Salem Arts Festival Returns This Year June 4-6

Celebrate the arts, culture, creativity, and community at the 13th annual Salem Arts Festival June 4 through 6. This free and popular family-fri...

View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This spring, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of large-scale, hallucinatory paintings that tackle pressing ecological issues...

Gloucester Artist Vanessa Michalak: Rocky Neck’s May 2021 Goetemann Resident

The Goetemann Artist Residency (GAR), part of The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC), welcomes local artist Vanessa Michalak as its 2021 Gloucester Inv...

Experience the “Perfect Breath” at PEM’s New Exhibit

Three years ago, artist Zarah Hussain could hardly breathe.  “I was coughing, I was having trouble walking uphill, and I just wasn’t getting enoug...

Artisans at Essex’s Bubble Factory Turn Sand Into Glass

Glass is a fickle medium, as anyone who has watched the hit Netflix reality show Blown Away can attest. In an instant, even an expert artisan can...

Lynda Roscoe Hartigan Named Executive Director and CEO of PEM

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) today announced that Lynda Roscoe Hartigan will become PEM’s next Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Executive Direc...

The Creative Mind Helping Keep North Shore Arts Alive

When we connected during the first few days of 2021, John Andrews of Creative Collective was taking his first break since the rest of the world s...

How Local Theatres and Museums Have Weathered the Pandemic

The fiscal damage created by the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt across the globe. Arguably, one of the hardest hit industries is the arts and entert...

5 New Art Exhibits on View North of Boston

The arts and culture scene on the North Shore continues to impress, with many new exhibits opening over the past year despite the pandemic. These thr...

9 Virtual Classes to Spice up Your Next Zoom Party

Why just watch HGTV or the Food Network when you can DIY at home with a live instructor? That’s the beauty of interactive online classes that will el...