Mon, 03/15/2021 - 1:30pm
Visitors get creative in the Wendell Gilley Museum s outdoor classroom. (Photo courtesy Wendell Gilley Museum)
The Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation is seeking applications.
The fund supports projects and organizations that promote Maine traditional handcrafts. Only nonprofit and municipal organizations are eligible; MaineCF cannot make grants to individual artists. New this year, due to the pandemic, the fund will offer general operating support grants ONLY to organizations whose SOLE mission centers on Maine traditional handcrafts.
The maximum grant award is $10,000 for work that will begin September 1, 2021, or later.
The grant application deadline is June 1, 2021. The online application, eligibility criteria, other guidelines, and a complete list of 2020 grants are available at www.mainecf.org.
Gilley celebrates anniversary with monthly speaker series
PHOTO COURTESY OF BARRY VAN DUSEN
SOUTHWEST HARBOR This year, in honor of the Wendell Gilley Museum’s 40th anniversary, the museum is launching a monthly speaker series that will bring artists, writers, carvers and creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to share how nature impacts their art and their approach to making it, and how their art affects their approach to the natural world.
First up is wildlife artist Barry van Dusen. Van Dusen is an internationally respected and award-winning wildlife artist who was one of two artists to provide illustrations for the 2020 book “Birds of Maine,” the first comprehensive overview of Maine’s avian inhabitants in more than seven decades. For another book published in 2020, “Finding Sanctuary: An Artist Explores the Nature of Mass Audubon,” he provided all the text as well as the illustrations, based on his visits to all 60 Mass Audubon sites over
Arts Glances
Virtual artist’s afternoon
SOUTHWEST HARBOR Master Carver Steve Valleau will be the featured artist for the Shelburne Museum’s first Artist’s Afternoon online event of 2021. Attend the event free via the Wendell Gilley Facebook page on Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. for a virtual seminar about the works of master carvers Elmer Crowell and Wendell Gilley, a discussion of Valleau’s own carving, as well as a Q&A. Artist-in-residence at the Wendell Gilley Museum and carver for over 45 years, Valleau will speak about his carving practices and current projects.
Southwest Harbor writer to speak as part of author series