EVENTS – This week

An exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Leslie Bowman.

The Tides Institute & Museum of Art presents its Summer Exhibition "Dark Harbor - The Early Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth, on display now through September 24. Summer museum hours will be Tuesday - Sunday from 10-4.

The July ArtWalk Passport weekend opens downtown Eastport on Friday July 23rd with a slate of events sponsored by the Downeast Rainbow Alliance, including an Art Installation Opening at the North Church from 5-9 p.m. and a Pride Dance Party in the Sutherland Amphitheater featuring crowd favorite "Beach Trash" from 6-8 p.m

This program is available to all local and visiting kids – with morning activities focusing on creating art with nature. Each morning features a different activity including painting, clay modeling, sculpture making, mask and kite making, and more – while visiting gardens, woods, trails, and beaches for inspiration and materials. Register by clicking here.

Runs from July 5 to August 27, 2021
Every Monday to Friday mornings 9:30 am - 12:00 pm, Tuesdays from 9:30 am - 2:30 pm

In Painting Fundy: A Lifetime Obsession, the artworks featured in our Harbour View Gallery this month represent a lifetime’s work from Anne Johnston and Jerome Andrews. Both artists have spent the majority of their lives living along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. As dedicated painters and advocates of the natural environment—with the endless changing moods and views of the coastline and horizons—there are always some new moments to capture.

As far back as I can remember, I have loved creating art! Drawing was my passion from the time I began school and continued up to my discovery of painting with color! I have worked with most painting media, but prefer watercolor and oils.

The Lubec Memorial Library is proud to host Ann C. Rosebrooks' exhibit "Overview" for the month of July.

"Overview" consists of acrylic paintings on canvas created over the past three years. It is a combination of landscapes, social scenes and political events. Click to visit the library Facebook page.

The pastiche or collage of curatorship is only as good as the materials it is given. What is fabulous can be augmented, unveiled, turned upside down, or made meta for the universally curious, but it needs to be interesting to begin with, passionate already, even if by quiet means, even if by loud. The materials in this exhibit are fabulously different from one another and yet raucously grounded in the artisanal scene of the crafting culture and memory of this place. Art400² is a collective of artists and curators from New Brunswick who is currently floating between physical spaces. The previous artistic director, Sara Brinkhurst, invited them in to share their current processes with us using the stage of our physical space (a space we are blessed to have and blessed to work for its endurance and evolution).

Come to the opening night of Crystal Veil I: an installation by Julia Sinelnikova on Friday, July 23, between 5 and 9:30 pm, as part of Eastport Artwork Passport weekend. Sinelnikova is a StudioWorks alum who will perform as The Oracle at 8 pm. This exhibition will be ongoing with open hours TBA for summer and fall 2021.

Eastport Arts Center’s Summer Workshop Series continues with Melissa Newcomb’s Epoxy Resin Casting for Beginners, 1:30-4:30 pm, Tuesday, July 27. Geared for ages 12 and up, instruction will cover techniques for getting started with casting small objects in resin, using round trays.

Join Newell Lewey on Zoom every Tuesday to learn Passamaquoddy and Maliseet words and culture. Open to the public.

Click here to register for an upcoming class, or here to see a recent lesson.

14th Annual Music on the Green Concert Series has begun. Join us every Tuesday night at 630 for live music. For schedule, or to receive updates, click to visit the official Facebook page.

A summer staple in Grand Lake Stream! These free, 3-hour programs are for children ages 6-16. Children’s programs meet weekly on Wednesday mornings across the summer from 9 am to noon, and focus on a different environmental topic each week. Please click to check the DLLT website to confirm activities and meeting places.

This program is available to all local and visiting kids – with morning activities focusing on creating art with nature. Each morning features a different activity including painting, clay modeling, sculpture making, mask and kite making, and more – while visiting gardens, woods, trails, and beaches for inspiration and materials. Register by clicking here.

Runs from July 5 to August 27, 2021
Every Monday to Friday mornings 9:30 am - 12:00 pm, Tuesdays from 9:30 am - 2:30 pm

The Tides Institute & Museum of Art presents its Summer Exhibition "Dark Harbor - The Early Lithographs of Stow Wengenroth, on display now through September 24. Summer museum hours will be Tuesday - Sunday from 10-4.

Eastport Arts Center embarks on its first-ever summer session of Children’s Theater Workshop on Wednesday July 14th from 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Each week through August 18th, participants from ages 7 to 18* can join in to play theater games, build skills on stage, and learn the ins-and-outs of improvisation and sketch comedy. The workshop will culminate in a short performance for participants’ families during the final class.

Anne will do a free demo using hard and soft pastels on a specially sanded paper, showing how an image is built up in layers to bring out the vibrancy of the colour. She will talk about the types of pastels and papers, and the methods she uses as she paints. The visitor can watch the image emerge and can ask questions about the world of this wonderful medium.

In Painting Fundy: A Lifetime Obsession, the artworks featured in our Harbour View Gallery this month represent a lifetime’s work from Anne Johnston and Jerome Andrews. Both artists have spent the majority of their lives living along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. As dedicated painters and advocates of the natural environment—with the endless changing moods and views of the coastline and horizons—there are always some new moments to capture.

As far back as I can remember, I have loved creating art! Drawing was my passion from the time I began school and continued up to my discovery of painting with color! I have worked with most painting media, but prefer watercolor and oils.

This program is available to all local and visiting kids – with morning activities focusing on creating art with nature. Each morning features a different activity including painting, clay modeling, sculpture making, mask and kite making, and more – while visiting gardens, woods, trails, and beaches for inspiration and materials. Register by clicking here.

Runs from July 5 to August 27, 2021
Every Monday to Friday mornings 9:30 am - 12:00 pm, Tuesdays from 9:30 am - 2:30 pm

The Lubec Memorial Library is proud to host Ann C. Rosebrooks' exhibit "Overview" for the month of July.

"Overview" consists of acrylic paintings on canvas created over the past three years. It is a combination of landscapes, social scenes and political events. Click to visit the library Facebook page.

The pastiche or collage of curatorship is only as good as the materials it is given. What is fabulous can be augmented, unveiled, turned upside down, or made meta for the universally curious, but it needs to be interesting to begin with, passionate already, even if by quiet means, even if by loud. The materials in this exhibit are fabulously different from one another and yet raucously grounded in the artisanal scene of the crafting culture and memory of this place. Art400² is a collective of artists and curators from New Brunswick who is currently floating between physical spaces. The previous artistic director, Sara Brinkhurst, invited them in to share their current processes with us using the stage of our physical space (a space we are blessed to have and blessed to work for its endurance and evolution).

Come to the opening night of Crystal Veil I: an installation by Julia Sinelnikova on Friday, July 23, between 5 and 9:30 pm, as part of Eastport Artwork Passport weekend. Sinelnikova is a StudioWorks alum who will perform as The Oracle at 8 pm. This exhibition will be ongoing with open hours TBA for summer and fall 2021.

Please join internationally-published haiku poet and haiga artist Catherine J.S. Lee at Eastport Arts Center for a two-session workshop on writing haiku and creating photo-haiga (an image-plus-haiku art form). Participants will learn some haiku basics and will practice them at the workshop and between the sessions, which will be held Fridays, July 30th and August 6th, from 1:30 to 3 pm.
Catherine J.S. Lee’s haiku have been published widely and won numerous awards, including her haiku collection, All That Remains, which won the 2010 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition. She has led haiku workshops in local schools, at Sunrise Senior College of the University of Maine at Machias, and at the Haiku Circle in Northfield, Massachusetts. Lee was named an “emerging voice in English-language haiku” in A New Resonance 7 from Red Moon Press, the foremost haiku publisher in the U.S. She edited and designed A Splash of Water, the 2015 Haiku Society of America members’ anthology.
This free program is geared for attendees ages 12 and up, and space is limited. Please email alison@eastportartscenter.org to preregister. More information about the educational offerings of Eastport Arts Center, where creativity and community meet, may be found at eastportartscenter.org/education.

Whether you are new to figure drawing, or you are looking to improve your skills, this 4-week class is for you!

Your instructor will guide you through the steps of drawing a figure from photographs and life, presenting different strategies for approaching poses of short and long duration, and poses with varying levels of complexity.

This course will cover gesture and rhythm, sighting and measuring, lighting and value, and touch on basic proportion, construction, and anatomy.

Students are requested to bring their own sketchbook and sketching materials (recommend 18 x 24 newsprint/cartridge paper pads/assorted pencils/charcoals). Basic kits are available to purchase from SSANC.