Martine arrives from Montreal to celebrate craft and creativity in her favorite Maine community. She will show her northern inspired fiber art, a collection of diverse work, knitting, weaving, and sewing are all employed to make her cheerful practical items perfect for your lifestyle. 
As a printmaker I create stamps using carving tools, then print them on paper or fabric using ink. My work springs from my passion for wildlife. The Earth holds so many precious creatures, the focal point of my art is to parade their influence on our lives, cultures and world.
Kafari is a passionate composer, performer, bones teacher, and street musician. Kafari’s music synthesizes his love of ambient piano music, spiritual jazz, and experimental hip-hop, with influences including Dorothy Ashby, J Dilla, Chopin, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who in a 2014 performance sparked his obsession with the rhythm bones — an Irish percussion instrument popularized in America through blackface minstrelsy which he often distributes and teaches to his audiences.
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Our featured visual artist for this month’s Listening Room Concert is local artist, Sara McDougall. Learn more about Sara’s work at www.sgmcdougall.com
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.
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.
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.