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Events
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Artist – Katie Blair St. John
After a lifetime interest in history of art, Katie Blair started puttering with paint in retirement. Twelve years later she is a self-taught landscape artist working in oil and pastel. She regularly paints collaboratively with artist friends who act as motivators and mentors. The coast of Maine and marshes of Massachusetts are her inspiration.
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Artist – Kit Aroneau
Opens Sunday 4pm with Reception I am a photographer and writer living on Bald Mt in Camden Maine. This affords me a birds-eye view of weather advancing toward and retreating from Camden and Rockport harbors. I often choose to shoot in the mystery of fog. For me, it elicits a silence, a quieting of the mind, that makes my wanderings magical. See more of Kit's art on Instagram www.instagram.com/kitaroneau
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Speaker – Lisa Borders, Last Night at the Disco
The Making of a Novel: Last Night at the Disco Lisa Borders' third novel, the dark comedy Last Night at the Disco, is set largely in 1977 and narrated by a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54. There, she discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s – and decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ‘n’ roll history. Lisa's [...]
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Artists – Barbara Materna, Andrew St. John, John and Tish Whipple
Opens Sunday 4pm with Reception BARBARA MATERNA: After 20+ years as a technical writer, Barbara turned her energy to designing and creating unique and unusual handbags and travel bags. The BABS brand has been featured in the Providence Journal Style section, Rhode Island Monthly, Providence Monthly and was a “Best of Rhode Island” winner. The BABS brand includes Jack + Cookie (felted wool bags), Coastal Cruisers (map and chart bags) and WAXT (waxed canvas bags). After a couple of years sailing the Bahamas, Barbara has rekindled [...]
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Speaker – Michael Lowenthal, Place Envy: In Search of Belonging
Belonging isn’t always something we inherit. It’s something we search for and, hopefully, find. Author Michael Lowenthal will read from and discuss his new essay collection, Place Envy, which traces a lifelong search for identity, queer lineage, and connection across cultures, histories, and the self. Through journeys that span continents and communities, Lowenthal explores what it means to feel rooted—or unmoored—and how storytelling can bring us closer to truth. Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and [...]
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Speaker – Michael Delola
Michael Delola is a nature and macro photographer who focuses on insects, spiders and other tiny arthropods like springtails and mites, as well as fungi and slime molds. He is also a forager, citizen scientist and amateur mycologist. His work aims to explore the hidden and surprising beauty of under-represented and under-appreciated organisms in the Midcoast and Southern regions of Maine, with the specific goal of highlighting local biodiversity and ecology. Learn more at Michael's website www.mdelola.com