Artist Celeste Roberge will discuss her work Chaise Gabion, currently on view in OMAA’s sculpture park and gardens. Roberge will reflect on the material culture and geological processes that led her to consider what the “chaise” represents in an art historical context and what it means within her own practice. Roberge presents Chaise Gabion alongside…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
Gerald Peters, professor of literature at the University of Southern Maine, discusses “Nineteenth Century Utopianism and the American Social Imaginary,” relating to the exhibition Light Southerly: Henry Strater in Verde Valley. ZOOM LINK
Adult ART WORKSHOP – $45 Land & Seascape Painting (07/29) Heather Lewis THURSDAY, JULY 29, 10 AM-12 PM Using traditional observational exercises, with an emphasis on composition, siting, value, setting-up a Using traditional observational exercises—emphasizing composition, placement, value, setting up a palette and organizing materials—learn and practice how to capture what you see in…
Leadership Circle & Members’ Open Reception: Alberto Rey & Wood Gaylor Join us for hors d’oeuvres and cocktails to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions Life Streams: Alberto Rey, Cuban-American Artist and Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor & American Modernism, 1913-1936. Alberto Rey will be in attendance for Friday’s reception, so join us on the…
In conjunction with Alberto Rey's retrospective exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, he will present a 40-minute presentation discussing the evolution of his work over the past thirty years and the community work influenced by his artwork. Alberto work is found in around twenty art museum collections and has written and illustrated three…
Adult ART WORKSHOP – $45 Land & Seascape Painting (08/4) Heather Lewis THURSDAY, august 4, 10 AM-12 PM Using traditional observational exercises, with an emphasis on composition, siting, value, setting-up a Using traditional observational exercises—emphasizing composition, placement, value, setting up a palette and organizing materials—learn and practice how to capture what you see in…
ADULT WORKSHOP – $15 FOREST THERAPY MEETS YOU IN THE GARDEN Susan Bickford SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 9 AM-12 PM Susan Bickford returns to the museum and to offer an exploration and sharing in the Gardens. “We will slow down, open our senses, do some drawing, writing and embodiment as a part of the experience.”…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
Wood Gaylor was a part of the Ogunquit art colony “from the beginning,” according to one observer. In this talk, Andrea Rosen, curator of the traveling exhibition Art’s Ball: Wood Gaylor & American Modernism, 913-1936, will go into greater detail about Gaylor’s involvement in the Ogunquit art colony and his pioneering collecting of folk art; the wacky…
