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

A mainly made in Maine Makers Market! Join us for this outdoor artisan maker’s market every Saturday during the summer. Exhibitors will vary each week and will be bringing finished work as well as used art supplies and equipment — so visit again and again for the latest in the surging artisan movement in Ellsworth!

Artsworth is proud to present an evening with singer songwriter Stu Dias, featuring the paintings of local artist, Melissa Rioux. 

Stu Dias is a singer/songwriter from the New Hampshire seacoast with a wide range of influences from Fats Waller to Tom Waits.  He plays most often with the New Orleans flavored septet The Soggy Po Boys but is active with several other projects. His songwriting can be characterized as “not James Taylor” and “decent at daybreak on a farm”. 

Melissa Rioux was born and raised in Blue Hill Maine, the oldest of five. She earned her BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and worked the next decade for not for profit, Publicolor, and taught jewelry making at the 92nd ST Y. In 2015 she returned home with her husband, Luke Hutchins, and started building their family. Melissa is an artist, educator and mother of Maggie Pearl, 5, and Robin Burliegh, 3, who keep her busy when she isn’t teaching art at George Stevens Academy!

Artist Statement

As of late I’m investigating the role art plays in all of our lives. I am in awe of my children, I am in awe of the rare opportunity I had to return to my birthplace and buy a house built by my ancestors. In this phase of my creation, I’m discovering the economical hand of a new(ish) mother. In this show I am sharing playful watercolor landscapes, but I’m a jeweler, bookbinder, painter-maker that finds it hard to sit still and do just one thing, so who knows what will show up on the table on April 29th. My work references a sense of place, my connection to the ocean and my family. A couple of years ago I found new love in the exploration and challenge of Egg Tempera. I expect it will last a lifetime, and look forward to the adventure. It has been the perfect medium to explore sentimental portraits of my children. Whatever the medium, my work serves as a communication of love, intention or nostalgia.

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. 

Please join us for a spring 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 2pm-5pm. 

Please join us for a midwinter/almost spring 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 2pm-5pm. 

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