A treat for the senses--color, texture, fragrance fill the galleries for one-weekend in June for "Art in Bloom." Area garden club designers creatively utilize flowers, seed pods, driftwood and other organic matter to interpret nearly 20 works of art on exhibition. Visitors have the opportunity to cast their vote for "Best in Show". This event…
The Garden Party is back for 2021! Join us to support the sculpture park & gardens in your best summer hat while listening to the Dry Martini Jazz Trio on the lawn. Cocktails and light fare will be served all afternoon. (Best hat wins a prize mid-afternoon!) $50 per person If It Rains: The party will…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
A conversation with Anthony Moore, Jean Gibran and Ken Turino, manager of community partnerships for Historic New England, related to the exhibition Kahlil G. Gibran: The Surface and Below. ZOOM LINK
Late 19th-century critics celebrated Winslow Homer’s paintings of the Maine coast as big, powerful, and virile—masculine qualities that would describe representations of this locale well into the 20th century. The Maine coast thus was mapped as a manly domain, brought into view by vigorous brushwork and inhabited by rugged artists colonizing a new frontier. What…
Walking tour of OMAA's three-acre sculpture garden
ZOOM LINK Katherine French, curator of the Jo Sandman Legacy Project speaks on the exhibition One Hand Clapping: Jo Sandman. Inspired by her stay at Black Mountain College in 1951, Jo Sandman approached art making as a thoughtful process of experimentation. Katherine French, curator of the Sandman Legacy Project will discuss Sandman’s early experience at Black…
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
