Christopher Gowell News Today

$14m in budget cuts cause museum to shut its doors, indefinitely

The museum was closed during the latest UNH budget cuts that mandated a $14-million reduction for the 2024 fiscal year.

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Newburyport Art Association, NESA to present exhibitions Newburyport Art Association The Newburyport Art Association partners with the New England Sculptors Association and The Firehouse Center for the Arts to open three new exhibitions.  “Positivity,” a sculpture exhibition co-presented with the New England Sculptors Association will feature 19 sculptural works juried by sculptor Christopher Gowell. The sculptures will be in the Hills Gallery at the Newburyport Art Association from April ...

By Jeanné McCartin Twenty-one years, hundreds of students, and numerous building additions later, Sanctuary Arts has finally established an arm of its sprawling multi-faceted undertaking as a non-profit.  To be clear, Sanctuary Arts art school, artist studios, communal living quarters, sculpture garden, and fine art casting foundry remain "not-profiting" enterprises, owner, director and artist Christopher Gowell says.  Sanctuary Arts Connects, the new non-profit, is a scholarship program fo...