GLOUCESTER, Mass. (January 2025) – The Cape Ann Museum is delighted to share two new board members appointments: Elliot Bostwick Davis and Tom Janis.

“Elliot and Tom will be wonderful assets and advocates for the Museum,” says Oliver Barker, Director of the Cape Ann Museum. “They join the Museum at an incredibly exciting time as CAM renovates its Downtown campus this year as part of an effort build a vibrant next chapter for the Museum with a broadening reach and expanded relevance within the community.”

“We are so heartened to bring on such talented and high caliber members to join our current Board of Trustees,” says Henrieta Gates, Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. “Elliot and Tom have tremendous expertise and commitment to bringing the Museum through these next phases of growth and development.”

Elliot Bostwick Davis:
Elliot Bostwick Davis was Guest Curator of Cape Ann Museum’s 2023 critically acclaimed and historically attended Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape exhibition. She is the former Director and CEO of the Norton Museum of Art, and served for 18 years as John Moors Cabot Chair at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she led the curatorial team in creating the Art of the Americas Wing. Prior to joining the MFA, Boston, Davis was a curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints and the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, she received her Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies from N.Y.U., and her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from Columbia University. Currently, Davis is writing a book on art and well-being, a field she has been working in since 2016, as reflected in her essay, “Art Museums as Catalysts for Human Flourishing,” published in November 2024 by Oxford University Press in the Visual Arts volume of the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tom Janis:
Tom Janis, a native of Chicago, moved to Cape Ann in 1999. Janis has served on several boards including Cape Ann Symphony, Gloucester Stage Company, and Eastern Point Yacht Club. Previously, Janis volunteered at what was formerly known as Den Mar Nursing Home in Rockport and The Open Door Food Pantry. He’s been a member of the Human Rights Campaign Federal Club for three decades.

Janis is currently a Global Real Estate Advisor with Engel & Völkers By The Sea. He earned a degree in business from the University of Rhode Island. Janis previously worked in sales and sales leadership for two Fortune 500 companies, IBM and Dun & Bradstreet, for 30 years before getting his real estate license.

During their appointments, Davis and Janis shared their delight in joining the Museum’s distinguished board at a particularly exciting time in the institution’s history. In 2025, the Museum’s CAM Green campus is hosting a robust offering of exhibitions and programs. This shift to year-round access, programs and exhibitions at CAM Green includes expanded weekly hours, free admission, and timed ticketing to welcome more visitors to experience the space while the Museum’s Downtown campus on Pleasant Street is closed for extensive renovations to improve visitor access and engagement.

To learn more about Cape Ann Museum Green and offerings in 2025, visit www.capeannmuseum.org.

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The Cape Ann Museum, founded in 1875, exists to preserve and celebrate the history and culture of the area and to keep it relevant to today’s audiences. Spanning 44,000 square feet, the Museum’s Downtown campus which is closed for renovations through spring 2026, remains a major cultural institution on Boston’s North Shore that has welcomed thousands of local, national, and international visitors annually to its exhibitions, programs and community led events. In addition to fine art, the Museum’s collections include decorative art, textiles, artifacts from the fisheries and granite industries, four historic structures, a Library & Archives and a sculpture garden in the heart of downtown Gloucester. The Cape Ann Museum Green (CAM Green), the Museum’s campus off Grant Circle and Route 128 in Gloucester is home to the 12,000 square foot Janet & William Ellery James Center, built in 2020 which includes a flexible exhibition and community programming space designed to reach broader audiences 
with new exhibits and public programs. CAM Green also features three historic structures: the White Ellery House (1710), the Babson-Alling House (c.1740), an adjacent Barn (c.1740), a Contemporary Art Wetu (2023-2024) and a Mush8n (mi-shoon) (2023), an eastern woodlands boat. General admission to the Cape Ann Museum Green campus is free. Due to limited parking, timed parking reservations for vehicles are recommended.

More information can be found on www.capeannmuseum.org or please call (978)283-0455 x110.