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A collection of 40 digital prints that celebrate two historic areas in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The city of Gloucester—rich in artistic and maritime history—has long been a favorite destination for artists in all genres. Gloucester's artistic community, widely known for its traditional maritime and landscape artists, is experiencing a new wave of progressive artistic expression and creativity. This body of work strives to merge the historic with the contemporary and create a heightened visual reality based on the structure's physical attributes and relation to surrounding space.

 		 
 

The Copper Paint Factory
The Tarr & Wonson Paint Factory has greeted more than eight generations of Gloucester's mariners as they have returned to Gloucester Harbor from the sea. Since the time of the American Civil War, it has been an emblem of the harbor and of Gloucester's and America's commitment to the maritime trades. Countless artists have painted it and countless tourists have admired it. Reputedly, within its walls, America's first copper paint was manufactured, making it easier and less expensive to protect the hulls of America's seagoing vessels. The building has been abandoned for the past 20 years and the future of the structure has sparked considerable controversy among Gloucester residents, developers, and city officials. The future of the building remains unresolved as opposing forces battle to preserve the historic structure or tear it down and replace it with a trophy mansion.

 
  The Fort
One of Gloucester's oldest neighborhoods, The Fort is a penninsula that juts out into the harbor and was the natural site for Gloucester's first fort. For over a century the area has been home to industrial warehouses and fishing-related business and also provided low-cost housing for workers in the fishing industry. For generations the Italian immigrants who originally settled there passed the houses down to their heirs. As the fishing industry declines this piece of prime real estate, and one of Gloucester's last historic strongholds, could be lost to the ever encroaching march of American progress.