Artists in Residence and other artistic pursuits
Camp and Create with Annette and Joyce July 13 – 19
Annette Fortier and Joyce Hayden will be at “The Shores” next week July 13 – 19 as Artists in Residence! Here’s a note from Annette an Joyce….. Hi Everyone! We’re getting excited for our upcoming residency at the Campground. In our earlier post, we mentioned we’d be working on ex-voto “paintings”. Ex-votos are works of…
Read MoreMeet Angelika Paul, Artist in Residence July 6-12
Angelika likes to be outside with her 4 and 6 year old children. She likes nature, adventure, geekery, science, and interesting food. Angelika currently lives near Boston with her husband, dog, cats, and children. Let’s hear what Angelika has to say about her Recipes for Disaster Pinterest has been the bane of my existence. At first, I…
Read MoreCountdown to Cooking with Fire! June 28th – July 5th
From Paula Marcoux Following on the heels of the First Annual Woodcarvers’ Weekend at Searsport Shores June 27th – 29th, comes a week of wood-fired cooking and baking. We will roast, bake, steam, broil, seethe, sear, simmer, fry, toast, and possibly even grill, the best ingredients we can rustle up locally. Every day will be…
Read MoreGee’s Bend Quilts have arrived in Maine!
After many months of planning and dreaming, the Gee’s Bend Quilts have arrived! The shipping boxes were covered with dozens of postage stamps, just as interesting and colorful as the quilts inside! Carefully unpacked, a wide variety of colors and patterns unfolded. Here are a few of the quilts making their appearance around the coast.…
Read MoreWood Carving Camp with an Acadian Flair – June 27-29
Master woodcarver Tom Cote, of Limestone Maine, and Searsport Shores Ocean Campground are happy to announce the first annual Wood Carving Camp with an Acadian Flair June 27-29, 2014 in Searsport, Maine. The weekend celebration is the culmination of the Cote Family week long residency at the campground. Wood Carving is a family affair in the…
Read MoreMeet Joyce & Annette
Many of you know that the Artist in Residence program is a cherished part of who Searsport Shores has become. Every week we host a different artist (or two) with an agreement that they will work with guests for an hour or two each day doing almost anything they’d like. When they’re not working with…
Read MoreFishing Anyone?
The weeks between January and April are filled with “getting things in place.” Almost everyday has Steven and I meeting with someone new or re-connecting with an old friend as we work on the schedule and itinerary suggestions for the summer. A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of having coffee and doughnuts…
Read MoreWoodworking Camp With an Acadian Flare
We’ve had a rather long relationship with woodworking here in the campground. My father carves carousel animals and both Steve and Mike make furniture when they have time. Like all other pleasures, one thing leads to another and for the past three years Tom Cote, master woodcarver, has been our artist in residence the last…
Read MoreBlue Fingers
In October, a fabulous fiber artist and friend Jackie Ottino Graf suggested that we try a late fall dyeing workshop at the campground for folks who were simply too busy in the summer to get away for a few hours of colorful play. We both knew it would be a roll of the dice because…
Read MoreThe Survey Results are Coming In
In a rush to get out in the October sun (which is sadly waning rapidly) I posted what should have gone on the Fiber College blog to this one…but instead of deleting it which may cause some confusion I thought you all might like to know about an event we host at the campground each…
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