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

by Joey PhoenixImages by Lindsay Parker When Social Distancing Guidelines went into effect in March, photographers around the country took inspiration from Massachusetts’ photographer Cara Soulia and started photographing people on their porches. The widespread movement has created thousands of images of diverse families standing or sitting on their stoops or front lawns, presumably having been captured by a photographer

A fantastic ribbon cutting hosted by the Salem chamber to welcome the all-new to Pickering Wharf in Salem Ma. Photos by Creative Collective

“Candy” – The House of the Seven Gables Photos by Creative Collective The 2020 Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate and Ice Sculpture Festival wrapped up this past Sunday. The beloved annual tradition of filling the town with ice sculptures brought locals and visitors out into the cold for a weekend of sweet treats and frozen art. Here are some of the

Photos by Creative Collective Click here for the full gallery or here to read more information about the exhibit from the Peabody Essex Museum [foogallery id=”67917″] Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle is the first museum exhibition of the series of paintings Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56) by the best known black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence

Photos by Creative CollectiveClick here for full gallery. [foogallery id=”67904″] “We all know interspecies romance is weird.” ― Tim Burton This year the Hawthorne Hotel and Creative Collective produced the fifth annual winter Masquerade Ball, the biggest on the North Shore! Produced by Creative Collective and hosted at the Hawthorne Hotel, this year’s ball was inspired by the worlds of