Clothing Swap! at Artsworth

Clean out your closet and come to Artsworth to find some new treasures!

Please bring 7-10 seasonally appropriate, lightly used items that you just don’t wear anymore.

And a $10 suggested donation.

All leftover items will be donated to Emmaus House.

Feel free to bring snacks and/or drinks to share.

Garden Design Workshop with Molly Friedland

Saturday, April 23rd 10am-1pm

$30 cash or checks made payable to Artsworth

Space is limited. Email ArtsworthStudios@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Spring is here, have you planned your garden?! Come hang out with fellow growers and designers to dream up your ideal spring garden. We will cover garden design topics from square-foot gardening, to water colored dreamscapes and everything in between. Any and all ideas and experience levels are welcome to this open-forum garden design workshop.

Participants can bring specific questions and be advised by a seasoned grower and everyone will leave with a flat of seedlings of their choice (annual/perennial flowers and vegetables). This is a choose your own adventure workshop where the sky and soil are the limit!

Workshop lead by Molly Friedland of Little Red Flower Truck

Colored Pencil Techniques with Richard Huck

This short workshop will cover the basic colored pencil techniques of layering and coloration. Along with these, I will discuss various aspects of the creative process. Attendees should bring along papers or sketchbooks, colored pencils and other drawing materials that you feel are necessary. If you wish to bring along subject matter to draw from that is encouraged. Be prepared to have a fun time while learning more about the use of the colored pencil. An open mind and humor are prerequisites! No clown costumes please!! 🙂

Email ArtsworthStudios@gmail.com to reserve your spot!!

$40 cash or checks made payable to Artsworth

10am – 2pm, please bring a bag lunch

Richard Huck Graduated from Millersville University, Millersville, PA with a BS degree in Art Education. He taught for many years on the high school level at Ephrata High School, Ephrata, PA and is now retired and lives in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
He has exhibited both nationally as well as internationally over the years with solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, Philadelphia and Lancaster, PA, Paris and Amsterdam. Group exhibitions include those cities along with Australia, Washington, DC and Japan.

Over the years he has won numerous awards regionally and nationally including the Best in Show with the Colored Pencil Society of America. His works have been published in both books and magazines including the Society of Illustrators, Art in America, Outstanding American Illustrators (published in Japan) and the Best of Colored Pencil book series.
Beyond working in colored pencil he, also, enjoys working in graphite, mixed media along with
photography, painting and various forms of sculpture.

Richard W. Huck
Artist/Illustrator/Instructor

“Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.” – Michael Richardson

I am a realist at heart, yet over time I found that it needed further exploration. I let the real
world act as a catalyst for deeper and more playful thought. My work portrays this thinking.
The environment is a work of art that opens infinite worlds of discovery.
“My head is round so my thinking can change direction.” – Francis Picabia

I enjoy pursuing various avenues of creative thought and although drawing mediums are by
far my passion, I am not locked into that alone. I enjoy photography, sculpture and painting
as well. The subjects that I explore are familiar with an emphasis on the mechanical, nature
in all of its forms and the underwater realm. I will alter and extend them as to bring the
viewer closer to the unexpected.

Richard Huck

Ukrainian Egg Decorating (Psanky) Workshop with Kaitlyn Miller

Come learn the basics of Ukrainian egg decorating, otherwise known as Psanky. Working with traditional designs or those of your own creation, this method involves working in front of a candle, drawing on a raw egg with hot beeswax and using a series of dye baths much like batik. The results are vibrant, colorful, and detailed decorations. Ukrainian legend says that as long as Psanky are being made, good will prevail over evil in the world.

All materials provided. Ages 12 and up.

2pm – 5pm

Email ArtsworthStudios@gmail.com to reserve your spot!!

$35 cash or check made payable to Artsworth

Proceeds to benefit relief efforts in Ukraine.

Kaitlyn Miller has lived and worked year-round on Little Cranberry Island since 2008. She received her BFA in Ceramics from Maine College of Art in 2007 and has been a studio potter since, working summers at Islesford Pottery. With an enduring love for color and the island, she is most recently enjoying translating the beauty of her surroundings with acrylic paint on canvas.

www.kaitlynmiller.com

Listening Room Concert: Songwriters in the Round with Sara Trunzo, Tom Peabody, and Louisa Stancioff. Featuring the paintings of Kaitlyn Miller

Maine-based singer-songwriter Sara Trunzo isn’t a born-and-bred Mainer, but her adopted home, its timeless coastal setting and the vibrant characters that inhabit it feature heavily in her new EP, Cabin Fever Dream (Sept. 24). The EP’s five songs were written with timelessness in mind, but not placelessness, and follow 2019’s full length LP, Dirigo Attitude. Both collections fit squarely in the Americana realm, bringing stories of the genuine, unromanticized parts of rural living to the forefront, eyeing New England viewpoints.

Louisa Stancioff plays indie folk music. She writes about everyday life and the heartache and thrill that accompanies the human experience. Her Bulgarian heritage shows through in her intricate melodies, having grown up singing the ethereal, often dissonant traditional folk music with her family. She has toured across the country multiple times and has recorded a few records with her previous band, Dyado. She recently finished recording her first full length solo album, but it will be some time before it is released into the wild. You can find her EP on bandcamp, which was recently featured in The Downeast Magazine. She is originally from Chesterville, ME and currently lives in Camden.

Tom Peabody is a singer/songwriter whose lyrically driven songs explore the themes of time and distance, nostalgia, and home. Tom has previously played with the bands Snughouse and The Soulbenders. He lives in Portland, but spends as much time as he can in Blue Hill.

Suggested donation $20

Beer and wine available by donation thanks to Fogtown and John Edwards

Doors at 6:30, Music at 7

Please reserve your seat by emailing Artsworthstudios@gmail.com

Masks/proof of vaccination required

Artist’s Talk with Kristy Summers and Nikki Moser

Come join us for our first Artist’s Talk of the year. We will be welcoming two sculptors who are new to the area to discuss their work and their process.

Nikki Moser is a sculptor, fascinated by systems. Her work has manifested
itself in cast iron, printmaking, photography, mixed media, video and sound.
Driven by a desire to assemble objects and ideas in ways that recast light,
propose an alternate dialog and subtly implicate the viewer, her media
corresponds intimately to the concepts. In 2010 she co-founded Keystone
Iron Works, an Iron Casting program for at risk high school students, which
has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts awards. She regularly
exhibits her work and has sculptures in many private collections. She sews,
likes playing with fire and makes excellent chocolate chip cookies.
http://www.nikkimoser.com

Kristy Summers, born and raised in the mid-west found her way to Alaska in 2014. She graduated with her BFA from the University of Kansas in 2002, and her MFA from Alfred University in 2006. Following her studies at Alfred University, Kristy was award a Fine Art Fellowship position at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she continued to work as a visiting assistant professor of sculpture and 3D foundations. Exhibiting her work, Kristy has been included in a number of shows around the country. She has exhibited work in a number of sculpture parks, city outdoor sculpture programs, as well as in universities, and gallery settings. Kristy has completed multiple large-scale commissions for the Botanic Garden of Chicago and the Peggy Notebart Nature museum, participated in and co-led residency programs at Franconia Sculpture Park, was part of the steering committee for the International Conference of Cast Iron Art, in Latvia 2014 and Scranton, PA in 2018. Kristy now lives in Maine on Mount Desert Island with her husband and their four year old son.

Masks and proof of vaccination required.

Free/donations accepted

Enameling 101 and Beyond with Emily Shaffer

Explore techniques for kiln fired enameling with Emily Shaffer. This ancient art produces vibrant colors by fusing powdered glass to sheets of copper in a 1500+ degree kiln. After learning the basic foundations of enameling through interactive instructor demonstrations, students will experiment with several techniques, such as stenciling, graphite mark-making and sgraffito. Leave the class with a new skill, a list of resources to start your own home studio, and some wearable pieces of jewelry.

$95 includes all materials
Saturday, Feb 26th from 10-4
Masks and proof of full vaccination required.

To reserve your spot, please email artsworthstudios@gmail.com

Listening Room Concert with Mali Obomsawin featuring art by Amber Carter

Mali Obomsawin is a songwriter, bassist, composer, journalist and #landback organizer from Odanak Abenaki First Nation. Known for her many years with the group Lula Wiles, Mali is stepping forward as a bandleader in 2022 to present her highly anticipated jazz debut, Sweet Tooth, and is working to complete her first solo album as a singer-songwriter. She’ll be playing several of her brand new and yet-to-be-recorded songs at Artsworth – don’t miss this intimate show!

Our featured visual artist for this month’s Listening Room Concert is local printmaker, Amber Carter. Preview Amber’s recent work on Instagram: @ambercarver

There is limited capacity for this show. Due to the nature of the event we are requiring masks and proof of vaccination.
To reserve your seat, please email artsworthstudios@gmail.com
Suggested Donation: $20
Doors at 6:30, Music from 7-8:30.

Work in Progress/Creation Station

Please join us for a midwinter creative gathering. Bring a mobile arts or crafts project that you are working on, want to start, or want to finish to this “study hall” style creation station. Here you can work among others at Artsworth. We expect a lot of sharing, chatting, inspiration and laughter and doing! All mediums are welcome – woodcarving, fiber arts, painting, sketching, writing, knitting, embroidery, etc. – pack it up and come on over, we’ll be here from 6pm-9pm.

Free/donations accepted. Masks and proof of full vaccination required

Firegathering Canceled

Sorry NO Fire Gathering this year 2021!
In an abundance of caution
related to the health of our community and loved ones, we will not be holding our ultra large public gathering to celebrate the solstice.
Please know that we we will try to keep the embers warm until the next time we can all gather inside in celebration!