COSMOS Gallery

Bing McGilvray
There is a singular vitrine containing sixteen paper mâché figurines by Harry Martin (1927-1984} at CAM’s Campus on the Green in the Janet and William Ellery James Gallery. It might go unnoticed, pushed aside by …

Bing McGilvray
Jim Dunn, poet laureate of the COSMOS, is amidst a poetic trifecta with two books just published and a third on the way. Exemplified in these three volumes …

Peter Littlefield
Soon to open at the White-Ellery House on the Cape Ann Museum Green, will be an installation, The Resurrection of Judy Rhines, co-created by artist Gabrielle Barzaghi and myself. …

Robin Colodzin

One of my earliest memories is of a warm, sunlit afternoon in the backyard of my family house in New Haven CT. I might have been in a hammock. Or on my mother’s lap? …

Bing McGilvray
Who’s Ed Sanders? Unfortunately, at age 85, after an extraordinary career, he remains under the radar for most people. …

Jim Dunn

The first light of morning slants across the trees
From the steamy shower window
After days of unending rain
A line of sparrows sits on a fallen rod …

Randy Carr

In February of 1971 I was released from high school on a work study program and began printing at Gordon College Press in Wenham …

Bing McGilvray

In 1968, at age 20, when Richard Emmanuel first opened the doors to The Church, his center for the exploration and discussion of all things theological, diagonally across E. Main St. …

Paul Erickson

Quirky people fascinate me.… Take certain kinds of collectors. Some collect snippets of rusty 19th-century barbed wire. Others swipe barf bags (unused), printed with company

Bing McGilvray

Two superb solo shows of black and white photographs have recently opened at the Jane Deering Gallery:  I Wish That I Could Show You Everything, by Paul Cary Goldberg, and I Spy/A Bird's Eye, by Antony Ohman. …

Kristine Fisher

I happily admit to being a hard-wired traveler, I blame it on my early years growing up in Southeast Asia, where my father served as an international liaison for US interests. His pursuit of adventure was contagious. ...

Chris Munkholm

While perambulating the vicinity of our Air B&B in Harrison, Maine, two members of the COSMOS team stumbled upon the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum.  And discovered an entry portal into the inner earth ...

Jim Dunn

In preparation for the celebration of the publication of “Harry Crosby’s Selected Poems” by Madhat Press, edited by Ben Mazer, this discussion took place June 19, 2020. on Fanny’s porch; safely distanced and masked ...

Mark Zegans

Long before I arrived, I held in mind a captivating image of Gloucester, instilled by poet Ed Dorn’s “From Gloucester Out.” Contact replaces conjecture and so it was for me. When I first drove north from Allston, in the winter of 1986, I walked the grounds of an old estate on which sat two houses ...

Liz Vago

"The term athenaeum conjures up centuries past, but our founders were forward-thinking leaders of their time who gathered a community of curious thinkers to share ideas, culture, and literature. Well over two hundred years later, our mission hasn’t changed, it’s expanded."