Family Program Storytime with Cassie: Rhoda’s Rock Hunt

27 Pleasant Street,Gloucester MA 01930

07 January, 2022

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CAM Kids Friday, January 7, 2022 at 10:00 am Downtown Campus, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA Open to ages 3-5, children need to be accompanied by an adult. This program is free and open to the public. Enjoy the Museum galleries during an interactive story time with Cassie the Sea Serpent followed by an art activity in the CAM Studio. Each month we will explore a theme taken from the Museum’s collection and the history and culture of Cape Ann. This January, join Cassie the Sea Serpent in the Granite Gallery! Inspired by Cape Ann’s granite quarries, we will be reading Molly Beth Griffin’s Rhoda’s Rock Hunt. Young artists are invited to create rock animals to take home. 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.