Ipswich Museum

Wednesday Evening Lecture - Landscape Design that Works for You
2022-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Laura Bibler is an award-winning designer and garden restoration expert whose work extends from modest garden spaces to comprehensive master plans. She will take us on a journey to create a fresh new look for your own home and a sequence of bloom discussion on what anchor perennials everyone should have in their gardens. She was the main designer involved with the newly restored French garden at the Stevens Coolidge Place in North Andover. This is a joint meeting with the Town & Country Garden Club.

Bag Lunch Series - Sustainable Agriculture - Grow, Nourish, Engage
2022-03-07 12:00
Speaker: Ex. Director, Liz Green will discuss the central role the farm plays in the delivery of the Three Sisters Garden Project mission and operation: a tool for food system change and their home base for education and community projects. The farm is located on the campus of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
Brown Bag Lunch Talks are free for Ipswich Seniors and members. $5 for non-members

Botanical Watercolor Workshop
2022-02-19 09:00 - 14:00
Cost: $55 Members / $65 non-Members (includes materials)
Age: Adults (18+)
Workshop Description: We’ll begin the morning with some exercises in watercolor technique and we’ll explore a brief, yet fascinating history of the art of botanical watercolor painting. We’ll then begin our specimen study with a flat wash and start to build volume and detail over the course of the afternoon with careful layering and observation.
Materials to be provided: Watercolor pan set and palette, 11×14 hot press watercolor paper, pencils, sketch paper, rulers, water jars and paper towels.
About the instructor: Erin Rice has a Bachelor’s degree in fine arts and graduate degrees in art history. In addition to running the education programs here at the Ipswich Museum, she also teaches art history at Montserrat College of Art and paints in her free time.
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Wednesday Evening Lecture
2022-02-16 19:30 - 21:30
John Wigglesworth, science and math teacher at the Waring School in Beverly will give an overview of the long- term study that SEA Education Association of Woods Hole has conducted to quantify the amount and concentration of plastic pollution in the Western Boundaries of the North Atlantic.

Landscape, Color, and Abstraction Painting Workshop
2022-02-12 09:00 - 15:00
Cost: $110 Members / $120 non-Members (includes all materials, see list below)
Workshop Description: Landscape, Color & Abstraction explores color, mark and abstraction through the lens of landscape painting. This workshop will briefly look at the traditional elements and principles of landscape painting, and use these tools to inform and create a compelling abstract work of art. This workshop is designed to provide the structure necessary to enter an abstract painting language with intention and ease, while still providing space for freedom and intuition. Landscape, Color & Abstraction is designed to help the artist better understand composition, value, color, and most importantly, how to become a looser and more expressive painter.
What to expect: The morning will be spent exploring a few sequential exercises and the afternoon will be an open studio format. Amanda will demonstrate all exercises before artists embark on their own work. Artists will leave the class with preparatory composition and value studies and 3-5 color study paintings.
Age and Level: Adult (18+) and beginner to intermediate painters
Supplies: (Provided by instructor): Mixed Media Paper, size 11×14, Canvas Paper, size 11×14, HB pencils, Value Charts, Color-Aid Paper, Newprint, Charcoal Sticks, Palette Paper, size 12×16, Palette Knives, Paint Brushes, size small and medium, Acrylic paint (Titanium White, Quinacridone Magenta, Napthol Red Paint, Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ochre, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue), Paper Towels, Water Cups
Attendees to bring: Sketchbook (optional), 3-5 Reference photos (consider a variety of landscape shots, IE, marshes, forests, mountains)
Instructor Bio: Amanda K. Hawkins is an award winning painter living and working in Beverly, MA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art in 2014 and Masters in Fine Arts in Painting at Boston University in 2021. She is on the Board of Trustees at Rocky Neck Art Colony and shows her work in gallery shows across New England. Amanda teaches painting workshops across North America, including in British Columbia and Arizona, in addition to virtual workshops which have an international draw. Her work can be found in private art collections across the globe. Amanda maintains an active studio blog and shares her creative practice with over 25K people worldwide. If Amanda isn’t in the studio, she’s exploring New England and gaining inspiration for her next painting.
Learn more at https://www.amandakhawkins.com/ or follow her on Instagram @mandahawk_studio
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Bag Lunch Series - Music in the Mind's Ear
2022-02-07 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker: Musician, composer, David Grimes will talk about what music is, the difference between listening and hearing and how to create an inner soundscape. He will also share his own story that let him to composition.

Saturday Morning Digital Photography Workshop
2022-02-05 09:00 - 12:00
Workshop Description: Spend a couple of hours on a Winter Saturday Morning advancing your skills and techniques in Digital Photography. We’ll start with a quick but important review of photography basics that everyone should know. We will then move on to an in-depth look at tools, techniques and even some tricks that will help you to improve your photographic prowess and create photographs that are well beyond the typical snapshot capture. Time will be taken to answer individual questions and, weather permitting, we’ll step outside for some hands-on work. Sign up soon to save your spot.
Cost: $30 members $35 non-members
Age: Adult (18+)
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Bag Lunch: Up Close And Personal
2022-01-10 12:00
Speaker: Curator, Katherine Chaison will share objects from the museum’s collection that are not on view to the public. This always promises to be fun and interesting.This event will be held via zoom.
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Annual Grandmas Attic Holiday Boutique
2021-12-04 09:00 - 16:00
Join us for a day of holiday shopping, in the beautifully decorated Heard House.

Neighborhood Walk
2021-11-17 19:30 - 20:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
This is a Virtual Neighborhood Walk. Stephanie Gaskins explores another street in Ipswich for a memorable journey to a new neighborhood. This walk will virtually explore the area from South Green to North Green

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Tracing King George V: The Evolution of a Commemorative Cloth in British West Africa” Join Erin Rice, our educator, as she discusses part of her dissertation research on textiles.

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Ipswich and the Underground Railroad” Gordon Harris, town historian, will share his research on this legend. The names of the Underground Railroad agents in Ipswich are not known, but there are stories to be told.

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Dorothy Monnelly, Her Life and Career” Dorothy is considered the Ansel Adams of the Northeast. She will share stories of her interest in the environment, photography and teaching.

Summer Concert
2021-07-24 16:00 - 17:00
Free “Pops” style concert on the lawn of the Ipswich Museum by the Ipswich Summer Band!
4-5pm Saturday July 24th. Bring your portable chairs, blanket or even a picnic and enjoy live music on the lawn of the Heard House.
Supported with a grant from the Ipswich Cultural Council

Granny's Attic - Summer Edition (Yard Sale)
2021-07-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
The Ipswich Museum is hosting its annual yard sale on Saturday, July 24 from 9-12. Come do your early Christmas shopping from a range of wonderful collectibles, art, jewelry, household goods, China, glassware, toys and games. Proceeds benefit educational programs at the museum. We look forward to seeing you there!

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-07-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “League of Women Voters: Their Role in the Community” Come hear this round-table discussion led by Barbara Ostberg, Ruth Edmunds, Terri Stephens, and Marilyn Seidler as they share local league accomplishments, and join in the conversation.

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Remembering Kitty Crockett Robertson” Susie Glessner and Chris Crockett will share favorite stories about their aunt, Kitty Crockett Robertson, newspaper and radio reporter. Kitty won several New England Press Association awards for her writing and her columns.

Sunday Stroll - Ipswich Female Seminary
2021-05-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Join Dow Curator, Stephanie Gaskins, on a journey back to the early 19th century when Ipswich was home to the Ipswich Female Seminary, an early school for the higher education of women.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Sunday Stroll - Slavery in Ipswich
2021-05-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Join the museum’s educator, Erin Rice, on a walk around town to discuss the names and forgotten labors of the enslaved people that lived here, but also Ipswich’s links to the transatlantic slave trade, the legalization of slavery throughout the colony, and landmark freedom suits.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Sunday Stroll - Dams and Bridges of Ipswich
2021-05-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
We use these bridges everyday, but hardly give them a second thought as significant pieces of history. Join Scott Jewel for a walk around the town and learn about the stories the bridges and dams can tell.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-05-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Colonial Artifacts” Back by popular demand, join Roland Arguin, amateur archaeologist as he shares his most recent discoveries found in his search on the North Shore.

Sunday Stroll - Arthur Wesley Dow's Ipswich
2021-05-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Join Dow Curator Stephanie Gaskins as she guides us around town through the life and work of Ipswich artist, Arthur Wesley Dow.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Sunday Stroll - The Port of Ipswich
2021-04-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Did you know Ipswich was a custom port from 1705 -1844? Join Scott Jewel for a walk to the site of old port and explore this fascinating part of the town’s rich history.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Sunday Stroll - Ipswich in the Revolution
2021-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Who knew that Ipswich was in the epicenter of the American Revolution? Join Scott Jewel on a walk around town and learn about what happened here 245 years ago.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Brown Bag Lunch with Joe Carlin
2021-04-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Join us for a Brown Bag Lunch with speaker Joe Carlin who will talk about his travels to the temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
The original programming for this date with speaker John Fiske has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Sunday Stroll – A Geologic Tour of Ipswich
2021-04-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
There are two continents and an ancient ocean within a 1/4 mile of the Ipswich Museum. Join Scott Jewel on a walk around town and learn the hidden history beneath your feet.
Limit 10 people.
$10 Tickets, reservations required.
Reserve your tickets online or call the museum at 978-356-2811

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Vibrant Vessels” Glass and China objects from the collection by curator Katherine Chaison via Zoom 12:00

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Tempting Textiles” A show of brocades and embroideries by curator Katherine Chaison via Zoom 12:00

Brown Bag Lunch
2021-01-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
Brown Bag Lunch “Documents and what They Reveal” Historical Documents from the Museum’s archives with curator Katherine Chaison via Zoom 12:00

Wednesday Evening Lecture
2020-11-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Ipswich Museum, 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, 01938, United States
