Danvers Abandoned Art Asylum Haunted House Returns For 4th Year

DANVERS, MA — More than 100 Danvers middle and high school students, summer art campers, and student actors helped transform the Danvers Art Association into an Abandoned Art Asylum Haunted House as part of the fourth annual program set for this weekend.

Students from Danvers, Beverly, Peabody and Lynnfield will portray a scary collection of vampires, zombies, witches and clowns as part of the three-day presentation raising funds to help make the Danvers Art Association handicap accessible for kids, teens, adults, and seniors.

The set designers are Danvers middle and high school students who earn community
service creating and performing for the public in what's becoming a Danvers community holiday tradition.

"My goal for these organizations is to bring people together through the arts via exhibits, craft fairs, workshops, artist demonstrations, festivals, weekly classes, concerts, holiday events, sponsoring art-related scholarships," said Jeff Surette, who is a Danvers High art teacher, vice president of the Danvers Art Association and a National Art Honor Society advisor.

This year's Abandon Art Asylum Haunted House, located at 105 Elliott Street, is open this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased with an $11 donation here.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)