Perennial Favorites - Art, Music, and Flowers - Welcome Visitors
Twelve years in, and there’s always something new to discover at Wiscasset Art Walk. The 2024 season opens on Thursday, June 27, 4-7pm, in Wiscasset Village. Visitors are invited to peruse the Village galleries and shops. Village sidewalks are lined with original art, regional vendors, and local community tables where visitors can meet the artists and their neighbors!
WISCASSET, MAINE – The new sidewalks in Wiscasset Village are finally getting the workout they deserve. In 2019, the sidewalks were under construction during an MDOT project and underused during the Covid shutdown of 2020. But on Thursday, August 26, from 5 to 8pm, art, art-making, music, dancers, and performers invite residents and visitors to enjoy the luxurious spaces which become an impromptu stage.
WISCASSET, MAINE – Trifles I, an art and antique gallery at 55 Main St. in Wiscasset Village, will be hosting abstract painter Tom Flanagan during Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, August 26, 5-8pm. An exhibit of Flanagan’s paintings, Cut Flowers, features the artist’s use of vibrant color, graphic shapes, and bold lines.
WISCASSET, MAINE – Selected pieces from Jonathan Waldo’s 42-year career in making musical instruments, furniture, and art will be on display in the Hasenfus Gallery, 64 Main St., during Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, August 26, 5-8pm. He will be demonstrating some of the instruments during the evening.
The Maine Arts Commission has awarded two grants to Wiscasset Creative Alliance to support community-building activities in and around Wiscasset Village. The Alliance is an ‘umbrella’ non-profit which serves as the home base for Wiscasset Art Walk, Wiscasset’s Museum in the Streets, Wiscasset Marketfest, and Friends of Wiscasset Village, providing the benefits of non-profit status to this collection of local community initiatives.
Hands-on artmaking is the theme of the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, July 29, from 5 to 8pm. The Hasenfus Gallery, 64 Main St., will be the pop-up studio for Scrapwood Renaissance artist Eric Graffam and painter Jessica Chaples. Talk with these two Maine artists as they work in wood and paint.
Roving Musicians Return to Wiscasset Village
WISCASSET, MAINE – The Downeast Brass quintet is a musical powerhouse of bold and glorious sound. Hear and see them perform during the Wiscasset Art Walk on Thursday, July 29, 5 to 8pm, as they use the new sidewalks as performance space and perform throughout the Village.
Village Gears Up for a Sensational Sidewalk Event
Special features during the WAW evening include hands-on art projects for community participation. Under the direction of artist Celia Ludwig, visitors will be encouraged to contribute their talents to the making of a free-standing mural which will go on display in the Hasenfus Gallery at 64 Main St. Meanwhile, Wiscasset Rocks! offers the family-friendly activity of painting authentic Wiscasset rocks to take home as a souvenir or leave behind in a unique rock garden.
Wiscasset Art Walk’s pop-up Hasenfus Gallery, 64 Main St., will be hosting emerging artist Seth Bond Perry during the Thursday, June 24 evening, from 5-8pm. The artist will be in the gallery drawing and painting and welcomes visitors to stop in and say hello.
Goodbye Walk Around Wiscasset 2020 and hello Wiscasset Art Walk 2021! This summertime celebration of art, music, performance, and community, entering its ninth year, returns in full force with the participation of Village galleries, shops, and restaurants. The Village becomes a festival with sidewalk activities, community art projects, and special features.
Those ubiquitous orange barrels of 2019, indicators of the multi-year MDOT construction project – GONE! The restrictions on being together outdoors – GONE! Instead, the new, extra wide sidewalks in Wiscasset Village will host performances by Downeast Brass Quintet and Dancemaineia’s hip hop dancers. Hands-on art projects will invite visitors to dip into color, and a pop-up sidewalk bistro will welcome visitors carrying their ‘picnics-to-go’ from Village restaurants.
The Village’s open doors and these special features promise to make each Wiscasset Art Walk evening a joyous one. Any state mandated Covid-19 precautions will be in effect as well as safety precautions requested by individual shops and galleries. So please bring a mask.
Say Hello to Autumn with Safe Socializing in Wiscasset Village
WISCASSET, MAINE – Dusk settles early in late September and so Walk Around Wiscasset invites strollers to help light up the Village. ‘You be the Light’ is the evening’s theme with participants carrying – or wearing – lights! Only two days after the Autumnal Equinox, the final Walk Around Wiscasset on September 24, 5-6:30pm, becomes a communal farewell to summer and a hearty welcome to autumn.
