Events
2025 Events
Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands Lecture and Workshop Series
In conjunction with the exhibition The Monhegan Wildlands: Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island, the Monhegan Museum of Art & History is collaborating with the Monhegan Associates, Inc. land trust to present an exciting series of lectures and workshops this coming summer. Inspired by the exhibit’s topics, materials, and themes, this lecture series invites people to deepen their understanding of the cultural, ecological, and artistic history of Monhegan Island. Below is a list of our guest speakers and workshop leaders. This season’s lecture series has been generously sponsored by the Monhegan House.
Thursday September 11th:
Scratching the Surface: sampling the Monhegan woodlands
Barbara Putnam
Monhegan’s tranquility belies the many changes that have occurred on this dynamic island. This workshop focuses on the high contrast medium of scratchboard as a new way to think about observation. Following a guided walk on the trails recording notes in words, sketchpad, and camera, we will head back to the lighthouse and transfer our work. Scratchboard is a layered surface consisting of chalk on Masonite, covered with a fine layer of black India ink. It offers the artist a unique approach to drawing: shaped tools scratch the black ink to reveal white rather than traditional drawing in which marks of black are drawn on white paper. This simple “reverse” helps us to see detail, texture and light with fresh eyes, exploring the medium’s signature characteristics of high contrast and endless grays.
Materials to bring: Pencils/pens eraser, small moleskin book or other means of drawing or sketching and writing. Your cell phone /camera, maybe even a macro lens if you have one.
We will provide scratchboard and tools, and an atmosphere where everyone will learn something new.
9:00 am – 1:00 pm on Lighthouse Hill
Thursday September 18th:
Scott Weidensaul, Naturalist and author of the book “Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds”
“Plausible Deep Time Landscapes and the Art of Paleoart” with Kirk Johnson
“From Lighthouse and Signal Station and Cove to Head” with Libby Bischof
“Sustaining the Community and the Wildlands”: A Conversation with Doug Boynton and David Foster
“Wandering the Wildlands” with Accra Shepp
Recordings of Past Events
A Dynamic Niche: Monhegan Modernism and Island Ecology
Mapping Monhegan
Art, Ecology, and Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands
Small Island, Big Questions: Monhegan, Conservation, and the Entanglements of History
Chasing Down Monhegan’s Apples: Histories, Mysteries and Results
“I am a Daughter of Monhegan Artists”
Her Canvas: A Museum’s Mission to Champion Women in the Arts by Dr. Orin Zahra
The Allure of Maine’s Lighthouses
Monhegan Artists’ Residency: The First 35 Years
The Deci Lecture Series Presents: Artists’ Houses and Their Stories with Dr. Wanda M. Corn
A Conversation with Bobby Ives
Calvin Hennig: Encountering James Fitzgerald
Island Inspiration: A talk with author Leith MacDonald
James Fitzgerald: Preserving the Artistic Legacy, by Robert L. Stahl
In Search of America’s Earliest Apples: DNA Testing, Historical Research, and Offshore Islands
Inside the Artist Colonies of Cape Ann & Monhegan Island
At Home and Abroad: the Maine National Guard in World War II, 1941-1945
Pathless Woods and Lonely Shores: The Monhegan Art and Photography of S. P. Rolt Triscott
Bellows and Monhegan: Celebrating a Landmark Acquisition
Ed Deci and the Monhegan Museum… A Love Story
A Film by Paul Goldsmith
Exhibition Sponsor:
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Your donations help us preserve Monhegan’s rich history for future generations.
HOURS
Museum Hours for the 2025 Season
June 15-30 & September 16 -30:
12:30-2:30pm daily
July, August & September 1st- 15th: 11:30am- 3:30pm daily
James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists' Home and Studio
June 15- September 30
Tuesdays & Thursdays: 1:00-3:00pm
Sundays: 11:00am - 3:00pm
LOCATION
Monhegan Museum of Art & History
1 Lighthouse Hill, Monhegan, ME 04852
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