http://www.workingwaterfront.com Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:13:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/images/ww_banner_bg.png http://www.workingwaterfront.com http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Havens-Doreen-Cabot-to-exhibit-recent-works/12483/ "Island Merriment," works by Doreen Brown Cabot of North Haven, will open at Waterman's Community Center (WCC), 12 Main Street, North Haven, on July 19 from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will run from July 19 to Aug. 4 during business hours. "Island Merriment" is a collection of recent works focusing on childhood memories and everyday life on North Haven. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Havens-Doreen-Cabot-to-exhibit-recent-works/12483/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-Institute-to-celebrate-its-25th-birthday/12462/ The Island Institute turns 25 this summer and will launch its silver anniversary with an extensive show of new work by Peter Ralston, well-known photographer of the Maine coast and the Institute's executive vice-president and co-founder.  The show will run through October 25 and includes new work since his celebrated 1997 book, Sightings: A Maine Coast Odyssey. An image gallery is available on the Archipelago Fine Arts website, www.TheArchipelago.net. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Nancy Carter) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-Institute-to-celebrate-its-25th-birthday/12462/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fencing-at-the-Fox-Island-Arts-Festival/12453/ North Haven's normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the Fox Islands Arts Festival May 29. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall and granite-cutting behind Waterman's Community Center were four of the 12 offerings at the festival, held on North Haven. About 120 staff and students came from Vinalhaven to attend. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Lisa Shields) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fencing-at-the-Fox-Island-Arts-Festival/12453/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-students-artists-connect-to-create-art/12481/ For the Twombly-Hussey family of Matinicus, the opening of the art show "Building Bridges" at Julia's Gallery at the Farnsworth Art Museum, was a major event.Lydia Twombly-Hussey had over six of her watercolors featured in the show, along with artwork from eight other island students. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David Tyler) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Island-students-artists-connect-to-create-art/12481/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Slam-Poet-Inspires-Students-at-Vinalhaven-School/12359/ Partners in Island Education (PIE) recently funded a two-day residency with slam poet Hashim Allah during a week-long poetry festival at the Vinalhaven School. Every year, the entire k-12 student body celebrates poetry during national poetry week. Students in third, fourth and fifth grades painted poems on decorated plywood and posted them on hiking trails. All students in the school made "Poet-tees," shirts to wear with original and favorite poems printed on them. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Slam-Poet-Inspires-Students-at-Vinalhaven-School/12359/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Kathy-Mattea-to-perform-on-Vinalhaven/12387/ Grammy Award winner Kathy Mattea will be performing a benefit concert for Vinalhaven's Partners in Island Education on Tuesday, July 15, at Smith Hokanson Memorial Hall. She's well known for her popular country hits including "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses" and "Goin' Gone." Tickets will be on sale staring June 1 at the Paper Store and Port O' Call on Vinalhaven. For more information contact Sheri Romer-Day at (207) 863-9370 or e-mail slrd66@verizon.net. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Kathy-Mattea-to-perform-on-Vinalhaven/12387/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Haven-Vinalhaven-students-enjoy-arts-festival/12436/ North Haven's normal fifth through twelfth grade school population of 39 students tripled when their counterparts from Vinalhaven joined them for the May 29 Fox Islands Arts Festival. Fencing on the ball field, choral music at the church, transformations (3-D art from trash) at the Legion Hall, granite-cutting behind Waterman's Community Center were four of the 12 offerings at the festival, held on North Haven. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Lisa Shields) Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/North-Haven-Vinalhaven-students-enjoy-arts-festival/12436/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fox-Islands-Arts-Festival-planned-for-May-29/12241/ Fifth through 12th graders from North Haven and Vinalhaven will celebrate the arts on May 29 through a variety of workshops and performances on North Haven. Workshops, taught by local artists, community members and teachers will include movement, stone cutting (granite), drama, poetry, origami, culinary arts, visual arts and instrumental and choral music in addition to drafting and fencing. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Keely Felton) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Fox-Islands-Arts-Festival-planned-for-May-29/12241/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Five-Peaks-Island-artists-to-fill-GEM-Gallery/12242/ Summer at Peaks Island’s GEM Gallery means weekly shows by member artists, opening on Thursday nights and running through the following Tuesday.  Joining to fill display stands and the walls are potters Rick Boyd and Pamela Williamson, printmaker and painters Jane Banquer and Jeanne O’Toole Hayman and photographer Victor Romanyshyn. Join islanders and friends for the opening or make a picnic day of island art and discovery. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Five-Peaks-Island-artists-to-fill-GEM-Gallery/12242/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Galleries-proliferate-on-Deer-Isle/12258/ “A handful of us on Deer Isle have been a little bit frustrated about getting our work out there,” said artist Maureen Farr, explaining the reasoning behind Deer Isle village’s new co-operative art gallery. The Red Dot Gallery, in the center of town, will have a daylong grand opening on Saturday, May 24, from 10 to 5. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Galleries-proliferate-on-Deer-Isle/12258/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/You-can-make-anythingAn-artist-explores-the-dilemma-the-world-is-facing/12069/ After 30 years as a clinical psychologist in Vermont, Sally Loughridge decided to refocus. In 1999, Loughridge and her husband moved to South Bristol, Maine, where she went to work, full-time, detailing and examining marine and coastal landscapes uninfluenced by humans. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Cyrus Moulton) Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/You-can-make-anythingAn-artist-explores-the-dilemma-the-world-is-facing/12069/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/The-water-doesnt-look-like-this-in-summer/12082/ Most artists show up to paint Maine islands in the summer, but plein air artist Keith Schneider of Liberty, Maine, has been working on Islesboro this cold and snowy winter to capture the sea and shore in winter light. House sitting on the island has given him ample opportunities to paint snow covered spruces and firs, brilliant winter sunsets and early morning sea smoke. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandy Oliver) Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/The-water-doesnt-look-like-this-in-summer/12082/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/In-PicturesA-photographers-archive-captures-three-decades-of-waterfront-work/11922/ Photojournalist Everett "Red" Boutilier, whose photographs are being digitized at the Penobscot Marine Museum, was known for being talkative. "He talked a blue streak," says Peter Spectre, who was working as a journalist/editor during the 1960s through the1990s, when Boutilier covered the Midcoast working waterfront "He'd go on and on and on. It was one of the reasons why he managed to get into all those boat shops and take all the photos. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Muriel L. Hendrix) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/In-PicturesA-photographers-archive-captures-three-decades-of-waterfront-work/11922/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Maine-Island-Memories/11959/ Sally Thibault, familiar to Vinalhaven audiences for her well-assembled slide show of island scenes covering 40 years of that community's history, has now produced a DVD from the same material. "Vinalhaven -- Maine Island Memories 1950-1990" is 37 minutes long, includes a nicely assembled soundtrack with selections from Dvorak and Elgar, plus Jim Wilson, Nick Apollonio and Kristen Tescher. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by David D. Platt) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Maine-Island-Memories/11959/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Handmade-Potholder/11960/ Sometimes the humblest of possessions are the most satisfying, a perfect fit for our needs--valuable beyond economic measure for their design, usefulness, and the meaningful place they hold in our lives. Perhaps there is even a note of creativity, of provenance. Such is the case with my homemade potholders. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Jane Crosen) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Handmade-Potholder/11960/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Revealing-the-Tension-in-Landscape/11958/ On Oct. 19, Archipelago Fine Arts unveiled a new show that highlights the work of North Haven artist Eric Hopkins. "Water / Color: An Exploration of Atmospheric Light" features watercolor paintings and glasswork that deconstruct and then reconfigure our notions of "watercolor." Works in the show examine the common qualities and close relationship between color and water, but also the two subjects' unique identities and characteristics. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (Cyrus Moulton) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/mail/Revealing-the-Tension-in-Landscape/11958/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Winter-Harbor-hosts-an-international-sculpture-symposium/11915/ "His sculptures can be `read' two different ways," said artist, art teacher and Winter Harbor Sculpture Site Selection Committee member Mary Lou Weaver, of the stylized granite boat cleat by Round Pond sculptor Don Justin Meserve. She said the cleat also represents a safe harbor. The Cleat is one of seven massive sculptures made at the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium [SISS], which took place between July 25 and Sept. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Sandra Dinsmore) Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Winter-Harbor-hosts-an-international-sculpture-symposium/11915/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Revealing-the-Power-in-Place/11916/ The term "power of place" is a nice variation on "sense of place," that term used to evoke an individual's special connection to a pond, a town, an island. "The Power of Place: Three Views of Maine" at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor features the work of a painter, Robert Pollien, and two photographers, Gifford Ewing and Frank Hallam Day, each of whom creates images that, to various degrees, capture the inherent intensity of Maine coast ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Little) Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/reviews/Revealing-the-Power-in-Place/11916/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Book-arts-workshop-planned-for-Eagle-Island/11862/ The 5th Annual Eagle Island Workshop in book arts and journal keeping will be taught by Siri Beckman, printmaker and book artist from Stonington, and Susan Bonthron of Otter Pond Bindery in Guilford, VT. The workshop is from September 10 to 14 and takes place on Eagle Island in Penobscot Bay. Susan Bonthron is a writing coach, avid journal keeper and senior editor of Community Works Journal. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Staff Writer) Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/Book-arts-workshop-planned-for-Eagle-Island/11862/ http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Young-Band-Beset-by-Varied-Challenges/11870/ As I drove to WERU's Full Circle Fair music festival in Blue Hill, my 22-month-old daughter looked sleepy. By the time I reached the parking lot, she was out. Going by the rule that you never wake a sleeping toddler, I was still in the parking lot when Pattycake 600, the first band, took the stage. Even at a distance what I heard sounded great: full of energy, yet with crisp tempo changes that swung from reggae to jazz to punk. ... info@workingwaterfront.org (by Craig Idlebrook) Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 http://www.workingwaterfront.com/articles/A-Young-Band-Beset-by-Varied-Challenges/11870/