In “Still Waters, Rising Moon,” artist Paul Batch depicts a grouping of tall, slender trees with lush green foliage standing along the edge of a body of water. The distant moon, observed through the trees, hangs low on the horizon, and there is a soft glow of light to the muted marsh grasses in the foreground. The sky transitions down from warm to cool pinks to violets with a warm grey-violet haze extending along the horizon. The water mirrors the trees and sky, and the overall feeling that Batch achieves is one of tranquility and peace.
Perennial Favorites - Art, Music, and Flowers - Welcome Visitors
Twelve years in, and there’s always something new to discover at Wiscasset Art Walk. The 2024 season opens on Thursday, June 27, 4-7pm, in Wiscasset Village. Visitors are invited to peruse the Village galleries and shops. Village sidewalks are lined with original art, regional vendors, and local community tables where visitors can meet the artists and their neighbors!
Wiscasset Art Walk’s pop-up Hasenfus Gallery, 64 Main St., will be hosting emerging artist Seth Bond Perry during the Thursday, June 24 evening, from 5-8pm. The artist will be in the gallery drawing and painting and welcomes visitors to stop in and say hello.
Goodbye Walk Around Wiscasset 2020 and hello Wiscasset Art Walk 2021! This summertime celebration of art, music, performance, and community, entering its ninth year, returns in full force with the participation of Village galleries, shops, and restaurants. The Village becomes a festival with sidewalk activities, community art projects, and special features.
Those ubiquitous orange barrels of 2019, indicators of the multi-year MDOT construction project – GONE! The restrictions on being together outdoors – GONE! Instead, the new, extra wide sidewalks in Wiscasset Village will host performances by Downeast Brass Quintet and Dancemaineia’s hip hop dancers. Hands-on art projects will invite visitors to dip into color, and a pop-up sidewalk bistro will welcome visitors carrying their ‘picnics-to-go’ from Village restaurants.
The Village’s open doors and these special features promise to make each Wiscasset Art Walk evening a joyous one. Any state mandated Covid-19 precautions will be in effect as well as safety precautions requested by individual shops and galleries. So please bring a mask.
Say Hello to Autumn with Safe Socializing in Wiscasset Village
WISCASSET, MAINE – Dusk settles early in late September and so Walk Around Wiscasset invites strollers to help light up the Village. ‘You be the Light’ is the evening’s theme with participants carrying – or wearing – lights! Only two days after the Autumnal Equinox, the final Walk Around Wiscasset on September 24, 5-6:30pm, becomes a communal farewell to summer and a hearty welcome to autumn.
New Sidewalks Offer Big Space for Safe Celebrating
WISCASSET, MAINE – A hand-made carillon, with 49 bronze bells, will ring out on the new Village sidewalks during the Walk Around Wiscasset on Thursday, August 27, 5-6:30pm. The carillon will be played by Mike Everett of Dresden who designed and fashioned the instrument about 30 years ago.
Wiscasset Joins National Centennial Celebration
WISCASSET, MAINE – Wear White! is the fashion theme for the upcoming Walk Around Wiscasset on Thursday, August 27, from 5 to 6:30pm, as Wiscasset joins the national initiative commemorating100 years of women’s suffrage during August 2020, National Women’s Suffrage Month.
Walk Around Wiscasset on July 30 Replaces Wiscasset Art Walk
Safety Measures Recommended for Evening Stroll
WISCASSET, MAINE – Hats On! is the theme of the summer’s first Walk Around Wiscasset on Thursday, July 30, from 5-6:30pm. A replacement for Wiscasset Art Walk, this strolling event gives friends, neighbors, and visitors, a chance to socialize safely while still enjoying the sights and sounds of this beautiful Village setting.
The sun glistens on the Sheepscot River, the lines at Red’s Eats and Sprague’s lobster shack on the pier look hungry and expectant, and the galleries and shops entice visitors to the final Wiscasset Art Walk of the season on Thursday, September 26, 5-8pm. And, for a special end-of-season surprise, professional juggler Andrew Silver offers proof that all the Village is but a stage!
Art students at Wiscasset Middle High School will be exhibiting their creations in the Weaving Project, 64 Main St., during the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, September 26, 5-8pm. The students, from various grades and working in a variety of mediums, take part in a choice-based art curriculum which encourages them to experiment, take creative risks, learn basic skills, and develop as creative people.
Wiscasset Village is poised to inhabit the new and grand sidewalks that are slowly taking form from the months-long construction project in the heart of the Village. A cluster of civic groups and local creatives will be taking part in the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, August 29, 5 to 8pm, to test the public spaces that will become active community places in the years ahead!
