Description

The Deep Sea Has its Stars is a three-day open house art installation and a special evening of site-specific performance at the historic Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory buildings on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, hosted by partners Ocean Alliance and Trident Gallery. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (September 3–5), visitors will be welcomed at the paint factory to experience a multimedia art installation within the fascinating industrial spaces of the former factory's Copper Mill and Boiler & Engine Room buildings, open to the public for the first time following restoration. Open House hours are Saturday and Sunday 10am–4pm and Monday 10am–1pm. Saturday evening at 7pm, a gala party featuring site-specific performances will thrill a small number of lucky guests, who will enjoy complimentary food and drink and unequalled views of the Parade of Lights and fireworks (events of the 32nd Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival). Tickets are $100/person, a contribution towards the continuing cleanup, restoration, and repurposing of the paint factory complex, one of the last standing icons of Gloucester's maritime history. Tickets are available online and at Trident Gallery (189 Main Street, Gloucester). A limited number are available, so reserve your place at this exciting event today! . . . The former paint factory is the international headquarters of Ocean Alliance, a world-renowned marine research and education organization founded in 1971. Open House visitors will see first hand Ocean Alliance's extensive project, well underway, to clean up, restore, put to use, and share with the public the iconic paint factory buildings. When completed, the facility will be a state-of-the-art oceanographic research and education center open to the public. The exterior will be restored to match its past expression, and the interior will house laboratories, offices, classrooms, workshops, a library, auditorium, and event spaces, as well as an exhibit on the history of the fac