On August 1 from 5-7 pm, guests are invited to visit the MHS exhibit galleries and Longfellow Garden free of charge for the First Friday Art Walk! We will also feature displays by several local artisans. Located at 489 Congress Street, the MHS Museum Store will also be open.
Including guest vendors:
Sarah Shaw is a visual storyteller, illustrator, and Assistant Professor of Illustration at Maine College of Art & Design. She makes nonfiction comics, visual essays, zines, prints, and paintings that feature moments from daily life, nature, travel, language, culture, and women's history. Website: saraheshaw.com
Proxima Design Cat Toys is a small business owned by native Mainer Jacquelyn Mansfield, specializing in handmade, durable cat toys. Joyful shapes, organic catnip, and thoughtful designs with kitty’s instincts in mind make these toys irresistible! Shop: proximadesigncattoys.etsy.com
Joyanna Margo is a self-taught artist from Maine. She creates whimsical mixed-media abstracts and florals on canvas. She composes her paintings under the influence of coffee, poetry, music, and the beauty abundant all around us. Her negative-space technique comes from a desire to create order from chaos, adjust focus to the positive, and minister joy. Website: www.joyannamargo.com
Through a lens of attention, Amy Gwinn-Becker’s photographic art captures exquisite, often surprising details in nature that invite a closer look and offer a nuanced perspective. Each image is an opportunity to see beyond the first impression and be transformed. Available on glass and cards, these are perfect as gifts or decor. Insta: instagram.com/lens_ofattention
Longfellow Garden Club invites you to explore our urban oasis—the garden—during the First Friday Art Walk. In recent years, the garden club has focused on adding more native plants to enhance food resources for our local, native pollinators. Garden club members will be on hand to answer your questions and provide tours of the garden. Website: mainehistory.org/plan-your-visit/longfellow-garden/
Crafters from Calico Quilters Club of Yarmouth, Maine will be demonstrating hand stitching techniques in the Shettleworth Hall Gallery and Christine Force, Guest Curator of Stitches: Quilt Handwork at Maine Historical Society will be on hand to provide visitors with exhibit Q&A. FB: facebook.com/groups/CalicoQuilters/
Cole Caswell researches the remnants and patterns in our landscape that reflect contemporary strategies of survival. Through strata of observation, technology, subjectivity, and his surroundings, Caswell investigates geography and its impact on our perceived ability to survive. He uses traditional, historic and digital photographic media to investigate our present condition. Caswell travels in an 90’s VW camper van with a portable darkroom mounted to the back and uses alternative photographic process to create works while in the field. Website: www.colecaswell.com
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