BUILDING COMMUNITY
Although the Wiscasset Art Walk 2014 season is coming to a close, new exhibits and demos are planned to delight, inspire, and challenge visitors from near and far during the September 25 event, from 5-8pm. Spend the evening strolling Wiscasset Village’s galleries, unique shops, and historical sites, and be sure to stop at Mac’s Place at the end of the evening for a joyous musical event to close the season.
The Village of Wiscasset becomes a performance venue with plein air painting, live sidewalk music, and street performance during the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, August 28 from 5-8pm. Artist Robert Noreika sets up his easel in front of Sylvan Gallery to capture the atmosphere and mood of our classic Maine village. Sidewalk artist Erik Minzner establishes his outdoor studio on Main St. to observe and paint the comings and goings of Wiscasset street life. Strolling minstrels Married with Chitlins delight visitors with their country, blues-y tunes, and Luminarium Dance Co., fresh from their 24-hour choreofest in Boston, brings street performance to the Village.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, July 31, from 5-8pm. The all-brass Breakers Jazz Band starts the evening with an outdoor concert on the Creamery Pier beginning at 5pm. At the other end of the Village, Lynn Deeves plays on the Wiscasset Common later in the evening. In between these two music locales, stroll the Village streets for fine art, music in the galleries, antiques, specialty shops, and other special events.
As the mid-coast region awakens from a very long winter and unfolds into summer, the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, June 26, from 5-8pm, kicks off high summer fun. The June Art Walk, one of four scheduled during the summer, is a free, self-guided walking tour through the Village with an emphasis on enjoying community culture, art, and performance. On these evenings, artists’ studios, galleries, and shops stay open late and invite visitors in to see, hear, and experience all they have to offer.
Wiscasset Art Walk Season Finale, 9-26-13
Maine’s mid-coast region is rich in the arts, and this Thursday, the season finale of Wiscasset Art Walk will celebrate them grandly: the hand-craftsmanship our region is known for, visual arts in paint, print, and textiles, literature, local history, and music. In addition to Wiscasset’s remarkable galleries, antique stores, unique shops, and historic sites, special features are in place to delight Art Walk visitors.
Wiscasset Art Walk has generated much excitement in town as well as a renewed sense of community. This new, invigorated atmosphere in the village has attracted one of this month’s featured artists, master printmaker R. Keith Rendall, to town. Rendell is a professional printmaker and artist with over 30 years of experience. He is co-founder and president of Midcoast Printmakers Inc., a non-profit organization, and is an expert on the history of etching and woodcut printmaking in the Renaissance.
Also featured during this month’s Wiscasset Art Walk is the work of local artist Tom Block. Block is well-known in the community, but probably best-known for illustrating Togus the Cat, a children’s story about the adventures of a Maine coon cat.
Wiscasset Art Walk, held on last Thursdays, is coming up again, Thursday, July 25th, and promises to be a summer evening chock-full of art appreciation, music (both in and out of doors), good food to eat, great fellowship and general conviviality in Maine's prettiest village!
Features of the July 25th Wiscasset Art Walk include an oil painting demonstration, twig artist Susy Perrine displaying her twig jewelry, special evening tours of the historic Nickels-Sortwell House, and family-friendly horse and wagon rides through the village by Woodfield Farm Wagon Rides.
Wiscasset will have a fun and festival-like atmosphere during its summer Art Walks with street performers and plein air painters at work as well. Don’t be surprised if you hear lovely harp music or a brass band coming from unexpected places. Wiscasset Art Walk will celebrate art in its many diverse forms, both in and out of doors.
