exterior of Lisa Dorval and David Hall’s house resembles that most comforting and iconic of rural New England buildings: a barn. Surrounded by the gentle farmlands and salt marshes of Newbury, the rectilinear structure blends beautifully in a way that a new McMansion never could. Read more

Newburyport’s Rising Tide

Written by Bryan McGonigle

Photographs by Christopher Churchill

As Ann Lagasse walks along Green Street in Newburyport, talking to residents and noting the new businesses she’s helped bring to town in the past decade, she stops here and there to admire the flower beds that New England Development supplies to its tenants. “We’re definitely a downtown, but we’re looking to attract staple stores, too,” she says. “That way, we’re not all coffee shops and banks.”

Yet much of the waterfront remains undeveloped. And across town, a petition at a local market gathered thousands of signatures aimed at saving that market from being replaced by a CVS, the latest phase of frustration for some Newburyport residents.

“The face of Newburyport has changed to an almost faceless town, with a few people in control sporting dollar signs in their eyes,” says local resident Lisa Hayford. “Newburyport’s soul was sold to a commercial devil, and now the residents are paying the price.”

An evolving makeover of the downtown area, combined with a dismal economy that has stalled long-awaited major renovation of the waterfront and a caused a visionary tug-of-war, define the ambitious and often exhausting course of progress in Newburyport.

Newburyport has a long history of financial advantage. Born in 1764 after Newbury’s port community prospered so greatly that it broke away from the rest of the town (and later annexed parts of Newbury to incorporate itself into city status in 1851), Newburyport became an epicenter of shipbuilding and trade during and following the American Revolution. The United States Revenue Cutter service—the predecessor to the US Coast Guard, which was established to fight smuggling—opened its first station in Newburyport in 1791, and lighthouses built by the Coast Guard still stand on Water Street and Plum Island. Newburyport was also a base for the privateer ships that attacked enemy ships that captured hundreds of British ships during the American Revolution and War of 1812.

Ships from all over the world registered their foreign goods at Newburyport’s Custom House. In turn, those built in Newburyport carried American goods around the world. The Currier yard built 97 vessels totaling more than 80,000 tons. Famous shipbuilder Donald McKay set up his operation in Newburyport and introduced clipper ships—famous for their grandeur, grace, and speed—in the mid-19th century. The shipbuilding district was overlooked by Federal-style mansions of the region’s famous shipbuilding families, including the Greenleaf, Cushing, and Bartlett clans.

Newburyport native and merchant Francis Cabot Lowell helped bring the Industrial Revolution to America in the early 1800s, and the innovations that gave birth to steam-powered mills served as more wind for Newburyport’s financial sails. Many of the large brick mill buildings around the city were built at this time.

In the 20th century, however, the decline of localized industry and the growth of suburbs and strip malls caused Newburyport to sink economically, leaving the city awash in stagnation. By the 1970s, Newburyport’s downtown commercial core was in disarray; many of the local shops were closed, and much of downtown was slated for demolition. The Newburyport Redevelopment Authority, established in 1960 to address revitalization of the downtown central business district, renovated some of the area, including the waterfront park it built with the Newburyport Waterfront Trust. But the more ambitious plan for a grand hotel on the waterfront was fought by community activist groups for years, because the hotel was planned for public land, and it slowly sunk into wishful thinking.

Then came the Lagasses. In the 1990s, Chuck and Ann Lagasse moved to Newburyport from Haverhill and bought several buildings, setting out for renewal and charting a new course toward preservation and restoration of downtown and the waterfront.

“We moved here, and we liked old buildings,” Ann Lagasse says. “We saw some opportunities. This town has the best collection of Federalist-style buildings in the nation, and we wanted to preserve that.”

Before long, the Lagasses were the city’s biggest commercial landowners, with about 25 percent of the downtown area in their hands. Their work inspired other renovation efforts, and property values in the city went up. Newburyport witnessed a commercial rebirth under the Lagasses, who invested in condominiums, renovated Michael’s Harborside restaurant, converted another old restaurant into the Black Cow, and renovated the Atkinson Building downtown into office space and residences, among many other projects.

The Lagasses enlisted the guidance of Walter Beinecke Jr., heir to the S&H Green Stamp fortune, who had revitalized much of Nantucket by buying waterfront buildings and renovating them with appealing 18th-century architecture. Impressed with the renovations he’d made with Nantucket, the Lagasses met with him in the early 1990s and asked for his advice in preserving and revitalizing Newburyport’s downtown and waterfront. Beinecke agreed to help and went a step further: he moved to Newburyport.

“It was great,” Lagasse says of having Beinecke as a mentor. “He was a visionary, concerned about the big picture, but also concerned with the details.”

Beinecke left Newburyport a few years later to be closer to his family in Texas and passed away in 2004. Around that time, the Lagasses met with Beinecke’s Nantucket protégé, Stephen Karp, and began discussions about investing in Newburyport. The Lagasses were millions of dollars in debt and couldn’t materialize their goals for Newburyport on their own.

“We knew we needed a strong partner to develop the waterfront property,” Lagasse says. “We had mortgages on the properties, and the sale price included that debt. We wanted to find an entity that had the expertise and experience to develop the waterfront.”

Karp is chairman and CEO of New England Development, a company he started in the early 1970s, specializing in commercial real estate that developed more retail space in its first 30 years than any other developer in the Northeast. The company’s portfolio included the CambridgeSide Galleria in Boston and the massive Pinehills residential community in Plymouth, and NED had purchased and renovated properties on Nantucket, where Karp kept his work in line with Beinecke’s vision of preservation on the island.

“Frankly, we talked to many companies at that time, including companies that were interested in particular parcels,” Lagasse says. “We liked NED’s proposal because they had an interest in the entire portfolio, and we believed we could continue to work with them.”

Karp had reportedly declined to invest in Newburyport the first time he was approached, but later changed his mind and was drawn to the city. “Walter introduced me to Newburyport, and we discussed the similarities and differences with Nantucket,” Karp says. “I had great appreciation for the character of Newburyport, the preservation of older buildings, the unique shops and restaurants, the location on the Merrimack, and the close proximity to Plum Island.”

Karp began buying several of the Lagasses’ properties in 2005, starting with 31 properties and adding on from there. He had a vision for the town, one that was estimated at more than $100 million that included long-term development of the waterfront. Ann Lagasse stayed on with NED and now helps manage its Newburyport properties.

“The Lagasses created value in their preservation of building character, land purchases, and appreciation of the location on the water,” Karp says. “Ann continues her work in finding new tenants who serve a year-round population.”

Lagasse says she and others at NED have been canvassing in other towns, talking with business owners to attract new businesses to fill up Newburyport’s downtown. Today, Newburyport is home to more than 17,000 residents and hundreds of businesses, and NED is the largest property owner in the city, with 50 retail stores in town as well as a couple of schools, some office space, marina space, and executive office suites.

The development in Newburyport has involved mixed-use buildings, properties that serve as businesses, office space, and schools, as well as residences. Neighboring Salisbury is in the midst of a revitalization effort with proposed mixed-use buildings as well, and Newburyport may serve as a loose example of what to expect there, since many renovated buildings in Newburyport have been that way for some time.

“We’re focusing on making the buildings work on every level,” NED spokesman Tony Green says of Newburyport. “It already is a mixed-use downtown; it’s already here, and we’re a part of it. The new development we do will be consistent with that.”

New England Development’s ambitions have met with some local backlash, however. Some say they are concerned about their town being turned into a Nantucket imitation—“Nantucketization” is a common term around town—and some are concerned about the influx of new, often high-end stores coming in from out of town and replacing Newburyport’s familiar character. Although the Nantucket revitalization was a loose model for NED’s plans, Lagasse and Karp insist they have always planned to maintain Newburyport’s character. Karp has met with Newburyport residents a few times since purchasing the Lagasses’ properties and has had Lagasse talking with residents and insists that feedback does not fall on deaf ears.

“We try to listen to what people have to say,” Karp says. “We can’t always agree with everyone. The community will have input into any major development that will change downtown.”

Recently, it was announced that the White Hen Pantry on Pond Street would not have its lease renewed. Instead, the nearby CVS would be expanding and taking up the entire plaza space. This has led to outrage in that neighborhood from people who have frequented that White Hen for many years.

“Maybe CVS offered more rent, but I’m not really sure,” says Robin Munroe, whose husband has owned that White Hen franchise for about 12 years. Although the Munroes own that franchise, the actual tenant is White Hen, so deals are made through the corporate office. “Nobody’s talking to us. All we know is our lease ends in April, and that’s it.”

The Newburyport White Hen has many loyal customers; Munroe said they get an average of 1,500 customers a day. Since news of the White Hen’s imminent closing became known this past spring, there has been a petition posted at the market that has gathered more than 5,000 signatures. In September, there was a protest outside the White Hen held by Liz Frame, a local business owner outraged by the decision to replace the market.

Frame, who owns the Fancy Schmancy store near downtown and sings in a local band, has been a supporter of the White Hen effort for a while, but her concern is for the whole town, and she has long been outspoken with her concern about NED. Frame says she and others in town will be watching to see how the development progresses. The White Hen situation has put many on alert and has ignited fears of the NED renovation efforts.

“I don’t begrudge Mr. Karp his vision to develop the downtown,” Frame says. “It’s ultimately going to be good for everybody. But from a more altruistic, community-minded viewpoint, there are potential landmines that need to get navigated, and this whole White Hen-CVS thing speaks to that issue.”

Neither White Hen’s nor CVS’s corporate offices responded to requests for comments for this article. Lagasse acknowledges the frustration over the decision not to renew White Hen’s lease, but said the decision was one based on the location of the plaza in which White Hen operates and the company having to make a choice between White Hen and CVS due to the limit of space there.

“Both White Hen and CVS have been great tenants which served the community well,” Lagasse says. “Unfortunately, we could not expand this property—it’s a residential neighborhood—to accommodate both their future needs to grow.”

Some properties owned by NED have seen their rents go up. NED also requires a percentage of stores’ profits, which has alarmed some business owners around town. But taking a percentage of a store’s profits isn’t a practice reserved just for shopping malls, and it comes in exchange for helping the store make those profits, Green says.

“Percentage rate is common and has been a part of many leases in Newburyport that predate us,” he says. “The location, amenities, service, marketing, and support, as well as base rent level, can make such an arrangement attractive to both parties. Some leases have it, others don’t.”

With the economy in a slump, the development of the waterfront area, the major project to be undertaken by NED, has been delayed. The company had planned to tear down Oldies Marketplace along the waterfront near the Atkinson Building and build an inn, but in 2007, that plan was scrapped when the economy turned downward. Green and Lagasse say they may decide to go ahead with that waterfront inn once the economy picks back up again, but right now they aren’t sure. The company is working with the city on a walking pathway from Cashman Park to the waterfront, but the company’s eight-acre waterfront property remains undeveloped.

“In today’s economy, we’re focused on our businesses that are already there,” Green says. The company insists it remains committed to the change Ann and Chuck Lagasse envisioned for Newburyport more than a decade ago, and despite some outcry and concern from many in town, it has a lot of support from the community.

“I think people now know New England Development is a very reputable company that is here for the long haul,” Lagasse says. As she walks along the pedestrian Inn Street area and surrounding block, noting all the renovations that have been done over the years, people wave and say hello to her, even stopping their cars for small talk.

On Pleasant Street, where three new tenants of NED opened businesses last year, a new shop recently opened. Bobbles and Lace is a clothing and jewelry store based in Boston and Marblehead that has added Newburyport as its third location. The store, recently featured on WCVB’s “Chronicle” in a special bargain-hunting segment, specializes in high-end boutique looks with reasonable prices. All jewelry is under $45, and all clothing is under $80. The expansion to Newburyport was ideal, according to Co-owner Lindsay Rose Rando, a former Los Angeles boutique owner and model who co-owns Bobbles and Lace with her aunt Valerie White Russo.

“We wanted a town with a real downtown feeling where people spend the day,” Rando says, excited because the shop had been open for just about 20 minutes and she‘d already made her first sale. “There’s such great shopping here. And every person who has come in has been such a pleasure and so welcoming.”

Regarding animosity from some local residents toward NED, Rando doesn’t understand it. “There are a lot of negative feelings, but I couldn’t tell you how much of a joy it’s been,” she says, adding that she finds her rent to be reasonable, and the people at NED have been nice and professional in working with her. “One day we wanted to change the color of our awning, and [Ann Lagasse] was down here later that day with colors to pick from. It was great. I’m not used to that.”

Getting people to come to Newburyport is one thing; getting them out of their cars may be another. Along the waterfront is a large parking lot with hundreds of parking spaces, used by people who work in and visit the town. But as Newburyport Planning Director Sean Sullivan points out, it’s just not enough.

“During peak hours, it’s challenging to find parking,” Sullivan says. “I just walked outside, and the spaces are 99 percent full.” Parking in Newburyport has long been griped about, and with more development comes an increased demand for parking. To make the matter more critical, the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority is considering turning a portion of that area into a park, a move that would eliminate about 350 parking spaces.

The town recently hired an engineering consulting firm to conduct a parking study to determine the best place for a new parking garage, based on proximity to downtown, visual and environmental impact, and parking capacity. This was the ninth such study in recent history, causing many in town to question the credibility of such studies. This parking study was made possible by grant money from the federal and state governments, totaling about $500,000. With a price tag like that, Sullivan says the town is taking this parking study very seriously. The town has been working with NED on the parking situation, and there has been discussion between the town and NED about possibly using a parcel of land owned by the company near the waterfront as a parking area if need be.

While the economy might be bad, boating business is going well, according to Newburyport Marinas Manager Butch Frangipane. Frangipane recently celebrated his 35th year working at the marinas and has watched the marina life in Newburyport expand with the development. Since the Lagasses took over the marina properties, the number of boat slips has doubled to almost 500.

“Business has been reasonable for us; we hold our own,” he says. Boaters cruising up to Maine used to skip Newburyport and stop in Boston and Gloucester, and Frangipane says it was likely because boaters were forced to use the municipal docks with very little privacy. With the increase in boat slips and upgrades on amenities such as cable and electricity—and soon wireless Internet—transient traffic has seen a resurgence in Newburyport. “We’re building that business every year, and every year it gets better.”

Despite the rough economy and echoes of local dissent, Karp’s goal and vision for Newburyport remains the same as it was when he first started buying property in town four years ago. “Downtown Newburyport will be a bustling year-round destination that serves both residents and visitors,” Karp says. “I believe the work we have done has been consistent with the character of Newburyport. It is a wonderful city with room to grow while still respecting the past, yet continuing as the commercial center for the area.”

Mechanica

Four advertising pros escape the city and find national success in Newburyport at Mechanica. By Sarah H. Ditkoff. Photographs by Christopher Churchill.

Read more

Haunted Places on the North Shore

These are the tales of lost souls said to have spooked North Shore travelers and residents for decades. Who are these restless spirits and what do they want? By Lauren Danahy. Photographs by Christopher Churchill. Read more

Newburyport ArtWalk

Title: Newburyport ArtWalk
Location: Downtown Newburyport & Valerie’s Gallery
Description: The next Newburyport ArtWalk event is Saturday, June 28th from 3pm-7pm and will have a theme of Art and Garden.

ArtWalk events are self-guided walking tours of the 15 participating galleries. At many galleries artists will be in attendance to discuss their works and exhibits of new works are being presented. Light refreshments will also be available.

Participating galleries include: Bridge Gallery, The Churchill Gallery, Child at Heart Gallery, Indigo Artist Studio, The Walsingham Gallery, the Newburyport Art Association, Valerie’s Gallery, Off the Wall, Spirit of Newburyport Gallery, Ferry Wharf Gallery, Connor Summers Gallery, the Firehouse Center, Somerby’s Landing Sculpture Park, Lepore Fine Arts, and Chameleon.

Bridge Gallery - Featuring two shows: “Kaleidoscope” featuring pastels by Bridge Gallery artist Kim Henry and “Floral Abundance” featuring paintings of local gardens, bouquets and  flower displays. Guitarist Donna Ricci will play from 5-7 pm.  Refreshments from 3-7.

Chameleon - Chameleon will be presenting new work by artist Julia Purinton with a reception to meet the artist from 5pm to 7pm Saturday. The work will be on display through the month of July.

Child at Heart Gallery – Swinging with flowers and butterflies or reading stretched out in the pedals of an iris, the wondereous paintings of Irena Roman will be featured at Child at Heart Gallery, 48 Inn St. Newburyport for the Saturday, June 28 Newburyport ArtWalk, 3 to 7 pm.
Illustration teacher at the Mass College of Art, she leads her class through the production of the Say Good Night to Illiteracy book art. Please call: (978) 462-5554, or visit: www.ChildatHeartGallery.com

Churchill Gallery – Our Summer Artwalk, Newburyport’s second of four this year, will feature new work by gallery artists. We are delighted to welcome four exceptional new artists to our roster: Peter Batchelder, Logan Hagege, Laura Litwa Holden and Shoshannah White.
Reception June 28, from 3pm-7 pm. www.thechurchillgallery.com

Connor Summers Gallery - “Flora and Fauna” exhibit at the Connor Summers Gallery on 48 Market Street behind St Paul’s Church in Newburyport. For more information, please call: (978) 462-9196.

Ferry Wharf Gallery - Ferry Wharf Gallery, 1R Water St., presents The Creative Photography of Karen Lynch. Created with an Impressionist’s Eye toward nature, Lynch’s vibrant collection celebrates her affinity for natural beauty, fine detail, and compelling images. The show, entitled “Darkroom to Digital”, is the photographer’s tribute to her professional photographer parents.The public is invited to the Artists’ Reception during the ArtWalk from 3pm-7pm. For more information, please call: (978) 462-2740, or visit: www.ferrywharf.com

Firehouse Center for the Arts -  The Firehouse Center for the Arts presents “Out in the
Open Secrets,” the debut of new work from Main Rings Island resident Lane Williamson. Williamson, who lives and paints on an island several miles out to sea creates landscapes lauded for their searing beauty and turbulent emotion. Show extended through June 29. Open on Saturday, June 28 until 7:30 pm.

Indigo Studio -  Indigo Artist studio artists, Mary Pollak and Lillian Coolidge, are planning a colorful showing of new monotypes and paintings referencing nature and landscape for the upcoming ArtWalk. A range of work on canvas and paper will be exhibited. The Studio/gallery will be open from 11-7 pm, Saturday, June 28 at 53 Middle St. An array of garden delights will be on hand for visual and edible enjoyment.

Lepore Fine Arts – American and European paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries in a gallery overlooking Newburyport’s historic waterfront.

Newburyport Art Association - The Newburyport Art Association presents two shows: “Through Our Eyes,” NAA Photo Interest Group show and sale in the Sargent and Hartson Galleries from June 25 through July 9, with a reception June 28 from 7-9pm. And featured in the Laura Coombs Hills Gallery is “Seductions,” botanical and landscape photographs by Paul
Osborne and Catherine Davis, June 24-July 9, with a reception June 27 from 7-9pm.

Off the Wall - Off The Wall is featuring a new artist: Floral photographer Pamela Mansell. She will be present for the ArtWalk. We also now carry Beach Plum Too foral arrangements. You can find them at the Tannery here in town.
Spirit of Newburyport Gallery - Featured exhibit for the June 28th ArtWalk will be a debut sample of Jon’s latest designs entitled ‘Gardens of Newburyport’. This will be the last open house exhibit by the ‘Spirit of Newburyport Studio’ at the historic ‘1729 Counting House’ at 49 Water
Street. Please see web site for more details at: www.spiritofnewburyport.com

Valerie’s Gallery – is pleased to present printmaker Matthew Smith who will be on hand from 4 to 6 pm. Matthew’s innovative technique of copper block etchings has made him a favorite of our gallery and we hope you will join us in this opportunity to see new work and meet the artist.

Walsingham Gallery - offers a distinctive collection of original art and sculpture.

The next ArtWalk event will be August 23rd with a theme of Art and Music to include live musical performances; and October 25th with a theme of Art and Harvest.

Galleries are open year round and offer a brochure with map that shows a convenient walking tour of all gallery locations in town. The map may be downloaded from our website as well as picked up at galleries, the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce, and various restaurants and inns. Look for more details on all upcoming special events at: www.newburyportartwalk.com

Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2009-06-28
End Time: 19:00

Next Page »