A determined young fact checker is about to stir up trouble. His demanding editor has given him a big new assignment: a groundbreaking piece by an unorthodox author. Together, they take on the high-stakes worldof publishing in this new play about the comedy of conflict. The ultimateshowdown between truth and fiction, with undeniably delicious consequences. The Lifespan of a Fact reunites director Sam Weismanº, actor MickeySolis* and Academy Award nominee and Gloucester resident actress LindsayCrouse* after their celebrated collaboration in GSC’s…

The Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit is the largest exhibit of outdoor sculpture in New England, featuring works by artists from as nearby as Hamilton and as far away as Nigeria. The pieces are displayedthroughout the beautiful 100-acre campus of Pingree School in South Hamilton. Works represent a variety of genres and materials, sizes and subjects. The exhibit is free and open to the public seven days a week during daylight hours, a truly accessible and public art experience. What…

At PEM, September is officially PEMtember, a series of free special programs — just for members! All programs are free, just anotherperk of membership. See all of our PEMtember offerings at: pem.org/pemtemberThis event first appeared on EssexCountyCreates.org

​​Before Superman or Wonder Woman there was George Washington. George Washington, political leader, military general, statesman,Founding Father, planter, denture wearer, cherry-tree chopper, first president of the United States is perhaps the first multi-hyphenate celebrity. Washington was also a prolific slaveholder who, at the time of his death in 1799, owned 317 men, women, and children. Drawn from the Addison’s collection of Washingtoniana, this exhibition, presented in the Museum Learning Center as a complement to Men of Steel, Women of Wonder​, explores the complex…

The works in this exhibition speak to the complexity and ambiguity of artistic identity in the British colonies of northeastern North America during the long 18th century and to the difficulty of defining the boundaries of American art. Separated from their English homeland by the vast Atlantic Ocean, colonists nevertheless participated in a dynamic economic and cultural network that connected them with the peoples of Europe,West Africa, and South America. As British North America grew increasingly prosperous, affluent new Americans emulated…

“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.There is none such.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journal IX, 1856 Henry David Thoreau's midcentury clarion call offers a concise distillation ofa prevailing, paradoxical, European American conception of the environment as other, a foil for the reason and civility of man, at times an adversary, at others an asset. From the Puritans' 17th century "errand intothe wilderness" to the present, the dichotomy between man and nature hasdefined the European American experience in…

CALL FOR ART: “All of Us” ArcWorks Invites Artists from thegreater metropolitan Boston area, northeast of Boston and southern New Hampshire to submit art works for exhibition. “All of US” Exhibit is based on the theme of celebrating diversity. Celebrating who you are, whatyou do as an artist, cultural diversity, and your relation to communityand society.  IMPORTANT DATES EXHIBITION DATES: September 19th - November8th, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday September 19th, 2019, 4-6 pm SUBThis event first appeared on EssexCountyCreates.org