Category: Deer Isle

Turtle Gallery opens first of four receptions

The Turtle Gallery in Deer Isle celebrates its 36th year with four opening receptions over the course of the summer. Featured are perennial gallery artists, plus new works by first time exhibitors. Starting this year, three workshops for artists interested in printmaking, painting and drawing will be offered. The first exhibition of the season offers […]

“Wisdom of the Brush” at DIAA Gallery

An exhibit of baskets, painting, photographs, pottery and sculpture RECEPTION WITH ARTISTS Sunday, June 10 3–5 PM EXHIBITION DATES: June 5–17 HOURS: Tuesday–Sunday, 10 AM–5 PM Katy Allgeyer Cynthia Bourque Simonds David Kofton David McBeth Julia McDonald Kaitlyn Metcalf Courtney Mooney AND IN THE ART RACK Betsy Braunhut Leslie Landrigan Cynthia Stroud-Watson

Becton, Gervais, Raphael at DIAA’s 4th ART matters 3 Session, UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES

The Deer Isle Artists Association presents Maine artists Jeffrey Becton, Françoise Gervais and Chris Raphael at its fourth ART matters 3 session UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 4th, at the Deer Isle gallery. Moderator: Hub White. The artists all take the art of photography in new and different directions. Jeffery Becton works […]

Registration Open for MCA 2018 Haystack Workshop Weekend

The MCA invites you (MCA members and non members) for three and a half days of studio workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, May 10-13, 2018 in Deer Isle, Maine. 2018 INSTRUCTORS AND WORKSHOPS Study Model-Making for Crafts People with Christopher Campbell (Visiting Artist’s Studio) Exploring Landscape Through Machine Knitting with Anne Emlein (Fibers […]

FUNCTIONAL FIBER session of “ART matters 3 at DIAA

DIAA announces the 2017–2018 winter session of “ART matters 3”, an opportunity for artists to share their work and talk about it with the public. Join us on Sunday, December 3, 1:30–3:30 PM for DIAA’s second 2017–2018 winter session of “ART matters 3”, an opportunity for artists to share their work and talk about it […]

Holiday pop-up market at DIAA, Periwinkle

The Deer Isle Artists Association will hold a pop-up market at its gallery on Saturday, Dec. 2, selling holiday items such as painted boxes, felt and knitted hats, mittens, pottery, calendars, baskets, cards, jewelry, photography and small prints, paintings and sculpture. The market will run from 10 am to 5 pm in conjunction with a special […]

Deer Isle Artists Association presents “A Mixer”

It’s time for “A Mixer” at the Deer Isle Artists Association Gallery. Featuring work by Leslie Anderson, Cynthia Bourque Simonds, Peggy de Wolf, Jill Finsen, Susan Finsen, Alan Flowers, Jeri Gillin, David McBeth, David Simonds, Robert W. Starkey, Cynthia Stroud Watson, Scott Thurston and J. Stroud Watson, the show runs from September 29 – October […]

September 3rd Opening Reception at The Turtle Gallery

This new exhibition features 3 series of paintings by Alix Bacon, mixed media drawings by Mary Barnes, abstract paintings by Anderson Giles and hand-printed paper collages by Alice Spencer. Alix Bacon returns to the Turtle Gallery with three new series of work: The Scottish Paintings, Windows on Maine and the Climate Change Apocalypse. Bacon’s landscapes […]

Deer Isle Artists Association presents “Fresh Ink,”

  From August 18 through the 31, the Deer Isle Artists Association will present “Fresh Ink,” featuring the art of Marianne Alweis, Don Bardole, Cynthia Bourque Simonds, Betsy Braunhut, Emily Brett Lukens, Janet Cook, Mary Eaton, Judith Felch, Jill Finsen, Jeri Gillin, Kaitlyn Metcalf, Carolyn Raedle, Hub White, and Alice Wilkinson. Appearing in the Art […]

August 6th Opening Reception at Turtle Gallery

This new exhibition features new work from fiber artist Sondra Bogdonoff, the ceramics of Lynn Duryea and Paul Heroux, new abstract paintings by Jaap Eduard Helder and mixed media constructions by Jamie Johnston. Fiber artist Sondra Bogdonoff will be exhibiting at the Turtle Gallery for the first time. Portland based, Bogdonoff has returned to the […]