May 02 Thursday
Join in the fun and register your team for a 2024 News & Brews Trivia night!
Team check-in starts at 5:30pm. Trivia starts at 6:00pm!
*Note that we can’t accept teams with more than 5 players.
Click HERE to see the full 2024 News & Brews schedule!
May 16 Thursday
Apr 27 Saturday
In this beginner’s class, participants will learn all of the techniques used in making a full sized, copper foiled stained glass panel, but in a smaller context. Steps include pattern cutting, glass selection and cutting, grinding, foiling, soldering, and finishing with patina and wax. Please bring a packed lunch.
Cyanotype, also call sun-printing, is an early photographic process that produces blue and white prints. It is usually done in bright sunlight, but can also produce beautiful images on overcast days, and can be done indoors with a specialized UV light. You’ll have a chance to try both sunlight and artificial light.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will work with 5x7 watercolor paper and will use a variety of objects, including feathers, dried ferns, evergreen branches, paper snowflakes, and chandelier prisms to make winter woodland-inspired scenes.
Jennifer Booher is an artist and photographer from Bar Harbor. She has been a Resident Artist with Acadia National Park since 2015, and artist-in-residence with the MDI Historical Society since 2018.
$36 for museum members$45 for non-members
Registration is required.
We are excited to invite you to join us for our spring Community Day, featuring:
11:30 am - 12:30 pm: An exploration of Surf Point’s coastal property, led by Liz Walworth, Stewardship Director of York Land Trust, which oversees Surf Point’s conservation easement. Liz will discuss the unique landscape of Surf Point, the conservation of the land, and the challenges of climate change.
11 am - 3 pm: A collaborative artmaking workshop led by alum Meghan Brady ‘20. In this hands-on workshop, we will use a series of drawing prompts to forage for drawing tools and inspiration from the Surf Point landscape. Returning to the Beverly Hallam studio, we will translate our original drawings into larger-scaled components and then work collaboratively through collage and ink painting to make a wall-sized installation. Participants can drop in and out of the workshop throughout the event. All ages and experience levels are welcome! In the meantime, check out Meghan’s work at Mrs. in Maspeth, NY, and Dunes in Portland, ME!
11 am - 3 pm: Self-guided tours of Wild Knoll Foundation Garden, a public art project by alum Carly Glovinski ‘21, inspired by writer May Sarton, and a short walk from the Surf Point building.
11 am - 3 pm: Pop Up Plant Sale! For a small donation, pick up some plant divisions from the Wild Knoll Foundation Garden. Proceeds will help support the coming growing season of this living work. A huge thank you to the Old York Garden Club volunteers for helping with garden cleanup and preparing plant divisions for this sale.
Other highlights:
- All are welcome, including dogs on leash- Peruse the books in our 1,000 volume art library- Walk the trails on our 46-acre coastal property- Explore the tidal pools and oceanfront- Visit Buoy Gallery, Corey Daniels Gallery, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) and make a day of it!
Community Day is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Surf Point is able to host these programs thanks to small-dollar donations from the public.
Engage in the Art of Listening to nourish your nervous system, cultivate communication skills, and build your stamina to face life’s challenges. Join others to tap into both personal and collective creative wisdom. Expect to relax, create and play.
Apr 28 Sunday
Sunday, April 28th from 9:30AM to 4:30PM
In this workshop students will make their own silver rings from start to finish. This class will cover basic metalsmithing skills, such as cutting, shaping, and joining metal. You will customize your ring bands with surface design techniques such as filing, stamping, and hammering.
$99 workshop fee does not include materials. The $25 materials kit can be purchased at the beginning of the workshop. (For safety, be sure to wear closed toe shoes and have long hair pulled back with clips or in a ponytail.)
We will have an hour break for lunch midway through the day. The studio will be closed during this break, but there are nearby parks where you can eat lunch if you brought your own, or you can check out one of the local restaurants in the area.
Open to adults only. Please contact us directly if you are interested in seeing metalsmithing options for teens.
About the instructor: Kim Round got her degree in art at Florida State University and taught jewelry workshops in Tallahassee, FL before making the move back home to Maine. She has been teaching Beginning Metalsmithing and other workshops at Artascope since 2016 and is thrilled to be part of a friendly & creative community. She is a member of the Maine Crafts Association and her work can be found at the Center for Maine Craft, Lisa Marie's Made in Maine and Archipelago/The Island Institute store.
Mushrooms are fascinating and beautiful organisms that also offer opportunities for substantial food production in Maine. This workshop, led by North Spore educator Louis Giller, will share background and hands-on experience with some of the most reliable outdoor cultivation methods. Louis will start with a presentation explaining how to plan and execute log and bed cultivation with species including Shiitake, Wine Cap, Oysters, Chestnut, and Hen of the Woods. From there, we'll get outside and start inoculating, putting what we've learned into practice! Participants will be able to take home a freshly inoculated Shiitake log.
Apr 29 Monday
Tai Chi in the Amphitheatre. Join instructor Anna Dembska for tai chi classes by donation for all levels. A portion of the donations collected will benefit the Camden Public Library. For more info and to sign-up, email Anna at camdentaiji@gmail.com. Sign-up is highly recommended so that you can be reached if classes are canceled.
Apr 30 Tuesday
COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKING (4-week course)@Waterfall ArtsStarts April 30 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm$135.00 – $185.00
Do you like to cut, paste, incise, emboss, deboss and impress? Do you like to scatter stencils to see what happens on the other side of the press? Then collagraph could be for you! Using matte board as a base, we will explore two methods for plate-making—“cut and paste” and “impressed”—and learn how to seal them. We will practice intaglio, relief and a la poupee inking methods with water-soluble and oil inks. We will create stencils to add pop and dimension to our prints. Each person will complete at least two plates, or as many as they can manage over the four weeks, and pull their prints as a series and/or as monoprints. Bring reference images, project ideas, or thoughts on alternate plate materials. There will be (fun) homework!
Class content will include: Platemaking with matte board as base, inking, making and using stencils, and pulling prints as series or monoprint. Class dates: April 30, May 7, 14, 21.
About the instructor: Karin Eberhardt came to printmaking through a Waterfall Arts class in 2018 and has never looked back. These days she makes collographs and monoprints based on images from Arctic canoe expeditions, tropical scuba dives and her flower garden. She dabbles in letterpress, artist books and sometimes writes. Before moving to Maine Karin had lots of fun adventures and also some serious mishaps while working in Southeast Asia. She now lives in an old hayfield in Albion, Maine where bobolinks raise their young every summer. In 2021 Karin was lucky to apprentice with printmaking mentor Karin Otto through a grant from the Maine Crafts Association’s Craft Apprenticeship Program.
Waterfall Arts256 High StreetBelfast, Maine 04915
Join Portland Swing Project for Beginning Swing Dance Classes! We provide clear step-by-step instruction, plenty of practice time to build confidence, and you never need a partner - we rotate in class so you meet and dance with everyone. And it's fun! We promise. Class schedules and details: https://www.portlandswingproject.com/weekly-classes (Class registration required in advance. Classes offered every 7 weeks, and we have two beginning-level classes available at 6pm and 7:15pm - see schedule link for details).
Join us for a four-week online discussion on the book, We Survived the End of the World by Steven Charleston. Each week on Tuesday from 6:30pm-7:30pm (EST) we will meet ONLINE for an hour in length from April 9th-30th. In our time together, we will read each chapter and engage in small group discussion. If you miss a week, you will still be able to join us in our discussion.
Schedule:April 9: Chapters 1 & 2April 16: Chapters 3 & 4April 23: Chapters 5 & 6April 30: Chapters 7 & Epilogue
Suggested Donation of $20.