Watuppa Rowing Center

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Free Year-round recreational and competitive rowing for athletes of all abilities ages 10 through high school.
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Also offering affordable Masters (adult) rowing programs.

10/30/2026

Head of the Fish was ✨magic✨. Fall leaves. Big crew. Families. Boats. Fish. What more could we want?

10/30/2026

A lifelong Fall River, Massachusetts artist volunteered 26 hours to paint a rowing center's walls — and a boat.

Fall River, meet Mj Manville Cloutier — the self-taught artist behind Mj Manville Art, based at 80 Belmont Street right here in Fall River.

Mj is a lifelong Fall River resident who works under a simple credo: "Unique. Original. Affordable." She believes original art should not be a privilege reserved for the wealthy — every person should have the chance to own a piece.

Working mainly in soft pastels, she has created over 150 commissioned pet portraits as of 2025, and she also works in watercolor, oil pastels, acrylics and colored pencil. She calls her style "realism with a sprinkling of the abstract," and her nostalgia pieces — including her Lincoln Park amusement park collection and Rocky Point Park work — are made to bring back memories.

That photo is Mj at work in Fall River: in late summer 2021 she volunteered about 26 hours painting the name, logo and murals at the Watuppa Rowing Center, including lettering this display boat "Place of Boats" — the English translation of "Watuppa." She came back in 2022 and spent about 30 more volunteer hours creating the center's indoor donor wall, and she has kept donating prints and custom pet portraits to the center's silent auctions, along with fundraisers for Saint Stanislaus School and Bishop Connolly.

Recently retired from a day job of over 35 years, she is now devoting more time to the art she has made in Fall River for over ten years — including work for corporate calendars and holiday cards.

See and support her work: https://www.mjmanvilleart.com/
Artwork and photo by Mj Manville Cloutier / Mj Manville Art, shared publicly on her website — pictured artwork is her volunteer mural work at the Watuppa Rowing Center in Fall River.

Tag someone in Fall River whose pet deserves a portrait like one of Mj's 150 — who are you picking?

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10/29/2026

Wrap up an amazing Summer and Fall season with us! We’re prepping the boathouse for the winter and celebrating our community.

RSVP at the link for both and for more details.

10/29/2026

Two opportunities to gather with WRC in November- Dock Day in the fall helps us get the boathouse and property ready for winter. And our annual Friendsgiving celebration is always a good time.

RSVP for both online.

10/25/2026

Home sweet home. It’s Head of the Fish weekend!

10/23/2026

to Head of the Fish 2025…because that’s where we’re heading this weekend! Our Masters and Juniors rowers are heading to Saratoga this weekend for another fall regatta.

We’re so grateful for Coach Dante and Coach Jeff to organizing and scheduling these opportunities for our rowers to race throughout New England.

10/20/2026

What. A. Morning. Head Of The Charles Regatta is historic. Powerful. Challenging. A true test of teamwork. And our Women’s U17 4+ boat got it done. It’s not a Sunday we’ll forget for a long time. 💜

10/16/2026

Let’s go!! Our U17 Women’s 4+ is heading to Head Of The Charles Regatta !! These student-athletes competing at one of the biggest, most historic races in the world. What an experience.

Ready all? ROW!

10/14/2026

Just a few from Head of the Riverfront. We 💜 fall regattas.

10/09/2026

Ready all? Row! Our next regatta is Sunday- Head of the Housatonic. Here we go!!

Address

994 Jefferson Street Extension
Fall River, MA
02721

Website

http://watupparowingcenter.org/

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