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Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island:

The Monhegan Wildlands Lecture and Workshop Series

Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott, In the Woods, ca. 1900, watercolor on paper, ca. 1900.

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. Further event details coming soon!

Thursday July 10th:

“Healing Woods: Native Relations with Nature and Coastal Petroglyphs”

Donald Soctomah, Passamaquoddy Historic Preservation Director

Thursday July 17th:

Nature Journaling Workshop

Karen O. Zimmerman, Maine Master Naturalist, Registered Maine Guide

Thursday July 24th:

“Small Island, Big Questions: Monhegan, Conservation, and the Entanglements of History”

Matt Klingle, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College

Thursday July 31st:

“The Monhegan Wildlands: Artists, Ecologists & the Resilience of a Maine Island”

Jennifer Pye, Barry Logan & Frank Goodyear, co-curators of the exhibition “Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

Thursday August 7th:

“Mapping Monhegan”

Libby Bischof, Phd., Executive Director, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, Professor of History and University Historian, University of Southern Maine

Thursday August 14th:

Annual Edward L. Deci Endowed Lecture:

Alan Braddock, Department Chair, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, Environmental Humanities, and American Studies, College of William & Mary