City-Wide Arts Festival

Reflecting Gloucester’s and Cape Ann’s status as a worldwide center of art, the Gloucester schools celebrate the creativity of their students during the annual May City-wide Arts Festival, an initiative begun in 2008 by GEF.

Held in various venues downtown, the community has the opportunity to experience student art in all of its forms: painting and drawings by children of all ages, ceramics and woodworks, music, theater and dance, music by various group, including elementary ensembles, the O’Maley bands and the beloved Docksiders—and even STEAM displays by students in Gloucester High School’s engineering program.

In recent years, public collaborative art projects have added to the fun of the festival—most notable was the circle paintings that were done by children and parents in the garden of Cape Ann Museum in 2015!

In 2018, will celebrate the 10th Anniversary Arts Festival, marking a decade of celebrating art throughout our community.