Family Program Tell Me a Story: Your Life in Pictures

27 Pleasant Street,Gloucester MA 01930

06 January, 2022

Description

CAM Kids Thursdays, January 6, 13, 20, 27, February 3, 2022 from 3:30-4:30 pm Downtown Campus, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA Open to ages 6-9, children need to be accompanied by an adult. This program is free and open to the public, registration is required for the entire program. Tell Me a Story explores storytelling in books and art works. Over the course of a few weeks, we will read a chapter book and explore similar narratives found in the Museum’s art objects. At the end of each book, participants will create their own artwork based on these themes. This month, we will be reading Deborah Zemke’s Bea Garcia: My Life in Pictures. We will be exploring how the artists in the Folly Cove and the Fitz Henry Lane galleries tell stories through their art, just like Dea Garcia. The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to a single remarkable place. From its earliest days as a fishing and shipping port to its mid-19th century role in the granite industry, to its singular charms of light and sea that have attracted countless artists from the 19th century to the present, Cape Ann boasts a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial, and artistic achievement. The Museum's fine art collection includes the largest grouping of works by native son and renowned marine artist, Fitz Henry Lane, as well as work by other prominent painters and sculptors who lived on, visited or were inspired by Cape Ann. The work of contemporary Cape Ann artists is also collected and exhibited. The permanent collection includes fine and decorative arts, and artifacts from the major industries of the area - the fisheries and granite quarrying.