Maine Folk Art Trail - Uncommon Treasure
A once in a lifetime opportunity will be available to everyone in Maine in 2008. Maine is a repository for some of the Country's best folk art. Much of the material is seldom seen and only a small portion has been published.
Represented in Maine collections are essentially all the forms in which this genre appears: portraiture, landscapes, still life, decorated furniture, schoolgirl art, trade signs, pottery, marine arts, weathervanes and other sculpture, to name just a few.
In the spring, summer and fall of 2008, eleven of Maine's Art and History Museums will exhibit their folk art collections simultaneously as part of a coordinated statewide exhibition. Maine people and out-of-state visitors will be able, in the course of a few days, to follow Maine's Folk Art Trail from York to Waterville to Searsport to see this vast collection.
A 144 page hard cover catalogue will be published, featuring more than 100 of the best objects exhibited on the trail. It will be available for sale at each museum location and from Down East Books in Camden beginning in May 2008. ............................................................................................................................................. |
An all day folk art symposium will be held September 28th, 2008 at Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Registration information will be available at this website by June 1st, 2008. Symposium Topics:
- Itinerant Portrait Painters
- Scrimshaw
- Quilts
- Schoolgirl watercolors and embroideries
- Decorated redware
- Hooked Rugs
- Shaker Folk Art
- Paint decorated furniture
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