Photos by Espinal Creative Public artist Liz Lamanche has led a team of collaborating local artists o create new installation called “Unity Path,” on Salem’s Artists’ Row inspired by Salem’s diverse history and cultural identity which includes Latinx, African American, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, Albanian, Brazilian, Dominican, Afrohispanic, Afro-Caribbean, Puerto Rican, South Asian, and European cultures.  To celebrate the (safe) reopening

After being cooped up inside this Summer, it’s no wonder that people have taken to elaborate crafting and innovative gardening. It draws to mind the creative Victory gardens of the early to mid-twentieth century, with people planting their own food in their backyards and on public lands to supplement supplies during national food shortages. We asked our community to submit

This week in photos features sights and scenes from around the North Shore the week of August 17th. Feel free to submit your photos and videos for the weekly roundup to info@creativecollectivema.com This week was all summer vibes with popup movies in parking lots and painted fish and beer gardens in downtown Beverly. AREA CODE: Video/Digital Art Drive-In at the

Photos by Creative Collective This past weekend Beverly Main Streets hosted Bass in the Grass at Hale Farm in downtown Beverly. Local artists painted 31 large bass-shaped profiles for the event on August 15 and 16. The Bass were arranged on the lawn behind the historic house, allowing visitors to walk through and view and bid on them in the

Sights and Scenes from around the North Shore the week of August 3rd. Feel free to submit your photos and videos for the weekly roundup to info@creativecollectivema.com The Salem Farmer’s Market offers a shuttle from Derby Square to the Bentley School Beverly Bees is Now Open on Artists’ Row Bit Bar is open for business! Bienvenidos á Artists’ Row! Jersey

Thanks to the Salem Public Art Commission, Salem Five, and a dozen very understanding artists, the 2020 Salem Arts Festival Mural Slam took place as scheduled this June, in a manner designed to keep the community and the artists socially distant and safe. This year the 12 artists created their murals at home! The panels have since been installed on

by Joey Phoenix Images Courtesy of Studioful Design This Spring, Studioful Design, in collaboration with the City of Salem, commissioned four local artists – Maia Mattison, Anna Dugan, Keshia de Leon, and Tia Cole – to create eight different chalk art murals around the city for Chalk Art Saturdays, a weekly program to inspire strength and togetherness in Salem during

CW: Discussions of sexual violence, systemic, racism, self-harm, and drug addiction.  by Joey PhoenixImages by Troy B. Thompson/The No Evil Project “Unless you have a secret fortress high in the mountains and are devising nefarious plots to bring about world destruction, you can help with the No Evil Project. Everyone is different, and that’s a good thing.  Everyone is labeled, and despite all the

“Today my roommates and I had our front porch portraits taken. The wind was picking up a little, so Animal’s hair was out of control! This was the best we could do!” by Joey Phoenix Images by Crystal VanArtsdalen We’re all going a little stir crazy. Our normal outlets for de-stressing have been taken from us. We can’t go to

by Joey Phoenix All photos by K.H. Photography While scrolling through my newsfeed last week, like one does these days, I came across a stunning piece of work by Lowell-based photographer Kristen Higgins of K.H. Photography (recently published in VisualMag). She had created an ambient setting with fabric and light and nestled a small screen streaming a posed model in