BUILDING COMMUNITY
The sidewalks of the Village will be pulsing with music and dance during the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, August 27, 5-8pm. Boston’s Luminarium Dance Co. will entertain visitors with their spontaneous dance moves, playfulness, and theatricality while acclaimed strolling sidewalk musicians, Married with Chitlins, play their own versions of traditional country tunes.
The Wiscasset Art Walk on July 30, 5-8pm, is an excellent time to treat yourself to a retail adventure. The art in Wiscasset’s artist-owned galleries is splendid. The variety of delicious eating venues in the Village center is awesome. But have you shopped the shops? Wiscasset Village is home to a collection of unique, beautiful, and sometimes quirky storefronts, each expressing the interests and tastes of the owner.
The Village of Wiscasset, already a treasure trove of high quality art, unique shops, and fun eating places, is pleased to introduce several new additions to its stunning offerings. Discover these new places during Wiscasset’s first Art Walk of the 2015 season on Thursday, June 25, from 5-8pm. Park your car and stroll!
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.
