Upcoming Events
Past Events
2025 Summer Party
Saturday, June 21
From 5pm to 9pm, come join a family-friendly event down at Goldthwait! Listen to The Rusty Randoms play, enjoy some tasty food from the Bees and Thank You Food Truck, participate in a live auction to claim an original piece of artwork by Martha Quigley, or test your luck in a raffle. Admission is free. See the Party Flyer for additional information.
2025 Annual Spring Cleanup
Come join us on Saturday, May 31 from 9am to 12pm to help spruce up the beach, marsh, and park area for the summer season.
Work will include:
- Cleaning out and mulching beach rose beds;
- Cleaning out and mulching the planting beds in the parking lot and along the north walkway;
- Planting flowers in barrels and beds;
- Putting out trash barrels;
- Picking up beach trash;
- And anything else that needs to be done!
Plenty of rakes and shovels, leaf bags, plastic bags, and gloves will be available, but feel free to bring your own tools of choice. For more information, contact Tim Geraghty.
2021 Pop-Up Art Event
ONE DAY ONLY – JULY 19, 2021 !
POP-UP PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE TO BE ERECTED ON GOLDTHWAIT RESERVATION BEACH
The Public is Invited to Watch Construction on Monday, July 19 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Within an amazing 12-hour period, a 100-foot wooden sculpture will be constructed and deconstructed on Goldthwait Reservation Beach in Marblehead on Monday, July 19, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., reaching its peak between noon and 2 p.m.
The pop-up art, designed by Marblehead native Jeremy Barnett and his New York-based creative partner Jason Maracani, uses a series of five serpentine arches in pursuit of the ocean’s edge. The piece will start above the high water mark at dawn and grow down the beach as the tide recedes.
The artists are committed to the principle that public art should be accessible and interactive. In that spirit, the public is invited to have conversations with the artists throughout the building process.
Respecting the beauty of Goldthwait and the imperative need for conservation and sustainability, the deconstruction process will be very intentional: all wood and structural components will be carefully removed from the site and stored for re-use on another project in Marblehead. It is the artists’ hope that this will be the first in a series of installations to explore Marblehead’s natural beauty and unique historic significance through the lens of contemporary public art.
Barnett was responsible for the large painted canvases and for the children’s art canvases that were displayed on the front of Marblehead Little Theatre and for the large canvas presented at the Arnould Gallery last summer. He is also a member of The Marblehead Chamber of Commerce’s Public Art Committee.
This will be Maracani’s first New England installation. The partnership has collectively constructed public art throughout the American Midwest, Iceland, Scotland, Spain, and Thailand.
The artists are grateful to The Goldthwait Reservation’s board of directors for their approval of this project. For more information about Barnett, visit jeremybarnett.com. For more information about Maracani, visit jasonmaracani.com.
