SouthCoast Spring Arts Festival: The Arts in Marion’s Gilded Age

The Marion Art Center partners with the Sippican Historical Society to present Marion’s “golden age” in the arts. In the late 1800s Marion became a summer gathering place of artists, writers, actors, musicians, architects, and other intellectual luminaries. Four local experts, Wendy Bidstrup, Nancy Mitton, Judith Rosbe, and Meg Steinberg, bring to light some of the characters that made up this lively scene, including Cecil Clark Davis, Charles Dana Gibson, Henry James and Mark Twain, Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder, and architects H.H. Richardson and Stanford White. UMass Dartmouth professor and art historian Catherine Moran sets the stage with an overview of the Gilded Age in America.

This event will be held in person at the Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion. Tickets are $5 per person. Please click HERE to register with the Marion Art Center.