Events

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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: Native American Cultural Director, University of Connecticut; co-founder/director, Akomawt Educational Initiative

July 16:

Kirk Gentalen: Regional Stewardship Manager, Maine Coast Heritage Trust

Fungi

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 3:

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

 

 

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

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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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