ARTWALK GARDINER is celebrating 20 years of art and community! Join us Friday, May 16th from 5 - 8 pm for our spring event. Local artists will be exhibiting their works in shops, galleries, artists’ studios, and other venues throughout Historic Downtown Gardiner. In tandem with ARTWALK GARDINER, a special community photography project, Community Faces, will be underway, as well as the donation drop off for the Annual Gardiner Public Library Plant Sale. Special guest, Elliot Gilg will be lighting up the streets with their musical performance. Enjoy Gardiner’s downtown as it blossoms with art, music, and family-friendly fun.

Do not miss the Community Faces photo station at ARTWALK GARDINER. Community Faces is a public art project that elevates and celebrates the many people who are engaged in the local arts and various community building activities, capturing the diversity and scope of all those who are helping Gardiner grow and flourish. Several outdoor large-scale mosaic murals, created from individual ‘headshot’ photographs taken during ARTWALK GARDINER, will be installed with wheat-paste on public walls of Gardiner’s downtown. For those who cannot attend, there will be other photo opportunities throughout the rest of May and June. Check the website for updates!

ARTWALK GARDINER was established in 2005 by Artdogs Studios in collaboration with a handful of artists from the Gardiner area. Their mission is to encourage community appreciation of the arts, connect local artists to the general public, create sustainable networks that support local artists, increase awareness of local arts organizations, and foster the creative economy through regular exhibitions and events in historic downtown Gardiner. Since its inception, ARTWALK GARDINER has drawn thousands of visitors to Water Street to enjoy these delightful evenings.

Artists: Alan Claude, Allison McKeen, Art by Donald Patten, Christine Sullivan, Charlie Mrazik, D. L. Duda, Ellen Roberts, Frank Dinsmore, HKileyArtDesign, Jen Hickey- Dandelion Art, John Carnes, Judith Metzger, Just Playing With Glass, Karen Adrienne, Kelly Maines, Living Lines Illustration, Marylu Wellwood, Matt Demers, Mike Gent, My Happy Octopi, Nathaniel Smith, Pamela Hetherly, Perspex Studio, Tanya Russell, Taylor Newbeck, wild apotropaic

Host Venues: Alan Claude Gallery, Artdogs Studios, Awakened Intuition, Circling the Square Fine Art Press, Gardiner Public Library, Johnson Hall Opera House, Monkitree, Pistil & Page, Second Chances Thrift Store, Selene’s Fly Shop, Spindleworks Gardiner, Spinning Head Vintage, Stone Broke Bread and Books, Table Bar, The Healing Community MEDCo, Top-Side Gaming

Sponsors: Jennifer Strode, Bintliff’s Corner Brew, Cattywampus Studio LLC, Gerard’s Pizza

ARTWALK GARDINER is in partnership with Gardiner Main Street.
For more information, email artwalkgardiner@gmail.com.

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