Jun 02 Sunday
Maine artist Russ Cox presents new works that pull you in close, and then pull you even deeper.
Cox’s oil paintings evoke the sensory feeling associated with place, nature and experience. Works evolve from a process of applying layer upon layer with multiple glazes to create movement, translucency and depth. These works are deeply meditative, becoming more complex as they unfold.
Join us as we celebrate Russ Cox’s new works and step deeper into his visionary world.
A full catalog of works available. We are happy to arrange private showings and studio tours. All are welcome.
"This River Is Our Relative" is a 2023 Sunlight Media Collective documentary about the Penobscot Nation's intrinsic kinship connection to and tireless environmental advocacy for the Penobscot River. The story is told through the voices of 24 Penobscot people, who share their experience of historical, physical, and spiritual connection to place; of cultural identity and survival. Penobscot filmmakers and participants from Sunlight Media Collective - Dawn Neptune Adams, Kathy Paul and Jan Paul - will join us for a conversation following the film screening.Hosted by the First Parish Wabanaki Ally Team.
Camden artist Gideon Bok will present an artist talk about his work at Page Gallery located at 23 Bay View Street in Camden on Sunday, June 2 at 1 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Gideon Bok’s studio is rife with expression and creativity. His easel is at the center, documenting his children painting at a desk and musicians with instruments in hand, each creating their own response to the room. A drum set and amp sit on one side, paintings in progress decorate the walls. Paint supplies and record albums punctuate the room. His painting is a slow process of layers of paint and shifting subjects. Bok's paintings sometimes drip, sometimes carefully render, and sometimes pile up into thick layers of opposing colors. No matter the method, the object of these daubs of paint is to capture moments in varying light, different times of life, and with reminders of those people moving through.
Gideon Bok (b. 1966) is a painter in Camden, Maine. Bok received his BFA from Hampshire College and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. He has had solo exhibitions in numerous galleries, as well as the University of Maine, Gorham, the College of Charleston, SC, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. His work is included in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Farnsworth Art Museum, and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He received a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Fund Purchase Award through The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005.
Tapestry Singers presents Castlebay in a lecture performance at the Lincoln Home in Newcastle on Sunday, June 2 at 2:00 p.m. The duo, Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee, will present musical stories of Maine: romance, ramblers and rogues, woven with history and humor. The event is free to the public in conjunction with the Tapestry Singers June 15 and 16 concerts “Songs of Maine: A Belated Celebration of Maine's Bicentennial''
Castlebay has recently published ‘Bygone Ballads of Maine vol 1- Songs of Ships & Sailors”, a compilation of 165 folk songs gathered from collections made here in Maine between 1900 and 1950. Having explored various international archives, museums and libraries, they have distilled and repaired their findings and present them in an entertaining lecture with musical examples.In concert, Castlebay’s wide knowledge and deep cultural roots, their vocal and instrumental skills, and their personable performance style have been appreciated in museums, libraries, schools, arts centers and festivals internationally.
'Menopause The Musical: Cruising Through The Change," Sanford Performing Arts Center, 100 Alumni Blvd., Sanford. The North American Premiere Tour docks in Maine for a single, unmissable performance right here in Sanford! Five years after their memorable department store encounter, our beloved four friends are setting sail for more uproarious adventures on the high seas. Embark on a journey of self-discovery, while grooving to a toe-tapping playlist of parodied hits from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. 3 p.m. $45-$75. (207) 206-1126 / www.sanfordpac.org/menopause-2
Jun 03 Monday
Gouldsboro Historical Society invites you to “The Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in Maine,” 7:00 pm Monday, June 3 at the Women’s Club, 63 Main Street, Prospect Harbor. An account of the history of slavery and emancipation in Maine will introduce the story of antislavery activism in the decades leading up to the Civil War. African Americans were prominent in advancing the cause of abolition in Maine. Myth and historical fact will be separated in revealing Mainers’ involvement in the Underground Railroad.
The program will be presented by Dr. Mary T. Freeman, assistant professor of history at the University of Maine, Orono. Her field is the nineteenth-century United States, with a focus on the history of slavery and abolition. Her work also explores abolitionism, African American history, and women’s history in Maine and New England. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2018. Her current book project examines letter writing in the nineteenth-century antislavery movement. She is also researching abolitionism and nineteenth-century African American politics in Maine.
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