Events

Save the Dates: 2026 Art and Ecology Event Series

This season’s Art and Ecology Event Series is being presented in partnership with the Monhegan Associates land trust and is being generously sponsored by the Monhegan House.
Below is a list of event dates and presenters, check back for further details as they become available.

July 9:

Chris Newell: Co-founder Akomawt Educational Initiative

Indigenizing Museums and Education

July 16:

Kirk Gentalen: Regional Stewardship Manager, Maine Coast Heritage Trust

Mushrooms thru Binoculars

July 23:

Jess Kusher: Biological Oceanographer

Refuge on the Edge of the Sea: Monhegan Island Tide Pools

July 30:

Leith MacDonald: Artist and Educator

Island Inspiration

August 7:

Barbara Putnam: Artist and former MARC resident

Scratching the Surface

August 6:

Krisanne Baker: Artist

Ecology Education Through Art

September 10:

Judy Walsh: Conservator

Materials and Technique in James Fitzgerald’s Watercolors

September 24:

Jonathan Alderfer: Avian Artist

Painting Birds

 

 

Recordings of Past Events

Swordfish in Wabanaki Homeland

Flying Offshore: Bats in the Gulf of Maine & Monhegan Island

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

CONSIDER SUPPORTING US

Your donations help us preserve Monhegan’s rich history for future generations.

HOURS

Museum Hours for the 2026 Season

June 15- September 30

James Fitzgerald – Rockwell Kent Historic Artists' Home and Studio

June 15- September 30

LOCATION

Monhegan Museum of Art & History

1 Lighthouse Hill, Monhegan, ME 04852

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