This Season's Featured Display is "Vintage Wedding Dress Display"- on open days only (Wednesdays-Fridays 1-4pm). Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society 416 Sunset Road, Route 15A, Deer Isle www.dishistoricalsociety.org
Whippoorwill Wood plays a mix of rock, folk, alternative and indie cover songs, plus a few originals, with a focus on driving rhythm and tight harmony.
“Unfolding Horizons,” which runs from July 9 - 21 at the Deer Isle Artists Association gallery, will expand and extend visitors’ perceptions about the power of art.
Originally formed in 2010, in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, NC, Circus Mutt draws from a spectrum of musical influences including rock-n-roll, jazz and bluegrass. The band cut their teeth on the road, touring literally non-stop from 2011-2016.
Turtle Gallery hosts a book signing for the recently released publication “Engraving a Sense of Place” which follows Siri Beckman on her journey to Maine and her calling to become a printmaker.
Island Connections show. This exhibit is a fundraiser to benefit the Deer Isle Artists Association and the Chase Emerson Memorial Library in Deer Isle Village
Island Connections Reception. This exhibit is a fundraiser to benefit the Deer Isle Artists Association and the Chase Emerson Memorial Library in Deer Isle Village
Welcome Center Volunteers will be selling tickets for the raffle a the Deer Isle Artisans Market (on Church Street next to the Deer Isle Town Office) on August 22. All proceeds will go to the repair, maintenance and operations at the Welcome Center.
In various areas around the Facility are our Victory Gardens. The tours will explain the plants needed for a family to survive during certain difficult periods of time in our History.
You’re invited to The Haystack Auction, an end-of-season fundraiser to support fellowship awards and ongoing School programming on Friday, August 23 starting at 5:30 PM.
This special event will offer a variety of beautiful works small enough to fit in a suitcase, and perfect for collecting or gift-giving. A range of mediums will be on display, including painting, prints, ceramics, weaving, glass, and jewelry.
Reception with the artists: “Dance Fever” brings the energy of creative movement to the Deer Isle Artists Association Gallery. A range of mediums will be on display, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, wood, and jewelry, filling the gallery with dynamic beauty.
Healthy Peninsula will host a free hybrid event at the Blue Hill Library’s Howard Room, also streaming via Zoom at the Brooksville and Ellsworth Libraries as well as at the Deer Isle and Stonington town halls. The event will focus on how Home Sharing is one way to address Maine’s severe shortage of affordable housing.
The Deer Isle Artists Association is pleased to announce the commencement of the Winter Artist-in-Residence Program on November 4 with artist Sarah Baskin. Sarah paints impressionistic watercolor and oil landscapes, seascapes and figures.
Based on the book by the same name, the film tells the inspiring story of a 12-year-old boy who, separated from his family by a fast-moving storm, must fight to stay alive during his nine-day adventure lost in the backwoods of Maine.