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Briefs: Early Release Days and New School Calendar, New ArtWaves Director, Library Posts Letter About $330,000 Budget Ask

Quahogs, razor clams, eastern oysters, and hen clams may be added to Bar Harbor ordinance, Trail Running Film Festival Coming to Bar Harbor CARRIE JONES AND  SHAUN FARRAR FEB 23, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—We’ve collated a few press releases and briefer stories below. NEW SCHOOL CALENDAR STILL EVOLVING! BAR HARBOR—The AOS 91 Regular Board Meeting on February 12 focused on the ongoing creation of next … Continue reading Briefs: Early Release Days and New School Calendar, New ArtWaves Director, Library Posts Letter About $330,000 Budget Ask

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On the Harbor, Artists Take Over Bar Harbor. Again.

Three events showcase local artists and crafters CARRIE JONES AUG 14, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Way back on September 3, 1844, the painter, Thomas Cole, came across the state of Maine and ended up at Lynam’s farmhouse on Schooner Head in Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor wasn’t the first Maine stop for the founder of the Hudson River school of painting. He’d been to Penobscot Bay, Beech … Continue reading On the Harbor, Artists Take Over Bar Harbor. Again.

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Artists: The reason the we’re all here? Hudson to Harbor Event Celebrates Living Local Artists & History

Acadia’s June Visitation Numbers Low; Bar Harbor Man’s Widow Sues Former Staffer CARRIE JONES AUG 9, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Some of the original tourists to Mount Desert Island were artists. “We are here,” Bar Harbor artist Liz Cutler posted on her Facebook, “because of the artists.” Artists sit on the back porch of La Rochelle on West Street or near the Shore Path, at the … Continue reading Artists: The reason the we’re all here? Hudson to Harbor Event Celebrates Living Local Artists & History

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MDI Gets A Handworks Festival.

What happens when the creative and the practical meet? TOWN HILL AND SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Southwest Harbor’s Wendell Gilley began his work life as a master plumber, going into the depths of buildings, battling spider webs and probably a few mice traps to thaw a frozen pipe, fix an oil burner. He climbed into boats and made tank parts. And on many a frigid night or early … Continue reading MDI Gets A Handworks Festival.

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Questions and Community Compel and Inspire ArtWaves’ New Director Nikki Moser

BAR HARBOR—Last Thursday, as she taught a bit of color theory to locals and visiting campers in one of the non-profit’s art studios, ArtWaves founder Liz Cutler swung her paint brush around as she talked and introduced herself with a smile, ending the litany by saying, “And I’m the former interim executive director because we’ve hired someone wonderful!” That someone wonderful is artist Nikki Moser. … Continue reading Questions and Community Compel and Inspire ArtWaves’ New Director Nikki Moser

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Creating Community With Art and Fun

THINGS TO DO/PLACES TO GO: ArtWaves Celebrates Its Fifth Year of Creation, Imagination and Joy at its Town Hill Campus TOWN HILL—Sometimes a birthday party is really a celebration of community and of survival. That’s how it felt Thursday, July 21 at ArtWaves’ birthday masquerade party and fundraiser as artists and those who support them cavorted, shared food, danced and celebrated ArtWaves’ five years of … Continue reading Creating Community With Art and Fun

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ArtWaves Building Community and Connection

Good art, good community, is all about connections and insight, creating and glimpsing into things a little bit more deeply than might make us normally comfortable. It’s about stained-glass nippers, felted rocks, stack upon stack of unfinished projects, the smell of turpentine and glue, the feel of a chalk pastel against the skin. There is something vulnerable about creating, but there’s also something so joyous … Continue reading ArtWaves Building Community and Connection

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When Women Come Together Things Get A Little Bad Ass

BAR HARBOR, Maine — “I love that you are doing this,” Erica Brooks, associate broker at the Swan Agency, announces as she approaches a table where Nicole Ouellette, owner of Breaking Even and Anchorspace, sits as she creates a computerized map of women-owned businesses on Mount Desert Island. The women are just two of many at the Women-Owned-Business Expo in the old gym at the … Continue reading When Women Come Together Things Get A Little Bad Ass

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