BROOKSVILLE — Canadian designer Destiny Seymour didn’t play with dolls as a child. The Manitoban would sit in the back of her mother’s hair salon and make houses for dolls, which she would give away to her friends. Seymour, a member of the Anishinaabe First Nation tribe, designs fabric. She is one of 25 profiled …
“When people say, where are the protest songs, they still think of Bob Dylan and harmonica and a guitar, but the current wave of expression and concern is available in all forms of music.” — Noel Paul Stookey
AMHERST — Weaving together romance, compassion and a keen business sense, Karina Pomroy has bridged the more than 10,000 miles between tiny Amherst and the South American nation of Peru to create a thriving enterprise through soft, silky wool. For over 20 years, Peruvian Link has served the niche market of apparel created from alpaca’s …
BLUE HILL — To celebrate the holiday season, Blue Hill Bach has created an online “Advent calendar” for music lovers’ listening pleasure, Dec. 1-25. Collaborating with the Zenith Ensemble, Blue Hill Bach is offering daily a rich variety of seasonal treats from introductions to the northern New England choir’s individual singers to famed folk …
BROOKLIN — It was very much by chance that Odette Heideman fell into the craft of making pottery. For years, the Naskeag Point Road resident explained, her husband had given her gift certificates for facials and massages that went unused. Heideman floated an idea of something she might like to do, so he gave …
SULLIVAN — Take a ride down Taunton Drive in Sullivan and you will see a neighborhood coming back to life. “I am always drawn to things that need help and people that need help and cars that need help and houses that need help,” said Norm Bamford, a father of five and pastor of …
BLUE HILL — Someday, a play will be written specifically for a virtual Zoom format or, then again, perhaps, with a COVID vaccine on the horizon, it won’t be necessary. Let’s hope! The New Surry Theatre, however, is not waiting for either of those eventualities, and have instead, courageously forged ahead with a virtual performance …
LITTLE DEER ISLE — Walk into a Coakley house and you’ll be surrounded by wood, space and light. A designer and builder who can slip a line from “Moby Dick” into the conversation with ease, Coakley has been creating homes for about five decades, first up in the Pembroke area and for the last 35 …
ELLSWORTH — The Ellsworth Public Library will host an online art auction throughout December in order to give regional artists a spacious venue to show and sell their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online bidding will start Dec. 1 at www.ellsworthlibrary.net. The monthlong auction, proceeds from which will partially benefit the library, replaces the library’s …
ELLSWORTH — In late fall, Courthouse Gallery Fine Art mounts an exhibit of artists’ small work in its lofty stairwell. Straddling Bridge Hill, the stately Greek Revival building, which once served as the Hancock County Courthouse and Registry of Deeds, becomes part of the show as patrons leisurely ascend the stairs and eye paintings, prints …
AUGUSTA — Stonington marlinspike artist Tim Whitten is among seven Maine artists being chosen and honored by the Maine Arts Commission as its 2021 Fellowship Award winners. Each fellow will receive $5,000 and represents one of seven categories ranging from fine craft to visual arts. Other recipients include Dianne Ballon of Portland, Gabriel Frey of …
WINTER HARBOR — Robert Killam possesses a finely tuned eye after more than a decade clambering over fine-grained pink granite boulders and slowly combing coastal Maine beaches for a silvered timber, length of lobster-pot warp, cobblestone streaked with magma or a brown fishing float. These finds, after much pondering, eventually get woven into a work …
