The 2025 Summer Art Classes and Workshops ~ currently being developed...
Searsport Shores Ocean Campground and Art Space is partnering with Fiber College and the Makers Guild of Maine, 501c3 to bring you art and music events all summer long.
Most of the programs are free or low cost drop-in classes for campers and day visitors. Labor Day Weekend Makers Weekend will be everyone's opportunity to enjoy drop in classes and mentored workshops...bring your own craft project or choose from an all inclusive kit. Craft market all weekend long...and Live MUSIC on Saturday Night
Anyone with the necessary attention span is welcome to join in the activities. Wheel chair accessibility is a given.
June 22-June 28, 2025 Weaving and Crafting Projects with Cathi Belcher
Cathi Belcher, fiber artist and story teller
Cathi Belcher is an artist, writer and historical storyteller. She is a certified Zentangle teacher, a meditative drawing technique, as well as a certified Weaving a Life instructor and circle leader.
June 29-July 5, 2025 Family Crafts with Lorna Brann
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July 5-12, Carving and Natural Dying with Jude and Jim Hsiang
July 13-19, 2025 Asian Cooking and Wood Crafts
Chris Toy
Maker of food and art, Chris is a private chef, cooking instructor, and author of 6 popular Asian fusion cookbooks. He also enjoys creating original mobiles and stabiles using upcycled materials such as driftwood, shells, feathers, bicycle parts, and other materials.
August 11-17, 2024 Basket Making Art Classes
Sue Muldoon: Weaving For Everybody!
Sue is a basketweaver, seatweaver, instructor and author. She enjoys teaching weaving to students of all ages and skills. Learn how to weave some fun projects! We'll do rock-wrapping one day. FUN! ...and fishies...and foraged tension trays...woohoo! You can see what Sue does on "J Schwankes Life in Bloom" PBS
August 18-24, 2023 Chain Mail, Macrame, & Nautical Knots
Santa Steve
Santa needs a vacation before the holiday season begins...but he shares his sparkle with us here at the campground. Join Santa to learn nautical knots, macrame survival bracelets and weave a keyring with wire...and if we ask nicely we think that he may even tell a campfire story or two!
August 25-31, 2024 Cook and Stitch with Auntie Em
Emma Morin
Emma's lived a long and full life here in Maine. She is one of the most accomplished stitcher's and quilter's we have the privilege of knowing...and she can bake a whoppie pie like nobody else ANYWHERE...and then there's her strawberry rhubarb pies...swoonworthy! Join Emma for a week in the garden kitchen. Bring your quilting project or start a hand piece under her tutelage...it's a week of treats for your eyes and your tastebuds.
Labor Day Weekend is Maker's Day Weekend Buy a pass and take as many Fiber College Workshops as you want on Saturday and/or Sunday! When we think about these creative adventures, we imagine multi-generational families camping for the long weekend and mothers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, aunts and friends all taking classes. For those who aren't interested in crafting (
, but OK), there's plenty of hiking, biking, sightseeing and hanging at the beach so everyone can have a great weekend.
Workshop Studios will be open from 10:00-4:00, purchase your magic bracelet here.
Dive Deeply into your passion! Fiber College celebrates fiber in all its forms. The fiber arts connect us to the natural world, time-honored skills, the global community, and to each other. Our annual gathering, the week after Labor Day, is an established feature of the Maine arts calendar. We call our workshop series Touchstones because they speak to all that grounds us and give us a vision for the future. Come and share our passion, unlock your creativity and make something extraordinary.
Strung Together Oldtime Music Campout
The OT & Bluegrass Jam weekend begins Friday afternoon with an OT Jam and banjo workshop followed by our world famous Strung Together wood fired pizza bar and concert. The jams will take place in different areas in the park but close enough to give all participants easy access to both jam circles.
This year we are jamming around the grounds under tents, porches, trees and other canopies. Designated spaces will be laid out for each style of music, with unlimited spots to hold you own jam.