Sunday, November 14th. 2pm-6pm, 25 Pine Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605

Please join us for a late afternoon 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 in the large Artsworth space. 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.   For extra fun feel free to bring some snacks! 

Covid Policy: All community members attending events at Artsworth will need to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 to gain admission. Masks are required while not actively eating or drinking. Thank you for helping to keep us safe!

NEW INFO Since Covid numbers are spiking in Hancock County, we have decided to work outside so please bundle up! Thank you!!

Saturday October 2, Sunday October 3
10:00am-4:00pm

Artsworth is celebrating a weekend of creative activity in collaboration with the Heart of Ellsworth and Maine Craft Weekend. Local artists will gather at the warehouse to demonstrate and show their work. 

Ken and Linda Perrin delight in creating a hub of fine arts activities while they demonstrate their glassblowing craft to the public. The Atlantic Art Glass team demonstrate traditional glassblowing  all day as they make glass pumpkins of all shapes, sizes and colors! The studio of Atlantic Art Glass will be turned into a “glass pumpkin patch” as the molten glass is pulled from the furnace, blown and hand formed on the end of a blowpipe. The glass pumpkin patch charms visitors of all ages.

Aaron of Rusted Pulchritude will create a wooden spoon from local wood using traditional hand-tools! Aaron will be bringing his knowledge of woodcarving, examples of different tools, and an array of spoons, bowls, and sculptures. Come with your spoon carving questions.  Watch him turn a whole log into a spoon!  https://www.rustedpulchritude.com

Caroline Cotter, Live Music on the Loading dock With a captivating soprano voice and award winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter‘s songs take listeners all over the world.    Icon Magazine writes, “Her well-constructed songs bring to mind the early work of Mary Chapin Carpenter.”  www.carolinecotter.com

Watch Linda Perrin with her team of glass blowers create blown glass pumpkins right before your very eyes. Outside of the Atlantic Art Glass studio we will create a small glass pumpkin patch with many blown glass pumpkins displayed for sale on hay bales and rustic autumn shelves. the public will be allowed inside the studio to watch as molten glass is pulled from the furnace, blown and hand formed on the end of a blowpipe into the classic, fun pumpkin shape. As an added attraction, after 3pm you can visit Fogtown brewery right below the glass blowing studio where a safe and gorgeous beer garden is open to the public. This annual event will be implementing Maine CDC safety protocols.

We are combining forces with Fogtown Brewery to bring you a winter marketplace. Since the Annual Firegathering will not be happening this year (due to Covid safety concerns), we thought this could be a good way to get together, and bring you a European style OUTDOOR market.                            Join us on Saturday, December 12th for the “Fogtown Winter Marketplace” in the beer garden!

From 10am to 5pm, Artsworth and Fogtown will be hosting an outdoor marketplace in the beer garden, featuring local artists showcasing and selling their fine art, hand-made products, and crafts, while upstairs at Atlantic Art Glass socially distanced glass blowing demonstrations are open to the public. Many blown glass gift items will also be available to purchase in the glass gallery.

Fogtown corner store will be open from 10am-7pm, offering beer, hot tea, mulled wine, cider, and starting at 12/noon, wood fired pizza and snacks will be available for sale to sustain you during all the lively offerings. 
This outdoor event will still follow strict COVID protocols; please maintain social distancing, and masks are required (and provided) when you are not seated at a table. Restroom facilities and hand sanitizer available in the beer garden.
Rain date: Sunday 12/6
Featured artists and artisans:

Linda Perrin, Atlantic Art Glass, hand blown glass offerings
Sarah Levine, Massage Gift Certificates
Cynthia Lech: Metal Jewelry
Erik Hill: 3D printed art/ fine wood work
Molly Friedland: Dried floral arrangements & wreaths
The Community School: Holiday centerpieces and wreaths
Roberta Sprague: Paintings
Featherfoot Farm; local herbal collective

Freestyle Weaving Workshop

Weave fabric to adorn your home or body while learning how to work with a 4 harness loom.

Because it’s up to all of us to slow the spread of COVID-19, everyone should avoid gatherings during this time. We are doing our part by postponing this workshop. Please check back here, our website at artsworth.org or sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date with our event schedule.

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE 

Saturdays April 11 and 18th (+ open studio time during the week)                     

10 a.m.- 4 p.m.       $130.00

• Supplies included call 664-0222 to sign up.                                                                               

In this workshop students will choose yarns from our supply to create a one of a kind textile, such as a scarf, table runner or hanging fiber art by combining yarns of different weights and colors.

Martine Nagy and Linda Perrin will guide you in exploring fun and useful weaving techniques such as creating a buttonhole, puffy tapestry weaving and textural insertions. An assortment of yarn and fiber of all types, colors and weights will be available for you to integrate in your “unique creation”. 

Our workshop is unique and differs from other traditional styles of hand weaving.  In traditional hand weaving, weavers highly value the regularity of the woven cloth: if there is an irregular pattern or thread, it is considered as a “mistake” or “flaw”.  In our freestyle weaving workshop free expression is encouraged, embracing the differences between hand weaving and machine weaving.

In this fun workshop we will:

• Consider the differences between people and machines.

• Be bold and adventurous

• Inspire one another and enjoy each other’s individuality.

For your pleasure and to allow participants to dive right into the delights of weaving, you will begin your weaving on a loom that has been warped with about 100 warp threads/ends on their assigned loom. (about 3-3 1/2 yards by 9 inches wide).

However, to supplement your understanding of the craft, a warping demonstration and the use of a warping mill versus a warping board will be discussed before we begin our projects. 

Think of this workshop as a kind of weaving sampler, where you can explore different techniques and traditions that speak to you, with our guidance.

This workshop is designed for beginners or anyone wanting to try their hand at weaving with a 4 harness loom.  All levels are welcome.  All materials needed to create a complete piece will be provided. Please feel free to bring your won specialty yarns (cashmere, silk, hand spun yarn, etc…).

Call 207-664-0222 to reserve a spot 

Warping Weaving Workshop with Linda Perrin and Martine Nagy

Please Join us August 13-15th at the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor, Maine

1 Kimball Road, Northeast Harbor, Maine

Thursday, August 13, 2–7 P.M.

Friday, August 14, 10–5 P.M.

Saturday, August 15, 10–5 P.M.

Please join us for this wonderful summer event! We are excited to help organize the fourteenth annual Northeast Harbor Neighborhood House Invitational Arts and Crafts Show.

The curators, Jodie Aragona and Linda Perrin, select a house full of distinguished artisans in a variety of mediums to participate in this “not to be missed” cultural event on Mount Desert Island, Maine. In the beauty of the historic Neighborhood House, an elegant atmosphere is created where one can find artisan made housewares, wearable art, sculpture or gifts for friends back home.

This show has a relaxed and elegant atmosphere, with no admission charge for the public. We kick off the annual gathering with a Thursday evening wine and cheese opening. 

Apply

$130. includes a tool kit and all materials 

Precious Metal Clay is a clay-like compound consisting of powdered silver in an organic binder. It can be formed and textured using simple tools to make earrings, pendants and other jewelry. When fired the organic binder burns off and the metal particles sinter leaving pure silver. It is fun and easy to work with.

A basic tool kit and packet of PMC3 are included in the class price. Students will go home with at least one finished piece of jewelry.

Bring to Class: notebook, pencil, ideas and curiosity. If you have things you would like to use to texture your work bring those too.

The Instructor-Janelle Delicata is a Certified PMC Instructor and local artist and small business owner living in Blue Hill, Maine. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA in Weaving & Textile Design at Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of American Craft with a minor in Jewelry & Metals. 

She sells her jewelry in local shops and galleries and at selected fine craft shows in the New England area. She also exhibits fine art mixed media work in many venues.

Call 664-0222 to register