Lynn Arts

LynnArts, now known as the Studios at Lynn Museum & Art Center, is an arts center in a former bank building within Downtown Lynn’s Historic Bank Block. It offers private studio space for contemporary artists, two public galleries and the Neal Rantoul Vault Theater, a black box performance space. Original banking features remain, including bank vaults on the first and second floors, and the building has served the arts for more than 30 years.

Many people know the building as the longtime home of rock radio station WFNX, which was based there from 1983 to 2012, while others know it for the Lynn Stories mural tracing the city’s history from its shoemaking days to the present. Galleries at LynnArts, an artist-led nonprofit, leases the galleries and a shop of North Shore arts and crafts, and the Lynn Music Foundation leases the theater for concerts and workshops.

What to Know

• The Lynn Museum merged with LynnArts in 2014 and owns and operates the building.
• Studio tenants include painters, musicians, a guitar maker, a tattoo artist and the Cultura Latina Dance Academy.
• Galleries at LynnArts offers special showings and classes by arrangement.
• The Lynn Music Foundation also hosts master classes that let community members network and learn about the music industry.